The book first appeared about the middle of the 14th century, supposedly by English knight Mandeville recounting his travels from Constantinople to China. Modern scholars have paid little attention to
US and Australian scholars of literature explore Medieval English tales of the shape-shifting woman who is loathsome at first but finally lovely, emphasizing the role of the motif as a vehicle of soci
Dunbar, a courtier of Scotland's James I, is considered to be the finest lyric poet in English between about 1400 and 1557 and a leader amongst the Middle Scots Poets. He is credited with over 80 poem
A new edition of the 16th-century, Shearmen and Taylors' and the Weavers' plays (not the East Anglian N-Town plays often mistaken for them). The Coventry mystery plays were staged by the town guilds a
The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book over
Eight papers, some of which were presented at the 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in 1994, chart the progress of Old English studies from the earliest wo
Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connecti
When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monastery in a desperate petition to a sixth-century king, he likened himself to an aborted fetus. Centuries
Designed for classroom use, this volume presents the text of five otherwise hard-to-find sentimental and humorous romances written during the Middle Ages. The texts are printed in the modern alphabet
"Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play, Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from the Low Countries in the early par
Written in the early 13th-century, The Italian guest is a book of etiquette and morality, which uses stories and examples to convey Thomasin's strongly held beliefs in Christian virtues, often through
Wimsatt has revised his 1982 edition of Middle French poems found in the "Penn" manuscript made in England at the end of the fourteenth century. while most of the poems are not attributed, several are
This book offers the first study of the royal pardon in fourteenth-century England, using evidence drawn from legal and literary texts, parliamentary records, yearbooks, and plea rolls. Its implicati
Investigations of Henry IV's reign have tended to concentrate on how he seized power, rather than how he governed. However, the period between 1403 and 1413 was no less dramatic and challenging for H
The Antwerp London Glossaries are eleventh-century descendents of the earliest school text in the English language. In their earliest form they played a central role at the seventh-century school of C
