A Dictionary of Medieval Terms & Phrases

摘要

The Middle Ages interest readers of many types, from the specialist to the general reader, from someone closely examining medieval canon law and the etiquette of the tournament to someone else reading Ellis Peters's Brother Caedfael detective novels. It was well said that history is another country, not merely in terms of its vocabulary but in its thinking, and the Middle Ages is such a place. This dictionary - which first appeared in hardback from the same publisher in 2004, was reprinted in 2005, and appears for the first time in paperback now - addresses such issues. It fills that gap between comprehensive reference works (dictionaries and encyclopedias on the one hand, legal and ecclesiological sources on the other) and focussed glossaries (say, to works like Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales).