Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts.
From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages
Aberth writes in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, both in his lively, readable style aimed at the nonspecialist and in his antiheroic, almost romantic portrayal of late medieval miseries.
Situational Poetics in Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid
This is the first full-length study of Henryson to appear in nearly a generation.
The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages
The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages By Joyce Salisbury Second Edition Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-78095-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: This important book offers…
Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe
Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe Edited by Iben Skibsted Klæsøe Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-87-635-0530-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: The European…
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier Edited by Kathryn Brush Museum London, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-897215-30-2 Introduction: Art and cultural historians have traditionally examined…
Du fait de cuisine / On Cookery of Master Chiquart (1420)
Du fait de cuisine / On Cookery of Master Chiquart (1420): “Aucune science de l’art de cuysinerie et de cuysine” Translated by Terence…
Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield
Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield By Robert W. Jones Boydell Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835615 The medieval battlefield was a place…
A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints
A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints By Alan J. Koman Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8063-1824-0 Publisher’s Synopsis: For anyone interested in…
Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700
Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700 Edited by Jo Kirby, Susie Nash and Joanna Cannon Archetype Publications, 2010…
The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt
The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Katherine L. French and…
The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas
The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas Edited by John M. Thompson National Geographic, 2010 ISBN: 978-1426205330 Publisher’s Description: Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade…
The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin
The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin: A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190–1331 Translated by Mary Fischer Ashgate Publishing,…
Crusaders massacre of Jerusalem was done in cold-blood, not religious frenzy, historian argues
A leading historian of the Crusades believes that 1099 massacre of Jerusalem’s inhabitants by the army of the First Crusade was not the…
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance
The macabre encounter of skeletons mocking the living has haunted Case Western Reserve University art historian Elina Gertsman’s imagination since childhood walks with her…
Book on Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts published
The largest surviving family-owned library of medieval manuscripts in Britain can now be enjoyed by everyone thanks to the publication of a new…
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England c.650-1100 AD
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England c.650-1100 AD Edited by Jo Buckberry and Annia Cherryson Oxbow Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84217-965-9 Publisher’s Synopsis: Traditionally the…
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture By Esther Cohen University of Chicago Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780226112671 Publisher’s Synopsis: In the late…
The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers
The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers By Kirsten A. Seaver IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781845118693 Publisher’s Synopsis: Late…
Alfonso X, the Learned: A Biography
Alfonso X, the Learned: A Biography By H. Salvador Martínez. Translated by Odile Cisneros Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 18147 2 Publisher’s…
History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender
In Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West professor Lynda L. Coon, chair of the University of Arkansas’ department…
The Viking Age: A Reader
The Viking Age: A Reader Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald University of Toronto Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781442601482 Publisher’s Synopsis:…
Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer
Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer Edited by Richard Godard, John Langdon and Miriam Muller Brepols, 2010…
Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia
Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia By Thomas A. Fudge I.B.Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781848851429 A century before Martin Luther and…
“Truth” is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997.
“Truth” is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997 Edited by Janice L. Schultz-Aldrich Rodopi, 2010 ISBN: 978-90-420-3154-8 This…