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In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. The Devil’s Historians casts aside the myths of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular culture: one that is diverse, thriving, courageous, compelling, and far more complex than those who want to bring us back to the Middle Ages would have you believe.
Amy S. Kaufman is a scholar of medieval studies and popular culture.
Paul B. Sturtevant is Editor in Chief of The Public Medievalist and a Visitor Research Specialist at The Smithsonian Institution.
2020 978-1-4875-8784-0
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208 pages 4 illustrations
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“The Devil’s Historians should be read by every teacher and student of medieval studies.
This is a well-researched and highly scholarly book written
with journalistic ease and page-turning appeal.”
– Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, President of the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press
Summer 2020
Edited by E. RUTH HARVEY, M. TERESA TAVORMINA, and SARAH STAR
LIBER URICRISIARUM A Reading Edition H
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Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English. Liber Uricrisiarum describes medieval humoral theory, anatomy, physiology, disease, medical astronomy, reproductive processes, and more, all within the broader context of uroscopic diagnosis. This edition presents the Middle English text, with a general glossary, glossary of proper names, and explanatory notes.
“This volume is the culmination of decades
of study by important scholars in the field, and the University of Toronto Press is to be congratulated on its
publication.”
– Linda Ehrsam Voigts, FSA, FMAA, University of Missouri-Kansas City
2020 978-1-4875-0601-8
CLOTH $100.00
532 pages 5 illustrations
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New from University of Toronto Press
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions –thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages – and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region.
2018 978-1-4426-3673-6
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568 pages 22 illustrations
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In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures – as well as their Eurasian connections – in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region.
2018 978-1-4426-3622-4
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424 pages 93 illustrations
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Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor Emerita, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions (600–1700), What Is the History of Emotions? (with Riccardo Cristiani), The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (with Elina Gertsman), A Short History of the Middle Ages, and Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World.
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E X P E R I E N C I N G M E D I E VA L A R T
Herbert L. Kessler
Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers often-strange objects and the materials of which they are
made, circumstances of production, the conflictual relationship between art objects and notions of an ineffable deity, the context surrounding medieval art, the playfulness of art and the formal movements it engaged, as well as questions of apprehension, aesthetics, and modern presentation.
RETHINKING THE MIDDLE AGES
Experiencing Medieval Art
Herbert L. Kessler
Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church explores the career of one of the most influential of King Louis’s reformers,
Philippe of Cahors. Using the records of Philippe’s work in Reims, Paris, and Évreux, William Chester Jordan reconstructs Philippe’s career, providing a fascinating portrait of the successes and failures of reform in the thirteenth century.
MEDIEVAL ACADEMY BOOKS
Servant of the Crown and Steward of the ChurchThe Career of Philippe of Cahors
William Chester Jordan
2020 978-1-4875-2461-6
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128 pages
2019 978-1-4426-0071-3
PAPER $44.95
296 pages
In the early twelfth century a Burgundian monk set out to tell the 500-year history of his monastery, embedded
within a broader history of early medieval France. The Cartulary-Chronicle of St.-Pierre of Bèze is both a history of the monastery and a collection of its 331 charters, from its seventh-century foundation until the middle of the twelfth century.
MEDIEVAL ACADEMY BOOKS
The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Béze
Edited by Constance Brittain Bouchard
2020 978-1-4875-0615-5
CLOTH $95.00
368 pages
Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our
institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. Epidemics and the Modern World assumes no prior experience with the history of science or medicine and is accessible for undergraduate students, while its challenging approach to the history of the modern world will engage readers of all levels and all interests.
Epidemics and the Modern World
Mitchell L. Hammond
2020 978-1-4875-9373-5
PAPER $54.95
536 pages 58 illustrations
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This is the first and only book-length biography of Prince Manuel, the progenitor of the longest ruling dynasty in the
history of Spain. In his capacity as the monarch’s closest advisor, Manuel maintained critical working relationships with the most notable leaders of his age including James I and Peter III of Aragon, Louis IX and Philippe III of France, Edward I and Queen Eleanor of England, and Popes Alexander IV and Gregory X.
TORONTO IBERIC
Dawn of a DynastyThe Life and Times of Infante Manuel of Castile
Richard P. Kinkade
2019 978-1-4875-0460-1
CLOTH $120.00
536 pages 35 illustrations
ARVIND THOMAS
PIERS PLOWMAN and the Reinvention of Church Law
in the Late Middle Ages
It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the
lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, this book examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal “makyngs” in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland.
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
Arvind Thomas
2019 978-1-4875-0246-1
CLOTH $75.00
288 pages
Lives UncoveredA Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe
EDITED BY NICHOL AS TERPSTRA
Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, this book is a fascinating collection of early modern primary
sources organized around the human life cycle: from birth through youth and adulthood to death. Providing an in-depth social history of the period, Lives Uncovered is an excellent resource for those eager to deepen their understanding of the period.
Lives UncoveredA Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe
Edited byNicholas Terpstra
2019 978-1-4426-0732-3
PAPER $59.95
304 pages 30 illustrations
At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo
Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.
LORENZO DA PONTE ITALIAN LIBRARY
The Republic of VeniceDe magistratibus et republica
Venetorum
Gasparo Contarini Edited and introduced by Filippo Sabetti
2019 978-1-4875-0584-4
CLOTH $34.95
200 pages 5 illustrations
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A WOMEN’SHISTORY OF
THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCHTwo Thousand Years of Female Leadership
ELIZABETH GILLAN MUIR
Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership
Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines
the various positions women have filled in the church. Offering broad coverage of both the Catholic and Protestant traditions and extending geographically well beyond North America, this book presents a chronological account of how women developed new sects and new churches, such as the Quakers and Christian Science.
A Women’s History of the Christian ChurchTwo Thousand Years of Female Leadership
Elizabeth Gillan Muir
2019 978-1-487-59384-1
PAPER $34.95
400 pages
Deborah McGrady
The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France
The Writer’s
Gift or the
Patron’s
Pleasure?
This book introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of
literary sponsorship, Charles V of France. When upturning literary dynamics by soliciting works to satisfy his stated desires, the king triggered a multi-generational literary debate concerned with the effect a work’s status as a solicited or unsolicited text had in determining the value and purpose of the literary enterprise.
The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure?The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France
Deborah McGrady
2019 978-1-4875-0365-9
CLOTH $85.00
366 pages 16 illustrations
David A. Wacks
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction
and the Mediterranean World
Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian
authors reimagined the idea of Crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The Crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day.
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Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World
David A. Wacks
2019 978-1-4875-0501-1
CLOTH $65.00
288 pages
The Roman de toute chevalerie
Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England
Charles Russell Stone
The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved
so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse perspectives on the conqueror. To shed light on the origins and treatment of this romance, Charles Russell Stone reads each manuscript within the contexts of its production, scribal interpolations, and patronage and readership in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The Roman de toute chevalerieReading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England
Charles Russell Stone
2019 978-1-4875-0189-1
CLOTH $75.00
272 pages 5 illustrations
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PReaching ApocRypha IN Anglo-SAxon England
BRandon W. Hawk
This book is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives
in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching.
TORONTO ANGLO-SAXON SERIES
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England
Brandon W. Hawk
2018 978-1-4875-0305-5
CLOTH $67.00
424 pages
A Cognitive Historical Analysis STEVEN WAGSCHAL
Minding Animals in the
Oldand New Worlds
This book employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how
humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including the utility of anthropomorphism and the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts.
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Minding Animals in the Old and New WorldsA Cognitive Historical Analysis
Steven Wagschal
2018 978-1-4875-0332-1
CLOTH $77.00
360 pages 29 illustrations
The term fragment is used to describe isolated bits of manuscript material or any piece of a larger text. Investigating the vital
role fragments played in medieval and early modern Iberian manuscript culture, this book is focused on fragments from five major Iberian literary traditions, including Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew poetry, Latin and Castilian epics, chivalric romances, and the literature of early modern crypto-Muslims.
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Cultures of the FragmentUses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100–1600
Heather Bamford
2018 978-1-4875-0240-9
CLOTH $77.00
272 pages 13 illustrations
This book sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English
piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy.
Fruit of the OrchardReading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Jennifer N. Brown
2019 978-1-4875-0407-6
CLOTH $75.00
328 pages 4 illustrations
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MEDIEVAL
WARFARE
A Reader
READINGS IN MEDIEVAL
CIVILIZATIONS AND
CULTURES: XXI
series editor: Paul Edward Dutton
edited by
Kelly DeVries and
Michael Livingston
This book examines how armed conflict was experienced in the Middle Ages both on the field of battle and
at home. This comprehensive collection of primary source materials traces over one thousand years of military developments including the fall of Rome, the fight for Jerusalem, the building of castles and other fortifications, the rise of gunpowder, and the negotiation of treaties.
Medieval WarfareA Reader
Edited by Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the
Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings.
The Viking AgeA Reader, Third Edition
Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald
Assuming no previous knowledge of medieval civilizations, this volume allows readers to experience the
excitement of men and women who ventured into new lands. By addressing cross-cultural interaction, religion, and travel literature, the collection sheds light on how travel shaped the way we perceive the world, while also connecting history to the contemporary era of globalization.
Medieval Travel and TravelersA Reader
Edited by John F. Romano
Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this
comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard’s Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
European Magic and WitchcraftA Reader
Edited by Martha Rampton
2020 978-1-4875-8802-1
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384 pages 13 illustrations
2019 978-1-4875-7047-7
PAPER $52.95
552 pages 14 illustrations
2019 978-1-4426-3669-9
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392 pages
2018 978-1-4426-3420-6
PAPER $51.00
480 pages
Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
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THE LORENZO DA PONTE ITALIAN LIBRARY
GENERAL EDITORS: LUIGI BALLERINI AND MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA
Translation and Notes by Richard Lansing
Introduction by Akash Kumar
The Complete Poetry
Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini is hailed as the earliest poet to import the Occitan tradition of love poetry into the Italian vernacular. This edition fills a gap in the canon of translations of Italian
literature in English and serves as a vital reference source for scholars interested in the literature of the romance languages
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The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini
Translation and Notes by Richard Lansing, with an Introduction by Akash Kumar
2018 978-1-4875-0376-5
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978-1-4875-2286-5
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This book highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth
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Reconsidering BoccaccioMedieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
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