Description: When Keith Busby published Codex and Context in 2002, it was called 'groundbreaking' and 'monumental', prompting medievalists to return to manuscripts in their droves. Busby's book also enacted another movement. His formulation of the term
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"Its title might let this magnificent collection slip past English literature specialists unnoticed, though it features multiple contributions relevant to the study of medieval England and its literature. This massive volume is a tribute to Keith Busby, whose range and influence it reflects. [...] Busby opened up the investigation of medieval Francophonia, and the volume accordingly ranges widely across Europe, and beyond. All chapters link back to French material."
From: Natalia I. Petrovskaia, Review of "Medieval French on the Move: Studies in Honour of Keith Busby", in: English Studies 107.4 (2025), https: //doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2026.2671131.