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Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availability of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they worked, and the crucial role they playedin bringing this literature to a wider public.

An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves.

Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the regions.

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.

Exciting fresh perspectives on Edward I as man, king and administrator.

A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as they affected individuals at all points of their lives.

A strikingly original approach to the inquisition movement in Italy, examining the roles of the protagonists.

A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style.

The crucial first years of Henry IV's reign examined, to discover how he met and overcame the challenges created by his usurpation of the throne.

First English translation of seminal essays on heresy and other aspects of medieval religious history.

A radical re-interpretation of the chivalric biography of Boucicaut.

A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript.

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

An investigation of two manuals of inquisition reveals much about the practice in action.

First major survey of the German inquisitor Petrus Zwicker, one of the most significant figures in the repression of heresy.

New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England.

A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500.

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show.

The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is debated in this provocative collection.

Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances.

Pioneering investigation of the royal pardon, at a time of major change in the system of English justice, showing the important part it continued to play.

A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical - lawyers' calculations, clocks and calendars.

Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his reputation was achieved.

Examination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend.

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.

An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves.