Medieval STUDIES

2018

“The paradise All points Doing time The Military

of my Norse in the Crusades technology
imagination” William Morris Middle Ages Four new titles The Medieval
Derek Jarman’s and the Shades of the Three new Military
Medieval Modern Icelandic Sagas Prison House paperbacks Engineer

York Medieval Press

Victoria County History
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George North  M C CARTHY / SCHLUETER  14 Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde  Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in
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Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later of Twelfth-Century Europe  AMBROSE 12 Norwich  HILL  11, 12
Middle Ages  CAMPOPIANO / FULTON  7 Medieval and Early Modern Murder  TRACY  14 Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World 
Anglo-Norman Studies XL  VAN HOUTS  4 Medieval Clothier  LEE  3 CLEAVER / WORM  4
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Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval NETHERTON / OWEN-CROCKER  7
Flanders, 1300-1500  CROMBIE 6, 12 Medieval English Theatre 39 
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Absentee Authority across Medieval Europe
Edited by FRÉDÉRIQUE L AC HAUD & M IC HA EL PEN M AN
An interdisciplinary approach to a crucial
part of the systems of medieval authority and
governance.
In the medieval world, what happened when
a figure of recognised authority was absent?
What terminology, principles and solutions of
proxy authority were developed and adopted?
Did these solutions differ and change over time
depending on whether the absence was short or
long and caused by issues of incapacity, minority,
disputed succession, geography or elective
absenteeism? Did the models of proxy authority
adopted by ruling dynasties and large institutions
influence the proxy choices of lesser authority?
The circumstances and consequences of absentee authority are the focus of
this volume. Ranging across the realms of medieval Europe (but with a focus
upon the British Isles and France), its essays embrace a variety of experience
– royal, parliamentary, conciliar, magnatial, military, ecclesiastical, burghal,
household, minor or major, male or female – and explore not merely political
developments, but the dynastic, diplomatic, financial, ideological, religious
and cultural ramifications of such episodes.
FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD is Professor of medieval history at the Université
de Lorraine, France; MICHAEL PENMAN is Senior Lecturer in history at the
University of Stirling, Scotland.
Contributors: JAMES BOTHWELL MICHELLE BUBENICEK, LÉONARD DAUPHANT,
BRUNO DUMÉZIL, LAURENT HABLOT, TORSTEN HILTMANN, TOM HORLER-
UNDERWOOD, ROBERT HOUGHTON, OLIVIER DE LABORDERIE, FRÉDÉRIQUE
LACHAUD, HANS JACOB ORNING, MICHAEL PENMAN, NORMAN REID
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Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty
in Late Medieval Europe
Edited by ANT HONY M US S ON & N IG EL R A M S AY
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the
most important legal institutions of the
Middle Ages.
The wars waged by the English in France during
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with
disputes on land and sea, beyond the reach of
indigenous laws. This led to the jurisdictional
development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic
and maritime disputes. Though of considerable
importance they have attracted comparatively
little scholarly attention.
These essays examine their officers, proceedings and the wider cultural and
political context in which they operated in later medieval Western Europe,
revealing similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well as in the
issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe. Combining law with
military and maritime history, and discussing the art and material culture of
chivalric disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and culture.
ANTHONY MUSSON is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York;
NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Department of
History at University College London.
Contributors: ANDREW AYTON, RICHARD BARBER, JOHN FORD, LAURENT
HABLOT, THOMAS K. HEEBLL-HOLM, JULIAN LUXFORD, RALPH MOFFAT,
PHILIP MORGAN, BERTRAND SCHNERB, ANNE F. SUTTON, LORENZO TANZINI
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Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern
ROBE RT M I L L S
“The Middle Ages have formed the paradise
of my imagination”, DEREK JARMAN
The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-
1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval
culture. But with the possible exception of
Edward II, Jarman’s films have not been identified
to date as making a major contribution to the
depiction of the Middle Ages in cinema.
This book is the first to uncover a rich seam of
medievalism in Jarman’s art. Taking in major
features such as Caravaggio, The Garden and
The Last of England, as well as some of the
unrealised screenplays and short experimental
films, it proposes an expanded definition of medieval film that includes
not just works set in or about the Middle Ages, but also projects inspired
more broadly by the period. It considers Jarman’s engagement with Anglo-
Saxon poetry; with works by Chaucer, Dante and Langland; with saints
and mystics from Joan of Arc to Julian of Norwich; and with numerous
paintings, buildings and objects from this so-called “middle” time.
ROBERT MILLS is Professor of Medieval Studies at University College London.
£25/$34.95 April 2018
978 1 84384 493 8, eBook 978 1 78744 212 2
eBook for handhelds 978 1 78744 198 9
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WO R K I N G I N T H E M IDDLE AG E S
The Medieval Clothier
A definitive guide to the medieval cloth-
making trade in England.
Cloth-making became England’s leading
industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers
co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases
carrying out the processes themselves, and
found markets for their finished cloth, selling
to merchants, drapers and other traders. While
many clothiers were of only modest status or
“jacks of all trades”, a handful of individuals
amassed huge fortunes through the trade,
becoming the multi-millionaires of their day.
This book offers the first recent survey of this
hugely important and significant trade and its practitioners, examining the
whole range of clothiers across different areas of England, and exploring their
impact within the industry and in their wider communities.
JOHN S. LEE is a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the
University of York.
£25/$34.95 June 2018
978 1 78327 317 1
10 colour & 20 b/w illus.; 280pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Medieval history
Frisians and their North
Sea Neighbours
From the Fifth Century
to the Viking Age
Edited by JOHN HI NES
& NE L LEKE I JSSENNAG G ER
An investigation into the
mysterious Frisians.
The Frisian population and their
lands, including all the coastal
communities of the North Sea
region and their connections
with the Baltic shores, form
the focal point of this volume,
though viewed often through comparison with,
or even through the eyes of, their neighbours. The
essays present the most up-to-date discoveries,
research and interpretation, combining and
integrating linguistic, textual and archaeological
evidence; they follow the story of the various
Frisians through from the Roman Period to
the next great period of disruption and change
introduced by the Viking Scandinavians.
JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff
University; NELLEKE IJSSENNAGGER is Curator of
Archaeological and Medieval Collections at the
Museum of Friesland.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£75/$120(s) September 2017
978 1 78327 179 5, eBook 978 1 78744 063 0
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Anglo-Norman Studies XL
Proceedings of the Battle
Conference 2017
Edited by ELI SABET H VA N HOUT S
The acclaimed series reaches its fortieth volume.
These wide-ranging articles represent the cutting
edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. Topics
include English kingship, legends of the Battle
of Bouvines, ideas of empire, the practicalities of
child kingship, and female rulership in Brittany.
The volume continues its tradition of source
analysis with studies of northern French urban
franchises, Norman charters and a logistical
take on the making of the Domesday Book,
while narrative sources are represented in the
vernacular by a study of Herman of Valenciennes’
Bible and in Latin by the historiography of Robert
of Torigni and Ralph Niger. Further contributions
focus on the twelfth-century ecclesiastical officers
Abbot Peter the Venerable and Archbishop
Thomas Becket, and the volume is completed with
an analysis of the concept of economic resources
with respect to Normandy.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£50/$90(s) June 2018
978 1 78327 297 6
6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Norman Studies
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Heirs of the Vikings
History and Identity in Normandy
and England, c.950-c.1015
KATH ER INE C RO S S
This examination of texts
concerning the Vikings
reveals much about their
origin myth and legend.
Viking settlers and their
descendants inhabited both
England and Normandy in the
tenth century, but narratives
discussing their origins diverged significantly.
This comparative study explores the depictions
of Scandinavia and the events of the Viking Age
in genealogies, origin myths, hagiographies, and
charters from the two regions.
Analysis of this literary evidence reveals the
strategic use of Scandinavian identity by
Norman and Anglo-Saxon elites. Countering
interpretations which see claims of Viking identity
as expressions of contact with Scandinavia, the
comparison demonstrates the local, political
significance of these claims. In doing so, the book
reveals the earliest origins of familiar legends
which at once demonize and romanticize the
Vikings – and which have their roots in both
Anglo-Saxon and Norman traditions.
Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early
Middle Ages at the British Museum and Wolfson
College, University of Oxford.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
978 1 90315 379 6, eBook 978 1 78744 220 7
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yo r k m ed ieva l p r es s
N E W S E R IES
Stu d i e s i n O ld N ors e L i t e r atur e
A new forum for monographs and collections
engaging with the literature produced in medieval
Scandinavia, one of the largest surviving bodies
of medieval European literature. The series
investigates poetry and prose alongside translated,
religious and learned material, although the
primary focus is on Old Norse-Icelandic
literature.
See page 16
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Writing History in the
Anglo-Norman World
Manuscripts, Makers and
Readers, c.1066-c.1250
Edited by L AU R A C L E AVE R
& ANDRE A WORM
The contexts for the works of
eleventh and twelfth-century
historians are here brought to
the fore.
History was a subject popular
with authors and readers in
the Anglo-Norman world.
The volume and richness of
historical writing in the lands controlled by the
kings of England, particularly from the twelfth
century, has long attracted the attention of
historians and literary scholars. This collection
of essays returns to the processes involved in
writing history, and in particular to the medieval
manuscript sources in which the works of such
historians survive. It explores the motivations of
those writing about the past in the Middle Ages,
and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the
circumstances in which copies were made.
LAURA CLEAVER is the Ussher Lecturer in
Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin; ANDREA
WORM is an Assistant Professor at the Institut für
Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£60/$99(s) July 2018
978 1 90315 380 2
5 colour & 31 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Writing History in the Middle Ages
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Domesday Now
New Approaches to the
Inquest and the Book
Edited by DAVI D ROFFE
& K . S . B. K E AT S - ROHAN
Essays on numerous aspects
of the Domesday Book shed
fresh light on its mysteries.
Despite over 200 years of intense
academic study, the information
within Domesday Book has
rarely been exploited to the full.
These essays seek to realize its
potential by focussing on the manuscript itself
with analyses of abbreviations, letter forms, and
language; re-assessments of key sources, the role
of tenants-in-chief in producing them, and the
nature of the Norman settlement that their forms
illuminate; a re-evaluation of the data and its
referents; and finally, fresh examinations of the
afterlife of the text.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£19.99/£25.95 June 2018
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Annals of Dunstable Priory
Edited by HARRI ET T W EBSTER
Translated by DAV I D PR EEST
One of the best of the many such annals
written in English monasteries.
The priory at Dunstable was founded by Henry I,
and was a house of Augustinian canons; it stood
in close proximity to the royal house at Dunstable,
also founded by Henry I and used regularly in
the twelfth century by his successors. English
kings down to Edward III stayed here for the royal
and baronial tournaments that were frequently
held. Its chronicle reflects this connection with
national affairs, and at the same time provides
a detailed history of the town and priory. It was
begun by the prior, Richard de Morins, during
whose abbacy (1202 to 1242) the priory suffered
the French invasion of 1215. His chronicle mixes
important political news with the local problems
that beset the priory’s its administrators. At its
best, its narrative is vivid and well-informed, as in
the account of the siege of Bedford in 1224.
The annals were continued, with the same mixture
of local and national information, after Morins’
death, and seem to have been written up year
by year, shortly after the events described. The
chronicle gives one of the fullest accounts of
the Barons’ War of Edward I’s reign, including
material from official documents, and is generally
very accurate.
It is a rich text, full of minutely observed detail
as well as of great historical events; if it is uneven
and the work of many hands rather than of
one writer with a broad view of history, it is
nonetheless one of the best of the many such
annals written in English monasteries at this
period, on which knowledge of the thirteenth
century so often depends.
£75/$130(s) November 2018
978 1 84383 813 5
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Northern England and
Southern Scotland in the
Central Middle Ages
Edited by K E I T H J. ST RI NGE R
& A NG US J. L . W I NC H E ST E R
The first full-length survey of
the fluid relationship between
these two areas at a time of
rapid change.
This book provides the first
comprehensive analysis of
the development of northern
England and southern Scotland
in the formative era of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. How did “middle Britain” come to be
divided between two separate unitary kingdoms
called “England” and “Scotland”? How, and
how differently, was government exercised and
experienced? How did people identify themselves
by their languages and naming practices? What
major themes can be detected in the development
of ecclesiastical structures and religious culture?
These are among the key questions addressed by
the contributors, who bring to bear multi-faceted
approaches to medieval “middle Britain”.
KEITH STRINGER is Professor Emeritus of
Medieval British History at Lancaster University;
ANGUS WINCHESTER is Professor Emeritus
of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster
University.
Contributors: RICHARD BRITNELL, DAUVIT BROUN,
JANET BURTON, DAVID DITCHBURN, PHILIP DIXON,
PIERS DIXON, FIONA EDMONDS, RICHARD ORAM,
KEITH STRINGER, CHRIS TABRAHAM, SIMON
TAYLOR, ANGUS J.L. WINCHESTER
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978 1 78327 266 2, eBook 978 1 78744 152 1
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 Archaeology and the Life Course
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
The History of William Marshal
Translated by N IGE L BRYAN T
The medieval biography of
England’s greatest knight.
The career of William Marshal
(1146/7-12), who rose from
being the penniless, landless
younger son of a middle-
ranking nobleman to be regent
of England in the minority of
Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories
of the Middle Ages. This is the first modern
translation of his biography, which gives a unique
portrait of a twelfth-century knight’s life in the
early days of tournaments and chivalry as well as
his career in warfare and politics.
This book deserves to become a classic and to find
its way into many a university course syllabus and
into many a bookcase. F R ANCIA
£17.99/$24.95 April 2018
978 1 78327 303 4, eBook 978 1 78204 906 7
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Me die val H istory
Thirteenth Century
England XVI
Proceedings of the Cambridge
Conference, 2015
Edited by AN DREW SPE NC E R
& C ARL WAT K I N S
The fruits of the most recent
research into the “long”
thirteenth century.
The idea of uncertainty forms
a major theme throughout
the essays collected here; they
tackle aspects of religious,
intellectual, political and social
history, highlighting how uncertainty, in many
and varied forms, was conceptualized, negotiated
and exploited in the particular conditions of the
long thirteenth century. Contributions explore
understandings of the cosmos and personal
salvation, probing the search for certainties;
the exploitation of ambiguities around the
fate of excommunicates; strategies of political
legitimation and resistance; and the unstable
politics of identity. As a whole, the collection thus
opens up diverse perspectives on, and approaches
to, the experience of uncertainty during a period
of rapid and often disorienting change.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
£75/$120(s) October 2017
978 1 78327 265 5, eBook 978 1 78744 143 9
4 colour illus.; 220pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Thirteenth Century England

N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
Medieval Life
ROBE RTA GI LC H RI ST
Roberta Gilchrist’s acclaimed
account of daily life in the
Middle Ages makes its
paperback debut.
This book explores 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.
For anyone who wishes to sense what being medieval
meant, it is a key text.  BR I T I SH ARC HA E OLO G Y
If you prefer your medieval studies written with
sustained brilliance, elegant, concise prose and
frequently ravishing insight, then this is the book for
you. M EDI EVAL ARCHAEOLO GY
An important book. ANT IQU I T Y
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Late Medieval Heresy:
New Perspectives
Studies in Honour of
Robert E. Lerner
Edited by MIC HAEL D. BA IL EY
& SEAN L. FI ELD
Fresh investigations into heresy after 1300,
demonstrating its continuing importance and
influence.
Recent debates about the nature of heresy in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have too
easily created an impression of the period after
1300 as merely an epilogue to the high medieval
story. This volume takes the history of heresy
in late medieval Europe (1300-1500) on its own
terms. From Paris to Prague and from northern
Germany to Italy and even extending as far as
Ethiopia, the essays shed new light on a vibrant
world of auacious beguines, ardent Joachites,
Spiritual Franciscans, innovative mystics, lay
prophets, idiosyncratic alchemists, daring
magicians, and even rebellious princes locked in
battles with the papacy.
MICHAEL D. BAILEY is Professor of History at
Iowa State University; SEAN L. FIELD is Professor
of History at the University of Vermont.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
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Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
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N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
Henry V: New Interpretations
Edited by GWI LYM D ODD
Fresh examinations of the
activities of Henry V, looking
at how his reputation was
achieved.
Henry V (1413-22) is widely
acclaimed as the most successful
late medieval English king. In
his short reign of nine and a half
years, 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, ranging broadly across his life.
Extremely valuable. HISTORY
A stimulating collection. NORTHE RN HISTORY
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Fourteenth Century England X
Edited by GW I LYM D ODD
The fruits of new research on
the politics, society and
culture of England in the
fourteenth century.
Political and institutional
history is addressed in
essays on Edward II’s
personal expenditure and
the development and workings of parliament,
including an analysis of those neglected
“parliamentarians” of the period, the
parliamentary proctors. Important new insights
into the social history of the fourteenth century
are provided by chapters on marriage and the
accumulation of lay estates, the brokerage of royal
wardship and the important and difficult subject
of sexual violence towards under-age girls.
Another chapter considers the enormously costly
and complex task of feeding and supplying medieval
armies across the “long” fourteenth century, while
two final pieces offer important new insights into
the material culture of the age, focusing in turn
on St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, and the
phenomenon of royal reburial.
GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of Medieval
History at the University of Nottingham.
Contributors: ELIZABETH BIGGS, ANNA M. DUCH,
BRIDGET WELLS-FURBY, ALAN KISSANE, ILANA
KRUG, ALISON K. MCHARDY, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS,
LAURA TOMPKINS, KATHRYN WARNER
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1 b/w illus.; 218pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Fourteenth Century England
 The Chronicle of Geoffrey
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
Archery and Crossbow Guilds
in Medieval Flanders, 1300-1500
L AUR A C ROM BI E
The first full study devoted to
the archery and crossbow
guilds of medieval Flanders.
This is the first full-length study
of the archery and crossbow
guilds of medieval Flanders.
Drawing on extensive archival
research, it analyses their
growth, their military service, their social and
cultural activities, their connections to princely
courts and their important role in strengthening
and rebuilding regional networks. Overall, it
provides a new perspective on the strength of
community within Flemish towns and the values
that underlay medieval urban ideology.
An important study. SI XT EENT H ST U DY JOU R NAL
[An] excellent study. H I STORY
A welcome addition [and] very readable.
THE RICARDIAN
£19.99/$25.95 June 2018
978 1 78327 305 8
6 b/w illus.; 269pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
Socialising the Child in
Late Medieval England
M E RRI DE E BAI L EY
An investigation into a variety
of texts providing guidance for
teachers, parents, and
children themselves.
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
provided a guide to socialising children. The
author examines 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
A very useable overview and well-thought-out
interpretation of a large corpus of texts very
important to the history of English literature and
elite culture. SPECU LUM
£25/$34.95 May 2018
978 1 90315 376 5
284pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
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N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
le Baker of Swinbrook
Translated by DAVI D PRE E ST
RIC HARD BARBE R
A new translation of this
important, influential
chronicle.
Geoffrey le Baker’s chronicle
covers the reigns of Edward II
and Edward III up to the
English victory at Poitiers. It
starts in a low key, copying an
earlier chronicle, but by the end of Edward II’s
reign he offers a much more vivid account. His
description of Edward II’s last days is partly
based on the eyewitness account of his patron,
Sir Thomas de la More, who was present at one
critical interview. Baker’s story of Edward’s death,
like many other details from his chronicle, was
picked up by Tudor historians, particularly by
Holinshed, who was the source for Shakespeare’s
history plays.
This excellent translation is very much needed.
Unequivocally a great boon... and the editors are
to be praised for their important contribution.
H I STORY
£17.99/$24.95 April 2018
978 1 78327 304 1
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Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations
in the Later Middle Ages
Edited by MIC HELE C A M P OPIA NO
& HE L EN FULTON
The importance and influence
of Italian culture on medieval
Britain.
Between the fourteenth and
sixteenth centuries, the rise of
international trade, the growth
of towns and cities, and the
politics of diplomacy all helped
to foster productive connections and cultural
interactions between Britain and Italy. This book
illustrates the continuity and the variety of these
exchanges. Each chapter focuses on a specific
area (book collection, historiography, banking,
commerce, literary production), highlighting
the significance of the productive interchange
of people and ideas; it is the lived experience of
individuals, substantiated by written evidence,
that shapes the book’s collective understanding of
how two European cultures interacted with each
other so fruitfully.
MICHELE CAMPOPIANO is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval Latin Literature at the University of
York; HELEN FULTON is Professor of Medieval
Literature at the University of Bristol.
Contributors: HELEN BRADLEY, MARGARET
BRIDGES, MICHELE CAMPOPIANO, CAROLYN
COLLETTE, VICTORIA FLOOD, HELEN FULTON,
BART LAMBERT, IGNAZIO DEL PUNTA
£60/$99(s) February 2018
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2 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Text and Image in René
d’Anjou’s Livre de Tournois
Constructing Authority and Identity
in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture
J U STI N ST URGEON
Exhaustively detailed, this three-volume set
covers all aspects of René d’Anjou’s Livre des
tournois or Tournament Book.
René d’Anjou’s Livre des tournois is famous as the
most substantial account of the organisation of a
medieval tournament that has come down to us. It
survives in eight manuscripts, most of which have
an almost identical layout; the best of these is a
magnificent work of art in its own right. But these
manuscripts have a further interest to the historian
of culture, because they represent in effect the
evidence for one of the first illustrated manuals,
in which text and image are complementary, and
form a single whole. The copyists understood
this, and followed the original because the mise
en page was an essential part of the whole. Justin
Sturgeon’s interdisciplinary study reveals the
patterns and relationships which give the manual
its very specific character.
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978 1 78327 269 3
Three-volume set, 24.4 x 17.2, HB
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NE W F RO M B OYDELL :
PA S O LD S T U DIE S
Threads of Global Desire
Silk in the Pre-Modern World
Edited by DAGM AR S C HÄFE R ,
G IORG IO RI E L LO & LU C A MOL À
Considers silk as a major
force of cross-cultural
interaction.
The silk industry was one of
the most important fields of
production in the medieval
and early modern world. For
several centuries, silk fabrics
were globally identified as luxury goods. Silk cloth
was an important medium for the transmission
of design and a taste for luxuries, and silk textiles
were part of gifting practices in diplomatic and
private contexts. Silk manufacturing also fostered
the circulation of skilled craftsmen, connecting
different centres and regions across continents and
linking the countryside to urban production. The
production and consumption of silks spread from
China to Japan and Korea and travelled westward
as far as India, Persia, and the Byzantine Empire,
Europe, Africa, and the Americas. This book
examines the integration of silk production and
consumption into various cultures and its relation
to everyday and regulatory practices. It considers
silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction
through technological exchange and trade.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
978 1 78327 293 8
25 colour & 50 b/w illus.; 438pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History
Sir John Fortescue and the
Governance of England
MA RG A R ET K E K EW IC H
Arguably the most important political thinker
of fifteenth-century England.
Rising from relative obscurity to become Chief
Justice of the King’s Bench, Sir John Fortescue
(c.1394-14790) progressively assumed a political
role as a partisan of the Lancastrian cause during
the Wars of the Roses. Ultimately making his
peace with the Yorkists in 1471, he presented
Edward IV with The Governance of England, a
treatise that set the tone for debates about the
extent of royal and parliamentary power for
centuries to come. This comprehensive biography
reassesses his career and thought in the light of
modern scholarship.
£60/$99(s) November 2018
978 1 78327 350 8
17 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Me die val H istory
Shades of the Prison House
A History of Incarceration
in the British Isles
HARRY POT T E R
As entertaining as it is informative, this book
explores the history of imprisonment in the
British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the
present day.
Drawing on letters, treatises, personal accounts,
histories, legal and official reports, and studies
of prison architecture and design, Shades of
the Prison House tells the story of prisons,
prison life, and those who experienced it, be
they prisoners, governors, chaplains, warders,
reformers, or advocates. Over the centuries,
prisons – from castle dungeons to ‘lockups’ to
‘penitentiaries’ to gaols – have changed radically
in name, conditions, attributes and functions, as
well as in their character and rational. Prisons
have served many aims: detention, deterrence,
punishment, reformation and rehabilitation,
all in varying degrees. Yet while prisons and
their purposes have been transformed, the same
debates on imprisonment have continually
recurred. Concerns about overcrowding and
over-pampering, security and safety have been
expressed from the very beginning, and modern
notions that prison might serve a purpose other
than containment or punishment were espoused
long before the eighteenth century.
HARRY POTTER is a former fellow of Selwyn
College, Cambridge and a practising barrister
specialising in criminal defence. Author of Law,
Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the
Common Law (Boydell Press, 2015), he wrote and
presented an award-winning series on the same
subject for the BBC.
£25/$34.95 October 2018
978 1 78327 331 7
20 b/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Medieval Clothing
and Textiles 14
Edited by ROBI N NET H E RTON
& GAL E R . OW E N - C RO C K E R
The best new research on medieval clothing and
textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
The essays here continue in the Journal’s tradition
of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics
include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-
century Ravenna; the incidence of Byzantine and
Oriental silks in ninth- to thirteenth-century
Denmark; a new analysis of the chronology of and
contexts for the French hood; an examination of
the mysterious garment called a bliaut in French
literature; a discussion of the vocabulary and
loan words in Italian/Anglo-Norman mercantile
transactions; and revelations that fashions in
body hair were an important feature of women’s
appearance.
£40/$70(s) April 2018
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles

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Me d i e va l H i story / Loc a l Hi story
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Proceedings of the Privy Council
of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83
Two Volume Set
Edited by DAV I D CR AN K SHAW
This important edition of central government
records for Elizabeth I makes vital
information available to historians.
Under the later Tudors, the Privy Council
governed England on the sovereign’s behalf
functioning as an elite corporate board, and
imbued with a sense of collective responsibility.
Unfortunately, the institution’s internal records
are imperfect and the Elizabethan registers are
lost for almost a third of the reign. The collected
Proceedings will fill the gaps among the registers
and within them. Sources and topics to which
they relate are fully contextualised. Wherever
possible, the texts of actual dispatches are married
up with the corresponding register entries,
enabling historians to consult entire documents,
rather than rely upon the clerks’ often crude
summaries. Above all, the sources, and the topics
to which they relate, are fully contextualised
through reference to the latest scholarship.
Dr DAVID CRANKSHAW lectures on early modern
religious history at King’s College London.
£195/$325(s) May 2018
978 1 84383 653 7
6 b/w illus.; 1514pp, 29.7 x 21, HB
Proceedings of the Privy Council of Elizabeth I
Proctors for Parliament: Clergy,
Community and Politics,
c.1248-1539. (The National
Archives, Series SC 10)
Volume II: 1377-1539
Edited by PHI L BR ADF OR D
& A LI SON K. M C HAR DY
Edition of a major, previously
unpublished, source for the
history of England’s medieval
parliament.
In the middle ages clergy of
all ranks, from archbishops to
parochial clergy, sent proctors
to parliament. The National
Archives series SC 10 contains 2,520 surviving
letters of appointments by these parliamentarians.
This second of two volumes presents the first
printed edition of the documents, opening up a
level of political activity and interaction which has
hitherto been unexplored. It covers the years from
the accession of Richard II until the end of the
series under Henry VIII; it also includes an analysis
of the proctors and the index to both volumes.
PHIL BRADFORD is Vicar of St Michael’s,
Worcester; ALISON K. MCHARDY was formerly
Reader in Medieval English History at the
University of Nottingham.
£35/$60(s) September 2018
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LOCAL HISTORY
Commemoration in
Medieval Cambridge
Edited by JOH N S . L E E
& C HR IST IAN ST E E R
How academic colleges commemorated their
patrons in a rich variety of ways.
This collection explores how the myriad of
commemorative enterprises complemented
and competed as locations where the living and
the dead from “town and gown” could meet.
Contributors analyse the commemorative
practices of the Franciscan friars, the colleges
of Corpus Christi, Trinity Hall and King’s, and
within Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Cambridge
household; the depictions of academic and
legal dress on memorial brasses, and the use
and survival of these brasses. The volume
highlights, for the first time, the role of the
medieval university colleges within the family of
commemorative institutions.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£60/$99(s) October 2018
978 1 78327 334 8
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History of the University of Cambridge
The White Book (Liber Albus)
of Southwell
Two volume set
Edited by M IC HAE L JONE S ,
JUL IA BARROW, DAVI D C RO OK
& TR EVOR FOU L D S
with contributions from N E I L BET T RI D GE ,
JEA N C A M E RON , PAU L C AVI L L
& TER ES A W E BBE R
The first complete edition.
The White Book of Southwell
derives its name from its white
vellum cover. Compiled between
c.1350 and 1460, with a few later
additions, its 500 pages record
620 individual documents from
c.1100 onwards. They range
widely from papal bulls and
royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges
granted by many archbishops of York to the
Chapter at Southwell, individual canons (or
prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster
held lands or controlled livings. Because of their
variety, the documents it contains are important
not simply for ecclesiastical history but for
broader social and economic trends in medieval
Nottinghamshire either side of the Black Death.
This, the first systematic, complete scholarly
edition, features a substantial introduction
which sets the White Book in context, and an
extensive commentary which dates many undated
individual documents and identifies persons and
places named.
£100/$170(s) April 2018
978 0 90113 467 7
2 colour & 10 b/w illus.; 874pp, 24.2 x 14.6, HB
Publications of the Pipe Roll Society New Series
Pipe Roll Society
A History of the
County of Essex
XII: St Osyth and Environs
C H RI S T HORN TON
& H E RBE RT E I DE N
An important contribution to the social,
cultural and economic history of seaside
resorts and their hinterland in Essex.
The nine Essex parishes lying in a coastal
district between St Osyth and the Naze headland
at Walton encompass a number of distinct
landscapes, from sandy cliffs to saltmarshes.
The district was strongly influenced by the
pattern of estate ownership, largely held by St
Paul’s Cathedral from the mid-10th century.
The area’s economy was shaped by the coast and
its many valuable natural resources, including
the extraction or manufacture of sand, gravel,
septaria, copperas and salt, and activities such as
fishing, tide milling, and smuggling. However,
it remained a largely rural district and its wealth
ultimately depended upon the state of farming. In
the 19th and 20th centuries the coast witnessed
the development of seaside resorts at Walton,
Clacton and Frinton. Some overspill affected the
surrounding more rural parishes, and from the
1920s new types of resort developed in the form
of seaside camps, chalets and caravan parks.
£95/$165(s) November 2018
978 1 90435 649 3
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Victoria County History
Gonville & Caius College
The Statutes of the Founders
M IC HAE L PRIC HARD
An edition and translation of
important documents,
providing an account of the
foundation of a Cambridge
college.
Gonville & Caius College is
exceptional among Oxford and
Cambridge colleges in having
had three separate founders at different times:
Edmund Gonville, William Bateman and John
Caius. Their statutes are also exceptional, for they
have two unique features: first, the statutes of
the last founder did not supersede those of the
second founder but took effect concurrently with
them for over three hundred years; and, second,
John Caius was not only a founder but had been
a fellow of the college and was Master during the
years in which he formulated the final draft of
the statutes. The book also contains an account
of the circumstances in which the statutes were
formulated and the very different characters of the
founders who made them. There then follows an
examination of five topics on which the statutes
of the last founder either led to bitter disputes
and litigation or else were simply ignored or
tacitly evaded by common consent, particularly
the hitherto neglected subjects of stipends and
dividends.
£60/$99(s) December 2017
978 1 78327 268 6
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THE CRUSADES Literature of the Crusades
Edited by SI MON T HOM AS PARS ONS
& L IN DA M . PAT E RS ON
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
An interdisciplinary
Women, Crusading and the Holy approach to sources for our
Land in Historical Narrative knowledge of the crusades.
The interrelation of so-called
NATASHA R . HOD GS ON
“literary” and “historical”
Women’s role in crusades and sources of the crusades, and the
crusading examined through fluidity of these categorisations,
a close investigation of the are the central concerns of these
narratives. essays. They demonstrate what the study of literary
texts can do for our historical understanding
A valuable contribution to
of the crusading movement, challenging earlier
scholarship, which will be useful
historiographical assumptions about well-known
not only to students but also to
poems and songs, and introducing hitherto
any scholar studying medieval
understudied manuscript sources which elucidate
women or the crusades and the crusader states.
a rich contemporary compositional culture
E NG L I SH HISTORIC AL REV IEW
regarding the matter of crusade.
£17.99/$24.95 September 2017
978 1 78327 270 9 SIMON THOMAS PARSONS teaches Medieval
304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB History at Royal Holloway, University of London
Warfare in History
and King’s College London; LINDA PATERSON is
 Professor Emerita at Warwick University.
£60/$99(s) January 2018
978 1 84384 458 7, eBook 978 1 78744 173 6
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K 10 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Writing the Early Crusades  Champagne and the Kingdom of France.
Text, Transmission and Memory
Singing the Crusades
Edited by MARCUS BUL L French and Occitan Lyric
& DAMI EN KEMPF
Responses to the Crusading
A pioneering approach to
contemporary historical
Movements, 1137-1336
L IN DA PAT E RS ON
writing on the First Crusade.
A full-scale survey of
[A]n essential work for crusading lyrics in Old
crusade historians. A ME RICA N French and Occitan.
HISTORICAL REV IEW
This book constitutes the first
Should be of great use both to comprehensive, modern analysis
historians of crusades and to historians of medieval of Old French and Occitan lyric
historiography for many years to come. texts relating to the crusades.
T H E M E DIEVAL REVIEW It brings out their full range,
from propaganda for the crusades, to criticisms
£19.99/$25.95 April 2018
978 1 78327 299 0, eBook 978 1 78204 280 8 of crusading and crusaders through vituperation,
184pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB humour or cynicism, to their use as a pretext for
 political or personal wrangling. It also shows how
they shed light on many aspects of medieval life,
among them chivalric and courtly values (often in
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K tension with clerical ones), regional politics, sexual
behaviour, personal experiences of crusading and
Crusading and Pilgrimage captivity, the complex interaction of Christians,
in the Norman World Greeks and Muslims, and bafflement in the face of
Edited by KATHRYN HU R LO C K failure and God’s imponderable purposes. Among
& PAUL OLDFI ELD the works considered are those by Marcarbru and
Richard “Lionheart”.
An examination into two of
LINDA PATERSON is Professor Emerita, University
the most important activities
of Warwick.
undertaken by the Normans.
£60/$99(s) April 2018
Provides a wealth of information 978 1 84384 482 2, eBook 978 1 78744 209 2
for the expert and the inexpert. 350pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
THE MEDIEVAL REV IEW
 £60/$99(s) September 2018
£25/$34.95 June 2018
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1 b/w illus.; 248pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
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TH E CRUSADES
Papal Protection and
the Crusader
Flanders, Champagne, and the
Kingdom of France, 1095-1222
DAN I E L L E E . A. PARK
How those on Crusade had
their interests at home
protected.
On taking the cross, crusaders
received a diverse set of
privileges designed to appeal
to both spiritual and more
temporal concerns. Among
these was the papal protection granted to
them and extended over their families and
possessions at home. This book is the first full
length investigation of this protection. It begins
by examining the privilege from its inception
in around 1095, and its development and
consolidation through to 1222. It then moves on
to illustrate how this privilege operated in practice
through the appointments of regency governments
and close communication with both the papacy
and local ecclesiastical officials, centring on
the rich crusading evidence from Flanders,
DANIELLE PARK is Lecturer in Medieval History at
the University of York.
£60/$99(s) February 2018
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Eyewitness and
Crusade Narrative
Perception and Narration
in Accounts of the Second,
Third and Fourth Crusades
M ARC U S BU L L
The significance of the eyewitness narrative
explored.
The label “eyewitness” carries compelling
connotations of trustworthiness and particular
proximity to the lived experience of historical
actors. But it is a surprisingly little studied
category of analysis. This book seeks to open
up discussion of what we mean when we label a
historical source in this way. Using as case studies
histories about the Second, Third and Fourth
Crusades, all of which were written by people
caught up in the events they describe, it draws
upon some of the lessons of narratology to argue
that the most significant determinant of the
eyewitness quality of texts such as these does not
reside in what the authors as historical actors may
or may not have seen, but in the terms in which
they situate their narratorial personas within the
storyworlds that their narratives call forth.
978 1 78327 335 5
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H i story of R el i gi on
HISTORY OF RELIGION
‘Charms’, Liturgies, and Secret
Rites in Early Medieval England
CIA R AN ARTHUR
A re-evaluation of the
mysterious “charms” found in
Anglo-Saxon literature.
The supposed genre of Anglo-
Saxon charms has drawn the
attention of many scholars
and appealed to enthusiasts of
magic, paganism, and popular
religion. However, while their Christian nature
has been widely acknowledged more recently,
their position within mainstream liturgical
traditions has not yet been fully recognised. This
book aims to show how early English ecclesiastics
perceived these rituals. When considered in their
contemporary ecclesiastical and philosophical
contexts, even the most enigmatic rituals,
dismissed as mere “gibberish”, begin to emerge
as secret, deliberately obscured texts with hidden
spiritual meaning.
CIARAN ARTHUR is a Leverhulme Early Career
Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.
£60/$99(s) July 2018
978 1 78327 313 3
3 b/w illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Saxon Studies
 Dr CLIVE BURGESS holds a Senior Lectureship
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
Cathars in Question
Edited by ANTONIO SE N N IS
The question of the reality of
Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative
collection.
Cathars have traditionally
been regarded as the most
organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval
West; historians have considered their set of
beliefs, inspired by Balkan dualism, as the most
radical among medieval heresies. However, this
paradigm has been recently challenged by an
alternative view, according to which Catharism
was a construct of its persecutors and its supposed
radical views are no more than a myth. Focussing
on duality and anti-materialist beliefs in southern
France, northern Italy and the Balkans, this
volume continues the debate and opens up new
areas for research
[A] rich and thought-provoking collection.
F R E NCH HISTORY
£19.99/$25.95 July 2018
978 1 90315 381 9
341pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages

york med ie va l p re ss
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‘The Right Ordering of Souls’
The Parish of All Saints’ Bristol
on the Eve of the Reformation
C L IV E BU RGE S S
Illuminates the relationship
between people and parish in
the late medieval ages.
In the two centuries preceding
the Reformation in England,
economic, political and spiritual
conditions combined with
constructive effect. Endemic
plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in
a world enjoying rising disposable incomes, this
linked with current teachings - especially the
doctrine of Purgatory - to sustain a remarkable
devotional generosity. Moreover, political
conditions persuaded the government to summon
its subjects’ assistance, including responses
encouraged in England’s many parishes. As
a result, the wealthier classes invested in and
worked for their neighbourhood churches with
a degree of largesse hardly equalled since. This
book, using the remarkable survival of records
for one parish - All Saints’, Bristol – scrutinises
the investment that the faithful made. If not
necessarily typical, it is undeniably revealing,
going further than any previous study to reveal
and explain parishioners’ priorities, practices and
achievements in the late Middle Ages.
in late medieval history at Royal Holloway,
University of London.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
978 1 78327 309 6, eBook 978 1 78744 227 6
1 b/w illus.; 479pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
 Edited by J I L L RE DFORD
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
The Cult of Saints and the Virgin
Mary in Medieval Scotland
Edited by ST EVE B OARDM AN
& EIL A W I L L IAM S ON
An investigation of the saints’
cults which flourished in
medieval Scotland.
This volume combines general
surveys of the development of
the study of saints with more
focused articles on particular
subjects, including St Waltheof of
Melrose, the obscure early medieval origins of the
cult of St Munnu, and the Scottish saints included
in the greatest liturgical compendium produced in
late medieval Scotland, the Aberdeen breviary.
Contains very detailed and very specialized studies,
and tells us a great deal about its topic. SPECU LUM
Offers a multi-faceted picture of devotion in
medieval Scotland. NORT H ER N S C OT L AND
£25/$34.95 June 2017
978 1 78327 246 4, eBook 978 1 84615 854 4
6 b/w illus.; 226pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Studies in Celtic History

Deeds of the Abbots
of St Albans
Gesta Abbatum Monasterii
Sancti Alban
T HOM AS WAL SI NGHAM
Edited by JAM E S C L ARK
Translated by DAVI D PRE E ST
The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans is the
longest continuous chronicle of a medieval
monastery in England.
The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans follows the
monastry’s fortunes from its first foundation
in the wake of the first Viking raids to its status
as a proud and prosperous pillar of the church
establishment more than six centuries later.
More than merely a conventual annal, the Deeds
drew contributions from the most accomplished
chroniclers of the St Albans school including
Matthew Paris, Thomas Walsingham and
perhaps William Rishanger. It is a history of
one of the most important abbeys, under royal
patronage and always at the apex of the church
hierarchy; it also offers a glimpse of life inside
the monastic community from the Conquest to
within a century of the Dissolution. Alongside
rare accounts of the daily routine of the monks it
captures the colour and character of the celebrated
figures seen at the abbey, from King John to
Edward the Black Prince.
£85/$130(s) September 2018
978 1 78327 076 7
400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
The Cartulary of
Alvingham Priory
An edition of documents from a Gilbertine
“double house” of monks and nuns reveals
much about religious life at the time.
Alvingham Priory, situated just to the north-east
of Louth in Lincolnshire, was one of the famous
Gilbertine houses of the county: double houses of
monks and nuns following the rule of St Gilbert
of Sempringham. The documents in the cartulary
edited here shed important light on the way in
which the house developed and worked; they
demonstrate also its relationships to other religious
houses and to the king, but most importantly they
reveal its interactions with the small landowning
families who were its most frequent donors. The
cartulary is a window into the daily lives of these
“lesser” men and women and their religious beliefs.
The documents are presented with an introduction
and elucidatory notes.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
978 1 91065 304 3
500pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records
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HISTORY OF RELIGION
English Monastic Litanies
of the Saints after 1100
Volume III: Addenda, Commentary,
Catalogue of Saints, Indexes
Edited by NIGEL J. MORG A N
A catalogue of all the saints appearing in the
monastic litanies, from Abro to Yvo.
The litanies of the monastic orders in England,
above all those of the Benedictines, are key
witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British
Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in
Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories.
However, although many of the calendars of the
Benedictines have been published, litanies are
rarer, and the majority of those within this volume
are presented as text editions for the first time.
The majority of the texts are Benedictine, but the
few surviving litanies from the other monastic
orders, Carthusians, Cistercians and Cluniacs,
are included, and also those of the Order of
Fontevrault. This volume, the final in a set of
three, contains a complete catalogue of all the
saints mentioned in the litanies, providing such
information as their miracles, their resting-place,
and their origins. It also provides full indices to all
three volumes.
NIGEL MORGAN is Honorary Emeritus Professor of
the History of Art at the University of Cambridge
and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
£60/$80(s) June 2018
978 1 90749 733 9
386pp, 29.7 x 21, HB
Henry Brads haw S o c i e ty
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
Women and Religion in
Late Medieval Norwich
CA ROLE HI LL
The nature and significance
of intense female spirituality
in one of England’s greatest
medieval cities.
The religious attachments and
charitable activity of women
in and around late medieval
Norwich are used here as a
case study to consider women and religion in the
period more generally. The book demonstrates,
more effectively than studies for other cities
have been able to do, how links with continental
Europe enriched female life.
An excellent textbook for university courses in
medieval culture and religion, and medieval gender
studies and women’s studies. ME DIEVA L REV IEW
An interesting and thought-provoking book which
throws new light on our understanding of the
feminine aspects of religious life in the long fifteenth
century. THE RIC ARDIAN
£19.99/$25.95 June 2017
978 0 86193 346 4
20 colour illus.; 234pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Royal His torica l so c i e ty
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H istory of Re ligion / Archite cture
The Parish and the Chapel in
Medieval Britain and Norway
S A R A H E. T HOM AS
The first major comparative
study of the subject.
The book begins by examining
what a chapel was, who used
them, and their purpose.
Using archaeological remains,
the wider parish landscape
- settlements, transport and
geography - and historical records such as papal
letters, it then categorises chapels according to
function and their relationship with the parish
church, showing that they served a far greater
range of purposes than has previously been
assumed. The author also considers whether the
drive for uniformity had an impact on religious
landscapes in Britain and Norway, arguing that
there is little evidence of a Viking impact on
chapel organisation in the British Isles, with the
evidence pointing towards Scandinavian adoption
of pre-existing organisation and local cults.
SARAH THOMAS gained her PhD from the
University of Glasgow; she is currently a
postdoctoral researcher at the University of
Stirling.
£60/$99(s) June 2018
978 1 78327 314 0
20 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
St Andrews Studies in Scottish History
 See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and contributors.
N OW P U B LI S H ED BY B OYDELL :
DEVO N A N D CO R N WALL
R E CO R D S O C IET Y
Stratton Churchwardens’
Accounts, 1512-1578
Edited by JOANNA M AT T I NGLY
An unusually complete and
informative set of
Churchwardens’ accounts.
Written mostly in English, the
High Cross churchwardens’
accounts of Stratton are
among only eighteen surviving
sets of Pre-Reformation
churchwardens’ accounts which cover the period
1535-70, when most Reformation change took
place. They allow us to track the progress of the
Reformation in a single parish and its impact on
the lives of ordinary people. Stratton, in addition,
has a partial set of general receivers’ or stock
wardens’ accounts, which give much additional
information about the parish at this time. They
show how much has been lost from other parishes,
shed light on the 1548-9 Cornish rebellions and
enable a more narrative approach to be taken than
is usually possible with churchwardens’ accounts.
JOANNA MATTINGLY is a freelance researcher and
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
£30/$50(s) February 2018
978 0 90185 360 8
4 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series
ARCHITECTURE
Tomb and Temple
Re-imagining the Sacred
Buildings of Jerusalem
Edited by ROBI N GRI FFI T H - JON E S
& E RIC FE RN I E
New essays explore the
influence of the sacred
buildings of Jerusalem on
architecture worldwide.
Jerusalem – earthly and
heavenly, past, present and
future – has always informed
the Christian imagination: it is the intersection
of the divine and human worlds, of time and
eternity. Since the fourth century, it has been the
site of the round Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
built over the empty tomb acknowledged by
Constantine as the tomb of Christ. Nearly four
hundred years later, the Sepulchre’s rotunda
was rivalled by the octagon of the Dome of
the Rock. The city itself and these two glorious
buildings within it remain, to this day, the focus of
pilgrimage and of intense devotion.
ROBIN GRIFFITH-JONES is Master of the Temple at
the Temple Church in London and Senior Lecturer
(Theology and Religious Studies) at King’s College
London. ERIC FERNIE is Director Emeritus of The
Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
£50/$90(s) May 2018
978 1 78327 280 8, eBook 978 1 78744 211 5
68 colour & 124 b/w illus.; 534pp, 24 x 17, HB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
The Temple Church in London
History, Architecture, Art
Edited by DAVI D PARK
& ROBI N GRI FFI T H - JON E S
The most complete survey of
the Temple Church, from its
foundation in the twelfth
century to the Blitz.
With 120 illustrations of the
Temple Church and its rich
collection of artworks and
effigies, this definitive study will
be of interest to students and scholars of medieval
architecture, art, religion and the history of the
Crusades.
[A] remarkable and well-produced collection.
EC CLESIOLO GY TODAY
A marvellously thorough treatment of almost every
aspect of the history of the Temple church.
T H E R ICAR DIAN
[A] fine and well-illustrated volume.
T I M ES LI T ER ARY SU PPLEM ENT
£19.99/$25.95 September 2017
978 1 78327 263 1
11 colour & 109 b/w illus.; 314pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB
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R ELI G I O U S A RCHIT ECT U RE & ART / ART & H ERITAGE
RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE & ART
Church Monuments in
South Wales, c.1200-1547
R HIANYDD BI EBR AC H
A ground-breaking study of
the medieval funerary
monuments of South Wales.
Church Monuments in South
Wales is the first full-scale
study of the medieval funerary
monuments of this region,
offering a much-needed Celtic contribution to the
growing corpus of literature on the monumental
culture of late-medieval Europe, which for the
British Isles has been hitherto dominated by
English studies. It focuses on the social groups
who commissioned and were commemorated by
funerary monuments and how this distinctive
memorial culture reflected their shifting fortunes,
tastes and pre-occupations at a time of great social
change.
RHIANYDD BIEBRACH has taught medieval history
at the universities of Swansea, Cardiff and South
Wales and edited the journal Church Monuments.
She currently works for Amgueddfa Cymru-
National Museum Wales.
£60/$99(s) November 2017
978 1 78327 264 8, eBook 978 1 78744 163 7
4 colour & 48 b/w illus.; 226pp, 24 x 17, HB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
 The interpretation of heraldic
N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
The Marvellous and the
Monstrous in the Sculpture
of Twelfth-Century Europe
KIRK AMBROSE
A richly-illustrated
consideration of the meaning
of carvings 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 men”,
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?
[An] excellent work. MEDIEVAL REV IEW
Profound and intellectually wide-ranging.
BUR L I NG TON MAG AZ INE
£19.99/$25.95 April 2017
978 1 78327 242 6, eBook 978 1 78204 549 6
40 b/w illus.; 202pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
 Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich
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ART & HERITAGE
Art and Political Thought in
Medieval England, c.1150-1350
L AUR A SL AT E R
An exploration of how power and political
society were imagined, represented and
reflected on in medieval English art.
Images and imagery played a major role in
medieval political thought and culture, but
their influence has rarely been explored. This
book provides a full assessment of the subject.
Starting with an examination of the writings of
late twelfth-century courtier-clerics, and their
new vision of English political life as a heightened
religious drama, it argues that visual images
were key to the development and expression of
medieval English political ideas and arguments.
£60/$99(s) October 2018
978 1 78327 333 1
7 colour & 50 b/w illus.; 244pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
The Heraldic Art of
John Ferguson
Edited by ST E PH E N FRIAR
A beautifully illustrated
celebration of John Ferguson’s
art.
symbolism in a variety of
materials is an ancient and
honourable craft requiring great
skill and inventiveness, qualities acquired only
through rigorous training, long experience and an
appreciation of the ‘heraldic imagination’
John Ferguson has long been recognised as
pre-eminent among the heraldic artists of his
generation. He was among the small band of
enthusiasts who in 1987 founded the Society
of Heraldic Arts which today is established as a
highly respected international guild of heraldic
artists, designers and craftspeople. Among his
many achievements, he is a graduate of the
Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Society of
Heraldic Arts and of the Heraldry Society, and a
Distinguished Fellow of the American College of
Heraldry.
STEPHEN FRIAR is a writer and historian,
specialising in medieval and architectural history
and heraldry.
£30/$39.95 May 2018
978 0 90485 805 1
62 colour & 10 b/w illus.; 100pp, 27 x 23.4, HB
Heraldry Society
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MILITARY HISTORY
Journal of Medieval
Military History
Volume XVI
Edited by JOHN FR ANC E, K EL LY
D E VRI ES & CLI FFORD J. RO G ER S
The Journal of Medieval Military History
continues to consolidate its now assured
position as the leading academic vehicle for
scholarly publication in the field of medieval
warfare. MEDIEVAL WARFARE
The articles here offer a wide range of approaches
to medieval warfare. They include traditional
studies of strategy (on Baybars) and the logistics
of Edward II’s wars, as well as cultural history
(an examination of chivalry in Guy of Warwick)
intellectual history (a broad analysis of strategic
theory in the Middle Ages), and social history
(on knightly training in arms). The Hundred
Years War is studied using cutting-edge
methodology (data-driven analysis of skirmishes)
and by tackling relatively new areas of inquiry
(environmental history). There is also a close
reading of Carolingian documents, which sheds
new light on armies and warfare in the time of
Charles the Great.
Contributors: RONALD W. BRAASCH III, PIERRE
GALLE, WALTER GOFFART, CARL I. HAMMER, JOHN
HOSLER, RABEI G. KHAMISY, ILANA KRUG, DANNY
LAKE-GIGUÈRE, BRIAN PRICE
£60/$99(s) April 2018
978 1 78327 310 2, eBook 978 1 78744 243 6
2 b/w illus.; 176pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Journal of Medieval Military History

NEW LOW PRICE
Renaissance Military Memoirs
War, History and
Identity, 1450-1600
YU VAL NOAH HAR AR I
Renaissance military memoirs studied for
what they reveal of contemporary attitudes
towards war, selfhood and identity.
A fine monograph…well-organized and well-
written. [The author] is to be congratulated for
a clear and effective treatment of a body of work
which will surely spawn further research into the
chimera of battlefield experience. DE RE MILITA RI
Resting on a large corpus of evidence, carefully
sifted and digested, it is informative and
historiographically provocative.
E NG L I SH HISTORIC AL REV IEW
£25/$34.95(s) July 2004
978 1 84383 064 1, eBook 978 1 84615 238 2
240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Warfare in History
 this book apart is the contextualisation of the source
www.boydellandbrewer.com
Pietro Monte’s Collectanea
The Arms, Armour and
Fighting Techniques of a
Fifteenth-Century Soldier
Translated by J E FFREY L . FORGE NG
The first translation into
English of this important
military treatise.
Pietro Monte’s Collectanea is
a wide-ranging treatise on the
arts of knighthood, focusing
on martial arts, athletics, arms
and armour, and military
practice, but also touching on a number of diverse
subjects. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar
who won the respect of men like Leonardo da
Vinci and Baldesar Castiglione, first wrote the
work in Spanish and later produced an expanded
Latin translation which forms the basis of this
translation. Monte describes the techniques of
personal combat with various weapons, including
the two-handed and one-handed sword, pollaxe,
and dagger, as well as wrestling, armored and
mounted combat. He also documents the
athletic activities used by knights to hone their
physical abilities: running, jumping, throwing,
and vaulting. Finally, the Collectanea is the sole
medieval text to provide extensive discussion of
the design of arms and armour.
JEFFREY L. FORGENG is curator of Arms and
Armour and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art
Museum, and teaches as Adjunct Professor of
History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
£60/$99(s) February 2018
978 1 78327 275 4, eBook 978 1 78744 185 9
eBook for Handhelds 978 1 78744 178 1
15 colour illus.; 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Armour and Weapons
   Essays in Honour of Andrew Ayton
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
The Art of Swordsmanship
by Hans Lecküchner
Translated by J E FFREY L . FORGE NG
A modern English translation
of one of the most significant
medieval texts on fighting
with swords.
Johannes Lecküchner’s Art of
Combat with the “Langes Messer”
(Messerfechtkunst) is among the
most important documents on
the combat arts of the Middle Ages and is the single
most substantial work on the use of one-handed
swords to survive from this period. This translation,
complete with all illustrations from the manuscript,
makes the treatise accessible for the first time.
A fantastic attempt to make the fecht-bücher
increasingly accessible to a wider audience.... What sets
and the excellent translations. M EDI EVAL WAR FAR E
£19.99/$25.95 March 2018
978 1 78327 291 4
443 b/w illus.; 488pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Armour and Weapons
MILITARY H ISTORY
The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to
the Sixteenth Century
PET E R PU RTON
A detailed examination of the
skills and techniques of the
medieval military engineer,
over a thousand-year sweep.
The results of medieval
engineering still surround us –
cathedrals, castles, stone bridges,
irrigation systems. However,
the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges,
earthwork emplacements and underground mines
used for war have left little trace behind them;
and there is even less of the engineers themselves:
the people behind the military engineering
achievements. The evidence for this neglected group
is studied here. The author begins by considering
the evolution of military technology across
centuries, and the impact of new technologies in the
context of the economic and social developments
which made them possible. He looks at how military
engineers obtained their skills, and the possible link
with scholastic scientific awareness.
PETER PURTON, D Phil (Oxon), FSA, has written
extensively on medieval fortifications and siege
warfare.
£60/$99(s) April 2018
978 1 78327 278 5, eBook 978 1 78744 214 6
eBook for Handhelds 978 1 78744 200 9
30 b/w illus.; 368pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Armour and Weapons
  
Military Communities in
Late Medieval England
Edited by GARY P. BAK E R ,
CR AIG L. L AMBERT & DAVID SIMPKIN
Discusses warfare as a
collective enterprise.
From warhorses to the men-at-
arms who rode them; armies
that were raised to the lords who
recruited, led, administered,
and financed them; and ships
to the mariners who crewed
them; few aspects of the organisation and logistics
of war in late medieval England have escaped the
scholarly attention, or failed to benefit from the
insights, of Dr Andrew Ayton. The concept of the
military community, with its emphasis on warfare
as a collective social enterprise, has always lain at
the heart of his work; he has shown in particular
how this age of warfare is characterised by related
but intersecting military communities, marked
not only by the social and political relationships
within armies and navies, but by communities of
mind, experience, and enterprise.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
978 1 78327 298 3, eBook 978 1 78744 222 1
2 b/w illus.; 302pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Warfare in History

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LITE R AT U R E H IG H LIG H TS
Medieval and Early Modern Murder
Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
Edited by L ARI SSA TR AC Y
A nuanced picture of how medieval and
early modern societies viewed murder and
dealt with murderers.
Murder – the perpetrators, victims, methods and
motives – has been the subject of law, literature,
chronicles and religion, often crossing genres
and disciplines and employing multiple modes
of expression and interpretation. As these essays
demonstrate, definitions of murder, manslaughter
and justified or unjustified homicide depend
largely on the legal terminology and the laws
of the society. Much like modern nations,
medieval societies treated murder and murderers
differently based on their social standing, the social standing of the victim,
their gender, their mental capacity for understanding their crime, and intent,
motive and means. The first part of the volume provides the legal template
for reading cases of murder in a variety of sources. The second examines
the public hermeneutics of murder, especially the ways in which medieval
societies interpreted and contextualised their textual traditions. Finally, the
third part focuses on the effects of murder within the community.
LARISSA TRACY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University.
Contributors: DIANNE BERG, G. KOOLEMANS BEYNEN, DWAYNE C.
COLEMAN, JEFFREY DOOLITTLE, CARMEL FERRAGUD, JAY PAUL GATES,
THOMAS GOBBITT, EMILY J. HUTCHISON, JOLANTA N. KOMORNICKA, ANNE
LATOWSKY, MATTHEW LUBIN, ANDREW MCKENZIE-MCHARG, BEN PARSONS,
ILSE SCHWEITZER VANDONKELAAR, HANNAH SKODA, BRIDGETTE SLAVIN,
LARISSA TRACY, PATRICIA TURNING, LUCAS WOOD
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Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire
and Game of Thrones
SHILOH CARROLL
Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the
Middle Ages – but how “authentic” is the
world it presents? This volume offers different
angles to the question.
One of the biggest attractions of George R.R.
Martin’s high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire,
and by extension its HBO television adaptation,
Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism.
The author, the directors and producers of the
adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books
and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as
representative of an authentic medieval world.
But how true are these claims? Is it possible to
faithfully represent a time so far removed from our own in time and culture?
This book explores Martin’s and HBO’s approaches to and beliefs about
the Middle Ages and how those beliefs fall into traditional medievalist and
fantastic literary patterns.
SHILOH CARROLL teaches in the writing centre at Tennessee State University.
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“A Brief Discourse of Rebellion
and Rebels” by George North
A Newly Uncovered Manuscript
Source for Shakespeare’s Plays
DE NN I S M C C ART H Y & J U NE S C H LU ET E R
An investigation of a recently uncovered new
source for Shakespeare’s plays, with a full
edition and facsimile of the text.
“A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels”
is the only uniquely existent, unpublished
manuscript that can be shown to have been a
source for Shakespeare’s plays. George North
wrote the treatise in 1576 while at Kirtling Hall,
the North family estate in Cambridgeshire. His
manuscript, newly uncovered by the authors at
the British Library, has many implications for
our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. for
example, not only does it bring clarity to the Fool’s mysterious reference to
Merlin in King Lear, but also upsets the prevailing opinion that Shakespeare
invented the final hours of Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI. Linguistic and thematic
correspondences between the North manuscript and Shakespeare’s plays
make it clear that the playwright borrowed from this document in other plays
as well, including Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Henry V, King John, Macbeth, and
Coriolanus.
DENNIS MCCARTHY is an independent scholar; JUNE SCHLUETER is Charles A.
Dana Professor Emerita of English at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.
£75/$120(s) February 2018
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William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
How the sagas and other literature of Iceland
shaped the poems of William Morris.
The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was
hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and
poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his
long poems “The Lovers of Gudrun” and Sigurd
the Volsung. Between 1868 and 1876, Morris
not only translated several major sagas into
English for the first time with his collaborator
the Icelander Eiríkur Magnússon (1833-1913)
but he also travelled on horseback twice across
the Icelandic interior, journeys which led
him through the best known of the saga sites.
By looking closely at his translations of the
sagas and the texts on which he based them, the journals of his travels in
Iceland, and his saga-inspired long poems and lyric poetry, this book shows
how Morris conceived a unique ideal of heroism through engaging with
Icelandic literature.
IAN FELCE gained his PhD from Cambridge University.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
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ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Arthurian Literature XXXIV ROMANCE LITERATURE

The Medieval Merlin Tradition
in France and Italy
Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio
L AU R A C HUHAN CAM PBEL L
Ideas of translation and
adaptation in the middle ages
are investigated through the
lens of the Merlin tradition.
The medieval figure of Merlin
is intriguing, enigmatic, and
riddled with contradictions.
Half human, half devil, he
possesses a supernatural knowledge that allows
him to prophesy the future. This book examines
the reinterpretation of Merlin’s character in
French and Italian Arthurian literature, in which
chivalric romance and political prophecy become
increasingly intertwined. As the Merlin story
crosses the fluid cultural and linguistic boundaries
between vernacular dialects on either side of
the Alps, the protagonist accumulates histories,
futures, and discourses from multiple texts within
his omniscient knowledge. The study also shows
how the conversion of Merlin’s prophetic speech
from his omniscient mind into human languages
parallels the work of the medieval translator.
LAURA CHUHAN CAMPBELL is Assistant Professor
of French at Durham University.
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Emotions in Medieval
Arthurian Literature
Body, Mind, Voice
Edited by FR ANK BR AND SMA ,
CA ROLYNE L ARRI NG TON
& C ORI NNE SAUNDER S
An analysis of how emotion is
pictured in Arthurian legend.
Literary texts complicate our
understanding of medieval
emotions; they not only represent
characters experiencing emotion
and reaction emotionally to the
behaviour of others within the
text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the
audiences which heard these texts performed or read.
The presentation and depiction of emotion in the
single most prominent and influential story matter of
the Middle Ages, the Arthurian legend, is the subject
of this volume, covering texts written in English,
French, Dutch, German, Latin and Norwegian.
Edited by EL I Z ABET H ARC H I BAL D
& DAV ID F. JOH N S ON Romance Rewritten
The influence and significance of the legend of
The Evolution of Middle
Arthur are demonstrated by the articles collected
in this volume.
English Romance
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Arthurian Literature
New approaches to the everlasting
 malleability and transformation of medieval
romance.
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K The essays here reconsider the protean nature of
Middle English romance, including the works of
The Complete Story of the Grail Chaucer and Arthurian romances, rarely treated
Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval together. The contributors examine both the
and its continuations cultural unity of romance and its many variations,
reiterations and reimaginings, including its
C H R ÉTIE N DE T ROY E S contexts and engagements with other discourses
Translated by N IGE L BRYAN T and genres, as they were “re-written” during the
A modern translation of one Middle Ages and beyond. The volume also serves
of Western culture’s greatest as a tribute to the crucial work of Professor Helen
myths. Cooper on romance and its influences.
The mysterious and haunting Contributors: ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD,
Grail makes its first appearance JULIA BOFFEY, CHRISTOPHER CANNON,
in literature in Chrétien de NEIL CARTLIDGE, MIRIAM EDLICH-MUTH,
Troyes’ unfinished poem A.S.G. EDWARDS, MARCEL ELIAS, MEGAN
Perceval at the end of the twelfth LEITCH, ANDREW LYNCH, JILL MANN, MARCO
century. It was completed by no fewer than four NIEVERGELT, AD PUTTER, CORINNE SAUNDERS,
other writers, and The Complete Story of the Grail BARRY WINDEATT, R.F. YEAGER
is the first ever translation of the whole of the £60/$99(s) November 2018
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This book makes a significant contribution to
Arthurian studies….Highly recommended.C HOIC E
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The Transmission of
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Arthurian Studies Metres, Manuscripts
and Early Prints
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& J U DI T H J E FFE RS ON
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
The genre of medieval romance examined
Heroes and Anti-Heroes through the lens of their physical and
metrical forms.
in Medieval Romance
Romances were immensely popular with
Edited by NE I L C ART L I D GE
medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity
The heroic – or not – in manuscripts and early print. The essays
behaviour of the protagonists collected here deal with the textual transmission
of medieval romance. of medieval romances in England and Scotland,
The tension between the combining this with investigations into their
heroic and the antiheroic metre and form; this comparison of the romances
makes a major contribution in both their material form and their verse form
to the dramatic complexity of sheds new light on their cultural and social
medieval romance, but it is not context of romances.
an aspect of the genre that has been frequently Contributors: MICHELLE DE GROOT, JUDITH A.
discussed up until now. JEFFERSON, REBECCA E. LYONS, CAROL M. MEALE,
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor of English Studies at DONNA MINKOVA, NICHOLAS MYLKEBUST, AD
the University of Durham. PUTTER, DEREK PEARSALL, RHIANNON PURDIE,
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NORSE LITERATURE
Damnation and Salvation
in Old Norse Literature
HA KI ANTONSSON
A full survey of the “Last Things” as treated in
a wide range of Old Norse literature.
The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation
were fundamental in the Middle Ages.
Surprisingly, however, this topic has received
limited attention in the study of Old Norse
literature. This book addresses this lacuna in the
scholarship, from two major perspectives. Firstly,
it examines how the twin themes of damnation
and salvation interact with other more familiar
and better explored topoi, such as the life-cycle,
the moment of death, and the material world.
Secondly, it looks at how issues relating to
damnation and salvation influence the structure
of texts, with regard both to individual scenes and
poems and sagas as a whole. The author argues
that comparable features and patterns reoccur
throughout the corpus, albeit with individual
variations contingent on the relevant historical
and literary context.
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Studies in Old Norse Literature

The Saint and the Saga Hero
Hagiography and Early
Icelandic Literature
SIA N E. GRØNLI E
A study of the interaction
between saga literature and
the saint’s life.
The relationship between that
most popular of medieval
genres, the saint’s life, and
the sagas of the Icelanders is
investigated here. Although
saga heroes are rarely saints themselves – indeed
rather the reverse – they interact with saints in a
variety of ways: as ancestors or friends of saints,
as noble heathens or converts to Christianity, as
innocent victims of violent death, or even as anti-
saints, interrogating aspects of saintly ideology.
Via detailed readings of a range of the sagas, this
book explores how saints’ lives contributed to the
widening of medieval horizons, allowing the saga
authors to develop multiple perspectives (moral,
eschatological, psychological) on traditional feud
narratives and family dramas. In dialogue with
the ideology of the saint, the saga hero develops
into a complex and multi-faceted figure.
SIÂN GRØNLIE is Associate Professor and Kate
Elmore Fellow in English Language and Literature
at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Middle English Lyrics
New Readings of Short Poems
Edited by JU L IA B OFFEY
& C H R IST IAN IA W H I T E H E AD
A collection attesting to the richness and
lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle
English verse.
This collection of essays explores a range of
Middle English lyrics from the thirteenth to
the early sixteenth century, both religious and
secular in flavour. It directs attention to the
intrinsic qualities of these short poems and at the
same time explores their capacity to illuminate
important aspects of medieval cultural practice
and production: forms of piety, contemporary
conditions and events, the history of feelings and
emotions, and the relationships of image, song,
performance and speech to the written word.
JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies
in the Department of English at Queen Mary
University of London; CHRISTIANIA WHITEHEAD
is Professor of Middle English Literature at the
University of Warwick.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for contents and
contributors.
£60/$99(s) September 2018
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The Ballad and its Pasts
Literary Histories and
the Play of Memory
DAV ID AT K I NS ON
A new approach to the
mysterious ballads, and their
relationship with the past.
The ballad genre, and its
material, are frequently
backward-looking in terms of
subject and style: it is ideally
suited to the reimagining of
past events, both real and fictional. This volume
addresses the past of the ballad and the past in
the ballad. It challenges existing scholarship by
embracing discontinuity rather than continuity,
seeing the ballad as belonging to a culture of
cheap print and imaginative literature rather than
the rarefied construct of a mythical “folk”. It finds
a conscious antiquarianism and medievalism
reinterpreting the genre at different stages of its
literary history, at the same time as the ballad
itself is continually adapting to the needs of
readers, singers, and audience.
DAVID ATKINSON is Honorary Research Fellow at
the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.
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Birds in Medieval
English Poetry
Avian Transformations,
Species and Identities in
Medieval English Poetry
M IC HAE L J. WARRE N
The first full-length study of birds and their
metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of
medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to
Chaucer and Gower.
Birds featured in many aspects of medieval
people’s lives, not least in their poetry. But despite
their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still
often assumed that these representations have
little to do with the real natural world. This first
full study attends to the ways in which birds were
actually observed and experienced in five major
poems –The Seafarer, the Exeter Book Riddles,
The Owl and the Nightingale, The Parliament of
Fowls and Confessio Amantis, revealing entirely
new perspectives on these canonical works. In a
consideration of sources from Isidore of Seville
and Anglo-Saxon place-names to animal-sound
word lists and Bartholomew the Englishman,
the author shows how ornithological truth and
knowledge are integral to our understandings of
his chosen poems.
£60/$99(s) November 2018
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Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages

Medieval Narratives of
Alexander the Great
Transnational Texts in
England and France
VE N ET IA BRI D GE S
An investigation into the depiction and
reception of the figure of Alexander in the
literatures of medieval Europe.
How was Alexander the Great – controversial
king, conqueror, explorer, and pupil of Aristotle,
the subject of histories, romances, epic poetry,
satires, and sermons in most of the languages of
Europe and the Middle East – read, written and
rewritten during the High Middle Ages? Aiming
to illuminate not only the conqueror’s history
but also the fast-changing and complex literary
landscape that existed between 1150 and 1350,
this study considers Alexander narratives in Latin,
varieties of French and English – the Alexandreis,
the Roman d’Alexandre, the Roman de toute
chevalerie, and Kyng Alisaunder – to address this
vast and wide-ranging question.
VENETIA BRIDGES is Assistant Professor in
the Department of English Studies at Durham
University.
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New Medieval Literatures 18
Edited by L AUR A ASHE, PH IL IP KNOX ,
DAVI D L AW TON & W EN DY S C ASE
The latest volume on
medieval textual cultures.
New essays on: real and
metaphorical relations between
humans and nonhumans; the
earliest Middle English musical
and, it is argued, liturgical
compositions; the generic flexibility
and literariness of medical discourse; strategies of
affective and practical devotion; the creativity of
fifteenth-century vernacular religious literature.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
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New Medieval Literatures
 JAMIE C. FUMO is Professor of English at Florida
Medieval English Theatre 39
Stagecraft, Performance, Reception
Edited by SAR AH C ARPEN TER ,
G ORD ON KI PLI NG & M EG T W YC RO S S
The latest research.
The latest volume of the premier
journal in early theatre studies
features essays on stagecraft,
performance, and reception
across a wide range of theatrical
genres. Medieval English Theatre
publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from
across the British Isles up to the opening of the
London playhouses and includes contributions on
European and Latin drama, together with analyses
of modern survivals and of research productions
of medieval plays.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
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Medieval English Theatre
 Low Countries, Germany, Denmark and Sweden,
Studies in Medievalism XXVII
Authenticity, Medievalism, Music
Edited by KARL FUGEL S O
The issue of what is and what is not “authentic”.
The issue of authenticity is clearly central to
scholarship on post-medieval responses to the
Middle Ages. These essays address authenticity
directly, discussing amongst other topics Early
Gothic themes in nineteenth-century British
literature and emotions in Game of Thrones, and
include considerations of re-enactment and van
Gogh’s invocations of Dante, alongside a special
focus on music.
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and contributors.
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Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess
Contexts and Interpretations
Edited by JAM I E C . FUMO
The first entire collection
centred on Chaucer’s Boke of
the Duchess.
The Book of the Duchess,
Chaucer’s first major poem,
is foundational for our
understanding of Chaucer’s
literary achievements in relation
to late-medieval English textual production; yet
in comparison with other works, its treatment has
been somewhat peripheral in previous criticism.
This volume, the first full-length collection devoted
to the Book, argues powerfully against the prevalent
view that it is an underdeveloped or uneven early
work, and instead positions it as a nuanced literary
and intellectual effort in its own right.
State University.
Contributors: B.S.W. BAROOTES, JULIA BOFFEY,
ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, REBECCA DAVIS, A.S.G.
EDWARDS, JEFF ESPIE, PHILIP KNOX, HELEN
PHILLIPS, ELIZAVETA STRAKHOV, SARA STURM-
MADDOX, MARION WELLS
£60/$99(s) May 2018
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Chaucer Studies
 978 1 89774 734 6
George Lauder (1603-1670)
Life and Writings
A L ASDA IR A. M ac D ONAL D
The first full study and
edition of the works of the
Scottish poet George Lauder.
The works of George Lauder
have been unjustly neglected, a
situation this volume redresses.
It traces his life and career,
including his years as an army
officer during which he saw service in France, the
experiences which provided the backdrop to the
poetry of his mature years. At the Restoration he
wrote a lengthy poem of advice to Charles II, and
his final masterwork was a poetic conflation of the
Gospel accounts of the life of Christ. The author
of a unique corpus of highly accomplished poetry,
Lauder was influenced by Ben Jonson, William
Drummond, and by the Metaphysical and the
Caroline styles. All his surviving verse is collected
here and presented with full notes and commentary.
ALASDAIR A. MACDONALD is Emeritus Professor
of English Language and Literature of the Middle
Ages, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
£75/$165(s) September 2018
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Studies in Renaissance Literature
 M EDI EVAL R EVI EW
EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Punishment and Penitential
Practices in Medieval
German Writing
Edited by S AR AH B OW DE N
& ANN ET T E VOL FI NG
The twin themes of punishment and penance
considered through both historical and
literary medieval German texts.
The supposed brutality of medieval punishment
looms large in the popular contemporary
imagination, yet this perception can obscure
the diverse and nuanced reactions of medieval
society to violent or criminal acts. This collection
addresses the ways in which different approaches
to punishment are depicted and discussed in
written texts, focusing in particular on the often
complex intersection – semantic, theoretical
and theological – between punishment and
penitential practices, both self-imposed and
imposed by others.
SARAH BOWDEN is Lecturer in German at King’s
College London; ANNETTE VOLFING is Professor
of Medieval German Studies at the University of
Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for editors, contents
and contributors.
£60/$99(s) May 2018
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Kings College London Medieval Studies
King’s College London CLAMS
N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
Marco Polo’s Le
Devisement du Monde
Narrative Voice, Language
and Diversity
SI MON GAU NT
The first book in English to
examine one of the most
important and influential
texts from a literary
perspective.
Le Devisement du Monde (1298),
better though inaccurately
known in English as Marco
Polo’s Travels, is one of only a handful of medieval
texts that remain iconic today for European
cultural history. This book examines the text from
a fresh, literary viewpoint, drawing upon a range
of different disciplines and approaches, including
philology, manuscript studies, cultural history,
postcolonial studies and theory. 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.
Indispensable to any future study of Marco Polo.
£25/$34.95 April 2018
978 1 84384 496 9
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EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The Classical Tradition in
Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500
Translation, Imitation, and Literacy
LLU ÍS C ABRÉ, ALEJAN DRO C OROL EU,
MONT SERR AT FERRE R ,
A LBERT LLORET & JOSEP P UJOL
The first comprehensive study
of its kind.
The classical tradition in
medieval Catalan letters was a
multilingual process involving
not only Latin and Catalan, but
also neighbouring vernaculars
like Aragonese, Castilian,
French, and Italian. The authors survey the
development of classical literacy from the twelfth-
century Aragonese royal courts until the arrival of
the printing press and the dissemination of Italian
Humanism. Aimed at students and scholars of
medieval and early modern Iberia – and anyone
interested in medieval Romance literatures and
the classical tradition – this volume also provides
a catalogue of translations into Catalan of texts
from classical antiquity through the Italian
Renaissance, and a critical study of the influence
of the classics in five major works: Bernat Metge’s
Lo somni, Joanot Martorell’s Tirant lo Blanc,
the anonymous Curial e Güelfa, Ausiàs March’s
poetry, and Joan Roís de Corella’s prose.
See www.boydellandbrewer.com for author details
£60/$99(s) February 2018
978 1 85566 322 0, eBook 978 1 78744 239 9
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Monografías
 Romance of Evast
Doctrina pueril
R A MON LLULL
Translated by JOHN DAG ENA IS
Doctrina pueril is an unforgettable introduction
to the medieval world and its culture.
Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between
1274 and 1276 to provide minimum knowledge
to those people who did not have the opportunity
to acquire a sufficient doctrinal and intellectual
education. In the late thirteenth century this
meant stressing the basics of Christian doctrine
and also accessing some aspects of general
culture. The most important part of the Doctrina
is dedicated to the catechism (articles of faith,
commandments, sacraments, vices and virtues,
etc.). Especially interesting, however, are the
more general sections, encyclopaedic in nature,
on issues such as the three monotheistic religions
of the Mediterranean, the lessons that could be
studied in the medieval universities, and other
medical and scientific subjects.
Published in association with Editorial Barcino.
JOHN DAGENAIS is a senior professor of Medieval
literature and specialist in Hispano-Latin manuscript
culture at the University of California, Los Angeles.
£19.99/$25.95 July 2018
978 1 85566 309 1
288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Textos
Barcino-Tamesis
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Rewritings, Sequels, and
Cycles in Sixteenth-Century
Castilian Romances of Chivalry
‘Aquella inacabable aventura’
DA N IEL GU T I É RRE Z T R ÁPAGA
Intertextuality and
hypertextuality in the poetics
of Castilian romances of
chivalry.
Castilian romances of chivalry
were the dominant form of
fiction in Europe during the
peak of the Spanish Empire in
the sixteenth century. Whilst the material traits
of chivalric romances have been thoroughly
studied, Don Quijote’s shadow has often resulted
in the neglect of the literary aspects and influence
of the genre, hindering our understanding of
Golden Age and Spanish fiction. Conversely, this
book examines the literary transformation of the
genre throughout the sixteenth century from the
perspective of intertextuality. In particular, this
book focuses on the literary practices central
to the craft and development of the genre: the
rewriting of previous romance, the writing of
sequels, and the formation of narrative cycles.
DANIEL GUTIÉRREZ TRÁPAGA is Associate
Professor in Research Methodologies (Hispanic
Literature) at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México.
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Monografías
 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
and Blaquerna
R A MON L LU L L
Translated by ROBE RT D. H U GH E S
The first major work of
literature written in Catalan
and arguably the first
European novel.
Blaquerna (ca. 1283) is a novel
that Ramon Llull put forth as
an alternative to the chivalric
literature so popular in his time.
It tells the biography of the virtuous Blaquerna,
who is preoccupied with the salvation of the
world. Blaquerna is eventually elected Holy Father
in Rome, allowing him to reform the whole of
humanity. He then retires to a contemplative life
and writes the Book of the Lover and the Beloved,
one of the top works of mystical literature of all
time.
Published in association with Editorial Barcino.
ROBERT D. HUGHES is a specialist in medieval
Catalan literature and a widely published
translator.
£19.99/$25.95 April 2017
978 1 85566 304 6
192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Textos
Barcino-Tamesis
MUSIC
The Montpellier Codex
The Final Fascicle. Contents,
Contexts, Chronologies
Edited by C AT H E RI N E A. BR ADL EY
& KARE N DE SMOND
The final section of the
Montpellier Codex is analysed
in full for the first time.
The Montpellier Codex
(Bibliothèque interuniversitaire,
Section Médecine, H.196)
occupies a central place in
scholarship on medieval music.
Packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations,
historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy,
it is one of the most famous of all surviving music
manuscripts, fundamental to understandings of
the development of thirteenth- and fourteenth-
century polyphonic composition. At some point
in its history an eighth section (fascicle) of 48
folios was appended to the codex: when and why
this happened has long perplexed scholars. The
forty-three works contained in this final section
represent a collection of musical compositions,
assembled at a complex moment of historical
change, straddling the historiographical juncture
between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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and contributors.
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A Critical Companion
to Medieval Motets
Edited by JARE D C . HART T
A comprehensive guide to one
of the most important genres
of music in the middle ages.
Motets constitute the most
important polyphonic genre of
the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries, intrinsically involved
in its early development. This
volume – the first to be devoted exclusively to the
topic – aims to provide a comprehensive guide to
them, from a number of different disciplines and
perspectives. It addresses such crucial matters such
as how the motet developed; the rich interplay
of musical, poetic, and intertextual modes of
meaning specific to the genre; and the changing
social and historical circumstances surrounding
motets in medieval France, England, and Italy.
JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music
Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
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contributors
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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

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 TR AN S LAT ION & LIT ERARY TH EORY / B IB LIOGRAPH Y & MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATION & LITERARY THEORY
The Medieval Literary:
Beyond Form
Edited by ROBERT J. M EYER-L EE
& CATHERI NE SANOK
Examines the relationship between the
substance of medieval texts and the form in
which it is expressed.
The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-
emergence of various kinds of literary formalism,
and one project that characterizes most of these
diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what
is precisely literary about their objects of study. The
presumed relation between form and the literary
that this project presupposes, however, raises
questions that still need to be addressed. What is
it about form that produces the category of the
literary? What precisely is literary about literary
form? Can the literary be defined beyond form? This
volume explores these questions in the historical
and geographical frame of late medieval Britain.
ROBERT J. MEYER-LEE is Margaret W. Pepperdene
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes
Scott College; CATHERINE SANOK is an Associate
Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the
University of Michigan.
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contributors.
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N EW IN PAP E RBAC K
Vernacular Literary
Theory from the French
of Medieval England
Texts and Translations, c.1120-c.1450
Edited and translated by JO C ELYN WO G A N -
BROW NE, T HELMA F EN STER
& DELBERT W. RUSSE L L
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from
the French of medieval England offer a guide
to medieval literary theory.
The use of French (“Anglo-Norman”) in medieval
England, and its intricate relationship with the
use of English and Latin, is increasingly a focus of
scholarly interest and activity, with the idea that
there was multilingualism in all three tongues
now generally accepted as a model. However, the
study of this multilingualism has been hampered
by a lack of language skills, and a reader from
which to teach them. This book fills that gap
by offering a comprehensive selection of texts
with facing translation, with full commentary
and notes; an introduction; and other materials,
including a glossary. It will act both as a textbook
for learning and teaching Anglo-Norman, and a
sourcebook and guide to the Francophone culture
of medieval England.
£25/$34.95 March 2018
978 1 84384 490 7, eBook 978 1 78204 871 8
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BIBLIOGRAPHY & MANUSCRIPTS
The Fox and the Bees: The
Early Library of Corpus
Christi College Oxford
The Lowe Lectures 2017
R . M. THOM S ON
The first book-length study of the famous
pre-1600 library at Corpus Christi College.
The library of Corpus Christi College is one of
the most famous of all of those in Oxford and
Cambridge. It is one of the few pre-1600 libraries
to survive in something like its original form,
and the only one still in use as a library. Its main
space is still the original room built in 1517, and
its furniture, if not original, is still early, most of it
dating from 1604. A high proportion of its earliest
book-stock, whether print or manuscript, still
survives, and there is a wealth of documentation
that makes it possible to chart the process of
acquisition, especially the major donations of the
Founder, Bishop Fox, and first President, John
Claymond. And yet there is no modern, book-
length study of the College Library. The present
volume provides a scholarly but attractive and
readable account of the Library from its conception
in the mind of Richard Fox, to the appearance of its
earliest surviving catalogue in 1589.
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TRANSLATION STUDIES
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
Medieval Translations
and Cultural Discourse
The Movement of Texts in
England, France and Scandinavia
SIF R IK HARD SD OT T I R
What translations can reveal about the
differences between cultures.
Throughout the Middle Ages, many Francophone
texts – chansons de geste, medieval romance,
works by Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de
France – were widely translated in north-western
Europe. In the process, these texts were frequently
transformed to reflect the new cultures in which
they appeared. This book argues that such
translations, prime sites for cultural movement
and encounters, provide a rich opportunity to
study linguistic and cultural identity both in and
through time.
SIF RIKHARDSDOTTIR is Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of Iceland and Vice-
Chair of the Institute of Research in Literature
and Visual Arts.
A ground-breaking model for the future of
translation studies. M EDI UM AEVUM
£19.99/$25.95 April 2018
978 1 84384 494 5
212pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Catalogue of the Pepys Library
at Magdalene College
Supplementary Series II
Collections I
Edited by C . S . K N IGH TON
The first full listing of the pamphlets, tracts
and other material collected by Samuel Pepys
under the headings Maritime, Political and
Religious.
Samuel Pepys’s unique collection of 3000 books
has been, as he directed, preserved intact at his
old Cambridge college since 1724. Its various
facets were not widely appreciated until the
publication between 1978 and 1994 of a complete
catalogue under the editorship of Robert Latham.
The present volume presents a detailed conspectus
of the Collections, pamphlets bound up as books.
There are five such ‘collections’ in the Pepys
Library, which are catalogued only as volumes
containing a number of items on the same subject.
This is a full listing of the pamphlets, tracts and
other material in each of these bound collections,
information which is otherwise unavailable except
in the library’s own archive. The collections are
Maritime, Political and Religious in the present
volume. Those entitled Popular, Dramatic,
Shorthand, Almanacs and General will be in the
second volume.
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978 1 84384 486 0, eBook 978 1 78744 242 9
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Catalogue of Pepys Library Supplementary Series

N E W I N PA P E R B ACK
The Auchinleck Manuscript
New Perspectives
Edited by SU S AN NA FE I N
Fresh examinations of one of the chief
compendiums of literature in the Middle
English period.
The Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National
Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of
crucial importance as the first book designed
to convey in the English language an ambitious
range of secular romance and chronicle, but its
origins are mysterious. The essays here seek to
answer a number of questions as to its making,
contents, scribes, and other matters.
A great resource for further scholarship on the
Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it
contains. T H E M EDI EVAL R EVI EW
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978 1 90315 378 9
6 b/w illus.; 266pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
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