The Making of Chaucer's English undertakes a substantial reappraisal of the place Chaucer's Engli...

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

The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest ...

In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet ...

Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and e...

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

Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts...

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...

This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to phil...

This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ag...

'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term h...