The allusion in the title to the dwarf on the shoulders of the giant underscores the central themes of this collection: the debt each generation owes to the intellectual achievements of those that precede ...

Reflecting the strong aesthetic turn in literary studies, these powerful, persuasive essays keep an eye on the seductions of beauty while offering fresh approaches to medieval poetics. Significant new ...

From the deep sea to the waters above the sky, from the world beneath our feet to the promised land across the ocean - this volume represents a search for traces of cosmologies in Celtic sources, especially ...

Robert Grosseteste?s significant contributions to science and theology are a testament to his reptuation as a consummate polymath. An accomplished scholar and bishop, his multifaceted work has inspired ...

The essays in this volume, edited by Slavica Rankovi? with Ingvil Brügger Budal, Aidan Conti, Leidulf Melve, and Else Mundal, are geared towards reopening the debate concerning who should be credited ...