LAURA COONER LAMBDIN teaches Professional Communications in the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. She and her husband have published 4 other books together: Chaucer's Pilgrims (1996), A Companion to Jane Austen Studies (2000), Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2000), and Camelot in the Nineteenth Century (2000).ROBERT THOMAS LAMBDIN is Associate Professor in the Transition Year Program at the University of South Carolina. He has authored or edited many publications on Old and Middle English literature.

• Introduction Old English and Anglo-Norman Literature Religious and Allegorical Verse Alliterative Poetry in Old and Middle English Balladry The Beast Fable Breton Lai Chronicle Debate Poetry Medieval English Drama Dream Vision Epic and Heroic The Epic Genre and Medieval Epics The Fabliau Hagiographic, Homiletic, and Didactic Literature Lyric The Middle English Parody/Burlesque Riddles Romance Visions of the Afterlife Selected Bibliography Index

LAURA COONER LAMBDIN teaches Professional Communications in the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. She and her husband have published 4 other books together: Chaucer's Pilgrims (1996), A Companion to Jane Austen Studies (2000), Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2000), and Camelot in the Nineteenth Century (2000).ROBERT THOMAS LAMBDIN is Associate Professor in the Transition Year Program at the University of South Carolina. He has authored or edited many publications on Old and Middle English literature.

• Introduction Old English and Anglo-Norman Literature Religious and Allegorical Verse Alliterative Poetry in Old and Middle English Balladry The Beast Fable Breton Lai Chronicle Debate Poetry Medieval English Drama Dream Vision Epic and Heroic The Epic Genre and Medieval Epics The Fabliau Hagiographic, Homiletic, and Didactic Literature Lyric The Middle English Parody/Burlesque Riddles Romance Visions of the Afterlife Selected Bibliography Index

LAURA COONER LAMBDIN teaches Professional Communications in the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. She and her husband have published 4 other books together: Chaucer's Pilgrims (1996), A Companion to Jane Austen Studies (2000), Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2000), and Camelot in the Nineteenth Century (2000).ROBERT THOMAS LAMBDIN is Associate Professor in the Transition Year Program at the University of South Carolina. He has authored or edited many publications on Old and Middle English literature.

• Introduction Old English and Anglo-Norman Literature Religious and Allegorical Verse Alliterative Poetry in Old and Middle English Balladry The Beast Fable Breton Lai Chronicle Debate Poetry Medieval English Drama Dream Vision Epic and Heroic The Epic Genre and Medieval Epics The Fabliau Hagiographic, Homiletic, and Didactic Literature Lyric The Middle English Parody/Burlesque Riddles Romance Visions of the Afterlife Selected Bibliography Index