A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

• An accessible resource that examines contexts essential to understanding and interpreting writing of the Middle English period
• Chapters explore the distinctiveness of Middle English literature
• Brings together discussion and analysis by an international team of Middle English specialists, incorporating fresh material and new insights
• Includes analysis of Chaucer's writings, and considers them in relation to the work of his Middle English predecessors, contemporaries and successors
• Incorporates discussion of issues steering the perception of Middle English literature in the present day

MARILYN CORRIE teaches in the English Department at University College London. Her research interests include the trilingual literary culture of post-Norman Conquest England; the transmission of continental French literature to England in the thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries; English and French manuscripts containing literary texts; and the interface between theology and literary writing in the Middle Ages, especially in the fifteenth century. Having published articles and essays relating to each of these subjects, she is currently working on a book about Christian theology, magic and literature in the later Middle Ages.