This Companion examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the sixth......more

A comprehensive study of the mortality of Norse gods, with close readings of the Prose Edda, Poetic Edda and Saxo Gramma......more

This book takes readers on a journey across eras, exploring cultural, philosophical, and literary parallels between Isla......more

This is the first monograph systematically to apply modern principles of ecotheology to early medieval literature and re......more

This books offers a new view of Eugenius III, an under-appreciated pope who came to power as a relative unknown during a......more

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. One of the first ......more

Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe and Beyond addresses the development and transnational circulation of Neo-Latin d......more

A vibrant revival of a neglected witty and daring medieval gem, and a foundational work for English romance and translat......more

This book investigates ancient texts of culture about Pentheus. It includes a section devoted to the rigorous Quellenfor......more

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript cul......more

Divine predication is a central concern of two key authors of Western medieval culture: the theologian and poet Alan of ......more

King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition is a book that revolutionizes our understanding o......more

Hook: Rediscover the magnetic complexity of Robert Browning decoded, celebrated, and reissued for a new age. An Introduc......more

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic......more

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic......more

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanis......more

Sadomasochistic "Beowulf" applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of......more

A rare window into the golden shadows of Victorian letters lively, intimate, unforgettable. In Good Company gathers Coul......more

The structural and symbolic purposes of ruins in literary texts have a long history, yet few scholars explore their impo......more

Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and des......more

The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century p......more

Objects in late medieval Europe were a means for lay people and clergy to negotiate their access to powers beyond the ev......more

John Ridewall’s Fulgencius metaforalis is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius’s sixth-century Mitologiae, an introduct......more

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

This study challenges the traditional view of Girolamo Vida’s Christiad as a purely Virgilian poem, revealing that its e......more

Having filched a little white bundle from under the noses of an apothecary’s apprentice and his maid in London’s Leadenh......more

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

The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world Reorienting the East ex......more

The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langlan......more

The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langlan......more

Explores medieval Irish interest in Classical mythology and historiography and how it could be situated within the frame......more

A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace Lear......more

A study of the relationship between people and animals in the Middle Ages. What did medieval people call the animals the......more

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital ......more

The first English translation into verse of the full Vox Clamantis, with explanatory notes. John Gower’s Vox Clamantis i......more

The first English translation into verse of the full Vox Clamantis, with explanatory notes. John Gower’s Vox Clamantis i......more

Readers encountering the Middle English Arthurian tradition are confronted by three texts with confusingly similar title......more

This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval rom......more

Accessible and reliable introduction in English to the earliest vernacular lyric poetry in the Iberian Peninsula. Dating......more

Bestiaries. Lapidaries. Lunaries. Inventories and household vocabularies. Lists are everywhere in medieval and early mod......more

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval......more

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval......more

In this monumental contribution to Old English philology, Geoffrey Russom integrates important discoveries about syntax,......more

Essays examining Arthurian and Chronicle texts, contexts, and reception, in honour of Fiona Tolhurst’s contributions to ......more

Scholars have often viewed the Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337-1453) between England and France as sharpening animosity and ......more

Examines common themes and connections in Gaelic storytelling from the Middle Ages to present day. From the great mediev......more

"Through exploring the marginal writings of medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books in the Iberian peninsula......more

"Through exploring the marginal writings of medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books in the Iberian peninsula......more

Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although bes......more

Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although bes......more

The first full examination of a fascinating manuscript, Brogyntyn ii.1, a Middle English miscellany with a little Latin,......more

Essays exploring the literary, material, scholarly and linguistic ties between the Continent and early medieval England.......more

This book innovatively combines medieval manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the Middle ......more

What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ’authentic’ in the......more

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver......more

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the pr......more

What lessons did readers take from the Espill (The Mirror)? This book examines key marginalia in sixteenth-century print......more

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante’s Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what ......more

In Dante’s Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he ’used and shaped’ (Par. XXVI, 114) and af......more