Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies

The Incarnate Text–Now Available

The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England James Kearney 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4158-7 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE

Jo Ann McNamara

Today we at the University of Pennsyvlania Press received news that Jo Ann McNamara, Professor Emerita of History at Hunter College, City University of New York, has died. McNamara wrote… READ MORE

Bynum Wins Otto Gründler Book Prize

We've just learned via twitter.com/PennPress that Caroline Walker Bynum has received the Otto Gründler Book Prize for Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. The… READ MORE

Sea of Silk–Now Available

Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature E. Jane Burns 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4154-9… READ MORE