New Medieval Literatures is the first issue of a new annual of work on literature and culture in medieval Europe. As well as featuring exciting new essays that interpret medieval texts for a postmodern age, every volume will include a survey by a leading medievalist of recent work in an emerging field of study. The essays in NML 1 question the concept of the medieval text itself. an invigorating new annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them ... The essays in this volume certainly project the vitality of genuine exploration. The first volume of New Medieval Literatures is outstanding in its own right, the most sustained medieval collection of the 1990s I would venture to say. This new annual is professionally launched and clearly has a distinguished future.