Books by Ad Putter

Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance.

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.

Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain.

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

The Gawain-Poet is the name given to the northern poet who is generally accepted as the sole author of four 14th-century Gawain poems. This text introduces the reader to the poems, setting the works in their relevant historical and cultural context and developing lines of critical argument.

The Middle English popular romances are today accessible to readers in numerous editions and anthologies. This text hopes to suggest appropriate strategies of interpretation and serve as a starting point for further analytical approaches.