Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. Compilation, Assemblage, Fragment 1
6. Chapter One. Civic Counterfactualism and the Assemblage of London. The Corpus of Andrew Horn 51
7. Chapter Two. Fragmentary Forms of Imitative Fantasy. Booklet 3 of the Auchinleck Manuscript 105
8. Chapter Three. Constructing Compilations of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 155
9. Chapter Four. Rewriting the Past, Reassembling the Realm. The Trentham Manuscript of John Gower 209
10. Afterword 255
11. Bibliography 265
12. Index 279