The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

The editors of this encyclopedia, reviewed here in its online version, encapsulate the challenge of compiling a resource on this topic in their Introduction: how to represent the “medieval” “literature” of “Britain”, all loaded terms which have had various definitions, meanings and connotations (both positive and negative) throughout the modern period. They take the time to address some of these challenges, such as the fact that much of this literature was written in Latin, which is mostly inaccessible to everyone but scholars, and that adequate translations of crucial texts from this time period have yet to be attempted or included...