Table of Contents:
  • The loss of literature: 1066
  • The law of the land: Lazamon's Brut
  • Right writing: the Ormulum
  • The meaning of life: the owl and the nightingale
  • The place of the self: Ancrene Wisse and the Katherine-group
  • The spirit of romance: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, and Floris and Blancheflour.