Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. His previous publications include a new translation of The Book of Margery Kempe (2015); a translation of John Mandeville's The Book of Marvels and Travels (2012); Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (2010); and as editor St Edmund King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint (2009).
'The quality and variety of the contributors' scholarship make it an important resource for instructors and students (preferably graduate), both as a critical source and as an incitement to further study.' Thomas H. Crofts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching '… significantly contributes to scholarship on crusading literature and its intersections with medieval studies. … I will … be ordering it for the library and recommending it to my students.' Hülya Taflı Düzgün, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean