Water defined the landscapes of medieval East Anglia. Hitherto scholarly attention has focussed on the physical geography of the region, with landscape archaeology and excavations revealing sites of international importance and speaking to the potency and ubiquity of wa...

The künstlerroman is a genre with a long and celebrated past. From Bret Easton Ellis’ 'Lunar Park (2005)' to John Irving’s 'The World According to Garp (1978)' and Saul Bellow’s 'Humboldt’s Gift (1975)', the genre has occupied a prominent place in bestseller lists and a...

An introduction to the ‘New Voices in Jewish-American Literature’ Special Collection, providing a summary of key themes and an overview of material contained within.

In addition to providing pleasant and stimulating experiences, complex cultural collections can require significant amounts of cognitive work on the part of visitors. Whether collections are situated in physical spaces or presented via web-based interfaces, the sheer ri...

MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry ha...

The twenty-first century has seen the identification and development of a new literary genre: the musico-literary novel, defined as a novel thematically concerned with music (Harling-Lee, 2020). As a comparative case study, this article considers two musico-literary nov...

The Old English Saint Christopher has, like much anonymous vernacular hagiography, gone under-studied. This is partly because its manuscript context results in it being mentioned dismissively alongside more famous texts, and partly because no source has been identified ...

A widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugresic has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary con...

The following article explores some of the ways in which the leaders of a medieval ecclesiastical institution, in this case Bury St Edmund, could construct that institution's own identity by textual production that was centred on the figure of their patron saint, Edmund...

The 1938 British Empire Exhibition held in Glasgow was the last of its kind, a spectacular event that celebrated the British Empire and sought to bring global attention to Scotland. The exhibition was a celebration of empire at a time when anti-imperial movements were g...