The Napoleonic Wars: a global history

Abstract

provide a few more Middle English glosses for the (ever) student reader. Overall Thomas has made a contribution of great skill and scholarship to medieval studies. He reaffirms the paradox found by other critics and writers on Piers – the more one finds out contexts for his creativity, the more originality his creation reveals. For scholars of canon and other law, it suggestively points to literary contexts as making innovative contributions to legal discourse. For historians generally, it contributes to open up ever further the sophistication and vibrancy of medieval thought and text, and in particular suggestively points to other “possible reformations” imagined and sketched out by late medieval thinkers.