Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the relationship between the development of parliament and the practice of English poetry in the

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

This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.

Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature.

Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English wr