Autor: A. S. G. Edwards

Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of sc …

Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of sc …

This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English p …

Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twenti …

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 the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book, and the post-medieval reception of such texts. The histories of chronicl …

John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book …

Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a central …

New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the cultu …

Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early …

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer’s writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval liter …

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Librar …

Essays considering the relationship between Gower’s texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in which Gower’s works were first transmitted, whether in print of manus …

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they fo …

The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England’s other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a ce …

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 …

First entire collection centred on Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value. The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer’s first major poem, is foundational for our u …

Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection. The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two area …

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New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts. The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing t …

New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to …

Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection.The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas …

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer’s poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married Anne …

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of ‘poetry’: from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and …

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of ‘poetry’: from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and …

Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann’s writing, teaching, a …

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer’s poetry.Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married Anne, …

Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower’s poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. John …

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. The …

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts.The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. They …