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Insights into ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history of the north of England through an exploration of the administrative archives of fourteenth century archbishops.

Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain.

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew.

Drawing upon a surprising wealth of evidence found in surviving manuscripts, this book restores friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.

A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used.

A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 to discover some of the preoccupations of its compliers.

The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore.

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.

The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman.

A fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, examining the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared

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An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change.

A new exploration of the secular manuscripts and medieval medical texts associated with the York Guild and its members.

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.

Comprehensive catalogue of the hagiographical lessons in Sarum breviaries, with key studies of the most crucial elements.

Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and onward.

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