Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface vii
4. Introduction: Critical Theory and the Study of the Middle Ages 1
5. PART I. Textuality
6. Oure Tonges Differance: Textuality and Deconstruction in 15 Chaucer 15
7. “I Shal Finde It in a Maner Glose”: Versions of Textual 27 Harassment in Medieval Literature 27
8. Truth’s Treasure: Allegory and Meaning in Piers Plowman 51
9. Inter Nocturnas Vigilias: A Proof Postponed 69
10. PART II. Intertextuality
11. Gawain in Wace and Layamon: A Case of Metahistorical 103 Evolution 103
12. Absolute Reflexivity: Geoffroi de Vinsauf 120
13. Wandrynge by the Weye: On Alisoun and Augustine 142
14. Models of Literary Influence in the Commedia 158
15. “Mothers to Think Back Through”: Who Are They? The Ambiguous Example of Christine de Pizan 177
16. PART III. The Reader
17. Affective Criticism, the Pilgrimage of Reading, and Medieval English Literature 201
18. Hermeneutics of Reading in the Corbacho 216
19. Oral-Formulaic Rhetoric: An Approach to Image and Message in Medieval Poetry 234
20. Contributors 255
21. Index 259