Supports the use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.Contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts.
This encyclopedic treatment explores every aspect of medieval life in Christian Europe, the Scandinavian north, the Byzantine and Slavic east, the Muslim south, and the far-ranging world of Judaism from A.D. 500 to 1500.
Brings together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today.
Arranged in four sections: Biography: Works A-Z; Related People, Places, and Topic; and Appendices,this provides a good introduction to Chaucerian topics. A map of the Canterbury pilgrimage is included.