Oxford University Press

From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & LogueA very wide-ranging book which launches a new theory of poetry translation and        pursues it through readings of poem-translations from across the history of English        literature. It engages with the key debates in translation studies, and offers new        interpretations of major works such as...

The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship - found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship - was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship...

This is a study of the common social characteristics and circumstances of those among the lay society of twelfth-century England who tended to seek assistance in the form of miracles at the shrines of saints. It aims to make sense of their religious experience and motivation, re-evaluating the religious cliches of devotion found in conventional...

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This book considers how places come to acquire special religious significance, as sites for prayer or other kinds of devotional activity. It examines the ways in which sacred sites function, and the ways in which sites which have no explicitly religious import may come to bear a religious meaning....