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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

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years. Arthur and the Languages of Britain ......more

The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncret......more

The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary......more

Verse quotation is intrinsic to the literary style of the medieval Icelandic corpus of Íslendingasögur (sagas of Iceland......more

Maxims I and Maxims II, which comprise a seemingly haphazard assortment of Old English poetic gnomes (sayings put into v......more

Book ten of the Man’yōshū (’Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-......more

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated......more

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated......more

Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discover......more

A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. Wh......more

A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. Wh......more

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literar......more

In this collection, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa bring together leading researchers from comparative liter......more

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-s......more

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his o......more

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The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

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How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and......more

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical,......more

Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756-763), Tang dynasty elites questioned i......more

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In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the......more

Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well......more

Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to tea......more

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Despite Aristotle’s family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on ......more

Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western m......more

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to prov......more

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Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the ......more

Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in Engl......more

This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the excl......more

This book blurs the line between high and low culture throughout literary history. The common story in literary studies ......more

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth......more

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The Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthi......more

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe’s most widely known literary form and pre......more

While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the histo......more

In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vern......more

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the ......more

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton’s groundbr......more

King Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) remains a key figure in English literary history. Although his reputation as a schola......more

Through the word corpus, the metaphor of the body is applied to a collection of works by the same author that are transm......more

This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650-1100. I......more

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

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material cu......more

This biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert’s life--and inner life. It follows Rickert’s own writing an......more

Handlist to manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin, covering all 79 Middle English prose manuscripts and indexing more th......more

Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of......more

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for an......more

"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This volume is......more

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women’s medicine speak to contemporary reprodu......more

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German co......more

An interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural......more

Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket’s martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II’s knights, his Anglo-Norman m......more

This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medie......more

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This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships ......more

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twe......more

Robert Holcot (d. 1349) was a Dominican friar, most prominently connected with the convent in Oxford where he became a D......more

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

In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed ......more

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of th......more

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of th......more

At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript, the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles......more