'a well-written and reliable guide through a mass of material that largely transcends the limitations of its form to offer critical analysis of lasting value.'
Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. After a Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, she was appointed to a tutorial fellowship at University College, Oxford, in medieval and early modern English in 1978, as their first woman fellow (and was later made an Honorary Fellow). She then moved to the Chair in Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge in 2004, at Magdalene College (Emeritus Professor and Life Fellow from 2014). She was a co-editor of Medium Ævum 1989-2002 and is a Fellow of the British Academy.