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Medieval Studies England's Jews
The Wolf King
Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century John Tolan "There is no comparable book to this one. England’s Jews is a compelling and impressive account of Jews’ changing relationship to the Crown in thirteenth-century England, and John Tolan is a wellrespected historian and an excellent storyteller." — Robert Stacey, University of Washington University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series March 2023 9 b/w illus. 264pp 9781512823899 £40.00 HB now £28.00
Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in alAndalus Abigail Krasner Balbale Wallace K. Ferguson Prize "Original and well-conceived, The Wolf King successfully addresses the problem of how to understand the material and written culture of a medieval Islamic ruler when little survives of the former and much has been added over the centuries to the latter."—Therese Martin, author of Queen as King Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures January 2023 64 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 1 chart 360pp 9781501765872 £51.00 HB now £35.70
Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain
Materiality and the Flesh of the Word Tiffany Beechy "This is a profoundly original book that challenges us to reread familiar works and look more closely at unfamiliar ones. On every page, Beechy’s work is provocative and exciting, substantial and serious, and it offers nothing less than a new understanding of faith and art in early medieval England." —R. M. Liuzza, editor of Old English Poetry: An Anthology University of Notre Dame Press June 2023 8 color illus, 46 b&w illus, 1 table 340pp 9780268205157 £103.00 HB now £72.10
Remember the Hand Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia Catherine Brown
Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. Fordham University Press Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies April 2023 44 color and 22 b/w illustrations 368pp 9780823298914 £58.00 HB now £40.60
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A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy The Life of Clare of Rimini Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field & Valerio Cappozzo
This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint's life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, set against the background of her roiling city, her starcrossed family, and the tumultuous political and religious landscape of her age. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series October 2022 10 b/w illus. 2 maps. 192pp 9781512823042 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 Nicholas Watson
Attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's vernacular languages—Old English, Insular French, and Middle English—between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. In this first of three volumes, Watson focuses on the first generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series June 2022 5 tables 616pp 9780812253726 £81.00 HB now £56.70
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages Elisheva Baumgarten
Examines how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible—especially in the tellings, retellings, and illustrations of stories of 30% DISCOUNT CODE: IMC23
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women—offers a window onto aspects of the daily lives and cultural mentalités of Ashkenazic Jews in the High Middle Ages. More than forty vivid medieval illuminations, most reproduced in color, help convey to modern readers what medieval people could have known visually about these biblical stories. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts June 2022 45 illus (color throughout) 288pp 9780812253580 £45.00 HB now £31.50
Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century Hildegard's Illuminated "Scivias" Margot E. Fassler
"Margot Fassler’s fascinating new book opens up for readers the deeply creative work of Hildegard of Bingen, as this medieval Benedictine nun articulates a vision of the cosmos, creation, and worship of God all intertwined. What emerges in Fassler’s study of Hildegard’s Scivias—its texts, music, and images—is a feast for the senses as well as for the imagination."— Teresa Berger, Yale Divinity School University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series December 2022 25 b/w illus. 6 tables. 32 musical examples. 16-page 4-color insert. 392pp 9781512823073 £58.00 HB now £40.60
Cultures of Witnessing Law and the York Plays Emma Lipton
Considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series May 2022 208pp 9780812253856 £58.00 HB now £40.60
Embodying the Soul
Living with the Law
Explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. This book argues that classical medicine was reconfigured as a sacred Christian art across the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, becoming not simply a method of physical rehabilitation but also a tool of spiritual transformation. University of Pennsylvania Press
Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in a Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the streets of old Cairo, and in Jewish and Muslim courts. University of Pennsylvania Press
Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe Meg Leja
Series: The Middle Ages Series April 2022 16 halftones, 2 maps 392pp 9780812253894 £81.00 HB now £56.70
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English Jody Enders
Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be the Second Coming? And that's nothing compared to what happens when comedy gets its grubby paws on the confessional. Enter fifteenthand sixteenth-century French farce, the "bestseller" of a world that stands to tell us a lot about the enduring influence of a Shakespeare or a Molière. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series June 2022 6 halftones 432pp 9780812225297 £45.00 PB now £31.50
Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt Oded Zinger
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts January 2023 5 halftones 272pp 9781512823790 £54.00 HB now £37.80
Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms Jessica Brantley
"Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms will be a crucial resource for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and its elucidation of key methodological and conceptual questions will be a useful provocation to all scholars in these fields."—Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania Press Series: Material Texts December 2022 146 b/w, 25 plates 376pp 9780812253849 £58.00 HB now £40.60
Poisoned Wells
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain
Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422 Tzafrir Barzilay
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. University of Pennsylvania Press
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Poisoned Wells explains the origin of these allegations, how they gained popularity before and during the Black Death, and why they declined in the fifteenth century. University of Pennsylvania Press
A New History Jonathan Ray
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts April 2023 352pp 9781512823837 £58.00 HB now £40.60
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Series: The Middle Ages Series March 2022 10 maps, 2 tables 312pp 9780812253610 £63.00 HB now £44.10 COMBINEDACADEMIC.CO.UK/IMC-2023/
Politics of Temporalization Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America Nadia R. Altschul
Winner of La corónica Book Award 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
That Most Precious Merchandise
The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 Hannah Barker
June 2020 288pp 9780812252279 £72.00 HB now £50.40
Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants’ accounts, travelers’ tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying 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
Reimagining Christendom
Series: The Middle Ages Series July 2022 18 illus. 328pp 9781512823660 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350 Joel D. Anderson
"A first-rate piece of scholarship, this outstanding and engaging book explores how Norse sources represent the relationship between the Norse clerical elite and the papal Christian church at large."— Jonas Wellendorf, University of California, Berkeley University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series January 2023 3 halftones, 2 maps, 3 tables total (1 embedded in ch. 4; 2 appendices styled as tables) 248pp 9781512822823 £49.00 HB now £34.30
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Dyan Elliott "This provocative, meticulously documented text analyzes a wide range of familiar and lesser-known medieval authors on an important topic . . . the journey is engaging and instructive.""—Catholic Historical Review University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series October 2020 480pp 9780812224764 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature The Corrupter of Boys Jonathan V. Dauber
The book will interest scholars in Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy, as well as those working in medieval Jewish history. Throughout, Jonathan V. Dauber has endeavored to write an accessible work that does not require extensive prior knowledge of kabbalistic thought. Accordingly, it finds points of contact between scholars of various religious traditions. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts August 2022 3 tables (appendices) 312pp 9781512822748 £67.00 HB now £46.90
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Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy Dyan Elliott Winner of the Haskins Medal, granted by the Medieval Academy of America A work of stunning breadth and discomforting resonance, as Elliott concludes that the same clerical prerogatives and privileges that were formulated in late antiquity and the medieval era remain very much in place. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: The Middle Ages Series November 2020 448pp 9780812252521 £40.00 HB now £28.00
Unfinished Christians
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Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity Georgia Frank
Series: The Middle Ages Series August 2022 24 halftones, 3 tables, 5 line drawings 560pp 9780812253900 £81.00 HB now £56.70
Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians who assembled for rituals. With precious few first-person accounts by common Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns. All three genres of writing are composed by clergy for use in ritual settings. University of Pennsylvania Press
Writing Plague
February 2023 none 208pp 9781512823950 £54.00 HB now £37.80
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?
Edited by Cristina Maria Cervone & Nicholas Watson "[T]his stimulating book...aim[s] to rebuild the study of Middle English lyric from the ground up. The thirteen chapters proceed from foundation to rooftop...The book is a passionate invitation to plunge into Middle English lyric. It raises countless questions. It is certain to spur continuing, vigorous cultivation of its field."—Modern Philology
A Diabolical Voice
Heresy and the Reception of the Latin "Mirror of Simple Souls" in Late Medieval Europe Justine L. Trombley In A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures May 2023 4 b&w halftones 234pp 9781501769610 £51.00 HB now £35.70
Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague Susan L. Einbinder A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it. University of Pennsylvania Press Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts October 2022 1 map, 4 b&w halftones 272pp 9781512822878 £49.00 HB now £34.30
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
Exploring a Connected World Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen & Linda Safran A panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. From majestic monuments to exquisite tableware, Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen, and Linda Safran deftly guide readers over twelve centuries of art and architecture created by the diverse peoples and religious groups of western Eurasia and North Africa. Cornell University Press January 2023 426 color halftones, 32 maps, 75 diagrams 400pp 9781501702822 £63.00 PB now £44.10
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Celebrating Sorrow
Medieval Tributes to "The Tale of Sagoromo" Edited & translated by Charo B. D’Etcheverry Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises to the imperial throne. Charo B. D'Etcheverry translates a selection of Sagoromo-themed works, highlighting the diversity of medieval Japanese creative practice. Cornell University Press August 2022 3 charts 156pp 9781501764776 £36.00 HB now £25.20
Dynasties Intertwined
The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily Matt King Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In doing so, it reveals the complex web of economic, political, cultural, and military connections that linked the two dynasties to each other and to other polities across the medieval Mediterranean. Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures June 2022 2 b&w halftones, 4 maps 252pp 9781501763465 £49.00 HB now £34.30
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera Sarah Kay
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Cornell University Press July 2022 20 b&w halftones, 18 color halftones 296pp 9781501763885 £40.00 HB now £28.00
Negotiation and Resistance
Peasant Agency in High Medieval France Constance Brittain Bouchard In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers. Peasants in eleventhand twelfth-century France had far more scope for action, self-determination, and resistance to oppressive treatment—that is, for agency—than they are usually credited with having. Cornell University Press December 2022 1 map 186pp 9781501766589 £16.99 PB now £11.89
Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany Albert of Diessen's "Mirror of Priests" Deeana Copeland Klepper
The Mirror of Priests is a pastoral work written by Albert, an Augustinian canon from the Bavarian market town of Diessen, to guide local priests in their work with parishioners. Multiple versions of the text in Albert's own hand survive and, by comparing them, Deeana Copeland Klepper shows how ostensibly universal religious ideals and laws were adapted, interpreted, and repurposed by those given responsibility to implement them, thereby crafting distinctive, local expressions of Christianity. Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures December 2022 23 b&w halftones, 4 maps 234pp 9781501766152 £49.00 HB now £34.30
The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet Leonard Neidorf
Comparing Beowulf with its medieval German and Scandinavian analogues, The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet argues that the poem's uniqueness reflects one poet's coherent plan for the moral renovation of an amoral heroic tradition. In Beowulf, Neidorf discerns the presence of a singular mind at work in the combination and modification of heroic, folkloric, hagiographical, and historical materials. Cornell University Press January 2023 216pp 9781501766909 £32.00 HB now £22.40
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The Keys to Bread and Wine
Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia Abigail Agresta George Perkins Marsh Prize How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. Cornell University Press July 2022 6 maps, 1 graph 282pp 9781501764172 £51.00 HB now £35.70
The Mystical Presence of Christ
The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion Richard Kieckhefer Investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at singular moments, Richard Kieckhefer reveals the entanglements between these experiences and those that occur through the imagery, language, and rituals of ordinary, everyday devotional culture. Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures September 2022 4 b&w halftones 382pp 9781501765117 £49.00 HB now £34.30
To Govern Is to Serve
An Essay on Medieval Democracy Jacques Dalarun Translated by Sean L. Field Foreword by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin & Anne E. Lester "Jacques Dalarun delivers a reflection, personal and subtly argued, on the exercise of authority in certain medieval religious communities, a point of view which leads to an analysis of power relations in society. The style is fluid, the thought is sharp, and the dialectic quite formidable in its rigorous chain of thinking."—Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures February 2023 3 b&w halftones 258pp 9781501768354 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Digital Codicology
Medieval Books and Modern Labor Bridget Whearty "Digital Codicology offers a captivating mix of literary sensitivity and technical detail. Bridget Whearty has created a precious record of digital culture, labor, and technology at the turn of the twenty-first century."—Michelle Warren Stanford University Press Series: Stanford Text Technologies November 2022 338pp 9781503632752 £72.00 HB now £50.40
Holy Digital Grail
The Salvation of Israel
Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans Jeremy Cohen The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew, the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the 17th century. Cornell University Press Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures August 2022 25 illus. 344pp 9781501764721 £42.00 HB now £29.40
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A Medieval Book on the Internet Michelle R. Warren Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript— an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. Stanford University Press Series: Stanford Text Technologies March 2022 360pp 9781503631168 £25.99 PB now £18.19 COMBINEDACADEMIC.CO.UK/IMC-2023/
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning Martin Heidegger Translated by Joydeep Bagchee & Jeffrey D. Gower
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning is a key text for the origins of Martin Heidegger's concept of "facticity." Originally submitted as a postdoctoral thesis in 1915, it focuses on the 13th-century philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus. Indiana University Press Series: Studies in Continental Thought July 2022 228pp 9780253062642 £45.00 HB now £31.50
On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality
Thomas Aquinas Edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach & Amanda Avila Kaminski If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition. He did this with a formula: He internalized the thought of Aristotle as it was being introduced into western Europe and translated into Latin, and he in turn “translated” Christianity into this Aristotelian language. Fordham University Press Series: Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality June 2022 120pp 9781531502195 £8.99 PB now £6.29
Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 Grace E. Coolidge
Looks at illegitimacy across the 15th and 16th centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. University of Nebraska Press Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World December 2022 4 genealogies, index 328pp 9781496218803 £58.00 HB now £40.60 30% DISCOUNT CODE: IMC23
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Don't Think for Yourself
Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy Peter Adamson “This is a highly original work in its combination of popular and scholarly themes. Adamson weaves together a number of disparate sources under the broad theme of the epistemic legitimacy of authority, many of them unexpected companions.” —Deborah L. Black, author of Logic and Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” and “Poetics” in Medieval Arabic Philosophy University of Notre Dame Press Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies October 2022 194pp 9780268203399 £54.00 HB now £37.80
Sounding the Word of God Carolingian Books for Singers Susan Rankin
“Susan Rankin has for decades reflected on the relations between the visible signs on the page and musical sound. This book boldly steps in a new direction in several fields of study: palaeography, history of the book, history of liturgy, music history, art history, and the broad history of the eighth and ninth centuries.” —Calvin M. Bower, translator of Fundamentals of Music University of Notre Dame Press Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies November 2022 43 color illustrations, 24 music examples, 16 tables 490pp 9780268203436 £85.00 HB now £59.50
The Medieval Hospital
Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550 Nicole R. Rice “In its study of these medical/spiritual institutions and individuals, The Medieval Hospital offers a perspective not previously employed and thus makes an important contribution to the history of reading.” — Mary C. Erler, author of Reading and Writing during the Dissolution University of Notre Dame Press Series: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern April 2023 25 color illustrations 408pp 9780268205119 £85.00 HB now £59.50