2010 Spring Medieval Studies Catalogue

Spring 2010

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C ONTENT SAlfred’s Wars LAVELLE 6Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe McAVOY 10Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts INGHAM 17Anglo-Norman Studies 31 LEWIS 13Anglo-Norman Studies 32 LEWIS 13Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales GUNN/MONcKTON 7Arthurian Literature XXVI ARcHIBALD/JOHNSON 19Arthurian Way of Death cHEREWATUK/WHETTER 19Battle of Agincourt cURRY 5Bede’s Historiae GUNN 8Bloodied Banners JONES 3Building Accounts of Souls College WALKER/MUNBY 9Celtic Curses MEES 17Chaucer and Petrarch ROSSITER 14Chaucer and Religion PHILLIPS 14Christianity and Romance in Medieval England

FIELD/HARDMAN/SWEENEY 15Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham PREEST/cLARK 5Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio HEFFERNAN 14Companion to Ancrene Wisse WADA 4Companion to Bede BROWN 8Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan HAST Y 4Companion to Gower EcHARD 4Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

RADULEScU/RUSHTON 14Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry BAWcUTT/WILLIAMS 4Companion to Middle English Hagiography SALIH 4Companion to Middle English Prose EDWARDS 4Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe ARNOLD/LEWIS 4Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle DOVER 19Companion to the Middle English Lyric DUNcAN 4Companion to the Nibelungenlied MccONNELL 4Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue GENTRY 4Companion to Wace Le SAUX 4Companion to Wolfram’s Parzival HAST Y 4Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

BOARDMAN/WILLIAMSON 10Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne BROWN 8Daughters of Artemis ALMOND 9Dress in Anglo-Saxon England OWEN-cROcKER 6Elves in Anglo-Saxon England HALL 5Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009 MEADOWS 11English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

HORNBAcK 17Eton College Chapel Wall Paintings ROSEWELL 9Expectations of Romance FURROW 15Exploitations of Medieval Romance ASHE/DJORDJEVIć/WEISS 15Fifteenth-Century Studies 35

HEINTZELMAN/GUSIcK/WALSH 13Fourteenth Century England VI GIVEN-WILSON 13Franciscans in the Middle Ages ROBSON 5Herald in Late Medieval Europe STEVENSON 10Heraldic Badges in England and Wales POWELL SIDDONS 10History of the Early and Late Medieval Siege PURTON 8History of the Kings of Britain REEVE/WRIGHT 16Jocelin of Wells: Bishop, Builder, Courtier DUNNING 9John Gower, Trilingual Poet DUTTON/HINES/YEAGER 17King Rother and His Bride KERTH 18Lancelot-Grail LAcY 19Langobards before the Frankish Conquest

AUSENDA/DELOGU/WIcKHAM 6Language and Culture in Medieval Britain

WOGAN-BROWNE et al. 17

Later Medieval Kent SWEETINBURGH 6Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England WORBY 7Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France KONG 18Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England

SOMERSET/HAVENS/PITARD 5Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory LEGG 11Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance

SAUNDERS 15Magna Carta and the England of King John LOENGARD 7Maps of Matthew Paris cONNOLLY 9Medieval Church Window Tracery in England HART 3Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6

NETHERTON/OWEN-cROcKER 14Medieval Household EGAN 3Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History BAILEY 5Monsters, Gender and Sexuality OSWALD 15Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions SPURKLAND/HOEK 6Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn ANLEZARK 16Old French Narrative Cycles SUNDERLAND 18Pain and Suffering in Medieval Theology MOWBRAY 10Parliament and Political Pamphleteering in Fourteenth-Century

England OLIVER 7Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses

DODD/McHARDY 7Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7 ADAMS/DUGGAN 20Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges SPENcER 8Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles EVANS 16Publications of the Henry Bradshaw Society 12Ramon Llull BONNER 18Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the

Anglo-Norman Realm VINcENT 6Reformation and Robert Barnes MAAS 12Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World

BOARDMAN/DAVIES/WILLIAMSON 12Saints Lives of Jocelin of Furness BIRKETT 16Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages

MEIER/McGEOcH 5Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry MccARTHY 5Sedulius Scottus, De Rectoribus Christianis DYSON 16Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2 ABRAMSON 6Studies in Medievalism XIX FUGELSO 13Studies in Medievalism XVIII FUGELSO 13Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England

HAINES 17Syon Abbey and its Books JONES/WALSHAM 11Temple Church in London PARK/GRIFFITH-JONES 9Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care

GUNN/INNES-PARKER 10Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts Da ROLD/TREHARNE 15Treacherous Foundations cOATES 18Trees in Anglo-Saxon England HOOKE 3Troubadour Tensos and Partimens HARVEY/PATERSON 18Troyes Memoire KANE 14Victoria History of the County of Cornwall ORME 12Victoria History of the County of Gloucester JURIcA 12Victoria History of the County of Middlesex cROOT 12Vision and Gender in Malory’s Morte Darthur MARTIN 19Wars of Edward III ROGERS 5Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury NORTHEAST/FALVEY 11Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich HILL 11Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650

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Trees in Anglo-Saxon EnglandLiterature, Lore and LandscapeDELLA HO OKE

A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the ‘real’, historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape.DELLA HOOKE is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2010 978 1 84383 565 3 6 b/w illus.; 272pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Bloodied BannersMartial Display on the Medieval BattlefieldROBERT W. JONES

Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare, showing their cultural as well military significance.The medieval battlefield was a place of spectacle and splendour. The fully-armed knight, bedecked in his vivid heraldic colours, mounted on his great charger, riding out beneath his brightly-painted banner, is a stock image of war and the warrior in the middle ages. Yet too often the significance of such display has been ignored or dismissed as the empty preening of a militaristic social elite.Drawing on a broad range of source material and using innovative historical approaches, this book completely re-evaluates the way that such men and their weapons were viewed, showing that martial display was a vital part of the way in which war was waged in the middle ages. It maintains that heraldry and livery served not only to advertise a warrior’s family and social ties, but also announced his presence on the battlefield and right to wage war. It also considers the physiological and psychological effect of wearing armour, both on the wearer and those facing him in combat, arguing that the need for display in battle was deeper than any medieval cultural construct and was based in the fundamental biological drives of threat and warning.£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010 978 1 84383 561 5 17 colour, 14 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Warfare in History

Medieval Church Window Tracery in EnglandSTEPHEN HART

A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period.While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, a gap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes in tracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window’s architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary.STEPHEN HART is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork (Boydell 2008).£45.00/$90.00 March 2010 978 1 84383 533 2 20 colour, 258 b/w illus.; 182pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

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The Medieval HouseholdDaily Living c.1150-c.1450GEOFF EGAN

Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike.This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts from medieval London homes. These include roofing and other structural items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortment of culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights. Illustrating some 1,000 items, the catalogue provides a fascinating account of how metalwork and glassware manufacturing trends changed during the period covered, while close dating of many of the finds has resulted in many new insights into life at the time.£30.00/$60.00 March 2010 978 1 84383 543 1 8 colour, 1059 b/w illus.; 364pp, 24.4 x 18, HB Medieval Finds from Excavations in London

Front cover: cover image of The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland, edited by Steve Boardman and Eila Williamson (see page 10), taken from the ‘Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary and St. Ninian’, Edinburgh University Library MS.42. f.72v.


NEW PAPERBACK COMPANIONS

A Companion to Middle English ProseEdited by A.S .G. EDWARDS

Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle English prose.An up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. MEDIUM AEVUM

£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 248 4 344pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to Medieval Scottish PoetryEdited by PRIScILLA BAWcUT T & JANET HADLEY WILLIAMS

A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages.A welcome addition to the Boydell & Brewer Companion list. [...] Will be valued by students and scholars alike for its excellent contribution to the field of Scottish literature. MEDIUM AEVUM

£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 247 7 242pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to the Middle English LyricEdited by THOMAS G. DUNcAN

comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most important forms of medieval literature.An expertly assembled and immaculately produced volume which will not be easily surpassed as an introduction to this important field.ANGLIA

£17.99/$34.95 January 2010 978 1 84384 213 2 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to the Book of Margery KempeEdited by JOHN H. ARNOLD & KATHERINE J. LEWIS

Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context.£19.99/$37.95 January 2010 978 1 84384 214 9 8 b/w illus.; 270pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s TristanEdited by WILL HAST Y

Essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic.£19.99/$39.95 June 2010 978 1 57113 446 2 328pp, 9 x 6 in, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A Companion to the NibelungenliedEdited by WINDER MccONNELL

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.[A] collection of fine essays from many scholarly luminaries on a dozen topics [...]. cHOIcE

This book touches on most of the current problems of scholarship [...]. YEAR’S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

£19.99/$39.95 June 2010 978 1 57113 459 2 7 b/w illus.; 308pp, 9 x 6 in, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von AueEdited by FRANcIS G. GENTRY

Essays on major aspects of the work of the great medieval German poet.A welcome and superlative summation of the current status of Hartmann von Aue scholarship. cHOIcE

These essays [...] permit the modern reader to familiarize himself with the texts of Hartmann and constitute an interesting first approach. ETUDES GERMANIQUES


A Companion to Wolfram’s ParzivalEdited by WILL HAST Y

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics.A very usable introduction to various aspects of Wolfram’s Parzifal. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIc PHILOLO GY


A Companion to WaceF.H.M. LE SAUX

Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in his historical and cultural context.£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 249 1 1 b/w illus.; 314pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to GowerEdited by SIÂN EcHARD

An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis.The reader will come away with an enriched sense of Gower’s true place in the history of English literature [...]. Eminently readable [...]. Highly Recommended. cHOIcE

£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 244 6 272pp, 23.6 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to Ancrene WisseEdited by YOKO WADA

Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 243 9 270pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

A Companion to Middle English HagiographyEdited by SARAH SALIH

The Saints’ Life was one of the most popular forms of literature in medieval England. This volume offers crucial information for an understanding of the genre.[The contributors] do a fine job of making readers aware of key issues in hagiographical studies. MEDIEVAL REVIEW

This lucid and scholarly volume will be an excellent reference tool for students and scholars. MEDIUM AEVUM

£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 246 0 5 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB


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Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200-1500MARK BAILEY

The first volume in what will become the definitive history of Suffolk looks at how the county survived the three most tumultuous events of the period, the Great Famine, the Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt, to emerge as one of the richest English regions.[T]his study has managed admirably to achieve its aim of being clear and informative, while also providing fascinating insights into the complexities of a local society and economy.EcONOMIc HISTORY REVIEW

£14.99/$27.95 February 2010 978 1 84383 529 5 16 b/w illus.; 358pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB History of Suffolk

Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle AgesDIRK MEIER Translated by ANGUS McGEO cH

A vivid and highly-illustrated history of seafaring in the Middle Ages based on archaeological evidence and contemporary accounts.[A] thoughtful study. SPEcULUM

£14.99/$27.95 October 2009 978 1 84383 512 7 44 colour, 28 b/w illus.; 192pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB

The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and InterpretationsANNE cURRY

New paperback edition of this destined Agincourt sourcebook.[A] great teaching tool for every aspect of medieval history [...] a remarkable book. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY

Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry’s volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids. FRENcH HISTORY

£25.00/$47.95 November 2009 978 1 84383 511 0 498pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Warfare in History

The Wars of Edward IIISources and Interpretations Edited by cLIFFORD J. RO GERS

contemporary documents and classic studies follow Edward’s fortunes on the battlefield, from failure against the Scots to major military successes in France.£17.99/$34.95 January 2010 978 1 84383 527 1 4 b/w illus.; 538pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Warfare in History

Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval EnglandEdited by FIONA SOMERSET, J ILL c. HAVENS & DERRIcK G. PITARD

Essays on Lollard writings and ideas accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography on Wyclif and Lollardy and a survey of previous scholarship.cONTRIBUTORS: David Aers, Margaret Aston, Helen Barr, Mishtooni Bose, Lawrence M. clopper, Andrew cole, Ralph Hanna III, Anne Hudson, Maureen Jurkowski, Andrew Larsen, Geoffrey H. Martin, Derrick G. Pitard, Wendy Scase, Fiona Somerset, Emily Steiner. Required reading for everyone wishing to learn about or research in the field of Wycliffite and Lollard studies. RIcHARD REX, QUEENS’ cOLLEGE, cAMBRID GE

£25.00/$47.95(s) November 2009 978 1 84383 508 0 3 b/w illus.; 354pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

The Franciscans in the Middle AgesMIcHAEL ROBSON

This book explores the first 250 years of the order’s history and charts its rapid growth, development, pastoral ministry, educational organisation, missionary endeavour, internal tensions and divisions. It offers a complete survey of the Franciscan Order. This is the most useful survey of medieval Franciscan history available. ENGLISH HISTORIcAL REVIEW

£16.99/$34.95 October 2009 978 1 84383 515 8 254pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Monastic Orders

Elves in Anglo-Saxon EnglandMatters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity ALARIc HALL

Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon period are reassessed in this lively and provocative study.A delightful [book] that will stimulate thought across the disciplines regarding the importance, to the Anglo-Saxons, of a class of creatures whose fascination for us today stands in direct proportion to their enigmatic nature. At many turns, this well-researched study exemplifies the value of joining lexically based research to larger cultural inquiries. SPEcULUM

£17.99/$34.95 October 2009 978 1 84383 509 238pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Anglo-Saxon Studies

The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422)Translated by DAVID PREEST with JAMES G. cLARK

First complete translation of detailed chronicle of medieval England, one of Shakespeare’s most important sources.A rollicking, passionate, fluent work that captures nicely the studied informality of Walsingham’s prose. [...] In short, this is a terrific translation of a very entertaining chronicle. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

£25.00/$47.95 November 2009 978 1 84383 510 3 480pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Seamus Heaney and Medieval PoetrycONOR MccARTHY

First examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed Beowulf.A remarkable survey of Heaney’s work and its debt to medieval poetry. [...] McCarthy has presented a compelling analysis of Heaney’s use of medieval poetry that should be of great interest to the growing body of scholars interested in medievalism. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

£19.99/$37.95 November 2009 978 1 84384 206 4 204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB


EARLY MEDIEVAL AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY

The Langobards before the Frankish ConquestAn Ethnographic Perspective Edited by GIORGIO AUSENDA, PAOLO DELO GU & cHRIS WIcKHAM

Essays examining the Langobards, with important conclusions for early medieval Italy.The historians and archaeologists, who contribute to this volume, discuss Langobard archaeology, material culture, language, political organisation, the church, social and family structures, and urban economy.cONTRIBUTORS: G. Ausenda, S. Barnish, S. Brather, T. S. Brown, N. christie, M. costambeys, P. Delogu, D. Green, W. Haubrichs, J. Henning, B. Ward-Perkins, c. Wickham.£75.00$/145.00(s) December 2009 978 1 84383 490 8 13 b/w illus.; 396pp, 24 x 16.8, HB Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology

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Norwegian Runes and Runic InscriptionsTERJE SPURKLAND Translated by BETSY VAN DER HOEK

An accessible account of Norwegian runic inscriptions. Runic inscriptions are discussed not only from a linguistic point of view but also as sources of information on Norwegian history and culture. TERJE SPURKLAND is Associate Professor of Nordic Medieval Studies at the University of Oslo.£14.99/$27.95 November 2009 978 1 84383 504 2 42 b/w illus.; 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

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Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2New Perspectives Edited by TONY ABRAMSON

A scholarly and erudite collection of articles based upon the proceedings of the second biennial Sceattas Symposium.Going beyond the traditional studies of moneyers, mint marks and monarchs, these collected essays draw upon the imagery present upon the coins themselves to offer new insights into Anglo-Saxon art and society.cONTRIBUTORS: Michael Metcalf, Tony Abramson, catherine Karkov, Rory Naismith, Anna Gannon, Wybrand Op den Velde, Megan Gooch, Barry Ager, Gareth Williams, Mike Bonser, Stewart Lyon, Arent Pol, James Booth.£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84383 466 3 100 b/w illus.; 306pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Studies in Early Medieval Coinage

Alfred’s Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking AgeEdited by RYAN LAVELLE

Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great’s reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages. Divided into separate sections, each with its own, new introduction by the editor, it looks at every aspects of the topic, from land and sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from fortifications and the battlefield to the final peacemaking.£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2010 978 1 84383 569 1 8 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Warfare in History

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Dress in Anglo-Saxon EnglandRevised and Enlarged EditionGALE R . OWEN-cRO cKER

An encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art.Hailed as a milestone in costume studies when it first appeared, this book is an encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art (manuscripts, ivories, metalwork, stone sculpture, mosaics), and also from re-enactors’ experience. It examines archaeological textiles, cloth production and the significance of imported cloth and foreign fashions. Dress is discussed as a marker of gender, ethnicity, status and social role – in the context of a pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing, commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and much else – and surviving dress fasteners and accessories are examined with regard to type and to geographical/chronological distribution. There are colour reconstructions of early Anglo-Saxon dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the Bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are discussed, and there is a glossary of costume and other relevant terms. GALE OWEN-cROcKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon culture at the University of Manchester. £19.99/$37.50 July 2010 978 1 84383 572 1 12 colour, 13 b/w, 238 line illus.; 408pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman RealmPapers commemorating the 800th Anniversary of King John’s Loss of NormandyEdited by NIcHOLAS VINcENT

The official records of England are the focus of this volume – their origin, their use, and what they reveal about the past.The major theme of this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they are used separately and in combination to construct the history of England and Normandy. The essays cover all types of written source material, including private charters and the official records of the chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal sources such as letters, while some 100 previously unpublished documents are included in a series of appendices. There are studies here of particular Anglo-Normans, including a great aristocrat and a seneschal of Normandy; of records relating to Normandy surviving in England; of the Norman and English Exchequers, between them the financial mainstay of the king/dukes; of the controversial origins of the English chancery records; and of Rosamund clifford, the King’s mistress. cONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas Vincent, David carpenter, David crook, Mark Hagger, David crouch, Marie Lovatt, Daniel Power.£60.00/$115.00(s) December 2009 978 1 84383 485 4 7 b/w illus.; 226pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540Edited by SHEILA SWEETINBURGH

A comprehensive investigation into Kent in the later middle ages, from its agriculture to religious houses, from ship-building to the parish church.Kent was extremely important in the later middle ages. Its location between London and continental Europe; Thomas Becket’s internationally famous shrine; its ancient cinque Ports; and the early development of new religious ideas all make its history in this period particularly fascinating. The essays collected here present the fruits of new research into a wide range of topics, offering insights into all the most important aspects of life at the time. The volume opens with a major survey of Kent’s economic history and development during the period in question; subsequent chapters consider agriculture; ship-building; the Kentish nobility and their role in regional and national politics; religious houses; heresy; magic; and the parish church.cONTRIBUTORS: Mavis Mate, Bruce campbell, Gillian Draper, Peter Fleming, David Grummitt, Malcolm Mercer, Barry Dobson, Elizabeth Edwards, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Robert Lutton, Karen Jones.£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010 978 0 85115 584 5 6 b/w illus.; 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Kent History Project


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Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century EnglandSAM WORBY

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.Two main legal jurisdictions held sway in England over family relations during the high middle ages: canon law and common law. In thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, kinship rules dominated the lives of laymen and laywomen. They determined whom they might marry (decided in the canon law courts) and they determined from whom they might inherit (decided in the common law courts). This book seeks to uncover the association between the two, exploring the ways in which the two legal systems shared ideas about family relationship, where the one jurisdiction – the common law – was concerned about ties of consanguinity and where the other – canon law – was concerned to add to the kinship mix of affinity. It also demonstrates how the theories of kinship were practically applied in the courtrooms of medieval England.£50.00/$95.00(s) May 2010 978 0 86193 305 1 2 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

Magna Carta and the England of King JohnEdited by JANET S. LOENGARD

New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John.Magna carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like in 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? Essays here analyze earlier Angevin rulers, an anonymous but contemporary account of John’s court, baronial fear of the king, the ‘managerial revolution’ of the English church, the burgeoning economy, the influence of the ius commune on English common law, issues concerning widows’ property, discontent over the royal forests, and criminal prosecution before 1215. The volume ends with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his position in the matter of William de Briouze.cONTRIBUTORS: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V. Turner, John Gillingham, David crouch, David crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara Hanawalt, James Masschaele.£55.00/$105.00(s) June 2010 978 1 84383 548 6 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Arthur Tudor, Prince of WalesLife, Death and commemoration Edited by STEVEN GUNN & LINDA MONcKTON

The Tudor king who never was: Arthur’s life and death newly examined.Prince Arthur (1486-1502), son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was the great hope of early Tudor England. Today he is largely forgotten, remembered only as Henry VIII’s shadowy elder brother, the first husband of Katherine of Aragon. But in his lifetime Arthur counted for much more than that. Arthur stood at the centre of his father’s plans. His death brought a grand funeral and a lasting monument, the chantry chapel covered in Tudor badges that still stands in Worcester cathedral. These richly illustrated essays, by historians, art historians and archaeologists, investigate Arthur’s life and posthumous commemoration from every angle.cONTRIBUTORS: Steven Gunn, Ian Arthurson, Frederick Hepburn, John Morgan-Guy, Ralph Houlbrooke, Mark Duffy, chris Guy, John Hunter, Linda Monckton, Phillip Lindley, Julian Litten.£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2009 978 1 84383 480 9 10 colour, 60 b/w illus.; 214pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

Parliament and Political Pamphleteering in Fourteenth-Century EnglandcLEMENTINE OLIVER

First full examination of the phenomenon of the medieval political pamphlet.Some sixty years before the advent of the printing press, the first political pamphlets about parliament circulated in the city of London. Often vitriolic and satirical, these handwritten pamphlets reported on a trilogy of parliamentary victories against the crown known as the Good, the Wonderful, and the Merciless Parliaments. The first pamphlets point to the existence of a market of readers hungry for news of parliament as well as to the emergence of public opinion as a political force. This book reconstructs the lives of the political pamphleteers as well as the political landscape of late fourteenth-century England, giving particular emphasis to the large group of bureaucrats living in London to which Geoffrey chaucer belonged.Dr cLEMENTINE OLIVER is Associate Professor of History at california State University.£60.00/$115.00(s) August 2010 978 1 90315 331 4 2 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses, c.1272-c.1485Edited by GWILYM D ODD & ALISON K. McHARDY

Petitions are vital sources for our knowledge of life in the middle ages. A selection is presented here with English summaries, notes, and introduction.Through the petitions which they addressed to the crown the people of medieval England speak to us directly: the human interest stories they reveal are perhaps the nearest thing to local newspapers which the middle ages have left us. Petitions were the subject’s last resort when normal channels of law and government had failed, and offered kings the opportunity to exercise qualities of generosity, compassion, and sound judgment. However, despite their importance, they have not hitherto been recognized as a source for ecclesiastical history, a gap which this volume rectifies. A selection of over 200 cases shows the religious of medieval England taking full advantage of this mechanism, petitioning as landowners, neighbours, citizens, individuals, and religious orders. The subjects covered range from requests for tax rebates, and complaints about royal officials, to disputes with tenants, with townsmen, monastic rivals, and ecclesiastical superiors. National politics and international warfare are also represented, as are coastal erosion, and higher education. English summaries, explanatory notes and an extensive introduction enhance the reader’s appreciation of this rich and remarkable resource.£25.00$/47.95(s) August 2010 978 0 90723 972 7 360pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Canterbury & York Society

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The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de BretagneNegotiating convention in Books and Documents Edited by cYNTHIA J. BROWN

A queen who helped define the cultural landscape of her era.As duchess of Brittany (1491-1514) and twice queen of France (1491-98; 1498-1514), Anne de Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure the status of female authority in Europe at the dawn of the Renaissance. Although at times a traditional political pawn, when men who ruled her life were involved in reshaping European alliances, Anne was directly or indirectly involved with the principal political and religious European leaders of her time and helped define the cultural landscape of her era. Taking a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives, these ten essays by art historians, literary specialists, historians, and political scientists contribute to the ongoing discussion of Anne de Bretagne and also offer insight into related areas of intellectual interest – patronage, the history of the book, the power and definition of queenship and the interpretation of politico-cultural documents and court spectacles – thereby confirming the extensive nature of Anne’s legacy.cYNTHIA J. BROWN is Professor of French at the University of california, Santa Barbara.£55.00/$105.00(s) May 2010 978 1 84384 223 1 19 b/w illus.; 228pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gallica

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Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular BadgesBRIAN SPENcER

This is the first major catalogue in English devoted to medieval badges.Medieval badges provide us with a guide to the popularity of different cults and pilgrim centres, supplying evidence of the sometimes arduous journeys not only to famous and far-off sanctuaries like compostela, but also to native shrines. The secular badges include a wealth of non-religious imagery, playful and amatory, satirical, celebratory and heraldic. Illustrating nearly 800 items of popular medieval jewellery, the catalogue contained within the book describes previously unpublished finds retrieved from datable archaeological London waterfront deposits, and provides the basis of a chronological framework for future excavations.BRIAN SPENcER was the Senior Keeper at the Museum of London.£30.00/$60.00 March 2010 978 1 84383 544 8 332 b/w illus.; 362pp, 24.4 x 18, HB Medieval Finds from Excavations in London


A History of the Early and Late Medieval SiegeTwo Volume SetPETER PURTON

A magisterial survey of the siege in the middle ages.Sieges were the predominant form of warfare across the medieval world and siege methods and technology developed alongside improvements in defence. This book goes back to the original sources to present a comprehensive view of the whole subject, tracing links across continents and analysing the relationship with changes in the design of town and castle defences, and linking contemporary historical accounts with archaeological studies. It considers the most important questions raised by siege warfare: who designed, built and operated siege equipment? How did medieval commanders gain their knowledge? What were the roles of theoretical texts and the developing science of siege warfare? How did nomadic peoples acquire siege skills? Were castles and town walls built purely of a military purpose, or did they play a symbolic role also?The first volume begins in 450 AD with the replacement of the western Roman empire by barbarian successor states, but also examines the development of the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim caliphate and its successors, and the links with china, through to the early thirteenth century. The second continues with the Mongol conquests in Asia and Europe and the thirteenth-century apogee of pre-gunpowder siege warfare, before examining the slow impact of guns and the cumulatively massive changes in attack and defence of the fifteenth century.£100.00/$195.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84383 450 2 64 b/w illus.; 1024pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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A History of the Early Medieval Siege, c.450-1200PETER PURTON

£60.00/$115.00(s) March 2010 978 1 84383 448 9 32 b/w illus.; 566pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500PETER PURTON

£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84383 449 6 32 b/w illus.; 528pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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A Companion to BedeGEORGE HARDIN BROWN

A full and accessibly-written survey of Bede and his works, including a chapter on his legacy for subsequent history.The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church (c.672-732), he was the author not only of the well-known Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but also of scriptural commentaries, hagiographies, scientific works, admonitory letters, and poetry. This book provides an informative, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide to Bede and his writings, underlining in particular his importance in the development of European history and culture. It places Bede in his contemporary Northumbria and early Anglo-Saxon England, dedicates individual chapters to his works, and includes a chapter on Bede’s legacy for subsequent history.GEORGE HARDIN BROWN is Professor of English emeritus, Stanford University.£45.00/$90.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84383 476 2 180pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

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Bede’s HistoriaeGenre, Rhetoric and the construction of the Anglo-Saxon church HistoryVIcKY GUNN

A reappraisal of Bede’s writings, focusing on his use of genre and rhetoric.The church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established christian church amongst the Anglo-Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas – monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her reappraisal of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Lives of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the audience for these texts, the author draws out the role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric in the crafting of his work. She also explores the underlying political influences that caused Bede to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy and the power of the cultural capital afforded by this within the relatively newly constituted christian community in Northumbria.Dr VIcKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching centre, University of Glasgow.£50.00/$95.00(s) June 2009 978 1 84383 465 6 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB


ART & ARCHITECTURE

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Daughters of ArtemisThe Huntress in the Middle Ages and Renaissance RIcHARD ALMOND

Evidence from manuscripts, tapestries, paintings and written documents shows the female huntress in action.Hunting for sport, food and raw materials was a universal activity in the Middle Ages. However, the medieval hunting manuals and treatises written by male authors, as well as narratives and romances, present hunting as the exclusive leisure prerogative of gently-born educated men. The presence and various roles of women are ignored, as is any involvement of the commons.Here, using evidence drawn from both contemporary documents and images, particularly from illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, paintings, carvings, engravings and prints, the author shows clearly that women from all ranks of society were actively engaged in hunting in a wider sense, from aristocratic ladies pursuing deer on horseback with hounds and shooting driven game, to peasant women netting birds, ferreting conies, poaching and distributing venison. Beautifully illustrated, this revealing study of a previously unexplored aspect of women’s roles is an invaluable addition to our understanding of the dynamics of the medieval community.£45.00/$90.00(s) September 2009 978 1 84384 202 6 30 colour, 12 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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The Maps of Matthew ParisMedieval Journeys through Space, Time and LiturgyDANIEL K. cONNOLLY

An examination of the intricate cartography of Matthew Paris, and the meanings of the maps themselves.The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway into the thirteenth-century world. This new study of his cartography emphasises the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows how his maps were designed to present imagined pilgrimages; the author argues that travelling through geography could enact its meanings in a dynamic, religious, even devotional performance of the maps’ materials. Richly illustrated with black and white and colour plates. £50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009 978 1 84383 478 6 10 colour, 48 b/w illus.; 278pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB


The Temple Church in LondonHistory, Art and ArchitectureEdited by DAVID PARK & ROBIN GRIFFITH-JONES

First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War.Built as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple church is historically and architecturally one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any English building of its period. It also holds one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Despite its extraordinary importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or critical attention, a gap which is remedied by this volume. It considers the New Temple as a whole in the middle ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its foundations in the twelfth century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. cONTRIBUTORS: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William Whyte, christopher Wilson.£55.00/$105.00(s) October 2010 978 1 84383 498 4 20 colour, 150 b/w illus.; 376pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB


The Eton College Chapel Wall PaintingsEngland’s Forgotten Medieval MasterpiecesRO GER ROSEWELL

An engaging and authoritative study that brings to life one of medieval England’s forgotten masterpieces.The late fifteenth century wall paintings in Eton college chapel are the finest surviving examples of medieval wall paintings in northern Europe. In the first full length study of these magnificent paintings, Roger Rosewell sheds new light on these overlooked masterpieces of medieval art and describes the human stories behind them. Fully chronicling their loss and subsequent re-discovery, this volume is lavishly illustrated with over 150 stunning photographs. ROGER ROSEWELL was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. His other published works include Medieval Wall Paintings (Boydell 2008).£40.00/$80.00 March 2011 978 1 84383 418 2 150 colour, 5 b/w illus.; 264pp, 24 x 17.2, HB

Building Accounts of All Souls College, 1438-1443Edited by SIMON WALKER with JULIAN MUNBY

Edition, with full explanatory material, of the documents concerning the building of All Souls, Oxford: a vital source for our knowledge of the period.The accounts covering the construction of All Souls, Oxford, in the five years from its foundation in 1438 are among the most important documentary sources for English medieval building history, and provide an almost unique record of the physical creation of an Oxford college. They are here published in full for the first time, with commentary and analysis by the late Simon Walker. Supplementary material includes plans and documentation of the site, a description of the buildings, and an inventory of the college rooms in the sixteenth century.£35.00/$70.00(s) August 2010 978 0 90410 723 4 4 b/w illus.; 272pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Oxford Historical Society New Series Oxford Historical Society

Jocelin of WellsBishop, Builder, courtierEdited by ROBERT DUNNING

The life and career of Jocelin of Wells examined, with a particular emphasis on his role in the reconstruction of the Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace.Jocelin, bishop of Wells is an iconic figure in his native city; but his career as courtier and statesman moved far beyond the west country. From a family network which had produced bishops over several generations, he played a major role in a developing diocese and mother church, and in the growth of towns, fairs and markets in early eleventh-century Somerset. He had a crucial influence on the completion of what was to become Wells cathedral and in the Bishop’s Palace beside it.The essays in this volume look at Jocelin’s life and career from a variety of perspectives, with a particular focus on his involvement with and instigation of the rebuilding of the cathedral and Palace. Architectural, archaeological and even botanical approaches are used to explain the curious physical nature of the Palace site, the significance of the work still standing there from Jocelin’s time, and the possible sites of other contemporary work. A final chapter studies the design and purpose of Robert Burnell’s additions.cONTRIBUTORS: Robert Dunning, Nicholas Vincent, Jane Sayers, Diana Greenway, Sethina Watson, Tim Tatton-Brown, Jerry Sampson, Alex Turner, christopher Gerrard, Keith Wilkinson, Mark Horton, David J. Hill, Matthew Reeve.£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84383 556 1 22 colour, 26 b/w illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion


HERALDRY AND HISTORY OF RELIgION

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Heraldic Badges in England and Wales (four volume set)MIcHAEL POWELL SIDD ONS

First comprehensive study of heraldic badges, from their initial use in the fourteenth century to their decline in the early seventeenth.Heraldic badges occur in a wide variety of contexts. However, despite their importance, and although many illustrations and descriptions survive from the late fifteenth century onwards, they have usually been treated as an incidental part of heraldry. This monumental work therefore fills a serious gap in the literature of heraldry, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. The first volume discusses the nature and use of heraldic badges, and our sources of information, while the second is a dictionary of heraldic badges, divided into two separate parts covering royal and non-royal badges. This is followed by ordinaries of heraldic badges and livery colours in the third volume. There are also extracts from unpublished records, a bibliography and full indexes. Published for the Society of Antiquaries

£350.00/$695.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84383 493 9 17 colour, 47 b/w illus.; 1320pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

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The Herald in Late Medieval EuropeEdited by KATIE STEVENSON

First full-length assessment of the role of the herald in medieval Europe.The officers of arms (kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants) have often been overlooked by scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they played important parts in a number of areas. They were crucial to foreign and domestic relations, and chivalric culture; and, of course, they were to become the powerbrokers of heraldic symbols and genealogy. However, despite the high levels at which they operated, their roles in these areas remain largely unexplored, with scholarship tending to focus on the science of heraldry rather than the heralds themselves. This collection aims to remedy that neglect. The contributions cover a range of European regions (particularly Florence, Scandinavia, Poland, the German Empire, the Burgundian Low countries, Brittany, Scotland and England) and discuss the diverse roles and experiences of heralds in the late Middle Ages. cONTRIBUTORS: Jackson W. Armstrong, Adrian Ailes, Katie Stevenson, Michael Jones, Franck Viltart, Henri Simmoneau, Wim van Anrooij, Bogdan Wojciech Brzustowicz, Alexia Grosjean, Laura cirri.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84383 482 3 4 colour, 12 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval EuropeEdited by LIZ HERBERT McAVOY

An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.Within this reclusive vocation, the anchorite would withdraw, either alone or with others like her or him, to a small cell or building, very frequently attached to a church or other religious institution, where she or he would – theoretically at least – remain locked up until death. In the later period it was a vocation which was particularly associated with pious laywomen who appear to have opted for this extreme way of life in their thousands throughout western Europe. This volume brings together for the first time in English much of the most important European scholarship on the subject to date. Tracing the vocation’s origins from the Egyptian deserts of early christian activity through to its multiple expressions in western Europe, it also identifies some of those regions – Wales and Scotland, for example – where the phenomenon does not appear to have been as widespread. cONTRIBUTORS: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Gabriela Signori, M. Sensi, G. cavero Dominguez, P. L’Hermite-Leclercq, Mari Hughes-Edwards, colman O clabaigh, Anna McHugh, Liz Herbert McAvoy.£50.00/$95.00(s) January 2010 978 1 84383 520 2 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral CareEssays in Honour of Bella MillettEdited by cATE GUNN & cATHERINE INNES-PARKER

New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England.Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. Ranging historically from the difficulties of localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts to the reading of women in late-medieval England, the individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of vernacular spirituality. They offer both close examinations of particular manuscripts, and of individual texts, including an anonymous Speculum iuniroum, the Speculum religiosorum of Edmund of Abingdon and later vernacular compositions and translations, such as Handlyng Synne and Bonaventure’s Lignum Vitae. The reading and devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered. cONTRIBUTORS: Alexandra Barratt, Mishtooni Bose, Joseph Goering, Brian Golding, c. Annette Grise, cate Gunn, Ralph Hanna, Bob Hasenfratz, catherine Innes-Parker, E. A. Jones, Derek Pearsall, Elaine Treharne, Nicholas Watson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 90315 329 1 1 b/w illus.; 242pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval ScotlandEdited by STEVE B OARDMAN & EILA WILLIAMSON

A new investigation of the saints’ cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.This volume offers studies of saints’ cults in Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period to the sixteenth century, and combining major overviews with exploration of different topics from different disciplines – archaeology, literature, and history, especially political. There is a strong focus on the development of particular cults, using them to discuss wider issues such as the tension between ‘popular’ sanctity and official canonisation processes in medieval Europe, and the difficulty of establishing the validity of geographical patterns in the distribution of dedications to individual saints. The volume also includes two major overview articles, surveying the general trends in modern scholarship on, and the investigation of, saints’ cults.cONTRIBUTORS: Helen Birkett, Steve Boardman, Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen clancy, David Ditchburn, Audrey-Beth Fitch, Mark A. Hall, Matthew H. Hammond, Sim Innes, Alan Macquarrie.£55.00/$105.00(s) August 2010 978 1 84383 562 2 6 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Celtic History

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Pain and Suffering in Medieval TheologyAcademic Debates at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth centuryD ONALD MOWBRAY

Examines the works of Paris theologians to show how they dealt with the questions of human pain and suffering.Questions of pain and suffering occur frequently in medieval theological debate. Here, Dr Mowbray examines the innovative views of Paris’s masters of theology in the thirteenth century, illuminating how they constructed notions of pain and suffering by building a standard terminology and conceptual framework. Such issues as the Passion of christ, penitential suffering, suffering and gender, the fate of unbaptized children, and the pain and suffering of souls and resurrected bodies in hell are all considered, to demonstrate how the masters established a clear and precise consensus for their explanations of the human condition.DONALD MOWBRAY gained his PhD from the University of Bristol.£55.00/$105.00(s) September 2009 978 1 84383 461 8 204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB


HISTORY OF RELIgION

Syon Abbey and its BooksReading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700Edited by E.A. JONES & ALEX ANDRA WALSHAM

Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.This volume of essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its experience, and exploring the interconnections between late medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve of the Reformation and the impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries.cONTRIBUTORS: E. A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, c. Annette Grise, claire Walker, caroline Bowden, claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison.£50.00/$95.00(s) June 2010 978 1 84383 547 9 9 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

Women and Religion in Late Medieval NorwichcAROLE HILL

A vivid account of the nature and significance of intense female spirituality in one of England’s greatest medieval cities.Drawing on uniquely rich and varied sources, the book demonstrates, far more fully and effectively than studies for other cities have been able to do, how links with continental Europe enriched female life. Norwich’s successful status as an international depot became the vehicle for the transmission of various cults, artistic expression and books related to continental female mysticism. Norwich women’s special attraction to aspects of incarnational piety is demonstrated by their devotion to the Body of christ and to his earthly family, exemplified by the popular cults of St Anne and her daughter, the Virgin Mary. The wealth of fifteenth-century literature, much of local provenance, which survives highlights both this and other religious preoccupations of Norwich women. Among them are, of course, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.cAROLE HILL gained her PhD from the University of East Anglia.£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010 978 0 86193 304 4 20 colour illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

The Lost Cartulary of Bolton PrioryAn Edition of the coucher Book and chartersEdited by KATRINA J. LEGG

Key documents relating to Bolton Priory shed light on the priory’s affairs in the fourteenth century.The house of regular canons of the order of St Augustine, originally founded at Embsay in 1120-21, was refounded at Bolton within forty years. By the early fourteenth century the estate was largely complete, and it was at this point that the ‘lost’ cartulary was created – roughly contemporary with its compotus. Both documents recorded essential administrative detail, and documented legal claims on property.The main evidence for the cartulary derives from the coucher Book, held at chatsworth, which is a partial copy with some additional material; and an incomplete transcript made by Roger Dodsworth in the seventeeth century. Also drawn on for this edition are other documents which shed light on the lost cartulary and on the priory: extra transcripts relating to the priory made by Dodsworth, and numerous surviving original charters.A companion volume to the Bolton Priory Compotus, published in 2000, this book brings together the texts of the existing documents – the coucher Book, a transcription of the now-lost chartulary, and surviving original charters – in a comprehensive and accessible form. The introduction discusses the Order of St Augustine and religious life at the priory, its foundation and connection with Huntingdon priory, and the records the book presents.£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009 978 1 90356 416 5 370pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Yorkshire Archaeological Society

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474Wills from the Register ‘Baldwyne’ II: 1461-1474Edited by PETER NORTHEAST & HEATHER FALVEY

Abstracts of wills made by residents of fifteenth-century Suffolk provide a wealth of information on life at the time.The making and registering of wills by ordinary people became widespread in East Anglia a century earlier than parts of midland and western England. It was a rural society bustling with small farmers, craftsmen involved in the cloth industry, and other artisans and traders. The wills record their concern for religion, the local community and the future welfare of wives, children, godchildren and even servants. They provide fascinating details of the social conditions of the time, including familial and neighbourly relationships, housing and household possessions, landholding and farming patterns, trades and crafts, and provision for the poor. And, typically for late-medieval wills, they offer particularly rich details of religious practices, not only concerning devotions in, and the adornment of, parish churches, but also the activities of parish gilds.This volume contains abstracts, in English, of more than 770 wills made between 1471 and 1474, made by residents of the parishes of western Suffolk and eastern cambridgeshire that comprised the archdeaconry of Sudbury. There are also some 50 probate sentences, together with ‘probate sentences’, which provide details of the granting of probate, without the associated wills. The introduction outlines the probate system at the time and examines the form and content of a medieval will; the volume is completed with full notes and an extensive glossary.£35.00/$70.00(s) June 2010 978 1 84383 532 5 5 b/w illus.; 620pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Suffolk Records Society

Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009Edited by PETER MEAD OWS

Essays on the diocese of Ely and its bishops.Though Ely was one of the smallest dioceses until the nineteenth century, it was one of the wealthiest, and in every century there were notable appointments to the bishopric. Few of the bishops were promoted elsewhere; for most it was the culmination of their career, and many had made significant contributions, both to national life and to scholarship, before their preferment to Ely. In essays each spanning about a century, experts in the field explore the lives and careers of its bishops, and their families and social contacts, examine the development of the diocese in that time, and set all this in the national context of church and state. Other chapters consider such areas as the estates, the residences, the works of art and the library and archives.£29.95/$55.00(s) September 2010 978 1 84383 540 0 16 colour, 32 b/w illus.; 384pp, 24.5 x 18.9, HB


HISTORY OF RELIgION AND LOCAL HISTORY

The Reformation and Robert BarnesHistory, Theology and Polemic in Early Modern EnglandKOREY D. MAAS

The first extensive examination of Robert Barnes, his career, misconstrued theology and wide-ranging influence beyond England.By the time of his death at the stake in 1540, Robert Barnes was recognized as one of the most influential evangelical reformers in Henrician England. He enjoyed the patronage of King, Archbishop, and Vicegerent at home, and the praise of evangelical princes and theologians abroad. He wrote what would be the closest the Henrician reformers came to a systematic theology, as well as the first Protestant history of the papacy. Then his dramatic, and not entirely explicable, execution quickly ensured his lasting place in the century’s popular propaganda.In this first extensive examination of Robert Barnes and his reformation significance the author provides a comprehensive survey of the reformer’s stormy career, a clear and convincing analysis of his often misconstrued theology, and a persuasive argument that the influence of Barnes and his novel polemical programme extended not only into the century following his death, but was as prominent on the continent as it was in his native England.KOREY MAAS is Associate Professor of church History, concordia University, Irvine, california.£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84383 534 9 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

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Saints’ Cults in the Celtic WorldEdited by STEVE B OARDMAN, JOHN REUBEN DAVIES & EILA WILLIAMSON

Saints’ cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies.The way in which saints’ cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. Many of the articles also touch on the development of pan-European devotions.cONTRIBUTORS: James E. Fraser, Thomas Owen clancy, Fiona Edmonds, John Reuben Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally crumplin, Joanna Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, Jonathan Wooding.£50.00/$95.00(s) February 2009 978 1 84383 432 8 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Celtic History

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Publications of the Henry Bradshaw SocietyMissale Gothicum I Edited by HENRY MARRIOTT BANNISTER£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 721 6 6 b/w illus.; 225pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

Missale Gothicum II(Notes and Indices)£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 723 0 130pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Bobbio Missal (Facsimile)Edited by ELIAS AVERY LOWE£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 722 3 300pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

Ordinale Exon Volume IEdited by JOHN NEALE DALTON£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 714 8 422pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

Ordinale Exon Volume II£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 715 5 8 b/w illus.; 196pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

Ordinale Exon Volume IIIAppendix III. Legenda OxonEdited by JOHN NEALE DALTON£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 732 2 488pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Colbertine Breviary Volume I Edited by THOMAS ROBERT GAMBIER-PARRY£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 719 3 358pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Colbertine Breviary Volume II £50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 720 9 326pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Hereford Breviary Volume IEdited by WALTER HOWARD FRERE & LANGTON E.G. BROWN£55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010 978 1 90749 707 0 488pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Hereford Breviary Volume II £55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010 978 1 90749 716 2 464pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Hereford Breviary Volume III £55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010 978 1 90749 717 9 336pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Second Recension of the Quignon Breviary Volume I(Text)Edited by JOHN WIcKHAM LEGG£55.00/$105.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 713 1 466pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Second Recension of the Quignon Breviary Volume II (Appendices, Notes, Indices)£55.00/$105.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 718 6 6 b/w illus.; 336pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB

The Victoria History of the County of GloucesterVolume XII: Newent and May HillEdited by A.R .J. JURIcA

Describes the area’s varied agrarian history and industrial activity.This volume of the county history covers the part of north-west Gloucestershire extending from the foothills of the Malverns in the north to the distinctive feature of May Hill in the south. centred on the parish and former market town of Newent, it also covers the ancient parishes of Bromesberrow, Dymock, Huntley, Kempley, Longhope, Oxenhall, Pauntley, Preston, and Taynton.£90.00/$170.00(s) May 2010 978 1 90435 636 3 78 b/w illus.; 500pp, 30.5 x 20.8, HB Victoria County History

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The Victoria History of the County of MiddlesexVolume XIII, Part 1: The city of Westminster: Landownership and Religious HistoryEdited by PATRIcIA cRO OT

Authoritative, comprehensive history of the City of Westminster.The city of Westminster is the seat of the monarchy and government of Great Britain and the centre of many aspects of British economic and cultural life, yet to date there has been no comprehensive history of the city. It is this gap which this volume will fill. £95.00/$180.00(s) December 2009 978 1 90435 622 6 272pp, 30.5 x 20.8, HB Victoria County History


The Victoria History of the County of CornwallVolume II: Religious History to 1559Edited by NIcHOLAS ORME

First survey of the religious history of Cornwall, from the county’s Romano-British origins to the sixteenth century.This volume covers the development of christianity in the county from its Romano-British origins up to the Elizabethan church Settlement of 1559, providing the first ever in-depth study of the county’s religious history during the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The story it tells is full of interest, covering the uniquely numerous local saints and founders, their legends and the parish churches, chapels, holy wells and religious sites associated with them.£90.00/$170.00(s) July 2010 978 1 90435 612 7 97 colour, 196 b/w illus.; 336pp, 24.5 x 18.9, HB Victoria County History


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Anglo-Norman Studies 32Proceedings of the Battle conference 2009Edited by c.P. LEWIS

This volume opens with the R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2009, a wide-ranging reflection by the distinguished French historian Dominique Barthélemy on the Peace of God and the role of bishops in the long eleventh century. Economic history is prominent in papers on the urban transformation in England between 900 and 1100, on the roots of the royal forest in England, and on trade links between England and Lower Normandy. Social history is treated in papers dealing with the upbringing of the children of the Angevin counts and with the developing ideas of knighthood and chivalry in the works of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and Benoît of Sainte-Maure. Finally, political ideas are examined through careful reading of texts in papers on writing the rebellion of Earl Waltheof in the twelfth century and on the use of royal titles and prayers for the king in Anglo-Norman charters.cONTRIBUTORS: Dominique Barthélemy, Kathryn Dutton, Leonie Hicks, Richard Holt, Joanna Huntington, Laurence Jean-Marie, Dolly Jorgensen, Max Lieberman, Stephen Marritt, Pamela Taylor.£45.00/$90.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84383 563 9 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Norman Studies

Fifteenth-Century Studies 35Edited by MAT THEW Z. HEINTZELMAN, BARBARA I . GUSIcK & MARTIN W. WALSH

Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time.Volume 35 addresses topics including physical impairments as depicted in surgical handbooks printed in Germany and as reflected through eyeglasses for the blind; literary constructions of women in de Meun’s Cité des Dames and in hagiographic legends of Spain; the evolution of the Order of the Garter as dramatized in Shakespeare; serious elements in French farces; the festival context of Villon’s Pet-au-Deable; Boethius in the late Middle Ages; A Revelation of Purgatory and chaucer’s Prioress; Piers Plowman in one British Library manuscript; and narrative afterlife and time in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid. Book reviews conclude the volume.cONTRIBUTORS: Milagros Alameda-Irizarry, chiara Benati, Edelgard E. DuBruck, Rosanne Gasse, chelsea Honeyman, Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., James N. Ortego II, E. L. Risden, Julie Singer, Geri L. Smith, Martin W. Walsh. £40.00/$75.00(s) March 2010 978 1 57113 426 4 194pp, 9 x 6 in, HB Fifteenth-Century Studies

Fourteenth Century England VIEdited by cHRIS GIVEN-WILSON

Several of these original articles touch in one way or another upon the subject of warfare, but the approaches which they adopt are significantly different. Literary texts such as Barbour’s Bruce are also discussed, and a re-evaluation of one particular set of records indicates that, in this case at least, the impact of the Black Death of 1348-9 may have been even more devastating than is usually thought.cONTRIBUTORS: Susan Foran, Penny Lawne, Paula Arthur, Graham E. St John, Diana Tyson, David Green, Jessica Lutkin, Rory cox, Adrian R. Bell.£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84383 530 1 176pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Fourteenth Century England

Studies in Medievalism XIXDefining Neomedievalism(s)Edited by KARL FUGELSO

An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International conference on Medievalism, in ever more sessions at the annual International congress on Medieval Studies, and by many recent or forthcoming publications has left little doubt of the importance of this new, provocative area of study. The volume begins with essays defining neomedievalism in relationship to medievalism. Their positions are then tested by five articles, whose subjects range from modern American manifestations of Byzantine art, to the Vietnam War.cONTRIBUTORS: Amy S. Kaufman, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Lesley coote, cory Lowell Grewell, M. J. Toswell, E. L. Risden, Lauryn S. Mayer, Glenn Peers, Tison Pugh, David W. Marshall, Richard H. Osberg, Richard Utz.£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84384 228 6 14 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medievalism

Studies in Medievalism XVIIIDefining Medievalism(s) IIEdited by KARL FUGELSO

Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects.The first section determines precisely how to characterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré’s engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and The Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine’s Golden Legend.cONTRIBUTORS: carla A. Arnell, Aida Audeh, Jane chance, Pamela clements, Alain corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E. L. Risden, carol L. Robinson, clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84384 210 1 10 b/w illus.; 306pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medievalism

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MedievalismSeries editors: cHRIS JONES & KARL FUGELSO‘Medievalism’, a burgeoning and highly-dynamic multi-disciplinary field of study, is inspired by the influence and appearance of ‘the medieval’ in the society and culture of later ages. It sets out to investigate the post-medieval construction and manifestations of the Middle Ages – attitudes towards, and uses and meanings of ‘the medieval’ – in all fields of culture, from politics and international relations, literature, history, architecture, and ceremonial ritual to film and the visual arts. Studies will range from historiographical subjects to revivalism, with the emphasis always firmly on what the idea of ‘the medieval’ has variously meant and continues to mean.

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern ImaginationEdited by DAVID cLARK & NIcHOLAS PERKINS

An examination of manifestations of the Anglo-Saxon world in a variety of media.The productive interplay between early medieval and modern cultures, and in particular how the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination, are the issues discussed in this volume. Its fourteen chapters range widely across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dealing with the works of authors such as Ezra Pound, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and J. R. R. Tolkien, and there is a special focus on Beowulf ’s reincarnations in grand opera, detective fiction, comics, and film. cONTRIBUTORS: Bernard O’Donoghue, chris Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna Johnson, clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, catherine A. M. clarke, Maria Sachiko cecire, Allen J. Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J. crawforth, Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr.£55.00/$105.00(s) October 2010 978 1 84384 251 4 6 colour, 11 b/w illus.; 292pp, 23.4x 15.60, HB


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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6Edited by ROBIN NETHERTON & GALE R . OWEN-cRO cKER

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.This sixth volume of Medieval clothing and Textiles presents two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery, and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. It also contains two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garments worn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg cathedral. Papers also consider the mercantile world of clothing in medieval London. Other articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production.cONTRIBUTORS: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne, Valerie L. Garver, christine Sciacca, Sarah L. Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate Kelsey Staples, charlotte A. Stanford.£30.00/$60.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84383 537 0 4 colour, 33 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Medieval Clothing and Textiles

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The Troyes MémoireThe Production of a Medieval choir TapestryTranslated by TINA KANE

Edition of a treatise on how to make a medieval tapestry, with translation and plates.The Troyes Mémoire, a medieval manuscript fortuitously preserved in the archives of the town of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of the written instructions used in designing tapestries during the Middle Ages. This translation, with its informative introduction and extensive notes, makes the Mémoire available in English for the first time. composed at the end of the fifteenth century, the Mémoire is unique in presenting detailed information about how patrons and church officials communicated complex iconographic material to medieval artists commissioned to paint cartoons for tapestries. In addition, another richly informative document from medieval Troyes is included, the Account Books of the church of Sainte-Madeleine, which introduces us to the actual people who worked together, between 1416 and 1430, to produce a set of tapestries for the town’s oldest church. £50.00/$95.00(s) November 2010 978 1 84383 570 7 15 colour, 17 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Medieval Clothing and Textiles Subsidia

Chaucer and PetrarchWILLIAM T. ROSSITER

First full study of Chaucer’s readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.This book, the first full-length study ofchaucer’s reading and translation of Petrarch, examines chaucer’s translations of Petrarch’s Latin prose and Italian poetry against the backdrop of his experience of Italy, gained through his travels there in the 1370s, his interaction with Italians in London, and his reading of the other two great Italian medieval poets, Boccaccio and Dante. The book also considers chaucer’s engagement with early Italian humanism and the nature of translation in the fourteenth century, including a preliminary examination of adaptations of chaucer’s pronouncements upon translation and literary production. chaucer’s adaptations of Petrarch’s Latin tale of Griselda and the sonnet ‘S’amor non è’, as the Clerk’s Tale and the ‘canticus Troilii’ from Troilus and Criseyde respectively, illustrate his various translative strategies. Furthermore, chaucer’s references to Petrarch in his prologue to the Clerk’s Tale and in the Monk’s Tale provide a means of gauging the intellectual relationship between two of the most important poets of the time.WILLIAM T. ROSSITER teaches at Liverpool Hope University.£50.00/$95.00(s) March 2010 978 1 84384 215 6 250pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Chaucer Studies

Chaucer and ReligionEdited by HELEN PHILLIPS

New essays on Chaucer’s engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century.chaucer’s writings are here freshly examined in relation to the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era. Using a variety of theoretical, critical and historical approaches, the essays deal with topics that include chaucer and Wycliffism; chaucer’s dream poetry and religion; chaucer and secularity; gender, sex and marriage; the cult of the saints, pilgrimage, and the Virgin Mary; chaucer’s handling of morality; representations of Judaism and Islam; fabliaux and religion; chaucer’s use of the Bible; death and mutability in the Canterbury Tales.cONTRIBUTORS: Anthony Bale, Alcuin Blamires, Laurel Broughton, Helen cooper, Graham D. caie, Roger Dalrymple, Dee Dyas, D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Stephen Knight, carl Phelpstead, Helen Phillips, David Raybin, Sherry Reames, Jill Rudd.£55.00/$105.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84384 229 3 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research

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Comedy in Chaucer and BoccacciocAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN

A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.Although many of chaucer’s sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio’s Decameron, demonstrating that not only did chaucer draw on Boccaccio’s work, but that they shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws new light on chaucer’s inventiveness and mode of working.Professor cAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.£45.00/$90.00(s) September 2009 978 1 84384 201 9 166pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Chaucer Studies

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A Companion to Medieval Popular RomanceEdited by RALUcA L. RADULEScU & cORY JAMES RUSHTON

A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age’s most important literary forms.The essays in this collection seek to provide an inclusive and thorough examination of romance. They provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in, but not limited to, an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.cONTRIBUTORS: Rosalind Field, Raluca L. Radulescu, Maldwyn Mills, Gillian Rogers, Jennifer Fellows, Thomas H. crofts, Robert Allen Rouse, Joanne charbonneau, Desiree cromwell, Ad Putter, Karl Reichl, Phillipa Hardman, cory James Rushton.£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2009 978 1 84384 192 0 24pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval Romance


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Expectations of RomanceThe Reception of a Genre in Medieval EnglandMELISSA FURROW

What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genre in England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks.Working from what was central to medieval readers’ concept of the genre from the twelfth century onward, the book sees the changing linguistic, literary, religious and political contexts through such heterogeneous lenses as Denis Piramus, Robert Manning, and Walter Map; Guy of Warwick and Guenevere; chansons de geste and fabliaux; Tristram and Isolde and John Gower’s uses of the pair as exemplary; Geoffrey chaucer as reader and writer of romance; and the Lollards, clergy, and didacts of the fifteenth century.MELISSA FURROW is Professor of English at Dalhousie University.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84384 207 1 2 b/w illus.; 274pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval Romance

The Exploitations of Medieval RomanceEdited by LAURA ASHE, IVANA DJORDJEVIć & JUDITH WEISS

Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance.The romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext.cONTRIBUTORS: Neil cartlidge, Ivana Djordjević, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna caughey, Laura Ashe.£55.00/$105.00(s) February 2010 978 1 84384 212 5 202pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval Romance

Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English RomancecORINNE SAUNDERS

The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject.This study looks at a wide range of medieval English texts to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas. Opening with a survey of classical and biblical precedents, and medieval attitudes to magic, subsequent chapters explore the ways that romances both reflect contemporary attitudes and ideas, and imaginatively transform them. In particular, the author explores the distinction between ‘white magic’ of healing and protection, and the more dangerous arts of ‘nigromancy’, black magic. The ambiguous figures of the enchantress and the shapeshifter are a special focus: the faery is contrasted to the christian supernatural – miracles, ghosts and demons, and the motif of demonic conception.Professor cORINNE SAUNDERS teaches in the Department of English, University of Durham.£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84384 221 7 300pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval Romance

Christianity and Romance in Medieval EnglandEdited by ROSALIND FIELD, PHILLIPA HARDMAN & MIcHELLE SWEENEY

Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character.Medieval audiences had apparently very different expectations and demands of their entertainment: some looking for, and evidently finding, moral exempla and analogues of biblical narratives, others secular, even sensational, entertainment of a type condemned by moralising voices. The essays collected here offer the reader a guide as to the additional understanding of the romances to be gained from reading them in their cultural christian context, unfamiliar to many today.cONTRIBUTORS: Helen Phillips, Stephen Knight, Phillipa Hardman, Marianne Ailes, Raluca L. Radulescu, corinne Saunders, K. S. Whetter, Andrea Hopkins, Rosalind Field, Derek Brewer, D. Thomas Hanks, Michelle Sweeney£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84384 219 4 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research

Textual Cultures: Cultural TextsEdited by ORIET TA DA ROLD & ELAINE TREHARNE

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and material approaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and reception across time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later medieval and early modern periods. cONTRIBUTORS: Elaine Treharne, Erika corradini, Julia crick, Orietta Da Rold, A. S. G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.£30.00/$60.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84384 239 2 2 colour, 16 b/w illus.; 210pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB Essays and Studies

Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English LiteratureDANA M. OSWALD

A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature.This book interrogates medieval notions of the body and the boundaries of human identity. case studies of Wonders of the East, Beowulf, Mandeville’s Travels, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Sir Gowther reveal a shift in attitudes toward the gendered and sexed body, and thus toward identity, between the two periods: while Old English authors and artists respond to the threat of the gendered, monstrous form by erasing it, Middle English writers allow transgressive and monstrous bodies to transform and therefore integrate into society. This metamorphosis enables redemption for some monsters, while other monstrous bodies become dangerously flexible and invisible, threatening the communities they infiltrate.DANA M. OSWALD is Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2010 978 1 84384 232 3 8 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gender in the Middle Ages


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The Saints Lives of Jocelin of FurnessHagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical PoliticsHELEN BIRKET T

First comprehensive study of four important medieval saints’ lives, setting them in their political and ecclesiastical context.Jocelin of Furness composed four important and influential saints’ lives which offer a rich corpus of medieval hagiographical writing. His Vita S. Patricii and Vita S. Kentegerni provided updated versions of each saint’s legend and are carefully adapted to reflect the interests of their respective ecclesiastical patrons in Ireland and Scotland. The Vita S. Helenae was probably commissioned by a female community in England; it represents an idealised narrative mirror of its early thirteenth-century context. In contrast, the Vita S. Waldevi was written to promote the formal canonisation of a new saint, Waltheof. This first full-length study of the Lives combines detailed analyses of the composition of the texts with study of their patronage, audiences, and contemporary contexts.HELEN BIRKETT is a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.£60.00/$115.00(s) September 2010 978 1 90315 333 8 300pp, 23.4 x 15.6 York Medieval Press

Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650The Domestication of Print cultureEdited by ANNE LAWRENcE-MATHERS & PHILLIPA HARDMAN

Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process.The essays in this volume add female names to the list of authors who participated in the creation of English literature, and examine women’s responses to authoritative and traditional texts in revealing detail. Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women’s participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women’s roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print.cONTRIBUTORS: Gemma Allen, Anna Bayman, James Daybell, Alice Eardley, christopher Hardman, Phillipa Hardman, Elizabeth Heale, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Adam Smyth, Alison Wiggins, Graham Williams.£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010 978 1 90315 332 1 6 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Manuscript Culture in the British Isles York Medieval Press

The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish ChroniclesNIcHOLAS EVANS

A new analysis of a vital source for the history of Ireland and Scotland in the middle ages.This book analyses the principal Irish chronicles, especially the ‘Annals of Ulster’, ‘Annals of Tigernach’, and the Chronicum Scotorum, identifying their inter-relationships, the main changes to the texts, and the centres where they were written in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The detailed study enables the author to argue that the chroniclers were in contact with each other, exchanging written notices of events, and that therefore the chronicle texts reflect the social connections of the Irish ecclesiastical and secular elites. The author also considers how the sections describing the early christian period were altered by subsequent chroniclers; by focussing on the inclusion of material on Mediterranean events as well as on Gaelic kings, and by comparing the chronicles with other contemporary texts, he reconstructs the chronicles’ contents and chronology at different times, showing how the accounts were altered to reflect and promote certain views of history.Dr NIcHOLAS EVANS is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.£60.00/$115.00(s) June 2010 978 1 84383 549 3 274pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Celtic History

Sedulius Scottus, De Rectoribus ChristianisAn Edition and English TranslationR .W. DYSON

Edition and facing English translation of important Latin text, offering advice for rulers.Sedulius Scottus was one of a group of ninth-century authors who produced short treatises in which they attempted to clarify the proper relation between spiritual and secular power. The Latin text of his De rectoribus Christianis is here presented in a critical edition more complete and accurate than anything hitherto available. The edition is supported by an Introduction setting it into the context of the general development of political theory in the christian West.Dr R.W. DYSON was educated at the University of Durham where he taught the History of Political Thought.£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84383 566 0 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and SaturnEdited & Translated by DANIEL ANLEZARK

First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant.The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS corpus christi college cambridge 422 and 41, are two of the most complex Old English texts to survive. The first two dialogues, in verse and prose, present the pagan god Saturn in human form interrogating King Solomon about the mysterious powers of the Pater Noster, while in a second poem the two discuss in enigmatic terms a range of topics, from the power of books to the limits of free will. This new edition presents a parallel text and translation, accompanied by notes and commentary. The volume also includes a full introduction, arguing that the circle which produced the dialogues was located at Glastonbury in the early tenth century, and included the young Dunstan, future archbishop of canterbury; and locating the texts in the context of the learned riddling tradition, and philosophical debates current in the ninth and tenth centuries.Dr DANIEL ANLEZARK teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84384 203 3 180pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Texts

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The History of the Kings of BritainAn Edition and Translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Brittannie)GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH Edited by MIcHAEL D. REEVETranslated by NEIL WRIGHT

New translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin history – where King Arthur first appears.This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, contains the first appearance of many mythical figures, King Lear and King Arthur among them. It rapidly became a ‘bestseller’ across the British Isles and Europe: over 200 manuscripts survive. Here, an authoritative version of the text is presented with a facing translation, prepared especially for the volume. It also contains a full introduction and notes.This new critical edition [...] is a major advance in scholarship and will undoubtedly become the standard text for the foreseeable future. SPEcULUM

£25.00/$47.95 May 2009 978 1 84383 441 0 388pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Arthurian Studies


MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

The Anglo-Norman Language and its ContextsEdited by RIcHARD INGHAM

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a rich and highly valuable record of the French language in the middle ages.cONTRIBUTORS: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne curry, Adrian Bell, Adam chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.£50.00/$95.00(s) March 2010 978 1 90315 330 7 194pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

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Celtic CursesBERNARD MEES

Full analysis of ancient and medieval expressions of Celtic cursing, using evidence ranging from magical charms to curse tablets.The first comprehensive study of early celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of celtic imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period, and other traces of celtic stipulation and binding only speculated on in earlier scholarship. It provides the first full overview and analyses of the ancient celtic use of binding curses (as attested in Old celtic and Latin inscriptions) and examines their mooted influence in later medieval expressions. Ancient finds (among them long Gaulish curse texts, celtic Latin curse tablets found from the Alpine regions to Britain, and fragments of Old Brittonic tablets excavated from Roman Bath) are subjected to rigorous new interpretations, and medieval reflections of the earlier tradition are also considered.BERNARD MEES gained his PhD from the University of Melbourne.£55.00/$105.00(s) May 2009 978 1 84383 457 1 238pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon EnglandEdited & Translated by D OROTHY HAINES

Edition and translation of Anglo-Saxon text, shedding light on Sunday observance and other issues.The so-called Sunday Letter was a text fabricated in the early middle ages, as a letter from christ which dropped out of heaven. In spite of its obviously spurious nature, it was widely read and copied, and translated into nearly every vernacular language. In particular, several, apparently independent, translations were made into Old English. They are presented here in a new edition with a facing modern English translation, with Latin sources and analogues for each, and explanatory notes. The introduction sets out the historical and cultural context, the manuscript tradition, and looks at the important questions the texts raise, including the actual observance of Sunday at that time.£60.00/$115.00(s) June 2010 978 1 84384 222 4 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Anglo-Saxon Texts

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Language and Culture in Medieval BritainThe French of England, c.1100-c.1500Edited by JOcELYN WOGAN-BROWNE et al.

Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain.England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. As the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, the French of England needs more attention than it has so far received. The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focussed round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the eleventh to the later fifteenth century.With cO-EDITORS: carolyn collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter, David TrottercONTRIBUTORS: Henry Bainton, Michael Bennett, Julia Boffey, Richard Britnell, carolyn collette, Godfried croenen, Helen Deeming, Stephanie Downes, Martha Driver, Monica H. Green, Richard Ingham, Rebecca June, Maryanne Kowaleski, Pierre Kunstmann, Francoise H. M. Le Saux, Serge Lusignan, Tim William Machan, Julia Marvin, Brian Merrilees, Ruth Nisse, Marilyn Oliva, W. Mark Ormrod, Heather Pagan, Laurie Postlewate, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Ad Putter, Geoff Rector, Delbert Russell, Thea Summerfield, Andrew Taylor, David Trotter, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Nicholas Watson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Robert F. Yeager.£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009 978 1 90315 327 7 20 b/w illus.; 560pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB York Medieval Press

John Gower, Trilingual PoetLanguage, Translation, and TraditionEdited by ELISABETH DUT TONwith JOHN HINES & R .F. YEAGER

New essays demonstrate Gower’s mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and examine the cultural re-definitions which his translations of literary traditions and languages achieved.John Gower wrote in three languages – Latin, French, and English. The essays collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet, exploring Gower’s negotiations between them as well as the work of medieval translators who made Gower’s French poetry available in English. ‘Translation’ is also considered more broadly, as a ‘carrying over’ (its etymological sense) between genres, registers, and contexts, with essays exploring Gower’s acts of translation between the idioms of varied literary and non-literary forms; and further essays investigate Gower’s writings from literary, historical, linguistic, and codicological perspectives. cONTRIBUTORS: Elisabeth Dutton, Jean Pascal Pouzet, Ethan Knapp, carolyn P. collette, Elliot Kendall, Robert R. Edwards, George Shuffleton, Nigel Saul, David carlson, candace Barrington, Andreea Boboc, Tamara F. O’callaghan, Stephanie Batkie, Karla Taylor, Brian Gastle, Matthew Irvin, Peter Nicholson, J. A. Burrow, Holly Barbaccia, Kim Zarins, Richard F. Green, cathy Hume, John Bowers, Andrew Galloway, R. F. Yeager, Martha Driver.£60.00/$115.00(s) September 2010 978 1 84384 250 7 8 b/w illus.; 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Westfield Medieval Studies

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The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to ShakespeareROBERT HORNBAcK

A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries.Professor ROBERT HORNBAcK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2009 978 1 84384 200 2 6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Renaissance Literature


gERMAN, FRENCH AND SPANISH LITERATURE

King Rother and His BrideQuest and counter-QuestsTHOMAS KERTH

A new view of King Rother in which not only the wooer but also his bride-to-be enacts a quest.King Rother a twelfth-century bridal-quest epic, occupies an important place in the history of German literature. The earliest surviving minstrel epic, it is structurally complex, as the present study is the first to recognize: the quest structure is doubled not only in the wooer’s second quest, but also in the bride’s own actions. This underscores her equality to him, which is her essential qualification to be his wife. The study includes an important English-language summary of scholarship on King Rother, on the minstrel epics and on the bridal quest.THOMAS KERTH is Associate Professor of German at Stony Brook University.£40.00/$75.00(s) May 2010 978 1 57113 436 3 264pp, 9 x 6 in, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern FranceKATHERINE KONG

A history of the letter in pre-modern French cultureLettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic functions, represented the self in relation to its various others: social superiors and subordinates; friends and lovers; teachers and students; allies and adversaries; patrons and supplicants. These relationships were expressed in the content and form of letters: the rule-bound medieval discipline of letter writing structured the expression of interpersonal relationships in exacting ways, and writers navigated its rules to express contradictory and even illicit relations. Each chapter focuses on a particular epistolary exchange in its intellectual and cultural context, from Baudri of Bourgueil and constance of Angers, through Heloise and Abelard, christine de Pizan’s participation in the querelle du Roman de la rose, Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet, to Michel de Montaigne and Étienne de La Boétie, emphasizing the importance of letter-writing in pre-modern French culture and tracing a selective yet significant history of the letter, contributing to our understanding of the development of the epistolary genre, and the pre-modern self.KATHERINE KONG is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.£55.00/$105.00(s) July 2010 978 1 84384 231 6 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gallica

Old French Narrative CyclesHeroism between Ethics and MoralityLUKE SUNDERLAND

Detailed readings of four major medieval cycles.This is a study of four colossal medieval works – the Cycle de Guillaume d’Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart – that are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, LukeSunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. Old French Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions and controversies around heroic figures, arguing that competition between alternative heroes within these texts makes them a discourse on heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author reveals anxieties surrounding the hero’s relationship to the ‘good’: the hero oscillates between support for moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it is contended that the instability of the hero as conduit for morality produces textual confusion and generates the myriad differing versions of these vast and perplexing works.LUKE SUNDERLAND is Research Fellow in French at Gonville and caius college, cambridge.£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 978 1 84384 220 0 220pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gallica


The Troubadour Tensos and PartimensA critical EditionRUTH HARVEY & LINDA PATERSON

A major contribution to knowledge of medieval Occitan literature.This three-volume critical edition makes available for the first time the massive corpus of 160 tensos and partimens involving real speakers. They supply a mine of new information on the medieval Occitan language, contemporary politics, courtly and judicial mores, and attitudes to gender, class, and ethnic stereotypes, often presenting a picture of courtly life, love and sexual relations very different from that of the better-known love-lyric. The edition meets the highest standards of scholarly rigour, and a cumulative index, bibliography and glossary aid access to these volumes.RUTH HARVEY is Professor of medieval Occitan literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; LINDA PATERSON is Professor Emerita of French at the University of Warwick. £225.00/$450.00(s) March 2010 978 1 84384 197 5 1407pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Gallica

Ramon LlullA contemporary LifeRAMON LLULL Edited & Translated by ANTHONY B ONNER

The autobiography of an influential medieval Catalan intellectual.Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca furnished him with a vision of the ‘Other’ quite unique among medieval European intellectuals. In his thirties he abandoned the courtly life, immersed himself in theological and philosophical studies and began his sustained campaign of conversion. He travelled on many occasions throughout Europe in search of royal and papal support and undertook several missions to north Africa, in the course of one of which he was stoned and imprisoned. Despite his many travels he found time to compose more than 260 works. When he was almost eighty years old, Llull dictated the story of his life to a group of carthusians in Paris, leaving us this fascinating autobiography. This edition includes both an English translation and the original Latin version.ANTHONY BONNER is a translator and scholar who has published extensively on Ramon Llull.£16.99/$34.95(s) March 2010 978 1 85566 199 8 16 colour illus.; 112pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Textos

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Treacherous FoundationsBetrayal and collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, chronicle, and DramaGERALDINE cOATES

Representations of treachery in medieval and early modern Spain.This first sustained study of the theme of treachery in the founding myths of the Iberian Peninsula considers literary versions, in epic, chronicle and theatre, of the legends of Fernán González, Bernardo del carpio and King Sancho II from medieval and early modern Spain and compares the representation of treachery across two critical periods in Spanish history, the thirteenth and late sixteenth centuries, assessing its political, ideological, and cultural function. The theme of treachery is expanded to cover all aspects of treason and political disloyalty and, engaging with loyalty, trust and the nature of kingship, the volume sheds new light on aspects of Spanish cultural and political history, and provides insight into the nature of myth and collective memory, historical change and the collective response to crisis.GERALDINE cOATES lectures in Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford.£55.00/$105.00(s) November 2009 978 1 85566 188 2 246pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Monografías


ARTHURIAN LITERATURE

Arthurian Literature XXVIEdited by ELIZABETH ARcHIBALD & DAVID F. JOHNSON

This volume ranges widely in time and space, from a Latin romance based on Welsh sources to the post-christian Arthur of modern fiction and film. It begins with a tribute to the late Derek Brewer, a reprinting of the classic introduction to his edition of the last two tales of Malory’s Morte Darthur. Further subjects covered include a possible source manuscript for Malory’s first tale; the ‘Arthuricity’ of the little-known Latin romance Arthur and Gorlagon; images of sterility and fertility in the continuations of chretien’s Conte du Graal; and early modern responses to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account of Arthur’s dealings with Rome. Norris Lacy ranges widely over the evolution of the Arthurian legend, and Ronald Hutton considers representations of both christian and pagan religion in modern novels and cinema.cONTRIBUTORS: Derek Brewer, Jonathan Passaro, Amanda Hopkins, Thomas Hinton, Sian Echard, Norris Lacy, Ronald Hutton, Raymond Thompson.Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

£45.00/$90.00(s) December 2009 978 1 84384 211 8 228pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Literature

The Arthurian Way of DeathThe English TraditionEdited by KAREN cHEREWATUK & K.S . WHET TER

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in England and America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory’s Morte Darthur; Tennyson’s Idylls, Pyle’s retelling of the myth for American children, David Jones, T. H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.cONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen cherewatuk, Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas crofts, Michael Wenthe, Lisa Robeson, cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty.£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009 978 1 84384 208 8 4 b/w illus.; 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

Vision and Gender in Malory’s Morte DarthurMOLLY MARTIN

Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory’s Morte.This first book-length study of vision in the Morte Darthur examines the roles played by sight – seeing and being seen – in the Morte’s construction of gender, highlighting also the influence of the romance genre in this process. The discussion addresses several key figures: Gareth provides a paradigm of visible romance masculinity; Launcelot’s and Trystram’s adulteries introduce competing needs for both visibility and invisibility; Palomydes and other less acclaimed knights, and reactions to their shortcomings, confirm the model of visible gender; grail knights and Malory retain secular romance ideas of vision and gender on the religious quest; and the two Elaynes and Percivale’s sister prove femininity more variable and less rigid than masculinity in the text. The book argues that visibility is crucial to Malory’s conception of gender identity and, further, that masculinity and femininity are determined throughout the Morte by the romance genre.MOLLY MARTIN is Assistant Professor of English at McNeese State University.£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2010 978 1 84384 242 2 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Arthurian Studies

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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail CycleEdited by cAROL D OVER

Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest.A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling.cONTRIBUTORS: Richard Barber, Emmanuele Baumgartner, Fanni Bogdanow, Frank Brandsma, Matilda T. Bruckner, carol J. chase, Annie combes, Helen cooper, carol R. Dover, Michael Harney, Donald L. Hoffman, Douglas Kelly, Elspeth Kennedy, Norris J. Lacy, Roger Middleton, Haquira Osakabe, Hans-Hugo Steinhoff, Alison Stones, Richard Trachsler.£19.99/$37.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 245 3 6 b/w illus.; 284pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB Arthurian Studies

Lancelot-GrailThe Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation Edited by NORRIS LAcY

The ‘Vulgate’ and ‘Post-Vulgate’ cycles are the French equivalent of Malory’s Morte Darthur, written in the thirteenth century. Malory drew on both of them as his source, and they are the cornerstone text of all Arthurian romance.£195.00/$375.00 March 2010 978 0 85991 770 4 10 Vols, PB

Also available in individual volumes

Volume: 1. The History of the Holy Grail£25.00/$47.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 224 8 348pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Volume: 2. The Story of Merlin£25.00/$47.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 234 7 528pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Volume: 3. Lancelot part I and II£25.00/$47.95 March 2010 978 1 84384 226 2 476pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

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The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.c. 15563) (R)Edited by ROBERT ADAMS & HOY T N. DUGGAN

Volume 7 is the latest in the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland’s Piers Plowman. These cD-ROMs present the edited texts of manuscripts in four different views – a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen – along with color facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses.

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