This volume details the life of the English knight during the 13th century, a period in which knighthood became so expensive that many eligible men had to be forced into it by royal command. How the tournament, a highly dangerous but lucrative way of accumulating wealth and status, evolved through t[...]

This lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beneath the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ordinary English people.[...]

English as a Vocation is a history of the most influential movement in modern British literary criticism. F. R. Leavis and his collaborators on the Cambridge journal Scrutiny in the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrated compelling ways of reading modernist poetry, Shakespeare, and the 'texts' of advertisi[...]

'The short story is enjoying a revival all the more encouraging when viewed against the gloom surrounding the future of the literary novel ...'. In this title, fifteen further short stories from the golden age of the short story offer more gems from some of the masters of the genre. Whether it is th[...]

This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.[...]

Technical English covers the core language and skills that students need to communicate successfully in all technical and industrial specifications.[...]