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Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the three poets of their time considered to have founded the English poetic tradition. Gower, like Lydgate, eventually fell victim to changing tastes but is now enjoying renewed scholarly attention. Current work in manuscript studies, linguistic studies, vernacularity, translation, politics, and the contexts of literary production has found a rich source in Gower's trilingual, learned, and politically engaged co...

Douceline de Digne, founder of the beguine community of the Ladies of Roubaud in Provence, was an important woman mystic of her time, contextual material includes comparison with the beguines of northern Europe.

The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.

First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre.

A study of the distinguishing features of Donne's theology, as revealed primarily in his extant sermons. The author also addresses a variety of his individual sermons in context as applications of his own theological vision.

An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages.

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance.

Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer.

Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen's careful investigation of archival material, however, proves this to be a misconception, and in this volume he presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, here translated for the first time, based on his two-v...

Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics.

First English translations of later adaptions of Chretien's romances: a vital source for the development of Arthurian romance.

An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.

A fresh reading of Marvell's most important works, exploring the variety and complexity of his approaches to contemporary religious and political events.

The gem in the crown of Middle Dutch Arthurian romance, the Roman van Walewein embodies the transformation of popular folktale into courtly romance, in its rich variety of Arthurian motifs, it stands as an equal to the masterpiece of English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The framework of the romance is a tripartite series of quests, in which the hero, Walewein, must acquire and relinquish successive marvellous objects. Events are s...

During the last century of the Anglo-Saxon state, the use of written English reached remarkable heights. Yet, while the make-up and contents of the many books and documents surviving from the period have been fully catalogued, less attention has been devoted to those who produced them. This is the first comprehensive annotated list of the scribal hands whose work survives from the time of the Benedictine Reform under King Edgar to that of the ...

Goscelin of St Bertin's 'Book of Encouragement and Consolation' (Liber Confortatorius) is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk Goscelin to a protegee and personal friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the tradition of St Jerome's letters of spiritual guidance to women, and anticipates medieval advice literature for anchoresses. As a com...

Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about...

New interpretations of the ways in which early modern French literature was influenced by, and responded to, the works of Virgil.

The Continuations of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval are here examined as constituting a discrete genre of medieval literature.

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.