A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350‐c. 1500

I have now reviewed a number of often quite different volumes in this series – for example A Companion to the Eighteenth Century English Novel (RR 2007/83), A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture (RR 2006/23) – and it is heartening to find such a high degree of consistency across a wide range of subjects. This latest volume certainly maintains, even enhances, that high reputation. Its claimed strength, and one certainly borne out by its contents, is to shift the emphasis of study away from the purely literary into a truly cross‐cultural perspective of both literature and...