Table of Contents

Anne Middleton, William Langland's "Kynde Name": Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England Paul Strohm, Politics and Poetics: Usk and Chaucer in the 1380s Lee Patterson,"No man his reson herde": Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer's Miller, and the Structure of the CANTERBURY TALES David Wallace, "When she translated was":A Chaucerian Critique of the Petrarchan Academy Larry Scanlon, The Kings Two Voices: Narrative and Power in Hoccleve's REGIMENT OF PRINCES Theresa Coletti, Reading REED: History and the Records of Early English Drama Louise Fradenburg, Narrative and Capital in Late Medieval Scotland

About the Author

Lee Patterson is Professor of English and Chairman of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature (1987).