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

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

Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended media...

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

This comparative study examines Floire and Blancheflor and shows how medieval writers from Spain,...

The first full-length study of the early history of greed, through texts from the first to tenth ...

The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This book is ...

Up to the twelfth century, writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with relig...

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

This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critic...

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

Medieval literature and art abounds in descriptions of grotesque torments (punitive in hell, rede...

This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieva...

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

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

Investigates the politics of vernacular translation in late medieval England, with particular att...

The significance of writing in medieval Celtic societies, c. 400 c. 1500.

A study of two important late medieval poems and their philosophical and psychological contexts.

The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set a new agenda for the study of ...

Collection of essays shedding light on medieval Dutch literature set in its socio-historic and cu...

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.

This anthology of newly-translated texts covers the single most important branch of medieval lite...

A study of two important late medieval poems and their philosophical and psychological contexts.

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersection between legal documents and English literature in t...

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century...

The first book-length study of a seminal 'feminist' text from the Middle Ages.

Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study of Arthurian verse romance was first published in German in 198...

This is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d. 1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic ...

Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and private exchanges of medieval...

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

Medieval literature and art abounds in descriptions of grotesque torments (punitive in hell, rede...

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

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

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

An examination of monastic meditation, first published in 1998.

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focus...

In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ag...

Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacula...

Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

This collection of essays offers a pioneering review of women's access to literary culture in med...

A major study of the implications of grammatica for literary theory and textual culture in the me...

A comprehensive account of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women.

A unique perspective on the Arthurian tradition with particular focus on Geoffrey of Monmouth.

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

This book investigates how people learned to read in the Middle Ages. It uses glosses--medieval t...

The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural co...

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