SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography. JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. 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. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography.

Overall, the collection is a rigorous and generous portrait of a man whose creative vernacularizing force was instrumental in both defying and moulding his own time.

• Introduction - Sebastian SobeckiJohn Skelton (?1460-1529): A Life in Writing - John ScattergoodReligion - Thomas BetteridgeLaw and Politics - Sebastian SobeckiClassical Literature - John ScattergoodHumanism - David R. CarlsonSatires and Invectives - John A. BurrowLyrics and Short Poems - Julia BoffeySkelton's Voice and Performance - Elisabeth DuttonLiterary Tradition - Jane GriffithsSkelton and the English Language - Greg WaiteSkelton's English Works in Manuscripts and Print - Carol MealeSkelton's English Canon - A S G EdwardsReception and Afterlife - Helen CooperA Skelton Bibliography - Nadine Kuipers