This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. The e

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

Described as "a golden age of pathogens", the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profo

Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in whi

In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, start