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MEDIEVAL HISTORY MEDIEVAL HISTORY

THE NEW MIDDLE AGES SERIES

Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800 John Charles Arnold, SUNY-Fredonia, USA “The Footprints of Michael the Archangel is [A/a]n extensive, deeply detailed tour through the textual and material evidence for the development of the cult of St. Michael, from early Jewish sources to the practices of the Carolingian period. Arnold traces how Michael, that strange angel, came to be venerated as one of medieval Christianity’s most popular saints.”

-Ellen Muehlberger, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, USA

Francis X. Connor, Wichita State University, USA This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.

Contents: 1. Samuel Daniel’s Works and the History of the Book * 2. Ben Jonson’s Workes * 3. John Taylor and the Commercial Folio

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.

History of Text Technologies August 2014 UK August 2014 US 252pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$109.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137438348

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Contents: 1. The Problem with Michael * 2. Michael: A Ecumenical Archangel * 3. Michael the Archistrategos * 4. The Politics of Angelic Sanctity * 5. Michael Goes North * 6. Michael Contained– the Carolingian Cultus

The New Middle Ages October 2013 UK October 2013 US 296pp Hardback £63.00 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137346810

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Explaining prosperity in Mediaeval Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Oleh Havrylyshyn, George Washington University, USA, Nora Srzentiæ, Croatia The medieval Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) was a prosperous small open economy, rivalling bigger competitors. This study collects together evidence on how Ragusa compared to other economies of the region, and addresses the difficult question of why it outperformed its Dalmatian rivals (Kotor, Split and Zadar).

Contents: PART I: OVERVIEW OF BOOK * 1. Introduction * 2 . Key Aspects of The New Institutional Economics (NIE) * PART II: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF RAGUSA/DUBROVNIK * 3. History of Ragusa in Eastern Mediterranean Context * 4. Economic Evolution and Rise to Prosperity * 5. Quantifying Ragusan Prosperity and Disproportionate East Mediterranean Role * 6. The Relative Decline after Vasco da Gama Circumnavigation * PART III. PRUDENT MACROECONOMIC POLICIES * 7. The System of Governance , Wise Policies , and Market-Friendly Institutions * 8. Macro Policies 1: Fiscal Probity the Starting Point for Good Institutions * 9. Macro Policies 2: Monetary and Financial Prudence , Minimal Public Debt * PART IV. GROWTHPROMOTING INSTITUTIONS * 10. Institutions Friendly to Commerce- in today’s jargon ‘Ease of Doing Business’ * 11. An Open Legal System with Effective Rule-of-Law * 12. ‘Sufficient ‘ Social Fairness Provides Stability * 13. Maximal Diplomacy with Minimal Military * PART V. CONCLUSIONS * 14. How Unique Was Ragusa? Some Comparison with Venice and Others * 15. A Successful Case of Institutional Optimality Before its Time: What lessons for the 21st. century?

Palgrave Studies in Economic History Series December 2014 UK December 2014 US 272pp 18 b/w tables, 12 figures Hardback £75.00 / $115.00 / CN$133.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137339775

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Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries Playing the Heresy Card Edited by Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University, USA, Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers University, USA, Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University, USA “These original essays consider key occasions on which accusations and persecutions of heresy in premodern Western Europe possessed strong political as well as doctrinal dimensions... The volume is a major contribution to the lively current scholarship on the subject.” - Edward Peters, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania, USA Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.

Contents: Introduction; Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman * PART I: “RAZING” THE STAKES: PERSONAL TRIALS AND POLITICAL TRIBULATIONS * PART II: JOKER’S WILD: MISAPPROPRIATIONS OF ORTHODOXY AND MISREPRESENTATIONS OF HETERODOXY * PART III: THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: POWER POLITICS AND THE THREAT OF FORCE * and more...

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The Medieval Motion Picture The Politics of Adaptation

The King’s Bishops

Edited by Margitta Rouse, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Andrew James Johnston, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Philipp Hinz, curator, Germany “From Kurosawa’s Ran to HBO’s Game of Thrones, the essays in this theoretically sophisticated volume reveal the complex dialogic interplay of pre-modern and (post)modern temporalities.” - Richard Utz, Chair and Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

The Politics of Patronage in England and Normandy, 1066-1216 Everett U. Crosby, University of Virginia, USA This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval statebuilding and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

Contents: 1. The Bishop Sets Forth * 2. Principles of Authority * 3. Episcopal Origins * 4. A Network of Nephews * 5. Structures of Power in England * 6. Structures of Power in Normandy * 7.

The King’s Bishop * 8. Policy and Patronage * Appendix I. Bishops Consecrated and in Office: 1066-1216 * Appendix II. WarriorBishops * Appendix III. Office-Holders at Bayeux Cathedral in the time of Bishop Henry * Appendix IV. An Outline Itinerary of Henry, Bishop of Bayeux: 1165-1205

The New Middle Ages September 2013 UK September 2013 US 540pp 8 b/w tables Hardback £105.00 / $170.00 / CN$196.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137307767

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Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.

Contents: Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation; Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse * 1. ‘Now is the time’: Shakespeare’s Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran; Jocelyn Keller and Wolfram R. Keller * 2. Dracula’s Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Cordula Lemke * 3. Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner’s Timeline; Margitta Rouse * 4. Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in The Thirteenth Warrior; Judith Klinger * 5. Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner’s Legacy in Films; Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds Stefan Keppler-Tasaki * 6. Adaptation as Hyperreality: The (A)historicism of Trauma in Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf; Philipp Hinz and Margitta Rouse * and more...

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Received Medievalisms A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women’s Convents Cynthia J. Cyrus, Vanderbilt University, USA “Received Medievalisms is a remarkable book remarkable in its temporal and disciplinary scope, remarkable in its creative methodological approach, and remarkable in its fascinating arguments. Cynthia J. Cyrus brings to bear a serious depth of learning and an astute, deft critical sensibility in demonstrating the significance of women’s convents, and of the versions of the Middle Ages they carry with them, in Viennese culture from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.” - Nancy Bradley Warren, Professor and Head, Department of English, Texas A&M University This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna’s women’s monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women’s institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women’s role and agency.

Contents: 1. Setting the Stage * 2. Mine’s Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions * 3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past * 4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism * 5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles * 6. The Persistence of the Medieval * Appendix 1: Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports * Appendix 2: Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues

The New Middle Ages June 2013 UK June 2013 US 268pp 4 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w tables Hardback £58.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230393578

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Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots A Life in Perspective Catherine Keene, Southern Methodist University, USA “This study on the life and cult of Margaret of Scotland offers a combination of biographic and hagiographic approach. It is founded in ample international scholarship on the different political and religious contexts where she lived and where her memory got fashioned. A colorful inquiry on a fascinating person and an impressive saintly queen mother.” - Gábor Klaniczay, Professor of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene’s analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret, translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.

Contents: Introduction * 1. A Noble and Unknowable Lineage * 2. An Exile in Hungary * 3. An Anglo-Saxon Princess * 4. A Wife of the King * 5. A Queen of the Scots * 6. A Pious Woman * 7. The Cornerstone of Margaret’s Cult * 8. A Dynastic Saint * 9. A Canonized Saint * Conclusion * Appendix: Translation of the Dunferline Vita

The New Middle Ages November 2013 UK November 2013 US 352pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 9780230340480 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230340480

MEDIEVAL HISTORY The Letters of Heloise and Abelard A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings

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Consolation in Medieval Narrative Augustinian Authority and Open Form Chad D. Schrock, Lee University, USA

Edited by Mary Martin McLaughlin, University of Nebraska, Wellesley College, and Vassar College, USA, Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University, USA “Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated correspondence. Every aspect of the book is exemplary, from its comprehensive and unobtrusive annotations, to its enthralling introduction. But the greatest strength of the book is perhaps to undo a lot of the posthumous myth-making surrounding the couple, as its brisk and supple translation allows them to speak openly in their own terms...This edition is an astonishing scholarly achievement, and will no doubt stand as the authoritative edition for some decades to come. “ - Ben Parsons, Teaching Fellow in English, University of Leicester, UK The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain one of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization, while they themselves are second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here, collected for the first time, is their correspondence with accessible commentary from two of our foremost medieval scholars.

Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine’s two great histories: Confessions and City of God. Contents: Introduction * 1. For the Time Being: Interpretive Consolation in Augustinian Time * 2. ‘Quanto minorem consideras’: Abelard’s Proportional Consolation * 3. Three Figures of the Church: Piers Plowman and the Quest for Consolation * 4.

Augustine and Arthur: The Stanzaic Morte and the Comforts of Elegy * 5. Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Consolations at War * 6. The Tower and the Turks: More’s Meditative Consolation * Conclusion

The New Middle Ages May 2015 UK May 2015 US 256pp Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137453358

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Contents: Introductory Essay * PART I: THE CORRESPONENCE OF HELOISE AND ABELARD * PART II: HELOISE’S QUESTIONS (PROBLEMATA HELOISSAE) * PART III: OTHER RELATED LETTERS * and more...

The New Middle Ages May 2014 UK May 2014 US 392pp Paperback £19.00 / $30.00 / CN$34.50 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137413642

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Power and Sainthood The Case of Birgitta of Sweden Päivi Salmesvuori, University of Helsinki, Finland “Focused and meticulously researched, Power and Sainthood addresses the idea of holiness in action as St. Birgitta began to assert her authority in the formative years of her life as a mystic and visionary.

Salmesvuori gives a grounded view of what Birgitta was like as both a woman and human being, but very wisely - stops short of making any generalized character judgments . . . A truly interesting take on Birgitta.” - Bridget Morris, Independent Scholar, York, UK Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340–1349.

Contents: Introduction: How to Study Power and Saints? * 1. Fama Sanctitatis in the 1340’s * 2. Lost Virginity and the Power of Role Models * 3. The Beginning - Birgitta as a Channel of God * 4. Master Mathias’ Role Reassessed * 5. Birgitta Encounters her Critics * 6. Holiness in Action * 7. Birgitta and Power

The New Middle Ages October 2014 UK October 2014 US 276pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137398925

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MEDIEVAL HISTORY Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000

Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD

An Open Elite?

European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe’s colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context.

Patrick Pasture, University of Leuven, Belgium

Kimberly Schutte, SUNY, USA Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women’s marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War. Contents: Introduction * Prologue: Identity and Rank * PART I: THE STATISTICAL SIDE OF THE STORY * 1. The Basic Marriage Patterns * 2. ‘British’ Marriages * 3. An Open Aristocracy? * PART II: THE LESS STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF THE STORY * 4. The Marriage Market * 5. Practical Considerations * 6. Kinship Groups * 7. Elopement and Defiant Matches * Conclusion

Studies in Modern History May 2014 UK May 2014 US 304pp 9 b/w photos, 9 figures Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$106.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137327796

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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Stony Brook University, USA This book examines magic’s generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.

Contents: 1. Tales, Magic, and Fairy Tales * 2. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Magic Tales * 3. Jewish Magic Tales * 4.

Magic Tales in Medieval Christian Europe * 5. Magic Tales in the Muslim Middle Ages * 6. Magic at Court and on the Piazza * 7.

Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic * 8.

The Evolution of Fairy Tale Magic from Straparola and Basile to Perrault * 9. Afterword

Contents: 1. ‘Peace for our time’: The European Quest for Peace * 2. Peace in Christendom? * 3.

Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Evaporating Dream of a Perpetual Peace * 4. Peace during the Concert * 5. Between Empire, Market and Nation * 6. The Long War * 7. Hope and Deception * 8. Pacification by Division * 9. Epilogue: The EC’s Colonial Empire June 2015 UK June 2015 US 251pp Hardback £60.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137480460

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The Palgrave Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History Joe Hillaby, University of Bristol, UK, Caroline Hillaby, Independent Scholar, UK “The authors have produced an excellent reference tool which complements The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History and enhances our sources of information on medieval English history. I would highly recommend this work for all university and research libraries with an interest in history and religion.” - Geography, Biography and History Using a wide range of rich original sources, this unique reference guide provides a remarkable picture of England’s medieval Jewry. Following an extensive introduction, the dictionary includes illustrations, maps, and over 40 topographic, 30 biographic and 80 general entries, including texts of key legislation.

Contents: List of illustrations * Preface, including listings of topographic, biographic and general entries * Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * English Medieval Jewry, 1135-1290: An Introduction * The Dictionary * Bibliography August 2013 UK August 2013 US 472pp Hardback £84.00 / $135.00 / CN$156.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230278165

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Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic July 2014 UK July 2014 US 224pp Hardback £55.00 / $85.00 / CN$98.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137380876

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The Foundations of Medieval Papal Legation Kriston R. Rennie, University of Queensland, Australia Kriston R. Rennie examines the origins and development of medieval papal representation by exploring the legate’s wider historical, legal, diplomatic, and administrative impact on medieval European law and society. This critical study is key to understanding the growth and power of the medieval Church and papacy in the early Middle Ages.

Contents: 1. The Concept of Legation * 2. Theories of Legation * 3. Early Categories and Uses * 4. Towards Standardization * 5.

On Becoming Legate * 6. The Right of Legation * 7. Legates and Councils * 8. The Growth of Legation * 9. A New Era November 2013 UK November 2013 US 248pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$109.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137264930

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE The Coroners of Northern Britain c. 1300-1700 Rab Houston, University of St Andrews, UK For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England’s legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner’s role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death was investigated by magistrates in Scotland.

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The Riddles of The Hobbit Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK “Even the seasoned Tolkien fan can still learn new things from this excellent book . . . In this enlightening exploration Roberts uncovers the nature of Tolkien’s handiwork and illustrates how the act of reading is in fact an act of unriddling.” - Tolkien Library

Contents: Introduction: The History of Coroners in Britain * 1.

Coroners in England, Wales, and Ireland: An Overview of the Development of their Roles * 2. Investigating Sudden Death in Scotland: The Task of Local Magistrates * 3. Scottish Coroners: Origins and Development of the Office to c.1500 * 4. Scottish Coroners from c.1500 until their Disappearance in the Eighteenth Century * 5. Regional and National Histories: Similarities and Differences between the Coroners of Northern Britain * Conclusion: Coroners and British History

Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit, and are key to Tolkien’s creative imagination.The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien’s writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways.

Contents: List of Illustrations * Preface * 1. The Anglo-Saxon Riddleworld * 2. Cynewulf and the Exeter Book * 3. Riddles in the Dark * 4. The Riddles of the All-Wise * 5. The Puzzle of the two Hobbits * 6. The Riddle of Bilbo’s Pocket * 7. The Riddle of the Ring * 8. The Lord of the Rings and the Riddle of Writing * 9. The Volsung Riddle: Character in Tolkien * 10. The Enigma of Genre Fantasy * 11. ...And Back Again. * Bibliography * Index

March 2014 UK March 2014 US 134pp Hardback £45.00 / $67.50 / CN$78.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137381064

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postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

November 2013 UK November 2013 US 192pp 1 b/w illustration Hardback £18.99 / $28.00 / CN$32.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137373632

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The Keys of Middle-earth

Editors: Eileen Joy, BABEL Working Group, USA, Myra Seaman, College of Charleston, USA postmedieval is an award-winning, cross-disciplinary journal in medieval studies bringing the medieval and modern into productive critical relation. The journal aims to develop a present-minded medieval studies in which contemporary events, issues, ideas, problems, objects, and texts serve as triggers for critical investigations of the Middle Ages.

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Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien 2nd edition Stuart Lee, University of Oxford, UK, Elizabeth Solopova, University of Oxford, UK Praise for the previous edition: “Either as a student’s text or as an instructor’s resource, The Keys of Middle-earth provides an excellent introduction to a number of important medieval texts complete with a judicious, but not overwhelming, awareness of recent scholarship within a compelling context of a modern literary phenomenon - the imaginative world of J. R. R. Tolkien.” - Miranda Wilcox, The Medieval Review A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien’s Middleearth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien’s mythology.

Contents: How to Use This Book * Introduction * 1. Background * 2. Medieval Literature * 3.

Thematic and Technical Parallels * 4. The Editions * 5. The Texts * Bibliography * Index July 2015 UK July 2015 US 288pp 1 b/w table Hardback £65.00 / $105.00 / CN$121.00 Paperback £19.99 / $32.00 / CN$35.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137454683 www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137454690

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Contested Language in Malory’s Morte Darthur

ARTHURIAN AND COURTLY CULTURES SERIES

The Politics of Romance in Fifteenth-Century England

Mapping Malory Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University, USA, Kenneth Hodges, University of Oklahoma, USA “By tracking the complex ways that questions of space and geography inform Le Morte Darthur, Dorsey Armstrong and Kenneth Hodges have generated a striking reassessment of Malory’s great work. Gracefully written, amply researched, and persuasively argued, Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur should be on the reading list of anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Arthurian literature.” Kathy Lavezzo, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, USA Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory’s world.

Contents: Introduction: Places of Romance * 1. Mapping Malory’s Morte: The (Physical) Place and (Narrative) Space of Cornwall; Dorsey Armstrong * 2. Of Wales and Women: Guenevere’s Sister and the Isles; Kenneth Hodges * 3. Sir Gawain, Scotland, Orkney; Kenneth Hodges * 4.

Trudging toward Rome, Drifting toward Sarras; Dorsey Armstrong * 5. Why Malory’s Launcelot Is Not French: Region, Nation, and Political Identity; Kenneth Hodges * Conclusion: Malory’s Questing Beast and the Geography of the Arthurian World; Dorsey Armstrong

Arthurian and Courtly Cultures July 2014 UK July 2014 US 248pp 9 maps, 1 figure Hardback £53.50 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137034854

Ruth Lexton, Bates College, USA “Contested Language in Malory’s Morte Darthur uses an impressive mastery of fifteenth-century texts to make the bold argument that Le Morte Darthur treats Arthur not as an ideal king but as a model of political failure. Exquisitely sensitive to language, this book tracks key terms through texts ranging from law books to letters, from disquisitions on kingship to the managing of servants. The result goes beyond a reading of Malory to be an insightful analysis of fifteenth-century political discourses.”

- Kenneth Hodges, Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma, USA Examining Malory’s political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur’s kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon to engage with contemporary problems of kingship and rule.

Contents: Introduction: Arthurian Romance and Political Language in Fifteenth Century England * 1. Kingship, Justice and the ‘comyns’ in the Tale of King Arthur * 2. Counsel and Rule in the Tale of King Arthur and Arthur and Lucius * 3. Malory’s Lancelot and the Politics of Worship * 4. Courtesy in Malory’s Tale of Sir Gareth * 5. Fellowship and Treason * Conclusion: Malory’s Contested Language

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The Myth of Morgan la Fey Kristina Pérez, University of Hong Kong, China “This is a classic study of a misunderstood woman that offers a unique view of how well the medieval world, that often seems so distant from us, can touch and inform a modern sensibility.” - Bill Burgwinkle, Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, University of Cambridge, UK The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth of Morgan la Fey reveals her true identity through a comprehensive investigation of the famed enchantress’ evolution - or devolution - over the past millennium and its implications for gender relations today.

Contents: Introduction Final Girl: The Once and Future Goddess * 1. How to Handle a Woman: Perversion or Psychosis? * 2. Courtly Masochism * 3. Monstrous Mothers: Morgan la Fey and Mélusine * 4. Divine Mothers: Morgan, the Dame du Lac, and the Virgin Mary * 5. What do Women Want? Gawain and Freud * 6. Fals lustes: Malory’s Mistresses * 7. Follow Me: Beguiling the Victorians * 8. If Ever I Would Leave You: Morgan in the Modern Era

Arthurian and Courtly Cultures April 2014 UK April 2014 US 280pp 6 b/w illustrations Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137340252

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Perilous Passages

THE NEW MIDDLE AGES SERIES

The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934

Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters Edited by Karina F. Attar, Queens College, CUNY, USA, Lynn Shutters, Colorado State University, USA “In this volume, Attar and Shutters have given us an invaluable and remarkably rich resource for the teaching and study of cross-cultural encounter in the medieval and early modern worlds. As the global premodern asserts itself increasingly in scholarship and the classroom, this book will provide an indispensable starting point for those seeking to broaden and challenge their views of transcultural contact and transmission. A stellar collection.” Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA, and author of Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

Contents: Foreword; Lisa Lampert-Weissig * Introduction; Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters * PART I: SYNCHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS * 1. Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature; Seth Kimmel * 2. Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean; Megan Moore * and more...

The New Middle Ages December 2014 UK December 2014 US 280pp 7 b/w illustrations Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137481337

Julie A. Chappell, Tarleton State University, USA “Chappell has written a concise and intellectually rewarding study of the manuscript, early printing, and reception history of The Book of Margery Kempe . . . this volume offers much new and worthwhile scholarly information. Summing Up: Highly Recommended.” - CHOICE This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.

Contents: Prologue * 1. The Carthusian Connection * 2. Carthusian Preaching Materials * 3.

Death, Dissolution, and Dispersal * 4. Digbys, Erdeswicks, Bowdons, and Butler-Bowdons * 5.

Recovery, Revelation, and Revival * Epilogue * Bibliography * Index

The New Middle Ages September 2013 UK September 2013 US 208pp Hardback £58.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137277671

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Forms of Knowing in English Literature of the Late Middle Ages Natanela Elias, Beit Berl College, Israel “Natanela Elias’s The Gnostic Paradigm illuminates a little understood but often felt dimension of late medieval literature. Gnosticism is essential to Western culture and its shadow must be grasped by whoever seeks historical self-understanding. Through careful examination of the spectral gnostic presence in Middle-English texts, this study reveals the wisdom of its hidden light, suggesting how much darker our world would be without it.” - Nicola Masciandaro, Professor of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA

Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Judah D. Galinsky, Bar Ilan University, Israel “This is a remarkable collection of articles which both deepens our understanding of problems long subjected to scrutiny and opens up entirely new vistas on JewishChristian relations in thirteenth-century France ... The editors brought together an amazing group of authors - and they have not disappointed.” - William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University, USA A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenthcentury was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.

No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.

Contents: 1. Gnosticism and Late Medieval Literature * 2. Pearl’s Patience and Purity: Gnosticism in the Pearl Poet’s Oeuvre * 3. The Truth about Piers Plowman * 4. Gower’s Bower of Bliss: A Successful Passing into Hermetic Gnosis * Conclusion: Knowing the Christian Middle Ages: A Gnostic Journey into the Self

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Contents: Introduction: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France; Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. Galinsky * PART I: LEARNING, LAW, AND SOCIETY * 1. Continuity and Change in the Study of the Bible: the Ten Commandments in Christian Exegesis; Lesley Smith * 2. Psalters for Men, Books of Hours for Women: Arras as a Case Study; Margo Strumsa-Uzan * and more...

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Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination

Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance Mothers, Identity, and Contamination Angela Florschuetz, Trinity University, USA

The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century Michael A. Faletra, Reed College, USA “Faletra has composed an ambitious and challenging account dedicated to the proposition that the complex representation of Wales in medieval literature should matter to everyone interested in the development of medieval European culture.

Placing the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth at the heart of his narrative, Faletra traces the resonances of Geoffrey’s work in a variety of French and Latin texts from the twelfth century, as well as considering the contact of Welsh literature with these other British and French traditions.” - Simon MeechamJones, Affiliated Lecturer for the English Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh.

Contents: Introduction: The Scrap-Heap of History * 1. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales * 2. Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden: Courtly Britain and Its Others * 3. Chrétien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain * 4. Crooked Greeks: Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales * Epilogue: The Birds of Rhiannon

The New Middle Ages July 2014 UK July 2014 US 260pp 2 figures Hardback £57.50 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137391025

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Contents: Introduction: The Mother’s Mark and the Maternal Monster * 1. Women’s Secrets and Men’s Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian * 2. ‘That Moder Ever Hym Fed’: Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther * 3. ‘Youre Owene Thyng:’ The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction * 4. ‘A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:’ Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s Tale * 5. Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England’s Maternal Aporia * 6. Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom * Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book

The New Middle Ages March 2014 UK March 2014 US 260pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137343482

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Frame Narrative and Political Allegory Amanda J. Gerber, Eastern New Mexico University, USA Ovid’s Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.

Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado, USA Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio’s masterpiece, Decameron, Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story.

Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio’s world and culture.

Contents: Introduction * 1. Galeotto: A Prologue by way of the Proem * 2. Contested Interlude: The Plague * 3. Pampinea ‘s ‘Honest’ Leadership in the Decameron * 4. Sicurano da Finale and Paganino da Mare: Of Corsairs, Merchants and Identity in the Late Middle Ages * 5. Giletta of Narbonne: Chastity and Matrimony on the Day of Sexual Excesses * 6. ‘Love and Death’: Male Authority and the Threat of Violence under Filostrato’s Rule * 7. Fiammetta’s Revolution: Honor, Love and Marriage in Day V * 8. Conclusion

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Contents: 1. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative * 2.

Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition * 3. Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition * 4. Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales * 5. Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Lydgate’s Fall of Princes * 6. Conclusion

April 2015 UK April 2015 US 146pp Hardback £45.00 / $67.50 / CN$78.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137488398

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist

The Repentant Abelard

Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work

Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard’s Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus

M.J. Toswell, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Juanita Feros Ruys, University of Sydney, Australia “Juanita Feros Ruys introduces us to a more humane Abelard, as he evolved in the 1130s only after re-connecting with Heloise, the woman who had transformed his life two decades earlier. Through her edition, translation, and commentary of two, unjustly neglected poetic texts, his Carmen or Song for Astralabe and his Planctus or Laments, Ruys shows with elegance and finesse how Abelard could move beyond the moralism that characterises his earlier writing to Heloise to reflect on complex issues of family relationships, justice, and the human condition.”

- Constant J. Mews, Professor and Director, Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University, Australia

The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.

Contents: Introduction * 1. The Germanic Medievalism of Borges’ Life * 2. Borges the Poet * 3. Borges the Scholar and Writer * 4. Borges the Fabulist * 5. Borges’ Medievalism * Bibliography

The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long overlooked works of this great thinker with analyses and comprehensive notes.

The New Middle Ages November 2014 UK November 2014 US 126pp Hardback £45.00 / $67.50 / CN$78.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137451293

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The New Middle Ages December 2014 UK December 2014 US 372pp Hardback £55.00 / $105.00 / CN$121.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780312240028

Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish Travel Literature Michael Harney, University of Texas, Austin, USA “In this elegantly written book, Michael Harney invites us to reread a vast corpus of texts challenging often taken-for-granted knowledges and assumptions on travel literature. A product of meticulous research and based on a wide range of works, genres, and disciplines, drawing together literature and history, Michael Harney offers new insights and fresh perspectives on the issues of race, caste, and indigeneity in Medieval Iberia. Lucid and provocative but dispassionate and evenhanded at the same time, this book is not just a welcome addition to the growing bibliography on travel and travellers, but also an essential and masterful contribution to the study of Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic literatures.” - Aníbal A. Biglieri, Professor of Spanish Medieval Literature, University of Kentucky, USA The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores this already internationalized world of latemedieval and early-modern Europe.

Contents: Introduction * 1. Concepts of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Iberia * 2. Race * 3. Caste * 4. Indigeneity * Conclusion: The Tourist in the Text

The New Middle Ages February 2015 UK February 2015 US 264pp Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137381378

Contents: Introduction * PART I: CARMEN AD ASTRALABRIUM ANALYSIS * 1. Writing the Carmen * 2. Reading the Carmen: The Medieval Reception of the Carmen * PART II: PLANCTUS ANALYSIS * 3.

The Planctus as a Series * 4. Specific Studies in the Planctus * PART III: CARMEN AD ASTRALABIUM TEXT * PART IV: PLANCTUS TEXT * Appendices

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Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland Edited by Sarah Sheehan, University ofToronto, Canada, Ann Dooley, University ofToronto, Canada “The unruly sex-gender systems of medieval Irish literature remain nearly as much a scandal to the conservative heteronormativism of modern scholarship in the field as they were to Romanizing churchmen, proto-colonialist Normans, and Elizabethan carpet-baggers. This collection, at long last, clarifies what scholars of medieval gender have to learn from Irish texts, and why it’s high time for Celticists, in their turn, to engage more fully the gender-critical insights of the last three decades.” David Townsend, Professor of Medieval Studies and English, University of Toronto, Canada Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender.

Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.

Contents: Introduction: Ann Dooley and Sarah Sheehan * 1. Travelers and Settled Folk: Women, Honor, and Shame in Medieval Ireland ; Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha * 2. Sex in the civitas: Early Irish Intellectuals and their Vision of Women; Catherine Swift * 3. Looking for ‘Mr. Right’ in Tochmarc Becfhola; Joanne Findon * 4. Playing for Power: Macha Mongrúad’s Sovereign Performance; Amy C. Mulligan * 5. Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle; Sarah Sheehan * 6.

They Kept their Skirts On: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography; Judith L. Bishop * 7.

Human Frontiers in Medieval Irish Religious Literature; Jennifer Karyn Reid * 8. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Late Medieval Irish Rómánsaíochta; Giselle Gos * 9. Speaking with Forked Tongues: Gender and Narrative in the Acallam; Ann Dooley

The New Middle Ages December 2013 UK December 2013 US 236pp 1 b/w illustration, 1 b/w table Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230115255

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY SERIES

Edited by Gillian Partington, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, Adam Smyth, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.

Contents: List of Illustrations * Notes on the contributors * Introduction; Adam Smyth and Gill Partington * PART I: BURNING * 1. Burning Sex Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin; Heike Bauer * 2. Burning to Read: Ben Jonson’s Library Fire of 1623; Adam Smyth * PART II: MUTILATING * 3. From Books to Skoob; Or, Media Theory with a Circular Saw; Gill Partington * 4. The Complete Works of Franz Kafka Burned [interview]; Ross Birrell * PART III: DOCTORING * 5. Belligerent Literacy, Bookplates, and Graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton’s Book; Anthony Bale * 6. Doctoring Victorian Literature: A Humument [interview]; Tom Phillips * PART IV: DEGRADING * 7. ‘Miss Cathy’s riven th’ back off ‘Th’ Helmet uh Salvation’’: Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture; Stephen Colclough * 8. Waste Matters: Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling; Heather Tilley * PART V: DEFORMING/RESHAPING * and more...

New Directions in Book History September 2014 UK September 2014 US 232pp 22 b/w illustrations Hardback £55.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137367655

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The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 Jane Grogan, University College Dublin, Ireland The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 15491622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire.

Contents: List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Reading Persia in Renaissance England * 1. Classical Persia: Making Kings and Empires * 2. Romance Persia: ‘Nourse of Pompous Pride’ * 3. Staging Persia: ‘To ride in triumph through Persepolis’ * 4.

Sherley Persia: ‘Agible things’ * Epilogue: Ormuz * Bibliography

Early Modern Literature in History February 2014 UK February 2014 US 272pp 5 b/w illustrations Hardback £58.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230343269

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The Renaissance Extended Mind

The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

Miranda Anderson, Edinburgh University, UK “The author displays a truly impressive knowledge of a variety of issues – from the Renaissance, Shakespeare, and the contemporary debate in cognitive science about the embodied and extended mind. Miranda Anderson is a Renaissance woman herself, able to read ancient debates in light of more recent ones… this book is aimed not just at literary theorists but also philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists.” - Giovanna Colombetti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK

Edited by Johanna Harris, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK “The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women provides fifteen fascinating vignettes of prominent female thinkers. The editors do not attempt an over-arching definition of a Puritan, but each individual chapter justifies its subject’s claim to that title, building up a composite picture of a formidable godly femininity.”

- David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.

Contents: 1. The Extended Mind * 2. Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition * 3. Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied * 4. Renaissance Language and Memory Forms * 5. Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity * 6. Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors * 7. Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass * Epilogue

New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science July 2015 UK July 2015 US 288pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137412843

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This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women’s roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.

Contents: List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * List of Abbreviations * Foreword; N.H.Keeble * Introduction; J. Harris & E. Scott-Baumann * The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock; S. Felch * The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety; D. Clarke * Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon; L. Magnusson * Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture; E. Clarke * Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford; M. O’Connor * ‘An Ancient Mother in our Israel’: Mary, Lady Vere; J. Eales * ‘Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more’: The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville’s Puritan Poetics; S. C. E. Ross * ‘But I thinke and beleeve’: Lady Brilliana Harley’s Puritanism in Epistolary Community; J. Harris * ‘Take unto ye words’: Elizabeth Isham’s ‘Booke of Rememberance’ and Puritan Cultural Forms; E. Longfellow * Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire; S. Wiseman * Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women’s Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle; R. Connoll * Anna Trapnel’s Literary Geography; D. Purkiss * Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder; E. Scott-Baumann * Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example; N. Smith * Afterword; D. Norbrook * Bibliography * Index

Early Modern Literature in History June 2015 UK June 2015 US 256pp 2 b/w photos, 1 map Paperback £18.99 / $29.00 / CN$34.00 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137503671

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Early Modern Women in Conversation Katherine R. Larson, University of Toronto, Canada “Larson’s book takes us into the virtual spaces of women’s conversation...” Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women.

Contents: Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Note on Texts and References * 1.

Introduction * 2. Beyond the Humanist Dialogue: The Textual Conversations of Early Modern Women * PART I: GENDERING CONVERSATION AND SPACE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND * 3. ‘Intercourses of Friendship’: Gender, Conversation, and Social Performance * 4. Markets and Thresholds: Conversation as Spatial Practice * PART II: THE SIDNEYS IN CONVERSATION * 5.

Speaking to God with ‘a cloven tongue’: The Sidney-Pembroke Psalter * 6. Conversational Games and the Articulation of Desire in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory and Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost * PART III: THE CAVENDISHES IN CONVERSATION * 7. ‘The language of friendship and conversation’: Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s Conversational Alliances * 8. The Civil Conversations of Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson * 9. Conclusion * Notes * Works Cited * Index

Early Modern Literature in History June 2015 UK June 2015 US 232pp Paperback £18.99 / $29.00 / CN$34.00 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137506306

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The History of British Women’s Writing, 700-1500

Now available in paperback

Volume One Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea University, UK, Diane Watt, University of Surrey, UK “This collection is a noteworthy addition to the bibliography on women’s contributions to medieval literature...McAvoy and Watt are to be commended for compiling an outstanding collaborative history of women’s writings, as well as a significant history of medieval literature. It will be profitably read by anyone interested in medieval literature or women’s writing. With its assessments of prior and current scholarship and its generous notes and bibliography, it offers a thorough overview of the field for graduate students, and its informative, well-written, and original essays make it recommended reading for anyone studying women’s writing.” - Monica Brzezinski Potkay, The Review of English Studies This volume, available in paperback for the first time, focuses on women’s literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women’s literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of ‘writing’ itself.

Contents: Preface to the Paperback Edition * Acknowledgments * Notes on Contributors * Chronology * 1. Introduction: Writing a History of Women’s Writing from 700 to 1500; L.Herbert McAvoy and D.Watt * PART I: PRE-TEXTS AND CONTEXTS * 2. Women and the Origins of English Literature; C.A.Lees and G.R.Overing * 3. Literary Production Before and After the Conquest; C.A.M.Clarke * 4. The French of the English and Early British Women’s Literary Culture; C.Batt * 5. Women Writers in Wales; J.Cartwright * 6. Medieval Antifeminism; A.Bernau * PART II: BODIES, BEHAVIOURS AND TEXTS * 7. Romance; C.Saunders * 8. Saints’ Lives; S.Horner * 9. Devotional Literature; M.M.Sauer * and more...

History of British Women’s Writing April 2015 UK April 2015 US 296pp Paperback £18.99 / $29.00 / CN$31.50 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137517951

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

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A Feminist Literary History Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada “A masterful, eloquent, and convincing interpretation of the early modern culture of beauty which has vast implications for myriad areas of critical and historical interest beyond this topic alone.” - Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, UK CHOICE Outstanding title award 2011 Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Contents: Introduction * PART I: COSMETICS * 1. ‘The Beautifying Part of Physic’: Women’s Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England * 2. ‘Soveraigne Receipts,’ Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England * PART II: CLOTHES * 3. The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth’s Urania and Margaret Spencer’s Account Book * 4. What Not to Wear: Children’s Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley * PART III: HAIR * 5. The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth’s Urania and Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ * 6. An ‘absolute mistress of her self’: Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair * Conclusion * Index June 2015 UK June 2015 US 208pp 4 b/w illustrations Paperback £18.99 / $29.00 / CN$34.00 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137503688

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II

The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom

Edited by Paul Cefalu, Lafayette College, USA, Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria, Canada, Bryan Reynolds, University of California, USA

Three Necessary Arguments

This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology.

Contents: Acknowledgements * Notes on the Contributors * Introduction * PART I: POSTHUMANISM * 1. It’s (for) you; or, the tele-t/r/opical post-human; Julian Yates * 2. Margaret Cavendish and the Creation, Publishing, and Empowering of Subjectivity in the Blazing World; Dan Mills * 3. The Bee and the Sovereign (II): Segments, Swarms, and the Early Modern Multitude, Joseph Campana * PART II: ECOCRITICISM * 4. Early Modern Ecocriticism; Ken Hiltner * 5. Horticulture of the Head: The Vegetable Life of Hair inEarly Modern English Thought; Edward Geisweidt * 6. The Private Lives of Trees and Flowers; Douglas Trevor * PART III: HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY * 7. Shakespearean Softscapes: Hospitality, Phenomenology, Design; Julia Reinhard Lupton * 8. Describing the Sense of Confession in Hamlet; Matthew J. Smith * 9. ‘’’Tis insensible, then?’: Language and Action in 1 Henry IV’; James A. Knapp * 10. ‘’We Prove Mysterious by This Love’: John Donne and the Intimacy of Flesh; Christopher Stokes * PART IV: HISTORICISM NOW * 11. Milton, Habermas, and the Dynamics of Debate; James Kuzner * 12. ‘Copious Measures’: The Sidney Psalms and the Meaning of Abundance; Kenneth Graham * 13. The Empedoclean Renaissance; Drew Daniel * Index October 2014 UK October 2014 US 328pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137351043

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Teaching Chaucer Edited by Gail Ashton, UK, Louise Sylvester, University of Central England in Birmingham, UK This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education. The projects explored in this study focus on a student-centred, active learning designed to enhance independent research skills and critical thinking. These studies also seek to establish conversations - between teachers and learners, and students and their texts.

Contents: Series Preface * Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Introduction; G.Ashton * 1. Chaucer for Fun and Profit; P.A.Knapp * 2. A Series of Linked Assignments for the Undergraduate Course on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; S.F.Kruger * 3. Why We Should Teach - and Our Students Perform - The Legend of Good Women; F.Tolhurst * 4. ‘Cross-Voiced’ Assignments and the Critical ‘I’; M.Fitzgibbons * 5. Teaching the Language of Chaucer; L.Sylvester * 6. Teaching the Language of Chaucer Manuscripts; S.Horobin * 7. Creating Learning Communities in Chaucer Studies: Process and Product; G.Ashton * 8. ‘The wondres that they myghte seen or heere’: Designing and Using Web-based Resources to Teach Medieval Literature; P.Semper * 9. Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing; L.Coote * Bibliography * Suggestions for Further Reading * Web Resources * Index

Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University, USA “Finally, a book that defends the humanities not with violins but rather by linking them to the status of contingent labor in the academy, and what the deplorable state of both means for all of us. The Humanities, Higher Education and Academic Freedom is an important intervention that spotlights the most salient defense of tenure for our times. Bérubé and Ruth center on the forgotten side of academic freedom, namely governance. This is a bracing and necessary book that should be mandatory reading for all department chairs—and everyone else who teaches college.” - Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English, Fordham University, and columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book’s stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.

Contents: Acknowledgements * Introduction: The Ersatz Crisis and the Real One * 1. Value and Values * 2. Slow Death and Painful Labors * 3. From Professionalism to Patronage * 4. On the Rails * Appendix: Implementing a Teaching-Intensive Tenure Track at Portland State University * Bibliography * Index May 2015 UK May 2015 US 136pp 1 b/w table Hardback £50.00 / $85.00 / CN$98.00 Paperback £13.99 / $23.00 / CN$27.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137506108 www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137506115

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Narrative Form Revised and Expanded Second Edition Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, USA This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

Teaching the New English

Contents: Preface: Studying Narrative Form * 1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative * 2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts * 3. Narrative Situation: Who’s Who and What’s its Function * 4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds * 5. Plot and Causation: Related Events * 6. Timing: How Long and How Often? * 7. Order and Disorder * 8. Levels: Realms of Existence * 9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality * 10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise * 11. Genres and Conventions * 12. Narrative Emotions * Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter * Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Readings * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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MEDIEVAL PERFORMING ARTS...

Humanities World Report 2015

MEDIEVAL PERFORMING ARTS AND MUSIC

Poul Holm, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Arne Jarrick, Stockholm University, Sweden, Dominic Scott, University of Virginia, USA “This Humanities World Report is more than a year’s snapshot; it is a report and a sounding in the best sense of the word that allows us to hear from scholars and institutional leaders giving their assessment of the ‘state of humanities’. This is an original contribution to a field that is filled with blog-length individual reflections. In this one large report we are able to hear from practitioners, administrators, and institutional funders in aggregate and in detail as they describe what it means today to perform humanistic research.

Of special interest is the comprehensive set of material from regions across the west as well as those areas that are typically underrepresented such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia. This work will be a vital addition to the libraries of the world’s leading humanities centers as we chart our way forward.” - Roland Hsu, Stanford Humanities Center, and Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies The first of its kind, this Open Access ‘Report’ is a first step in assessing the state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of the humanities, the nature of humanities research and the relation between humanities and politics, amongst other issues.

Contents: 1. Introduction * 2. The Value of the Humanities * 3. The Nature of the Humanities * 4. The Digital Humanities * 5. Translating the Humanities * 6. The Culture of Humanities Research * 7. Funding and Infrastructures * 8. Humanities and Public Policy * 9. Conclusion * Appendix: the Interview Questionnaire * Index

November 2014 UK November 2014 US 232pp Hardback £20.00 / $31.00 / CN$35.50 9781137500267 Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137500267

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Willard McCarty, King’s College London, UK “This landmark study is fundamental to understanding the history and future directions of the expanding field of digital humanities, written by one of its pioneers.” – Professor Paul Arthur, The University of Western Sydney, Australia

Now with a new preface, Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences.

Contents: Acknowledgements * Preface * 1. Modelling * 2. Genre * 3. Discipline * 4. Computer Science * 5. Agenda * Bibliography * Index July 2014 UK July 2014 US 340pp Paperback £21.99 / $30.00 / CN$34.00 Canadian Rights www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137440426

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Performing Environments Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama Edited by Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada, Mary Polito, University of Calgary, Canada “This impressive volume makes an important contribution to critical work on memory, history, and performing environments in the medieval and early modern periods. The studies interrogate the volume’s theme from a range of perspectives, engaging a variety of different genres and media in illuminating ways.” - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

Contents: Thinking Site: an Introduction, Susan Bennett and Mary Polito * PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS * 1. ‘The whole past, the whole time’: Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York, Patricia Badir * 2. John Heywood, Henry, and Hampton Court Palace, Elisabeth Dutton * 3. Playing The Changeling Architecturally, Kim Solga * PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY * 4. Performing Folk at Kenilworth, Jim Ellis * 5. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen’s Men’s Repertory, Helen Ostovich * 6. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands, Julie Sanders * PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES * 7. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays, Kevin Teo * 8. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Clare Wright * 9. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres, Sarah Crover * PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES * and more...

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Editing, Performance, Texts New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama Edited by Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary, Canada, Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK “The essays in this volume offer readers a diverse array of critical approaches that challenge our definitions of and processes for editing dramatic work. The collection showcases innovative methodologies related to editing practices, making it tremendously valuable to scholars, editors, theatre artists, and educators alike.” - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA The essays in this volume challenge current ‘givens’ in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cuttingedge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.

Contents: Introduction: ‘New Practices’, Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders * PART I: ENABLING MANUSCRIPTS TO SPEAK * 1. What the Beauchamp Pageant Says About Medieval Plays, Claire Sponsler * 2. Reading Images, Drawing Texts: The Illustrated Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library MS Stowe 39’, Boyda Johnstone * 3. The Towneley Manuscript and Performance: Tudor Recycling?, Murray McGillivray * 4. Performing the Percy Folio, Andrew Taylor * PART II: PERFORMANCE TRACES IN THE ARCHIVE * 5. London Commercial Theatre 1500-1576, Mary Erler * 6. The Revision of Manuscript Drama, James Purkis * and more...

June 2014 UK June 2014 US 264pp 15 b/w illustrations Hardback £50.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137320100

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MEDIEVAL PERFORMING ARTS...

Vol. I: Editing, Performance, Texts / Vol. II: Performing Environments New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama Edited by Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary, Canada, Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK, Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada, Mary Polito, University of Calgary, Canada Editing, Performance, Texts: “The essays in this volume offer readers a diverse array of critical approaches that challenge our definitions of and processes for editing dramatic work. The collection showcases innovative methodologies related to editing practices, making it tremendously valuable to scholars, editors, theatre artists, and educators alike.” - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA Performing Environments: “This impressive volume makes an important contribution to critical work on memory, history, and performing environments in the medieval and early modern periods. The essays interrogate the volume’s theme from a range of perspectives, engaging a variety of different genres and media in illuminating ways.” - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA This two-volume pack brings together two seminal collections of essays that explore the expansive multitude of considerations in understanding historical performance texts and practice.

Contents: Volume I: Editing, Performance, Texts * Introduction: ‘New Practices’, Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders * PART I: ENABLING MANUSCRIPTS TO SPEAK * PART II: PERFORMANCE TRACES IN THE ARCHIVE * PART III: EDITING THROUGH PERFORMANCE * Volume II: Performing Environments * PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS * PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY * PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES * PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES * and more...

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MEDIEVAL POLITICS AND LAW MEDIEVAL POLITICS AND LAW

The Rule of Law Møller, Skaaning, The Rule of Law The Rule of Law, Møller, Skaaning

Definitions, Measures, Patterns and Causes Jørgen Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Aarhus University, Denmark “The rule of law is simultaneously one of the most universally approved, and yet most imprecise concepts in the literature on political economy. The volume by Møller and Skaaning helps greatly by imposing some clarity with regard to definitions, as well as providing extremely useful discussions both of historical origins and approaches to empirical measurement of the rule of law.” - Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University, USA Through critical analysis of key concepts and measures of the rule of law, this book shows that the choice of definitions and measures affects descriptive and explanatory findings about nomocracy. It argues a constitutionalist legacy from centuries ago explains why European civilizations display higher adherence to rule of law than other countries.

Contents: 1. Introduction * PART I: ON DEFINITIONS * 2. Systematizing Thin and Thick Rule of Law Definitions * 3. Diminished Subtypes of the Rule of Law * PART II: ON MEASURES * 4. Evaluating Extant Rule of Law Measures * 5. Exploring the Interchangability of Rule of Law Measures * PART III: ON PATTERNS * 6. Examining the Empirical Fit of the Typological Hierarchy * 7. Reassessing the Relevance of Diminished Subtypes of the Rule of Law * 8. Charting Rule of Law Adherence Across Time and Space * PART IV: ON CAUSES * 9. Uncovering the Historical Origins of the Rule of Law * 10. Explaining Cross-National Differences in Adherence to the Rule of Law * 11. Conclusions June 2014 UK June 2014 US 216pp 15 figures, 23 b/w tables Hardback £58.00 / $95.00 / CN$108.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137320605

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Aquinas’s Philosophy of Religion Paul O’Grady, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas’s contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas’s contexts, his views on philosophy and theology, as well as faith and reason. His arguments for God’s existence, responses to objections against God’s existence and his characterization of the nature of God are examined.

Contents: Preface * List of Abbreviations * Conventions in Referring to Aquinas’s Work * 1. Philosophy and Theology * 2. Aquinas’s Conceptual Scheme * 3. Reason and Faith * 4.

Arguments for God’s Existence * 5. Objections to God’s Existence * 6. God’s Nature: The Way of Negation * 7. God’s Nature: The Way of Eminence * Bibliography * Index November 2014 UK November 2014 US 264pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9780230285170

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