Yazar: Felicity Riddy

A range of manuscripts and texts from various social contexts studied for what they reveal of that social background. Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three terms for …

This volume starts with the writings of Bede and covers the range of Medieval literature up to the time of Thomas More. The Old English selections which include extracts from Beowulf and well-known r …

Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England. Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne’s scholarship on the French of England – a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic, cultural, …

Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for …