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.
05/30/2012
Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe: French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets Jeffrey Freedman 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4389-5 | $79.95… READ MORE
05/15/2012
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 May… READ MORE
12/19/2011
Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France: A Comparative Framework Elaine R. Thomas 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4332-1 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
08/18/2011
The Bohemians Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. Introduction by Robert Darnton 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4194-5 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
07/20/2011
The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE
07/14/2011
In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE
06/28/2011
Congratulations to Susan Hiner. Earlier this month, the Costume Society of America awarded the 2011 Millia Davenport Publication Award to Hiner for her book Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the… READ MORE
11/12/2010
The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 Cynthia J. Brown 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4282-9 |… READ MORE
07/08/2010
In "Reasons to write," the Times Literary Supplement examines recent books on France's literary past, including three Penn Press titles: The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime,… READ MORE
