Monotheism between Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity By Stephen Mitchell and Peter Van Nuffelen Peeters, 2009 ISBN: 978-90-429-2242-6 The fourth century was a major religious battleground. The rise of Christianity, and in particular its dominance from Constantine onwards, marked an important shift in the religious history of the Mediterranean. Christianity saw this change as […]
City Painters in the Burgundian Netherlands
March 17, 2009 By
City Painters in the Burgundian Netherlands By Jacob Wisse Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-51231-0 Around 1400 a new official position was created for artists in several major centers in the southern Netherlands, i.e. Antwerp, Louvain, Malines. Appointed by the municipal government, these city painters (called stadsmeester schilders) were paid an annual salary and provided with the benefits and […]
Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: English Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers
March 17, 2009 By
Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: English Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers Edited by Marlene Villalobos Hennessy Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-872501-08-6 Articles include: Jonathan J.G. Alexander, ‘Two English Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Estense with Illumination Attributable to the ‘Caesar Master’’ Linda L. Brownrigg, ‘Bibliography of Kathleen L. Scott’ Christopher de Hamel, ‘The Baldry Pattern Book’ Lynda Dennison, ‘Penwork […]
Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522
March 17, 2009 By
Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522 By Ane L. Bysted, Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen and John H. Lind Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-52325-5 ‘God wills it, God wills it!’ – this was the response to the sermon of Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095, in which he exhorted his audience to take […]
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
March 17, 2009 By
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries By Fabrizio Titone Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-52757-4 The volume examines urban institutional transformations in late medieval Sicily, refuting established historiographic interpretations and demonstrating through a long-term analysis that distinct chronological divisions are not applicable to local governments characterized by both unmistakeable experimentation and […]
The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age
March 17, 2009 By
The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age: Lost in Translation? Actes du colloque de Lausanne, 17-21 juillet 2007 Edited by D. Renevey and C. Whitehead Brepols, 2009 ISBN 978-2-503-53139-7 The central role played by the act of translation in the transmission and reformulation of knowledge between late antiquity and the close of the Middle […]
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages
March 4, 2009 By
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages By Oliver H. Creighton Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834465 The phrase `designed landscape’ is generally associated with the great parks and gardens of the post-medieval period, with grand country houses surrounded by parkland, such as Chatsworth and Longleat. However, recent research has made it clear that […]
Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend
March 4, 2009 By
Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend Edited by Richard Mortimer Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834366 The millennium of Edward the Confessor’s birth presents an appropriate occasion for a full-scale, up-to-date reassessment of his life, reign and cult, a reappraisal which is provided in the essays here. After an introduction to the many views of […]
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance
March 4, 2009 By
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781903153253 The mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to important and wide-ranging examinations of the ancient world and the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions […]
Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn
March 4, 2009 By
Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn Edited by Glyn S. Burgess Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843841876 Paperback Edition Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives, part-fact, part-fiction, find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all […]
Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives
March 3, 2009 By
Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives By John Salisbury Translated by Ronald E. Peppin Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009 ISBN: 978–0–88844–298–7 John of Salisbury (d. 1180), a scholar, author and diplomat, was numbered among the eruditi, the learned clerks in service to Theobald and to Thomas Becket, successive archbishops of Canterbury. Indeed, John […]
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006
March 3, 2009 By
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006 By Margaret Rogerson University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 9870802099242 The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of originally performed on wagons in the city. They date from the fourteenth century and Biblical narrative from Creation to Last Judgment. After nearly four hundred years without a […]
A Living Light
March 1, 2009 By
A Living Light By E. L. Risden Wipf and Stock, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-60608-091-7 A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages. In the form of a dramatic novella, it telescopes to such life-changing events as the […]
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony
February 23, 2009 By
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim By Frederick Paxton Catholic University of America Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1569-3 Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the family’s cloisters for religious women. She […]
The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague
February 23, 2009 By
The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague By Lisa Wolverton Catholic University of America Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1570-9 The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, […]
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages
January 19, 2009 By
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages Edited by Janet T. Marquardt and Alyce A. Jordan Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4438-0057-0 Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts […]
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages
January 16, 2009 By
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages By Leah DeVun Columbia University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-231-14538-1 In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocalypse was near. Deemed insane by the […]
‘Abbasid Studies II
January 16, 2009 By
‘Abbasid Studies II: Occasional Papers of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 28 June – 1 July 2004 Edited by J. Nawas Peeters Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-90-429-2081-1 Articles include: The Abbasid translation movement in context. Contemporary voices on translation, by Uwe Vagelpohl Islamic Hospitals in the time of al-Muqtadir, by Peter E. Pormann Abbasid Historians’ Portrayals of […]
The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Brittannie]
January 15, 2009 By
The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Brittannie], by Geoffrey of Monmouth Edited by Michael D. Reeve; Translated by Neil Wright Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834410 This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, contains the first appearance of many […]
The Medieval Cook
January 15, 2009 By
The Medieval Cook By Bridget Ann Henisch Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834380 This book takes us into the world of the medieval cook, from the chefs in the great medieval courts and aristocratic households catering for huge feasts, to the peasant wife attempting to feed her family from scarce resources, from cooking at street […]
The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England
January 15, 2009 By
The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England By Simon Philips Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834373 The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller played a major role not only within the Order, but also in the wider arena of English – and indeed European – politics. This role, and its changes between 1272 […]
Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church
January 15, 2009 By
Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church By Karen George Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834359 Gildas’s De excidio Britonum is almost the sole surviving contemporary source for the period which saw the beginning of the transformation of post-Roman Britain into Anglo-Saxon England. However, although the De excidio has received much scholarly attention […]
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World
January 15, 2009 By
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World Edited by Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila Williamson Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834328 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. […]
The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London
December 14, 2008 By
The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London: An Edition and Translation By Lisa Jefferson Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6404-8 As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval England enjoyed a prominent role in London’s governance and exercised much influence over England’s overseas trade and political interests. This substantial two-volume set […]
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