The characters in The Swamp Dwellers fell into three groups: the parents Makuri and Alo-conservative, the corrupt priest Kadiye, who…
London, British Library, MS Royal 18 E.1, fol. 175r Language: French Manuscript date: 1460–80 Jean Froissart’s narrative of the revolt…
London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.vii, fols. 6v–7r (Golden Book of St. Albans) Language: Latin Manuscript date: 1380 The…
Chaucer portrait: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes British Library MS Harley 4866, fol. 88r Language: English (Southeast Midland) Manuscript date:…
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 61, fol. 1v Language: English (Southeast Midland) Manuscript date: ca. 1420 Chaucer wrote his “book…
London quickly received news of Henry V’s October 25, 1415, victory at Agincourt. Three days later, on October 28, the…
Church writers, national and local administrations, and interested observers of society regularly condemned their contemporaries’ extravagant behavior and appearance. Manners,…
Tournaments were part of a knight’s training for war, and they became the ritualistic occasion for demonstrations of military prowess…
A abay see bay ac conj. but, and adighten, adyghtyn v. adorn adight, adyth p. adorned advoutri(e) see avouteri(e) after…
Enarratio, the analysis and exposition of texts, was part of the discipline of grammar, itself one of the three major…