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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Using This Volume: A Note on Conventions and Treatment of Text | |
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| Authorizing Text and Writer | |
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| Robert Mannyng, Chronicle: Prologue | |
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| John Barbour, The Bruce: Prologue | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer, Complaint of Venus: Envoi | |
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| Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| John Walton, Translation of Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy: Prefacio Translatoris | |
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| Thomas Hoccleve, The Complaint: Prologue and Extract | |
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| John Lydgate, Troy Book: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes: Prologue and Ending | |
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| George Ashby, Active Policy of a Prince: Prologue | |
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| Guy de Chauliac, Cyrurgie: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen: Prologus | |
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| Speculum Devotorum (Myrowre to Devout Peple): Prefacyon (Extract) | |
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| Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Short Text): Prologue and Chapter 6 | |
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| Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe: Two Prologues | |
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| The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible: Chapter 12 (Extract) | |
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| Reginald Pecock, Prologue to the Donet and The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy (Extracts) | |
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| Addressing and Positioning the Audience | |
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| Northern Homily Cycle: Prologue | |
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| John Trevisa, Dialogue Between the Lord and the Clerk on Translation (Extract) and Epistle to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, on the Translation of Higden's Polychronicon | |
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| Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy: Probemium | |
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| On Translating the Bible into English (Extract) | |
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| The Holi Prophete David Seith (Three Extracts) | |
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| The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing: Translator's Prologue | |
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| John Capgrave, Life of St. Gilbert: Prologue | |
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| Bishop Fox, The Rule of Seynt Benet: Prefatory Letter | |
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| The Amesbury Letter: Prologue | |
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| William Caxton, Translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvalrye: Prologue | |
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| John Gower, Confessio Amantis: Prologue, Two Versions (Extracts) | |
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| Knyghthode and Bataile: Proem | |
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| The Nightingale: Prose Introduction and Proem | |
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| The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Banns | |
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| South English Legendary: Prologue | |
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| William Caxton, Translation of Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Book of the Knight of the Tower: Prologue | |
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| Spektakle of Luf: Prologue | |
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| Models and Images of the Reading Process | |
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| A Talking of the Love of God: Prologue | |
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| Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies: Prologue and Digression | |
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| The Cloud of Unknowing: Prologue | |
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| Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Long Text): Explicit | |
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| The Orchard of Syon: Prologue | |
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| Pore Caityf: Prologue | |
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| The Prick of Conscience: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| Richard Rolle, The English Psalter: Prologue | |
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| Dives and Pauper: Part One, Chapters 1-3 (Extract) | |
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| Nicholas Love, The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| Sermon of Dead Men: Peroration | |
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| The Mirror of Our Lady: Three Prologues | |
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| The Wars of Alexander: Opening | |
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| Cursor Mundi: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| John Skelton, Translation of Poggio Bracciolini, Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus: Prologue (Extract) | |
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| Gavin Douglas, Eneados: Book V, Prologue | |
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| William Caxton, Reynard the Fox: Prologue | |
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| Robert Henryson, Fables: Prologue | |
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| William Langland, Piers Plowman: C Text, Passus XV (Extract) | |
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| Mechtild of Hackeborn, The Book of Ghostly Grace: Epilogue (Extract) | |
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| Eleanor Hull, A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms: Psalm 50 (Selections) | |
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| Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe: Book I, Chapter 58-59 (Extract) | |
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| King James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair: Opening | |
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| Brian Anslay, Translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies: Chapter 1, with Dedicatory Verses by Henry Pepwell | |
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| Five Essays | |
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| The Notion of Vernacular Theory | |
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| The Politics of Middle English Writing | |
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| Authors, Scribes, Patrons, and Books | |
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| Historicizing Postcolonial Criticism: Cultural Difference and the Vernacular | |
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| An Afterword on the Prologue | |
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| Alternative Arrangements of the Excerpts | |
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| Glossary: The Language of Middle English Literary Theory | |
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| Middle English Terms | |
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| Select Latin Terms | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Index of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors | |