Helen Cooney is a lecturer at the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. Her research concentrates on medieval and Renaissance texts, especially Chaucer and Spenser Sue Bianco teaches medieval literature at the University of York. Julia Boffey is Reader at the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. J.A. Burrow is Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow at Bristol University and Fellow of the British Academy. Helen Cooney is Lecturer at the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. W.A. Davenport is Professor of Language and Literature at the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Douglas Gray is Emeritus J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English at Oxford University. Phillipa Hardman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Reading. Derek Pearsall is Gurney Professor of English (Emeritus) at Harvard University. John Scattergood is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. John Thompson is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Queen's University, Belfast.
Acknowledgments
p. 7
Introduction
p. 9
The idea of Englishness in the fifteenth century
p. 15
The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye: the nation and its place
p. 28
Compiling the nation: fifteenth-century miscellany manuscripts
p. 50
Hoccleve and the 'Court'
p. 70
Thomas Hoccleve and manuscript culture
p. 81
New perspectives on Lydgate's courtly verse
p. 95
'Forto compleyne she had gret desire': the grievances expressed in two fifteenth-century dream-visions
p. 116
Fifteenth-century complaints and duke Humphrey's wives
p. 129
Skelton's Bowge of Court and the crisis of allegory in late-medieval England
p. 153
Fifteenth-century lyrics and carols
p. 168
List of contributors
p. 185
Index
p. 187
Index of manuscripts
p. 191
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