... encounter with the dragon, written in the fourteenth century or late in the thirteenth, illustrate varied uses of the poetic form. Geoffrey Chaucer’s life of Cecilia, William Paris’s life of Christine, and the anonymous Saint Erkenwald, all composed during the last quarter of the fourteenth...

... self-conscious and affective performance—is explored in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, querying some of the intrinsic thematic concerns that interlink the Cotton Nero poems and Saint Erkenwald. Ultimately the article contends with the artificial and fictive past...