Julia Bolton Holloway's The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer investigates major fourteenth-century texts, the Commedia, Piers Plowma
"This book is quite simply the most important, intellectually ambitious, and far-reaching endeavor in recent years."—Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins Univers
An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture. Offe