Medieval Studies

Provides an up-to-date account of the field, aimed at students of English literature and theatre, as well as showing how the plays can be appreciated by the theatre-going public in modern productions.

Serves as an introduction to the major Jewish thinkers of the period.

Guide to philosophy from from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond, including Islamic and Jewish thinkers such as Avicenna and Maimonides. Supplementary material includes chronological charts and biographies of the major thinkers.

Includes essays on the origins of romance in French and English courts, the transmission and evolution of these stories throughout Europe, manuscripts, gender roles in chivalry, and courtly love.

Includes essays that seek to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves and texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives.

Includes essays that deal with all aspects of the movement, from its origins in Italy to its manifestation in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare.