Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections) and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (monographs) are sister series originally inspired by themes drawn from the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. These series provide a home for high‐quality humanities research on topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Beginning in 2018, all books listed in RMEMC are also part of SMEMC.

Although Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture have historically focused on medieval Europe, we have expanded geographically and chronologically to embrace a wider conception of the premodern. We welcome studies addressing a range of topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods, and we invite proposals from new and established scholars who employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate literary, historical and material sources and explore what it has meant to be human through the ages.

 

Geographical Scope: Global

Chronological Scope: Late antique, medieval, and early modern

  • Submissions

    Submissions

    Proposals or completed projects to be considered for publication should be sent to Tyler Cloherty or (particularly for historical studies) Emily Winkler, the acquisitions editors for the series. For other inquiries, consult Theresa Whitaker. Since the scope of the series is so broad, the press identifies evaluators on a case by case basis before any formal commitment is made to the author. Further, all submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review from an independent expert chosen by the press.

All Books in this Series

  • Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise

    Cover of Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise by Jacob Abell: a medieval image of sailors in a ship with a giant fish beneath themSpiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise

    By Jacob Abell

    The Earthly Paradise was a vibrant symbol at the heart of medieval Christian geographies of the cosmos. As humanity’s primal home now lost through the sins of Adam of Eve, the Earthly Paradise figured prominently in Old French tales of lands beyond the mundane world. This study proposes a fresh look at the complex roles played by the Earthly Paradise in three medieval French poems: Marie de France’s The Purgatory of St. Patrick, Benedeit’s Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot, and Guillaume de Lorris’s The Romance of the Rose. By examining the literary, cultural, and artistic components that informed each poem, this book advances the thesis that the exterior walls of the Earthly Paradise served evolving purposes as contemplative objects that implicitly engaged complex notions of economic solidarity and idealized community. These visions of the Earthly Paradise stand to provide a striking contribution to a historically informed response to the contemporary legacies of colonialism and the international refugee crisis.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXVII, ISBN 978-1-50152-057-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-425-8 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-427-2 (EPUB) © 2023

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  • Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

    Cover image of Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature, by Christine Schott: a variety of open books stuck to a wooden wall with wads of chewing gum

    Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

    By Christine Schott

    Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other uses of source material like prequels, sequels and spinoffs. On the other hand, fanfiction studies has the broad reach adaptation studies lacks but is generally interested in "underground" production rather than material that goes through the official publication process and thus enters the literary canon. This book sits in the gap between these fields, discussing published novels and their contribution to the scholarly engagement with their pre- and early modern source material as well as applying that creative framework to the teaching of literature in the college classroom.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXVI, ISBN 978-1-50152-337-3 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-597-2 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-598-9 (EPUB) © 2022

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  • The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    Cover image of The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, by David Strong: a carving of two seated men, holding right hands and with one man's head on the other's shoulder. The title in white on a red background.

    The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    By David Strong

    This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import of the characters’ interaction in the works written by Chaucer, Shakespeare and their contemporaries. By attuning oneself to another’s expressive phenomena, the empathizer acquires an inter- and intrapersonal knowledge that exposes the limitations of hyperbole, custom, or unbridled passion to explain the profundity of their bond. Understanding the substantive meaning of the characters’ discourse and narrative context discloses their motivations and how they view themselves. Strong explores the place of empathy in select late medieval and early modern portrayals of the body and mind and explicates the role they play in forging an intimate rapport.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXV, ISBN 978-1-50152-252-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-546-0 (PDF), ISBN  978-1-50151-547-7 (EPUB) © 2022

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  • Mapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

    Cover image of Mapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, by Ingrid Baumgärtner and edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe: the title in white on a dark red background, with an image of a medieval map below, and a medieval illustration of a caravan of camels and horsesMapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

    By Ingrid Baumgärtner and edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe

    This volume offers Ingrid Baumgärtner's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration and the production of Portolan atlases.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXIV, ISBN 978-1-50152-381-6 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-601-6 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-604-7 (EPUB) © 2022

  • Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England: The Separation of the Citizen from the Self

    Cover image of Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England: The Separation of the Citizen from the Self, by Lynette HunterHumanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England: The Separation of the Citizen from the Self

    By Lynette Hunter

    This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495-1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermon or the conversational rhetoric between friends, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXIII, ISBN 978-1-50151-857-7 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-424-1 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-407-4 (EPUB) © 2022

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  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle

    Cover image of The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle, translated by Rala I. Diakité and Matthew T. Sneider: a manuscript illustration of an armored knight on horseback in the background, with the title and contributor information in white text on a dark red background.

    The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle

    Translated from the Italian by Rala I. Diakité and Matthew T. Sneider

    Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is illustrated in several famous chapters describing the city’s income, expenses, and magnificence. The dramatic account follows Florence’s internal affairs as well as its conflicts with powerful lords like Castruccio Castracani and Mastino della Scala. The chronicler’s perspective, however, ranges beyond his city, as he documents such events as the imperial coronation of Louis of Bavaria, the penitential pilgrimage of Venturino da Bergamo, and the first campaigns of the Hundred Year’s War.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXI, ISBN 978-1-50151-842-3 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-426-5 (PDF) © 2022

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  • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters

    Cover image of Liliana Sikorska's Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters

    Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters

    By Liliana Sikorska

    Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and travel accounts.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXXII, ISBN 978-1-50151-791-4 (hardback), ISBN  978-1-50151-336-7 (PDF) © 2021

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  • Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach

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    Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach

    By Gwenyth E. Hood

    An artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past.  Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, investing considerable energy in establishing and alluding to its dates (starting Good Friday, 1300). Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXX, ISBN 978-1-50151-822-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-372-5 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-356-5 (EPUB), © 2021

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  • Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry

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    Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry

    By Jonathan Fruoco

    Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of early medieval English literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style — if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXIX, ISBN 978-1-50151-849-2 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-436-4 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-404-3 (EPUB), © 2020

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  • The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis: A Manuscript's Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras

    Cover image of The Latin World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis: A Manuscript's Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras: a manuscript image of a monk writing at a desk within a "C" initial, on a magenta background

    The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis: A Manuscript's Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras

    By Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano

    The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 E.iv: the Latin Chronicle (from the Creation to 1300) of Guillaume de Nangis, copied in a Paris atelier from the original in the abbey of St-Denis-en-France. The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and interesting times of this codex.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXVIII, ISBN 978-1-50151-871-3 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-001-4 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-005-2 (EPUB), © 2020

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  • Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: Long Distance Pilgrimage in North-Western Europe

    Cover image of Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: Long-Distance Pilgrimage in Northwest Europe: the face of a stone statue, with the title in white on a dark red background

    Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: Long Distance Pilgrimage in North-Western Europe

    By Elizabeth Caroline Tingle

    Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints' cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. The central focus is that of agency in religious change: what drove spiritual reform and what were its consequences for the 'ordinary' Catholic? This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality, and sacred space.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXVII, ISBN 978-1-50151-815-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-438-8 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-413-5 (EPUB), © 2020

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  • Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in the Canterbury Tales: "Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

    Cover image of Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in the Canterbury Tales: an image of a girl with a floral crown and a white dress in profile, distorted with red smears across the image; centered in a broken stained glass effect

    Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in the Canterbury Tales: "Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic Storyteller

    By Becky Renee McLaughlin

    Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXV, ISBN 978-1-50151-841-6 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50151-410-4 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-50151-406-7 (EPUB), © 2020

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  • Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

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    Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

    Jennifer Vaught

    This book illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXIV, ISBN 978-1-50151-793-8 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5015-1315-2 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-5015-1309-1 (EPUB) © 2019

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  • Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota

    Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota

    Philip Mark Robinson-Self

    This volume considers the reception in the early modern period of four popular medieval myths of nationhood—the legends of Brutus, Albina, and Scota—tracing their intertwined literary and historiographical afterlives.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXIII, ISBN 978-1-58044-351-7 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58044-352-4 (PDF), ISBN 978-3-11-062668-1 (EPUB) © 2018

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  • The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain

    The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain

    By Megan S. Lloyd

    This book explores how R.A.'s play "The Valiant Welshman" reflected contemporary hopes and fears about the potential unification of England and Scotland during the reign of James VI of Scotland and I of England.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXII, ISBN 978-1-58044-353-1 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58044-354-8 (PDF), ISBN 978-3-11-062540-0 (EPUB) © 2018

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  • The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

    Cover of The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition: Initial E - Jonah Cast Into the Sea, about 1270

    The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition

    Ethan Campbell

    A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English "Gawain" poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXI, ISBN 978-1-58044-307-4 (hardback) © 2018

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  • Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame

    Cover image of Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame: Robert Delaunay, Stage Design for Cleopatra, ca. 1918

    Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame

    Robert A. Logan

    A characterological study of the standards of measure and the nature of fame of the renowned figures in "Antony and Cleopatra," juxtaposed to the origins and nature of Shakespeare's fame.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XX, ISBN 978-158044-319-7 (hardback) © 2018

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  • Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in "The Faerie Queene"

    Cover image of Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queen: a large mirror with an ornate gold border

    Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in "The Faerie Queene"

    Judith H. Anderson

    This study interrogates the figuration of women within the narrative of Spenser's culturally encyclopedic romance-epic, "The Faerie Queene."

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XIX, ISBN 978-158044-317-3 (hardback) © 2018

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  • Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron

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    Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron

    Martha Carlin and Joel Rosenthal

    Caroline Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles revised and updated here.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XVIII, ISBN 978-158044-256-5 (hardback) © 2017

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  • The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

    Cover image of The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France: a photograph of the remains of a monastery, looking through a stone arch, by Gino Romiti

    The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

    Gabriella Scarlatta

    This study explores how Italian and French poets adopted the "disperata" genre to establish a tradition that both merges with and subverts Petrarchism.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XVII, ISBN 978-158044-256-5 (hardback) © 2017

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  • Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths

    Cover image of Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths: The Sacrifice of Abraham, San Pedro de la Nave (carving at the top of a stone column)

    Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths

    Rose Walker

    A reconsideration of Spanish and Portuguese art and architecture from the time of the Romans to the turn of the eleventh century. Challenging earlier overviews, Walker highlights the artistic unities shared by Christians and Muslims that culminated in the later tenth century and went on to inform aspects of Romanesque art.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XVI, ISBN 978-1-58044-264-0 (hardback) © 2017

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  • Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s “De consolatione philosophiae”

    Cover image of Vernacular Traditions of Boethius's "De consolatione philosophiae": MS Hunter 374 f.4r Boethius with Students in Prison, from "De Consolatione Philosophiae cum Commento", 1385 on vellum

    Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s “De consolatione philosophiae”

    Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. And Philip Edward Phillips

    This collection critically examines translations of Boethius's “Consolatio” not only into English and German but also into Dutch, Italian, Polish, Hebrew, Greek and Korean.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XV, ISBN 978-1-58044-216-9 (hardback) © 2016

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  • The Final Book of Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle

    Cover image of The Final Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle: Statue of Giovanni Villani by Gaetano Trentanove, 1890, Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Piazza del Mercato Nuovo, Florence, April 2014 by Giacomo Spagnoli

    The Final Book of Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle

    Translated from the Italian by Rala Diakite and Matthew Sneider

    The first full translation of the final book of Giovanni Villani's important “Cronica Fiorentina” - includes introduction, annotations and index.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XIV, ISBN 978-1-58044-217-6 (hardback) © 2016

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  • A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

    Cover image of A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature: The Troubadour, 1868-1873, Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1879) (detail), oil on fabric

    A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

    Robert A. Taylor

    Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field ensure that this guide will become the essential resource for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XIII, ISBN 978-1-58044-215-2 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58044-207-7 (paperback) © 2015

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  • Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

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    Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

    Peter Dendle

    Early medieval England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of a society that was at the center of multiple conflicting cultural dimensions. This book is a reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XII, ISBN 978-1-58044-169-8 (hardback) © 2014

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  • Saints at Play: The Performance Features of French Hagiographic Mystery Plays

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    Saints at Play: The Performance Features of French Hagiographic Mystery Plays

    Vicki L. Hamblin

    In the introduction to her study of twenty-eight French non-biblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Hamblin notes that "this approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting."

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XI, ISBN 978-1-58044-167-4 (hardback) © 2012

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  • William Langland, Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions

    All 3 volumes of William Langland, Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions

    William Langland, Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions

    Edited by A.V.C. Schmidt

    This work—a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman—constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Volume 1) alongside both the textual notes (Volume 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Volume 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students of Langland as possible.

    Volume 1 revises the first edition published by Longman in 1995. The two-part Volume 2 contains in a full and clearly presented form all the material essential for advanced study of a great medieval poem that continues to attract wide and intense interest.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture X, 3-volume set, ISBN 978-1-58044-161-2 (paperback set) © 2011

    • 2nd edition of Volume 1: Text (pp. xviii + 764), ISBN 978-1-58044-158-2 (paperback) © 2011
    • Revised edition of Volume 2, Part 1: Introduction and Textual Notes (pp. xiv + 472), ISBN 978-1-58044-159-9 (paperback) © 2011
    • Revised edition of Volume 2, Part 2: Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary (pp. viii + 476), ISBN 978-1-58044-160-5 (paperback) © 2011
    • Earlier edition of Volume 2, Parts 1 and 2 (pp. xiv + 950), ISBN 978-1-58044-141-4 (paperback–out of print) © 2008

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  • My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay

    Cover image of My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay, edited by Susanna Fein: a medieval manuscript illustration of a man and an angel ringing bells, on a dark blue backgroundMy Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay

    Edited by Susanna Fein

    The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in "The Counsel of Conscience" to the salutations and carols that follow in the manuscript, concluding with a defense of Audelay's authorship of "Three Dead Kings" and Fein's own study of the multiple endings of the Audelay Manuscript. The scholarly work gathered in this collection allows John the Blind Audelay to take his rightful place among his peers in early fifteenth-century English literature.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture IX, ISBN 978-1-58044-135-3 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58044-136-0 (paperback) © 2009

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  • Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century

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    Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century

    Tia M. Kolbaba

    Focusing on the ninth-century beginnings of Byzantine writings against the Latin addition of the Filioque to the creed, this book illuminates several aspects of Byzantine thought—their self-definition, their theology, their uniquely constituted state—based both on what they had to say for themselves and on modern approaches to the study of group identity, religious conflict, and sociology of knowledge. The book introduces the concept of heresiology in general, defining terms, summarizing a vast body of secondary scholarship, and bringing the history of Byzantine antiheretical texts down to the ninth century.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture VII, ISBN 978-1-58044-133-9 (hardback) © 2009

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  • Late Medieval England (1377–1485): A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1990–1999

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    Late Medieval England (1377–1485): A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1990–1999

    Joel T. Rosenthal

    The volume represents the second part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian and Yorkist England, covering categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. As Rosenthal notes in the introduction, its size (1,888 entries for the decade) "hardly gives much support to those who warn us of the imminent demise of the more traditional lines of historical endeavor and inquiry."

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture VI, ISBN 1-58044-075-4 (hardback) © 2003

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  • Late Medieval England (1377–1485): A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1975–1989

     

    Late Medieval England (1377–1485): A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1975–1989

    Late Medieval England (1377–1485): A Bibliography of Historical Scholarship, 1975–1989

    Joel T. Rosenthal

    This volume is the first part of Rosenthal’s cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian and Yorkist England, and covers categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. This volume is a must for any scholar of the period.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture VI, ISBN 1-879288-16-8 (hardback) © 1994

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  • Magister Paulus Niavis: Epistole breues, Epistole mediocres, Epistole longiores

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    Magister Paulus Niavis: Epistole breues, Epistole mediocres, Epistole longiores

    Edited by Rand H. Johnson

    During the last two decades of the fifteenth century Paulus Niavis wrote Latin dialogues and letters in the desire to equip students with a sufficient and elegant means of expressing themselves on many aspects of their experiences at the university. For the modern reader the letters witness life and thought at a critical stage of early modern German history.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture IV, ISBN 1-879288-51-6 (hardback) © 1995

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  • Early Prose in France: Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority

    Cover image of Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of DifferenceEarly Prose in France: Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority

    Jeanette M.A. Beer

    This study of some of the earliest examples of French prose is designed to show that prose as a genre did not suddenly appear in the thirteenth century as a result of "diversification" but "had been, for many centuries before the thirteenth, the medium of the clercs." It had been

     honed by constant use to all manner of functions whether legal, diplomatic, epistolary or edificatory.

    Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture II, ISBN 1-879288-12-5 (hardback) © 1992

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