;Nall, Catherine (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London),Wakelin, Daniel (Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English,
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When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, some commentators saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman con
"Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice - the continuation of politics by other means. The book dev
Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but w