Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Introduction: The Cheese and the Worms and Robert Thornton - Michael JohnstonThe Contents of Robert Thornton's Manuscripts - Susanna FeinRobert Thornton: Gentleman, Reader and Scribe - George R. KeiserThe Thornton Manuscripts and Book Production in York - Joel FredellThe Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition - Ralph HannaThe Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition - Thorlac Turville-Petre'The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes': Religious Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript - Mary Michele PoellingerConstantinian Christianity in the London Thornton Manuscript: The Codicological and Linguistic Evidence of Thornton's Intentions - Michael JohnstonApocryphal Romance in the London Thornton Manuscript - Julie Nelson CouchThornton's Remedies and Practices of Medical Reading - Julie OrlemanskiAfterword: Robert Thornton Country - Rosalind Field and Dav SmithBibliography