This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the

This reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential wor

A new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.

New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The mechanics, politics and culture of pet

John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century English thinker responsible for the first English Bible, and for the Lollard movement which was persecuted widely for its