Middle English Romances: Second Norton Critical Edition

Preface Editorial Procedures Acknowledgments Reading Middle English Note on Reading Older Scots (Rauf Coilyear) Abbreviations MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCES Nurture and Correction • Havelok • Ywain and Gawain • Of Kyng Robert of Cisyle, Hou Pride dude Him Begyle Trial and Ordeal • Sir Orfeo • Athelston • Sir Launfal Challenges to the Round Table • The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne • The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell for Helpyng of Kyng Arthour • The Grene Knight Holy War • The Sege off Melayne • The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, How He Harbreit King Charlis. SOURCES AND BACKGROUNDS Havelok • Contextualizing Headnote • From L’Estoire des Englais, by Geffrei Gaimar Ywain and Gawain • Contextualizing Headnote • From Yvain, by Chrétien de Troyes Of Kyng Robert of Cisyle, Hou Pride dude Him Begyle • Contextualizing Headnote • From The Book of David [Nebuchadnezzar in the Wilderness] • From The Book of Judith [The Downfall of Holofernes] • From The Gospel of Luke [The Annunciation, the Visitation, and the Magnificat] • From The Babylonian Talmud [Legends of King Solomon Admonished] • An Exemplum from the Gesta Romanorum [Emporer Jovinian] Sir Orfeo • Contextualizing Headnote • On Orfeus, from King Alfred’s Translation of The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius Athelston • Contextualizing Headnote • From the Annales Monasterii de Wintonia [Queen Emma and the Plowshares] • On King Æthelstan, from the Gesta Regum Anglorum, by William of Malmesbury • Christ’s Parable of the Talents • From The Chronicle of Lanercost [An Untrustworthy Messenger] Sir Launfal • Contextualizing Headnote • Sir Landevale The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne • Contextualizing Headnote • The Trental of Saint Gregory • Two Mother’s Ghost Exempla from the Gesta Romanorum The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell for Helpyng of Kyng Arthour • Contextualizing Headnote • The Marriage of Sir Gawaine The Grene Knight • Contextualizing Headnote • From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Sege off Melayne • Contextualizing Headnote • Capystranus • From The Chronicle of Henry Knighton [On Henry Despenser, the Fighting Bishop] The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, How He Harbreit King Charlis • Contextualizing Headnote • Syre Gawene and the Carle of Carelyle • From Otuel and Roland CRITICISM The Knight Sets Forth, by Erich Auerbach Definitions of Middle English Romance, by John Finlayson Improvisation in the Middle English Romance, by Albert C. Baugh The Audience of the Romances, by Gisela Guddat-Figge [Folk Practices and Learned Magic], by Corrine Saunders Madness in Sir Orfeo, by Derek Pearsall The Saracen Body, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari When Romance Comes True, by Helen Cooper Selected Bibliography