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What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities.

This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to medieval women.

Exploring the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West, this book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s. It also argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity.

This book examines the relationship between words and images in illustrated texts. The focus is on cultural attitudes toward illustrations and the idea that one might consider graphic material other than writing as text and text as graphics.

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice.

The first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages.