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For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years.

In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history of travel literature in general. This volume collects the most important versions of the voyage from a wide variety of cultures, and presents them in modern English translations.

An edition of parts six and seven of the Middle English treatise 'Ancrene Wisse' ('Guide for Anchorites'), composed between 1225 and 1240. This scholarly edition includes an introduction, notes, glossary and index of proper names.

The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes a contextual introduction, notes and glossary.

A stylistic and historical study of one of the most celebrated features of Middle English alliterative poetry, the passages of vivid description. The study explores the narrative function of such descriptions, and the models for the poets' descriptive techniques.

The catalogue is a detailed study of Oxford manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete translation of the Bible in English.

A study of the Wycliffite commentaries on the gospels: their organization, sources, outlook, uses and influence - together with extensive extracts. Written by a renowned expert in the field.

While being the first known standalone chronicle of England in Dutch, it shows a remarkable sophistication and adeptness in negotiating English and Dutch sources, as well as Dutch and English interests, and presents a determinedly Lancastrian view of English history to its Dutch audience.

This book is conceived as a handbook for graduates interested in texts and their manuscript presentation, not solely in editing them. As such, it is potentially of broad interest in all fields from antiquity to early modern studies.

Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated.

A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English.

The coming of the age of print was not kind to the works of Richard Rolle, the most influential spiritual writer of the later English Middle Ages, and many remained in manuscript. This critical edition provides four Latin texts with translations, including the 'Super Canticum', a seminal text central to Rolle's oeuvre.

A new edition and translation of the Old English poem 'Andreas', with full introduction, notes, and glossary.

Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts.

This study also situates Hoccleve's accomplishments in a transnational poetic context - offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve's moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve's work.

The fifteenth-century texts edited here for the first time describe the changing relationship between heraldic design and heralds themselves. They describe the rules of heraldry and the meaning of colours and charges, the diplomatic and martial roles performed by heralds, and the imagined, illustrious history of the office of arms.

Wace's "Brut" is an 1155 French verse rendering of Geoffrey of Monmouth's earlier Latin "history" of Britain, from the time of Brutus, the eponymous founder, to the 7th century.

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is a landmark of European literature. The book has been written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, from non-specialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf, to scholars at work on their own research, and students of Old English.

A valuable basic student edition illustrating the variety of subjects and narrative modes that engaged medieval storytellers and their audiences. The verse is made accessible by glossing on the page as well as by end glossary and each romance is prefaced with an introduction to its literary history and provenance.

An indispensable and illustrated introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing.

Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four famous 14th century poems for over 30 years. The complete prose translation is intended to facilitate understanding and lead readers to, rather than away from, the original texts.

The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman verse Life of King Edward the Confessor is presented here in modern English for the first time, with a full introduction and notes. The anonymous Nun offers an absorbing portrait of the king and saint, as well as a wealth of detail about both Edward's times and the twelfth-century context in which she was writing.

This book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph Hanna presents a history of the English medieval book through a series of examples centred on carefully chosen texts and their physical and cultural surrounds.

A new edition and translation of the Old English poem 'Andreas', with full introduction, notes, and glossary.

This is a critical parallel-text edition of the Latin Speculum Inclusorum - a late-medieval English 'rule' for male anchorites - and its Middle English translation, A Mirror for Recluses.

This early thirteenth-century West Midlands guide for women recluses is not only one of the major works of early Middle English prose, but is also a key document for the development of medieval spirituality.

Aldred's Marginalia provides an introductory discussion to the explanatory comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

John Scattergood's The Complete English Poems of John Skelton (Penguin, 1983) has long been out of print, and at present no other complete edition of the poems is available. This welcome new edition brings together the poems, and many of the Latin paratexts, along with an entirely new introduction and updated reading list and notes.

Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four famous 14th century poems for over 30 years. The complete prose translation is intended to facilitate understanding and lead readers to, rather than away from, the original texts.