Table of Contents:
  • Middle English lyrics and manuscripts / Julia Boffey
  • Middle English lyrics : metre and editorial practice / Thomas G. Duncan
  • The love lyric before Chaucer / John Scattergood
  • Moral and penitential lyrics / Vincent Gillespie
  • Middle English religious lyrics / Christiania Whitehead
  • Middle English courtly lyrics : Chaucer to Henry VIII / Douglas Gray
  • The Middle English carol / Karl Reichl
  • Political lyrics / Thorlac Turville-Petre
  • the lyric in the sermon / Alan J. Fletcher
  • 'Cuius contrarium' : Middle English popular lyrics / Bernard O'Donoghue
  • Gender and voice in Middle English religious lyrics / Sarah Stanbury
  • Lyrics in Middle Scots / A.A. MacDonald.