Download the Spring 2015 catalog now
01/09/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE
Category: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Hot Off Penn Press: December’s New Books
01/07/2015
We here at Penn Press hope the festive period was both joyful and restful for all of you. Ours certainly was. With the hectic nature of the holidays, though, we… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: October’s New Books
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
10/23/2014
Elisheva Baumgarten is the author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, which provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard… READ MORE
Author Q&A: E. N. Anderson, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
10/16/2014
Today's Q&A is with E. N. Anderson, author of Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China. In it, Anderson provides an account of the development of the food systems… READ MORE
The letter is dead. Long live Facebook?
10/14/2014
Today we have a guest post from Lindsay O'Neill, author of The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. In it, O'Neill explores the importance and impact of… READ MORE
Creative memory and the constructed past
10/07/2014
Today we have a guest post from Constance Brittain Bouchard, author of Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200. Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: September’s New Books
09/30/2014
With the turn toward fall, the Press's presses have been printing overtime, with better than a baker's dozen of titles being released this month. The topics range widely, from the… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Miriam Jacobson, Barbarous Antiquity
09/25/2014
Today's Q&A is with Miriam Jacobson, author of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England. In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Martin Jacobs, Reorienting the East
09/16/2014
Next in our series of Fall 2014 Author Q&As is Martin Jacobs, whose book, Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World, explores the Islamic world as it… READ MORE
