Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in...

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

Led by the example of Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monks turned their attention to the world ...

The enduring importance of pilgrimage as an expression of human longing is explored in this volum...

This book is a study of two forms of social and religious organisation - the parish and the guild...

England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts...

The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classic...

The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and ea...

St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or 'Vikings') in 869, was one of the pre-...

Examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally...

Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered...

The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became...

Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from th...

The revolt of Owain Glyndwr (1400-c.1415) was a remarkable event in both English and Welsh contex...

Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in...

Inquisition against heresy in Italy was a partnership between the papal inquisitor, usually a Dom...

Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from Tamworth, is virtually the only English minstrel whos...

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary ...

Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and tran...

Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of ...

A remarkable series of Anglo-Saxon wills have survived, spanning the period from the beginning of...

From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant Reformation, heresies and heretics helped shape the ...

The essays collected here celebrate mark the distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, re...

One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has b...

The Middle Ages occupy an ambiguous place in history: on the one hand recognizably pre-modern, on...

The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of acade...

The Inquisition played a central role in European history. It moulded societies by enforcing reli...

Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is an utterly ...

Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, b...

With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER...

Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period ofEnglish history, but to date...

The cults of the saints were central to the medieval Church. These holy men and women acted as pa...

The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 ...

Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production b...

Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics fo...

In the field of medieval religious history, few scholars have matched the originality of the Germ...

Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most successful late medieval English king. In his s...

Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of to...

The reign of Edward I was one of the most important of medieval England, but the king's activitie...

The study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current research in medieval studies:...

The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sis...

Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance o...

The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important man...

The religious gild was central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay people wi...

The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the Briti...

Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the la...

With a sharp focus on high politics, this is a cohesive and exemplary collection of rewarding sch...

St William of York achieved the unique distinction of being elected archbishop of York twice and ...