John Skelton

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

John Scattergood

In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a d…

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…

Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood

Anne Marie D'Arcy & Alan J. Fletcher, editors

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years.

Anne Marie D…

The lost tradition

Essays on Middle English alliterative poetry

John Scattergood

Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon ver…

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…

Medieval alliterative poetry

Essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre

John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan, editors

This collection of essays celebrates Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre for his scholarly work in late medieval English literature, in particular for his contribu…