Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: Series Editor's Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The English Languages -- Spiritual Affirmations, Aspirations and Anxieties -- Violence and the Work of Chivalry -- Uses of the Past: Authorizing the present and shaping the future -- Scientia--Knowledge, practical and theoretical -- Book Production, Audience and Reception -- Producing and Exchanging: The world of manors and towns -- Polity and Governance, Unity and Disunity -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

"More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives through which to understand the literary texts of the period 1350-1500 as well as the culture which created and received them. Complete with a substantial introduction, annotations and a timeline"--