The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had......more

The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich ind......more

Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance of Parz......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

The nucleus of Jacob Campo Weyerman’s (1677-1747) literary oeuvre is the weekly periodical he published under varying ti......more

In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of ......more

This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature......more

How medieval poems sparked discussions on women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminism  Th......more

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrin......more

The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore in......more

"Understanding the history of grief and madness in late medieval and early modern Iberia through the lives of three roya......more

French Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French am......more

Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Ja......more

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

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This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth and twe......more

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History is an annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world......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

How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused h......more

Early English culture depended on a Judaism translated away from Jews. Revealing the importance of Jewish law to the wor......more

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The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The ......more

Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587 seeks to fill a significant gap in the rich and ever-gro......more

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of C......more

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

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

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Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay b......more

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The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byza......more

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on l......more

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Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and b......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

Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, an......more

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related......more

This book sheds new light on the Latin background of various Old English homilies, and of certain homilies from related ......more

Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the hi......more

Caroline Bergvall’s celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects--Meddle English (2011), Drift......more

This volumes examines the place of classical rhetoric in Augustine’s theology. Rather than seeing rhetoric as a matter o......more

This book is available in open access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań This is t......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

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Emerging from a richly diverse oral narrative tradition circa 1300, the heroic and dynamic tale of the young Cid eclipse......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

This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century ......more

Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue centr......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

John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (The Lover’s Confession) is one of the most important English works of the Fourteenth Cen......more

John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (The Lover’s Confession) is one of the most important English works of the Fourteenth Cen......more

It is well known that in several of her works, Christine de Pizan actively sought to valorize and empower women; she not......more

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evide......more

This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nat......more

The first extended study of supernatural discourse in Old English poetry, Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse fil......more

As the ’father’ of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every ’great books’ syllabus, Chau......more

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

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