Medieval Studies - Winter 2014

New & Forthcoming TitlesMedieval Studies

Winter 2013–2014

Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History

John Baker, Stuart Brookes, Andrew Reynolds (eds.) Stefan Brink, Lisa Collinson (eds.) Maria Asenjo-González (ed.)

Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe

New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia

Urban Elites and Aristocratic Behaviour in the Spanish Kingdoms at the End of the Middle Ages

xviii + 384 p., 65 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 28, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52956-1, € 100

�e book addresses the scale and form of civil defences in early medieval Europe, c. 800–1000 with new interdisciplinary per-spectives driven by a land-

scape approach. With papers ranging from England to Spain and Germany to Scandinavia the volume is of relevance to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, onomastics, geography, and anthropology.

approx. x + 200 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, AS 3, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54754-1, € 70

During recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the early laws of Scandinavia. In this volume several aspects of this �eld are

presented and discussed, ranging from approaches to handling violence and homicide involving lay-men and clerics in late medieval Norway to the introduction and development in medieval Den-mark of the næfnd, a kind of ‘jury’, which replaced the ordeal or the analysis of several words for ‘ outlawry’ in the Old Scandinavian languages.

x + 172 p., 178 x 254 mm, 2013, SEUH 27, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54644-5, € 69

�is collection of studies presents the results of research to discover the scope of aristocratic ambitions of the urban elites in the Hispanic king-

doms in the Late Middle Ages. �e goal is to gain a greater knowledge of the urban elites in order to discover the social and political motiva-tions of the privileged, those who were able to pro�t from the mechanisms of social ascension.

Jason T. Roche, Janus Møller Jensen (eds.) Michael Van Dussen, Pavel Soukup (eds.) Marianne O'Doherty

�e Second Crusade Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom

Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378–1536 Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership

�e Indies and the Medieval West �ought, Report, Imagination

approx. 300 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, OUTREMER 2, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-52327-9, approx. € 75

�is volume aims to read-dress scholarly predilec-tions for concentrating on the venture in the Holy Land and for narrowly focusing on the accepted

targets of the crusade. It aims instead to place established, contentious, and new events and concepts associated with the enterprise in a wider ideological, chronological, geopolitical, and geo-graphical context.

viii + 350 p., 17 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 27, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54428-1, € 90

�is book gathers new work by scholars who share a common interest not only in the con-troversial texts of the period between 1378

and 1536, but also in how the use, geographical movement, and manipulation of texts contrib-uted materially to the formation of groups and group identities.

x + 377 p., 3 col. ills., 36 b/w ills., 160 x 240 mm, 2013, MV 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53276-0, € 90

�is volume o�ers a wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary treatment of European representations of the Indies between the 12th and the 15th centu-

ries. Drawing on encyclopaedias, cosmographies and cartography, romance, hagiography, and legend, it traces the in�uence of classical, late antique, and early medieval ideas on the later medieval geographical imagination.

New & Forthcoming TitlesMedieval Studies

Winter 2014

Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History

John Baker, Stuart Brookes, Andrew Reynolds (eds.) Stefan Brink, Lisa Collinson (eds.) Dallas G. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh,

Nicolette Zeeman (eds.)

Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe

New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia

Uncertain Knowledge Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages

xviii + 384 p., 65 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 28, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52956-1, € 100

�e book addresses the scale and form of civil defences in early medieval Europe, c. 800–1000 with new interdisciplinary per-spectives driven by a land-

scape approach. With papers ranging from England to Spain and Germany to Scandinavia the volume is of relevance to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, onomastics, geography, and anthropology.

approx. x + 200 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, AS 3, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54754-1, € 70

During recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the early laws of Scandinavia. In this volume several aspects of this �eld are

presented and discussed, ranging from approaches to handling violence and homicide involving lay-men and clerics in late medieval Norway to the introduction and development in medieval Den-mark of the næfnd, a kind of ‘jury’, which replaced the ordeal or the analysis of several words for ‘ outlawry’ in the Old Scandinavian languages.

approx. x + 333 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2014, DISPUT 14, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54776-3, approx. € 90

What are the forms in which later medi-eval thinkers articu-late epistemological scepticism, relativism, and doubt? Bringing

together specialists in philosophy, theology, history, and literature, this book undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of some of the ways in which the problem of knowledge was explored in the Middle Ages.

Jason T. Roche, Janus Møller Jensen (eds.) Michael Van Dussen, Pavel Soukup (eds.) Marianne O'Doherty

�e Second Crusade Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom

Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378–1536 Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership

�e Indies and the Medieval West �ought, Report, Imagination

approx. 300 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, OUTREMER 2, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-52327-9, approx. € 75

�is volume aims to read-dress scholarly predilec-tions for concentrating on the venture in the Holy Land and for narrowly focusing on the accepted

targets of the crusade. It aims instead to place established, contentious, and new events and concepts associated with the enterprise in a wider ideological, chronological, geopolitical, and geo-graphical context.

viii + 350 p., 17 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 27, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54428-1, € 90

�is book gathers new work by scholars who share a common interest not only in the con-troversial texts of the period between 1378

and 1536, but also in how the use, geographical movement, and manipulation of texts contrib-uted materially to the formation of groups and group identities.

x + 377 p., 3 col. ills., 36 b/w ills., 160 x 240 mm, 2013, MV 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53276-0, € 90

�is volume o�ers a wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary treatment of European representations of the Indies between the 12th and the 15th centu-

ries. Drawing on encyclopaedias, cosmographies and cartography, romance, hagiography, and legend, it traces the in�uence of classical, late antique, and early medieval ideas on the later medieval geographical imagination.

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Selected Titles

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Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval HistoryLuigi A. Berto Wendy J. Turner

�e Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon’s ‘Istoria Veneticorum’

Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England

xvi + 264 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 12, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53159-5, € 70

Based on an extensive linguistic analysis, this book provides the �rst examination of the politi-cal and social vocabulary of John the Deacon’s Istoria Veneticorum, thus o�ering signi�cant insights to the history of Venice in the early Middle Ages.

xii + 336 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 16, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54039-9, € 85

�is work examines the treatment of the mentally incapaci-tated, whether disabled or impaired, from approximately 1250 to 1500 and puts forth a coherent picture of society’s treatment, protection, abuse, care, and custody of the mentally incapacitated in late medieval England.

Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.) Marc Boone, Martha C. Howell (eds.)

Writing Down the Myths �e Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe �e Cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries

x + 326 p., 12 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 17, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54218-8, € 80

A collection of critical studies of the contents of some of the most famous mythographic works from ancient, classical, medieval, and modern times, and of the methods, motiva-tions, and ideological implications underlying these literary records of myth.

vi + 215 p., 23 b/w ills., 178 x 254 mm, 2013, SEUH 30, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54784-8, € 77

�is volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period.

Karl F. Morrison, Rudolph M. Bell (eds.) Isabelle Cochelin, Karen Smyth (eds.)

Studies on Medieval Empathies Medieval Lifecycles Continuity and Change

xxxii + 352 p., 4 col. ills., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, DISPUT 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53031-4, € 90

Empathy is a deep feeling or intuition for kin-ship transcending self-preoccupied individuality. �is book is about empathy in the Middle Ages, before it had a name. �e authors explore many facets of empathy’s development in the Latin West, criss-crossing the arti�cial borders of aca-demic departments to reveal interlocking con-nections that give emotional power to images, whether verbal, pictorial, or performative.

xx + 360 p., 7 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, IMR 18, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54069-6, € 90

�e essays in this collection present new research into a variety of questions on birth, childhood, adolescence, adult-hood, middle age, and old age, ordered in a more or less chronological manner according to the lifecycle. �e volume exposes attitudes and representations of the lifecycle from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Middle Ages as being full of inconsistencies as well as de�nitive categories, and of variation and stasis.

Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide, Stefan Brink (eds.) Thérèse de Hemptinne, Veerle Fraeters, María Eugenia Góngora (eds.)

Sacred Sites and Holy Places Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape through Time and Space

Speaking to the Eye Sight and Insight through Text and Image (1150-1650)

xii + 282 p., 63 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 11, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54100-6, € 80

In this volume two important veins of interdisciplinary research into the medieval period in Scandinavia and the Baltic region are merged, namely the Christianization process and landscape studies.

xx + 311 p., 37 b/w ills., 8 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MISCS 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53420-6, € 90

�is volume takes as its focus the paradoxical double-bind of textuality and visuality in the culture of the high and late Mid-dle Ages and early modernity. In a series of case studies con-tributors explore the historical and theoretical implications of the idea that texts and images alike ‘speak to the eye’.

Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval HistoryLuigi A. Berto Wendy J. Turner

�e Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon’s ‘Istoria Veneticorum’

Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England

xvi + 264 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 12, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53159-5, € 70

Based on an extensive linguistic analysis, this book provides the �rst examination of the politi-cal and social vocabulary of John the Deacon’s Istoria Veneticorum, thus o�ering signi�cant insights to the history of Venice in the early Middle Ages.

xii + 336 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 16, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54039-9, € 85

�is work examines the treatment of the mentally incapaci-tated, whether disabled or impaired, from approximately 1250 to 1500 and puts forth a coherent picture of society’s treatment, protection, abuse, care, and custody of the mentally incapacitated in late medieval England.

Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.) Marc Boone, Martha C. Howell (eds.)

Writing Down the Myths �e Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe �e Cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries

x + 326 p., 12 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 17, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54218-8, € 80

A collection of critical studies of the contents of some of the most famous mythographic works from ancient, classical, medieval, and modern times, and of the methods, motiva-tions, and ideological implications underlying these literary records of myth.

vi + 215 p., 23 b/w ills., 178 x 254 mm, 2013, SEUH 30, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54784-8, € 77

�is volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period.

Karl F. Morrison, Rudolph M. Bell (eds.) Isabelle Cochelin, Karen Smyth (eds.)

Studies on Medieval Empathies Medieval Lifecycles Continuity and Change

xxxii + 352 p., 4 col. ills., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, DISPUT 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53031-4, € 90

Empathy is a deep feeling or intuition for kin-ship transcending self-preoccupied individuality. �is book is about empathy in the Middle Ages, before it had a name. �e authors explore many facets of empathy’s development in the Latin West, criss-crossing the arti�cial borders of aca-demic departments to reveal interlocking con-nections that give emotional power to images, whether verbal, pictorial, or performative.

xx + 360 p., 7 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, IMR 18, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54069-6, € 90

�e essays in this collection present new research into a variety of questions on birth, childhood, adolescence, adult-hood, middle age, and old age, ordered in a more or less chronological manner according to the lifecycle. �e volume exposes attitudes and representations of the lifecycle from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Middle Ages as being full of inconsistencies as well as de�nitive categories, and of variation and stasis.

Saebjørg Walaker Nordeide, Stefan Brink (eds.) Thérèse de Hemptinne, Veerle Fraeters, María Eugenia Góngora (eds.)

Sacred Sites and Holy Places Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape through Time and Space

Speaking to the Eye Sight and Insight through Text and Image (1150-1650)

xii + 282 p., 63 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 11, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54100-6, € 80

In this volume two important veins of interdisciplinary research into the medieval period in Scandinavia and the Baltic region are merged, namely the Christianization process and landscape studies.

xx + 311 p., 37 b/w ills., 8 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MISCS 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53420-6, € 90

�is volume takes as its focus the paradoxical double-bind of textuality and visuality in the culture of the high and late Mid-dle Ages and early modernity. In a series of case studies con-tributors explore the historical and theoretical implications of the idea that texts and images alike ‘speak to the eye’.


Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval History/ Medieval HistoryReuven Amitai Mary Elizabeth Perry (ed.)

Holy War and RapprochementStudies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335)

Warrior Neighbours Crusader Valencia in its International Context, Collected Essays of Father Robert I. Burns, S. J.

approx. 150 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MOM 4, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-53152-6, approx. € 60

�e relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the Ilkhanate, the Mongol state in Iran and the surrounding countries, were of a military, political-diplomatic, social and cultural nature. �ey had a profound impact not only on these states them-selves, their ruling elites and the general population, but also on neighboring countries and beyond.

viii + 387 p., 7 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, BCEEC 2, 2013, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53215-8, € 90

�is volume presents the impressive corpus of studies by Robert I. Burns, S.J., on the topic that he has spent a half-century exploring in meticu-lous detail: the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. �ese studies focus on one of Europe’s greatest medieval monarchs, James the Conqueror of Aragon-Catalonia, who made an enduring con-tribution to Western civilization.








R. W. Burgess, Michael Kulikowski Christine Maddern

Mosaics of Time. �e Latin Chronicle Traditions �om the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD Volume I, A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre �om its Origins to the High Middle Ages

Raising the Dead Early Medieval Name Stones in Northumbria

xiv + 446 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 33, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53140-3, € 100

�e multivolume series Mosaics of Time o�ers for the �rst time an in-depth analysis of the Roman Latin chronicle traditions from their beginnings in the �rst century BC to their end in the sixth century AD. For each chronicle it presents a comprehensive introduction, edition, translation, and historical and historiographical commentary. Series of four volumes.

xviii + 306 p., 6 col. ills., 32 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 38, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53218-9, € 90

�is is the �rst work to explore and explain the form, function and theological meaning of Northumbrian name stones, both in their immediate Insular setting and within a wider European context.

Leonie V. Hicks, Elma Brenner (eds.) Nikolaos G. Chrissis

Society and Culture in Medieval Rouen, 911-1300 Crusading in Frankish Greece A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282

xvi + 400 p., 35 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SEM 39, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53665-1, € 100

Rouen, one of the leading cities of medieval Western Europe, has long awaited detailed consideration in Eng-lish by modern scholars. �is book presents exciting new research on the society and culture of medieval Rouen by British and Continental historians.

xli + 338 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 22, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53423-7, € 90

�e monastic and mendicant orders that were so central in the evolution of western religion and spirituality also played a pivotal role in the expan-sion of Latin Christendom. �is volume follows the orders’ fortunes in medieval Greece and exam-ines their involvement in the ecclesiastical and secular politics of the age.

Medieval Languages & Literatures/ Medieval Languages & Literatures

Jonathan Wilcox (ed.) Mary Garrison, Arpad P. Orbán, Marco Mostert (eds.)

Scraped, Stroked, and Bound Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts

Spoken and Written Language Relations between Latin and the Vernacular Languages in the Earlier Middle Ages

xvi + 240 p., 23 b/w ills., 14 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, USML 23, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54549-3, € 90

�is collection of essays makes an original contribu-tion to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. �e volume brings together major scholars of medie-val manuscripts with leading contemporary book art-ists. �e result is a ground-breaking collection which will be of interest both for its methodological implica-tions and for the insights that the case studies provide.

xii + 364 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2013, USML 24, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-50770-5, € 80

�e linguistic situation of medieval Europe has sometimes been characterized as one of diglossia: one learned language, Latin, was used for religion, law, and documents, while the various vernaculars were used in other linguistic registers.



















































Medieval Languages & Literatures/ Medieval Languages & LiteraturesTanya S. Lenz Janos M. Bak, Ivan Jurković (eds.)

Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice Exploring the Western Literary Tradition �rough Chaucer

Chronicon. Medieval Narrative Sources A Chronological Guide with Introductory Essays

approx. x + 220 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 18, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53481-7, € 70

�is groundbreaking volume explores the intersec-tion of dreams, medicine, and literary practice in the poetry of Chaucer and in�uential literary works from antiquity through the late fourteenth century.

493 p. 140 x 216 mm, 2013, BEEC 5, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54833-3, € 85

�is practical guide aims to facilitate the discovery of narrative sources (chronicles, annals, saints’ lives) for a given area and time period. It lists editions, modern translations and, as far as possible, internet sites for texts.

Ad Putter, Judith Jefferson (eds.) Stefka Georgieva Eriksen

Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520) Sources and Analysis

Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture �e Translation and Transmission of the Story of Elye in Old French and Old Norse Literary Contexts

xxiv + 292 p., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, TCNE 15, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54250-8, € 80

�e essays collected in this volume deal with the multilingual cultures of later medieval England and Wales and aim to recover the complexities of spo-ken and written communication in the later medi-eval period.

xii + 262 p., 12 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, TCNE 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54779-4, € 80

�is book relates a story about the writing, reading, and reception of one text in three di�erent cultural and political contexts across Europe. �e focus is on the story of the Christian knight Elye and his Saracen princess Rosamunde, which was translated into Old Norse in the thirteenth century.

Medieval Religion & Church History / Medieval Religion & Church History

Sabrina Corbellini (ed.) Kirsi Salonen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Torstein Jorgensen (eds.)

Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion Medieval Christianity in the North New Studies

vi + 308 p., 12 b/w ills., 8 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, USML 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54569-1, € 90

�is volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading tech-niques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.

xii + 276 p., 15 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, AS 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54048-1, € 75

�e book investigates from a fresh viewpoint, impor-tant aspects of Nordic Christianity in the Middle Ages and discusses to what extent ideas and institutions were adapted to local circumstances. It includes a variety of topics, such as the remnants of paganism, medieval saints cults, law, and church, to religious warfare, and the use of beer in cult and memory.

Walter Pohl, Gerda Heydemann (eds.) Clare Monagle

Strategies of Identi�cation Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

Orthodoxy and Controversy in Twel�h-Century Religious Discourse Peter Lombard’s ‘Sentences’ and the Development of �eology

x + 450 p., 14 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CELAMA 13, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53384-1, € 90

How were identities created in the early Mid-dle Ages and when did they matter? �is book explores di�erent types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: his-toriography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology, sermons and letters.

xx + 194 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, ES 8, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52795-6, € 70

�is is the �rst book to look closely at the contested reception of Peter Lombard’s Sentences and its eventual triumph at the Fourth Lateran Council. By placing Peter Lombard’s career and works within the broader frame of twel�h-century ideas, practice, and institutions, the author explores and contextualizes the controversies that attended their publication.

Medieval Languages & Literatures/ Medieval Languages & LiteraturesTanya S. Lenz János M. Bak, Ivan Jurković (eds.)

Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice Exploring the Western Literary Tradition �rough Chaucer

Chronicon. Medieval Narrative Sources A Chronological Guide with Introductory Essays

approx. x + 220 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CURSOR 18, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53481-7, € 70

�is groundbreaking volume explores the intersec-tion of dreams, medicine, and literary practice in the poetry of Chaucer and in�uential literary works from antiquity through the late fourteenth century.

493 p. 140 x 216 mm, 2013, BEEC 5, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54833-3, € 85

�is practical guide aims to facilitate the discovery of narrative sources (chronicles, annals, saints’ lives) for a given area and time period. It lists editions, modern translations and, as far as possible, internet sites for texts.

Ad Putter, Judith Jefferson (eds.) Stefka Georgieva Eriksen

Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520) Sources and Analysis

Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture �e Translation and Transmission of the Story of Elye in Old French and Old Norse Literary Contexts

xxiv + 292 p., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, TCNE 15, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54250-8, € 80

�e essays collected in this volume deal with the multilingual cultures of later medieval England and Wales and aim to recover the complexities of spo-ken and written communication in the later medi-eval period.

xii + 262 p., 12 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, TCNE 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54779-4, € 80

�is book relates a story about the writing, reading, and reception of one text in three di�erent cultural and political contexts across Europe. �e focus is on the story of the Christian knight Elye and his Saracen princess Rosamunde, which was translated into Old Norse in the thirteenth century.


Sabrina Corbellini (ed.) Kirsi Salonen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Torstein Jørgensen (eds.)

Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion Medieval Christianity in the North New Studies

vi + 308 p., 12 b/w ills., 8 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, USML 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54569-1, € 90

�is volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading tech-niques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.

xii + 276 p., 15 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, AS 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54048-1, € 75

�e book investigates from a fresh viewpoint, impor-tant aspects of Nordic Christianity in the Middle Ages and discusses to what extent ideas and institutions were adapted to local circumstances. It includes a variety of topics, such as the remnants of paganism, medieval saints cults, law, and church, to religious warfare, and the use of beer in cult and memory.

Walter Pohl, Gerda Heydemann (eds.) Clare Monagle

Strategies of Identi�cation Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

Orthodoxy and Controversy in Twel�h-Century Religious Discourse Peter Lombard’s ‘Sentences’ and the Development of �eology

x + 450 p., 14 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, CELAMA 13, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53384-1, € 90

How were identities created in the early Mid-dle Ages and when did they matter? �is book explores di�erent types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: his-toriography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology, sermons and letters.

xx + 194 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, ES 8, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52795-6, € 70

�is is the �rst book to look closely at the contested reception of Peter Lombard’s Sentences and its eventual triumph at the Fourth Lateran Council. By placing Peter Lombard’s career and works within the broader frame of twel�h-century ideas, practice, and institutions, the author explores and contextualizes the controversies that attended their publication.


Fiona J. Griffiths, Julie Hotchin (eds.) Virginia Blanton, Veronica O’Mara, Patricia Stoop (eds.)

Partners in Spirit Women, Men, and Religious Life in Germany, 1100-1500

Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: �e Hull Dialogue

approx. x + 249 p., 7 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MWTC 24, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54096-2, € 100

Partners in Spirit focuses on relations between chaste men and women within the religious life in Germany (ca. 1100-1500), highlighting the �uidity of gender and authority within the medieval religious life. �e volume suggests new ways of considering the intersec-tion of gender, religion, and spiritual power within the medieval world.

xxxiv + 370 p., 25 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MWTC 26, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53972-0, € 90

�is is the �rst concentrated study to examine the literacy of nuns in a comparative fashion and at the same time pays close attention to the individual tex-tual and cultural complexities.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Gabriela Signori (eds.) June L. Mecham

Catherine of Siena �e Creation of a CultSacred Communities, Shared DevotionsGender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany

x + 342 p., 30 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MWTC 13, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54415-1, € 90

Focusing on the critical case of Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), the essays in this volume consider the role of texts, translations and images in various media in constructing and disseminating the cult of a saint in the late Middle Ages.


Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions takes us behind the gates of six medieval Saxon convents, and into the lives of rich and noble nuns going about their daily business of religion, even as ecclesiastical leaders pushed them toward Refor-mation.

Alice Chapman Thom Mertens et al. (ed.)

Sacred Authority and Temporal Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux �e Last Judgement in Medieval Preaching

xii + 237 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54105-1, € 70

�is book examines the relationship between ecclesiastical authority and secular power in the writings of the twel�h-century �gure St Bernard of Clairvaux.

xxxiv + 185 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SERMO 3, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-51524-3, € 70

�is volume brings together scholars from several European countries with the purpose to present their research on the theme of the Last Judge-ment in medieval sermons. �e scope of scholars is broadened to incorporate not only specialists in sermon studies, but also historians, theologians, and literary historians to encourage research along new, multi-perspectival lines.


Nicole R. Rice (ed.) Rita George-Tvrtkovic

Middle English Religious Writing in Practice Texts, Readers, and Transformations

A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islam

x + 280 p., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, LMEMS 21, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54102-0, € 75

A collection of new essays exploring the cultural func-tions and social impact of Middle English religious writing at the close of the Middle Ages and into the sixteenth century.

xvii + 248 p., 6 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MV 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53237-0, € 80

�is book analyses the events of a decade-long encounter between an Italian Dominican, Riccoldo da Montecroce (c. 1243–1320), and the Muslims of Baghdad, as recounted by the friar himself.

Fiona J. Griffiths, Julie Hotchin (eds.) Virginia Blanton, Veronica O’Mara, Patricia Stoop (eds.)

Partners in Spirit Women, Men, and Religious Life in Germany, 1100-1500

Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: �e Hull Dialogue


Partners in Spirit focuses on relations between chaste men and women within the religious life in Germany (ca. 1100-1500), highlighting the �uidity of gender and authority within the medieval religious life. �e volume suggests new ways of considering the intersec-tion of gender, religion, and spiritual power within the medieval world.

xxxiv + 370 p., 25 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MWTC 26, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53972-0, € 90

�is is the �rst concentrated study to examine the literacy of nuns in a comparative fashion and at the same time pays close attention to the individual tex-tual and cultural complexities.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Gabriela Signori (eds.) June L. Mecham

Catherine of Siena �e Creation of a CultSacred Communities, Shared DevotionsGender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany

x + 342 p., 30 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MWTC 13, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54415-1, € 90

Focusing on the critical case of Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), the essays in this volume consider the role of texts, translations and images in various media in constructing and disseminating the cult of a saint in the late Middle Ages.


Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions takes us behind the gates of six medieval Saxon convents, and into the lives of rich and noble nuns going about their daily business of religion, even as ecclesiastical leaders pushed them toward Refor-mation.

Alice Chapman Thom Mertens et al. (ed.)

Sacred Authority and Temporal Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux �e Last Judgement in Medieval Preaching

xii + 237 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54105-1, € 70

�is book examines the relationship between ecclesiastical authority and secular power in the writings of the twel�h-century �gure St Bernard of Clairvaux.

xxxiv + 185 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, SERMO 3, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-51524-3, € 70

�is volume brings together scholars from several European countries with the purpose to present their research on the theme of the Last Judge-ment in medieval sermons. �e scope of scholars is broadened to incorporate not only specialists in sermon studies, but also historians, theologians, and literary historians to encourage research along new, multi-perspectival lines.


Nicole R. Rice (ed.) Sigrid Danielson, Evan A. Gatti (eds.)

Middle English Religious Writing in Practice Texts, Readers, and Transformations

Envisioning the Bishop Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages

x + 280 p., 2 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, LMEMS 21, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54102-0, € 75

A collection of new essays exploring the cultural func-tions and social impact of Middle English religious writing at the close of the Middle Ages and into the sixteenth century.

approx. x + 470 p., 51 b/w ills., 8 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2014, MCS 29, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54799-2, approx. € 110

�e essays in this volume represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives, each tuned to the production of images made by, for, and about the medieval episcopacy. �ey present the bishop as a model of piety and intellectual life as well as political and religious action.



Thomas A. Fudge Emilia Jamroziak, Karen Stöber (eds.)

�e Memory and Motivation of Jan Hus, Medieval Priest and Martyr

Monasteries on the Borders of Medieval Europe Con�ict and Cultural Interaction

xiv + 292 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, ES 11, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54442-7, € 80

�is work explores the driving forces in the life and work of Jan Hus as he moved from obscurity to the vulnerability of a publicly accused heretic and the disgraceful prelude to martyrdom. It also focuses on the construction and facilitation of his memory.

approx. x + 272 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2013, MCS 28, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54535-6, € 80

�is is the �rst collection to consider the phenom-enon of monastic frontiers in a cross-disciplinary manner. �e book’s ten chapters explore the role of monasteries in maintaining political and cultural borders, in breaking and sustaining linguistic bound-aries in late medieval Europe, as well as in building and stabilizing Latin Christian cultural identities on the northern and southern frontiers of Europe.









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