Impressive ... if the generic and chronological range of Mortimer's Caesar were not enough, the book also has a broad linguistic range ... The book will therefore be of interest not only to scholars of English literature, Mortimer's home turf, but also to scholars working in faculties of history and medieval and modern languages.
Nigel Mortimer took his undergraduate degree (in English Language and Literature) and doctorate from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; he won the Violet Vaughan Morgan prize for English Literature as an undergraduate in 1987 and was an academic scholar in English Literature as both an undergraduate and graduate student. His first book, John Lydgate's Fall of Princes, was published by OUP in 2005. He has taught Old and Middle English at undergraduate level in
Oxford and is currently an assistant master at Eton College.