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Dreaming in the Middle Ages
This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical …
Narrative, Authority and Power
A study of how Chaucer and his successors used the exemplum as a vehicle for establishing the moral authority of their emerging vernacular tradition.
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his …
Romance and History
To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive …
The Craft of Thought
An examination of monastic meditation, first published in 1998.
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the …
The Making of Textual Culture
This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. …
The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its …
Dante and Difference
This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical …
Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of …
Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
In this study James Simpson examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus (1181–3), and John Gower’s English …
Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a …