The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leadi

A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.

Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging. So, too, can the vast body of criticism it has elicited. Yet the masters of medieval literatur

MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English t

The purpose of this book is to provide an authoritative duie to a number of important authors and genres of Middle English prose.