MEDIEVAL and RENAISSANCE STUDIES from
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Waste and the Wasters
Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England
Eleanor Johnson
North American Conference on British Studies: John Ben Snow Prize
Columbia University: Lionel Trilling Award
“A moving and powerful study of neglect and ecologi cal damage as reflected in the literature of the Middle Ages.”—The Times Literary Supplement
2023 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83017-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Boccaccio
A Biography
Marco Santagata
“In this engaging biography, a master scholar brings Giovanni Boccaccio to life through sensitive readings of virtually all his writings and an impressive command of both secondary and archival sources. This richly informative study offers a completely new portrait of Boccaccio that will breathe new life into our understand ing of Italian Renaissance literature.”—Guido Ruggiero, author of Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance
2025 424 p. 6 x 9
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82094-1 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Inventing the Renaissance
The Myth of a Golden Age
Ada Palmer
“Generous, brilliant, and inviting, Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance is a triumph. This is a work of deep erudition worn lightly but excitingly that offers a history of the Renaissance with a unique and personal imprint. If you are a scholar of the period, you will find new insights and interpretations, and if you are coming to the Renaissance for the first time, you will find an engaging and eloquent companion in Palmer.”—Christopher S. Celenza, author of Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
2025 768 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 33 halftones, 3 tables
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83797-0 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Apocalyptic Ecologies
From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature
Shannon Gayk
“At once intimate and historically far‑ranging, Apocalyptic Ecologies is a lyrical meditation on how societies grapple with the effects of natural disaster. Beautifully written, it makes the compelling case that medieval writers offer us not just a pageant of weather disasters drawn from the Old and New Testaments but instead provide mod ern readers with urgently needed models of ecological connection and environmental stewardship.”—Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones
4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83761-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript
Speculation, Shapes, Delight
Arthur Bahr
“Sophisticated.”—Publishers Weekly
“Chasing the Pearl‑Manuscript elegantly explores the power of speculation and delight in the singular copy of some of the most beautiful medieval poetry that exists. Although manuscript study sometimes trades in empiri cal satisfactions, Bahr provides a salutary reminder that literary texts traffic in deliberate and artful impediments to solid knowledge. Exploring both what can be known about material texts and also what can be imagined, Bahr offers an adventurous multilayered reading of both text and book and provides an important reinterpreta tion of the codex and its poems.”—Jessica Brantley, Yale University
2025 240 p. 6 x 9 26 color plates, 20 halftones
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83535-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature
Julie Singer
“Meticulously researched and impressive in scope, Out of the Mouths of Babes investigates not only the place of childhood in medieval culture but also thornier, contem porary questions surrounding the beginnings of life, sub jectivity, and personhood made more vibrant by Singer’s careful exploration of their medieval stagings. Her work reshapes our understanding of infancy and childhood— even embryology—in the medieval period and helps us better understand what it means to be a person, in any age.”—Megan Moore, University of Missouri
2025 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83802-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Yearning for Immortality
The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
Rune Nyord
“Yearning for Immortality is groundbreaking. Carefully examining the foundations of beliefs about the ancient Egyptian afterlife, Nyord brings a desperately needed critical lens to the history of Egyptology. Nyord argues that ancient findings were made to fit into preexisting narratives, and he makes the convincing and unset tling case that contemporary ways of understanding the ancient Egyptian afterlife carry on the flawed and remarkably insidious frameworks developed before the decipherment of hieroglyphics. This book shows that the current paradigm is in a moment of crisis and in dire need of reexamination, critique, and ultimately replace ment.”—Margaret Geoga, University of Chicago
2025 272 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83825-0 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Populus
Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
Guy de la Bédoyère
“Diverting . . . Populus draws on such archives of the quotidian to make ancient Rome seem both wonderfully weird and convincingly real. . . . Populus abounds in such peeks beneath the surface of ‘official’ Rome. . . . If Populus works best as a smorgasbord, it is an appealing one indeed. With his wide array of sources, his eye for compelling details and his engaging prose style, de la Bédoyère keeps the reader eager for more—and wonder ing what strange facet of Roman life will be served up next.”—The Wall Street Journal
2025 496 p. 6 x 9 32 color plates, 3 halftones
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84016-1 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Mahābhārata, Volume 8
Book 12, The Book of Peace, Part 2
Edited and Translated by James L. Fitzgerald
A translation of the twelfth book of The Mah ābhārata , an epic tale of history and kingship, reinforced with legends, romances, and metaphysical, theological, and ethical teachings written in Sanskrit 1700 or more years ago.
A remarkable composition of 100,000 couplets, The Mah‑ ābhārata is the second longest poem in world literature. In this volume, James L. Fitzgerald completes his trans lation of the twelfth of The Mah ābhārata’s eighteen books, the vast Shanti Parvan , or The Book of Peace. Covering a wide range of ancient Indian intellectual history, The Book of Peace was intended to serve as a comprehensive, brahmin inspired basis for living a Good Life in a Good Society in a Good Polity and is one of the most important and complex books of the poem.
2025 1392 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones, 4 tables
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83592-1 $125.00 Your Price: $87.50
Black Knights
Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race
Rachel Schine
“Through close, supple analyses of popular Arab‑Islamic heroic epics, Schine expertly shows how blackness, both symbolic and real, is put to dynamic use. Her nuanced reading of female characters, in particular, shows how racialized and othered subjects benefit from inclusion in the Arab‑Islamic order. Black Knights is indispensable for any grounded and informed understanding of the history of blackness and racialization in premodern Islam and in the medieval world.”—Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 3 tables
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83617-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Fragments of a World
William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life
Lesley Smith
The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne.
“Smith’s insightful discussion of these colorful sermons provides us not only with a valuable insight into a fasci nating medieval mind, worthy of comparison with the better‑known Robert Grosseteste, but also an engaging portrait of Paris and its inhabitants at a pivotal time in the city’s history.”—The Times Literary Supplement
2023 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82618-9 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said
Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Karen Sullivan
“Historians usually exclude gossip and rumor from their sources, or use them with caution. In her new book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan does the opposite. She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours, and chroniclers as late as the sixteenth century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase ut dicebatur, ‘as it was said’. . . . Moving between fact, rumor, and outright fic tion, Sullivan traces Eleanor’s reputation through five phases of her career: as heiress, crusader, patroness of poets, queen mother, and aged affiliate of Fontevraud, the nunnery where she is buried.”—The London Review of Books
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82583-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
John Donne’s Physics
Elizabeth D. Harvey and Timothy M. Harrison
“Compelling . . . there is much to admire in this book.” Choice
“A remarkable book. In their engaging way, the authors resituate Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, his exploration of what they call ‘the extended domain of dying,’ at the center of his corpus, where philosophical, physical, medical, and other kinds of knowledge con verge.”—Roland Greene, Stanford University
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83351-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Territorial Imaginaries
Beyond the Sovereign Map
Edited
by Kären Wigen
“What is sovereignty? And what should we do with it? Territorial Imaginaries brilliantly exposes the myths of jigsaw‑puzzle territoriality and tears apart the familiar pastel‑colored map. With essays that span almost a thousand years and reach across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume offers a remarkable conversation between history, critique, and productive alternatives for understanding polit ical geography and spatial imagination in new ways. The result not only showcases the diversity and mal leability of territory over time, space, and culture but also asks us to rethink how maps and other visual material can stabilize—or destabilize—the relation ship between peoples, states, and space. Every contri bution is packed with insight and speaks convincingly across fields.”—Bill Rankin, Yale University
2025 280 p. 81/4 x 10 51 color plates
14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83900-4 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel
Sara Caputo
“. . . an erudite and accomplished account of such human wayfaring. Tracks are not just useful tools for the gather ing of knowledge, but for making claims and for telling stories.”—The New Statesman
“A triumph . . . an act of impressive scholarship.”—BBC History Magazine
2024 352 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 50 halftones
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83792-5 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Selena Wisnom
“In this remarkable book, Wisnom takes her readers on a spellbinding tour through one of antiquity’s great mon uments to knowledge: the library at Nineveh. As she sur veys the clay tablets that were buried in a blaze millennia ago, a lost world of learning and literature comes back to life.”—Sophus Helle, translator of Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
2025 400 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82255-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Librarian’s Atlas
The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
Seth Kimmel
“[A]n early modern booklover’s dream. It invites the reader to peer over the shoulder of the creative act of world‑making that took place in early modern Spanish libraries. As Kimmel masterfully shows, these libraries were not passive book repositories but vibrant and intel lectually stimulating sites of knowledge creation.”
—María M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
“Kimmel offers a different and stimulating perspective of early modern libraries as spaces of lively bibliograph ic and editorial activity. In this book, libraries are not static repositories of knowledge for individual learning pursuits, but rather evolving loci that gather intellectual communities, nurture cultural and linguistic exchanges, and develop novel forms of collection and conservation. Libraries are, in one of the book’s boldest claims, spaces that shape how the Spanish Empire perceives, constructs, and approaches the world.”―Modern Philology
2024 272 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83317-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Textual Magic
Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England
Katherine Storm Hindley
“Hindley is a sure‑footed guide to this strange terrain . . . [as] she traces the use of amulets across the whole span of the Middle Ages and the ways it was affected by linguistic change and the spread of literacy.”—The London Review of Books
“Hindley paints a picture of magic’s place in medieval England, producing an eye opening study of ‘words at their most powerful’ . . . that promise[s] to change the way we think about magic in the medieval world.”
The Times Literary Supplement
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 26 tables
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82533-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Fixers
Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
Zrinka Stahuljak
“[Stahuljak] asks us to rethink medieval translators and all the social and political roles they served beyond sim ply rendering meaning from one language into another.” History Today, “Book of the Year”
“Fixers is an erudite, ambitious book that synthesizes concepts from medieval studies and modern translation theory, offering salutary reading for students and schol ars of both. It offers an exciting lens for reading the work of fixer‑travelers and translators across the medieval world – from Chaucer, who worked by day as a customs official and diplomat, to Arabic‑language travel writers such as Ibn Fadlan and Ibn Batutta.”—The Times Literary Supplement
2024 368 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83040-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Glorious Bodies
Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature
Colby Gordon
“Shows what’s possible when trans scholars write for trans readers. This book is ambitious in its scope, provoc ative in its style, and convincing in its claims—and, as Gordon makes clear, it is timely and urgent. We must consider carefully the terrain mined by transphobic thinkers—theology—and not concede its ground.”
—Holly Dugan, George Washington University
2024 272 p. 6 x 9
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83500-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Botanical Icons
Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean
Andrew Griebeler
“Botanical Icons is a fascinating, thought‑provoking, critical survey of plant illustration practices in the pre modern Mediterranean. Griebeler takes his audience on a journey that forces one to reconsider conceptions (and misconceptions) of Mediterranean visual botanical knowledge that are at the root of the modern scientific depiction of plants. The rich, scholarly text, which pro vokes questions on every page, is supported and aug mented by the use of many carefully selected compara tive images from across Mediterranean cultures.”
—Stephen A. Harris, University of Oxford
2024 344 p. 7 x 10 96 color plates
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82679-0 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Gifts in the Age of Empire
Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639
Sinem Arcak Casale
“Casale repositions the study of gift exchange in a broader sphere, which has to do with the global movement of works of art and its impact on visual culture. This thoroughly researched, well‑writ ten, and profusely illustrated monograph is par ticularly relevant when considering later Islamic arts.”—Linda Komaroff, curator and department head, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Silk Roads
2023 288 p. 7 x 10 108 color plates
22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82042-2 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Inner Sea
Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern
Portugal
Josiah Blackmore
“In our fruitful age of global studies and the West’s fascination with Africa and India, The Inner Sea could not be more timely. Blackmore offers readers a stunning account of Da Gama’s unprec edented voyages from Portugal to Africa in 1497, reaching India in 1498, and their profound mean ing.”—Marina S. Brownlee, Princeton University 2022 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 halftones
23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82046-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Charles IV
Portrait of a Medieval Ruler
Václav Žurek
A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Recent research, especially in art his tory, has tended to present Charles IV in a purely positive, unblemished light: viewing him and his imperial court as the engine behind a flourishing of culture in the region. This book views Charles IV through a more critical lens, examining the careful construction that went into the way he presented himself and the characteristic mani festations of Charles’ execution of royal power. Distributed for Karolinum Press, Charles University
2025 292 p. 53/4 x 8 32 halftones, 2 maps
24 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-5523-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Encounters in the New World
Jesuit Cartography of the Americas
Mirela Altic
“This book tells the story of Jesuit cartography during the Age of Exploration—when Jesuit mis sionaries played a crucial role as conduits among cultures, becoming bridges that allowed knowl edge to flow between Europeans and Indigenous Americans. . . . Altic brings a wealth of knowledge about cartography and explores the techniques as well as the motivations—political, religious, and beyond—of its Jesuit authors.”—Michael T. Rizzi, America Magazine
2022 504 p. 7 x 10 48 color plates, 121 halftones
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79105-0 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50
The Indies of the Setting Sun
How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
Ricardo Padrón
“It should be essential reading for anyone seeking a fresh approach to understanding Spain’s impe rial ambitions during the Age of Discovery.”
The Portolan
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones
26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82001-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Cartographic Humanism
The Making of Early Modern Europe
Katharina N. Piechocki
“Piechocki is conceptually rigorous, she reads many languages and her research is impeccable. She is a careful critic but also a deeply imagi native historian. This is a contribution to the ‘darker side’ of cartography and the Renaissance, emphasizing the relationship between writing and scholarship and the exercise of power and exploitation, but its analysis never departs from the measured and reflective.”—The Times Higher Education
2021 304 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81681-4 $38.00 Your Price: $26.60
Music in the Flesh
An Early Modern Musical Physiology
Bettina Varwig
“Varwig’s ambitious, highly original, beautifully crafted book dares to attempt a thorough and thoroughly believable phenomenological account of how humans in the long seventeenth century were likely to have experienced and understood music with their bodies as well as with their minds . . . rich with implications for how we as a culture acquired and reified certain musical values.”—Suzanne Cusick, New York University
New Material Histories of Music
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 23 line drawings
28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82688-2 $47.50 Your Price: $33.25
Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750
From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy
Anthony M. Cummings
“Cummings’s history of music in Florence over a five‑hundred‑year period is a work of brilliant synthesis, bringing together in one place a vast array of sources that few readers could otherwise hope to access, much less encompass Specialists and nonspecialists alike will find this a highly readable narrative of this great city’s vibrant musical life during the medieval and early‑modern periods.”—Blake Wilson, Dickinson College 2023 456 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 25 halftones, 49 line drawings, 6 tables
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82278-5 $60.00 Your Price: $42.00
The Temple of Fame and Friendship
Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle
Annette Richards
This book examines the renowned portrait col lection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son.
2022 336 p. 7 x 10 8 color plates, 108 halftones, 27 line drawings
30 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80626-6 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Voice Machines
The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds
Bonnie Gordon
“[A] terrific book. Gordon doesn’t hold back, using the figure of the castrato to rethink the history of sound reproduction, organology tout court, the naive claims of sound studies and post humanism, histories of the South, conceits of sex, and what it means to be human. The history of the machine, like the history of the human, is complex. And it is this complexity, as much as the complexity of the sound world of early modern Europe, that jostles for our attention on every page.”—J. Q. Davies, author of Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913
2023 432 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones, 8 line drawings
31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82514-4 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance
The Emergence of a Musical Icon
John A. Rice
“John Rice’s book is a brilliant accounting of how the exchange between art, music, and lit urgy shaped [Saint Cecilia’s] identity. Through an extensive survey of visual representations and liturgical celebrations, Rice shows that St. Cecilia’s patronage of music has its roots both in the liturgy and an evolving iconographic tradi tion.”—Early Music America
2022 384 p. 7 x 10 73 color plates, 7 halftones, 53 line drawings, 30 tables
32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81710-1 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
Both from the Ears and Mind
Thinking about Music in Early Modern England
Linda Phyllis Austern
“The mental, experiential, and musical land scapes of human beings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were different from ours. Austern’s latest book is an ambitious attempt to map out that territory in detail.”—BBC Music Magazine
2020 384 p. 6 x 9 5 color plates, 25 halftones, 19 line drawings
33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70159-2 $59.00 Your Price: $41.30
The Experimental Fire
Birth Figures
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Jennifer M. Rampling
“[R]eads like an insider’s history of English alchemy, exposing its inner workings and demystifying its encrypted canon with adeptness and hard‑earned authority.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
Synthesis
2023 416 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 tables
34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82654-7 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Varnish and the Glaze
Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500
Marjolijn Bol
“This brilliant book demonstrates how the fif teenth‑century panel painter’s techniques of varnishing and glazing were foreshadowed in the Middle Ages by media such as stained glass, enamels, and metalwork. Combining the skills of a cultural historian and conservator, Bol offers fresh analysis of medieval sources and their ter minology, tries out their recipes, and documents the results with exemplary clarity.”—Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art 2023 336 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 10 halftones
35 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82036-1 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Transmutations of Chymistry
Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences
Lawrence M. Principe
“This is a fascinating study of the improbable life of a great but comparatively unheralded chemist: Guillaume Homberg. The book traces the con tinuing influence of Homberg in eighteenth‑cen tury French chemistry through two focal inter ests: his concern to raise chemistry above the artisanal level to that of a true natural science, and his interest and even passion for chrysopoeia, alchemical metallic transmutation.”
—Seymour Mauskopf, Duke University Synthesis
2020 504 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 6 line drawings 36 Cloth
Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
Rebecca Whiteley
“Whiteley’s Birth Figures considers the images of fetal positioning that were included in printed midwifery manuals and helped midwives visu alize the presentation of the fetus. These images become an occasion for an intricate meditation: on the nature of the womb, and the unseen; on the representation in static images of dynamic process and bodily transformation; on the contin gent and shifting boundary between interior and exterior, nature and history.”—The London Review of Books
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates, 55 halftones
37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82312-6 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
The Perfection of Nature
Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance
Mackenzie Cooley
A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fasci nation with breeding.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones
38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82228-0 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Decay and Afterlife
Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900
Aleksandra Prica
Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary his tory, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones
39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81159-8 $38.00 Your Price: $26.60
Defining Nature’s Limits
The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science
Neil Tarrant
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post Reforma tion era.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9
40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81942-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Pamela H. Smith
“Smith’s study encompasses the period from 1400 to 1800, when practitioners increasingly sought to put their trades in words, composing and publish ing craft manuals, guides, treatises, recipe books, tip sheets, and diagrams . . . These texts, she argues, enrich our understanding of the theoret ical world of European makers, the development of technical writing and, by extension, the birth of modern science.”—The London Review of Books
2022 352 p. 83/4 x 91/2 75 color plates, 41 halftones
41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81824-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
“This is an important study that all scholars and advanced students of early modern Europe will want to read, especially those interested in early modern medicine, religion, and the history of the book. . . . Highly recommended.”— Choice
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones, 2 tables
42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82947-0 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Poison Trials
Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
Alisha Rankin
“This is an exciting and original book that exam ines the role of poison trials in early modern medicine and science and brings up important issues about the role of experiential knowledge, the ethical and legal implications of medical test ing, the role of courtly patronage in the shaping of scientific practice, and the culture of exotica in sixteenth‑century Europe.”—Daniel Margócsy, author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age Synthesis
2021 312 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 1 table
43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74485-8 $38.00 Your Price: $26.60
The Green Ages
Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Annette Kehnel
“(Kehnel) has written a book of great joy: an envi ronmental history of many facets, which explains how some premodern practices of sustainability are applicable to the present day.”—The Telegraph Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2024 352 p. 6 x 9
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-243-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Nature and Medieval Literature
Stephen Knight
“Knight’s book presents a rich and generous survey of the ways in which the Middle Ages engaged with the natural world.”—Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge CYMRU - New Century Chaucer
Distributed for University of Wales Press
2024 312 p. 5.43 x 8.5
45 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-83772-102-3 $105.00 Your Price: $73.50
Lines of Thought
Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
Ayelet Even-Ezra
“This handsome study of a seemingly esoteric subject, horizontal tree diagrams that populate the margins of medieval manuscripts and some times whole folios, should prove illuminating to all medievalists, as it offers insight not only into the conceptual processes of the age, but also into medieval readers’ engagement with texts.”
Choice
2021 272 p. 81/4 x 11 4 color plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74308-0 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
Emanuele Lugli
An interdisciplinary history of standardized mea surements.
2022 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 color plates, 40 halftones
47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82000-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
A Philosophical Grand Tour
Scott Samuelson
“A delightful and immersive guide to the city of Rome and the philosophical tradition it embod ies concerning the good life, or as we would say today, the meaning of life. Travelers seeking ancient wisdom among the city’s famous build ings and works of art could ask for no better companion.”—Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 color plates, 2 halftones
48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78004-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Wisdom from the Ancients
Edited Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith
A compilation of ancient wisdom, sourced from ancient and medieval philosophers.
Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2023 176 p. 43/4 x 71/4
49 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-614-4 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Coming To
Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England
Timothy M. Harrison
“In Coming To, Harrison, tracing a line from Descartes through Milton and Traherne to Locke, unearths the contribution of two poets to modern understandings of consciousness.”—Stephen M. Fallon, University of Notre Dame
2020 328 p. 6 x 9 2 tables
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72512-3 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
The Saint and the Atheist
Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre
Joseph S. Catalano
“Longtime admirers of either [St. Thomas Aquinas or Jean Paul Sartre] will find the author’s unique perspective enriching.”—Publishers Weekly
2021 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2
51 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71943-6 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40
Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance
Florence
Emanuele Lugli
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Introducing Medieval Animal Names
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The Fires of Lust
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Making the Renaissance Man
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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World
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This Is Not a Grail Romance
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Amphion
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Kathy Eden
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Climate and the Making of Worlds
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Machines of the Mind
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Joy of the Worm
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Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
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Twelfth Night
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Four Shakespearean Period
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The English Actor
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Peter Ackroyd
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The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Emma Smith
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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion
Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England
William N. West
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2021 320 p. 6 x 9
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Play on Shakespeare Series from ACMRS Press
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All’s Well That End’s Well
William Shakespeare
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Eaters of the Dead
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Griffinology
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Measure for Measure
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Storyworlds of Robin Hood
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Winters in the World
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Eleanor Parker
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Book Curses
Eleanor Baker
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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages
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Chaucer Here and Now
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“A sumptuous and often provocative book, bridg ing the medieval and the contemporary. Marion Turner reveals a dynamic, multimedia Chaucer for our times.”—Anthony Bale, author of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
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The Medieval Scriptorium Making Books in the Middle Ages
Sara J. Charles
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Illumino
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Michelle P. Brown
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The Kennicott Bible
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Katrin Kogman-Appel
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Dante’s New Lives Biography and Autobiography
Elisa Brilli and Giuliano Milani
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The Pensive Image
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Hanneke Grootenboer
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Leonardo / Dürer
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Painting with Demons
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Michael Fried
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Renaissance in the North
Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers
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To Draw Like a Renaissance Master
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Venezia 500 <<
The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting
Andreas Schumacher
Important portraits and landscape representations of Venetian art techniques during the Renaissance.
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Light on Darkness
The Untold Story of the Liturgy
Cosima Clara Gillhammer
With implications for the history of religion and art alike, an exploration of the lasting influ ence of Christian liturgy across a range of media.
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The Middle Ages and the Movies
Eight Key Films
Robert Bartlett
From Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal to Monty Python, an investigation into how eight key films have shaped our under standing of the medieval world.
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Divine Light
The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300–1300 AD
Wendy A. Stein
The colorful art of mosaic vividly illuminating medieval Roman history.
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2024 160 p. 9.45 x 11.02 120 color plates
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Precious Materials
The Arts of Metal in the Medieval Iranian World
Annabelle Collinet
A historic collection of metal art from ancient Iran, featuring images of more than one hundred fifty objects described in detail and fully illustrated, some with X rays.
HP- Art Series
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2024 316 p. 9.45 x 11.57 206 color plates,
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Old Age in Art
Larry Silver
A sweeping history of aging in European art across centuries.
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Libraries and Books in Medieval England
The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy
Richard Sharpe
A history of books in medieval England, including libraries, private ownership, and the birth of the book trade.
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