


Books in series

Marco Polo and His World
2024

Bede and the Theory of Everything
2023

Andrey Rublev
The Artist and His World
2023

Alle Thyng Hath Tyme
Time and Medieval Life
2023

Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
2022

Christine de Pizan
Life, Work, Legacy
2021

Margery Kempe
A Mixed Life
2021

Richard the Lionheart
In Life and in Legend
2025

Eleanor of Aquitaine
Woman, Queen and Legend
2025
Authors
Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her work is primarily focused in Medieval Mediterranean Studies. She is co-Director of the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org). Research areas: Old French Literature The Medieval Culture of Empire Vernacular French representations Medieval Mediterranean Literature Chretien de Troyes Marie de France Marco Polo

Professor Anthony Bale, MA (Oxford), MA (York), DPhil (Oxford), is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, England. Anthony Bale teaches on the BA English, MA Medieval Literature and Culture and supervises doctoral students working on medieval topics. Bale has published widely on medieval literature, culture, and religion. In particular, his work has explored relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, and has recently published a new translation and edition of The Book of Margery Kempe with Oxford University Press. His current work explores travel and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages. He has received fellowships from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Australian Research Councils, the British Academy, the Huntington Library, the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Michigan Frankel Institute, and the National Humanities Center.