Bøger af Tim William Machan

This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia. Protestant and monarchical, the Scandinavian region became an image of Britain's noble past and an affirmation of its current global status. -- .

This text examines the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterise Middle English and reveals the role these factors play in the editing and interpretation of these works. It shows how and why humanist textual criticism is inappropriate for Middle English texts.