Book of Donmon Teith

A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.

How did new literatures begin in the Middle Ages and what does it mean to ask about such beginnings? These are the questions this volume pursues across the regi

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different li

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.