English and International : Studies in the Literature, Art and Patronage of Medieval England (Paperback)

List of plates and plate acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Part I. An Obsession with the Continent: Introduction; 1. Cultural patterns in twelfth-century England: Norman and Angevin; 2. Culture and literature in earlier thirteenth-century England: national and international; 3. England and the continent during the thirteenth century: royal and aristocratic patronage; Part II. Piers Plowman and Alliterative Poetry: 4. The alliterative revival; 5. Piers Plowman: an introduction; 6. Piers Plowman and The Simonie; 7. Alliterative modes and affiliations in the fourteenth century; 8. The timeliness of Wynnere and Wastoure; 9. A Complaint against Blacksmiths; Part III. Chaucer: 10. Troilus and Criseyde: a reconsideration; 11. Troilus and Criseyde: poet and narrator; 12. Chaucer and Internationalism; Part IV. Literature and the Visual Arts: 13. Medieval poetry and the visual arts; 14. Piers Plowman and the visual arts; 15. The Troilus Frontispiece; 16. The Annuciation to the Shepherds in later medieval art and drama; Notes; Bibliography of the published writings of Elizabeth Salter; Index.