Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ’moder......more

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of rese......more

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at th......more

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeli......more

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A critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729. The ......more

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. Du......more

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in th......more

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Who is the Pearl-poet? How do ideas about his life and interpretations of his poems shape our understanding of his work ......more

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spol......more

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boug......more

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the "Great Mortality", this book examines the......more

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

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An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive......more

Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature. The historic......more

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ag......more

The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had......more

Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance of Parz......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of ......more

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which......more

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrin......more

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The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a tow......more

The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Eneas, form, along with the Roman de Tro......more

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together the wri......more

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval - musical performance, li......more

This book gathers contributions negotiating feminism’s place within medieval studies. It is about overlaps and twists, a......more

Arthurian Matters of Britain explores a world inspired by the Celtic, Christian, and Islamic traditions, and arrives at ......more

J.R. R. Tolkien has been revered as the father of twentieth-century fantasy; however, many initially criticized him for ......more

How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused h......more

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exh......more

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures. It calls for renewed attention to prophe......more

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodi......more

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities ques......more

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It of......more

The concept of love’s wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept ......more

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byza......more

​Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a mode......more

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenlan......more

This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante’s Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly app......more

This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante’s Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly app......more

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related......more

This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures a......more

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedent......more

Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism describes the Georgian Jane Austen, immersed in the Middle Ages, and particularly the......more

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power ......more

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary as......more

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary as......more

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist ......more

This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desir......more

The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran are adherents of the last surviving Gnostic tradition from the period of Late Antiquity, ......more

This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nat......more

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evide......more

As the ’father’ of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every ’great books’ syllabus, Chau......more

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus......more

This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmode......more

Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and ......more

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of Englis......more

In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks’ Mass Book creating wha......more

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages-the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise-b......more

This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Da......more

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’We live, ’ according to Adam Kotsko, ’in an awkward age.’ While this condition may present some challenges, it may also......more

The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s pr......more

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medi......more

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer’s poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia......more

Thomas Hoccleve produced the first author-curated ’collected poems’ in the English language, preserved in two complement......more

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other ......more

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depic......more