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The Digby Poems
In Helen Barr’s new edition, the 24 short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102 are freshly transcribed and edited. The critical apparatus includes a full introduction, extensive …
Deformed Discourse
This fully-illustrated book explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function in …
The Voyage of St Brendan
The legend of St Brendan is one of the greatest legends of the Middle Ages. To medieval Europe the ocean voyage became a metaphor for the perilous journey of the Christian soul. …
The Mary Play
The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle and is the only English play which deals with Mary's parents and her …
Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses
Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same …
The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’
Thomas Hoccleve’s Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the …
Selections from Layamon's Brut
Edition with notes, glossary and an introductory essay by C. S. Lewis.
The Poems of Lawrence Minot
Edition of eleven poems by Lawrence Minot, with introduction, appendices and select bibliography.
Amys and Amylion
'Amys and Amylion' is a medieval poem of treason and forbidden love, of loyalty and suffering, of crime and miracles; above all, it tells of the unconditional friendship uniting …