First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences.

First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period.

First English translation of the complete versions of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland.

First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide moralisé is a massive and influential work of synthesis and creativity, a remarkable window into a...