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

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Medieval intellectuals were fascinated to compare their culture with others, often, though not always, looking at differ......more

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

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Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern b......more

Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern b......more

Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and t......more

Radiances gathers together previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Alt......more

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

The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya’s influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studi......more

Performing Desire examines the intellectual and philosophical complexity of a monument of medieval literature: the mid-t......more

The first complete descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in Bristol area collections. Bristol has a rich but......more

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Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays ......more

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In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars a......more

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Linked verse (renga) was the most popular form of poetry in Japan’s medieval era (c. 1200-1600 CE). Renga poets linked v......more

A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Bo......more

An elegant medieval guide to verse composition and rhetoric, presented in a new authoritative edition and English transl......more

An exposition of Arabic literate culture In eleventh-century Cordoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself jocke......more

The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages. With its themes of suf......more

The first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The ......more

Animalia: Animal and Human Interaction in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World is the fifth in a series of v......more

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of medieval......more

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The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY......more

This volume continues the series’ engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the be......more

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerologica......more

Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstr......more

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matte......more

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

Offers a nuanced reading of character and subjectivity in medieval romance via an exploration of its conventions. Mediev......more

This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Volsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon slaying ......more

This is the first full-length study of Robin Hood Christmastime poems, novels, short stories, dramatic and musical perfo......more

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

The twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw some of the most important changes to marriage laws in European history, ......more

Explores the intersections between two fundamental approaches to medieval literature, shedding new light on texts rangin......more

A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature......more

A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature......more

Richly illustrated venture into book production in Cambridge. William Dyngley (Peterhouse, 1393-1441), known for his per......more

Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are tran......more

In Arabic-Islamic culture, generosity is held in the very highest regard and descriptions of charity, hospitality and la......more

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances o......more

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

This book explores the connections between space and narrative through an in-depth analysis of the fourteenth-century Mi......more

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

Argues for a new understanding of Old English responses to materiality and historical change. Human communities have int......more

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

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Examines how the European Middle Ages has been used and received in a variety of American cultural contexts. There is a ......more

The Physiologus is the ancestor of the bestiary, a collection of chapters describing animal qualities and behaviours, us......more

Volume two of this series features new perspectives from fields including philology, literary criticism, philosophy, art......more

This book examines the ways in which people wrote about and engaged with infertility in the German Middle Ages. Striking......more

The Ormulum has been, from the onset, at the very centre of the philological investigation of the impact that Anglo-Scan......more

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

Rooted in a range of approaches to the reception of classical drama, the chapters in this book reflect, in one way or an......more

So little happens in the earliest surviving plays that their dramatic status almost escapes the reader. This calls for a......more

This is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through ’necropolitics’.......more

In Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England, Mary Kate Hurley reinterprets a well-recogniz......more

This book examines the poetry and poetic influence, before and after, of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, including 17th centur......more

In Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El’azar of Toledo, Tovi Bibring argu......more

The Pore Caitif is a popular, late-fourteenth-century, carefully crafted compilation of biblical, catechetical, devotion......more

The Dominican master par excellence of the historical method, Pierre Mandonnet (1858-1936) came to Dante as one of the l......more

Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did ......more