Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Bibliography of Jill Mann’s works xi
5. 1. The Man of Law’s Tale and Crusade 1
6. 2. The Language Group of the Canterbury Tales 25
7. 3. ‘Save man allone’: Human Exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition 41
8. 4. The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background 65
9. 5. The Canterbury Tales and Gamelyn 76
10. 6. The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination 91
11. 7. The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower’s Vox Clamantis 113
12. 8. Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the Speculum devotorum 134
13. 9. The Necessity of Difference: The Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland’s Piers Plowman 152
14. 10. Chaucer’s Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory 166
15. 11. Amor in claustro 182
16. 12. ‘And that was litel nede’: Poetry’s Need in Robert Henryson’s Fables and Testament of Cresseid 193
17. 13. The Art of Swooning in Middle English 211
18. 14. The Theory of Passionate Song 231
19. List of Contributors 253
20. Index 255
21. Tabula gratulatoria 263