PART I: SPACE, SYMBOLIZATION, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
1. Three London Itineraries:
Aesthetic Purity and the Composing Process 3
2. Walking Fire: Symbolization, Action, and Lollard Burning 20
3. Coronation as Legible Practice 33
PART II: TIME AND NARRATIVE
4. "Lad with Revel to Newegate":
Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Metanarrative 51
5. Fictions of Time and Origin: Friar Huberd and the Lepers 65
6. Chaucer's Troilus as Temporal Archive 80
PART III: READING THE HISTORICAL TEXT
7. Prohibiting History: Capgrave and the Death of Richard II 99
8. Trade, Treason, and the Murder of Janus Imperial 112
9. Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Another Ill-Framed Knight I32
10. Postmodernism and History 149
PART IV: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES
11. What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn't Know
about Himself? I65
12. John's Locked Box: Kingship and the Management of Desire I82
13. Mellyagant's Primal Scene 201