Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Preface. “Decidedly not the national language” xiii
5. Introduction. The Clericus Class, Underemployment, and the Golden Age of Middle English Poetry 1
6. Part I. Clerical Proletarians and the Resurgence of English Poetry: Vocational Crisis and Self- Representation
7. Chapter One. Precedents for Clerical Crisis and Authorial Intervention in Early Middle English 35
8. Chapter Two. Poetry of Vocational Crisis in Langland’s Apologia and the Early Langlandian Tradition 77
9. Chapter Three. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition I 110
10. Chapter Four. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition II 140
11. Part II. The Liturgical and CATHEDRAL SERVICE CLASS AND Resurgent English Verse
12. Chapter Five. Cathedral Songs 177
13. Chapter Six. Satire, Drama, and Censorship 218
14. Chapter Seven. The Clerical Proletariat and Public Genres of the Cathedral World 261
15. Conclusion. The Poet as Public Intellectual 298
16. Notes 307
17. Index 373
18. Acknowledgments 387