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Explores materiality in Middle English anchoritic texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose.

The first volume in English to examine the fu, one of the major genres of Chinese literature, from its origins up to the late imperial era.

Covering the history and cultural heritage of Rome from ancient through early modern times, this book examines the Eternal City through the lives of some of its most important artists, political leaders, and religious luminaries, with reference to the remarkable monuments, works of arts, and urban spaces associated with them.

This book presents a fresh overview, from both Scandinavian and diasporic perspectives, on Viking society: religion, economic life, and material culture.

This short book provides an exciting and informed synthesis of our current understanding of Pictish history and material remains.

Performance traditions before 1642 in the northeast of England, and the impulses that affected traditions ranging from wedding revels and sporting activities, through civic plays and processions, to the customary performances of hunters and ploughmen.

Examines the creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas throughout the interconnected, global Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity.

This book traces how the Jews of Mantua, beginning in 1520 and continuing until 1650, established theatrical performance as a form of cultural exchange that could be used to calibrate their relations with the Christian community.

This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. Primary Sources on Monsters brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.

This guide to medieval translation covers a broad range of religious and vernacular texts and addresses the theoretical and pragmatic problems faced by modern translators of medieval works as they attempt to mediate between past and present.

This study examines the gift book practices of Elizabeth and Mary Tudor, both queens of England; it begins with pre-accession dedications given to each of them, moves to their typical patterns of New Year's gift giving, explores two of Mary's own translations, and ends on how they each engaged in translations that were published in 1548.

This book explores the diplomatic role of women in early modern European dynastic networks through the study of Aragonese marriage alliances in late fifteenth-century Italy and Hungary.

A comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century, combining a survey of existing work on the Cavendishes with new, wide-ranging research.

This New Companion brings together preeminent scholars from around the world: each chapter explores a single word from Chaucer's corpus to develop readings that explore his aesthetics, complexity, and continued relevance.

This short book aims to unsettle the notion that liturgiology is a mysterious, abstruse, and monolithic discipline. It challenges scholarly orthodoxies, hints at the complexity of the liturgy and shows that it needs to be examined in new and different ways.

This book frames the crucial 1385 Aljubarrota battle within its historical context, discussing both the military process and its long-term influence on Portuguese national memory and heritage.

This highly interdisciplinary volume, with a focus on southern European case studies, sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West.

A study of fictional versions of Shakespeare which demonstrates that Shakespeare is used to explore and understand different conceptions of genius.

In a world where princesses found themselves enslaved, kidnapped boys became army generals, and biblical Joseph was a role model, this book narrates the formation of the Middle Ages from the point of view of slavery, and outlines a new approach to enhance our understanding of modern forms of enslavement. Offering an analysis of recent scholarship and an array of sources, never before studied together, from distinct societies and cultures of the first millennium, it challenges the traditional dichotomy between ancient and medieval slaveries. Revealing the dynamic, versatile, and adaptable character of slavery it presents an innovative definition of slavery as a historical process.

Is it possible to talk about antisemitism in the Middle Ages, before the appearance of scientific concepts of "race"? This work analyses this question and offers a nuanced response.