Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss o

This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval arch

Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential the

First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period t