This is the second volume of the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le P'elerinage de la Vie Humaine, by the Cistercian Guillaume de Deguileville. It provides extensive explanatory notes, a glossary, an index of names, an appendix and bibliography for the text and apparatus published in Volume I.

This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long vision poem, Le Pelerinage de la Vie humaine. Once thought to be diffuse, Henry shows that this lively allegory is an intricate and effective structure stemming from the same theological foundation as works by Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain-poet.