Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include Later Medieval English Literature, The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose, Ihe Oxford Companion to ChaucerR^, and the Peguin edition of The Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

• PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

this anthology is an ideal core textbook for an undergraduate course on the literature of England in the three centuries after the Norman Conquest ... The real triumph of this volume is that it manages to present 'difficult' material in a way that is clear and inviting but not oversimplified ... In the variety, quality, and interest of its contents, this anthology constitutes a very compelling argument for the study of English literature from the Conquest to the Plague.

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include Later Medieval English Literature, The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose, Ihe Oxford Companion to ChaucerR^, and the Peguin edition of The Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

• PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

this anthology is an ideal core textbook for an undergraduate course on the literature of England in the three centuries after the Norman Conquest ... The real triumph of this volume is that it manages to present 'difficult' material in a way that is clear and inviting but not oversimplified ... In the variety, quality, and interest of its contents, this anthology constitutes a very compelling argument for the study of English literature from the Conquest to the Plague.

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include Later Medieval English Literature, The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose, Ihe Oxford Companion to ChaucerR^, and the Peguin edition of The Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

• PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

this anthology is an ideal core textbook for an undergraduate course on the literature of England in the three centuries after the Norman Conquest ... The real triumph of this volume is that it manages to present 'difficult' material in a way that is clear and inviting but not oversimplified ... In the variety, quality, and interest of its contents, this anthology constitutes a very compelling argument for the study of English literature from the Conquest to the Plague.