III. Anglo-Saxon Learning and Prose: Latin among the Anglo-Saxons — Bede — Alcuin — Alfred — The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — The Monks and Learning — Ælfric [23]

IV. After the Norman Conquest: Latin Literature — Walter Map — Changes Since the Conquest [35]

V. Geoffrey of Monmouth: The Stories of Arthur [42]

VI. Layamon's "Brut": Ormulum — Ancren Riwle — The Owl and the Nightingale — Lyrics — Political Songs — Robert of Gloucester — Cursor Mundi — Devotional Books — Minot [48]

VII. The Romances in Rhyme: Tristram — Havelok — King Horn — Beues of Hamtoun — Guy of Warwick — Arthur and Merlin — The Tale of Troy — The Story of Troy from Homer to Shakespeare — King Alisaundre [60]

VIII. Alliterative Romances and Poems: Gawain and the Green Knight — Pearl — Huchowne [72]

IX. Chaucer: Early Poems — The Dethe of the Duchesse — Other Early Poems — Troilus and Criseyde — The Canterbury Tales [78]

X. "Piers Plowman," Gower [99]

XI. The Successors of Chaucer: Lydgate — Occleve — Hawes [110]

XII. Late Mediaeval Prose: Wyclif — Chaucer's Prose Style — Trevisa — Mandeville — Pecock: "The Repressor" — Capgrave — Lord Berners [115]