Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: SPACE, SYMBOLIZATION, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE -- 1. Three London Itineraries: Aesthetic Purity and the Composing Process -- 2. Walking Fire: Symbolization, Action, and Lollard Burning -- 3. Coronation as Legible Practice -- PART II: TIME AND NARRATIVE -- 4. "Lad with Revel to Newegate": Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Metanarrative -- 5. Fictions of Time and Origin: Friar Huberd and the Lepers -- 6. Chaucer's Troilus as Temporal Archive -- PART III: READING THE HISTORICAL TEXT -- 7. Prohibiting History: Capgrave and the Death of Richard II -- 8. Trade, Treason, and the Murder of Janus Imperial -- 9. Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Another Ill-Framed Knight -- 10. Postmodernism and History -- PART IV: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES -- 11. What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn't Know about Himself? -- 12. John's Locked Box: Kingship and the Management of Desire -- 13. Mellyagant's Primal Scene -- Notes -- Indexes -- Protagonists, Events, and Selected Medieval Texts -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Commentators, Theorists, and Selected Texts -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z -- Theoretical Concepts -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.