A Handbook of Middle English Studies

A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature.

• Includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature
• Sets the new standard for an introduction to the study of late medieval literature
• Showcases the most current cutting-edge theoretical research
• Demonstrates a range of approaches to late medieval literature
• Brings together critical theory and medieval literature

Keywords: Old, Middle & Medieval English Literature, Medieval Literature,  , critical theory, Chaucer, Chancery Standard, The Book of Margery Kempe, Piers Plowman