This anthology makes available to the modern reader a range of texts produced in the often overlooked period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. A wide variety of texts - chronicle, history, legends, plays, lyrics, debates, romances, and stories of all shapes and kinds - are included in translation or helpfully glossed form. To a scholar of the twelfth century, this volume is delightful, giving vibrant literary life to a period whose literature can be overlooked. From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death is thoroughgoing, illuminating, and eminently readable.