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 …

Pierre Cachia's masterful literary biography of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1956) identified cultural
exchange and particularly translation as the catalyst for the Egyptian cultural and literary …

Abstract Using Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale and other Middle English narratives of falsely
accused heroines as its test case, this article develops a comparative methodology for …

Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian
language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w …

This article examines biblical apocrypha as cases for reconsidering literary history
concerning the wider scope of the global Middle Ages. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and …

Gender studies has flourished across a broad range of areas relating to the medieval period.
In recent decades, work has been undertaken both on documenting the presence and …

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary,
linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European …

1 Two recent collections demonstrating the need for and practice of critical medieval race
studies include the collection edited by Andrew Albin et al.(2019), Whose Middle Ages …

In comparison with other Old English poems,“Deor” is unusual both for its stanzaic structure
and its refrain. Furthermore, close to the end of the poem, the narrative voice shifts from one …

From different perspectives, Shu-mei Shih, Rey Chow, and Revathi Krishnaswamy have
accused Comparative Literature of being inherently Eurocentric in that the comparative …