A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language an...

For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particular...

In this full-length study of the early history of greed Richard Newhauser challenges the traditio...

Reinterpretation of the significance of the figure of St Bernard in Dante's Commedia.

Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, ...

Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular...

This book analyzes key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts that articulate a subjective au...

What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later ...

Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics fo...

Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this...

This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory ...

This book explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle, via Roman ideas and pra...