New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity. This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figur

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What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do no

Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and be

This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the