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
Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering 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
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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
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
Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern......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
Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts ......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
How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exch......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
How medieval poems sparked discussions on women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminism Th......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
"Understanding the history of grief and madness in late medieval and early modern Iberia through the lives of three roya......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
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
A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrin......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
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of C......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
The heroes of early narrative are the faces of an older world. In constant retellings, their stories hold the memory lik......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
Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay b......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
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 analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowled......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
A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedent......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
Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of Kin......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 book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteen......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
This volume opens the world of Old Yiddish to scholars and students of Yiddish and Jewish Studies alike. It is a further......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
This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John......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
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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
Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warri......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
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well b......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
Dante’s works contain too much and too little blood. On the one hand, one might wonder why there is any blood in the Com......more