Publications
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Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power
(2020)
This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official ...
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
(2022)
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical ...
Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery
(2024)
Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies performed in nunneries. This volume focuses on monastic performances and, in particular, on performances given in the English abbey ...
Negotiating Childlessness in the Middle Ages
(2025)
This book examines the ways in which people wrote about and engaged with infertility in the German Middle Ages. Striking differences emerge across the vernacular stories, legends, and romances concerned. For some, childlessness ...
Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage
(2018)
This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.
Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades
(2022)
This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and ...
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
(2021)
Military history; Ecological history; war and the environment; Natural barriers in history; wildlife protection, mosasaur; premodern environmentalism
A Companion to the Cavendishes
(2020)
“The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's ...
The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890–1939
(2024)
The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich individuals. Yet behind the headlines announcing new auction records, a range of sources make it possible ...
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
(2022)
This volume is the product of a collaborative research program undertaken since 2014 by the Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (seifmar). This program has focused on various ...
French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
(2023)
French teaching - medieval;French of medieval England;manières de langage
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
(2021)
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in
Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic
folktales collected in Iceland during the ...
Beowulf by All
(2021)
Beowulf By All is the first ever community translation of the poem known as Beowulf, and is published here for the first time in workbook form as Beowulf By All: Community Translation and Workbook in order to provide space ...
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
(2021)
Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit ...
The Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral
(2022)
The shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most popular pilgrim destinations in medieval Europe, as well as the focal point for the liturgy of the cathedral’s monastic community. In 1428 the ...
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
(2020)
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral ...
Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
(2024)
How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? ...
The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land
(2022)
The concept of the Rus’ Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of “Russia,” but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. ...
The Museum as Experience
(2023)
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences—cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike—have ...
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
(2020)
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin traditions of the ...
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
(2015)
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism ...
Remapping Travel Narratives (1000–1700)
(2018)
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse ...
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
(2021)
This book explores the lives of Sufi masters who functioned as embodiments of Islamic sainthood and left a lasting mark on the land. These figures lived in the ancient cities of Syria and their surrounding towns and villages ...
Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe
(2022)
The subject of this study is the life, career, and public activities of John Vitez of Sredna (early 1400s–1472)—a politician, prelate, diplomat and one of the most influential personages in the history of Renaissance ...
Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on ...
A Companion to the Cavendishes
(2020)
“The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's ...
A Companion to the Cavendishes
(2020)
“The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's ...
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
(2022)
This volume is the product of a collaborative research program undertaken since 2014 by the Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (seifmar). This program has focused on various ...
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
(2022)
This volume is the product of a collaborative research program undertaken since 2014 by the Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (seifmar). This program has focused on various ...
The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890–1939
(2024)
The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich individuals. Yet behind the headlines announcing new auction records, a range of sources make it possible ...
The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890–1939
(2024)
The market for rare books has been characterized as unpredictable, and driven by the whims of a small number of rich individuals. Yet behind the headlines announcing new auction records, a range of sources make it possible ...
The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945
(2024)
This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between 1890 and 1945 thousands of manuscripts made in Europe before 1600 appeared on the market. Many entered ...
The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945
(2024)
This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between 1890 and 1945 thousands of manuscripts made in Europe before 1600 appeared on the market. Many entered ...
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
(2022)
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical ...
Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies
(2023)
The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions ...
Poetry of Loss and the Early Medieval Chinese Court of the Warlord Cao Cao (155–220)
(2024)
Upon the fall of the Han empire, the warlord Cao Cao (155–220) established a new political domain. The Cao court became known for its accomplished writers, including the warlord himself and two of his sons, Cao Pi (187–226) ...
The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land
(2022)
The concept of the Rus’ Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of “Russia,” but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. ...
Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
(2024)
How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? ...
The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition
(2024)
This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650–1100.
In the wake of recent seminal studies on Aldhelm, these essays collectively explore the wider poetic ...
Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe
(2022)
The subject of this study is the life, career, and public activities of John Vitez of Sredna (early 1400s–1472)—a politician, prelate, diplomat and one of the most influential personages in the history of Renaissance ...