Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Note on Walsingham’s Texts viii
6. Introduction: The Watlyng Street Circuit and the Field of Classicist Letters 1
7. 1 Portraits of Princes in Liber benefactorum, Prohemia poetarum, and the ‘Monk’s Tale’ 17
8. 2 The Textual Environment of the Historia Alexandri magni principis 49
9. 3 Court Politics and Italian Letters in Ditis ditatus and Troilus and Criseyde 95
10. 4 Omnia vincit amor: Passion in the Chronicle 137
11. Conclusion: The Learned Clerk and Humanistic Practice 173
12. Bibliography 181
13. Index 201