10/05/2012
Poet and Swarthmore professor Craig Williamson is right at home in the in the world of Tolkienesque riddles. He is the editor of the definitive edition of The Old English… READ MORE
09/14/2012
Death by Effigy: A Case from the Mexican InquisitionLuis R. Corteguera 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4439-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 Ebook… READ MORE
08/27/2012
The Middle Ages isn’t generally thought of as a period friendly to women at all, much less to powerful ones. Still, we’re all familiar with a handful of medieval and early modern women who had extraordinary influence: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of Castile, Elizabeth I of England. The subject of my book, Berenguela of Castile, is one of their lesser-known peers. But the focus on women like Berenguela as “exceptions to the rule” has the strange effect of reinforcing old myths about medieval women.
08/10/2012
The Queen's Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile Janna Bianchini 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4433-5 |… READ MORE
08/08/2012
Cervantes clearly viewed dance as an important aspect of seventeenth-century Spanish culture, and Fuchs and Ilika have preserved this in the translation.
08/03/2012
Now in Paperback “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana”: Two Plays of Captivity Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika 208 pages… READ MORE
07/23/2012
Those in search of simple, old fashioned models of love and marriage might be disappointed by some of the realities of medieval coupling. “Tradition is always invented,” says Karras, who reminds us that the traditional marriage that people in the twenty-first century have invented for themselves is not really that similar to the state of matrimony in the Middle Ages.
06/20/2012
Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Paola Tartakoff 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4421-2 |… READ MORE
06/04/2012
In the June Penn Press podcast Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota, reminds us that traditional marriage… READ MORE
06/01/2012
Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0… READ MORE
