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The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (c.1070 - c.1140) participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the Book of Psalms. His Exposition of Selected Psalms highlights a tripartite division of the Psalter, and discovers in the psalms an apocalypticism fitting to the Church in its last age.

This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts, each of which shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham "Prayers and Meditations" (ca. 1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's "The Fruyte of Redempcyon" (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both...

This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts, each of which shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham "Prayers and Meditations" (ca. 1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's "The Fruyte of Redempcyon" (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both...

John Gower's Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) is one of the most important English works of the C14th. Within its frame of the lovesick lover's confession are well over a hundred stories which exemplify the Middle Ages. This is the first translation of the entire (33, 000-line) poem, including its Latin verses and glosses.

Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes ("wise ones") produced texts in Old Gaelic and L...

This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or "queer" the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature, in which readers are asked to exchange some small measure of bewilderment at archaic language or forms for a sense of having experienced a medieval text...

The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (c.1070 - c.1140) participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the Book of Psalms. His Exposition of Selected Psalms highlights a tripartite division of the Psalter, and discovers in the psalms an apocalypticism fitting to the Church in its last age.

Blanchardyn and Eglantine" and "Paris and Vienne" were last edited in 1890 and 1957, respectively. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and criticism, including new critical editions of French texts closely related to Caxton's sources for both romances, as well as studies of the two romances and late medieval romance in England and France, gender studies, especially the role of women in these narratives, scholarship relating to the own...

Blanchardyn and Eglantine" and "Paris and Vienne" were last edited in 1890 and 1957, respectively. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and criticism, including new critical editions of French texts closely related to Caxton's sources for both romances, as well as studies of the two romances and late medieval romance in England and France, gender studies, especially the role of women in these narratives, scholarship relating to the own...

John Gower's Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) is one of the most important English works of the C14th. Within its frame of the lovesick lover's confession are well over a hundred stories which exemplify the Middle Ages. This is the first translation of the entire (33, 000-line) poem, including its Latin verses and glosses.

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction....

Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.

Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.

Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.

Medieval Ecocriticisms is the dedicated to medieval ecocritical studies. It seeks out the most current and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and the environment in the global Middle Ages.

The legend of Theophilus is a medieval miracle story which reveals the period's deep fear of hell and the Devil. This first English translation of Gautier de Coinci's pre-Faustian version of the legend is presented in a facing-page translation with the original Old French, along with a full introduction and notes.

The legend of Theophilus is a medieval miracle story which reveals the period's deep fear of hell and the Devil. This first English translation of Gautier de Coinci's pre-Faustian version of the legend is presented in a facing-page translation with the original Old French, along with a full introduction and notes.

A text book on Wills and Testaments in Medieval England for use by students of medieval English history.

A text book on Wills and Testaments in Medieval England for use by students of medieval English history.

John of Garland wrote Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early C13th Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. This edition presents the Latin text with facing-page modern English translation, together with comprehensive explanatory notes to help readers understand John's allegories in their medieval context.