This Week’s New Books
03/29/2013
Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 Edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell 568 pages | 6… READ MORE
Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
This Week’s New Book: Lost Letters of Medieval Life English Society, 1200-1250
03/01/2013
Lost Letters of Medieval Life English Society, 1200-1250 Edited by Martha Carlin and David Crouch 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 19 illus. Cloth Mar 2013 |… READ MORE
Medieval Monday: A Financial Aid Request from the Middle Ages
02/25/2013
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 just arrived in the Penn Press warehouse. Translated from Latin by the editors Martha Carlin and David Crouch, this collection of correspondence… READ MORE
Benedict and St. Peter: A Post by George E. Demacopoulos
02/18/2013
Four times in the very brief statement outlining his decision to resign, Pope Benedict referred to the special relationship between his office and St. Peter the Apostle, whose privileged position in the apostolic community is believed by Roman Catholics to transfer mystically to the bishops of Rome, upon their assumption of the office.
Medieval Monday: “Pangur Bán” or “the Monk and His Cat” in Animal Encounters
01/28/2013
from The Secret of the Kells Pangur Ban, the cat from the acclaimed animated film The Secret of the Kells, has an interesting lineage. The feline character was taken… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: The Roman Inquisition, Freud on Madison Avenue, and Ceramics in Print
01/25/2013
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo Thomas F. Mayer 392 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1 | $79.95… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Agriculture, Love, and Archaeology
01/18/2013
Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges Edited by Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 104 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5… READ MORE
This Week’s New Book: Poetics of the Incarnation
01/11/2013
Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love Cristina Maria Cervone 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4451-9 |… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books
12/08/2012
Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes Ellen F. Arnold 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2 | $65.00… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Animal Encounters, Intimate Enemies, and Next Year in Marienbad
11/23/2012
Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain Susan Crane 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4458-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 Ebook | ISBN… READ MORE
