2010 Books Archive
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Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsMargot 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
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsAberth 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
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis is the first full-length study of Henryson to appear in nearly a generation. -
The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages
Posted on July 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe 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 a unique exploration of the use of... -
Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe
Posted on July 15, 2011 | No CommentsViking 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 coastal areas and the lands around the... -
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier
Posted on July 1, 2011 | No CommentsMapping 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 the mythology of the Canadian frontier in... -
Du fait de cuisine / On Cookery of Master Chiquart (1420)
Posted on June 24, 2011 | No CommentsDu fait de cuisine / On Cookery of Master Chiquart (1420): “Aucune science de l’art de cuysinerie et de cuysine” Translated by Terence Scully Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance... -
Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield
Posted on June 20, 2011 | No CommentsBloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield By Robert W. Jones Boydell Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835615 The medieval battlefield was a place of spectacle and splendour. The fully-armed knight,... -
A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints
Posted on March 16, 2011 | No CommentsA 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 his or her own genealogical links to... -
Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700
Posted on February 27, 2011 | No CommentsTrade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700 Edited by Jo Kirby, Susie Nash and Joanna Cannon Archetype Publications, 2010 ISBN: 9781904982258 Where did artists buy their... -
The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt
Posted on February 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Katherine L. French and Linda E. Mitchell Ashgate Publishing, 2010 ISBN:... -
The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas
Posted on February 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas Edited by John M. Thompson National Geographic, 2010 ISBN: 978-1426205330 Publisher’s Description: Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade of a thousand years of history, this... -
The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin
Posted on February 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin: A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190–1331 Translated by Mary Fischer Ashgate Publishing, 2010 Crusade Texts in Translation, Vol. 20... -
Crusaders massacre of Jerusalem was done in cold-blood, not religious frenzy, historian argues
Posted on January 14, 2011 | No CommentsA leading historian of the Crusades believes that 1099 massacre of Jerusalem’s inhabitants by the army of the First Crusade was not the result of religious fervour, but rather, “the... -
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance
Posted on January 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe macabre encounter of skeletons mocking the living has haunted Case Western Reserve University art historian Elina Gertsman’s imagination since childhood walks with her grandfather through the St. Nicholas Church in... -
Book on Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts published
Posted on December 15, 2010 | No CommentsThe largest surviving family-owned library of medieval manuscripts in Britain can now be enjoyed by everyone thanks to the publication of a new book telling its fascinating story. The Wollaton... -
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England c.650-1100 AD
Posted on November 30, 2010 | No CommentsBurial 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 study of early medieval burial practices in... -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture
Posted on November 25, 2010 | No CommentsThe Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture By Esther Cohen University of Chicago Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780226112671 Publisher’s Synopsis: In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol... -
The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers
Posted on November 25, 2010 | No CommentsThe Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers By Kirsten A. Seaver IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781845118693 Publisher’s Synopsis: Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings... -
Alfonso X, the Learned: A Biography
Posted on November 23, 2010 | No CommentsAlfonso X, the Learned: A Biography By H. Salvador Martínez. Translated by Odile Cisneros Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 18147 2 Publisher’s Synopsis: Recent publications about King Alfonso X... -
History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender
Posted on November 18, 2010 | No CommentsIn Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West professor Lynda L. Coon, chair of the University of Arkansas’ department of history, reconstructs the gender ideology of... -
The Viking Age: A Reader
Posted on November 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe Viking Age: A Reader Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald University of Toronto Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781442601482 Publisher’s Synopsis: The diversity of the Viking world is... -
Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer
Posted on November 1, 2010 | No CommentsSurvival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer Edited by Richard Godard, John Langdon and Miriam Muller Brepols, 2010 ISBN: 978-2-503-52815-1 Publisher’s Synopsis: This book, a... -
Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia
Posted on October 15, 2010 | No CommentsJan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia By Thomas A. Fudge I.B.Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781848851429 A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official... -
“Truth” is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997.
Posted on October 12, 2010 | No Comments“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 volume contains essays on an array of...
