If a reader of Chaucer suspects that an echo of a biblical verse may somehow depend for its meaning on traditional commentary on that verse, how does he or she

Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical

A new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.

This study examines expectations of imminent judgment that energized reform movements in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. It probes the apocalyptic vision

An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.