Contents
Introduction
Kathy Lavezzo
Part I. Theorizing the Medieval English Nation
Pro Patria Mori
L. O. Aranye Fradenburg
Part II. The Languages of England
Latin England
Andrew Galloway
"As Englishe is comoun langage to oure puple": The Lollards and Their Imagined "English" Community
Jill C. Havens
Part III. Chaucer's England
Chaucer Imagines England (in English)
Peggy A. Knapp
Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls
Kathleen Davis
Part IV. Langland's England
King, Commons, and Kind Wit: Langland's National Vision and the Rising of 1381
Larry Scanlon
Piers Plowman and the National Noetic of Edward III
D. Vance Smith
Part V. England and Its Neighbors
Translating "Communitas"
Lynn Staley
The Captivity of Henry Chrystede: Froissart's Chroniques, Ireland, and Fourteenth-Century Nationalism
Claire Sponsler
Afterword: The Brutus Prologue to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thorlac Turville-Petre
Contributors
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism, National characteristics, English, in literature, Nationalism and literature England History To 1500, Nationalism in literature, England In literature