The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 1

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 1British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.

Employing 'ordinary language' and real data sets

emphasising the importance of demands for justice advanced by people on the move

This collection presents modernised texts with an extensive commentary and a full introduction to set the plays in their historical and cultural context

The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories

It is a sympathetic but critical account

Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context

informs Dante’s journey through the three realms of the afterlife

Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love

the founder of the kingdom of Sicily

this book features filmmakers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s

the Vichy empire lost ground to that of the Free French

This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture