French sculpture at the beginning of the Gothic period, 1140-1225

This chapter discusses the Gothic from 1797 to 1820. The Gothic reached its apogee in the late 1790s, when it secured a third share of the novel market, after which it withered. Fr...

In Chapter 1, the Reformation is presented as the paradigmatic site of Gothic escape: the evil monastery can be traced back to Wycliffe’s ‘Cain’s castles’ and the fictional abbey r...

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 ...

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...

Handschriften gehören zu den vielschichtigsten Zeugnissen des Mittelalters und sind Quellen von unschätzbarem Wert, die wichtige Informationen sowohl zu ihrer jeweiligen Epoche als...