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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction: endings and beginnings
The Dark Ages
Early literary issues
The big questions
Chapter 1 Literary origins
On origins
Mixing traditions
Chapter 2 Textual production and performance
Making books
Textual communities
Composing and performing
Textual settings
Chapter 3 Literary spaces, literary identities
Reading and hearing
Capturing audiences, creating history
Identifying with literary heroes
Hybrid cultures
Regional identity through dialect
Chapter 4 Individual and community
Collective ideals
On proper conduct
Building a communion
From communion to community
Chapter 5 The mighty and the monstrous
Order and chaos
Size matters
Encountering and transforming
Chapter 6 Love and longing
From elegiac to lyric
Love of a lady
Speaking of love
Love of the lord and lady
Chapter 7 Death and judgement
Desiring salvation
Preaching salvation
Punishing and persecuting
From superstition to persecution
Chapter 8 Consolidating literary traditions
Singing of princes
‘Men take of it heed’
The flowering of national literatures
Ordering books, writing lives
Chapter 9 Coda: print and the canon
Further reading
Index
Social Media
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