Books in the series examine cultures of the Middle Ages from a broad range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives. They may question the geographic and temporal constitution of the period itself. Series editors welcome bold arguments ballasted with detailed evidence and analysis.
Series Editor: Julie Orlemanski Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
Hussein Fancy Associate Professor of History, Yale University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perpetual Warfare and Late Medieval English Literature
Daniel Davies
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512830712
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Through close readings of works by figures such as Christine de Pizan, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower, Under Siege offers a new account of medieval literature, told through its entanglements with the culture of perpetual warfare that helped engender it.
