Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did medieval literary cultures shape, and ho

Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission

This is the first major study of the cultural role of grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, and literature in early medieval soc

Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

In medieval Europe, cultural, political, and linguistic identities rarely coincided with modern national borders. As early as the end of the twelfth century, Fr