Books by Ardis Butterfield

With an insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more, this title reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance.

Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings.

Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form.