Introduction -- 1. The Poor Commons: Literature and Social Change -- 2. The Poor Commons: Education and Dissent -- 3. The Urban Middle Class: Satire, Debate and Political Advice -- 4. The Urban Middle Class: Tales of Women and Marriage -- 5. The Community of the Church: Religious Lyrics and the English Mystics -- 6. Religious and Moral Stories -- 7. Aristocratic Love -- 8. Chivalric Romances.
Summary:
"This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors of the period. "-- Provided by publisher.
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