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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.

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.

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.

Composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music.

Essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu and a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centuries of the Common Era to the seventeenth century.

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page.