David Raybin is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and has extensively published on the Canterbury Tales. Linda Tarte Holley is professor emerita of English from North Carolina State University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by David Raybin and Linda Tarte HolleyThe Parson's Tale in Current Literary Studies by Siegfried Wenzel"Manye been the weyes": The Flower, Its Roots, and the Ending of The Canterbury Tales by David RaybinThe Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations by Richard NewhauserProlegomenon to a Print History of the Parson's Tale: The Novelty and Legacy of Wynkyn de Worde's Text by Daniel J. RansomThe Words of the Parson's "Vertuous Sentence" by Peggy KnappChaucer's Parson and the "Idiosyncracies of Fiction" by Judith FersterDropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson's Tale and the End of The Canterbury Tales by Gregory Roper"The goode wey": Ending and Not-Ending in the Parson's Tale by Charlotte GrossEpilogue: Closing the Eschatological Account by Linda Tarte HolleyBibliography of Scholarship Treating the Parson's Tale by David RaybinContributorsIndex