Description: Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature.
Review Quotes: "Incisive, clarifying, and often trenchant ... Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England will be required reading for anyone working on Richard Coeur de Lion, and on the manuscript history of medieval romance more generally." --Heather Blurton, Studies in the Age of Chaucer