Sacred histories

In enigmate

The history of a riddle, 400–1500

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This book is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late...
Author/Editor: Erin Sebo

Latin Psalter manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library

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The book of Psalms was at the core of devotional practice in western Christianity throughout the Middle Ages. The study of medieval Latin Psalters provides evidence for...
Author/Editor: Laura Cleaver & Helen Conrad O'Briain

John Skelton

The career of an early Tudor poet

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John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new medium of...
Author/Editor: John Scattergood

Langland and the Rokele family

The gentry background to 'Piers Plowman'

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The social and political opinions of the author of Piers Plowman derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, Gower or the Pearl-poet....
Author/Editor: Robert Adams

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

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This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways in which knowledge passes from one...
Author/Editor: Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

The medieval imagination: mirabile dictu

Essays in honour of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton

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Celebrating the life and works of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton, this volume builds on her work to show how, in European medieval narratives, archetypes and beliefs can impart...
Author/Editor: Phyllis Gaffney & Jean-Michel Picard, editors