Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State
Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State By Alick M. McLean Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780300137149 This handsome book recounts…
Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination By Paul Freedman Yale University Press, 2008 ISBN: 9780300151350 The demand for spices in…
Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600
Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600 By Soyoung Lee Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780300148916 This notable catalogue—the first English-language publication on the…
Monotheism between Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity
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…
William of Saint-Amour, De periculis novissimorum temporum
De periculis novissimorum temporum, by William of Saint-Amour Edited and translated by Guy Geltner Peeters Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978-90-429-2010-1 Vowing to lead a…
Books about Medieval England
Here is a listing of recent books about medieval England: Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: English Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers Edward the…
Books about the Crusades
Here is a listing of new books that deal with the Crusades: Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522 The…
Historical Dictionary of Medieval China
Historical Dictionary of Medieval China By Victor Cunrui Xiong Scarecrow Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780810860537 The crucial period of Chinese history, 220-960, falls naturally…
City Painters in the Burgundian Netherlands
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…
Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: English Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers
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…
Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522
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,…
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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…
The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age
The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age: Lost in Translation? Actes du colloque de Lausanne, 17-21 juillet 2007 Edited by D. Renevey…
Interview with Donald S. Richards – The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir
Donald S. Richards is retired as lecturer in Arabic at the Oriental Institute, and is emeritus fellow of St Cross College, University of…
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages
Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages By Oliver H. Creighton Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834465 The phrase `designed landscape’ is…
Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend
Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend Edited by Richard Mortimer Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834366 The millennium of Edward the Confessor’s birth…
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781903153253 The mechanics, politics and culture…
Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn
Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn Edited by Glyn S. Burgess Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843841876 Paperback Edition Eustace the…
Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives
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…
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006 By Margaret Rogerson University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 9870802099242 The York Mystery Plays…
Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behaviour for Youths, with English Translations
Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behaviour for Youths, with English Translations Edited by Mark D. Johnston University of Toronto…
A Living Light
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…
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony
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 Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague
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…
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman By Nancy Marie Brown Harcourt, 2007 ISBN: 978-0151014408 Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named…