Part One • The Truth Of Tales
“The Vanishing Leper” and “The Murmuring Monk”: Two Medieval Urban Legends
Part Two • Repetition and Continuity: The Claims of History
Don’t Cry for Me, Augustinus: Dido and the Dangers of Empathy Thomas Hahn
The New Plow and the Old: Law, Orality, and the Figure of Piers the Plowman in B 19
The Exegesis of Tears in Lambeth Homily 17
Mingling with the english in laȝamon’s Brut
Part Three • Cultural Divides and Their Common Ground
Unquiet Graves: Pearl and the Hope of Reunion
Mercantile Gentility in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.2.38
Resident Aliens: The Literary Ecology of Medieval Mice
Toward the Common Good: Punishing Fraud Among the Victualers of Medieval London
Part Four • New Media and the Literate Laity
The Ignorance of the Laity: Twelve Tracts on Bible Translation
York Merchants at Prayer: The Confessional Formula of the Bolton Hour
A London Legal Miscellany, Popular Law, and Medieval Print Culture
Tourists and Tabulae in Late-Medieval England
Part Five • The Truth of Tales 2
Oral Performance and the Force of the Law: Taillefer at Hastings and Antgulilibix in Smithers