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The ME 'Mirror', a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN 'Miroir' by Robert de Gretham, is a text of cultural and linguistic value. As a cycle of sermons addressed to a lay audience, it offers extensive material for the study of popular preaching in fourteenth-century England. Four of the six surviving manuscripts exemplify that variety of fourteenth-century London language designated 'Type II' by M. L. Samuels. Onl...

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Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.

`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

Insular Books discusses literary texts written in Anglo-French, Middle English, Older Scots, and Middle Welsh. The particular focus of the collection is one type of manuscript: the miscellany - essentially a multi-text manuscript whose contents are of a varied nature, often accumulated over time and added by different users.

This is a collection of more than 3, 000 quotations on the human mind and behaviour, providing a source of seminal, witty and insightful comments on topics ranging from abilities to xenophobia. Organized by both subject and author, it will be a valuable reference tool, or may be read for entertainment or to embellish a speech.

New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated network of their production and dissemination.