Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where she chairs programmes in Medieval Studies, and co-directs the Hilton Shepherd Centre for Medieval Studies. A Leverhulme Research Fellowship released her from these duties, enabling her to do much of the research and writing for this book.

Students of literature and history will be in Scase's debt for generations to come for her gathering of archival materials in support of her argument.

• 1. Judicial Plaint and Peasant Plaint ; 2. Complaint, Clamour, and Libels ; 3. The Literature of Clamour ; 4. Transmission, Response, and Development: Clamour Writing 1460 - 1553 ; 5. Literature, Complaint, and the Ars Dictaminis

Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where she chairs programmes in Medieval Studies, and co-directs the Hilton Shepherd Centre for Medieval Studies. A Leverhulme Research Fellowship released her from these duties, enabling her to do much of the research and writing for this book.

Students of literature and history will be in Scase's debt for generations to come for her gathering of archival materials in support of her argument.

• 1. Judicial Plaint and Peasant Plaint ; 2. Complaint, Clamour, and Libels ; 3. The Literature of Clamour ; 4. Transmission, Response, and Development: Clamour Writing 1460 - 1553 ; 5. Literature, Complaint, and the Ars Dictaminis

Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where she chairs programmes in Medieval Studies, and co-directs the Hilton Shepherd Centre for Medieval Studies. A Leverhulme Research Fellowship released her from these duties, enabling her to do much of the research and writing for this book.

Students of literature and history will be in Scase's debt for generations to come for her gathering of archival materials in support of her argument.

• 1. Judicial Plaint and Peasant Plaint ; 2. Complaint, Clamour, and Libels ; 3. The Literature of Clamour ; 4. Transmission, Response, and Development: Clamour Writing 1460 - 1553 ; 5. Literature, Complaint, and the Ars Dictaminis