MEDIEVAL STUDIES Spring 2020
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Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
Dead Voice
Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages Jesus R. Velasco The Middle Ages Series January 2020 256pp 9780812251869 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Paola Tartakoff
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 304pp 3 illus. 9780812251876 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
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.
Inspired by one fascinating and unusual historical case, Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe explores the ways religious conversion fueled Jewish-Christian tensions.
From Eden to Eternity
History and the Written Word
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages Alastair Minnis
Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins Henry Bainton
The Middle Ages Series March 2020 384pp 32 color illus. 9780812224658 £22.99/$27.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 272pp 2 illus. 9780812251906 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Alastair Minnis argues that Eden afforded an extraordinary amount of creative space to late medieval theologians, painters, and poets as they tried to understand the place that God had deemed worthy of the creature made in His image.
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.
Making Love in the Twelfth Century
Politics of Temporalization
“Letters of Two Lovers” in Context Edited and translated by Barbara Newman
Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America Nadia R. Altschul
The Middle Ages Series February 2020 392pp 9780812224665 £22.99/$27.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
June 2020 288pp 9780812252279 £69.00/$79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Altschul examines why, by whom, and to what ends certain populations, objects, and practices in nineteenth-century Ibero-America were named as living residues of the premodern Moorish past.
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.
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Stolen Song
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
How the Troubadours Became French Eliza Zingesser
March 2020 258pp 10 b&w halftones 9781501747571 £28.99/$34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Alexandra Guerson & Dana Wessell Lightfoot
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. Excludes ANZ
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World June 2020 312pp 4 tables 9781496205117 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Underscore the ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities.
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Bonds of Secrecy
Knights, Lords, and Ladies
Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England Benjamin A. Saltzman
In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180-1220 John W. Baldwin Foreword by William Chester Jordan
The Middle Ages Series October 2019 400pp 12 9780812251616 £69.00/$79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series November 2019 456pp 39 color, 35 b/w illus. 9780812251289 £52.00/$59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience.
Baldwin offers a rich description of the aristocrats living in Paris at the turn of the twelfth century.
Pure Filth
Roads to Health
Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce Noah D. Guynn
The Middle Ages Series November 2019 304pp 2 illus. 9780812251685 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Noah D. Guynn argues that the superficial crudeness and predictability of late medieval French farce conceal finely drawn, and sometimes quite radical, perspectives on ethics, politics, and religion.
Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy G. Geltner
The Middle Ages Series August 2019 320pp 20 illus. 9780812251357 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
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.
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