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2023 - Vol L

2022 - Vol. XLIX

2021 - Vol. XLVII

2020 - Vol. XLVI

Stenton Lecture and Symposium Proceedings 2018:English Royal Charters, 1066-1215: Discoveries, Gaps, and Opportunities

2019 - Vol. XLV

2018 - Vol. XLIV

Dedicated to Professor (Emerita) Françoise Le Saux

2017 - Vol. XLIII

2016 - Vol. XLII

2015 - Vol. XLI

2014 - Vol. XL

Special Issue - Law's Dominion in the Middle Ages: Essays for Paul Hyams

2013 - Vol. XXXIX

2012 - Vol. XXXVIII

Special issue: Legendary Rulers: Arthur and Charlemagne

2011 - Vol. XXXVII

Special issue: Preaching, Teaching and Manipulating in Medieval Literature

2010 - Vol. XXXVI

Special issue - Crusading and State Building in the Central Middle Ages, edited by Catherine Léglu

2009 - Vol. XXXV

2008 - Vol. XXXIV

Medieval History Discourses: Essays in Honour of Professor Peter S. Noble, edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Françoise Le Saux

2007 - Vol. XXXIII

2006/7 - Vol. XXXII

Incipien Globalization: Long-distance contacts in the 6th century, edited by Anthea Harris

[Issued separately as British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1644 (Oxford: ArnchaeoPress, 2007). ISBN 9781407300788.]
  • Anthea Harris - Introduction
  • Ken R. Dark - 'Globalizing Late Antiquity: Models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy'
  • Charlotte Behr - 'Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts'
  • Susanne Bangert - 'Menas ampullae, a case study of long-distance contacts'
  • Kate da Costa - 'The limits of long-distance exchange: evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia'
  • Mei-Ling Chen - 'The Importation of Byzantine and Sasanian Glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries'
  • Jörg Drauschke - ''Byzantine' and 'oriental' imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginning of the eighth century'
  • Niall Finneran - 'Ethiopian Christian material culture: the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries'
  • Anthea Harris - 'Britain and China at opposite ends of the world? Archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century'

2005 - Vol. XXXI

  • Cristian Bratu - 'The Aesthetics of the Chroniclers of the Fourth Crusade and the Gothic-Scholastic Episteme'
  • Jan Kostenec - 'Observations on the Great Palace at Constantinople: The Sanctuaries of the Archangel Michael, the Daphne Palace, and the Magnaura'
  • John Spence - 'The Identity of Rauf de Boun, Author of the Petit Bruit'
  • Alison Truelove - 'Linguistic Diversity in the Fifteenth-Century Stonor Letters'

2004 - Vol. XXX

  • Ferudun Özgümüs - 'A Byzantine church at Sirkeci in Istanbul'
  • Julian M. Luxford - 'The Tomb of King Henry I at Reading Abbey: New Evidence Concerning its Appearance and the Date of its Effigy'
  • Liz Herbert McAvoy, '' ... The fend set him in my throte': Sexuality and the Fiendish Encounter in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love'
  • Peter S. Noble - 'Women in the Vulgate Cycle: From Saints to Sorceresses'
  • Natasha Romanova - 'Female Doubling in Galeran de Bretagne'

2003 - Vol. XXIX

  • Jane Chedzey - 'Manuscript Production in Medieval Winchester'
  • Catherine A. M. Clarke - 'Overhearing Complaint and the Dialectic of Consolation in Chaucer's Verse'
  • Ken R. Dark - 'Large-scale population movements into and from Britain south of Hadrian's Wall in the fourth to sixth centuries AD'
  • Helen Phillips - ''This Mystique Show': Dryden and The Flower and the Leaf'
  • Reviews

2002 - Vol. XXVIII

  • Marianne J. Ailes - 'Fierabras and the Chanson de Roland: An Intertextual Diptych'
  • Leslie C. Brook - 'Demons and Angels: Female Portrayal in Escanor'
  • Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa - 'Margery Kempe's Mystical Marriage and Roman Sojourn: Influence of St Bridget of Sweden'
  • Robert L. Schichler - 'From 'Whale-Road' to 'Gannet's Bath': Images of Foreign Relations and Exchange in Beowulf'
  • K. S. Whetter - 'The Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Medieval Tragedy'
  • Reviews

2001 - Vol. XXVII

Current Trends in Dante Studies, edited by Claire E. Honess
  • Zygmunt G. Baranski - 'Three Notes on Dante and Horace'
  • Simon Gilson - 'Medieval Science in Dante's Commedia: Past Approaches and Future Directions'
  • Catherine Keen - 'The Language of Exile in Dante'
  • Paola Nasti - 'The Wise Poet: Solomon in Dante's Heaven of the Sun'
  • Guyda Armstrong - 'Dantean Framing Devices in Boccaccio's Corbaccio'
  • Rachel Owen - 'Dante's Reception by 14th- and 15th-century Illustrators of the Commedia'
  • Reviews

2000 - Vol. XXVI

  • Rosamund Allen - 'The Awntyrs off Arthure: Portraits and Property'
  • Benjamin Arnold - 'The End of Territorial Lordship in Medieval Germany. Reflections upon an Historiographical Theory'
  • Peter Damian-Grint - 'Apocalyptic Prophecy in Old French: An overview'
  • Ken R. Dark - 'A Famous Arthur in the Sixth Century? Reconsidering the Origins of the Arthurian Legend'
  • Penny Eley - 'The Subversion of Meaning in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon'
  • Sarah L. Hamilton - 'Tales of Wonder in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris'
  • Andrea M. L. Williams - 'Perspectives on the Grail: Subjectivity of Experience in La Queste del Saint Graal'
  • Reviews

1999 - Vol. XXV

  • Leslie C. Brook - 'Rewards and Punishments in the De Amore and Kindred Texts'
  • Sally L. Burch - 'The Lady, the Lords and the Priests: the Making and Unmaking of Marriage in Amadas et Ydoine'
  • Margaret J. Ehrhart - 'Machaut's Allegorical Narratives and the Roman de la Rose'
  • Philippa Hardman - ''Dear Enemies': the Motif of the Converted Saracen and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
  • Peter Noble - 'Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade - the War against Alexius III'
  • Robert Penkett - 'Perceiving the Other: Sensory Phenomena and Experience in the Early Medieval Other World'
  • Victoria Thompson - 'Kingship-in-Death in the Bayeux Tapestry'
  • Reviews

1998 - Vol. XXIV

  • Richard Bromiley - 'Stylistic Aspects of Proper Names in some Late French Arthurian Verse Romances'
  • Peter Damian-Grint - 'Learning and Authority in Benoît de Saint-Maure's Cosmography'
  • Bonnie Millar - 'Richard the Redeles and the Concept of Advice'
  • Robert Penkett - 'Discerning the Divine and the Demonic in the Life of Antony'
  • Mayumi Taguchi - 'Cleanness and a Hitherto Unedited Religious Text in MS. Pepys 2125'
  • Rose Walker - 'Sancha, Urraca and Elvira: the virtues and vices of Spanish royal woman 'dedicated to God''
  • Reviews

1997 - Vol. XXIII

  • Margaret J. Ehrahrt - 'Irony and Audience: What Machaut Did Not Borrow from the Roman de la Rose'
  • Gillian R. Knight - 'Uses and Abuses of amicitia: the Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Hato of Troyes'
  • Irina Metzler - 'Perceptions of Hot Climate in Medieval Cosmography and Travel Literature'
  • Neil Thomas - 'Gauvain's Guilt in L'Âtre Perilleux: the Subtext of Sexual Abuse'
  • Rod Thomson - 'William of Malmesbury, Historian of Crusade'
  • Anne Curry - 'Review Article: Fifteenth-Century Historical Studies'
  • Reviews

1996 - Vol. XXII

  • Finn Sinclair - 'Defending the Castle: Didactic Literature and the Containment of Female Sexuality'
  • William Sayers - 'Principled Women, Pressured Men: Nostalgia in Fljótsdœla saga'
  • Catherine Léglu - 'A Reading of Troubadour Insult Songs: the Comunals Cycle'
  • Patricia Skinner - 'Disputes and Disparity: Women in Court in Medieval Southern Italy'
  • Reviews

1995 - Vol. XX

Special issue: The Cistercians
  • Brian Golding - 'Gerald of Wales and the Cistercians'
  • Anne Lawrence - 'Cistercian Decoration: Twelfth-Century Legislation on Illustration and its Interpretation in England'
  • Neil M. Mancor - 'Tradition in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons On The Song of Songs'
  • Karen Pratt - The Cistercians and the Queste del Saint Graal
  • Rachel Gibbons - Review Article, Medieval Queenship: an Overview
  • Reviews

Special Edition

  • Special Celebration Issue - Greyscale

1994 - Vol. XX

  • Benjamin Arnold - 'Structures of Medieval Governance and the Thought-World of Otto Brunner (1898-1982)'
  • Mary-Ann Constantine - 'Story and History in the Breton Ballads: the Case of Iannik Kokard'
  • Rosalind Field - 'January's "honeste thynges": Knighthood and Narrative in the Merchant's Tale'
  • Alex Nicholls - 'The Corpus of Prose Saints' Lives and Hagiographic Pieces in Old English and its Manuscript Distribution (Part 2)'
  • Neil Thomas - 'The Arthurian Trilogy of Der Pleier: a Reassessment'
  • Reviews

1993 - Vol. XIX

  • Alison André - 'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Portrayal of the Arrival of Christianity in Britain. Fact or Fiction?'
  • Leslie C. Brook - 'The Bird's Three Truths in the Lai de l'Oiselet'
  • Jennifer Fellows - 'St George as Romance Hero
  • Colin Morris - The Gesta Francorum as Narrative History'
  • Alex Nicholls - 'The Corpus of Prose Saints' Lives and Hagiographic Pieces in Old English and its Manuscript Distribution (Part 1)'
  • Neil Thomas - 'The Sources of Wigamur and the German Reception of the Fair Unknown Tradition'
  • Reviews

1992 - Vol. XVIII

  • A. K. Bate - 'Ancient Greek Theatre, Sicily and Medieval Comedy'
  • Peter Noble - 'Music in the Twelfth-Century French Romance'
  • Donald Matthew - 'Modern Study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily'
  • Wolfgang van Emden - 'La Chanson d'Aspremont and the Third Crusade'
  • Philippa Hardman - 'Scholars Retelling Romances'
  • Michael R. Evans - 'Brigandage and Resistance in Lancastrian Normandy: A Study of the Remission Evidence'
  • Anne Curry - 'The Nationality Of Men-at-Arms serving in English Armies in Normandy and the pays de conquête, 1415-1450: A Preliminary Survey'
  • Reviews

1991 - Vol. XVII

  • Lenora D. Wolfgang - 'Chrétien's Lancelot: Love and Philology'
  • P. J. C. Field - 'Malory and Chrétien de Troyes'
  • Sarah Kay - 'Commemoration, Memory and the Role of the Past in Chrétien de Troyes: Retrospection and Meaning in Erec et Enide, Yvain and Perceval'
  • Brenda Hosington - 'Voices of Protest and Submission: Portraits of Women in Partonopeu de Blois and its Middle English Translation'
  • Edward Coleman - 'Incastellamento on the Po plain: Cremona and its territory in the tenth century'
  • Andrew Breeze - 'Chaucer, St Loy, and the Celts'
  • Peter Noble - 'Review of Robert de Boron; Joseph of Arimathea - a Romance of The Grail. Translated by Jean Rogers'

Monograph

  • Janet Bately - 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Texts and Textual Relationships'

1990 - Vol. XVI

Saints and Saints' Lives - Essays in Honour of D.H. Farmer

  • Anne E. Curry - 'David Hugh Farmer. An Appreciation' and 'David Hugh Farmer - A Bibliography of Published Works'
  • Nigel Berry - 'St Aldhelm, William of Malmesbury, and the liberty of Malmesbury Abbey'
  • Margaret Harris - 'Alan of Tewkesbury and St Thomas of Canterbury'
  • Christopher Holdsworth - 'Hermits and the Powers of the Frontier'
  • Brian Kemp - 'The Hand of St James at Reading Abbey'
  • Colin Morris - 'The Aims and Spirituality of the First Crusade as seen through the eyes of Albert of Aachen'
  • Peter S. Noble - 'Saints in the Tristan Legend'
  • Bella Millett - 'The Audience of the Saints' Lives of the Katherine Group'

1989 - Vol. XV

Medieval Women in Southern England
  • Rowena E. Archer and B. E. Ferme - 'Testamentary Procedure with special reference to the Executrix'
  • Caroline M. Barron - 'The 'Golden Age' of Women in Medieval London'
  • Anne Crawford - 'Victims of Attainder: The Howard and de Vere Women in the Late Fifteenth Century'
  • Pauline Stafford - 'Women in Domesday'
  • Barbara Yorke - ''Sisters Under the Skin'? Anglo-Saxon Nuns and Nunneries in Southern England'

1988 - Vol. XIV

  • Leslie C. Brook - 'The notion of adventure in Guingamor'
  • Anne Curry - 'Sex and the Soldier in Lancastrian Normandy, 1415-1450'
  • Ruth Harvey - 'The Troubadour Marcabru and his Public'
  • Gillian Knight - 'Chrétien de Troyes: his 'Rhetoric of Love''
  • Rosemary Morris - 'The knight and the superfluous lady: a problem of disposal'
  • Peter Noble - 'The Heroic Tradition of Kei'
  • Brian Kemp - 'The Seals of Reading Abbey'
  • Anne Curry - review of Répertoire International des Médiévistes / International Directory of Medievalists
  • P. A. Thurlow - review of Proceedings of the PMR (Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance) Conference, vol. 11, 1986, pp.1-86

1987 - Vol. XIII

  • Richard Goddard - 'Colour-symbolism in the troubadour Marcabru and his followers'
  • Norris J. Lacy - 'Fabliaux and the Question of Genre'
  • Anne Lawrence - 'Alfred, his Heirs and the Traditions of Manuscript Production in Tenth Century England'
  • Neil Thomas - 'Sir Gawein's interpretation of Iwein's transgression and the 'Mabinogion' controversy'
  • W. Ann Trindade - 'The Celtic Connections of the Tristan Story (Part Two)'
  • Neal Sumner - 'The Countess Lucy's Priory? The Early History of Spalding Priory and its Estates'

1986 - Vol. XII

  • Michael J. Routledge - 'The Monk Who Knew the Ways of Love'
  • Kenneth Varty - 'The Giving and Withholding of Consent in Late Twelfth-Century Literature'
  • Andrew Roach - 'The Cathar Economy'
  • Benjamin Arnold - 'Servile Retainers or Noble Knights? The Medieval Ministriales in Germany'
  • Marta Powell Harley - 'The Origin of A Revelation of Purgatory'
  • W. Ann Trindade - 'The Celtic Connections of the Tristan Story (Part One)'
  • Ann Peal - 'Olivier de Termes and the Occitan Nobility in the Thirteenth Century'
  • Donald Mathew - review of R. A Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest
  • Brian Kemp - review of W. M. Ormrod, England in the Thirteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1984 Harlaxton Symposium

1985 - Vol. XI

East Anglian and Other Studies presented to Barbara Dodwell, edited by Malcolm Barber, Patricia McNulty and Peter Noble
  • Patricia McNulty - Introduction
  • Nicola Coldstream - 'The Lady Chapel at Ely: its Place in the English Decorated Style'
  • D. H. Farmer - 'Some Saints of East Anglia'
  • Brian Feeney - 'The Effects of King John's Scutages on East-Anglian Subjects'
  • J. C. Holt - 'More Battle Forgeries'
  • Brian Kemp - 'Maiden Bradley Priory, Wiltshire, and Kidderminster Church, Worcestershire'
  • Dorothy Owen - 'Two Medieval Parish Books from the Diocese of Ely: New College MS.98 & Wisbech Museum MS.1'
  • Janet Williamson - 'Dispute Settlement in the Manorial Court: Early Fourteenth-Century Lakenheath'

1984 - Vol. X

  • Marianne J. Ailes - 'Observations on the Grouping of Epics of Revolt in Manuscripts and Compilations'
  • John France - 'Anna Comneno, the Alexiad and the First Crusade'
  • Ruth Harvey - 'The Harlot and the Chimera in the Songs of the Troubadour Marcabru'
  • Ann G. Martin - 'Disgrace in Diu Crone'
  • David J. Shirt - 'Metaphor as a structuring device in the 'Roman d'Eneis''
  • Peter A. Thurlow - 'Ovid's Amores III, iv: its reception in William of Aquitaine, Sebastian Brant and Middle High German Literature'
  • Carol M. Meale - 'The Middle English Romance of lpomedon: a Late Medieval 'Mirror' for Princes and Merchants'

1983 - Vol. IX

  • Doris Edel - 'The Arthur of 'Culhwch and Olwen' as a Figure of Epic-Heroic Tradition';
  • Keith Bate - 'Ovid, Medieval Latin and the Pastourelle'
  • Odette Cadart-Ricard - 'The Shepherdess in Cerveri de Girone's Fourth Pastorele'
  • F. R. P. Akerhurst - 'Cognitive Orientations in the Fabliaux: Contribution to a Study of the Audience of Thirteenth-Century French Literature'
  • Brenda Thaon - 'La Fiere: The Career of Hue de Rotelonde's Heroine in England'
  • David Lampe - 'The Courtly Rhetoric of Chaucer's Advisory Poetry'
  • O. J. Padel - 'Beroul's Geography and Patronage'
  • Peter S. Noble - 'Flling a Gap'
  • Constance Bullock-Davies - 'he Visual Image of Arthur'

1982 - Vol. VIII

  • J. Norton-Smith - 'Textual Tradition, Monarchy and Chaucer's Lak of Stedfastnes'
  • Jocelyn Price - 'Floire et Blanchefloir: the Magic and Mechanics of Love'
  • E. M. R. Ditmas - 'Béroul the Minstrel'
  • Norman Reid - 'Margaret 'Maid of Norway' and Scottish Queenship'
  • J. A. Hunter - 'Wolfram's Attitude to Warfare and Killing'

Monograph

  • Adrian Ailes - 'The Origins of the Royal Arms of England: their Development to 1199'

1981 - Vol. VII

  • Ian Lovecy - 'Exploding the myth of the Celtic myth: a new appraisal of the Celtic background of Arthurian romance'
  • Vincent Gillespie - 'Justification by Good Works: Skelton's The Garland of Laurel'
  • Julia Cresswell - 'The Tales of Acteo and Narcissus in the Confessio Amantis'
  • Tony Hunt - 'The Significance of Thomas's Tristan'
  • Letizia A. Panizza - 'Seneca's fortuna in fourteenth-century ItaIy and Anselm's ontological proof'
  • Deborah Nelson - 'The Public and Private Images of Cligès Fenice'
  • Benoît Beaucage - 'Feudalism in Crisis: The Devastation of the Possessions of the Hospitallers in Provence (1373-1429)'

1980 - Vol. VI

  • Jonathan Riley-Smith - 'An Approach to Crusading Ethics'
  • C. B. Hardman - 'Eloquence and Morality in the Old Poet and the New: Chaucer and Spenser'
  • Beate Schmolke-Hasseslmann - 'King Arthur as Villain in the Thirteenth-century Romance Yder'
  • P. A. Thurlow - 'Augustine's City of God, Pagan History and the Unity of the Annolied'
  • M. G. Fulford - 'Carthage: Overseas Trade and the Political Economy, c AD 400-700'
  • D. J. Shirt - ''La Chastelcine de Vergi' - the technique of stylistic cohesion'

Monograph

  • F. P. Pickering - 'The Calendar Pages of Medieval Service Books'

1979 - Vol. V

  • John A. Scott - 'Dante's Francesca and the Poet's Attitude towards Courtly Literature'
  • Maura Coghlan - 'The Flaw in Enide's character: a Study of Chrétien de Troyes' Erec'
  • Barbara Dodwell - 'History and the Monks of Norwich Cathedral Priory'
  • Alison Adams - 'History, Love and the Cultivation of Suspense: the Roman d'Eneas and Aimon de Varennes' Florimont'
  • Angus Mackay and Geraldine McKendrick - 'Confession in the Cántigas de Santa María'

1978 - Vol. IV

  • J. A. W. Bennett - 'Carlyle and the Medieval Past'
  • Gillian R. Evans - 'Unstudied Arguments in the Early Letters of St. Anselm'
  • Benjamin C. B. Arnold - 'The Circulation and Impact of Reformist Ideas in Germany before the Reformation'
  • C. Claire Isoz - 'Enclisis after Paroxytones in Sanson de Nantuil's Proverbs of Solomon'
  • David J. A. Ross - 'Not Worth a Penny'

1977 - Vol. III

  • Alison Stones - 'The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript'
  • Malcolm C. Barber - 'Women and Catharism'
  • James L. Taylor - 'Animal Tales as Fabliaux'
  • Lucie Polak - 'Plato, Nature and Jean de Meun'

1976 - Vol. II

  • Gordon Leff - 'Ockham and Wyclif on the Eucharist'
  • Piero Boitani - ''Fine Words and Joyful Melodies': Some Stylistic Aspects of the Love Songs of Bernart de Ventadorn'
  • Philippa Hardman - 'The Unity of the Ireland Manuscript'
  • J. Norton-Smith - 'Chaucer's Boethius and Fortune'
  • F. P. Pickering - 'Trinitas Creator: Word and Image'

1975 - Vol. I

  • Gillian Evans - 'Insight in the Thought of St. Anselm'
  • Julian Gardner - 'Simone Martini's St. Louis of Toulouse'
  • L. T. Topsfield - 'The Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and the Love Lyric of the Early Troubadors'
  • Peter Noble - 'Kay the Seneschal in Chrétien de Troyes and his Predecessors'
  • Rosemary N. Combridge - 'Ladies, Queens and Decorum'
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