Author: Alexandra Gillespie

Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the p …

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First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for unde …

Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline between the periods commonly termed ‘medieval’ and ‘Renaissance’, or ‘mediev …

The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or ‘Vikings’) in 869, was …

In the abyssal city of Ophryos, where sunlight is a forgotten myth, the songs of biomechanical whales illuminate the darkness.  These magnificent creatures are the heart of Ophryos, their haunti …