Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English fa...

Reveals the long-forgotten prequel to the Grail mythos and how it has profound resonance with modern times Unveiling the long-forgotten prequel to ...

Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiratio...

The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern c...

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower....

The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addr...

The first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was received two dec...

WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantea...

A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used. Histori...

A re-evaluation of the mysterious charms found in Anglo-Saxon literature, arguing for their place in mainstream Christian rites. Since its incepti...