History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the t
Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the depi
Sometime before 1127, a woman named Ava wrote a poem or four poems on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, the coming of the Antichrist, and the Last Judgement. She is the first women writi
The 21 chapters are enlarged from presentations at the November 2008 international conference "Tradition and the Individual Talent: Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages," held in Bergen, Norway. In
That kings, prelates and even lowly freemen were, under certain specified conditions, capable of offering protection or peace to others, usually their inferiors, is relatively well known. That a bre
The problem of being is central to Western metaphysics. Etched sharply in the verses of Parmenides, it took on distinctive colouring in Aristotle as the subject matter of a science expressly labelled
Concerned with how religious theater and urban culture met on stage, Hamblin (French, Western Washington U.) analyzes a select corpus of French-language hagiographic plays about historical saints (as
The late medieval Digby Mary Magdalene play is dominated by its female protagonist. The playwright seems deliberately to have crafted an especially complex version of the popular saint: a multivalent
"This volume develops Geoffrey Richard Russom's contributions to early English metre and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras."--
Facing pages of the original Middle High German and an English translation present three of the earliest chronicles in the vernacular that relate events from the beginning of the world to the time of
A school dialogue most likely composed in southeastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic n
