The form of confession is a genre of religious instruction that circulated widely in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in northern Europe, especially in England, in the wake of …

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history
of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the …

The notion of literary language proves problematic when it is applied to the Middle English
written corpus. While the literary language of Old English did not die entirely with the …

Abstract The South English Legendary Life of St Thomas of Canterbury imagines
Englishness as a collective identity that encompasses categories of gender, religion …

This study examines the role of the Austin Friars in pre-Reformation English society, as
distinct both from the Austin Friars of Europe and from other English mendicant orders. By …

The Gnostic Paradigm Page 1 THENEWMIDDLEAGES Natanela Elias The Gnostic
Paradigm FORMS of KNOWING in ENGLISH LITERATURE of the LATE MIDDLE AGES …

This essay draws attention to a small point of everyday devotion as practiced on a hand-
drawn set of so-called pardon beads preserved in a single 15th-century Middle English …

In this thesis, I explore complications surrounding genre boundaries in medieval English
literature, namely the boundaries between the genres of Middle English romance and …

Dramatic dialogues from the Middle English mystery cycles have been regarded as potential
representations of the spoken language of the period. But how much and in what ways can …

The pagan in early martyr lives is a familiar figure, and is often portrayed as an object of
scorn by both the saint and the audience of the life. This article explores the ways in which …