Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University.

The fine scholarship and the deft writing ensure that this collection will stimulate and facilitate further expansions of the field and will remain an essential Companion.

• Introduction - A S G EdwardsThe Patronage of Poetry - Carol MealeForms of Circulation - Simon HorobinThomas Hoccleve - Sheila LindenbaumThomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes - David WattJohn Lydgate's Major Poems - Robert J Meyer-LeeJohn Lydgate's Religious Poetry - Anthony BaleJohn Lydgate's Shorter Secular Poems - Joanna MartinJohn Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: Verse Saints' Lives - Sarah JamesPeter Idley and George Ashby - John ScattergoodJohn Audelay and James Ryman - Susanna FeinFifteenth-Century Chaucerian Visions - Ad PutterHistorical and Political Verse - Alfred HiattClassical and Humanist Translations - Daniel WakelinRomance - Andrew KingScientific and Encyclopaedic Verse - Anke TimmermannPopular Verse Tales - Julia BoffeyBeyond the Fifteenth Century - A S G Edwards