2013 medieval studies catalogue

MEDIEVALSTUDIES

Urban HygienePath breaking new research on communal health in the Middle Ages

‘Beautiful’ BeastsExamining monsters, beasts and other creatures in medieval sculpture

Scribes & Medieval LiteratureThe medieval clerk in the spotlight

Sin – Sinning – SinnersShedding new light on sin, penance and confession

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Anglo-Norman Studies 35 BATES 18Architecture and Interpretation FRANKLIN / HESLOP /

STEVENSON 11Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western

Christianity DUGGAN 10Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia HESLOP / MELLINGS /

THÖFNER 11Arthurian Literature XXIX ARCHIBALD / JOHNSON 14Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture BROWN / BUSSELL

15Bayeux Tapestry FOYS / OVERBEY / TERKLA 5Bayeux Tapestry MUSSET / REX 5Book of Sent Soví SANTANACH / VOGELZANG 6Book of the Order of Chivalry LLULL / FALLOWS 7Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages TRACY 12Channel Islands, 1370–1640 THORNTON 8Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade GUARD 7Christians and Jews in Angevin England REES JONES / WATSON 10Church on its Past CLARKE / METHUEN 9Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry BOFFEY /

EDWARDS 16Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England FLANNERY / WALTER 9Curye on Inglysch HIEATT / BUTLER 6Designs upon the Land CREIGHTON 4Dutch Romances JOHNSON / CLAASSENS 14East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages BATES /

LIDDIARD 8English and their Legacy, 900–1200 ROFFE 4English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

HORNBACK 18English Medieval Misericords HARDWICK 11English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages MAKOWSKI 10Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England

WILLIAMSON 4Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi

TWOMEY 17Fatherhood and its Representations in Middle English Texts MOSS 12Faustian Century VAN DER LAAN / WEEKS 17Fifteenth Century XII CLARK / RAWCLIFFE 18Fifteenth-Century Studies 38 GUSICK 18French Arthurian Literature V BURGESS / BROOK 14Handling Sin BILLER / MINNIS 9Haskins Society Journal 23 NORTH 18Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216–1272 WEILER 5Henry V DODD 7Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk KEMPF / BULL 5History of Shropshire CHAMPION / THACKER 8History of the County of Derby RIDEN / FOWKES 8History of the County of Staffordshire TRINGHAM 8Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf BAKER 12In the Steps of the Black Prince HOSKINS 7John Gower and the Limits of the Law VAN DIJK 16John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame FLANNERY 16Journal of Medieval Military History

ROGERS / DEVRIES / FRANCE 18King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry OWEN-CROCKER 5Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

OWEN-CROCKER / SCHNEIDER 4Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England HIGHAM / RYAN 4Language and Culture in Medieval Britain WOGAN-BROWNE et al 16Late Medieval Ipswich AMOR 8Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland JOHNSTON 12Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading

DOWNING / HESS / BENSON 16Locating the Middle Ages WEISS / SALIH 11Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde GAUNT 13Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe

BEATTIE / STEVENS 6Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century

Europe AMBROSE 3

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9 NETHERTON / OWEN-CROCKER 6

Medieval Cook HENISCH 6Medieval English Lyrics and Carols DUNCAN 3Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond

BERESFORD / HAYWOOD / WEISS 17Medieval Life GILCHRIST 6Medieval Mystical Tradition in England JONES 15Medieval Pets WALKER-MEIKLE 6Medieval Romance of Alexander WAUQUELIN / BRYANT 14Medievalist Enlightenment MONTOYA 13Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest BROWNLIE 5Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants

HORNBY / MALOY 18New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093–1286 HAMMOND 5Nobility and Ecclesiastical Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England

GEMMILL 5Norse Romances KALINKE 14Old English Martyrology RAUER 15Older Scots SMITH 15Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504 19Performance and the Middle English Romance ZAERR 18Place-names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape

HIGHAM / RYAN 4Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France THOMPSON 7Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and

Poetry SALTZSTEIN 18Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles SPENCE 12Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

CULLUM / LEWIS 10Richard II and the English Royal Treasure STRATFORD 11Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England

RADULESCU 14Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World

BOARDMAN /DAVIES / WILLIAMSON 9Scribes and the City MOONEY / STUBBS 3Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France

O’SULLIVAN / SHEPARD 13Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances PURDIE 15Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

NEWHAUSER / RIDYARD 9Sir Thomas Malory FIELD 13Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600

BAILEY 12Studies in Medievalism XXII FUGELSO 17Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic

Penitentiary, 1410–1503 CLARKE / ZUTSHI 10Thirteenth Century England XIV

BURTON / SCHOFIELD / WEILER 18Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature

BREWER / WINDEATT 16Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth Century

FLANAGAN 9Trees in Anglo-Saxon England HOOKE 4Two Ælfric Texts CLAYTON 15Urban Bodies RAWCLIFFE 3Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone

World GUYNN / STAHULJAK 13War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture ALLEN SMITH 9Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany BACHRACH 7

Front cover: An illuminated border from a manuscript of Lydgate’s Troy Book (John Rylands Library MS Eng. 1, f.42), showing the Judgement of Paris. Reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester. Cover image of Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer, edited by Charlotte Brewer & Barry Windeatt (see page 16 and the back cover).

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The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century EuropeKIRK AMBROSE

Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings.Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the “green man”, widespread in churches and cathedrals. These mysterious depictions are frequently interpreted as embodying or mitigating the fears symptomatic of a “dark age”. This book, however, considers an alternative scenario: in

what ways did monsters in twelfth-century sculpture help audiences envision, perhaps even achieve, various ambitions? Using examples of Romanesque sculpture from across Europe, with a focus on France and northern Portugal, the author suggests that medieval representations of monsters could service ideals, whether intellectual, political, religious, and social, even as they could simultaneously articulate fears; throughout, he is careful to present the carvings in their physical and social contexts.KIRK AMBROSE is Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder.$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2013 978 1 84383 831 9 40 b/w illus.; 224pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.4 x 6.7in), HB Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

Scribes and the CityLondon Guildhall Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English Literature, 1375–1425LINNE R . MO ONEY & ESTELLE STUBBS

Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availability of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they worked, and the crucial role they played in bringing this literature to a wider public.Geoffrey Chaucer is called the Father of English Literature not because he was the first author to write in English – he wasn’t – but because his works were among those of his generation produced in sufficient numbers to reach a wider

audience. He and his contemporaries wrote before the age of print, so the dissemination of his writings in such quantity depended upon scribes, who would manually copy works like The Canterbury Tales in manuscripts.This book is the first to identify the scribes responsible for the copying of the earliest manuscripts (including Chaucer’s famous scribe, Adam). The authors reveal these revolutionary copyists as clerks holding major bureaucratic offices at the London Guildhall, working for the mayor and aldermen, officiating in their courts, and recording London business in their day jobs – while copying medieval English literature as a sideline. In particular, they contributed to the new culture of English as the language of not only literature, but government and business as well. LINNE R. MOONEY is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department of English and Related Literature, and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York; ESTELLE STUBBS is a researcher in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield.$60.00/£35.00(s) March 2013 978 1 903153 40 6 53 b/w illus.; 168pp, 31.2 x 23.7 (12.3 x 9.3in), HB Manuscript Culture in the British Isles York Medieval Press

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Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Edited by THOMAS G. DUNCAN

A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary.Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginning with the first lyrics in English to celebrate love as romantic devotion to a woman, and including all pre-Chaucerian love lyrics. Poems by Chaucer and his successors present the courtly game of love in its sophisticated later medieval form, while devotional lyrics portray the tenderness of the later medieval response

to Christ as lover and beloved and to the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus, Mary as sorrowing mother and as Queen of Heaven. Fully represented also are lyrics on characteristically medieval moral and penitential themes, alongside miscellaneous lyrics such as drinking and dancing songs, ballads, satires, poems of wit, humour and sexual innuendo, accounts of lecherous priests, minstrels mocking their audiences, and women vividly listing their lovers’ inadequacies.The texts are edited anew, accompanied with a textual apparatus detailing manuscript readings where emendations have been made to restore sense, metre and rhyme. The language of pre-Chaucerian poems has been normalised to accord with the dialect of late fourteenth-century London (“Chaucerian English”), and unfamiliar spellings in later lyrics have been regularized. Readability is further aided by line-by-line glosses. An extensive introduction offers an appraisal of the forms, themes and contexts of the lyrics and a full discussion of their language and metre, while a comprehensive commentary gives further essential information.THOMAS G. DUNCAN is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of English at St Andrews University.$45.00/£25.00 March 2013 978 1 84384 341 2 480pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB

Urban BodiesCommunal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and CitiesCAROLE RAWCLIFFE

The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study.This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during “the golden age of bacteria”. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute

acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor.CAROLE RAWCLIFFE is Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia. $99.00/£60.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84383 836 4 28 b/w illus.; 448pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB


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Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon EnglandEdited by GALE R . OWEN-CRO CKER & BRIAN W. SCHNEIDER The essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation, relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific topics include the importance of kings in consolidating the English “nation”; the development of witnesses as agents of the king’s authority; the posthumous power of monarchs; how ceremonial occasions were used for propaganda reinforcing heirarchic, but mutually beneficial, kingships; the implications of Ine’s lawcode; and the language of legislation when English kings were ruling previously independent territories, and the delegation of local rule. The volume also includes a groundbreaking article by Simon Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters, looking at the origins of written records, the issuing of royal diplomas and the process, circumstances, performance and function of production of records.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2013 978 1 84383 877 7 10 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

The English and their Legacy, 900–1200 Essays in Honour of Ann WilliamsEdited by DAVID ROFFE Over the last fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her studies of personalities and elites. In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit themes that have been central to her work, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of England in the early Middle Ages. There are detailed discussions of local and regional elites and the interplay between them that fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the beginnings of the Historia Anglorum; studies of the impact of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy. The individual essays are united overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national identities that shaped the societies of the period.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 794 7, eISBN 978 1 78204 051 4 7 b/w illus.; 306pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England Time and TopographyTOM WILLIAMSON The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England’s character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England’s medieval landscapes.TOM WILLIAMSON is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.$80.00/£45.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84383 737 4, eISBN 978 1 78204 053 8 41 b/w illus.; 280pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

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The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England Edited by NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM & MARTIN J. RYAN

$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2010 978 1 84383 582 0, eISBN 978 1 84615 878 0 18 b/w illus.; 244pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

Place-names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape Edited by NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM & MARTIN J. RYAN

$99.00/£60.00(s) March 2011 978 1 84383 603 2, eISBN 978 1 84615 934 3 5 b/w illus.; 258pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England Literature, Lore and LandscapeDELLA HO OKE Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, but they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions. This wide-ranging book explores both the “real”, historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape.DELLA HOOKE is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.An enormously detailed and authoritative study [which] has much to offer Anglo-Saxon scholarship. [...] An excellent volume. LANDSCAPE HISTORY

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Designs upon the Land Elite Landscapes of the Middle AgesOLIVER H. CREIGHTON This book offers the first full-length survey of designed medieval landscapes, not just the settings for castles, but for palaces, manor houses and monastic institutions. Gardens and pleasure grounds gave their owners sensory enjoyment; lakes, ponds and walkways created routes of approach that displayed residences to best effect; deer parks were stunning backdrops and venues for aristocratic enjoyment; and peacocks, swans, rabbits and doves were some of the many species which lent these landscapes their elite appearance. Richly illustrated with plans, maps, and photographs of key sites showing what can still be seen today.OLIVER H. CREIGHTON is Associate Professor in Archaeology, University of ExeterA thought-provoking and timely overview of medieval elite landscapes. [...] This volume offers the first attempt to pull together a great deal of detailed research in an interpretative analysis with many plans and illustrations. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Rescues the study of castles from their purely militaristic contexts and re-establishes them as places that are as much about poetry, art and the intellect as they are about the clash of swords. CURRENT ARCHAEOLO GY$29.95/£17.99 April 2013 978 1 84383 825 8, eISBN 978 1 84383 446 5 12 colour & 33 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Garden and Landscape History


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New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093–1286Edited by MAT THEW HAMMOND The years between the deaths of King Mael Coluim and Queen Margaret in 1093 and King Alexander III in 1286 witnessed the formation of a kingdom resembling the Scotland we know today; the period is also marked by an explosion in the production of documents. This volume includes a range of new studies casting fresh light on the institutions and people of the Scottish kingdom, especially in the 13th century. New perspectives are offered on topics as diverse as the limited reach of Scottish royal administration and justice, the ties that bound the unfree to their lords, the extent of a political community in the time of King Alexander II, a view of Europeanization from the spread of a common material culture, the role of a major Cistercian monastery in the kingdom and the broader world, and the idea of the neighbourhood in Scots law. There are also chapters on the corpus of charters and names and the innovative technology behind the People of Medieval Scotland prosopographical database, which made use of over 6000 individual documents from the period.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) August 2013 978 1 84383 853 1 8 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in Celtic History


Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216–1272 BJÖRN K. U. WEILER Modern historians have frequently maligned Henry III of England for his entanglements in European affairs. However, this book moves past orthodox opinion to offer a reappraisal of his activities. Using Henry’s dealings with the rulers of the Staufen Empire as a case study to explore the broader international context within which he acted, the author offers a more varied reading of Henry’s “European adventures”; he shows that far from being an expensive aberration, they reveal the English king as acting within the same parameters and according to the same norms as his peers and contemporaries. Moreover, they provide new insights into the structures and mechanisms, the ideals and institutions which defined the conduct of relations between rulers and realms in the medieval West; medieval politics, it is argued, cannot be understood in isolation from wider movements, ideals and concepts. Dr BJÖRN K. U. WEILER is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.An important reappraisal not only of thirteenth- century English and imperial diplomatic history, but also of political history as well. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

$29.95/£17.99 October 2012 978 0 86193 319 8, eISBN 978 0 86193 280 1 260pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the MonkEdited by D. KEMPF & M.G. BULL Robert the Monk’s history of the First Crusade (1095-99), which was probably completed c. 1110, was in the nature of a medieval “bestseller”, proving by far the most popular narrative of the crusade’s events. This volume presents the first critical edition to be published since the 1860s, grounded in a close study of the more than 80 manuscripts of the text that survive in libraries and archives across Europe. In their detailed introduction the editors explore the vexed problem of the author’s identity, as well as the reasons for the text’s success. It will be an important contribution to scholarship both on the crusade movement and on the culture of history-writing in the central middle ages.DAMIEN KEMPF is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool; MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. $90.00/£50.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84383 808 1 1 b/w illus.; 190pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

The Nobility and Ecclesiastical Patronage in Thirteenth-Century EnglandELIZABETH GEMMILL This book provides the first full-length, integrated study of the ecclesiastical patronage rights of the nobility in medieval England. It examines the nature and extent of these rights, how they were used, why and for whom they were valuable, what challenges lay patrons faced, and how they looked to the future in making gifts to the Church. It takes as its focus the thirteenth century, a critical period for the survival and development of these rights, being a time of ambitious Church reform, of great change in patterns of land ownership in the ranks of the higher nobility, and of bold assertion by the English Crown of its claims to control Church property. The thirteenth century also saw a proliferation of record keeping on the part of kings, bishops and nobility, and the author uses new evidence from a range of documentary sources to explore the nature of the relationships between the English nobility, the Church and its clergy, a relationship in which patronage was the essential feature.Dr ELIZABETH GEMMILL is University Lecturer in Local History and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84383 812 8 1 b/w illus.; 254pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

Memory and Myths of the Norman ConquestSIOBHAN BROWNLIE The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history – but how is it actually remembered and perceived today? This book offers a study of contemporary British memory of the Norman Conquest, focussing on shared knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. A major source of evidence for its findings are references to the Norman Conquest in contemporary British newspaper articles: 807 articles containing references to the Conquest were collected from ten British newspapers, covering a recent three year period. A second important source of information is a quantitative survey for which a representative sample of 2000 UK residents was questioned. These sources are supplemented by the study of contemporary books and film material, as well as medieval chronicles for comparative purposes, and the author also draws on cultural theory to highlight the characteristics and functions of distant memory and myth. The investigation culminates in considering the potential impact of memory of the Norman Conquest in Britain today.SIOBHAN BROWNLIE is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Languages & Cultures at the University of Manchester.$99.00/£60.00(s) August 2013 978 1 84383 852 4 4 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Medievalism


The Bayeux TapestryLUCIEN MUSSET, Translated by RICHARD REX$45.00/£25.00 September 2005978 1 84383 163 195 colour illus.; 272pp, 25 x 21 (9.8 x 8.3in), HB

The Bayeux TapestryNew InterpretationsEdited by MARTIN K. FOYS, KAREN EILEEN OVERBEY & DAN TERKLA$90.00/£50.00(s) August 2009978 1 84383 470 034 colour & 11 b/w illus.; 248pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.6 x 6.7in), HB

King Harold II and the Bayeux TapestryEdited by GALE OWEN-CRO CKER$29.95/£17.99 May 2011978 1 84383 615 526 b/w illus.; 214pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PBPublications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies


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Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest EuropeEdited by CORDELIA BEAT TIE & MAT THEW FRANK STEVENS There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of coverture applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives’ property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives’ property became part of a community of property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent, Sweden, Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and where the legal principle of coverture was applied and what effect this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through the book are married women’s rights regarding the possession of moveable and immovable property, marital property at the dissolution of marriage, married women’s capacity to act as agents of their husbands and households in transacting business, and married women’s interactions with the courts.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84383 833 3 284pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gender in the Middle Ages

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9Edited by ROBIN NETHERTON & GALE R . OWEN-CRO CKER Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $60.00/£35.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84383 856 2 9 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Medieval Clothing and Textiles

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Medieval Life Archaeology and the Life CourseROBERTA GILCHRIST The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived – how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material practices of medieval life, death and the afterlife. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. A wide range of sources is critically employed: osteology, costume, material culture, iconography and evidence excavated from houses, churches and cemeteries in the medieval English town and countryside. ROBERTA GILCHRIST is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.Vivid and rich in humanity. […] For anyone who wishes to sense what being medieval meant, it is a key text. BRITISH ARCHAEOLO GY

$50.00/£30.00 July 2012 978 1 84383 722 0, eISBN 978 1 84615 974 9 18 colour & 36 b/w illus.; 360pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.4 x 6.7in), HB

Medieval Pets KATHLEEN WALKER-MEIKLE Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed – but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners. It offers a full survey of pets and pet-keeping: how they were acquired, kept, fed, exercised, and displayed; it looks at the problems pets could cause, and finally, how they were mourned. It also examines the representation of pets and their owners in art and literature; the many charming illustrations offer further evidence for the bonds between humans and their pets, then as now.Dr KATHLEEN WALKER-MEIKLE is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of York, working on animals and medieval medicine. A novel and comprehensive survey. [...] Not only a milestone in the history of our obsession with pets, but also furthers our understanding of the complexity of human-animal relations in the past. BB C HISTORY

$45.00/£25.00 October 2012 978 1 84383 758 9, eISBN 978 1 78204 040 8 8 colour & 20 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB


The Medieval Cook BRID GET ANN HENISCH This book takes us into the world of the medieval cook, from the chefs in the great medieval courts and aristocratic households catering for huge feasts, to the peasant wife attempting to feed her family from scarce resources, from cooking at street stalls to working as hired caterers for private functions. It shows how they were presented in the art, literature and moral commentary of the period, how they functioned, and how they coped with the limitations and the expectations which faced them in different social settings. Particular use is made of their frequent appearance in the margins of illuminated manuscript, whether as decoration, or as a teaching tool. It also includes a selection of original medieval recipes. Bridget Henisch has tackled an enormous subject, the cook in western Europe, and expertly marshalled evidence throughout the medieval period. MEDIUM AEVUM

$24.95/£14.99 April 2013 978 1 84383 826 5, eISBN 978 1 84383 438 0 19 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB


Curye on Inglysch English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (including the Forme of Cury)Edited by CONSTANCE B. HIEAT T & SHARON BUTLER

This unique collection of early English recipes also includes order of serving and the strict etiquette that ruled medieval meals.$24.95/£15.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84384 345 0, eISBN 978 0 19722 409 0 1 b/w illus.; 236pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4in), PBEarly English Text Society Supplementary Series

The Book of Sent SovíMedieval recipes from CataloniaEdited by JOAN SANTANACH Translated by ROBIN VO GELZANG

Composed around the middle of the fourteenth century, this is the oldest surviving culinary text in Catalan, a reliable source of information on the cookery of the territories of the Crown of Aragon before the revolution caused by the arrival of products from the Americas.This English translation of the Book of Sent Soví provides an intriguing glimpse into the kitchens of the moneyed classes in fourteenth-century Catalonia; it should be of interest to anyone interested in the region and the period. BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES

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Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France The County of the Perche, 1000–1226KATHLEEN THOMPSON This is the first modern account to describe the emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of a relatively minor noble family from obscure origins to princely power. The Rotrou family, who ruled the Perche, took part in many of the most famous military engagements of the Middle Ages, from the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to the recovery of territory from the Muslims in twelfth-century Spain. Their involvement in crusading initiatives was told in the popular poetry of the day, and they came to number the kings of France, England, Aragon and Sicily, as well as the Holy Roman Emperor, among their kinsmen. This narrative explains the family’s transformation and consolidation of its position in the context of a vibrant and expanding society in the years after 1000, looking at their territorial ambitions, construction of a feudal clientele and operation of lordship through female family.Dr KATHLEEN THOMPSON is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield. Important for all historians interested in northern French and Anglo-Norman politics and power, and Orderic Vitalis in particular [...] A fascinating story. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

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Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany DAVID S. BACHRACH Over the course of half a century, Henry I and Otto I waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the shores of the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Adriatic and Mediterranean in the south. In the course of scores of military operations, accompanied by diligent diplomatic efforts, Henry and Otto recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe. This book shows how Henry I and Otto I achieved this remarkable feat, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, training, morale, tactics, and strategy of Ottonian armies over a long half century. DAVID S. BACHRACH is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 762 6, eISBN 978 1 78204 043 9 324pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Warfare in History

Henry VNew InterpretationsEdited by GWILYM D ODD Henry V is widely acclaimed as the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign he restored the reputation of the English monarchy and united the English people behind the crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who was the man behind these achievements? How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions range broadly across the period of Henry’s life, including his early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the localities and cultivated support within the political community; and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall, the contributions provide new insights and a much better understanding of how Henry achieved this epithet.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2013 978 1 90315 346 8 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press


In the Steps of the Black Prince The Road to Poitiers, 1355–1356PETER HOSKINS In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two chevauchées, which culminated in his decisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point, the author of this book walked more than 1,300 miles across France, retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Prince’s expedition. Drawing on his findings on the ground, a wide range of documentary sources, and the work of local historians, the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Prince’s chevauchées of 1355 and 1356 and the battle of Poitiers, demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns.PETER HOSKINS is a former Royal Air Force pilot, now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War. Hoskins’ book is the product of a fascinating exercise and the author’s approach can be of considerable value when dealing with differences between sources. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

$29.95/£16.99 September 2013 978 1 84383 874 6, eISBN 978 1 84383 611 7 11 b/w illus.; 274pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Warfare in History

Chivalry, Kingship and CrusadeThe English Experience in the Fourteenth CenturyTIMOTHY GUARD The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood’s ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, “high chivalry” and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the main experience of English chivalry in the fourteenth century. The author exposes a thick seam of military engagement along the perimeters of Christendom; details of participants and campaigns are chronicled and associated matters of tactics, diplomacy, organisation, and recruitment are minutely analysed, adding substantially to the historiography of the later crusades. The book’s second theme traces the surprisingly strong grip the crusade-idea possessed at the height of politics, as an animating force of English kingship. Disputing the common assumption that crusade plans were increasingly ill-treated by the monarchs the author argues that courtiers and knights moved in a rich environment of crusade speculation and ambition, and exercised a strong influence on the culture of the time.TIMOTHY GUARD gained his DPhil at Hertford College, University of Oxford.$99.00/£60.00(s) May 2013 978 1 84383 824 1 296pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Warfare in History

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The Book of the Order of Chivalry RAMON LLULL Translated by NOEL FALLOWS Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change. His aim was to create and codify the rules for a unilateral Order of Chivalry. The book was an immediate success and widely disseminated across Europe, eventually reaching a medieval English audience, though through a fanciful translation of a translation by William Caxton, in which most of the stylistic nuances of the Catalan original were lost.This new translation is directly from the original Catalan, so capturing for the first time in English the concise, austere style that characterises Llull’s prose; it is presented with introduction and notes. It will be essential reading for all scholars and enthusiasts of medieval chivalric culture.NOEL FALLOWS is Associate Dean and Professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.$29.95/£16.99 July 2013 978 1 84383 849 4 11 colour illus.; 116pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB


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East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle AgesEdited by DAVID BATES & ROBERT LIDDIARD East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed much of its character and identity to its place in a much wider “North Sea World” that stretched from the English Channel to Iceland, the Baltic and beyond. Relations between East Anglia and its maritime neighbours have for the most part been peaceful, involving migration and commercial, artistic, architectural and religious exchanges, but have also at times been characterised by violence and contestation. This collection of essays discusses East Anglia in the context of this maritime framework and explores the extent to which there was a distinctive community bound together by the shared frontier of the North Sea during the Middle Ages. It brings together the work of a range of international scholars and includes contributions from the disciplines of history, archaeology, art history and literary studies.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) August 2013 978 1 84383 846 3 84 b/w illus.; 350pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

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The Channel Islands, 1370–1640 Between England and NormandyTIM THORNTON This book surveys the history of the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on political, social and religious history. The islands’ regular tangential appearance in histories of England and the British Isles has long suggested the need for a more systematic account from the perspective of the islands themselves. Jersey and Guernsey were at the forefront of attempts by the English kings in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to maintain and extend their dominions in France. During the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor period, they were frequently the refuge for claimants and plotters. Throughout the Reformation, they were a leading centre of Presbyterianism. Later, they were strategically important during the continental wars of Elizabeth’s reign. The book charts all these events in a comprehensive way. In addition, it also shows the islands’ strong continuing connections with France, and discusses the islands’ internal development.TIM THORNTON is Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Huddersfield.$80.00/£45.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 711 4, eISBN 978 1 84615 867 4 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

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Late Medieval Ipswich Trade and IndustryNICHOLAS R . AMOR Ipswich in the late Middle Ages was a flourishing town. A wide range of commodities passed through its port, to and from far-flung markets, bought and sold by merchants from diverse backgrounds, and carried in ships whose design evolved during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Its trading partners, both domestic and overseas, changed in response to developments in the international, national and local economy, as did the occupations of its craftsmen, with textile, leather and metal industries were of particular importance. However, despite its importance, and the richness of its medieval archives, the story of Ipswich at the time has been sadly neglected. This is a gap which the author here aims to remedy. His careful study allows a detailed picture of urban life to emerge, shedding new light not only on the borough itself, but on towns more generally at a crucial point in their development, at a period of growing affluence when ordinary people enjoyed an unprecedented rise in standards of living, and the benefits of what might be termed our first consumer revolution.NICHOLAS AMOR gained his doctorate from the University of East Anglia.Makes a substantive and useful contribution to a long and distinguished tradition of scholarship on the economic and social history of medieval English towns […] a richly-textured account of the urban experience in a late-medieval port town on England’s east coast. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

$90.00/£50.00(s) October 2011 978 1 84383 673 5, eISBN 978 1 84615 995 4 6 b/w illus.; 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

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A History of the County of StaffordshireXI: Audley, Keele, and TrenthamEdited by NIGEL J. TRINGHAM Covering the hilly north-west part of the county from the Cheshire border to the valley of the river Trent south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, this volume treats parishes that became important for both coal and ironstone mining and iron-making, especially in the 19th century. A rich archive has been used to illustrate the origins of this industrial activity in the Middle Ages, when the area was characterised by scattered settlements.NIGEL TRINGHAM is a Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University, with special responsibility for researching and writing the volumes of the Staffordshire Victoria County History.$165.00/£95.00(s) March 2013 978 1 90435 641 7 49 b/w illus.; 320pp, 30.5 x 20.8 (12 x 8.2in), HB Victoria County History

A History of the County of DerbyIII: Bolsover and Adjoining ParishesEdited by PHILIP RIDEN with DUDLEY FOWKESThe history and topography of the small market town of Bolsover in north-east Derbyshire and four parishes immediately to its north, all of which became mining communities late in the 19th century, are covered in this volume. The book also includes detailed accounts of the medieval castle at Bolsover, the mansion built on the site of the castle by the Cavendish family of Welbeck in the 17th century, and Barlborough Hall, a late 16th-century prodigy house built by a successful Elizabethan lawyer.PHILIP RIDEN teaches in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham; DUDLEY FOWKES was formerly the County Archivist for Staffordshire.$165.00/£95.00(s) November 2013 978 1 90435 643 1 45 b/w illus.; 320pp, 30.5 x 20.8 (12 x 8.2in), HB Victoria County History

A History of Shropshire VI.i. Shrewsbury: General History and TopographyEdited by W. A. CHAMPION & A. T. T. THACKERThis volume examines the county town of Shrewsbury, which boasts a largely unaltered medieval street plan, and over 600 listed buildings, including some of the finest timber-framed buildings in England, Ditheringon flax mill (the first iron-framed building in the world), a Norman castle, Shrewsbury abbey and the remains of the medieval town walls. It recounts the history of the town from the early medieval period until the twenty-first century in a series of chapters written by experts. $165.00/£95.00(s) July 2013 978 1 90435 642 4 50 b/w illus.; 400pp, 30.5 x 20.8 (12 x 8.2in), HB Victoria County History

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War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture KATHARINE ALLEN SMITH Monastic culture has generally been seen as set apart from the medieval battlefield. However, in this first study of the place of war within medieval monastic culture, the author shows the limitations of this division. She demonstrates that monastic identity was negotiated through real and imaginary encounters with war, and that the concept of spiritual warfare informed virtually every aspect of life in the cloister.KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH is Assistant Professor of History, University of Puget Sound.$34.95/£19.99 September 2013 978 1 84383 867 8, eISBN 978 1 84383 616 2 250pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion


The Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth Century MARIE THERESE FLANAGAN This book, the first to offer a full account of the reform movement in Ireland, moves away from the previous concentration on the restructuring of Irish dioceses and episcopal authority, and the introduction of Continental monastic observances, to widen the discussion. It charts changes in the religious culture experienced by the laity as well as the clergy and takes account of the particular Irish experience within the wider European context.MARIE THERESE FLANAGAN is Professor of Medieval History at the Queen’s University of Belfast.$45.00/£25.00 April 2013 978 1 84383 828 9, eISBN 978 1 84383 597 4 310pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Studies in Celtic History

The Church on its PastEdited by PETER CLARKE & CHARLOT TE METHUEN This volume surveys the development of Church historiography over the last half-century; looks at the relationship between Church and State in different periods; and investigates the uses that the Christian churches have made of the past, and how those have constructed their own past.PETER CLARKE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Southampton. CHARLOTTE METHUEN is Lecturer in Church History at the University of Glasgow.$80.00/£45.00(s) May 2013 978 0 95468 101 2 504pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4in), HB Studies in Church History Ecclesiastical History Society

The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England Edited by MARY C. FLANNERY & KATIE L. WALTER Inquisition in medieval and early modern England has typically been the subject of historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader role in medieval English culture, not only in relation to sanctions like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in the fields of exemplarity, rhetoric and poetry. Beyond its specific legal and pastoral applications, inquisitio was a dialogic mode of inquiry, a means of discerning, producing or rewriting truth, and an often adversarial form of invention and literary authority. The essays in this volume cover such topics as the theory and practice of canon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia, political writing and romance. As a result, the collection redefines the nature of inquisition’s role within both medieval law and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the late-medieval consciousness, shaping public fame and private selves, sexuality and gender, rhetoric, and literature.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) March 2013 978 1 84384 336 8, eISBN 978 1 78204 073 6 1 b/w illus.; 202pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Westfield Medieval Studies


Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World Edited by STEVE B OARDMAN, JOHN REUBEN DAVIES & EILA WILLIAMSON The way in which saints’ cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a particular emphasis on northern Britain, and the role of devotional interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and cultural identities (Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh and English) in a world of fluid political and territorial boundaries.Offers something for everyone, from the specialist in Irish naming practices to the student interested in connections between the continent and the Celtic world. [It] offers many interesting insights into the Celtic world in the central middle ages. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $45.00/£25.00 July 2013 978 1 84383 845 6, eISBN 978 1 84383 432 8 234pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Studies in Celtic History

Sin in Medieval and Early Modern CultureThe Tradition of the Seven Deadly SinsEdited by RICHARD G. NEWHAUSER & SUSAN J. RIDYARD The tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins played a considerable role in Western Culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The first part of the book addresses such topics as the problem of acedia in Carolingian monasticism; the development of medieval thought on arrogance; the treatment of sin in the pastoral contexts of the early Middle English Vices and Virtues and a fifteenth-century sermon from England; and the continuing usefulness of the tradition in early modern England. In the second part, the role of the tradition in cultural works is considered, including representations of the sins in French music of the 13th through to the 15th century; and in Dante’s Purgatorio. New interpretations are also offered of Gower’s “Tale of Constance” and Bosch’s Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins. This book significantly enhances our understanding of the multiple uses and meanings of the sins tradition, not only in medieval culture but also in the transition from the medieval to the early modern period. The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $99.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 90315 341 3 8 b/w illus.; 358pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press


Handling Sin Confession in the Middle AgesEdited by PETER BILLER & A.J. MINNIS Penance, confession and their texts are important topics for an understanding of the Middle Ages. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the ways in which these texts constructed women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne’s remarkable writing on penance; and the relevance of confessors’ manuals for demographic history. John Baldwin’s study “From the Ordeal to Confession” traces the appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent’s contrition, the priest’s job in listening, and the application of the spiritual conseil and penitence.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com. $34.95/£19.99 September 2013 978 1 903153 48 2, eISBN 978 0 95297 341 6 230pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB York Studies in Medieval Theology York Medieval Press


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Christians and Jews in Angevin EnglandThe York Massacre of 1190, Narratives and ContextsEdited by SARAH REES JONES & SETHINA WATSON The mass suicide and murder of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism. This massacre was in fact only one of a series of attacks on communities of Jews across England in 1189-90; they were violent expressions of wider new constructs of the nature of Christian and Jewish communities, and the targeted outcries of local townspeople, whose emerging urban politics were enmeshed within the swiftly developing structures of royal government. This collection considers the massacre as central to the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200. Its chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built up, both at the time and in following years. They also focus on the role of narrative in shaping events and their subsequent perception; and the degree of convivencia between Jews and Christians.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$90.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 90315 344 4 3 b/w illus.; 366pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293–1540ELIZABETH MAKOWSKI In late medieval England, cloistered nuns engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys, advocates and other “men of law” who actually conducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been fully investigated. Using records from the courts of the common law, Chancery, and a variety of ecclesiastical venues, this book examines the working relationships without which cloistered nuns could not have lived in fully enclosed but self-sustaining communities. It looks at mendicant and Bridgettine houses, and relates the effectiveness and resilience of their cloistered spirituality to the rise of legal professionalism in the 12th and 13th centuries; and it presents cases from ecclesiastical and royal courts which illustrate the work of legal professionals on behalf of their clients.ELIZABETH MAKOWSKI is Ingram Professor of History, Texas State University.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 786 2, eISBN 978 1 78204 052 1 218pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle AgesEdited by P.H. CULLUM & KATHERINE J. LEWIS The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud, and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters investigate the creation and reconstitution of different expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the other; the articles show this interplay to be far more complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered nature of piety.CONTRIBUTORS: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg. $99.00/£60.00(s) October 2013 978 1 84383 863 0 2 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gender in the Middle Ages

Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western ChristianityLAWRENCE G. DUGGAN In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored.LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2013 978 1 84383 865 4 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410–1503Volume I: 1410–1464Edited by PETER D. CLARKE & PATRICK N. R . ZUTSHI This valuable evidence, recorded in the registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary held in the Vatican Archives, has only been available to researchers since 1983. This edition makes accessible for the first time over 4,000 supplications concerning England and Wales in the office’s fifty earliest surviving registers; they are presented with notes and introduction and other apparatus.PETER D. CLARKE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Southampton; PATRICK N. R. ZUTSHI is Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Library, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. $60.00/£35.00(s) January 2013 978 0 90723 975 8 306pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Canterbury & York Society

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THE NOBILITY AND ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

ELIZABETH GEMMILL This book provides the first full-length, integrated study of the ecclesiastical patronage rights of the nobility in medieval England. Taking as its focus the later thirteenth century, it examines the nature and extent of these rights, how they were used, why and for whom they were valuable, what challenges lay patrons faced, and how they looked to the future in making gifts to the Church.

$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84383 812 8 1 b/w illus.; 254pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HBStudies in the History of Medieval Religion

RELIGION AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s

CALLUM G. BROWN In an innovative ‘turn back’ from postmodern theory and method, Callum Brown reasserts the importance of people’s own liberal desires for freedom and moral rectitude based on a sense of common humanity rather than dogma. In a comparative study looking at Britain, Ireland, Canada and the USA, he shows how secularisation has not been limited to religious decline but has invoked a revolutionary demography based on the spreading new morality of the contemporary age.

$95.00/£55.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 792 3 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HB

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ENGLISH MEDIEVAL MISERICORDS The Margins of Meaning

PAUL HARDWICK A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and motifs. Includes a gazetteer of the most notable instances.

An interesting study, one which will encourage its readers to peer more closely into the ecclesiastical gloom. TIMES

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A welcome addition to the growing literature on medieval liturgical furnishings. THE ART NEWSPAPER

$34.95/£19.99 April 2013 978 1 84383 827 2 32 b/w illus.; 198pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.4 x 6.7 inches), PBBoydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

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ENGLISH NUNS AND THE LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540

ELIZABETH MAKOWSKI In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as their patrons, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been fully investigated until now. This book relates the nuns of such important houses as Dartford, Bruisyard and Syon to the legal profession; and looks at representative cases from

both ecclesiastical and royal courts that illustrate the work of lawyers on behalf of these clients.

$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 786 2 218pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HBStudies in the History of Medieval Religion

THE CULTURE OF INQUISITION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

Edited by MARY C. FLANNERY & KATIE L. WALTER These groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Covering such topics as the theory and practice of canon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia, political writing and romance, the collection redefines the nature of inquisition’s role within both medieval law and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the late-medieval consciousness.

$99.00/£60.00(s) March 2013 978 1 84384 336 8 1 b/w illus.; 202pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), HBWestfield Medieval Studies

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THE ENGLISH CATHOLIC COMMUNITY, 1688-1745 Politics, Culture, Ideology

GABRIEL GLICKMAN A comprehensive examination of the English Catholic community in all its aspects.

Brilliantly succeeds in re-integrating English Catholics into their wider transnational confessional world. [...] We are presented with a nuanced and convincing portrait of a Catholic community torn between different imperatives. [It] is a major achievement [and] becomes the core monograph for its subject. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

$45.00/£25.00 March 2013 978 1 84383 821 0 5 b/w illus.; 316pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 inches), PBStudies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History


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ART & ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and Interpretation Essays for Eric FernieEdited by JILL A. FRANKLIN, T. A. HESLOP & CHRISTINE STEVENSON Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory, and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. Yet the ways in which these effects are brought about are not yet well understood. The aim of this book is to move the discussion forward, to encourage and broaden debate about the ways in which architecture is interpreted, with a view to raising levels of intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and practice of architectural history. The range of material covered extends from houses constructed from mammoth bones around 15,000 years ago in the present-day Ukraine to a surfer’s memorial in Carpinteria, California; other subjects include the young Michelangelo seeking to transcend genre boundaries; medieval masons’ tombs; and the mythographies of early modern Netherlandish towns. CONTRIBUTORS: Christine Stevenson, T. A. Heslop, John Mitchell, Malcolm Thurlby, Richard Fawcett, Jill A. Franklin, Stephen Heywood, Roger Stalley, Veronica Sekules, John Onians, Frank Woodman, Paul Crossley, David Hemsoll, Kerry Downes, Richard Plant, Jenifer Ní Ghrádraigh, Lindy Grant, Elisabeth de Bièvre, Stefan Muthesius, Robert Hillenbrand, Andrew M. Shanken, Peter Guillery.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 781 7, eISBN 978 1 78204 049 1 177 b/w illus.; 430pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.4 x 6.7in), HB

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Richard II and the English Royal TreasureJENNY STRATFORD The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully revealed for the first time in this richly illustrated book. The author explores the nature of the objects themselves, their provenance and later fate, and examines the crucial role the treasure played in diplomacy and in financing the Hundred Years War, especially at the time of Agincourt. This fresh analysis is based on the discovery in the National Archives at Kew of a roll over 28 metres long, compiled around the time of Richard’s deposition. English courtiers and Valois princes are named as the donors of many gifts. Concealed among the treasure are valuables Richard seized from the magnates he executed or exiled in 1397. Publication in full of this exceptional inventory leads to completely new perspectives on Richard II’s court and on its splendour in the last years of the fourteenth century.JENNY STRATFORD began her career in the Department of Manuscripts, the British Library. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.$130.00/£75.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84383 378 9 20 colour & 40 b/w illus.; 528pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB


English Medieval MisericordsThe Margins of Meaning PAUL HARDWICK Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late middle ages. Subjects range from the sacred to the profane and from the fantastic to the everyday, seemingly giving equal weight to the scatological and the spiritual alike. This volume offers an analysis of misericords in relation to other cultural artefacts of the period. Through a series of themed “case studies”, the book places misericords firmly within the doctrinal and devotional milieu in which they were created and sited. The analysis is complemented by a gazetteer of the most notable instancesPAUL HARDWICK is Professor in English, Leeds Trinity University College.The great strength of the book is that it attempts to approach the images through the eyes of those who saw them and understood their meaning. [...] An interesting and important book. VIDIMUS

$34.95/£19.99 April 2013 978 1 84383 827 2, eISBN 978 1 84383 659 9 32 b/w illus.; 198pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

Locating the Middle AgesThe Spaces and Places of Medieval CultureEdited by JULIAN WEISS & SARAH SALIH This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the significance of space and place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the visual arts, epic, romance, historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume addresses the often unexpected roles played by space and place in the construction of individual and collective identities in religious and secular domains. The essays move through world spaces; empires, nations, and frontier zones; cities; and courts, castles and the architecture of subjectivity, closing with modern visions of the medieval world. Taking up pressing contemporary issues such as nationalism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and confessional relations, they find that medieval material provides narratives that we can use today in our negotiations with the past.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2012 978 0 95398 387 2 20 colour & 3 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Kings College London Medieval Studies King’s College London CLAMS

Art, Faith and Place in East AngliaFrom Prehistory to the PresentEdited by T. A. HESLOP, ELIZABETH MELLINGS & MARGIT THÖFNER The relationship between religious or spiritual artworks and the locality where such objects are made and used is the central question this volume addresses. While it is a well-known fact that religious artworks, objects and buildings can have a power or agency of their own, the sources of this power are less well understood. It is this problem which the book seeks to begin to remedy, using East Anglia, an area of Britain with an exceptionally long history of religious diversity, as its prism. Case-studies are taken from prehistory right up to the 21st century, and from a variety of media, including wall-paintings, church architecture, and stained glass; famous sites examined include Seahenge and Sutton Hoo. Overall, the book shows how profoundly religious artworks are embedded in local communities, belief systems, histories and landscapes.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$80.00/£45.00(s) December 2012 978 1 84383 744 2 eISBN 978 1 78204 062 0 17 colour & 93 b/w illus.; 384pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.6 x 6.7in), HB

Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Honour, Exchange and Violence in BeowulfPETER S. BAKER This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order but rather was seen as a reasonable way to get things done; where kings and their retainers saw themselves above all as warriors whose chief occupation was the pursuit of honour; and where most successful kings were those perceived as most predatory. Though kings and their subjects yearned for peace, the political and religious institutions of the time did little to restrain their violent impulses. Drawing on works from Britain, Scandinavia, and Ireland, which show how the practice of violence was governed by rules and customs which were observed, with variations, over a wide area, this book makes use of historicist and anthropological approaches to its subject.PETER S. BAKER is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84384 346 7 4 b/w illus.; 292pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Anglo-Saxon Studies

Castration and Culture in the Middle AgesEdited by LARISSA TRACY Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux – exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia – but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects include archaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$99.00/£60.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84384 351 1 5 b/w illus.; 365pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose ChroniclesJOHN SPENCE The medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance, building on the rich tradition of historical writing circulating in England at the time of their composition, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also shed much light on other networks of influence, such as those between families and religious houses. This book studies the essential characteristics of the genre for the first time, situating Anglo-Norman prose chronicles within the multilingual cultures of late medieval England. It considers the chronicles’ treatment of the “legendary history of Britain”, legends about English heroes, accounts of the Norman Conquest, and histories of noble families. In particular, it explores how Anglo-Norman prose chronicles rewrite the past with rhetorical flourish, in order to advance the contemporary political and personal agendas of their authors and patrons.JOHN SPENCE gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. $95.00/£55.00(s) April 2013 978 1 903153 45 1 2 b/w illus.; 236pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press

Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval IrelandELVA JOHNSTON Much of our knowledge of early medieval Ireland comes from a rich literature written in a variety of genres and in two languages, Irish and Latin. Who wrote this literature and what role did they play within society? What did the introduction and expansion of literacy mean in a culture where the vast majority of the population continued to be non-literate? How did literacy operate in and intersect with the oral world? Was literacy a key element in the formation and articulation of communal and elite senses of identity? This book addresses these issues in the first full, inter-disciplinary examination of the Irish literate elite and their social contexts between ca. 400-1000 AD. It considers the role played by Hiberno-Latin authors, the expansion of vernacular literacy and the key place of monasteries within the literate landscape. Also examined are the crucial intersections between literacy and orality, which underpin the importance played by the literate elite in giving voice to aristocratic and communal identities. ELVA JOHNSTON is lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin.$99.00/£60.00(s) August 2013 978 1 84383 855 5 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in Celtic History

Fatherhood and its Representations in Middle English TextsRACHEL E. MOSS Late medieval English society placed great weight on the practices of primogeniture, patrilineal descent, and patriarchal government, and the significance of the father had cultural resonance beyond the rule of law. Yet despite a burgeoning interest in both the family and gender, “the father” has to date received little attention from medievalists. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the “fictions” of fatherhood, the ideological constructs that underpinned late medieval conceptions of fathers and patriarchy. Its focus on gentry and mercantile readers and writers also offers new insights into the literary culture of late medieval England by considering how texts were produced and received within gentry and bourgeois communities, and demonstrates the ability of texts to not only reflect but also shape hegemonic norms and cultural anxieties. Through close examination of late medieval letters and romances, it shows how the father was the dominant figure not only of medieval domestic life, but also of the medieval imagination.Dr RACHEL MOSS is Lecturer in Medieval History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2013 978 1 84384 358 0 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400–1600 MERRIDEE L. BAILEY The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. The author examines how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the period for parents, teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family reading networks into the context of debates on the history of childhood, and the history of the book. MERRIDEE L. BAILEY is at the School of History at the University of Adelaide.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 1 90315 342 0, eISBN 978 1 78204 060 6 284pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press


MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Edited by DANIEL E. O’SULLIVAN & LAURIE SHEPARD Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the 12th and 15th centuries, these essays examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended for noblemen and women, not to mention ambitious bourgeois. Others explore the witty, thoughtful and innovative responses of writers engaged in the conscious process of elevating the new vernacular culture through the articulation of its complexities and contradictions. The volume as a whole unites philosophical, theoretical, philological, and cultural approaches. It is thus a fitting tribute to the scholarship of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, in its exploration of the profound and wide-ranging ideas that define her contribution to the field.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$99.00/£60.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84384 335 1, eISBN 978 1 78204 071 2 13 b/w illus.; 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gallica

Medievalist EnlightenmentFrom Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques RousseauALICIA C. MONTOYA Literary medievalism played a vital role in the construction of the French Enlightenment. It influenced movements leading to the Romantic rediscovery of the Middle Ages, and helped to shape new literary genres. The dominant mode of the early Enlightenment, galanterie, was of medievalist inspiration. Moreover, the academic study of medieval texts underlay modern ideals of scholarship, institutionalized at the royal academies. The Middle Ages polemically functioned as an alternative site, allowing authors to rethink their age’s political and social ideologies. From the re-evaluation of the medieval thus emerged not only the seeds of a new poetics, but also the central questions that preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers from Montesquieu to Rousseau. This book shows how the “Dark Ages” served as the defining foil for the modern Age of Light.ALICIA C. MONTOYA is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen.$85.00/£50.00(s) March 2013 978 1 84384 342 9 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Medievalism

Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du MondeNarrative Voice, Language and DiversitySIMON GAUNT Le Devisement du Monde (1298) is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history. Yet there is little awareness of the Devisement’s complex history and development. This book examines the text from a fresh, literary viewpoint, drawing upon a range of different disciplines and approaches: philology, manuscript studies, narratology, cultural history, postcolonial studies and theory. It contains comparative readings of multiple versions of the text in French, Italian and Latin. Rather than offering a Eurocentric vision of the world grounded in a sense of the absolute alterity of the non-Christian world as is often asserted, the author shows how the Devisement expounds a sense of the relative nature of difference, crucially positioning Marco uncannily between two worlds, between the two languages, French and Italian, and the two literary histories. The author also calls into question traditional accounts of the use of French outside France in the Middle Ages and offers a re-assessment of Marco Polo’s position in the evolution of European travel writing.SIMON GAUNT is Professor of French Language and Literature at King’s College London. $99.00/£60.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84384 352 8 2 b/w illus.; 206pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gallica

Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World Edited by NOAH D. GUYNN & ZRINKA STAHULJAK The concept of medieval historiography as “usable past” is here challenged and reassessed. Violence is used as the key term that best demonstrates the making of historical meaning in the Middle Ages, through the transformation of acts of physical aggression and destruction into a memorable and usable past. The chapters assembled here explore a wide range of texts emanating from throughout the francophone world. They cover a range of genres, and range from the late 11th to the 15th century. Through examination of topics as varied as rhetoric, imagery, humor, gender, sexuality, trauma, subversion, and community formation, each chapter strives to demonstrate how knowledge of the medieval past can be enhanced by approaching medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$90.00/£50.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84384 337 5, eISBN 978 1 78204 072 9 4 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gallica

Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century EnglandPolitics, Piety and PenitenceRALUCA L. RADULESCU Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II’s deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail and Malory’s Morte were read in 15th-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich’s case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing.Dr RALUCA RADULESCU is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bangor University.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2013 978 1 84384 359 7 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

French & Arthurian Studies

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

French Arthurian Literature VThe Lay of MantelEdited and translated by GLYN S. BURGESS & LESLIE C. BRO OK The Old French lay of Mantel belongs to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late twelfth or thirteenth century. These short narratives vary in tone and usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in an aristocratic, courtly setting. Here, this is Arthur’s court, with its well-known characters involved, and the tone is satiric and comic; the story is a chastity test, which the ladies of the court undergo in public by donning the mantle – if it does not fit, their behaviour is betrayed. The poem plays on the insecurities of the knights, who are at first confident of their loves’ fidelity, but in the end are all too anxious to ignore their transgressions. The popularity of the lay is attested by its survival in five manuscripts, an unusually high number. It is edited here from MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1104, a manuscript containing twenty-four lays, including nine by Marie de France whose work has to some extent defined the genre. The text is accompanied by a facing translation, and presented with introduction, elucidatory notes, bibliography, and indices.GLYN S. BURGESS is Emeritus Professor of French, University of Liverpool; LESLIE C. BROOK is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French, University of Birmingham.$90.00/£50.00(s) February 2013 978 1 84384 338 2 178pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Arthurian Archives

Arthurian Literature XXIX Edited by ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD & DAVID F. JOHNSON The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modern Arthur of the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III’s abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of Arthur’s tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge of the French manuscript sources for Malory’s first tale, in particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by Cornwall in Malory’s literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.CONTRIBUTORS: Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field, Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, Julian M. Luxford, Ryan Naughton, Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith. $90.00/£50.00(s) December 2012 978 1 84384 333 7, eISBN 978 1 78204 063 7 4 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Arthurian Literature

Sir Thomas MaloryThe Morte Darthur (2 Volumes)Edited by P. J. C. FIELD Malory completed his Morte Darthur in 1469-70. The two earliest surviving witnesses, the Winchester manuscript and Caxton’s printed edition, were both produced within the next sixteen years. The manuscript was soon lost, but its rediscovery in 1934 revealed that these two texts had striking differences. Eighty years of scholarship in a variety of disciplines has discovered a good deal about who changed what and why: the Caxton, for instance, tends to be very unreliable in the last few lines of particular kinds of pages. These discoveries should make it possible to produce an edition of Malory’s book that comes closer than ever before to what Malory intended to write. The present edition aims to do that, basing itself on the Winchester manuscript, but treating it merely as the most important piece of evidence for what Malory intended, and the default text where no other reading can be shown to be more probable. P. J. C. FIELD is Professor of English at Bangor University. $260.00/£150.00(s) November 2013 978 1 84384 314 6 1200pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.4 x 6.7in), 2 volumes, HB Arthurian Studies

The Medieval Romance of Alexander The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the GreatJEHAN WAUQUELIN Translated by NIGEL BRYANT Nigel Bryant’s is the first translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur.The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great is Jehan Wauquelin’s superb compendium, written for the Burgundian court in the mid-fifteenth century, which draws together all the key elements of the Alexandrian tradition. With great clarity and intelligence Wauquelin produced a redaction of all the major Alexander romances of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries – including the verse Roman d’Alexandre, The Vows of the Peacock and La Venjance Alixandre – to tell the whole story of Alexander’s miraculous birth and childhood, his conquests of Persia and India, his battles with fabulous beasts and outlandish peoples, his journeys in the sky and under the sea, his poisoning at Babylon and the vengeance taken by his son.NIGEL BRYANT has translated five major Arthurian romances from medieval French, including Perceforest in which Alexander features prominently. $90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 332 0, eISBN 978 1 78204 030 9 324pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

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NORSE ROMANCESEdited by MARIANNE E. KALINKE

Provides access to some of the most important Norse versions of French Arthurian narrative [... ] a very valuable service. SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

Vol. I: The Tristan Legend$34.95/£19.99 August 2012 978 1 84384 305 4 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 in), PB

Vol. II: The Knights of the Round Table$34.95/£19.99 August 2012 978 1 84384 306 1 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 in), PB

Vol. III: Hærra IvanTranslated by HENRIK WILLIAMS & KARIN PALMGREN$34.95/£19.99 August 2012 978 1 84384 307 8 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 in), PB

Norse Romance (3 volume set)$90.00/£50.00 April 2012 978 1 84384 312 2 3 Vols, PBArthurian Archives

DUTCH ROMANCES Edited by DAVID F. JOHNSON & GEERT H. M. CLAASSENS

Scholars of Arthurian romance who wish to add Middle Netherlandic texts to their scholarly discussion, or anyone simply wanting the pleasure of reading a good medieval story, will welcome these volumes. SPECULUM

Vol. I: Roman van Walewein$45.00/£25.00 August 2012 978 1 84384 308 5 552pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 in), PB

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Vol. III: Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation$45.00/£25.00 August 2012 978 1 84384 310 8 768pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6 in), PB

Dutch Romances (3 volume set)$95.00/£55.00 August 2012 978 1 84384 311 5 3 Vols, PBArthurian Archives


MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Shorter Scottish Medieval RomancesFlorimond of Albany, Sir Colling the Knycht, King Orphius, Roswall and LillianEdited by RHIANNON PURDIE The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences – despite some late-medieval references to the first two – until fragmentary copies were unearthed in the National Archives of Scotland in the 1970s: all three are researched and fully edited for the first time here. King Orphius, closely and significantly related to the famous Middle English romance Sir Orfeo, is supplemented here with the Laing fragment discovered by the present editor in 2010. Roswall and Lillian survives in later prints and was a favourite text of Sir Walter Scott’s – he owned at least three copies of it – but it has not been edited since the nineteenth century. Each text is supplied with comprehensive explanatory notes and an introduction, including full discussion of extant witnesses and circulation history; linguistic and other evidence for date and provenance; literary context; analogues and influences. There is a combined glossary, and an Appendix presents the text of the English Percy Folio ballad “Sir Cawline” as derived from the Scots Sir Colling.Dr RHIANNON PURDIE is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English, University of St Andrews. $70.00/£40.00(s) May 2013 978 1 89797 636 4 3 b/w illus.; 302pp, 21.6 x 13.8 (8.5 x 5.4in), HB Scottish Text Society Fifth Series


Older Scots A Linguistic Reader JEREMY J. SMITH

This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots. It provides the means of understanding the language’s essential characteristics, and enables readers to engage with the fascinating textual and linguistic problems which it presents. The volume contains an extensive set of annotated texts from the period, inviting closer engagement with the detail of the language, which are preceded by a comprehensive introduction to and discussion of the subject; it also looks at the linguistic detail of the reception and afterlife of medieval and early modern Scottish texts. Those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will find it a “kit” for stylistic analysis.JEREMY J. SMITH is Professor of English Philology, University of Glasgow.Available in hardback & paperback:HB: $80.00/£45.00(s) 978 1 89797 633 3, eISBN 978 1 89797 634 0PB: $24.95/£14.99 978 1 89797 634 0, eISBN 978 1 89797 633 3April 2012 266pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

The Old English MartyrologyEdition, Translation and CommentaryEdited & Translated BY CHRISTINE RAUER The Old English Martyrology is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in Anglo-Saxon England; it also represents one of the most impressive examples of encyclopaedic writing from the European Middle Ages. Probably intended as a reference work, it was used and transmitted for over 200 years, providing its readers with information on native and foreign saints, time measurement, the seasons of the year, biblical events, and cosmology. This new edition presents a revised text, with a facing-page, newly-prepared English translation; they are accompanied by a commentary based on a fresh comparison with some 250 Latin and Old English texts, the first published glossary for this text, and extensive bibliographical information and indices.Dr CHRISTINE RAUER is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. $99.00/£60.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84384 347 4 1 b/w illus.; 408pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Anglo-Saxon Texts

Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture Authorship and Authority in a Female CommunityEdited by JENNIFER N. BROWN & D ONNA ALFANO BUSSELL Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women’s education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books.The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women’s texts.CONTRIBUTORS: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Bérat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O’Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 903153 43 7, eISBN 978 1 78204 050 7 1 b/w illus.; 350pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB York Medieval Press

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in EnglandPapers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8]Edited by E.A. JONES Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The five “Middle English Mystics” receive renewed attention, with significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical approaches. In addition, there are studies of the relationships between continental and English mystical authors, introductions to some less well-known writers in the tradition, and explorations around the fringes of the mystical canon, including Middle English translations of Boethius, Lollard spirituality, and the Syon brother Richard Whytford’s writings for a sixteenth-century “mixed life” audience.CONTRIBUTORS: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grisé, Ian Johnson, Sarah Macmillan, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Nicole R. Rice, Maggie Ross, Steven Rozenski Jr, David Russell, Michael G. Sargent, Christiana Whitehead.The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

$99.00/£60.00(s) May 2013 978 1 84384 340 5 2 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Medieval Mystical Tradition

Two Ælfric TextsThe Twelve Abuses and The Vices and VirtuesEdited & Translated by MARY CLAY TONThe texts edited in this volume are Ælfric’s vernacular versions of two highly influential early medieval ethical treatises. The first, De duodecim abusiuis, is his Old English version of a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin tract dealing with the twelve abuses of the world and the second, De octo uitiis et de duodecim abusiuis, is a composite text; it combines a treatment of the eight vices and the complementary eight virtues, also found as the last part of Ælfric’s Lives of Saints XVI, with the twelve abuses. This new edition provides, for the first time, critical editions of both texts, with a facing translation, presented with full apparatus; it also includes an extensive discussion of the sources and how they are treated.MARY CLAYTON is Professor of Old and Middle English, University College Dublin.$99.00/£60.00(s) December 2013 978 1 84384 360 3 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Anglo-Saxon Texts


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A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English PoetryEdited by JULIA B OFFEY & A. S . G. EDWARDS This collection of essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of the century, John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, receive detailed analysis, alongside perhaps lesser-known authors: John Capgrave, Osbern Bokenham, Peter Idley, George Ashby and John Audelay. In addition, several essays examine genres and topics, including romance, popular, historical and scientific poetry, and translations from the classics. Other chapters investigate the crucial contexts for approaching poetry of this period: manuscript circulation, patronage and the influence of Chaucer. CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, Susanna Fein, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Sarah James, Andrew King, Sheila Lindenbaum, Joanna Martin, Carol Meale, Robert Meyer-Lee, Ad Putter, John Scattergood, Anke Timmerman. $99.00/£60.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84384 353 5 246pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English LiteratureThe Influence of Derek BrewerEdited by CHARLOT TE BREWER & BARRY WINDEAT T Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the 20th century, first through his own publications and teaching, and later as a pioneer in academic publishing. Essays in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which remain central: Chaucer’s knight and knightly virtues; class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love, friendship and masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory’s Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book; Chaucer’s poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential of Derek Brewer’s work is being reinterpreted and is renewing itself now and into the future of medieval studies.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84384 354 2 318pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Literary Studies and the Pursuits of ReadingEdited by ERIC D OWNING, JONATHAN M. HESS & RICHARD V. BENSON Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory on reading, emotion, and affect alongside historical investigations into cultural practices of reading as they have changed over time. Topics addressed include ancient practices of magic reading; Christian conversionary reading; the emergence of silent reading in the Middle Ages; Renaissance ekphrastic reading; homeopathy, reading and Romanticism; and German-Jewish reading cultures in the nineteenth century. The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$75.00/£50.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 431 8 17 b/w illus.; 306pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture


Language and Culture in Medieval Britain The French of England, c.1100–c.1500Edited by JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE et al. England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The development of French in England, whether known as “Anglo-Norman” or “Anglo-French”, is deeply interwoven both with medieval English and with the spectrum of Frenches, insular and continental, used within and outside the realm. This volume forms a new cultural history focussed round the presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England. Taking the French of England into account restores a multi-vocal, multi-cultural medieval England in all its complexity.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.

This is a groundbreaking and important collection and will be regarded as essential reading in years to come. SPECULUM

$45.00/£25.00 September 2013 978 1 90315 347 5, eISBN 978 1 90315 327 7 20 b/w illus.; 560pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB York Medieval Press

John Gower and the Limits of the LawCONRAD VAN DIJK It has long been thought that John Gower was probably a lawyer before turning to poetry, and this study reveals his active engagement with contemporary legal debates, and aspects of criminal law. The author argues that the Confessio Amantis in particular demonstrates Gower’s uncertainty about how to reconcile the ideal of a just law with alternative modes of justice, such as self-help, royal discretion, and divine will. The book also examines the parallel development of the exemplum and casus in medieval literature. Exempla frequently create a sense of narrative closure by means of some form of punishment, or as Gower would put it, “vengeance”. How then do we set Gower’s reputation as a sympathetic writer alongside his frequent desire for closure and punishment? What are the limits of exemplarity and law? These questions are answered by reading Gower in relation to the volatile politics of the Ricardian period, and in comparison with the poetic concerns of contemporary writers such as Chaucer and Langland. In so doing, the book provides a searching introduction to the intersection between literature and law in the late fourteenth century.Dr. CONRAD van DIJK is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University College of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).$99.00/£60.00(s) June 2013 978 1 84384 350 4 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Publications of the John Gower Society

John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame MARY C. FLANNERY John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer’s literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to overshadow his contributions to English literature. Here, “fame” is identified as the key to Lydgate’s authorial self-fashioning in Chaucer’s wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame within the literary, cultural and political landscape of late-medieval England, indicating how Lydgate diverges from Chaucer’s treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident model of authorship, according to which poets are the natural makers and recipients of fame. She then discusses the ways in which Lydgate draws on fourteenth-century poetry, the advisory tradition, and the laureate ideology borne out of trecento Italy; she shows that he deploys them to play upon reader anxieties in his short poems on dangerous speech, while depicting poets as the ultimate arbiters of fame in his longer poems and dramatic works.MARY C. FLANNERY is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84384 331 3, eISBN 978 1 78204 057 6 206pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB


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Studies in Medievalism XXIICorporate Medievalism IIEdited by KARL FUGELSO In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor’s Show in London.Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy’s Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade’s The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and resurrection in M.R. James’s “Episode of Cathedral History”, salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia.CONTRIBUTORS: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84384 355 9 18 b/w illus.; 218pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in Medievalism

The Faustian CenturyGerman Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and FaustusEdited by J. M. VAN DER LAAN & ANDREW WEEKS The Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into distinct disciplines today, interacted and clashed intimately in Faust, the great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original Faust behind Goethe’s great drama embodies a remote culture. In his century, Faust evolved from an obscure cipher to a universal symbol. The age explored here as “the Faustian century” invested the Faustbuch and its theme with a symbolic significance still of exceptional relevance today.The new essays in this volume complement one another, providing insights into the tensions and forces that gave the century its distinct character. Several essays seek Faust’s prototypes. Others elaborate the symbolic function of his figure and discern the resonance of his tale in conflicting allegiances. This volume focuses on the intersection of historical accounts and literary imaginings, on shared aspects of the work and its times, on concerns with obedience and transgression, obsessions with the devil and curiosity about magic, and quandaries created by shifting religious and worldly authorities.CONTRIBUTORS: Marguerite de Huszar Allen, Kresten Thue Andersen, Frank Baron, Günther Bonheim, Albrecht Classen, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Karl S. Guthke, Michael Keefer, Paul Ernst Meyer, J. M. van der Laan, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Andrew Weeks.$90.00/£60.00(s) February 2013 978 1 57113 552 0 14 b/w illus.; 412pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena’s Vita ChristiLESLEY K. T WOMEY Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish middle ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, a position she held for almost thirty years until her death. Her treatise on the religious life, Vita Christi, was the first book by a woman to be printed in the kingdom of Aragon.This is the first full-length survey in English of Isabel’s life and literary works. The author pays particular attention to the way in which devotion to the Virgin Mary is manifested and described through material culture, on her rich fabrics, brocades, silks, shoes, and crown. The book thus highlights not only Isabel’s distinctive contribution to the genre of the Vita Christi, but also reflects the status of Valencia as a centre for trade and producer of silks and velvets at the time, as well as its flourishing shoe-making industry.LESLEY K. TWOMEY is Principal Lecturer, Hispanic Studies, Northumbria University.$90.00/£50.00(s) March 2013 978 1 85566 248 3 33 b/w illus.; 314pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan DeyermondEdited by ANDREW M. BERESFORD, LOUISE M. HAYWO OD & JULIAN WEISS Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world. There were several tributes to his work published during his lifetime, and it is fitting that this one, in his memory, should be produced by Tamesis, the publishing house that he helped establish and to which he contributed so much as author and editor right up to his death. The contributors to this volume are some of Professor Deyermond’s former colleagues, doctoral students, and members of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. Given Professor Deyermond’s breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies. The volume opens with a personal memoir of her father by Ruth Deyermond, and closes with the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond’s papers, and edited by his literary executor, Professor David Hook.The full list of contributors can be seen on the title’s page at our website: www.boydellandbrewer.com.$99.00/£60.00(s) March 2013 978 1 85566 250 6 334pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB

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Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten ChantsPsalmi, threni and the Easter Vigil CanticlesEMMA HORNBY & REBECCA MALOY Although Old Hispanic liturgical chant has long been considered one of the most important medieval chant traditions, its musical notation shows only where the melodies rise and fall, not precise intervals or pitches, and this lack of pitch-readable notation has prevented scholars from fully engaging with the surviving sources. Focussing on three genres of chant sung during the Old Hispanic Lent (the threni, psalmi, and Easter Vigil canticles), this book takes a holistic view of the texts and melodies, setting them in the context of their liturgical and intellectual surroundings. It concludes that the theologically purposeful text selections combine with carefully shaped melodies to guide the devotional practice of their hearers.EMMA HORNBY is Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol; REBECCA MALOY is Associate Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder.$130.00/£75.00(s) August 2013 978 1 84383 814 2 14 b/w illus.; 564pp, 24.4 x 17.2 (9.6 x 6.7in), HB Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and PoetryJENNIFER SALTZSTEIN The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across 13th- and early 14th-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goes on to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation.JENNIFER SALTZSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2013 978 1 84384 349 8 204pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Gallica


The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare ROBERT HORNBACK From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed “license” of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundariesProfessor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.With fascinating detail on virtually every page of this book, [the author] has produced a kind of academic page-turner. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

$45.00/£25.00 July 2013 978 1 84384 356 6, eISBN 978 1 84384 200 2 6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), PB Studies in Renaissance Literature

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Performance and the Middle English Romance LINDA MARIE ZAERR Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves.LINDA MARIE ZAERR is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.This is a fascinating book, a sort of dialogue between scholar and performer, both being the same person [...] stimulating. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW

$90.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84384 323 8, eISBN 978 1 78204 022 4 296pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Studies in Medieval Romance

Anglo-Norman Studies 35Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012Edited by DAVID BATES

$90.00/£50.00(s) July 2013 978 1 84383 857 9 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Anglo-Norman Studies

Thirteenth Century England XIVProceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011Edited by JANET BURTON, PHILLIPP SCHOFIELD & BJÖRN WEILER

$120.00/£70.00(s) April 2013 978 1 84383 809 8 5 b/w illus.; 250pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Thirteenth Century England

Fifteenth-Century Studies 38Edited by BARBARA I . GUSICK

$75.00/£50.00(s) June 2013 978 1 57113 558 2 15 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6 (23.4 x 15.6cm), HB Fifteenth-Century Studies

The Fifteenth Century XIISociety in an Age of PlagueEdited by LINDA CLARK & CAROLE RAWCLIFFE

$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2013 978 1 84383 875 3 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB The Fifteenth Century

Journal of Medieval Military HistoryVolume XIEdited by CLIFFORD J. RO GERS, KELLY DEVRIES & JOHN FRANCE

$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2013 978 1 84383 860 9 2 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6 (9 x 6in), HB Journal of Medieval Military History

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The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504Nobody involved in any aspect of medieval research can afford to do without this publication. HISTORY

A major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval English history, and to the study of the English constitution. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

This edition – first published in 2005 – reproduces the rolls of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509) in their entirety, together with a few individual items published since 1783, as well as a substantial amount of material never previously published; it is complemented by a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English). It also includes an introduction to every parliament known to have been held by an English king (or in his name) between 1275 and 1504, whether or not the roll for that parliament survives. Where appropriate, appendices of supplementary material are also provided, and there is a General Introduction to the rolls.All volumes are available separately $99.00/£60.00(s) per volume, Published in July 2012

Vol. I: Edward I, 1275–1294Edited by PAUL BRAND978 1 84383 763 3696pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. II: Edward I, 1294 –1307Edited by PAUL BRAND978 1 84383 764 0694pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. III: Edward II, 1307–1327Edited by SEYMOUR PHILLIPS978 1 84383 765 7474pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. IV: Edward III, 1327–1348Edited by SEYMOUR PHILLIPS & MARK ORMROD 978 1 84383 766 4470pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. V: Edward III, 1351–1377Edited by MARK ORMROD 978 1 84383 767 1434pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. VI: Richard II, 1377–1384Edited by GEOFFREY MARTIN & CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON 978 1 84383 768 8433pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. VII: Richard II, 1385–1397Edited by CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON978 1 84383 769 5434pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. VIII: Henry IV, 1399–1413Edited by CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON 978 1 84383 770 1564pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. IX: Henry V, 1413–1422Edited by CHRIS GIVEN–WILSON 978 1 84383 771 8335pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. X: Henry VI, 1422–1431Edited by ANNE CURRY978 1 84383 772 5488pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XI: Henry VI, 1432–1445Edited by ANNE CURRY978 1 84383 773 2514pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XII: Henry VI, 1447–1460Edited by ANNE CURRY & ROSEMARY HORROX978 1 84383 774 9551pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XIII: Edward IV, 1461–1470Edited by ROSEMARY HORROX978 1 84383 775 6400pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XIV: Edward IV, 1472–1483Edited by ROSEMARY HORROX978 1 84383 776 3474pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XV: Richard III, 1484–1485 & Henry VII, 1485–1487Edited by ROSEMARY HORROX978 1 84383 777 0408pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

Vol. XVI: Henry VII, 1489–1504Edited by ROSEMARY HORROX978 1 84383 799 2448pp, 29.7 x 21 (11.7 x 8.3in), HB

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The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena’s Vita ChristiLESLEY K. T WOMEY

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Richard II and the English Royal TreasureJENNY STRATFORD

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Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English LiteratureThe Influence of Derek BrewerEdited by CHARLOT TE BREWER & BARRY WINDEAT T

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