Books by Anthony Bale

A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.

The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show.

An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic.

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.

Written for a broad audience and illustrated with full colour plates, this book includes essays encompass history, literature, art history, religious studies and medical humanities and explore some of the most challenging issues surrounding blood and ritual.