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14th Century
Middle English in renewal: romance, marvel travel, border song, and the literary return of English after the Norman Conquest.
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Texts
The Canterbury TalesThe complete Middle English text of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales — all nine groups of tales with their prologues and links, the Tale of Gamelyn appendix, and Walter W. Skeat’s textual introduction and collation notes, from the second edition of the Oxford Complete Works, volume IV (Clarendon Press, 1900).The Vision and Creed of Piers PloughmanThomas Wright's complete two-volume edition of the Middle English alliterative poems The Vision of Piers Ploughman and Piers Ploughman's Creed, edited from a fourteenth-century Cambridge manuscript with his historical introduction, notes, and glossary — second revised edition, here collected in one.
Ballads and Border Memory2 pages
Fourteenth-century ballad and border memory, where conflict, saint legend, and oral tradition preserve older northern stories.
Middle English Romance and Travel2 pages
Middle English romance and wonder travel, including the alliterative revival and the imagined geography of medieval pilgrimage.