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  The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions

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  Unknown

  Author

  John Lydgate

  Author

  John M. Bowers

  Editor

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  contents

  1. Introduction to John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes
  2. John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes

  3. ---

  4. Introduction to The Ploughman's Tale
  5. The Ploughman's Tale

  6. ---

  7. Introduction to The Cook's Tale
  8. The Cook's Tale

  9. ---

  10. Introduction to Spurious Links
  11. Spurious Links

  12. ---

  13. Introduction to The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn
  14. The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  15th Century

  categories

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, Epic (Poetry), Rhyme royal, Exemplum, Fable, Legacy HTML

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  Isopes Fabules

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  John Lydgate

  Author

  Edward Wheatley

  Editor

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  contents

  1. Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Isopes Fabules

  4. ---

  5. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  15th Century

  categories

  Fable, Legacy HTML

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  The Poems of Robert Henryson

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  Robert Henryson

  Author

  Robert L. Kindrick

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Introduction to The Morall Fabillis
  4. The Morall Fabillis

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  6. Introduction to The Testament of Cresseid
  7. The Testament of Cresseid

  8. ---

  9. Introduction to Orpheus and Eurydice
  10. Orpheus and Eurydice

  11. ---

  12. Introduction to Shorter Poems
  13. Shorter Poems

  14. ---

  15. Appendix, edited by Anne McKim
      1. Introduction to The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus
      2. The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  Scots

  time periods

  15th Century

  categories

  Fable, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Legacy HTML, Matter of Rome/Troy, Romance, Lyric poetry (Marian), Lyric poetry, Exemplum, Debate poetry, Prayer, Recipe, Ballad

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  Robert Henryson: The Complete Works

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  Robert Henryson

  Author

  Francis Kynaston

  Author

  David J. Parkinson

  Editor

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  contents

  1. Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Fables

  4. ---

  5. The Testament of Cressid

  6. ---

  7. Orpheus and Eurydice

  8. ---

  9. Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

  10. ---

  11. Shorter Poems: Weaker Attributions

  12. ---

  13. Appendix: Sir Francis Kynaston's Anecdote about the Death of Robert Henryson
  14. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry, Prose

  languages

  Scots

  time periods

  15th Century

  categories

  Fable, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Matter of Rome/Troy, Romance, Ballad, Lyric poetry, Lyric poetry (Marian), Recipe, Debate poetry, Exemplum, Chronicle, Legacy HTML

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  Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections

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  John Lydgate

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Simon Winter

  Author

  E. Gordon Whatley

  Editor

  Anne B. Thompson

  Editor

  Robert K. Upchurch

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Introduction to The Martyrdom of St. Andrew
  4. The Martyrdom of St. Andrew in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

  5. ---

  6. Introduction to St. Andrew and the Three Questions
  7. St. Andrew and the Three Questions in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400)

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  9. Introduction to The Martyrdom of St. George
  10. The Martyrdom of St. George in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

  11. ---

  12. Introduction to St. George and the Dragon
  13. St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision, c. 1400)

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  15. Introduction to St. Jerome
  16. The Life of St. Jerome
  17. St. Jerome and the Lion

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  19. Introduction to The Life of St. Thais
  20. The Life of St. Thais

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  22. Introduction to The Life of Saint Benedict
  23. The Life of St. Benedict in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

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  25. Introduction to The Life of St. Scholastica
  26. The Life of St. Scholastica in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

  27. ---

  28. Introduction to Saint Austin at Compton
  29. Saint Austin at Compton (c. 1420-40)

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  31. Introduction to The Life of Saint Francis
  32. The Life of Saint Francis in the South English Legendary (c. 1270-80)

  33. ---

  34. Introduction to The Life of St. Julian the Hospitaller
  35. The Life of St. Julian Hospitaller in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400)

  36. ---

  37. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry, Prose

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century

  categories

  Legacy HTML, Hagiography, Fable, Exemplum, Sermon

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  Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum

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  Sir David Lyndsay

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Rhiannon Purdie

  Editor

  Emily Wingfield

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Introduction to the Balletis of the Nine Nobles
  4. The Balletis of the Nine Nobles

  5. ---

  6. Introduction to the Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland
  7. Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland

  8. ---

  9. Introduction to the Talis of the Fyve Bestes
  10. The Talis of the Fyve Bestes

  11. ---

  12. Biography of Sir David Lyndsay

  13. ---

  14. Introduction to the Answer Quhilk Schir David Lindesay Maid to the Kingis Flyting
  15. The Answer Quhilk Schir David Lindesay Maid to the Kingis Flyting

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  17. Introduction to the Squyer Meldrum Poems
  18. The Historie of ane Nobil and Vailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum, Umquhyle Laird of Cleische and Bynnis
  19. The Testament of the Nobill and Vailyeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis

  20. ---

  21. Appendix: Lawson and Haldane Family Trees
  22. Bibliography

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  Scots

  time periods

  15th Century, 16th Century

  categories

  Legacy HTML, Nine Worthies, Romance, Ballad, Complaint (Poetry), Elegy (Poetry), Exemplum, Fable, Estates Satire, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Epistolary poetry, Advice for princes, Rhyme royal, Chronicle, Alexander the Great, Matter of Rome/Troy

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  The Trials and Joys of Marriage

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  William Dunbar

  Author

  Unknown

  Author

  Adam of Cobsam

  Author

  John Wyclif

  Author

  John Lydgate

  Author

  Eve Salisbury

  Editor

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  contents

  1. General Introduction

  2. ---

  3. Satire and Fabliaux in Verse and Prose
     1. Interludium de clerico et puella
     2. Dame Sirith
     3. The Wright's Chaste Wife
     4. Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband
     5. A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware
     6. Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail
     7. The Meaning of Marriage
     8. The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

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  5. Didactic Prose and Exempla
     1. Emperator Felicianus (How a Wife Employed a Necromancer to Cause the Death of Her Husband, and How He Was Saved by a Clerk), Gesta Romanorum
     2. Godfridus a Wise Emperoure (Of the Magic Ring, Brooch, and Cloth, Which an Emperor Left to His Son: How He Lost Them, and How They Were Recovered), Gesta Romanorum
     3. The Punished of Adulterers or The Bawd and the Adulterers, Gesta Romanorum
     4. Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also
     5. John Lydgate, Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage
     6. How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter
     7. How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone

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  7. Select Secular Lyrics of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

  forms

  Poetry

  languages

  English, Middle (1100–1500)

  time periods

  13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century

  categories

  Ballad, Epistolary poetry, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Fabliau, Exemplum, Fable, Bourde, Sermon, Wisdom literature, Legacy HTML, Lyric poetry, Complaint (Poetry), Authorship uncertain