An index of images in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380-c. 1509

Abstract This book makes available J. R. R. Tolkien’s career-long writings on Chaucer from his 1913 undergraduate essay on the poet’s language to his 1959 retirement...

The House of Fame, one of Chaucer’s major dream-visions stories, appears here in the version published by Durham Medieval Texts and edited by Professor Nicholas R. Havely, with bot...

A Student Guide to Chaucer’s Middle English represents the decades-long material that Professor Peter G. Beidler developed to help his students at Lehigh University understand the ...

When in Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France in 1154 A.D., he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of Englan...

Abstract The United States of English tells the story of American speech from its earliest beginnings to its current state. Topics covered include the following: the...

Modern scholars are fond of likening the task of attempting to reconstruct the medieval past to trying to do a jigsaw puzzle with very few pieces. This study has focused on the mor...

The centuries between 1100 and 1500 were the crucible in which English language and literature, after the blow of the Norman Conquest, were reformed with results that affected all ...