Medieval Studies - 2020

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Politics of Temporalization

Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America nAdiA r. AlTSChUl

Contends that the alleged existence of medievality and Moorishness in the IberoAmerican archive is not due to the existence of a past that continues to animate the present but instead to a form of temporalizing that names aspects of the present as remnants of an imagined past.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS June 2020 288pp 9780812252279 £64.00 HB now £44.80

The Medieval Economy of Salvation

Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital AdAM J. dAviS

In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS December 2019 5 b&w halftones, 1 map 336pp 9781501742101 £33.00 HB now £23.10

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knights, lords, and ladies

In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180-1220 John w. bAldwin ForEword by williAM ChESTEr JordAn

In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only because they contributed to Philip Augustus’s increase of royal power but also for their own establishment as an elite and powerful social class.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series November 2019 39 color, 35 b/w illus. 432pp 9780812251289 £48.00 HB now £33.60

Scents and Flavors A Syrian Cookbook EdiTEd And TrAnSlATEd by ChArlES PErry

Collecting 635 meticulous recipes, this popular 13thcentury Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them nEw york UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature March 2020 192pp 9781479800810 £11.99 PB now £8.39

Alfonso X, the Justinian of his Age Law and Justice in ThirteenthCentury Castile JoSEPh F. o’CAllAghAn

In this magisterial work, Joseph O’Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X’s legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS May 2019 1 b&w halftone 390pp 9781501735899 £41.00 HB now £28.70

bastards and believers Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present EdiTEd by ThEodor dUnkElgrUn & PAwEl MACiEJko

Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts June 2020 1 illus. 392pp 9780812251883 £60.00 HB now £42.00

bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian gaul

Gregory I. Halfond Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Halfond shows, the bishops of postRoman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS September 2019 1 map 220pp 9781501739316 £41.00 HB now £28.70

black Metaphors

How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking Cord J. whiTAkEr

In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker argues that rhetoric and theology establish blackness and whiteness as metaphors for sin and purity in medieval English and European writing. Whitaker shows how these metaphors came to guide the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series October 2019 2 illus. 256pp 9780812251586 £40.00 HB now £28.00

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bonds of Secrecy

Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England bEnJAMin A. SAlTzMAn

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? In Bonds of Secrecy, Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within monasteries, and as readers before books.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series September 2019 360pp 9780812251616 £64.00 HB now £44.80

Chaucer and religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras nAnCy brAdlEy wArrEn

This study seeks to fill gaps in Chaucer scholarship by situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international textual environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries and crossing both the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean.

UnivErSiTy oF noTrE dAME PrESS Series: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern April 2019 228pp 9780268105822 £37.00 PB now £25.90

Cluny and the Muslims of la gardeFreinet

Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe SCoTT g. brUCE

In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Scott G. Bruce uses this extraordinary incident, largely overlooked by contemporary scholars, to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Middle Ages.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS April 2020 1 map 174pp 9781501748431 £17.99 PB now £12.59

Colonial Justice and the Jews of venetian Crete rEnA n. lAUEr

In a vibrant analysis of both Hebrew rabbinic sources and Latin judicial and notarial records, Lauer argues that the use of secular means to achieve justice resulted in Crete’s Jewish community becoming more open and flexible, thereby avoiding many of the tensions that plagued traditional Jewish societies throughout medieval Europe.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series May 2019 2 maps 304pp 9780812250886 £56.00 HB now £39.20

Communities of Saint Martin

Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours ShAron FArMEr

Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities—the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearby—all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin. She demonstrates how in the early Middle Ages the bishops of Tours used the cult of Martin, their fourthcentury predecessor, to shape an idealized image of Tours as Martin’s town.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 12 b&w halftones, 5 tables, 6 maps 378pp 9781501740596 £7.99 PB now £5.59

Conversion, Circumcision, and ritual Murder in Medieval Europe PAolA TArTAkoFF

Inspired by one fascinating and unusual historical case, Tartakoff explores the ways religious conversion fueled Jewish-Christian tensions. In the process, it elucidates how the interplay of fact and fantasy shaped Christian views of Jews as agents of Christian apostasy to Judaism.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series January 2020 3 illus. 304pp 9780812251876 £52.00 HB now £36.40

Courting Sanctity

Holy Women and the Capetians SEAn l. FiEld

Tracing the shifting relationship between holy women and the French royal court, Sean L. Field argues that holy women were central to the Capetian dynasty’s self-presentation as being uniquely favored by God. The narrative highlights six holy women including Isabelle of France and Douceline of Digne.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS May 2019 3 maps 288pp 9781501736193 £33.00 HB now £23.10

dead voice

Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages JESUS r. vElASCo

Explores how the 13th century law code known as Siete Partidas introduced canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes and embraced intellectual disciplines and fictional techniques that normally lie outside legal science. Presents case studies beyond the Siete Partidas demonstrating the incorporation of philosophical and fictional elements.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series January 2020 256pp 9780812251869 £56.00 HB now £39.20

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defiant Priests

Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in FourteenthCentury Catalunya MiChEllE ArMSTrong-PArTidA

In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS April 2020 366pp 9781501748424 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Ecstacy in the Classroom

Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris AyElEy EvEn-EzrA

Ecstasy in the Classroom explores the interface between academic theology and ecstatic experience in the first half of the 13th century, formative years in the history of the University of Paris, medieval Europe’s “fountain of knowledge.” It considers little-known texts by William of Auxerre, Philip the Chancellor, William of Auvergne, Alexander of Hales, and other theologians of this community, thus creating a group portrait of a scholarly discourse.

FordhAM UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies December 2018 312pp 9780823281916 £26.99 PB now £18.66

Emperor of the world

Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800–1229 AnnE A. lATowSky

Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople.

Latowsky traces the curious history of this myth, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS April 2020 3 b&w halftones, 2 maps 306pp 9781501748516 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Fifty Early Medieval Things

Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages dEborAh dEliyAnniS, hEndrik dEy & PAolo SqUATriTi

This title introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, these authors present fifty objects created between the 4th and 11th centuries.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS March 2019 61 color photos, 16 b&w halftones, 5 maps 264pp 9781501725906 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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history and the written word

Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins hEnry bAinTon

Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series January 2020 2 illus. 272pp 9780812251906 £56.00 HB now £39.20

how not to Make a human

Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters kArl STEEl

By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.

UnivErSiTy oF MinnESoTA PrESS January 2020 9 b&w illustrations 280pp 9781517905279 £20.99 PB now £14.69

impostures Al-hArīrī TrAnSlATEd by MiChAEl CooPErSon ForEword by AbdElFATTAh kiliTo

Follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation. nEw york UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature May 2020 1 map 534pp 9781479800841 £23.99 HB now £16.79

in the Manner of the Franks

Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe EriC J. goldbErg

Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series August 2020 63 illus. 384pp 9780812252354 £72.00 HB now £50.40

king Alfonso viii of Castile

Making love in the Twelfth Century

This book brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the events and challenges of the reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile, the Spanish King whose kingdom was at the epicenter of many of the most dramatic events of the era and reflected its challenging dynamics.

FordhAM UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies April 2019 304pp 9780823284146 £44.00 HB now £30.80

Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series April 2020 392pp 9780812224665 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Government, Family, and War EdiTEd by MigUEl góMEz, kylE C. linColn & dAMiAn J. SMiTh

“Letters of Two Lovers” in Context EdiTEd And TrAnSlATEd by bArbArA nEwMAn

literature as recreation in the later Marie of France Countess of Champagne, 1145Middle Ages 1198 glEnding olSon

This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 246pp 9781501746741 £7.99 PB now £5.59

ThEodorE EvErgATES

Countess Marie is primarily known as the daughter of Louis VII of and Eleanor of Aquitaine and as a literary patron of Chrétien de Troyes.

However, in this engaging biography, Evergates offers a more rounded view of Marie as a successful ruler of one of the most vibrant principalities in medieval France.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series January 2019 8 illus. 192pp 9780812250770 £56.00 HB now £39.20

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Medieval Jewish Philosophy and its literary Forms

on roman religion

EdiTEd by AAron w. hUghES & JAMES T. robinSon

Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, a world leading authority on Roman religion, demonstrates that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology April 2019 10 b&w halftones 210pp 9781501735110 £19.99 PB now £13.99

The contributors consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval period, when new genres and forms of written expression were flourishing in the wake of renewed interest in ancient philosophy. They explore the connections that medieval Jewish thinkers made between the literary, the exegetical, the philosophical, and the mystical to shed light on the creativity and diversity of medieval thought. indiAnA UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: New Jewish Philosophy and Thought July 2019 376pp 9780253042521 £37.00 PB now £25.90

not of woman born

Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture rEnATE blUMEnFEld-koSinSki

Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 27 halftones 222pp 9781501740473 £7.99 PB now £5.59

Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome Jörg rüPkE

orthodox readings of Augustine EdiTEd by AriSToTlE PAPAnikolAoU & gEorgE E. dEMACoPoUloS

Augustine of Hippo offered Latin and Byzantine theologians a thinker with whom they could bridge linguistic, cultural, and confessional divides.

Orthodox Readings of Augustine examines the theological engagement with the preeminent Latin theologian in the Orthodox context.

FordhAM UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought April 2020 314pp 9780823288601 £20.99 PB now £14.69

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Poets, Patrons, and Printers

Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France CynThiA J. brown

Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship. Examining such paratextual elements of manuscripts as title pages, colophons, and illustrations as well as such literary strategies as experimentation with narrative voice, Brown traces authors’ attempts to underscore their narrative presence in their works and to displace patrons from their role as sponsors and protectors of the book.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 312pp 9781501742521 £7.99 PB now £5.59

Pure Filth

Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce noAh d. gUynn

Engaging with cultural history, political anthropology, and critical, feminist, and queer theories, Pure Filth focuses on the overlooked and occluded content in late medieval French farce farce, arguing that apparently coarse jokes conceal finely drawn, and sometimes quite radical, perspectives on ethics, politics, and religion.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series November 2019 2 illus. 272pp 9780812251685 £56.00 HB now £39.20

re-Enchanted

roads to health

Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? Drawing on the history and power of children’s fantasy literature, and focusing on works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Nnedi Okorafor, ReEnchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life.

UnivErSiTy oF MinnESoTA PrESS December 2019 328pp 9781517906580 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Reconstructing the mandates and activities of urban “healthscapers” between roughly 1250 and 1500, Roads to Health contends that preventive healthcare emerged from a steady concern for populations’ wellbeing. It challenges the view of the Black Death, let alone the Industrial Revolution, as a unique trigger in public health history.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series August 2019 20 illus. 320pp 9780812251357 £52.00 HB now £36.40

rivalrous Masculinities

Foods of the Medieval Arab World hAbEEb SAlloUM, MUnA SAlloUM & lEilA SAlloUM EliAS

The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century MAriA SAChiko CECirE

New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies EdiTEd by Ann MAriE rASMUSSEn

Bringing together the work of both leading and emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities advance our understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized category and as an intersectional category of gender.

UnivErSiTy oF noTrE dAME PrESS April 2019 286pp 9780268105570 £50.00 HB now £35.00

Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy g. gElTnEr

Scheherazade’s Feasts

The thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook Kitāb al- abīkh proposes that food is among the foremost pleasures in life. Scheherazade’s Feasts invites adventurous cooks to test this hypothesis by presenting more than a hundred recipes for foods and beverages drawn from a wealth of medieval Arabic writings of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan empire.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS March 2019 232pp 9780812224498 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Scribes of Space

Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science MATThEw boyd goldiE

Examining how natural philosophers, theologians, and other thinkers in late medeival Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world, Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space underwent critical transformations between the 13th and 15th centuries.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS March 2019 11 b&w halftones 312pp 9781501734045 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Stolen Song

How the Troubadours Became French ElizA zingESSEr

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS March 2020 10 b&w halftones 258pp 9781501747571 £27.99 HB now £19.59

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Suspect Saints and holy heretics

That Most Precious Merchandise

In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy’s toleration of unofficial saints’ cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult’s merits or the saint’s orthodoxy.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS December 2019 3 b&w halftones, 1 map, 2 charts 270pp 9781501742347 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants’ accounts, travelers’ tales and letters, sermons, slavebuying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate in the Black Sea slave trade.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series October 2019 18 illus. 328pp 9780812251548 £64.00 HB now £44.80

Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy JAninE lArMon PETErSon

Symptomatic Subjects

Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England JUliE orlEMAnSki

Examining both the writings of late medieval England, the period prior to medicine’s modernity, and the narrative and poetic works that responded to them, Symptomatic Subjects illuminates the period’s conflicts over who had the authority to construe bodily signs and what embodiment could be made to mean.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science May 2019 4 illus. 344pp 9780812250909 £56.00 HB now £39.20

The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 hAnnAh bArkEr

The Complete old English Poems TrAnSlATEd by CrAig williAMSon inTrodUCTion by ToM ShiPPEy

Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus—including poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty years—is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series March 2017 1,248pp 9780812248470 £52.00 HB now £36.40

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The house of hemp and butter

A History of Old Riga kEvin C. o’Connor

Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia’s greatest city and its indispensable port. The House of Hemp and Butter is an indispensable guide to this quintessentially European city located in one of the continent’s more remote corners.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2019 13 b&w halftones 342pp 9781501747687 £33.00 HB now £23.10

The idea of the book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction JESSE gEllriCh

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 9 b&w halftones 294pp 9781501740701 £7.99 PB now £5.59

The idea of the labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages PEnEloPE rEEd doob

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 26 halftones 378pp 9781501738456 £7.99 PB now £5.59

The lay Saint

Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150–1350 MAry hArvEy doyno

In The Lay Saint, investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. She uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church’s authority in this period.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS October 2019 10 b&w halftones 330pp 9781501740206 £45.00 HB now £31.50

The Martyrdom of the Franciscans

Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict ChriSToPhEr MACEviTT

The Martyrdom of the Franciscans shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom accounts could at once offer veiled critique of papal policies toward the Order, a substitute for the rigorous pursuit of poverty, and a way to symbolically overcome Islam by denying Muslims the solace of conversion.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series March 2020 1 illus. 336pp 9780812251937 £52.00 HB now £36.40

The Matter of virtue Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare holly A. CroCkEr

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS September 2019 11 illus. 360pp 9780812251418 £72.00 HB now £50.40

The Medieval Saga CArol J. ClovEr

The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 27 b&w halftones 222pp 9781501740503 £7.99 PB now £5.59

The oldest vocation

Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West ClAriSSA w. ATkinSon

According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the 9th century.

Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS August 2019 294pp 9781501740886 £7.99 PB now £5.59

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The Poet and the Antiquaries

Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 15321635 MEgAn l. Cook

Linking Chaucer’s exceptional standing in the poetic canon with his role as a symbol of linguistic and national identity, Cook demonstrates how and why Chaucer became not only the first English author to become a subject of historical inquiry but also a crucial figure for conceptualizing the medieval in early modern England.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS April 2019 12 illus. 288pp 9780812250824 £48.00 HB now £33.60

The Politics of roman Memory From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian MArion krUSE

Kruse explore the process by which prominent figures of the eastern Roman Empire employed both history and mythology to come to terms with the political realities of the late fifth and sixth centuries. He elucidates how eastern Romans came to reimagine themselves as the only Romans worthy of the name.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: Empire and After October 2019 304pp 9780812251623 £52.00 HB now £36.40

The Poor and the Perfect

The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310 nESlihAn ŞEnoCAk

Neslihan Şenocak provides a grand narrative of the fascinating story of the Order of Friars Minor in which the quintessential Franciscan virtue of simplicity gradually lost its place to learning, while studying came to be considered an integral part of evangelical perfection.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS April 2019 294pp 9781501735875 £23.99 PB now £16.79

The rule of Peshat

Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 MordEChAi z. CohEn

Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Beginning in the tenth century, Jews in the Middle East drew upon Arabic linguistics and Qur'anic study to open new avenues of philological-literary exegesis.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts June 2020 1 illus. 496pp 9780812252125 £72.00 HB now £50.40

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The Silk industries of Medieval Paris

Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience ShAron FArMEr

For more than 100 years, from the last decade of the 13th century to the late 14th, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there?

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series December 2016 368pp 9780812248487 £60.00 HB now £42.00

The Sword of Ambition

Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt UThMAn ibn ibrAhiM Al-nAbUlUSi ForEword by ShErMAn ‘Abd Al-hAkiM

JACkSon EdiTEd & TrAnSlATEd by lUkE yArbroUgh

The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Now edited in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto the culture of elite rivalry in the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. nEw york UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature March 2019 224pp 9781479824786 £12.99 PB now £9.09

The Two Powers

Theater of the word

varieties of Monastic Experience in byzantium, 800-1453 AliCE-MAry TAlboT

This book presents a new history of the combative relationship between the thirteenth-century papacy and empire. Covering pivotal decades that included the last major crusades, this book shows how the papacy’s battles with empire shaped its historical destiny and its role in the public realm of medieval Christendom.

UnivErSiTy oF PEnnSylvAniA PrESS Series: The Middle Ages Series June 2019 8 illus. 328pp 9780812250862 £68.00 HB now £47.60

Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its primary subjects.

UnivErSiTy oF noTrE dAME PrESS Series: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern April 2019 240pp 9780268104627 £37.00 PB now £25.90

The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century brETT EdwArd whAlEn

The virtues of Economy

Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome JAMES A. PAlMEr

The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city’s subsequent development.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS December 2019 1 b&w halftone, 2 maps 258pp 9781501742378 £41.00 HB now £28.70

Selfhood in the English Morality Play JUliE PAUlSon

Thinking nature and the nature of Thinking From Eriugena to Emerson willEMiEn oTTEn

Revisiting the history of Western religious thought and the role of nature and creation therein, this book paves the way for a new natural theology by bringing medieval theologian John the Scot Eriugena into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

STAnFord UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Cultural Memory in the Present March 2020 312pp 9781503611672 £21.99 PB now £15.39

In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the 9th and 15th centuries.

UnivErSiTy oF noTrE dAME PrESS Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies April 2019 310pp 9780268105624 £37.00 PB now £25.90

victory’s Shadow

Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia ThoMAS w. bArTon

In Victory’s Shadow, Thomas W. Barton offers a sweeping new account of the capture and long-term integration of Muslim-ruled territories by an ascendant Christian regime and a detailed analysis of the influence of this process on the governmental, economic, and broader societal development of both Catalonia and the greater Crown of Aragon.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS June 2019 4 maps, 2 charts 432pp 9781501736162 £43.00 HB now £30.10

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visions of deliverance

Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean MAyTE grEEn-MErCAdo

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain.

CornEll UnivErSiTy PrESS January 2020 1 halftone, 3 maps 330pp 9781501741463 £47.00 HB now £32.90

whose Middle Ages?

Teachable Moments for an IllUsed Past EdiTEd by AndrEw Albin, MAry C. ErlEr, ThoMAS o’donnEll, niCholAS l. PAUl & ninA rowE inTrodUCTion by dAvid PErry

By communicating consensus positions within the academy, Whose Middle Ages? gives non-specialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. This collection attacks these myths directly by addressing the conditions, actions, and materials of the Middle Ages on their own terms.

FordhAM UnivErSiTy PrESS Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies October 2019 240pp 9780823285563 £14.99 PB now £10.49

women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern iberia EdiTEd by MiChEllE ArMSTrongPArTidA, AlEXAndrA gUErSon & dAnA wESSEll lighTFooT

Draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women’s agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula.

UnivErSiTy oF nEbrASkA PrESS Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World June 2020 4 tables, index 306pp 9781496205117 £47.00 HB now £32.90

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