C. David Benson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture, also published by Penn State University Press.

“As with [the author’s] book about medieval Troy stories, Imagined Romes may well become a standard undergraduate source. The book conveniently maps out a set of instances in which some medieval writers represented Rome or responded to various definitions of Romanness.”—Sylvia Federico Speculum

• AcknowledgmentsNote on SpellingIntroductionPart 1: Ancient Rome and Its Objects1 The Relics of Rome: Christian Mercy and the Stacions of Rome2 The Ruins of Rome: Pagan Marvels and the Metrical MirabiliaPart 2: Narratives of Ancient Romans3 Civic Romans in Gower’s Confessio Amantis4 Heroic (Women) Romans in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Legend ofGood Women5 Virtuous Romans in Piers Plowman6 Tragic Romans in Lydgate’s Fall of PrincesNotesBibliographyIndex

C. David Benson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture, also published by Penn State University Press.

“As with [the author’s] book about medieval Troy stories, Imagined Romes may well become a standard undergraduate source. The book conveniently maps out a set of instances in which some medieval writers represented Rome or responded to various definitions of Romanness.”—Sylvia Federico Speculum

• AcknowledgmentsNote on SpellingIntroductionPart 1: Ancient Rome and Its Objects1 The Relics of Rome: Christian Mercy and the Stacions of Rome2 The Ruins of Rome: Pagan Marvels and the Metrical MirabiliaPart 2: Narratives of Ancient Romans3 Civic Romans in Gower’s Confessio Amantis4 Heroic (Women) Romans in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Legend ofGood Women5 Virtuous Romans in Piers Plowman6 Tragic Romans in Lydgate’s Fall of PrincesNotesBibliographyIndex

C. David Benson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture, also published by Penn State University Press.

“As with [the author’s] book about medieval Troy stories, Imagined Romes may well become a standard undergraduate source. The book conveniently maps out a set of instances in which some medieval writers represented Rome or responded to various definitions of Romanness.”—Sylvia Federico Speculum

• AcknowledgmentsNote on SpellingIntroductionPart 1: Ancient Rome and Its Objects1 The Relics of Rome: Christian Mercy and the Stacions of Rome2 The Ruins of Rome: Pagan Marvels and the Metrical MirabiliaPart 2: Narratives of Ancient Romans3 Civic Romans in Gower’s Confessio Amantis4 Heroic (Women) Romans in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Legend ofGood Women5 Virtuous Romans in Piers Plowman6 Tragic Romans in Lydgate’s Fall of PrincesNotesBibliographyIndex