Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She holds Emeritus and Honorary Fellowships at University College, Oxford, and a Life Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has particular interests in the cultural continuations across the medieval and early modern periods. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance; Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The English Romance in Time; Shakespeare and the Medieval World; and the editorial material to the Oxford World's Classics Malory: Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Robert R. Edwards is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His chief areas of research and teaching are the English, Romance, and Latin literatures of the Middle Ages. His other interests include textual culture, medieval literary theory, and poetics. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation and fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His current projects are an edition of Troilus and Criseyde for the Cambridge University Press edition of Chaucer's works and a study of medieval English literary reception.

The great achievement of the 1100-1400 volume is that it takes seriously its 300-year time span...The volume does not set out to tell a story of teleological progress,...Instead we follow multiple strands of poetic culture and are encouraged to think about medieval English poetry on its own terms.

• 1: Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards: Introduction Part I. Contexts 2: Laura Ashe: Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War 3: Ralph Hanna: Poetic Sites 4: Simon Horobin: Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry Part II. Literary Culture 5: Richard Dance: The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry 6: Siân Echard: The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin 7: Keith Busby: The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French 8: Victoria Flood: The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh 9: Ad Putter: Verse Forms 10: Andrew Galloway: Poetic and Literary Theory Part III. 'Matere' 11: Caroline D. Eckhardt: Poetry and National History 12: Craig E. Bertolet: Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint 13: Stephen M. Yeager: Doctrine and Learning 14: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Poetry and the Bible 15: Karen A. Winstead: Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography Part IV. Genre Poetics 16: Christopher Cannon: Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux 17: Denis Renevey: Religious and Didactic Lyrics 18: Susanna Fein: Secular Lyrics 19: Rhiannon Purdie: Non-Cycle Romances of Love 20: Wolfram R. Keller: Romances of the Ancient World 21: Elizabeth Archibald: The Matter of Britain 22: Marcel Elias: Crusade Romances and the Matter of France 23: Andrew James Johnston: The 'Matter of England' Part V. The Ricardian Poets 24: Nicolette Zeeman: Piers Plowman 25: Helen Cooper: The Gawain-Poet 26: David Lawton: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry 27: Barry Windeatt: The Canterbury Tales 28: R. F. Yeager: John Gower 29: Julia Boffey: The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition

Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She holds Emeritus and Honorary Fellowships at University College, Oxford, and a Life Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has particular interests in the cultural continuations across the medieval and early modern periods. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance; Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The English Romance in Time; Shakespeare and the Medieval World; and the editorial material to the Oxford World's Classics Malory: Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Robert R. Edwards is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His chief areas of research and teaching are the English, Romance, and Latin literatures of the Middle Ages. His other interests include textual culture, medieval literary theory, and poetics. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation and fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His current projects are an edition of Troilus and Criseyde for the Cambridge University Press edition of Chaucer's works and a study of medieval English literary reception.

The great achievement of the 1100-1400 volume is that it takes seriously its 300-year time span...The volume does not set out to tell a story of teleological progress,...Instead we follow multiple strands of poetic culture and are encouraged to think about medieval English poetry on its own terms.

• 1: Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards: Introduction Part I. Contexts 2: Laura Ashe: Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War 3: Ralph Hanna: Poetic Sites 4: Simon Horobin: Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry Part II. Literary Culture 5: Richard Dance: The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry 6: Siân Echard: The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin 7: Keith Busby: The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French 8: Victoria Flood: The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh 9: Ad Putter: Verse Forms 10: Andrew Galloway: Poetic and Literary Theory Part III. 'Matere' 11: Caroline D. Eckhardt: Poetry and National History 12: Craig E. Bertolet: Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint 13: Stephen M. Yeager: Doctrine and Learning 14: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Poetry and the Bible 15: Karen A. Winstead: Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography Part IV. Genre Poetics 16: Christopher Cannon: Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux 17: Denis Renevey: Religious and Didactic Lyrics 18: Susanna Fein: Secular Lyrics 19: Rhiannon Purdie: Non-Cycle Romances of Love 20: Wolfram R. Keller: Romances of the Ancient World 21: Elizabeth Archibald: The Matter of Britain 22: Marcel Elias: Crusade Romances and the Matter of France 23: Andrew James Johnston: The 'Matter of England' Part V. The Ricardian Poets 24: Nicolette Zeeman: Piers Plowman 25: Helen Cooper: The Gawain-Poet 26: David Lawton: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry 27: Barry Windeatt: The Canterbury Tales 28: R. F. Yeager: John Gower 29: Julia Boffey: The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition

Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She holds Emeritus and Honorary Fellowships at University College, Oxford, and a Life Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has particular interests in the cultural continuations across the medieval and early modern periods. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance; Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The English Romance in Time; Shakespeare and the Medieval World; and the editorial material to the Oxford World's Classics Malory: Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Robert R. Edwards is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His chief areas of research and teaching are the English, Romance, and Latin literatures of the Middle Ages. His other interests include textual culture, medieval literary theory, and poetics. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation and fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His current projects are an edition of Troilus and Criseyde for the Cambridge University Press edition of Chaucer's works and a study of medieval English literary reception.

The great achievement of the 1100-1400 volume is that it takes seriously its 300-year time span...The volume does not set out to tell a story of teleological progress,...Instead we follow multiple strands of poetic culture and are encouraged to think about medieval English poetry on its own terms.

• 1: Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards: Introduction Part I. Contexts 2: Laura Ashe: Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War 3: Ralph Hanna: Poetic Sites 4: Simon Horobin: Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry Part II. Literary Culture 5: Richard Dance: The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry 6: Siân Echard: The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin 7: Keith Busby: The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French 8: Victoria Flood: The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh 9: Ad Putter: Verse Forms 10: Andrew Galloway: Poetic and Literary Theory Part III. 'Matere' 11: Caroline D. Eckhardt: Poetry and National History 12: Craig E. Bertolet: Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint 13: Stephen M. Yeager: Doctrine and Learning 14: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Poetry and the Bible 15: Karen A. Winstead: Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography Part IV. Genre Poetics 16: Christopher Cannon: Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux 17: Denis Renevey: Religious and Didactic Lyrics 18: Susanna Fein: Secular Lyrics 19: Rhiannon Purdie: Non-Cycle Romances of Love 20: Wolfram R. Keller: Romances of the Ancient World 21: Elizabeth Archibald: The Matter of Britain 22: Marcel Elias: Crusade Romances and the Matter of France 23: Andrew James Johnston: The 'Matter of England' Part V. The Ricardian Poets 24: Nicolette Zeeman: Piers Plowman 25: Helen Cooper: The Gawain-Poet 26: David Lawton: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry 27: Barry Windeatt: The Canterbury Tales 28: R. F. Yeager: John Gower 29: Julia Boffey: The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition