Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that the

A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.

In 14 original essays, this book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmesh