This book, a revised version of the author’s 2011 dissertation at the University of Durham, studies the reinterpretation of Merlin’s character in French and Italian Arthurian literature through the question of translation. Laura Chuhan Campbell includes later medieval I...

One of the most tangible sets of changes associated with the fall of the Western Roman Empire was that which affected the monetary system. By AD 600 the multitiered late Roman currency had shriveled to a shadow of its former self. Copper-alloy issues, which for most of ...

Building on general accounts of recognition and gift-exchange in the contemporary theory of recognition, this article examines the medieval philosophical psychology of gifts and love. It will show that medieval philosophically oriented theological texts, particularly th...

Recensione critica della monografia di Jelena Bogdanović sul ciborio (architettura, significato, uso liturgico) nell'architettura bizantina e dei paesi dipendenti da Bisanzio (300-1500).

In the grand narrative of renewal and creativity in the Europe of the ‘long twelfth century’, it has been easy to assume that Ireland was marginal and backward-looking, with the energy of its thinkers and writers concentrated on preserving and continuing the cultural fo...