Books in the series examine the cultures of the European Middle Ages from their centers to their margins, and from the broadest possible range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives.
Series Editor:
Roland Betancourt
Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine
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.
Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading public. The story of the simple reader provides a new perspective on reading, gender, and identity at the intersection of religious rule and literary fiction.
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.
Mass produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Sumptuously illustrated, Medieval Badges considers all badges, whether they originated in religious or secular contexts, and highlights the ways in which badges could confer meaning and identity on their wearers.
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.
Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Ralph J. Hexter
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512828542
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Through his excavation of two fifteenth-century Latin comedies about the entrapment of a priest who is eager for sexual activity with men—Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite—Ralph Hexter shows how characters deployed coded language to navigate same-sex relationships. Includes the first published English translations of both plays.
Ingrid Nelson traces the development of media concepts from the twelfth through the fifteenth century across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains, offering a coherent theory of premodern media. Medieval Media expands our understanding of media history and opens new avenues for medieval literary studies.
This military handbook, attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582–602), is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history, but also for the history of the art of war. George T. Dennis’s translation renders the Strategikon’s straightforward, practical Greek into accessible, engaging prose. Includes a new foreword by Conor Whately.
The final volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic history of the Hundred Years War, Triumph and Illusion tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest and the remarkable personalities that played a part, including Charles VII of France, the captains Fastolf and Montagu who inspired Shakespeare, and Joan of Arc.
Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England
Benjamin A. Saltzman
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827903
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in the Middle Ages.
