Publications
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Antiracist Medievalisms
(2022)
How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval past to combat racism, educate the public, and create a just world? Jonathan Hsy advances urgent academic and public conversations about race and appropriations ...
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 ...
Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
(2023)
This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe’s late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, ...
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 ...
French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
(2023)
French teaching - medieval;French of medieval England;manières de langage
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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) ...
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 ...