Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England
Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England By Nicholas Orme Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN: 9780300111026 Publisher’s Synopsis: Children have gone to school in…
Sir John Hawkwood: Story of a Condottiere
Sir John Hawkwood: Story of a Condottiere By John Temple-Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti (London, 1889) Chapter 1: On the left bank of the…
Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe Edited by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven Walter de Gruyter GmbH,…
Our Lady’s Lawsuits – new translations of two 14th-century poems
Judith Davis, Professor Emerita of French and Humanities at Goshen College, and Ron Akehurst of the University of Minnesota have recently completed their…
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…
Animaux domestiques dans la littérature narrative française au Moyen Âge
Animaux domestiques dans la littérature narrative française au Moyen Âge By Jens N. Faaborg Museum Tusculanum Press – e-Book, 2006 ISBN 87 635…
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…
A Viking Slave’s Saga
A Viking Slave’s Saga By Jan Fridegård, translated by Robert E. Bjork Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-86698-375-4 ACMRS…
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…
Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany
Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany Translated by Albrecht Classen Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Texts for Teaching, Volume 3 Arizona Center for…
New book examines the influence of medieval Welsh on Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote: “I love Wales…and especially the Welsh language”. Now, a Cardiff University academic has explored Wales’ influence on Tolkien in…
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project nears completion
A huge number of students ranging from linguists to those studying coins and family ancestry are benefiting from a 100 year project to…
New Publisher: Punctum Books offers outlet for non-conventional medievalists
A pair of medieval scholars have teamed to create a new publishing company that promises to offer interesting new insights into the Middle Ages.
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,…
Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia
Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia By Noel Fallows Boydell and Brewer, 2011 ISBN: 9781843835943 Publisher’s Synopsis: Jousting was for some 500 years…
Anonymus and Master Roger
Anonymus and Master Roger Central European Medieval Texts Series, Volume 5 Budapest, 2010 ISBN: 978-963-9776-95-1 Anonymus, notary of King Béla – The Deeds…
Henry of Ghent’s “Summa”: The Questions on God’s Existence and Essence (Articles 21-24)
Henry of Ghent’s “Summa”: The Questions on God’s Existence and Essence (Articles 21-24) Translation by Jos Decorte and Roland J. Teske, S.J. Dallas…
A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology
A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology: The “Mystical Theology” of Dionysius the Areopagite in Eriugena’s Latin Translation with the Scholia translated by Anastasius…
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…