03/27/2012
Congratulations to Christopher MacEvitt, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. MacEvitt's The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance received the Medieval Academy of America’s… READ MORE
03/26/2012
On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE
02/14/2012
Congratulations to Robert Darnton and Teofilo F. Ruiz, Penn Press authors and 2011 National Humanities Medalists. The National Endowment for the Humanities created the National Humanities Medal to honor "individuals… READ MORE
01/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for January,… READ MORE
01/10/2012
The Jewish Book Council has chosen Talya Fishman's Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures to receive a 2011 National Jewish Book… READ MORE
12/23/2011
The Penn Campus is relatively quiet now that classes are over, but winter break doesn't mean that things cool down at Penn Press. Some of the biggest humanities and social… READ MORE
12/21/2011
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion Lynn Enterline 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 Illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4378-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 "Lynn Enterline locates in the… READ MORE
11/01/2011
For the November podcast, we dip into the archives for a second listen to Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology… READ MORE
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
10/31/2011
My textbook’s translation from Old English seemed entirely cryptic, despite my painstaking efforts to parse out the intended meaning of the thousand-year-old work. As a result, I admit that I have since held a grudge against all things Beowulf.
