Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword: Norman Blake and his Work -- Part I: GEOFFREY CHAUCER -- Scogan, Shirley's Reputation and Chaucerian Occasional Verse -- 'This was a thrifty tale for the nones': Chaucer's Man of Law -- Chaucer's Sense of Wealth -- Caxton's Printing of Chaucer's Boece -- Exemplum et Similitudo: Natural Law in the Manciple's Tale and the Squire's Tale -- The Tale and the Book: Readings of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Fifteenth Century -- Chaucer and Interest in Astronomy at the Court of Richard II -- The Use of Caxton Texts and Paper Stocks in Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales -- The Weak Declension of the Adjective and its Importance in Chaucerian Metre -- Can we Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript? -- Personality and Styles of Affect in the Canterbury Tales -- Part II: NON-CHAUCERIAN WRITING -- Wynkyn de Worde and Misogyny in Print -- An Eighteenth-Century Edition of Hoccleve -- Editing and Ideology: Stephen Batman and the Book of Privy Counselling -- Notes toward a Future History of Middle English Literature: Two Copies of Richard Rolle's Form of Living -- 'Deprece Your Prysoun': Sir Gawain and the Encircling Narrative -- The Enduring Popularity of Thirteenth-Century Verse: The Estorie del Evangelie and the Vernon Manuscript -- The Language of Persuasion: De Clerico et Puella from London, British Library MS Harley 2253 -- Caxton's Copy-fitting Devices in the Morte Darthur (1485): An Overview -- Caxton and the Polychronicon -- Index of Chaucer's Works -- A -- B -- C -- F -- G -- H -- L -- P -- R -- T -- Index of Manuscripts -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.