This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their
literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over …

The “mirror for princes” or Fürstenspiegel challenges us to understand how this ostensibly
practical and political genre of writing was understood in contemporary contexts, given the …

This essay reads Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale—a retelling of the popular Constance
exemplum—as a case study for thinking about a global Middle Ages. The tale's globalism …

This chapter explores quackery in the medieval West, focusing particularly on the way that
legal and literary writing in Middle English and Scots emphasized the fraud's reliance on the …

Folding almanacs provided their medieval users with densely-packed information about
scientific practices, medical treatments, astrological movements, and religious feast days …

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture publishes monographs and essay collections
comprising new research informed by current critical methodologies on the literary cultures …

This thesis examines the corporeal identity of the knight as depicted in late medieval English
culture. Critical readings of Middle English romance, chronicles, medical texts, and natural …

The forsaid sir Adam, forsoth, suffrand fistulam in ano, made for to aske counsel at all the
lecheȝ and cirurgienȝ that he myȝt fynde in Gascone, at Burdeux, at Briggerac, Tolows …

The medieval horticultural manual the Godfridus super Palladium directs its readers in the
art of grafting and maintaining trees. The text was translated from Latin into Middle English in …

My dissertation explores the presence of physiognomy, which is the reading of faces and
bodily affects to determine a person's character. I investigate plays originally produced for …