Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete e

Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a s

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular lit

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, includ

This volume argues through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of "textual criticism" as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and r