Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval Canon - Paperbackby Heather Blurton (Editor), Dwight F. Reynolds (Editor) Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are