Books in the Garland Library of Medieval Literature series

This text presents a careful overview of the latest scholarship exploring the possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity.

Detailed readings of 10, and lighter discussions of many others, of the 150 medieval French bawdy poems that scholars generally find it necessary to discuss as a whole, thereby missing important individual characteristics. Considers such elements as the conservatism, courtliness, women, language, t

These essays analyse the medieval bestiary from both literary and art history perspectives, exploring issues including kinship, romance, sex, death, and the afterlife.

This is the first edition in more than a century and the first modern English translation of the crowning masterwork of Mauchaut's literary career. The volume features a full discussion of Mauchaut's life.

This third volume completes this series. It presents original biographical essays on scholars in the fields of art, music and philosophy whose work has shaped medieval studies for the past 400 years.

This collection presents a comprehensive guide to the developments of hagiography and the cult of saints in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages.

The medieval bestiary was a contribution to didactic religious literature, addressing concerns central to Christian life. These essays present text and image analysis and issues treated in the bestiaries, like the Church, fantastic beasts and sex.

Considered one of the first prose works in Italian and a precursor of the Decameron, this is the first complete translation of the Novellino into English, based on the 1525 editio princeps.

Comprises nine critical essays from prominent and emerging medievalists, exploring the different ways in which French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social and cultural gender codes in their literary works. Essays challenge traditional interpretations of gender roles in Old French

The first full-length, French-English bilingual edition of Rene of Anjou's Livre du coeurs d'amours espris, including all sixteen colour plates, critical introduction, notes on the translation and comprehensive bibliography.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.