Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

Texts and contexts

Jason Harris & Kathleen Cawsey, editors

Nine case studies of cultural or textual transformation in the medieval period are presented here. Written by some of Ireland's leading young medievalists, thes…

The medieval imagination: mirabile dictu

Essays in honour of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton

Phyllis Gaffney & Jean-Michel Picard, editors

Celebrating the life and works of Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton, this volume builds on her work to show how, in European medieval narratives, archetypes and belie…

Enigma and Revelation in Renaissance English literature

Helen Cooney & Mark S. Sweetnam, editors

This volume explores how the literature of the English Renaissance was informed by and involved with the twin concepts of ‘enigma’ and ‘revelation’. The collect…

Heresy and orthodoxy in early English literature, 1350–1680

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & John Flood, editors

English literature from Chaucer to Milton was produced in a culture where accusations of heresy were frequently made, and where the meaning of orthodoxy was uns…

Manuscripts and ghosts

Essays on the transmission of medieval and early renaissance literature

John Scattergood

This collection of essays which concentrates mainly on the late medieval period in England, explores how manuscript books were made, who made them, who owned th…