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1381: The Peel Affinity builds a portrait of a world long lost, illustrated in colour throughout, filled with carefully researched and reconstructed clothing, tools, armour, furnishings and other items, all based closely on surviving artefacts, manuscript illustrations and paintings.

Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the 12th century these introductions were anthologised. First critical edition of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, saec. XII, with new translation and explanatory notes addressing different aspects of the text.

The essays vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they center on the interpretation of the material world, whether in literature, stone, or the artifacts removed from an archaeological dig. The essays deal mainly with the Germanic and Celtic worlds, but incorporate motifs from Eastern Christian and Roman cultures.

Originally delivered as a lecture at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, this volume was published in 2002 as "Ælfric von Eynsham und seine Zeit," introducing, as Gneuss says, "an Anglo-Saxon author . . . who was the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English."

In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent.

For a wider audience of students and teachers of Middle English with contextualizing introduction, extensive notes, and helpful gloss. This 15th century romance creatively reworks Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe's tragic love. Of interest to students of Middle English romance and all those interested in the literary legacy of Chaucer.

Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time.

The collection is intended primarily as a sampler, but a thematic unity emerges around the potential of archaeological approaches to contribute to a political ecology of the medieval period. Indispensable for archaeologists and historians of the Middle Ages seeking an appraisal of the state of the young discipline of medieval archaeology.

Music was central to the medieval church's public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. This new critical edition presents the Latin text and the first English translation of Aribo's musical treatise. Addresses newly discovered manuscripts of the treatise, paying careful attention to the diagrams that are integral.