This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion.
Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-1350
George W. Dameron
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829969
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune explores food security and the political economy of grain in Tuscany, one of the most prosperous and culturally significant areas of later medieval Europe. George W. Dameron demonstrates how the evolution of food policy went hand-in-hand with political developments.
Lucifer’s Land invites readers into the social, cultural, and material world of premodern miners. Drawing on a wide array of historical and archaeological sources, G. Geltner argues that miners’ transformation of rural society, culture, and environments was and has been substantial and lasting.
Dyan Elliott demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.
Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science
E. R. Truitt
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829884
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
In Necessary Inventions, E. R. Truitt uses thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon—and his characterization as a prophetic figure of scientific modernity—to reveal the medieval thinking that enabled modern science to tell a story of scientific development thaterased non-Christian texts, actors, and cultures from the history of science.
Constructing Christendom examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries—emphasizing the divinely ordained centrality of papal authority and solidifying a cohesive European Christian identity in the process.
The Art of Knowing Everything explores the legacy of medieval philosopher and theologian Ramon Llull, tracing the transformation of Llull’s philosophical system, known as the Art (Latin Ars), through medieval and early modern book technology.
