Critten adds considerable nuance to established literary-critical positions, and frequently offers fresh insights which no student of Middle English literature should ignore.

• INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SELF-PUBLISHING POSE"YIT FUL FAYN WOLDE I HAUE A MESSAGEER TO RECOMMANDE ME": Thomas Hoccleve's Autograph Books in Fifteenth-Century London and Westminster"HE RED IT OUYR...SCHE SUM-TYM HELPYNG":Collaborating on the Book of Margery Kempe"THIS BOKE I MADE WITH GRET DOLOUR": The Pains of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols"CONSIDERING THE GRETE SUBTILITE AND CAUTELEUX DISPOSITION OF THE SAID DUC OF ORLIANS": The Political Valence of Charles d'Orléans's English Book of LoveAfterwordBibliography

Critten adds considerable nuance to established literary-critical positions, and frequently offers fresh insights which no student of Middle English literature should ignore.

• INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SELF-PUBLISHING POSE"YIT FUL FAYN WOLDE I HAUE A MESSAGEER TO RECOMMANDE ME": Thomas Hoccleve's Autograph Books in Fifteenth-Century London and Westminster"HE RED IT OUYR...SCHE SUM-TYM HELPYNG":Collaborating on the Book of Margery Kempe"THIS BOKE I MADE WITH GRET DOLOUR": The Pains of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols"CONSIDERING THE GRETE SUBTILITE AND CAUTELEUX DISPOSITION OF THE SAID DUC OF ORLIANS": The Political Valence of Charles d'Orléans's English Book of LoveAfterwordBibliography

Critten adds considerable nuance to established literary-critical positions, and frequently offers fresh insights which no student of Middle English literature should ignore.

• INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SELF-PUBLISHING POSE"YIT FUL FAYN WOLDE I HAUE A MESSAGEER TO RECOMMANDE ME": Thomas Hoccleve's Autograph Books in Fifteenth-Century London and Westminster"HE RED IT OUYR...SCHE SUM-TYM HELPYNG":Collaborating on the Book of Margery Kempe"THIS BOKE I MADE WITH GRET DOLOUR": The Pains of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols"CONSIDERING THE GRETE SUBTILITE AND CAUTELEUX DISPOSITION OF THE SAID DUC OF ORLIANS": The Political Valence of Charles d'Orléans's English Book of LoveAfterwordBibliography