Middle English Period (c. 1100 - c. 1485)

• Some Background
• On Middle English Language
• Some Overviews of Middle English Literature
• "From Epic to Romance"
• The Owl and the Nightingale
• fin amor: "Courtyl Love"
• The Arthur Story
• La3aman's Brut
• Writing for Religious Women: "Guide for Anchoresses" (Ancrene Wisse)
• Hermits and Anchoresses: Facts and Ideals
• Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
• Some Other Books about Women and Women Writers
• M.E. Romance
• The Alliterative Revival and Gawain
• William Langland, Piers Plowman