A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.

How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regi

This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden a

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.