Spring Overstock Sale–Save 70%
04/01/2010
It's a beautiful day (at least in Philadelphia) and the perfect time for the Penn Press Spring Overstock Sale to begin. Hundreds of titles have been marked down by 70… READ MORE
Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe–Now in Paperback
03/25/2010
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter 336 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2106-0 |… READ MORE
Chivalry, at Least Talk of It, Is Alive: Richard Kaeuper speaks on ChivalryToday.com
02/03/2010
Richard Kaeuper, author of Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry, speaks to Chivalry Today's Scott Farrell about the spiritual side of chivalry in the middle ages. Farrell calls Professor… READ MORE
The Essential Dürer–Now Available
01/28/2010
The Essential Dürer Edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 88 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4187-7 | $55.00 | £36.00 The… READ MORE
Double Prizes for John Van Engen and Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
01/11/2010
We at Penn Press are proud to spread the news about John Van Engen, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Late last week, Van Engen received both… READ MORE
Wolf Hall: Another Spin on the Other Boleyn?
12/21/2009
In this essay, Frances E. Dolan compares Hillary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, to Philippa Gregory’s popular The Other Boleyn Girl. Dolan is the… READ MORE
Divided Houses Author Sumption Gives and Receives Praise in TLS Books of the Year
12/18/2009
Just in case you missed it, the Books of the Year list in the Times Literary Supplement contains plenty of praise for Jonathan Sumption's The Hundred Years War, volume III:… READ MORE
Barbarian Tides–Now in Paperback
12/14/2009
Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire Walter Goffart 384 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3939-3 | $69.95 | £45.50 Paper 2009 |… READ MORE
Speaking of the Moor–Now in Paperback
12/14/2009
Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello" Emily C. Bartels 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4076-4 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
“The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana”–Now Available
11/23/2009
"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 | 6 x… READ MORE
