"Runic inscriptions and skaldic verse provide copious contemporary evidence documenting the activities of men and their uses of ships in the late Viking Age: th...
"Medieval Petitions provides an innovative study of the mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages. In addition to important and wide-ran...
"What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?", asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features o...
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A study of Spanish novelist Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its focus on the social function of literature....
"In Middle English romances many memories are created, stored, forgotten, and rediscovered by both the characters and audience; such memory work is not, however...
The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally th...
Celestina by Fernando de Rojas is a canonical work of late medieval Spanish literature and one of the earliest European "best-sellers". However, while we have c...