Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the

This study analyzes late medieval paintings of personified death in Bohemia, arguing that Bohemian iconography was distinct from the body of macabre painting fo

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

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damag

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.