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...