Medieval Fall 2020
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A Medieval Life
Bernard of Clairvaux
Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague Judith M. Bennett
An Inner Life Brian Patrick McGuire
October 2020 378pp 2 maps, 1 frontispiece 9781501751042 £27.99 / $34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Middle Ages Series November 2020 192pp 25 illus. 9780812224696 £19.99 / $26.50 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
A portrait of one of the most consequential men of the Middle Ages; shows what brought Bernard to monastic life, how he founded Clairvaux Abbey, established a network of Cistercian monasteries across Europe, and intervened on behalf of his brethren monks and abbots, as well as in heresy trials, affairs of state, and the papal schism of 1130.
History told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, this second edition features an entirely revamped illustration program and sidebars that reveal how medieval historians are able to reconstruct the past from scattered evidence.
Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks
Fifteenth-Century Lives
Writing Sainthood in England Karen A. Winstead
The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim Martha G. Newman
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern November 2020 220pp 9780268108540 £37.00 / $45.00 PB 9780268108533 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Middle Ages Series November 2020 320pp 5 illus. 9780812252583 £48.00 / $59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. Demonstrates how, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged.
How Engelhard of Langheim's late twelfthcentury tales about Cistercian monks illuminate the religiosity of Cistercian nuns. Locates a sacramental value in everyday objects and behaviors that nuns and monks could share.
From Eden to Eternity
In the Manner of the Franks
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages Alastair Minnis
Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe Eric J. Goldberg
The Middle Ages Series December 2020 384pp 32 color illus. 9780812224658 £20.99 / $27.50 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series August 2020 384pp 63 illus. 9780812252354 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
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.
Featuring more than sixty illustrations, traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the fourth through the tenth centuries.
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Living by the Sword
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 13501650
Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600– 1600 Kristen Brooke Neuschel
Eric Weiskott
November 2020 352pp 9780812252644 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
November 2020 242pp 18 b&w halftones, 4 color plates 9781501752124 £18.99 / $23.95 PB 9781501753336 £43.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejecting the traditional division between medieval and modern, the analysis of metrical history renegotiates the trajectories of English literary history between 1350 and 1650.
Draws on diverse sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and material culture studies to inspire students and educated lay readers to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the "war and culture" genre.
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 2001500 Dyan Elliott
The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism Adrienne Williams Boyarin
The Middle Ages Series November 2020 352pp 12 illus. 9780812252590 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series
October 2020 480pp 9780812224764 £26.99 / $34.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Explores medieval fantasies of Jewish-Christian indistinguishability. Identifying what she calls "polemics of sameness," an essential part of antiJewish materials, she shows how the fine line between "saming" and "othering" reveals stereotypes of the unmarked Jewess.
Provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the metaphor of the sponsa Christi and the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality.
The Corrupter of Boys
The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy Dyan Elliott
The Middle Ages Series October 2020 448pp 9780812252521 £36.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.
Construction and Invention Santiago Castellanos
October 2020 288pp 8 illus. 9780812252538 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Reading early medieval Spanish documents that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, Santiago Castellanos charts the formation of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia and how it was later reinvented from the episcopal point of view.
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Versions of Election
Where Three Worlds Met
From Aquinas and Langland to Milton David Aers
Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean Sarah Davis-Secord
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern November 2020 324pp 9780268108663 £37.00 / $45.00 PB 9780268108656 £103.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
September 2020 328pp 9781501752162 £21.99 / $27.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews.
An original cross-disciplinary study that touches upon the fields of literature, theology, ethics, and politics, and makes important contributions to the study of both medieval and early modern intellectual and literary history.
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900
World of Echo
Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England Adin E. Lears
A Sourcebook Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson & Christine D. Worobec
September 2020 248pp 6 b&w halftones 9781501749605 £42.00 / $48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European,
and Eurasian Studies November 2020 516pp 13 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501750656 £25.99 / $32.95 PB 9781501750649 £99.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of adopting the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With close readings of works by Chaucer and Langland, and the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe.
The first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century.
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