"Piers Plowman". Textual Comparison and the Question of Authorship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. INHALT VII
3. "Courtly Love" as a Problem of Style 1
4. The Elusive Boundaries of "Terra Ridentium" 35
5. Chaucer, the Englishman 47
6. The Background of Chaucer's Mission to Spain 55
7. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess". A Metrical Study 71
8. "I wolde excuse hire yit for routhe". Chaucers Einstellung zu Criseyde 97
9. Stanza and Ictus Chaucers Emphasis in "Troilus and Criseyde" 123
10. Saturn in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" 149
11. Chaucers "Squire's Tale": "The knotte of the tale" 163
12. Erscheinungsformen des Erzählers in Chaucers "Canterbury Tales" 189
13. John Gowers Erzählkunst 207
14. "Piers Plowman". Textual Comparison and the Question of Authorship 241
15. The Concept of the Hero in "Morte Arthure" 249
16. Hoccleve's Tribute to Chaucer 275
17. Of Discretioun in Asking. Dunbar's Petitionary Poems 285
18. Zum Andachtsbild in der mittelenglischen religiösen Lyrik 293
19. The Liturgical Influence in " Pearl" 337
20. Arbor, Scala und Fons Vitae. Vorformen devotionaler Embleme in einer mittelenglischen Handschrift (B.M. Add. MS. 37049) 355
21. Entstehung und Wesen der englischen Fronleichnamszyklen 393
22. York and its Plays in the Middle Ages 407
23. Proculas Traum. Der Yorker Misterienzyklus und die epische Tradition 419