Publications
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Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
(2023)
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
(2021)
Military history; Ecological history; war and the environment; Natural barriers in history; wildlife protection, mosasaur; premodern environmentalism
Shared Saints and Festivals among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean
(2024)
This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean. It examines the meanings members of each community ascribed to the presence of the religious ...
Lincoln Readings of Texts, Materials, and Contexts
(2024)
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (first published in 1964), provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence ...
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 ...
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 Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
(2024)
Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses
(2023)
This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands
(2025)
This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation accompanied by the Faroese original. The ...
St. Radegunde of Poitiers’ Treatise of Consolation to Lepers
(2025)
This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, ...