This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one fin

It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late m

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular lit

This anthology of texts in translation, here presented in a fully revised and updated form, covers the single most important branch of medieval literary theory

A new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.