IIIMiddle English

Abstract

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. Early Middle English; 2. Theory; 3. Manuscript and Technical Studies; 4. Religious Writing; 5. Secular Prose; 6. Secular Verse; 7. Piers Plowman; 8. Gower; 9. Older Scots; 10. Drama; 11. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness; 12. Romance: Metrical, Alliterative, Prose. 13. Hoccleve and Lydgate. Section 1 is by Ayoush Lazikani; section 2 is by Andrew Finn; section 3 is by J.D. Sargan; section 4 is by Natalie Calder; section 5 is by Mark Ronan; section 6 is by Darragh Greene; section 7 is by Seth Strickland; section 8 is by Laurie Atkinson; section 9 is by Kate Ash-Irisarri; section 10 is by Daisy Black and Sarah Brazil; sections 11 and 12 are by Darragh Greene; section 13 is by Rebecca Menmuir.Due to delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of publications from 2019 are covered instead in this year’s volume.