In exploiting the engaging story of Hugh de Lacy, this volume creates a thematic .... William Chester Jordan, Jenna Rebe
Medieval Studies Highlights – Autumn 2017
Pleasure in the Middle Ages Naama Cohen Hanegbi, Piroska Nagy (eds.)
This volume explores the diverse manifestations and uses of pleasure in medieval culture. Pleasure is a sensation, an affirmation, a practice, and is at the core of the medieval worldview, no less than pain. The essays integrate a wide range of sources including literature (monastic to courtly), medical texts, illuminated prayer books, iconography, and theatrical plays.
approx. 400 p., 10 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57520-9 Hardback: € 100 Series: International Medieval Research, vol. 24 Publication
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Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000–1500 CE)
Medieval Masterchef
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
Reuven Amitai, Christoph Cluse (eds)
Joanita Vroom,Yona Waksman, Roos van Oosten (eds)
This is a comprehensive collection of innovative studies on slavery and the slave trade in the eastern Mediterranean during the Middle Ages. It contains overviews of slavery in the different religious traditions, examinations of the role of the Italian merchant cities, the nature of Mamluk military slavery and aspects of the commerce in these so-called slave soldiers.
The focus in this varied collection of studies by key scholars in the field is on cuisine and foodways in the Mediterranean and north-western Europe during Medieval and Post-Medieval times (ca. 6th- 20th centuries). The scope of the contributions encompasses archaeological and historical perspectives on eating habits, cooking techniques, diet practices and table manners in the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, the Crusader States, Medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
approx. 500 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57019-8 Hardback: approx. € 115 Series: Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, vol. 5 Publication
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400 p., 53 b/w ills, 32 col ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57579-7 Paperback: € 95 Series: Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology, vol. 2 Available
French in Medieval Ireland, Ireland in Medieval French
Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France
Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700)
The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321)
Sonja Brentjes
K. Busby
The Paradox of Two Worlds
This book is a ground-breaking study of the cultural and linguistic consequences of the English invasion of Ireland in 1169, first analysing in detail French-language texts produced in Ireland before examining the ways in which the country is portrayed in French literature of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries.
Tracy Hamilton
approx. 375 p., 21 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57021-1 Hardback: € 110 Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, vol. 27
300 p., 150 b/w ills, 32 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-1-905375-68-4 Hardback: approx. € 110 Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, vol. 64
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This book posits that the historical record reveals exciting and important contributions Marie de Brabant made to this burgeoning secular court. It also examines her commissions from her arrival in Paris until her death and analyzes the dynamics of her patronage and its impact on other women and men of the royal house.
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This book provides for the first time a survey of important features of educational activities and structures in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700 with regard to the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine, and natural philosophy.
approx. 250 p., 30 ill. n/b, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57445-5 Paperback: € 45 Series: Studies on the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence, vol. 3 Publication scheduled for Autumn 2017
Politics & Society
Les Royaumes de Bourgogne jusque 1032 à travers la culture et la religion
Writing History in Medieval Poland Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and the 'Chronica Polonorum'
Walcher of Malvern: De lunationibus and De Dracone
Study, Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Anne Wagner (éd.)
Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (ed.)
Philipp Nothaft (ed.)
Installés en Sapaudie (Savoie) par Aetius, les Burgondes étendirent leur royaume dans la vallée du Rhône, de la Durance et de la Saône. Leur implantation est attestée par des sépultures peu nombreuses dont les individus présentent des déformations céphaliques, caractéristiques de peuples associés.
Poland’s first native chronicler placed his people’s history on a continuum with the classical world. This work brings to light the importance of Poland in the making of Europe and presents an in-depth analysis of the Chronica Polonorum, one of the greatest works of the twelfth-century renaissance which influenced history writing in Central Europe.
This volume contains the first complete edition and study of the works of Walcher of Malvern, a landmark figure in the history of medieval science. This study elucidates the background to his scientific pursuits and situates them in the intellectual and disciplinary context at a time when Latin astronomy underwent a transformative period of lasting significance.
approx. 350 p., 83 ill. n/b, 21 col. ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57583-4 Paperback: € 80 Série: Culture et société médiévales, vol. 30
approx. 250 p., 3 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56951-2 Hardback: € 80 Series: Cursor Mundi, vol. 28
xix + 346 p., 4 b/w ills, 6 col. ills, 155 x 240 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56876-8 Hardback: € 90 Series: De Diversis Artibus, vol. 102 (65)
From Carrickfergus to Carcassonne
Medievalism and Political Rhetoric in Humanist Historiography from the Low Countries (1515-1609)
Publication prévue pour l’automne 2017
The epic deeds of Hugh de Lacy during the Albigensian Crusade
Jean-Michel Picard,Tadhg O'Keeffe, Paul Duffy (eds)
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Crusading on the Edge
Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100-1500
Coen Maas
In exploiting the engaging story of Hugh de Lacy, this volume creates a thematic whole which facilitates wide ranging comparison between events such as the Anglo-Norman takeover of Ireland and the Albigensian Crusade, the subtleties of doctrine in Ireland and Languedoc and the transmission of progressive castle design linking the walls of Carcassonne and Carrickfergus.
Torben K Nielsen, Iben Fonnesberg Schmidt (eds)
Through an in-depth analysis of humanist historiography from the Low Countries, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of the Middle Ages for a political rhetoric in which the self-presentation of the historian and the definition of their homeland played a key role. It also brings forward some key characteristics of early modern medievalism.
This volume brings together contributions on the history of the crusades, focusing on Iberia and the Baltic region. It throws further light onto the development of the crusade movement in general and constitutes a valuable resource for studying the crusade movement in the Middle Ages.
approx. 250 p., 24 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56781-5 Hardback: approx. € 81 Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, vol. 05
approx. x + 600 p., 25 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55711-3 Hardback: € 125 Series: Proteus, vol. 7
xv + 409 p., 25 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2016, ISBN 978-2-503-54881-4 Hardback: € 94 Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, vol. 4
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Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World
Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman Thomas Barton, Susan McDonough, Sara McDougall, Matthew Wranovix (eds)
The articles in this collection explore in Honour of Paul Freedman topics such as the religious culture, Spain, and the history of food and seek to explore some of their implications for medieval and post-medieval European society and historical study. Together, they assess a range of different boundaries, relating to law, religion, peasants, historiography, and food, medicine, and the exotic. approx. 325 p., 7 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56845-4 Hardback: € 90 Series: Europa Sacra, vol. 22 Publication
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Les ports des mers nordiques à l’époque viking (VIIe-Xe siècle) Lucie Malbos
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Medieval Anglo-Irish Troubles
A Cultural Study of BL MS Harley 913 Deborah L. Moore
Marchands, pirates et autres voyageurs n’ont pas attendu le viie siècle pour prendre la mer. Toutefois, alors que les échanges, tant commerciaux que culturels, se développent fortement et que la voile fait son apparition dans les mers nordiques, le contexte est propice à l’essor de grands ports marchands (emporia ou wics) sur leurs rives.
A small, battered 14th-century Anglo-Irish manuscript full of ribald and taboo poems and stories holds the key to unlocking a medieval community’s troubled social, devotional and political history. For the first time, this volume allows readers to visualize the manuscript in its entirety and complexity by touching on the taboos of incest, regicide, and witchcraft across medieval Ireland, England, and the Continent.
approx. 450 p., 31 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57580-3 Paperback: € 85 Series: Haut Moyen Âge, vol. 27
xii + 337 p., 6 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55478-5 Hardback: € 90 Series: Texts and Transitions, vol. 8
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Politics & Society
The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314
Village Elites and Social Structures in the Late Medieval Campine Region
Genèse des espaces politiques (IXe-XIIe siècle)
William Chester Jordan, Jenna Rebecca Phillips (eds)
Eline Van Onacker
This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian century (1214-1314), a period that changed the cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation for the modernisation of the medieval West. Innovations in architecture, manuscript illumination, and music all helped shape the cultural fabric of French and European life.
In contrast to dominant depictions of pre-modern societies on the road to capitalism, this book provides a comprehensive portrayal of inequality and elite groups in a communal peasant society and reveals how specific social structures and accompanying elite characteristics guaranteed stability and continuity in a communal peasant region in the otherwise dynamic late medieval Low Countries.
Autour de la question spatiale dans les royaumes francs et post-carolingiens
xvi + 362 p., 28 b/w ills, 5 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56718-1 Hardback: € 100 Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, vol. 22
li +319 p., 7 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55459-4 Hardback: € 100 Series: The Medieval Countryside, vol. 17
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Geneviève Bührer - Thierry, Steffen Patzold, Jens Schneider (éd.)
Une histoire comparée de la construction des territoires politiques en France et en Germanie aux IXe-XII e siècles.
approx. 300 p., 23 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57473-8 Paperback: approx. € 80 Série: Haut Moyen Âge, vol. 28 Publicaion
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Church & Religion
The Dedicated Spiritual Life of Upper Rhine Noble Women
A Study and Translation of a Fourteenth-Century Spiritual Biography of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg and Heilke of Staufenberg Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
A study, edition, and translation of the story of two independent Upper Rhine women living a spiritual life together.
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World Converting the Isles I
Roy Flechner, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (eds)
This volume offers a cross disciplinary perspective on conversion to Christianity in the early middle ages in the Insular World, including the nature and degree of missionary activity involved, socio-economic stimulants for conversion, as well as the depiction and presentation of a Christian saint.
Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond Converting the Isles II
N. Edwards, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, R. Flechner (eds.)
This volume analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume investigates the interaction between different forms of belief, their coexistence and competition.
approx. 320 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57431-8 Hardback: € 85 Series: Sanctimoniales, vol. 2
xx + 510 p., 9 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2016, ISBN 978-2-503-55462-4 Hardback: € 120 Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, vol. 19
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approx. 525 p., 50 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56868-3 Hardback: € 120 Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, vol. 23
Medieval Liège at the Crossroads of Europe
Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 1000-1400
Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe Veronica O’Mara,Virginia Blanton, Patricia Stoop (eds)
Steven Vanderputten,Tjamke Snijders, Jay Diehl (eds)
Peter Coss, Chris Dennis, Angelo Silvestri, Melissa Julian-Jones (eds)
This volume collects studies on the role of monastic institutions in the exchange of cultural and socio-economic capital in the medieval diocese of Liège. It addresses the problem of monastic identity and its formation in a region that was geographically wedged between two major competing socio-political powers.
The essays collected in this volume analyse aspects of the formation, enhancement and manifestation of episcopal power between 1000 and 1400. Its purpose is to examine the foundations of episcopal power in medieval Europe by considering its functioning and development at the level of local society.
Monastic Society and Culture, 1000–1300
xxiii + 381 p., 13 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-54540-0 Hardback: € 100 Series: Medieval Church Studies, vol. 37 Available
xi + 293 p., 2 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57340-3 Hardback: € 80 Series: Medieval Church Studies, vol. 38 Available
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The Antwerp Dialogue
This collection of essays, the third in an integrated series of three and focused on the literacies of nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged from the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.
approx. xii + 550 p., 19 b/w ills,160 x 240 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55411-2 Hardback: €125 Series: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 28 Publication scheduled for Autumn 2017
Church & Religion
Curia and Crusade
Pope Honorius III and the Recovery of the Holy Land: 1216–1227 Thomas W. Smith
Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th Centuries)
Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context
John Victor Tolan et al. (ed.)
Ann Buckley (ed.)
This is the first full-length monograph in English to analyse Honorius’s pontificate. This book propounds an innovative, revisionist interpretation of the ways in which papal crusade policy operated in the thirteenth century, and provides new insights into the importance of arengae in papal documents, the work of papal legates and the effectiveness of crusade taxation.
This book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimmīs in Islamic lands.
This book challenges existing notions of an idiosyncratic 'Celtic Rite' through a multidisciplinary, European perspective. It investigates the evidence for Irish musical and liturgical practices from the earliest sources to later manuscripts with music notation, as well as through case studies of liturgical offices in honour of Irish saints, and of saints traditionally associated with Ireland in different parts of Europe.
approx. 300 p., 16 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55297-2 Hardback: approx. € 80 Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, vol. 6
454 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56571-2 Paperback: € 85 Series: Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies, vol. 8 Available
approx. x + 375 p., 15 b/w ills, 7 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-53470-1 Hardback: € 100 Series: Ritus et Artes, vol. 8
The Sermons of William Peraldus
The Birgittines of Syon Abbey
Vaucelles Abbey
Siegfried Wenzel
Susan Powell
This is a study of the sermons by the thirteenth-century Dominican William Peraldus who produced several cycles of sermons, of which two deal with the Epistle and the Gospel readings for the Sundays of the Church year. This study analyzes these in some detail and argues that Peraldus wrote these sermons systematically for the use of other preachers.
This volume examines the Birgittine Order of nuns as producers and readers of texts in Britain from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, through an analysis of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. It highlights the community's response to teachings of St Birgitta, the dissemination of Birgittine texts, and Lady Margaret Beaufort's role as intermediary between Syon and the outside world.
xii + 219 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56798-3 Hardback: € 75 Series: Sermo, vol. 13
xxii + 348 p., 5 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-53235-6 Hardback: € 90 Series: Texts and Transitions, vol. 11
xxxviii+366 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55524-9 Hardback: € 90 Series: Medieval Monastic Studies, vol. 2
Healing not Punishment. Penitentials in the Insular Church
Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The Forge of Doctrine
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An Appraisal
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Historical and Pastoral Networking of the Penitentials between the Sixth and the Eighth Centuries Wilhelm Kursawa
This book focuses on treatises about repentance, called penitentials, that ecclesiastical authorities of the sixth to the eight centuries wrote down on how to deal with the different capital sins and minor trespasses committed by monks, clerics and laypeople. approx. xvi +350 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57589-6 Paperback: approx. € 75 Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae, vol. 25 Publication scheduled for Autumn 2017
Preaching and Print
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Ildar H. Garipzanov, Caroline Goodson, Henry Maguire (eds)
This volume brings together historians, art historians, and archaeologists to discuss the role of graphic representational signs and symbols and to look at contexts facilitating their dissemination in a wide range of media in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds. They explore the rise and spread of graphic signs in relation to socio-cultural transformations during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. xviii + 394 p., 141 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56724-2 Hardback: € 110 Series: Cursor Mundi, vol. 27 Available
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Social, Political, and Ecclesiastical Relationships in the Borderland Region of the Cambrésis, 1131-1300 Kathryn Salzer
Founded in 1131 by the castellan of Cambrai, Vaucelles Abbey thrived in a borderland region of Cambrésis, where German emperors, French kings, Flemish counts, bishops of Cambrai, and the Cistercian Order all had active interests. To understand how Vaucelles flourished, this book looks at the political, social, and economic relationships that the house created and fostered with various international, regional, and local individuals and institutions.
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The Academic Year 1330-31 and the Rise of Scotism at the University of Paris William Duba
This book shows concretely how scholastic thinkers made, communicated, and debated ideas at the medieval universities. Appendices document the entire process with critical editions of William’s academic debates (principia), his promotion speech, and a selection of his lectures and sources.
xi + 444 p., 13 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57327-4 Paperback: € 85 Series: Studia Sententiarum, vol. 2 Available
Language & Literature
Theorizing Old Norse Myth Stefan Brink, Lisa Collinson (eds)
This collection explores the theoretical and methodological foundations through which we understand Old Norse myths and the medieval sources in which we find expressions of these. Some contributions take a broaad, comparative perspective; some address specific details of Old Norse myths and mythology; and some devote their attention to questions concerning either individual gods and deities, or more topographical and spatial matters. approx. x + 275 p., 10 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55303-0 Hardback: € 80 Series: Acta Scandinavica, vol. 7 Publication
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Urban Literacy in Late Medieval Poland Agnieszka Bartoszewicz
Vernacular Translators in Quattrocento Italy
Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600)
Andrea Rizzi
Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri, Maxson Brian Jeffrey (eds)
This study collapses the perceived divide between Latin and vernacular humanisms, and offers a fresh understanding of Quattrocento Italy as a period of immense dynamism and creativity in the history of translation. It provides a richly documented study of vernacular translators as agents within the literary culture of Italy during the fifteenth century.
The essays in this collection explore the languages – artistic, symbolic, and ritual, as well as written and spoken – in which power was articulated, challenged, contested, and defended in Italian cities and courts, villages, and countryside, between 1300 and 1600. The collection balances a broad geographic and chronological range with a tight thematic focus.
x + 236 p., 5 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56785-3 Hardback: € 75 Series: Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 26
approx. 250 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-54038-2 Hardback: € 75 Series: Early European Research, vol. 10
Scribal Culture, Authority, and Agency
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Islands in the West
Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination
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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages Poetry from Treatises on Poetics
Matthias Egeler
Kari Ellen Gade, Edith Marold (eds)
This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. The book follows how these Norse otherworld myths adopt, adapt, and transform concepts from early Irish vernacular tradition and Medieval Latin geographical literature, and pursues their connection to the geographical mythology of classical antiquity.
This volume presents most of the poetry contained in the Scandinavian poetic and grammatical treatises, such as the poetry in Skáldskaparmál, the þulur, Háttatal, the Third and Fourth Grammatical Treatises and Háttalykill. Included also are Málsháttakvæði and stanzas from Laufás Edda not recorded elsewhere.
approx. 375 p., 30 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56511-8 Hardback: € 100 Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, vol. 39
xii + 357 p., 33 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56938-3 Hardback: € 100 Series: Medieval Voyaging, vol. 4
2 vols, clii + 1359 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-51894-7 Hardback: € 165 Series: Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, vol. 3
Organizing the Written Word
Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts
Sins of the Tongue in the Medieval West
From the end of the thirteenth century onwards, European towns exhibited a significant increase in the use of writing as a tool for administrative and economic purposes, as well as for social communication. The medieval towns of Poland are no exception to this pattern.
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Scripts, Manuscripts, and Texts Marco Mostert (ed.)
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Sinful, Unethical, and Criminal Words in Middle Dutch (1300-1550) Martine Veldhuizen
This volume seeks to enhance our understanding of an important aspect of medieval literacy and of the western literate mentality. What are the differences and similarities between early and late medieval ways of finding written information? How and why were the manuscript page and the organisation of written texts altered? How and why did ‘consultation literacy’, as we now know it, develop?
Matti Peikola, A. Mäkilähde, Hanna Salmi, Mari-Liisa Varila, Janne Skaffari (eds.)
The volume innovatively combines book studies with linguistics to explore the interplay of verbal and visual/ material communication in early English manuscripts and printed texts.
This book demonstrates the pivotal role of the sins of the tongue in the late medieval domains of Church, ethics, and law, through analysis of Middle Dutch texts. It also examines medieval notions of harmful speech conduct as reflected in Middle Dutch ecclesiastical, secular-ethical, and legal textual sources.
approx. viii + 300 p., 30 b/w ills, 160 x 240 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-50765-1 Hardback: € 80 Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, vol. 30
xii + 280 p., 30 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-57464-6 Hardback: € 80 Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, vol. 37
xiii + 208 p., 3 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56946-8 Hardback: € 70 Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, vol. 36
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Art & Architecture
From Hus to Luther
The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral
Memory and Redemption
Kateřina Horníčková, Michal Šroněk (eds)
Stephanie Glaser (ed.)
Achim Timmermann
This is first study representing a little-known phenomenon in Bohemian cultural and political history – the visual culture that grew up in the environment of the Reformation churches in Bohemia from the Hussites until the defeat of the Estates by the Habsburgs at White Mountain in 1620.
The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period. Contributing to scholarship in historiography, cultural history, intermedial and interdisciplinary studies, as well as traditional disciplines, the volume resonates with wider perspectives, especially relating to the reuse of artefacts to serve particular ideological ends.
This study looks at the homiletic, literary, devotional and artistic imagination, in which wayside crosses and other such structures helped constitute a spiritual and allegorical landscape that very much complemented and put pressure on the physical landscapes traversed and inhabited by the contemporary public.
xxi + 323 p., 50 b/w ills, 8 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-54805-0 Hardback: € 90 Series: Medieval Church Studies, vol. 33
approx. 380 p., 68 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56813-3 Hardback: € 100 Series: Ritus et Artes, vol. 9
xvi + 427 p., 335 b/w ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-54652-0 Paperback: € 105 Series: Architectura Medii Aevi, vol. 8
Tristan and Isolde
Editio princeps
S. C.Van D’Elden
Eric White
The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. The purpose of this book is to list all the extant manuscripts and artefacts – objets d’art, and to describe the scenes depicted on them.
This publication is the first book to tell the whole story of Europe’s first printed edition, describing its creation at Mainz circa 1455, its impact on fifteenth-century life and religion, its fall into oblivion during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its rediscovery and rise to worldwide fame during the centuries thereafter.
viii + 462 p., 216 b/w ills, 322 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-53098-7 Hardback: € 150 Published outside a series
approx. 460 p., 71 b/w ill. + 36 colour ill., 225 x 300 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-1-909400-84-9 Hardback: approx. € 125 Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
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Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meanings of the Medieval Edifice in the Modern Period
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Public Monuments and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape
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Sources of Identity
A History of the Gutenberg Bible
Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600 Tim Shephard, Lisa Colton (eds)
Leaving aside the traditional view of early music sources as a means of access to medieval and Renaissance repertoires, this anthology focuses instead on the people who commissioned, made, owned and used music books, and on their reasons for so doing. 340 p., 52 b/w ills, 190 x 290 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-56778-5 Paperback: € 55 Series: Epitome musical
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Between Carpentry and Joinery
Cut in Alabaster
Decorated Revisited
Kim Woods
John Munns (ed.)
Cut in Alabaster is the first comprehensive study of alabaster sculpture in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It charts sculpture from quarry to contexts of use, exploring practitioners, markets and functions as well as issues of consumption, display and material meanings. This book provides a detailed examination of tombs, altarpieces and both elite and popular sculpture.
In ten essays, leading established and emerging scholars reassess the nature, significance and context of the Decorated style in English Gothic architecture. Drawing on a range of innovative methodologies, they present new insights into the nature and significance of English architecture in the period, focusing particularly on its broader European context.
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Wood Finishing Work in European Medieval and Modern Architecture Pascale Fraiture, Paulo Charruadas, Patrice Gautier, Mathieu Piavaux, Philippe Sosnowska (eds)
This work, which represents a first step toward an overall approach of ‘wood material’ in European architecture, includes thirteen contributions divided into two thematic sections in keeping with current research practices. 271 p., 100 b/w ills, 100 col. ills, 230 x 290 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-930054-28-5 Hardback: € 42.45 Series: Scientia Artis, vol. 12 Available
A Material of Sculpture 1330-1530
approx. 350 p., 2 b/w ills, 170 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2016, ISBN 978-1-909400-26-9 Hardback: approx.€ 125 Series: Study of the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, vol. 3 Publication scheduled for Autumn 2017
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English Architectural Style in Context, 1250-1400
x + 248 p., 222 b/w ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2017, ISBN 978-2-503-55434-1 Paperback: € 91 Series: Architectura Medii Aevi, vol. 9 Available
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Visual Culture in the Bohemian Reformation (1380-1620)
