The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

• Introduction: Rites of Passage - Miri RubinRe-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel BurdenComing to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark OrmrodBoy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H CullumManners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon WellsRites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen PhillipsBecoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane GilbertJohn Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis - `Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay

The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

• Introduction: Rites of Passage - Miri RubinRe-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel BurdenComing to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark OrmrodBoy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H CullumManners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon WellsRites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen PhillipsBecoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane GilbertJohn Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis - `Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay

The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

• Introduction: Rites of Passage - Miri RubinRe-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel BurdenComing to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark OrmrodBoy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H CullumManners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon WellsRites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen PhillipsBecoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane GilbertJohn Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis - `Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay