Category: Medieval Studies

The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints

The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints

The Middle English ‘popular’ romances used to be shunned in academia, but they are so entertaining that they are now back in fashion.

The biennial Medieval Romance in Britain conference, which is dedicated to the study of these romances, began in the UK in 1988 as a very small-scale event, but it has grown and grown and has become global (the 2016 conference was in Vancouver).

English Medieval Church Towers

English Medieval Church Towers

Among our many new books for the second half of 2018, one of the highlights is English Medieval Church Towers. David Ryan has visited and painted 500 medieval churches of the Northern Province of England to record their towers in watercolour, preserving for posterity a delightful record of one of the greatest groupings of England’s historic buildings.

Medieval Muses and Derek Jarman

Medieval Muses and Derek Jarman

Robert Mills, author of the recent book Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern, discusses this iconic British Filmmaker in an exclusive sneak peek interview with the Medieval Herald. As Derek Jarman makes… READ MORE

The Medieval Clothier

The Medieval Clothier

Dr John S. Lee’s The Medieval Clothier is remarkable in at least two ways: it gives us wonderful insight into the industry that formed the backbone of medieval England’s economy,… READ MORE

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