Scholarly titles
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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage.
—By Asuka Kimura
Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature
Discusses 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.
—By Christine Schott
Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages
Addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different.
—Edited by Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel and Laura Miquel Milian
The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
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 David Strong
Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics
Grapples with the ways in which we are still “medieval” – in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by the medieval sources of postmodern poetry still reverberate and hold relevance for today’s world.
—Edited by David Hadbawnik
Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great
An interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great, offering comprehensive analysis of England's shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule.
—Edited by Richard North, Erin Goeres and Alison Finlay
Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
With careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis, these essays highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh while embracing the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature.
—Edited by Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane
The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede
Displays the transformations in Old English poetry created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures.
—By Colin A. Ireland
Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts
Traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary young adult adaptations and explores how the wizard offers spaces of hope and transformation for young readers.
—By Jes Battis
Classroom texts
Browse our newest classroom texts below, and use code 2341-23 at checkout to save 20% on all books published with TEAMS: Teaching Association for Medieval Studies!
Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
Explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society, from widows, tradespeople and artisans, clergy and high-ranking wealthy people, and more.
—Edited by Robert A. Wood
The Legend of Theophilus, by Gautier de Coinci
A new edition and translation of the most famous medieval miracle story, which allows students to see the medieval period’s greatest fears and highest hopes.
—Edited and translated by Jerry Root
John of Garland, Integumenta Ovidii: Text, Translation and Commentary
The first new edition and translation in 90 years of this series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
—Edited and translated by Kyle Gervais
Blandin de Cornoalha, A Comic Occitan Romance: A New Critical Edition and Translation
Makes available for the first time in English an edition of this medieval romance and parody, accompanied by a translation and introduction to the work.
—Edited by Wendy Pfeffer, translated by Margaret Burrell and Wendy Pfeffer
Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350
Designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France, and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries, the volume consists of translations of primary sources written by or about medieval Jews.
—Edited by Tzafrir Barzilay, Eyal Levinson, and Elisheva Baumgarten
Anthony Munday, The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition
The first critical edition of this sixteenth-century chivalric romance translated into English by Anthony Munday.
—Edited by Leticia Álvarez-Recio
"The Owl and the Nightingale" and the English Poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)
An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus.
—Edited and translated by Susanna Fein
The Destruction of Jerusalem, or Titus and Vespasian
This new edition expands our understanding of fall of Jerusalem narratives in later medieval England, bringing attention to a long-ignored English retelling of these first-century events that captivated Christian audiences.
—Edited by Kara L. McShane and Mark J. B. Wright
Of Knyghthode and Bataile
Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse.
—Edited by Trevor Russell Smith and Michael Livingston
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