Unediting Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c.250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c.1527-1608).
The narrative poem was translated about 1300 from the Anglo-Norman romance, and contains only about a third of the original, from the hero's marriage to his death. The translator also changed the vers
Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy
