Autore: Daniel E. O. Sullivan

Texts centred on the mother of Jesus abound in religious traditions the world over, but thirteenth-century Old French lyric stands apart, both because of the enormous size of the Marian cult in thirt …

The game of chess was wildly popular in the Middle Ages, so much so that it became an important thought paradigm for thinkers and writers who utilized its vocabulary and imagery for commentaries on w …

The question of what medieval ‘courtliness’ was, both as a literary influence and as a historical ‘reality’, is debated in this volume. The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collecti …

Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages. Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views …