Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death

Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their de

A comprehensive, innovative study of how medieval people envisioned heaven, hell, and purgatory - images and imaginings that endure today.

What does the study of iconography entail for scholars active today? How does it intersect with the broad array of methodological and theoretical approaches now

The Afterlives of Rape examines how medieval English texts--from devotional literature to Arthurian romance--imagine survivors of sexual violence to have privil