Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham. His many authored works include Reading Middle English Literature (Blackwell, 2007); (with Ralph Hanna) The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers (Boydell, 2010); Poems from BL MS Harley 913: 'The Kildare Manuscript' EETS OS 345 (OUP, 2015); Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (LUP, 2018); (with J. A. Burrow) A Book of Middle English, 4th edn. (Blackwell, 2021).