Medieval Narrative

Formerly Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds (1959-64) and then successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, Tony Davenport is now Emeritus Professor of Medieval Literature in the University of London. He is the author of several books and numerous essays on medieval English literature. He was elected Fellow of the English Association in 2002.

• 1. The Idea of Medieval Narrative ; 2. Narrative ; 3. Didactic Narratives ; 4. Forms of History ; 5. Comic Tales ; 6. Fantasy and Dream ; 7. Two Versions of Tragedy: Trolius and Criseyde and the Alliterative Morte Arthure ; 8. Putting Narratives Together ; 9. Postscript ; Bibliography

Medieval Narrative: An Introduction is an excellent resource for students or non-specialists who have taken a course on medieval literature (particularly on Chaucer) and would like some guidance for further reading or a better sense of medieval ideas about narrative.