A Book of Middle English by Burrow, J.A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Title page copyright List of Illustrations Dedication Preface to the Third Edition Abbreviations Part one

1 Introducing Middle English

1.1 THE PERIOD 1.2 VARIETIES OF MIDDLE ENGLISH

2 Pronouncing Middle English

2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 VOWELS 2.3 CONSONANTS 2.4 STRESS

3 Vocabulary

3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 SCANDINAVIAN 3.3 ENGLISH, FRENCH AND LATIN 3.4 LATIN LOAN-WORDS 3.5 FRENCH LOAN-WORDS

4 Inflexions

4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2 NOUNS 4.3 PRONOUNS AND ARTICLES 4.4 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 4.5 VERBS

5 Syntax

5.1 GENDER 5.2 NUMBER 5.3 USE OF CASES 5.4 PRONOUNS AND ARTICLES 5.5 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 5.6 VERBS 5.7 NEGATION 5.8 QUESTIONS 5.9 WORD-ORDER 5.10 RECAPITULATION AND ANTICIPATION

6 Metre

6.1 INTRODUCTION 6.2 RHYMED VERSE 6.3 ALLITERATIVE VERSE 6.4 LA3AMON’S BRUT

7 From Manuscript to Printed Text 8 Select Bibliography

8.1 BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES 8.2 LANGUAGE STUDIES 8.3 GENERAL STUDIES OF THE LITERATURE 8.4 STUDIES OF PARTICULAR GENRES 8.5 HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Part two: Prose and Verse Texts

Treatment of Texts 1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137 2 The Owl and the Nightingale 3 Laჳamon: Brut 4 Ancrene Wisse 5 Sir Orfeo 6 The Cloud of Unknowing 7 William Langland: Piers Plowman 8 Patience 9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 10 Pearl 11 St Erkenwald 12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk 13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis 14 Lyrics

a–f RAWLINSON LYRICS g–k HARLEY LYRICS 1–r GRIMESTONE LYRICS

15 The York Play of the Crucifixion 16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls 17 Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde 18 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

18a CHAUCER: THE REEVE’S TALE 18b CHAUCER: THE PRIORESS’S TALE

Textual Notes Glossary