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
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.
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.
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, thereby empowering and immortalizing their families.
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.
The Unruly Tongue explores the process through which science and medicine, politics, law, literature, and theology informed a new ethics of speech. Offering a new account of the power of words in Western thought, Melissa Vise shows how the regulation of speech became integral to republican values in medieval Europe.
In Plain Sight explores how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade. Ann E. Zimo draws not only on the well-known Frankish sources, but also the Arabic documentary base, to shed new light on Frankish society and how Muslims fit into it.
Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516
CJ Jones
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512825688
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Through a set of never-before-studied records, CJ Jones illustrates how Dominicans reconciled their order’s rules with their own concrete circumstances and with the changing world around them and offers a new history of the medieval liturgy from the perspective of women’s communities.
Medieval Iberia was a complex space of intertwined powers and nuanced relationships between Christian and Muslim rulers. Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, underscoring the role of royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions a pivotal stage in European history.
The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death
Alan M. Stahl
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826197
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family as they strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished archival sources, Alan M. Stahl brings readers into a world of intrigue, finance, religion, and plague.
