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A discussion of Nordic medieval laws in the period 1100-1300, focusing on the female criminal and highlighting the complex relationship between gender, law, and society during this transformative period.

New edition with translation of St Radegunde of Poitiers' Treatise of Consolation to Lepers together with critical analysis and rationale for the identity of the Latin text's originator.

The importance of Robin Hood Christmastime texts for the continuous popularity of the Robin Hood tradition.

Presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Volsung hero Sigurðr fafnisbani, the pre-eminent dragon slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation and with an in-depth introduction.

This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean.

A new cultural history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus, the foundation of the medieval bestiary.

This book explores the possibilities of archival objects as diverse as early modern printed books and funeral masks, and asks what activities stand behind the making of heritage objects, and how digitization practices can inform our knowledge of various media.

A study of Jewish-Christian interaction in the Middle Ages in the eastern Mediterranean, Central Asia, the Red Sea, and India through material culture.

Prussia, Lithuania, and Latvia were among the last places in Europe to be Christianized. Focusing on the deities, sacred places, and sacred rites of the Balts, this book introduces the religious world of some of Europe's last pagan peoples.

New work on medieval literature and public history shows how the medieval narrative past can be reappropriated to speak to modern communities, using Austria as a case study.

This book explores the origins and diffusion of the Prester John legend and its influence on theology, politics, and the geographic imagination in the Middle Ages. Includes a new translation of the B recension of The Letter of Prester John.

This book fundamentally challenges our stereotypes of the Vikings, and interrogates the use of a "rhetoric of reasonableness" (hóf) in medieval Nordic society.

An authoritative collection bringing together a wide range of topics on science, magic, and medieval constructions of the natural world.

An empirical study on construction of identity by members of "monastic" communities across a plurality of religious traditions in pre-modern Europe and Asia.

This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research paradigms for the modern and the medieval by showing that Twitter shares key similarities with medieval literary forms, texts, and narrative techniques. Analyzing tweets with medieval texts, and vice versa, Spencer-Hall initiates readers into an innovative methodology of interdisciplinary literary criticism, posing vital questions about the politics of medievalism today. Chapters include brand-new readings of The Owl and the Nightingale, the Chastelaine de Vergi, and Marie de France's Laüstic, and arresting insights into troubadour style, Margery Kempe, and #MedievalTwitter. The book culminates in a medieval(ist) reading of Twitter's premature demise, and Elon Musk's medievalism. Throughout, points of contact and divergence are dissected, re-contextualizing the socio-cultural meaning of communication and texts across the temporal divide.

This book explores medieval English understandings of rape and consent, and demonstrates how laws, trial records, popular romance, and ecclesiastic and medical texts defined sexual consent and non-consent, and the consequences of such ideologies.

Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women's Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures.

Presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, paying special attention to lineation, and arguing that the vernacular verse page is the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose," but like Old English verse.

An introduction to the economics of the rare book and manuscript trade in the half-century before the second world war.

This book looks afresh at a key stage in Japan's global transformation from medieval to early modern.

This volume focuses on female participation--as performers, scribes, composers, and patrons--in ceremonial performances at Barking Abbey, east of London, in the late Middle Ages and in 21st-century revival.

Essays on sources in the pre-modern world produced by members of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln to mark the Centre's assumption of editorial responsibility for series 4 of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History.