A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.
Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.
Medieval culture pervaded Shakespeare's life and work. Professor Helen Cooper examines its influence on the work of the world's greatest playwright...
A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history...