David Wallace's knowledge of European medieval literature is unequalled. His book is a cornucopia of illuminating details, insights and connections that are simply not to be found anywhere else.
Terry Jones
My Cinderella prize for the year's most underrated book goes to David Wallace, whose Premodern Places mixes romance and bizarrerie in a study of medieval and Renaissance ideas about geography and locality. Jonathan Keates, The Spectator 'Book of the Year' feature, 2004
This is one of the sharpest and most imaginative books of literary criticism I've read in many years. Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Offering illuminating genealogies for a range of authors and literary texts, Premodern Places radically questions many assumptions about historical as well as geographic boundaries. ... this book asks both premodernists and postcolonialists to rethink their disciplines and make urgent connections across space and time. Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania
... a most brilliant representative of Postcolonial Medieval Studies. Jose Rabasa, University of California