This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to lit

Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England.

This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived exp

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in