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The article offers information on the importance of medieval English religious writing and passion for writing about Jesus Christ's life. Topics discussed include expression of religious sensibility in the texts of Christ's life; examination of tradition of writing pseudo-Bonaventuran by Elizabeth Salter and Michael Sargent; and emphasis on text-centred, progressive and disciplined writing.

The article presents a critique of the late Medieval work "Expositio Canticorum Scripturae," by the 15th-century Oxford University scholar Richard Ullerston, particularly examining the intertextual references it made to the "Latin Psalter" of the 14th-century translator Richard Rolle. Details are given noting how Rolle's commentaries on the Biblical book of Psalms are found and further propagated within Ullerston's work a generation later.

The article presents a discussion of the anonymous 12th-century Latin eyewitness account of the Third Crusade on Palestine, entitled "Chronicon terrae sanctae," exploring the origin and transmission of the manuscript. Details are given mapping the disputed attributed authorship of the work surrounding Ralph, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Coggeshall, England. Arguments are made suggesting the work was produced by multiple authors and that Ralph contributed to it.