Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in a

Analyses of why precise dates and quantities of time become critical to transactions over citizenship rights in liberal democracies.

This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theor

What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were w

This book presents a fresh approach to the question of the historical continuities and discontinuities of Jew-hatred, juxtaposing chapters dealing with the same