Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Authorial Work and Literary Ideology -- Will's Apologia pro vita sua -- 1. Will's Work -- 2. Langland and the Bibliographic Ego -- 3. Langland's Persona: An Anatomy of the Mendicant Orders -- 4. Langland's London -- 5. Acts of Vagrancy: The C Version Autobiography and the Statute of 1388 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z