Middle English in renewal: romance, marvel travel, border song, and the literary return of English after the Norman Conquest.
Folders
Ballads and Border Memory — Fourteenth-century ballad and border memory, where conflict, saint legend, and oral tradition preserve older northern stories. (2)
Middle English Romance and Travel — Middle English romance and wonder travel, including the alliterative revival and the imagined geography of medieval pilgrimage. (2)
Pages
The Canterbury Tales — The 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 Ploughman — Thomas 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.