Covers the close of the Middle Ages, an era of crisis, plague, famine and civil strife, and yet also, towards the end, of vigorous economic and colonial expansion, intellectual renewal and religious reformation.
For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't ...
