"The eleven essays presented in this volume, by leading scholars, aim to bring Arthurian studies into the twenty-first century. They begin with an overview of the field, suggesting directions which the subject should take in the future. The other articles present innovative appr…
This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti…
This dictionary offers in a concise form more than 11,000 headwords with source references, cross references and etymologies.
This dictionary offers in a concise form more than 11,000 headwords with source references, cross references and etymologies.
Where other studies may have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism, this study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English legends.
This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieva…
The modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it brings to light som…
The life and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Piers Plowman: a glossary of legal diction
Piers Plowman: a glossary of legal diction
Scholars have long believed that William Langland had a technical knowledge of the law. Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction is the first attempt to confirm that belief through a comprehensive study of the poet's language. The Glossary examines more than 600 words and phra…