Lord’s Rights and Peasants Stories–Now Available
01/24/2012
Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5… READ MORE
Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Paul’s Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
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
Becoming the People of the Talmud to Receive 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship
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
This Month’s Podcast: Larry Silver on the Evolution of Genres in Art
01/03/2012
In the first Penn Press podcast for 2012, Larry Silver, Farquar Professor of the History of Art the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the evolution of pictorial genre printmaking and painting… READ MORE
Winter Meeting Wonderlands
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
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom–Now Available
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
Beyond Religious Borders – Now Available
12/19/2011
Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World Edited by David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN… READ MORE
Medieval Iberia — Second Edition in Paperback
11/10/2011
Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources Edited by Olivia Remie Constable Second Edition 624 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 30 illus. Paper 2011 |… READ MORE
Anonymous Is Terrible, But We’re to Blame, says Shakespearean Scholar James Marino
11/01/2011
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?
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.
