Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction Forgotten History
Part 1 Plague in the Pearl Manuscript: Response and Symptom
Chapter 1 Trauma, Witness, and Representation in Cleanness
Chapter 2 Pearl and the Language of Plague
Part 2 Beyond the Symptomatic: Considering Plague in Fourteenth-Century England
Chapter 3 Flight and Enclosure in Patience
Chapter 4 Sex, Death, and Social Change in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Conclusion A Pestilence Whispered
Bibliography
Index