Through a series of cogent case studies, all situated from 1050 to 1250, this book highlights how restrictive and hierarchical modern scholarly categories in the Humanities can sometimes be.

Treharne Elaine :

Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches medieval literature and manuscript studies, and directs Stanford Text Technologies. She has published over thirty books on medieval literature.