Essays on Ricardian Literature

• Preface ; 1. A Ricardian I: The Narrator of Troilus and Criseyde ; 2. Pre-empting Closure in The Canterbury Tales: Old Endings, New Beginnings ; 3. Women's Piety and Women's Power: Chaucer's Prioress Reconsidered ; 4. From Muses to Blacksmiths: Italian Trecento Poetics and the Reception of Dante in The House of Fame ; 5. French Culture and the Ricardian Court ; 6. Anglo-Latin in the Ricardian Age ; 7. Looking for a Sign: The Quest for Nominalism in Chaucer and Langland ; 8. Ricardian Trouthe: A Legal Perspective ; 9. Ricardian Romance? Critiques and Vindications ; 10. The World and Heart of Thomas Usk ; 11. The Perfection of the Pentangle and of Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; 12. The Pearl-Poet in his Fayre Regioun ; 13. Patience and Authority ; 14. From Ricardian Poetry to Ricardian Studies ; 15. J. A. Burrow: A Bibliography

The fourteen essays, written by Burrow's friends, colleagues, and former students, help not only to define more clearly the nature of Burrow's impact on medieval studies today; the represent, too, a variety of intellectual disciplines and critical approaches, providing medievalists with an impressive array of studies of the major works and authors of Ricardian Enland.