Joan is caught in the middle of a love triangle which takes an unexpected twist after an embarrassing incident at a ball.Loosely based upon the events surrounding how England's oldest order of knighthood (i.e. the Order of the Garter) was established, Bilingual Legends #534 is presented in both Modern English and the historic Anglo-Norman language of the era. This lavishly illustrated children's book is perfect for girls with an interest in history.

This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience.The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole text...

Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature (2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually presented individually.This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular culture, and showcases an impre...

This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Gi...