The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 2: The Middle Ages

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xvi

• Introduction by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson
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• pp. 1-12

I - THE LIBERAL ARTS AND THE ARTS OF LATIN TEXTUALITY

• 1 - Grammatica and literary theory by Martin Irvine and David Thomson
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• pp. 13-41

• 2 - The arts of poetry and prose by J. J. Murphy
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• pp. 42-67

• 3 - The arts of letter-writing by Ronald G. Witt
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• pp. 68-83

• 4 - The arts of preaching by Siegfried Wenzel
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• pp. 84-96

II - THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL AUTHORS

• 5 - From late Antiquity to the twelfth century by Winthrop Wetherbee
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• pp. 97-144

• 6 - FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO c. 1450 by Vincent Gillespie
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• pp. 145-236

III - TEXTUAL PSYCHOLOGIES: IMAGINATION, MEMORY, PLEASURE

• 7 - Medieval imagination and memory by Alastair Minnis
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• pp. 237-274

• 8 - The profits of pleasure by Glending Olson
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• pp. 275-288

IV - VERNACULAR CRITICAL TRADITIONS: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

• 9 - Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism by Patrick Sims-Williams and Erich Poppe
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• pp. 289-309

• 10 - Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes by Ananya Jahanara Kabir
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• pp. 310-323

• 11 - Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany by John L. Flood
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• pp. 324-332

• 12 - Literary criticism in Welsh before c. 1300 by Marged Haycock
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• pp. 333-344

• 13 - Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic by Margaret Clunies Ross
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• pp. 345-460

V - VERNACULAR CRITICAL TRADITIONS: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

• 14 - Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature by Ralph Hanna, Tony Hunt, R. G. Keightley, Alastair Minnis and Nigel F. Palmer
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• pp. 361-421

• 15 - Vernacular literary consciousness c. 1100–c. 1500: French, German and English evidence by Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Nigel F. Palmer and James Simpson
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• pp. 422-471

• 16 - Occitan grammars and the art of troubadour poetry by Simon Gaunt and John Marshall
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• pp. 472-495

• 17 - Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200–c. 1500 by Julian Weiss
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• pp. 496-532

• 18 - Literary criticism in Middle High German literature by Nigel F. Palmer
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• pp. 533-548

• 19 - Later literary criticism in Wales by Gruffydd Aled Williams
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• pp. 549-558

VI - LATIN AND VERNACULAR IN ITALIAN LITERARY THEORY

• 20 - Dante Alighieri: experimentation and (self-)exegesis by Zygmunt G. Barański
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• pp. 559-582

• 21 - The Epistle to Can Grande by Zygmunt G. Barański
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• pp. 583-589

• 22 - The Trecento commentaries on Dante's Commedia by Steven Botterill
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• pp. 590-611

• 23 - Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321–c. 1500) by Martin McLaughlin
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• pp. 612-625

• 24 - Humanist views on the study of poetry in the early Italian Renaissance by David Robey
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• pp. 626-647

• 25 - Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose by Martin McLaughlin
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• pp. 648-666

VII - BYZANTINE LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

• 26 - Byzantine criticism and the uses of literature by Thomas M. Conley
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• pp. 667-692

• Bibliography
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• pp. 693-815

• Index
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• pp. 816-865