Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of Jill Mann's works
- 1 The Man of Law's Tale and Crusade
- 2 The Language Group of the Canterbury Tales
- 3 ‘Save man allone’: Human Exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition
- 4 The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background
- 5 The Canterbury Tales and Gamelyn
- 6 The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination
- 7 The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower's Vox Clamantis
- 8 Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the Speculum devotorum
- 9 The Necessity of Difference: The Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland's Piers Plowman
- 10 Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory
- 11 Amor in claustro
- 12 ‘And that was litel nede’: Poetry's Need in Robert Henryson's Fables and Testament of Cresseid
- 13 The Art of Swooning in Middle English
- 14 The Theory of Passionate Song
- List of contributors
- Index
- Tabula gratulatoria
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of Jill Mann's works
- 1 The Man of Law's Tale and Crusade
- 2 The Language Group of the Canterbury Tales
- 3 ‘Save man allone’: Human Exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition
- 4 The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background
- 5 The Canterbury Tales and Gamelyn
- 6 The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination
- 7 The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower's Vox Clamantis
- 8 Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the Speculum devotorum
- 9 The Necessity of Difference: The Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland's Piers Plowman
- 10 Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory
- 11 Amor in claustro
- 12 ‘And that was litel nede’: Poetry's Need in Robert Henryson's Fables and Testament of Cresseid
- 13 The Art of Swooning in Middle English
- 14 The Theory of Passionate Song
- List of contributors
- Index
- Tabula gratulatoria
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- Medieval Latin and Middle English LiteratureEssays in Honour of Jill Mann, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011