Spring 2010

MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
 C ONTENT S
Alfred’s Wars  LAVELLE 6
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe  M c AVOY 10
Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts  INGHAM 17
Anglo-Norman Studies 31  LEWIS 13
Anglo-Norman Studies 32  LEWIS 13
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales  GUNN/MONCKTON 7
Arthurian Literature XXVI  ARCHIBALD/JOHNSON 19
Arthurian Way of Death  CHEREWATUK/WHET TER 19
Battle of Agincourt  CURRY 5
Bede’s Historiae  GUNN 8
Bloodied Banners  JONES 3
Building Accounts of Souls College  WALKER/MUNBY 9
Celtic Curses  MEES 17
Chaucer and Petrarch  ROSSITER 14
Chaucer and Religion  PHILLIPS 14
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England
FIELD/HARDMAN/SWEENEY 15
Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham  PREEST/CLARK 5
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio  HEFFERNAN 14
Companion to Ancrene Wisse  WADA 4
Companion to Bede  BROWN 8
Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan  HAST Y 4
Companion to Gower  ECHARD 4
Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
RADULESCU/RUSHTON 14
Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry  BAWCUT T/WILLIAMS 4
Companion to Middle English Hagiography  SALIH 4
Companion to Middle English Prose  EDWARDS 4
Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe  ARNOLD/LEWIS 4
Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle  D OVER 19
Companion to the Middle English Lyric  DUNCAN 4
Companion to the Nibelungenlied  M c CONNELL 4
Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue  GENTRY 4
Companion to Wace  Le SAUX 4
Companion to Wolfram’s Parzival  HAST Y 4
Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland
B OARDMAN/WILLIAMSON 10
Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne  BROWN 8
Daughters of Artemis  ALMOND 9
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England  Owen-Cro cker 6
Elves in Anglo-Saxon England  HALL 5
Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009  MEAD OWS 11
English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare
HORNBACK 17
Eton College Chapel Wall Paintings  ROSEWELL 9
Expectations of Romance  FURROW 15
Exploitations of Medieval Romance  ASHE/DJORDJEVIć/WEISS 15
Fifteenth-Century Studies 35
HEINTZELMAN/GUSICK/WALSH 13
Fourteenth Century England VI  GIVEN-WILSON 13
Franciscans in the Middle Ages  ROBSON 5
Herald in Late Medieval Europe  STEVENSON 10
Heraldic Badges in England and Wales  POWELL SIDD ONS 10
History of the Early and Late Medieval Siege  PURTON 8
History of the Kings of Britain  REEVE/WRIGHT 16
Jocelin of Wells: Bishop, Builder, Courtier  DUNNING 9
John Gower, Trilingual Poet  DUT TON/HINES/YEAGER 17
King Rother and His Bride  KERTH 18
Lancelot-Grail   LACY 19
Langobards before the Frankish Conquest
AUSENDA/DELO GU/WICKHAM 6
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain 
WO GAN-BROWNE et al. 17
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Later Medieval Kent  SWEETINBURGH 6
Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England  WORBY 7
Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France  KONG 18
Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England
SOMERSET/HAVENS/PITARD 5
Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory  LEGG 11
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance
SAUNDERS 15
Magna Carta and the England of King John  LOENGARD 7
Maps of Matthew Paris  CONNOLLY 9
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England  HART 3
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6 
NETHERTON/OWEN-CRO CKER 14
Medieval Household  EGAN 3
Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History  BAILEY 5
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality  OSWALD 15
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions  SPURKLAND/HOEK 6
Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn  ANLEZARK 16
Old French Narrative Cycles  SUNDERLAND 18
Pain and Suffering in Medieval Theology  MOWBRAY 10
Parliament and Political Pamphleteering in Fourteenth-Century
England  OLIVER 7
Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses
D ODD/M c HARDY 7
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7  ADAMS/DUGGAN 20
Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges  SPENCER 8
Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles  EVANS 16
Publications of the Henry Bradshaw Society 12
Ramon Llull  B ONNER 18
Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the
Anglo-Norman Realm  VINCENT 6
Reformation and Robert Barnes  MAAS 12
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World 
B oardman/Davies/Williamson 12
Saints Lives of Jocelin of Furness  BIRKET T 16
Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages
MEIER/M c GEO CH 5
Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry  M c CARTHY 5
Sedulius Scottus, De Rectoribus Christianis  DYSON 16
Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2  ABRAMSON 6
Studies in Medievalism XIX  FUGELSO 13
Studies in Medievalism XVIII  FUGELSO 13
Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England
HAINES 17
Syon Abbey and its Books  JONES/WALSHAM 11
Temple Church in London  PARK/GRIFFITH-JONES 9
Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care
GUNN/INNES-PARKER 10
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts  Da ROLD/TREHARNE 15
Treacherous Foundations  COATES 18
Trees in Anglo-Saxon England  HO OKE 3
Troubadour Tensos and Partimens  HARVEY/PATERSON 18
Troyes Memoire  KANE 14
Victoria History of the County of Cornwall  ORME 12
Victoria History of the County of Gloucester  JURICA 12
Victoria History of the County of Middlesex  CRO OT 12
Vision and Gender in Malory’s Morte Darthur  MARTIN 19
Wars of Edward III  RO GERS 5
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury  NORTHEAST/FALVEY 11
Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich  HILL 11
Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650
LAWRENCE-MATHERS/HARDMAN 16

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Literature, Lore and Landscape
DE L L A HO OK E
A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the
imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.
Trees played a particularly important part in the rural
economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber
and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a
growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in
many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism
found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book
explores both the ‘real’, historical and archaeological
evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in
Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter
references cast light upon the distribution of particular
tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and
also reflect upon regional character in a period that was
fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape.
DELLA HOOKE is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for
Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the
University of Birmingham.
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Anglo-Saxon Studies
Bloodied Banners
Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield
ROBE RT W. JON E S
Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by
armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare,
showing their cultural as well military significance.
The medieval battlefield was a place of spectacle and
splendour. The fully-armed knight, bedecked in his vivid
heraldic colours, mounted on his great charger, riding out
beneath his brightly-painted banner, is a stock image of
war and the warrior in the middle ages. Yet too often the
significance of such display has been ignored or dismissed as
the empty preening of a militaristic social elite.
Drawing on a broad range of source material and using
innovative historical approaches, this book completely re-
evaluates the way that such men and their weapons were
viewed, showing that martial display was a vital part of the
way in which war was waged in the middle ages. It maintains
that heraldry and livery served not only to advertise a
warrior’s family and social ties, but also announced his
presence on the battlefield and right to wage war. It also
considers the physiological and psychological effect of wearing
armour, both on the wearer and those facing him in combat,
arguing that the need for display in battle was deeper than any
medieval cultural construct and was based in the fundamental
biological drives of threat and warning.
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Warfare in History
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Medieval Church Window
Tracery in England
ST E PH E N HA RT
A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of
window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval
period.
While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval
church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated,
Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt
to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, a
gap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual
catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles
from churches throughout England, it traces the progression
of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes in tracery
patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
showing how different themes emerged within the main
architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between
a window’s architectural form and its tracery style, and
describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume
is completed with a detailed glossary.
STEPHEN HART is a retired architect, and the author of
numerous works, including Flint Flushwork (Boydell 2008).
£45.00/$90.00 March 2010
978 1 84383 533 2
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AVA I L A B L E AG A I N
The Medieval Household
Daily Living c.1150-c.1450
G E OF F E G A N
Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle
ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and
the general reader alike.
This book brings together for the first time the astonishing
diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts from medieval
London homes. These include roofing and other structural
items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortment of
culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights.
Illustrating some 1,000 items, the catalogue provides a
fascinating account of how metalwork and glassware
manufacturing trends changed during the period covered,
while close dating of many of the finds has resulted in many
new insights into life at the time.
£30.00/$60.00 March 2010
978 1 84383 543 1
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Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
Front cover: Cover image of The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in
Medieval Scotland, edited by Steve Boardman and Eila Williamson (see
page 10), taken from the ‘Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary and St. Ninian’,
Edinburgh University Library MS.42. f.72v.
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N E W PA P E R BACK COMPANIONS
A Companion to
Middle English Prose
Edited by A . S . G . E DWAR D S
Survey of and guide to all the major
authors and genres in Middle
English prose.
An up-to-date and authoritative
guide to the major prose Middle
English authors and genres.
M E DI UM AEVUM
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344pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion
to Medieval
Scottish Poetry
Edited by   and American medievalists on
PR I SC I L L A BAWC U T T &
JA N ET HA DL EY W I L L IA M S
A full survey and overview of the
extraordinary flowering of Scottish
poetry in the middle ages.
A welcome addition to the Boydell &
Brewer Companion list. [...] Will be
valued by students and scholars alike
for its excellent contribution to the
field of Scottish literature.
M E DI UM AEVUM
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242pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion to the
Middle English Lyric
Edited by   dozen topics [...].
T HOM AS G . DU NC A N
Comprehensive survey of the
Middle English lyric, one of the
most important forms of medieval
literature.
An expertly assembled and
immaculately produced volume which
will not be easily surpassed as an
introduction to this important field.
A NG L IA
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A Companion
to the Book of
Margery Kempe
Edited by JOH N H . A R NOL D
& KAT H E R I N E J. L EW I S
Margery Kempe and her Book
studied in both literary and
historical context.
£19.99/$37.95 January 2010
978 1 84384 214 9
8 b/w illus.; 270pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion
to Gottfried von
Strassburg’s Tristan
Edited by W I L L HAST Y
Essays by outstanding European
major aspects of the most enduring
medieval epic.
£19.99/$39.95 June 2010
978 1 57113 446 2
328pp, 9 x 6 in, PB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics
and Culture
A Companion to
the Nibelungenlied
Edited by   A very usable introduction to various
W I N DE R M c C ON N E L L
Key topics in important German
medieval work surveyed and
reassessed.
[A] collection of fine essays from
many scholarly luminaries on a
C HOICE
This book touches on most of the
current problems of scholarship [...].
YEAR’S WORK IN MODERN
L ANGUAGE STUDIES
£19.99/$39.95 June 2010
978 1 57113 459 2
7 b/w illus.; 308pp, 9 x 6 in, PB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics
and Culture
A Companion
to the Works of
Hartmann von Aue
Edited by   An introduction to Gower and
F R A NC I S G . G E N T RY
Essays on major aspects of the
work of the great medieval
German poet.
A welcome and superlative
summation of the current status of
Hartmann von Aue scholarship.
CHOICE
These essays [...] permit the modern
reader to familiarize himself with the
texts of Hartmann and constitute an
interesting first approach.
ETUDES GERMANIQUES
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978 1 57113 448 6
4 b/w illus.; 300pp, 9 x 6 in, PB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics
and Culture
A Companion to
Wolfram’s Parzival
Edited by W I L L HAST Y
Up-to-date criticism and
commentary on the greatest of the
German courtly epics.
aspects of Wolfram’s Parzifal.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND
GERMANIC PHILOLO GY
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978 1 57113 458 5
10 b/w illus.; 318pp, 9 x 6 in, PB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics
and Culture
A Companion to Wace
F.H.M. L E S AU X
Guide to the works of the twelfth-
century chronicler Wace, setting
him in his historical and cultural
context.
£19.99/$37.95 March 2010
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A Companion
to Gower
Edited by SIÂ N E C HA R D
his work, focusing on his sources,
historical context and literary
tradition; special attention is paid to
Confessio Amantis.
The reader will come away with an
enriched sense of Gower’s true place
in the history of English literature
[...]. Eminently readable [...]. Highly
Recommended.
CHOICE
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A Companion to
Ancrene Wisse
Edited by YOKO WA DA
Ancrene Wisse introduced through
a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the
originality and interest of the treatise.
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270pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion to
Middle English
Hagiography
Edited by S A R A H S A L I H
The Saints’ Life was one of the
most popular forms of literature
in medieval England. This volume
offers crucial information for an
understanding of the genre.
[The contributors] do a fine job of
making readers aware of key issues in
hagiographical studies.
MEDIEVAL REVIEW
This lucid and scholarly volume will
be an excellent reference tool for
students and scholars.
MEDIUM AEVUM
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Medieval Suffolk: An Economic
and Social History, 1200-1500
M A R K BA I L EY
The first volume in what will become the
definitive history of Suffolk looks at how the
county survived the three most tumultuous events
of the period, the Great Famine, the Black Death
and the Peasants’ Revolt, to emerge as one of the
richest English regions.
[T]his study has managed admirably to achieve
its aim of being clear and informative, while also
providing fascinating insights into the complexities
of a local society and economy.
E C ONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
£14.99/$27.95 February 2010
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16 b/w illus.; 358pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
History of Suffolk
Seafarers, Merchants and
Pirates in the Middle Ages
DI R K M E I E R  Helen Barr, Mishtooni Bose, Lawrence M.
Translated by A NG U S M c G E O C H
A vivid and highly-illustrated history of seafaring
in the Middle Ages based on archaeological
evidence and contemporary accounts.
[A] thoughtful study.
SPE C U LUM
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44 colour, 28 b/w illus.; 192pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB
The Battle of Agincourt:
Sources and Interpretations
A N N E C U R RY
New paperback edition of this destined Agincourt
sourcebook.
[A] great teaching tool for every aspect of medieval
history [...] a remarkable book.
JOU R NAL OF MILITARY HISTORY
Accessible collections of primary sources covering
the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few
and far between, and teachers of the subject will
find Curry’s volume a valuable addition to their
bibliographies and teaching aids.
F R E NC H HISTORY
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498pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Warfare in History
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The Wars of Edward III
Sources and Interpretations
Edited by C L I F F OR D J. RO G E R S
Contemporary documents and classic studies
follow Edward’s fortunes on the battlefield,
from failure against the Scots to major military
successes in France.
£17.99/$34.95 January 2010
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4 b/w illus.; 538pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Warfare in History
Lollards and their Influence
in Late Medieval England
Edited by F IONA S OM E R SET,
J I L L C . HAV E N S &  
DE R R IC K G . PI TA R D
Essays on Lollard writings and ideas accompanied
by a comprehensive bibliography on Wyclif and
Lollardy and a survey of previous scholarship.
CONTRIBUTORS: David Aers, Margaret Aston,
Clopper, Andrew Cole, Ralph Hanna III, Anne
Hudson, Maureen Jurkowski, Andrew Larsen,
Geoffrey H. Martin, Derrick G. Pitard, Wendy
Scase, Fiona Somerset, Emily Steiner.
Required reading for everyone wishing to learn
about or research in the field of Wycliffite and
Lollard studies.
RICHARD REX, QUEENS’ C OLLEGE, C AMBRID GE
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The Franciscans in
the Middle Ages
M IC HA E L ROB S ON
This book explores the first 250 years of the order’s
history and charts its rapid growth, development,
pastoral ministry, educational organisation,
missionary endeavour, internal tensions and
divisions. It offers a complete survey of the
Franciscan Order.
This is the most useful survey of medieval
Franciscan history available.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
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254pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Monastic Orders
NEW IN PAPE RBACK
Elves in Anglo-Saxon England
Matters of Belief, Health,
Gender and Identity
A L A R IC HA L L
Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon
period are reassessed in this lively and
provocative study.
A delightful [book] that will stimulate thought
across the disciplines regarding the importance,
to the Anglo-Saxons, of a class of creatures whose
fascination for us today stands in direct proportion
to their enigmatic nature. At many turns, this well-
researched study exemplifies the value of joining
lexically based research to larger cultural inquiries.
SPECULUM
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978 1 84383 509
238pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Anglo-Saxon Studies
The Chronica Maiora of Thomas
Walsingham (1376-1422)
Translated by DAV I D PR E E ST
with JA M E S G . C L A R K
First complete translation of detailed chronicle
of medieval England, one of Shakespeare’s most
important sources.
A rollicking, passionate, fluent work that captures
nicely the studied informality of Walsingham’s
prose. [...] In short, this is a terrific translation of a
very entertaining chronicle.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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Seamus Heaney and
Medieval Poetry
C ONOR M c C A RT H Y
First examination of the use made by Seamus
Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and
adaptations, including the acclaimed Beowulf.
A remarkable survey of Heaney’s work and its debt
to medieval poetry. [...] McCarthy has presented
a compelling analysis of Heaney’s use of medieval
poetry that should be of great interest to the growing
body of scholars interested in medievalism.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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978 1 84384 206 4
204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
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E A R LY M E D I EVAL AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY
The Langobards before
the Frankish Conquest
An Ethnographic Perspective
Edited by G IORG IO AUSE N DA ,
PAOLO DE LO G U & C H R I S W IC K HA M
Essays examining the Langobards, with
important conclusions for early medieval Italy.
The historians and archaeologists, who contribute
to this volume, discuss Langobard archaeology,
material culture, language, political organisation,
the church, social and family structures, and
urban economy.
CONTRIBUTORS: G. Ausenda, S. Barnish,
S. Brather, T. S. Brown, N. Christie, M. Costambeys,
P. Delogu, D. Green, W. Haubrichs, J. Henning,   through the ages. Divided into separate sections,
B. Ward-Perkins, C. Wickham.
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13 b/w illus.; 396pp, 24 x 16.8, HB
Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology
N EW I N PA P E R BAC K
Norwegian Runes and
Runic Inscriptions
T E R J E SP U R K L A N D   King’s mistress.
Translated by BET SY van der HOE K
An accessible account of Norwegian runic
inscriptions.
Runic inscriptions are discussed not only from
a linguistic point of view but also as sources of
information on Norwegian history and culture.
TERJE SPURKLAND is Associate Professor of
Nordic Medieval Studies at the University of Oslo.
£14.99/$27.95 November 2009
978 1 84383 504 2
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P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
Studies in Early
Medieval Coinage 2
New Perspectives
Edited by TON Y A BR A M S ON
A scholarly and erudite collection of articles
based upon the proceedings of the second
biennial Sceattas Symposium.
Going beyond the traditional studies of moneyers,
mint marks and monarchs, these collected essays
draw upon the imagery present upon the coins
themselves to offer new insights into Anglo-Saxon
art and society.
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Metcalf, Tony
Abramson, Catherine Karkov, Rory Naismith,
Anna Gannon, Wybrand Op den Velde, Megan
Gooch, Barry Ager, Gareth Williams, Mike
Bonser, Stewart Lyon, Arent Pol, James Booth.
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Alfred’s Wars: Sources and
Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon
Warfare in the Viking Age
Edited by RYA N L AV E L L E
Collection of source material and crucial
interpretations, offering a comprehensive
guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.
The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had
momentous consequences for the development
of the English state following Alfred the Great’s
reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide,
with extracts in translation from the principal
sources for our knowledge, accompanied by
the most important interpretations by scholars
each with its own, new introduction by the editor,
it looks at every aspects of the topic, from land
and sea forces to logistics and campaigning,
from fortifications and the battlefield to the final
peacemaking.
£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2010
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Warfare in History
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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Revised and Enlarged Edition
G ale R . Owen- Cro c ker
An encyclopaedic study of English dress from
the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing
evidence from archaeology, text and art.
Hailed as a milestone in costume studies when it
first appeared, this book is an encyclopaedic study
of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh
centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology,
text and art (manuscripts, ivories, metalwork,
stone sculpture, mosaics), and also from re-
enactors’ experience. It examines archaeological
textiles, cloth production and the significance
of imported cloth and foreign fashions. Dress
is discussed as a marker of gender, ethnicity,
status and social role – in the context of a
pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of
clothing, commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and
much else – and surviving dress fasteners and
accessories are examined with regard to type and
to geographical/chronological distribution. There
are colour reconstructions of early Anglo-Saxon
dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the
Bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are
discussed, and there is a glossary of costume and
other relevant terms.
GALE OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-
Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.
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Records, Administration
and Aristocratic Society in
the Anglo-Norman Realm
Papers Commemorating the
800th Anniversary of King
John’s Loss of Normandy
Edited by N IC HOL AS V I NC E N T
The official records of England are the focus of
this volume – their origin, their use, and what
they reveal about the past.
The major theme of this volume is the records
of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they are
used separately and in combination to construct
the history of England and Normandy. The
essays cover all types of written source material,
including private charters and the official records
of the chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and
personal sources such as letters, while some 100
previously unpublished documents are included
in a series of appendices. There are studies
here of particular Anglo-Normans, including a
great aristocrat and a seneschal of Normandy;
of records relating to Normandy surviving in
England; of the Norman and English Exchequers,
between them the financial mainstay of the king/
dukes; of the controversial origins of the English
Chancery records; and of Rosamund Clifford, the
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas Vincent, David
Carpenter, David Crook, Mark Hagger, David
Crouch, Marie Lovatt, Daniel Power.
£60.00/$115.00(s) December 2009
978 1 84383 485 4
7 b/w illus.; 226pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540
Edited by SH E I L A S W E ET I N BU RG H
A comprehensive investigation into Kent in
the later middle ages, from its agriculture to
religious houses, from ship-building to the
parish church.
Kent was extremely important in the later middle
ages. Its location between London and continental
Europe; Thomas Becket’s internationally famous
shrine; its ancient Cinque Ports; and the early
development of new religious ideas all make its
history in this period particularly fascinating.
The essays collected here present the fruits of
new research into a wide range of topics, offering
insights into all the most important aspects of life
at the time. The volume opens with a major survey
of Kent’s economic history and development
during the period in question; subsequent
chapters consider agriculture; ship-building; the
Kentish nobility and their role in regional and
national politics; religious houses; heresy; magic;
and the parish church.
CONTRIBUTORS: Mavis Mate, Bruce Campbell,
Gillian Draper, Peter Fleming, David Grummitt,
Malcolm Mercer, Barry Dobson, Elizabeth Edwards,
Sheila Sweetinburgh, Robert Lutton, Karen Jones.
£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010
978 0 85115 584 5
6 b/w illus.; 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Kent History Project

Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-
Century England
S A M WOR B Y
First comprehensive survey of how kinship
rules were discussed and applied in medieval
England.
Two main legal jurisdictions held sway in
England over family relations during the high
middle ages: canon law and common law. In
thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe,
kinship rules dominated the lives of laymen and
laywomen. They determined whom they might
marry (decided in the canon law courts) and
they determined from whom they might inherit
(decided in the common law courts). This book
seeks to uncover the association between the two,
exploring the ways in which the two legal systems
shared ideas about family relationship, where
the one jurisdiction – the common law – was
concerned about ties of consanguinity and where
the other – canon law – was concerned to add to
the kinship mix of affinity. It also demonstrates
how the theories of kinship were practically
applied in the courtrooms of medieval England.
£50.00/$95.00(s) May 2010
978 0 86193 305 1
2 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Magna Carta and the
England of King John
Edited by JA N ET S . LOE NG A R D
New interpretations of the effect of Magna
Carta and other aspects of the reign of King
John.
Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations
between monarch and subject and as such has
long been central to English constitutional
and political history. This volume uses it as a
springboard to focus on social, economic, legal,
and religious institutions and attitudes in the
early thirteenth century. What was England like
in 1215? And, no less important, how was King
John perceived by those who actually knew him?
Essays here analyze earlier Angevin rulers, an
anonymous but contemporary account of John’s
court, baronial fear of the king, the ‘managerial
revolution’ of the English church, the burgeoning
economy, the influence of the ius commune on
English common law, issues concerning widows’
property, discontent over the royal forests, and
criminal prosecution before 1215. The volume
ends with the first critical edition of an open letter
from King John explaining his position in the
matter of William de Briouze.
CONTRIBUTORS: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V.
Turner, John Gillingham, David Crouch, David
Crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara
Hanawalt, James Masschaele.
£55.00/$105.00(s) June 2010
978 1 84383 548 6
192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales
Life, Death and Commemoration
Edited by ST EV E N G U N N
& L I N DA MONC K TON
The Tudor king who never was: Arthur’s life
and death newly examined.
Prince Arthur (1486-1502), son of Henry VII
and Elizabeth of York, was the great hope of early
Tudor England. Today he is largely forgotten,
remembered only as Henry VIII’s shadowy elder
brother, the first husband of Katherine of Aragon.
But in his lifetime Arthur counted for much more
than that. Arthur stood at the centre of his father’s
plans. His death brought a grand funeral and a
lasting monument, the chantry chapel covered
in Tudor badges that still stands in Worcester
Cathedral. These richly illustrated essays, by
historians, art historians and archaeologists,
investigate Arthur’s life and posthumous
commemoration from every angle.
CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Gunn, Ian Arthurson,
Frederick Hepburn, John Morgan-Guy, Ralph
Houlbrooke, Mark Duffy, Chris Guy, John Hunter,
Linda Monckton, Phillip Lindley, Julian Litten.
£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2009
978 1 84383 480 9
10 colour, 60 b/w illus.; 214pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB
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Parliament and Political
Pamphleteering in Fourteenth-
Century England
C L E M E N T I N E OL I V E R
First full examination of the phenomenon of
the medieval political pamphlet.
Some sixty years before the advent of the
printing press, the first political pamphlets about
parliament circulated in the city of London.
Often vitriolic and satirical, these handwritten
pamphlets reported on a trilogy of parliamentary
victories against the crown known as the Good,
the Wonderful, and the Merciless Parliaments.
The first pamphlets point to the existence of a
market of readers hungry for news of parliament
as well as to the emergence of public opinion as a
political force. This book reconstructs the lives of
the political pamphleteers as well as the political
landscape of late fourteenth-century England,
giving particular emphasis to the large group of
bureaucrats living in London to which Geoffrey
Chaucer belonged.
Dr CLEMENTINE OLIVER is Associate Professor of
History at California State University.
£60.00/$115.00(s) August 2010
978 1 90315 331 4
2 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
York Medieval Press
Petitions to the Crown
from English Religious
Houses, c.1272-c.1485
Edited by G W I LYM D ODD
& A L I S ON K . M c HA R DY
Petitions are vital sources for our knowledge
of life in the middle ages. A selection is
presented here with English summaries, notes,
and introduction.
Through the petitions which they addressed to the
crown the people of medieval England speak to
us directly: the human interest stories they reveal
are perhaps the nearest thing to local newspapers
which the middle ages have left us. Petitions were
the subject’s last resort when normal channels of
law and government had failed, and offered kings
the opportunity to exercise qualities of generosity,
compassion, and sound judgment. However,
despite their importance, they have not hitherto
been recognized as a source for ecclesiastical
history, a gap which this volume rectifies. A
selection of over 200 cases shows the religious of
medieval England taking full advantage of this
mechanism, petitioning as landowners, neighbours,
citizens, individuals, and religious orders. The
subjects covered range from requests for tax
rebates, and complaints about royal officials, to
disputes with tenants, with townsmen, monastic
rivals, and ecclesiastical superiors. National politics
and international warfare are also represented, as
are coastal erosion, and higher education. English
summaries, explanatory notes and an extensive
introduction enhance the reader’s appreciation of
this rich and remarkable resource.
£25.00$/47.95(s) August 2010
978 0 90723 972 7
360pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Canterbury & York Society
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M E D I E VA L H ISTORY
The Cultural and Political
Legacy of Anne de Bretagne
Negotiating Convention in
Books and Documents
Edited by C Y N T H IA J. BROW N
A queen who helped define the cultural
landscape of her era.
As duchess of Brittany (1491-1514) and twice
queen of France (1491-98; 1498-1514), Anne de
Bretagne set a benchmark by which to measure
the status of female authority in Europe at the
dawn of the Renaissance. Although at times a
traditional political pawn, when men who ruled
her life were involved in reshaping European
alliances, Anne was directly or indirectly involved
with the principal political and religious European
leaders of her time and helped define the cultural
landscape of her era. Taking a variety of cross-
disciplinary perspectives, these ten essays by art
historians, literary specialists, historians, and
political scientists contribute to the ongoing
discussion of Anne de Bretagne and also offer
insight into related areas of intellectual interest –
patronage, the history of the book, the power and
definition of queenship and the interpretation of
politico-cultural documents and court spectacles
– thereby confirming the extensive nature of
Anne’s legacy.
CYNTHIA J. BROWN is Professor of French at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
£55.00/$105.00(s) May 2010
978 1 84384 223 1
19 b/w illus.; 228pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Gallica
AVA I L A B L E AG A I N
Pilgrim Souvenirs and
Secular Badges
BR IA N SPE NC E R
This is the first major catalogue in English
devoted to medieval badges.
Medieval badges provide us with a guide to
the popularity of different cults and pilgrim
centres, supplying evidence of the sometimes
arduous journeys not only to famous and far-off
sanctuaries like Compostela, but also to native
shrines. The secular badges include a wealth
of non-religious imagery, playful and amatory,
satirical, celebratory and heraldic. Illustrating
nearly 800 items of popular medieval jewellery,
the catalogue contained within the book describes
previously unpublished finds retrieved from
datable archaeological London waterfront
deposits, and provides the basis of a chronological
framework for future excavations.
BRIAN SPENCER was the Senior Keeper at the
Museum of London.
£30.00/$60.00 March 2010
978 1 84383 544 8
332 b/w illus.; 362pp, 24.4 x 18, HB
Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
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P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
A History of the Early and
Late Medieval Siege
Two Volume Set
PET E R P U RTON
A magisterial survey of the siege in the
middle ages.
Sieges were the predominant form of warfare
across the medieval world and siege methods and
technology developed alongside improvements
in defence. This book goes back to the original
sources to present a comprehensive view of the
whole subject, tracing links across continents
and analysing the relationship with changes
in the design of town and castle defences, and
linking contemporary historical accounts with
archaeological studies. It considers the most
important questions raised by siege warfare: who
designed, built and operated siege equipment? How
did medieval commanders gain their knowledge?
What were the roles of theoretical texts and the
developing science of siege warfare? How did
nomadic peoples acquire siege skills? Were castles
and town walls built purely of a military purpose,
or did they play a symbolic role also?
The first volume begins in 450 AD with the
replacement of the western Roman empire by
barbarian successor states, but also examines
the development of the Byzantine Empire, the
Muslim Caliphate and its successors, and the
links with China, through to the early thirteenth
century. The second continues with the Mongol
conquests in Asia and Europe and the thirteenth-
century apogee of pre-gunpowder siege warfare,
before examining the slow impact of guns and
the cumulatively massive changes in attack and
defence of the fifteenth century.
£100.00/$195.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84383 450 2
64 b/w illus.; 1024pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
A lso available SE PA R AT E LY
A History of the Early
Medieval Siege, c.450-1200
PETER PURTON
£60.00/$115.00(s) March 2010
978 1 84383 448 9
32 b/w illus.; 566pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
A History of the Late Medieval
Siege, 1200-1500
PETER PURTON
£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84383 449 6
32 b/w illus.; 528pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
A Companion to Bede
G E ORG E HA R DI N BROW N
A full and accessibly-written survey of Bede
and his works, including a chapter on his
legacy for subsequent history.
The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for
Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important,
known character from the period. A scholar of
international standing from an early period of
the Anglo-Saxon church (c.672-732), he was the
author not only of the well-known Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, but also of scriptural
commentaries, hagiographies, scientific works,
admonitory letters, and poetry. This book provides
an informative, comprehensive, and up-to-date
guide to Bede and his writings, underlining in
particular his importance in the development of
European history and culture. It places Bede in his
contemporary Northumbria and early Anglo-
Saxon England, dedicates individual chapters to his
works, and includes a chapter on Bede’s legacy for
subsequent history.
GEORGE HARDIN BROWN is Professor of English
emeritus, Stanford University.
£45.00/$90.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84383 476 2
180pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Saxon Studies
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Bede’s Historiae
Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction
of the Anglo-Saxon Church History
V IC K Y G U N N
A reappraisal of Bede’s writings, focusing on
his use of genre and rhetoric.
The church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only
be approached through the lens of a few writers,
arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works
illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape
of ecclesial development from conversion to
established Christian church amongst the Anglo-
Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas
– monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her
reappraisal of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Lives
of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and
Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the
audience for these texts, the author draws out the
role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric
in the crafting of his work. She also explores the
underlying political influences that caused Bede
to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes
the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially
through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy
and the power of the cultural capital afforded
by this within the relatively newly constituted
Christian community in Northumbria.
Dr VICKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and
Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow.
£50.00/$95.00(s) June 2009
978 1 84383 465 6
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Daughters of Artemis
The Huntress in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance
R IC HA R D A L MON D
Evidence from manuscripts, tapestries,
paintings and written documents shows the
female huntress in action.
Hunting for sport, food and raw materials was a
universal activity in the Middle Ages. However,
the medieval hunting manuals and treatises
written by male authors, as well as narratives and
romances, present hunting as the exclusive leisure
prerogative of gently-born educated men. The
presence and various roles of women are ignored,
as is any involvement of the commons.
Here, using evidence drawn from both
contemporary documents and images, particularly
from illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, paintings,
carvings, engravings and prints, the author shows
clearly that women from all ranks of society were
actively engaged in hunting in a wider sense, from
aristocratic ladies pursuing deer on horseback
with hounds and shooting driven game, to peasant
women netting birds, ferreting conies, poaching
and distributing venison. Beautifully illustrated,
this revealing study of a previously unexplored
aspect of women’s roles is an invaluable addition to
our understanding of the dynamics of the medieval
community.
£45.00/$90.00(s) September 2009
978 1 84384 202 6
30 colour, 12 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
The Maps of Matthew Paris
Medieval Journeys through
Space, Time and Liturgy
DA N I E L K . C ON NOL LY
An examination of the intricate cartography
of Matthew Paris, and the meanings of the
maps themselves.
The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist,
and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway
into the thirteenth-century world. This new
study of his cartography emphasises the striking
innovations he brought to it, and shows how
his maps were designed to present imagined
pilgrimages; the author argues that travelling
through geography could enact its meanings in a
dynamic, religious, even devotional performance
of the maps’ materials. Richly illustrated with
black and white and colour plates.
£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009
978 1 84383 478 6
10 colour, 48 b/w illus.; 278pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB
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P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
The Temple Church in London
History, Art and Architecture
Edited by DAV I D PA R K &
ROBI N G R I F F I T H - JON E S
First full-length survey of the Temple Church,
from its foundation in the twelfth century to
the Second World War.
Built as the main church of the Knights Templar
in England, at their New Temple in London, the
Temple Church is historically and architecturally
one of the most important medieval buildings
in England. Its round nave, modelled on the
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily
ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque
sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic
architectural features in any English building of
its period. It also holds one of the most famous
series of medieval effigies in the country. Despite
its extraordinary importance, however, it has until
now attracted little scholarly or critical attention, a
gap which is remedied by this volume. It considers
the New Temple as a whole in the middle ages,
and all aspects of the church itself from its
foundations in the twelfth century to its war-time
damage in the twentieth.
CONTRIBUTORS: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia
Jansen, Philip Lankester, Helen Nicholson,
David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William Whyte,
Christopher Wilson.
£55.00/$105.00(s) October 2010
978 1 84383 498 4
20 colour, 150 b/w illus.; 376pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
The Eton College Chapel
Wall Paintings
England’s Forgotten
Medieval Masterpieces
RO G E R RO SEW E L L
An engaging and authoritative study that
brings to life one of medieval England’s
forgotten masterpieces.
The late fifteenth century wall paintings in Eton
College Chapel are the finest surviving examples
of medieval wall paintings in northern Europe.
In the first full length study of these magnificent
paintings, Roger Rosewell sheds new light on
these overlooked masterpieces of medieval art
and describes the human stories behind them.
Fully chronicling their loss and subsequent re-
discovery, this volume is lavishly illustrated with
over 150 stunning photographs.
ROGER ROSEWELL was educated at St Edmund
Hall, Oxford University. His other published works
include Medieval Wall Paintings (Boydell 2008).
£40.00/$80.00 March 2011
978 1 84383 418 2
150 colour, 5 b/w illus.; 264pp, 24 x 17.2, HB
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Building Accounts of All
Souls College, 1438-1443
Edited by SI MON WA L K E R
with J U L IA N M U N B Y
Edition, with full explanatory material,
of the documents concerning the building
of All Souls, Oxford: a vital source for our
knowledge of the period.
The accounts covering the construction of
All Souls, Oxford, in the five years from its
foundation in 1438 are among the most important
documentary sources for English medieval
building history, and provide an almost unique
record of the physical creation of an Oxford
college. They are here published in full for the first
time, with commentary and analysis by the late
Simon Walker. Supplementary material includes
plans and documentation of the site, a description
of the buildings, and an inventory of the college
rooms in the sixteenth century.
£35.00/$70.00(s) August 2010
978 0 90410 723 4
4 b/w illus.; 272pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB
Oxford Historical Society New Series
Oxford Historical Society
Jocelin of Wells
Bishop, Builder, Courtier
Edited by ROBE RT DU N N I NG
The life and career of Jocelin of Wells
examined, with a particular emphasis on his
role in the reconstruction of the Cathedral
and Bishop’s Palace.
Jocelin, bishop of Wells is an iconic figure in
his native city; but his career as courtier and
statesman moved far beyond the west country.
From a family network which had produced
bishops over several generations, he played a
major role in a developing diocese and mother
church, and in the growth of towns, fairs and
markets in early eleventh-century Somerset. He
had a crucial influence on the completion of what
was to become Wells Cathedral and in the Bishop’s
Palace beside it.
The essays in this volume look at Jocelin’s life
and career from a variety of perspectives, with
a particular focus on his involvement with and
instigation of the rebuilding of the Cathedral
and Palace. Architectural, archaeological and
even botanical approaches are used to explain
the curious physical nature of the Palace site,
the significance of the work still standing there
from Jocelin’s time, and the possible sites of other
contemporary work. A final chapter studies the
design and purpose of Robert Burnell’s additions.
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Dunning, Nicholas
Vincent, Jane Sayers, Diana Greenway, Sethina
Watson, Tim Tatton-Brown, Jerry Sampson, Alex
Turner, Christopher Gerrard, Keith Wilkinson,
Mark Horton, David J. Hill, Matthew Reeve.
£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84383 556 1
22 colour, 26 b/w illus.; 208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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H E R A L D RY A ND HISTORY OF RELI GION
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Heraldic Badges in England
and Wales (four volume set)
M IC HA E L P OW E L L SI DD ON S
First comprehensive study of heraldic badges,
from their initial use in the fourteenth century
to their decline in the early seventeenth.
Heraldic badges occur in a wide variety of contexts.
However, despite their importance, and although
many illustrations and descriptions survive from
the late fifteenth century onwards, they have
usually been treated as an incidental part of
heraldry. This monumental work therefore fills a
serious gap in the literature of heraldry, providing
a comprehensive overview of the subject from the
fourteenth to the seventeenth century. The first
volume discusses the nature and use of heraldic
badges, and our sources of information, while
the second is a dictionary of heraldic badges,
divided into two separate parts covering royal and
non-royal badges. This is followed by ordinaries
of heraldic badges and livery colours in the third
volume. There are also extracts from unpublished
records, a bibliography and full indexes.
Published for the Society of Antiquaries
£350.00/$695.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84383 493 9
17 colour, 47 b/w illus.; 1320pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
The Herald in Late
Medieval Europe
Edited by KAT I E ST EV E N S ON
First full-length assessment of the role of the
herald in medieval Europe.
The officers of arms (kings of arms, heralds and
pursuivants) have often been overlooked by
scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers
of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they
played important parts in a number of areas. They
were crucial to foreign and domestic relations,
and chivalric culture; and, of course, they were
to become the powerbrokers of heraldic symbols
and genealogy. However, despite the high levels
at which they operated, their roles in these areas
remain largely unexplored, with scholarship
tending to focus on the science of heraldry rather
than the heralds themselves. This collection aims
to remedy that neglect. The contributions cover a
range of European regions (particularly Florence,
Scandinavia, Poland, the German Empire, the
Burgundian Low Countries, Brittany, Scotland
and England) and discuss the diverse roles and
experiences of heralds in the late Middle Ages.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jackson W. Armstrong, Adrian
Ailes, Katie Stevenson, Michael Jones, Franck
Viltart, Henri Simmoneau, Wim van Anrooij,
Bogdan Wojciech Brzustowicz, Alexia Grosjean,
Laura Cirri.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84383 482 3
4 colour, 12 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Anchoritic Traditions
of Medieval Europe
Edited by L I Z H E R BE RT M c AVOY
An examination of the growth and different
varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval
Europe.
Within this reclusive vocation, the anchorite would
withdraw, either alone or with others like her or
him, to a small cell or building, very frequently
attached to a church or other religious institution,
where she or he would – theoretically at least –
remain locked up until death. In the later period it
was a vocation which was particularly associated
with pious laywomen who appear to have opted
for this extreme way of life in their thousands
throughout western Europe.
This volume brings together for the first time in
English much of the most important European
scholarship on the subject to date. Tracing the
vocation’s origins from the Egyptian deserts of
early Christian activity through to its multiple
expressions in western Europe, it also identifies
some of those regions – Wales and Scotland, for
example – where the phenomenon does not appear
to have been as widespread.
CONTRIBUTORS: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker,
Gabriela Signori, M. Sensi, G. Cavero Dominguez,
P. L’Hermite-Leclercq, Mari Hughes-Edwards,
Colman O Clabaigh, Anna McHugh, Liz Herbert
McAvoy.
£50.00/$95.00(s) January 2010
978 1 84383 520 2
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Texts and Traditions of
Medieval Pastoral Care
Essays in Honour of Bella Millett
Edited by C AT E G U N N &
C AT H E R IN E I N N E S - PA R K E R
New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and
devotional literature in medieval England.
Pastoral and devotional literature flourished
throughout the middle ages, and its growth and
transmutations form the focus of this collection.
Ranging historically from the difficulties of
localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts to the
reading of women in late-medieval England, the
individual essays survey its development and its
transformation into the literature of vernacular
spirituality. They offer both close examinations of
particular manuscripts, and of individual texts,
including an anonymous Speculum iuniroum, the
Speculum religiosorum of Edmund of Abingdon
and later vernacular compositions and translations,
such as Handlyng Synne and Bonaventure’s Lignum
Vitae. The reading and devotional use of texts by
women and solitaries is also considered.
CONTRIBUTORS: Alexandra Barratt, Mishtooni
Bose, Joseph Goering, Brian Golding, C. Annette
Grise, Cate Gunn, Ralph Hanna, Bob Hasenfratz,
Catherine Innes-Parker, E. A. Jones, Derek
Pearsall, Elaine Treharne, Nicholas Watson,
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 90315 329 1
1 b/w illus.; 242pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
York Medieval Press
The Cult of Saints and
the Virgin Mary in
Medieval Scotland
Edited by ST EV E B OA R DM A N
& E I L A W I L L IA M S ON
A new investigation of the saints’ cults which
flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully
combining archaeological, historical, and
literary perspectives.
This volume offers studies of saints’ cults in
Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period
to the sixteenth century, and combining major
overviews with exploration of different topics
from different disciplines – archaeology, literature,
and history, especially political. There is a strong
focus on the development of particular cults,
using them to discuss wider issues such as the
tension between ‘popular’ sanctity and official
canonisation processes in medieval Europe,
and the difficulty of establishing the validity
of geographical patterns in the distribution of
dedications to individual saints. The volume also
includes two major overview articles, surveying
the general trends in modern scholarship on, and
the investigation of, saints’ cults.
CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Birkett, Steve Boardman,
Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, David
Ditchburn, Audrey-Beth Fitch, Mark A. Hall,
Matthew H. Hammond, Sim Innes, Alan
Macquarrie.
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978 1 84383 562 2
6 b/w illus.; 200pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Celtic History
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Pain and Suffering in
Medieval Theology
Academic Debates at the University
of Paris in the Thirteenth Century
D ONA L D MOW BR AY
Examines the works of Paris theologians to
show how they dealt with the questions of
human pain and suffering.
Questions of pain and suffering occur frequently
in medieval theological debate. Here, Dr Mowbray
examines the innovative views of Paris’s masters
of theology in the thirteenth century, illuminating
how they constructed notions of pain and
suffering by building a standard terminology and
conceptual framework. Such issues as the Passion
of Christ, penitential suffering, suffering and
gender, the fate of unbaptized children, and the
pain and suffering of souls and resurrected bodies
in hell are all considered, to demonstrate how the
masters established a clear and precise consensus
for their explanations of the human condition.
DONALD MOWBRAY gained his PhD from the
University of Bristol.
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978 1 84383 461 8
204pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Syon Abbey and its Books
Reading, Writing and
Religion, c.1400-1700
Edited by E . A . JON E S &
A L E X A N DR A WA L SHA M
Essays on the turbulent history of Syon
Abbey, focussing on the role played by
reading and writing in constructing its
identity and experience.
This volume of essays traces the fortunes of Syon
Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400
and 1700, examining the various ways in which
reading and writing shaped its identity and defined
its experience, and exploring the interconnections
between late medieval and post-Reformation
monastic history and the rapidly evolving world
of communication, learning, and books. They
extend our understanding of religious culture and
institutions on the eve of the Reformation and the
impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern
Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of
literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from
manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the
seventeenth centuries.
CONTRIBUTORS: E. A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham,
Peter Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent
Gillespie, C. Annette Grise, Claire Walker,
Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison.
£50.00/$95.00(s) June 2010
978 1 84383 547 9
9 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Modern British Religious History
Women and Religion in
Late Medieval Norwich
C A ROL E H I L L
A vivid account of the nature and significance
of intense female spirituality in one of
England’s greatest medieval cities.
Drawing on uniquely rich and varied sources, the
book demonstrates, far more fully and effectively
than studies for other cities have been able to
do, how links with continental Europe enriched
female life. Norwich’s successful status as an
international depot became the vehicle for the
transmission of various cults, artistic expression
and books related to continental female
mysticism. Norwich women’s special attraction
to aspects of incarnational piety is demonstrated
by their devotion to the Body of Christ and to his
earthly family, exemplified by the popular cults
of St Anne and her daughter, the Virgin Mary.
The wealth of fifteenth-century literature, much
of local provenance, which survives highlights
both this and other religious preoccupations of
Norwich women. Among them are, of course,
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
CAROLE HILL gained her PhD from the University
of East Anglia.
£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010
978 0 86193 304 4
20 colour illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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The Lost Cartulary
of Bolton Priory
An Edition of the Coucher
Book and Charters
Edited by KAT R I NA J. L E G G
Key documents relating to Bolton Priory shed
light on the priory’s affairs in the fourteenth
century.
The house of regular canons of the order of St
Augustine, originally founded at Embsay in 1120-
21, was refounded at Bolton within forty years. By
the early fourteenth century the estate was largely
complete, and it was at this point that the ‘lost’
cartulary was created – roughly contemporary
with its Compotus. Both documents recorded
essential administrative detail, and documented
legal claims on property.
The main evidence for the cartulary derives from
the Coucher Book, held at Chatsworth, which
is a partial copy with some additional material;
and an incomplete transcript made by Roger
Dodsworth in the seventeeth century. Also
drawn on for this edition are other documents
which shed light on the lost cartulary and on the
priory: extra transcripts relating to the priory
made by Dodsworth, and numerous surviving
original charters.
A companion volume to the Bolton Priory
Compotus, published in 2000, this book brings
together the texts of the existing documents – the
Coucher Book, a transcription of the now-lost
chartulary, and surviving original charters –
in a comprehensive and accessible form. The
introduction discusses the Order of St Augustine
and religious life at the priory, its foundation and
connection with Huntingdon priory, and the
records the book presents.
£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009
978 1 90356 416 5
370pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series
Yorkshire Archaeological Society
HISTORY OF RELIGION
Wills of the Archdeaconry
of Sudbury, 1439-1474
Wills from the Register
‘Baldwyne’ II: 1461-1474
Edited by PET E R NORT H E AST &
H E AT H E R FA LV EY
Abstracts of wills made by residents of
fifteenth-century Suffolk provide a wealth of
information on life at the time.
The making and registering of wills by ordinary
people became widespread in East Anglia a century
earlier than parts of midland and western England.
It was a rural society bustling with small farmers,
craftsmen involved in the cloth industry, and other
artisans and traders. The wills record their concern
for religion, the local community and the future
welfare of wives, children, godchildren and even
servants. They provide fascinating details of the
social conditions of the time, including familial and
neighbourly relationships, housing and household
possessions, landholding and farming patterns,
trades and crafts, and provision for the poor.
And, typically for late-medieval wills, they offer
particularly rich details of religious practices, not
only concerning devotions in, and the adornment of,
parish churches, but also the activities of parish gilds.
This volume contains abstracts, in English, of
more than 770 wills made between 1471 and
1474, made by residents of the parishes of
western Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire that
comprised the archdeaconry of Sudbury. There
are also some 50 probate sentences, together with
‘probate sentences’, which provide details of the
granting of probate, without the associated wills.
The introduction outlines the probate system at
the time and examines the form and content of a
medieval will; the volume is completed with full
notes and an extensive glossary.
£35.00/$70.00(s) June 2010
978 1 84383 532 5
5 b/w illus.; 620pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Suffolk Records Society
Ely: Bishops and
Diocese, 1109-2009
Edited by PET E R M E A D OWS
Essays on the diocese of Ely and its bishops.
Though Ely was one of the smallest dioceses until the
nineteenth century, it was one of the wealthiest, and
in every century there were notable appointments
to the bishopric. Few of the bishops were promoted
elsewhere; for most it was the culmination of their
career, and many had made significant contributions,
both to national life and to scholarship, before their
preferment to Ely. In essays each spanning about
a century, experts in the field explore the lives and
careers of its bishops, and their families and social
contacts, examine the development of the diocese in
that time, and set all this in the national context of
church and state. Other chapters consider such areas
as the estates, the residences, the works of art and the
library and archives.
£29.95/$55.00(s) September 2010
978 1 84383 540 0
16 colour, 32 b/w illus.; 384pp, 24.5 x 18.9, HB
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H I S TO RY O F RELIGION AND LOCAL HISTORY

The Reformation and N EW I N PA P E R BAC K The Victoria History of the

Robert Barnes County of Gloucester
History, Theology and Polemic Publications of the Henry Volume XII: Newent and May Hill
in Early Modern England Bradshaw Society Edited by A . R . J. J U R IC A
KOR EY D. M A AS Missale Gothicum I
Edited by HENRY MARRIOT T BANNISTER
Describes the area’s varied agrarian history
The first extensive examination of Robert £50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
and industrial activity.
Barnes, his career, misconstrued theology and 978 1 90749 721 6 This volume of the county history covers the part
wide-ranging influence beyond England. 6 b/w illus.; 225pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB of north-west Gloucestershire extending from
By the time of his death at the stake in 1540, Missale Gothicum II the foothills of the Malverns in the north to the
Robert Barnes was recognized as one of the most (Notes and Indices) distinctive feature of May Hill in the south. Centred
influential evangelical reformers in Henrician £50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 on the parish and former market town of Newent,
England. He enjoyed the patronage of King, 978 1 90749 723 0 it also covers the ancient parishes of Bromesberrow,
Archbishop, and Vicegerent at home, and the 130pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB Dymock, Huntley, Kempley, Longhope, Oxenhall,
praise of evangelical princes and theologians The Bobbio Missal Pauntley, Preston, and Taynton.
abroad. He wrote what would be the closest (Facsimile) £90.00/$170.00(s) May 2010
the Henrician reformers came to a systematic Edited by E L IAS AV E RY LOW E 978 1 90435 636 3
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978 1 90749 722 3 Victoria County History
the papacy. Then his dramatic, and not entirely
300pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
explicable, execution quickly ensured his lasting
place in the century’s popular propaganda. Ordinale Exon Volume I R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
In this first extensive examination of Robert Edited by JOH N N E A L E DA LTON
Barnes and his reformation significance the author
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978 1 90749 714 8
The Victoria History of the
provides a comprehensive survey of the reformer’s 422pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB County of Middlesex
stormy career, a clear and convincing analysis of
Ordinale Exon Volume II Volume XIII, Part 1: The City of
his often misconstrued theology, and a persuasive
argument that the influence of Barnes and his novel
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010 Westminster: Landownership
978 1 90749 715 5
polemical programme extended not only into the 8 b/w illus.; 196pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB and Religious History
century following his death, but was as prominent Ordinale Exon Volume III Edited by PAT R IC IA C RO OT
on the continent as it was in his native England. Appendix III. Legenda Oxon
KOREY MAAS is Associate Professor of Church
Authoritative, comprehensive history of the
Edited by John N eale Dalton City of Westminster.
History, Concordia University, Irvine, California. £50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
The City of Westminster is the seat of the monarchy
£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010 978 1 90749 732 2
488pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB and government of Great Britain and the centre of
978 1 84383 534 9
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB many aspects of British economic and cultural life,
The Colbertine Breviary Volume I
Studies in Modern British Religious History yet to date there has been no comprehensive history
Edited by T HOM AS ROBE RT G A M BI E R- PA R RY
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
of the city. It is this gap which this volume will fill.
978 1 90749 719 3 £95.00/$180.00(s) December 2009
358pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB 978 1 90435 622 6
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D 272pp, 30.5 x 20.8, HB
The Colbertine Breviary Volume II Victoria County History
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World 978 1 90749 720 9
326pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
Edited by Steve B oardman,
John R euben Davies &   The Hereford Breviary Volume I
E ila W illiamson
Edited by WA LT E R HOWA R D F R E R E & The Victoria History of
L A NG TON E . G . BROW N
the County of Cornwall
Saints’ cults flourished in the medieval world, £55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010
and the phenomenon is examined here in a 978 1 90749 707 0 Volume II: Religious History to 1559
488pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
series of studies. Edited by N IC HOL AS OR M E
The way in which saints’ cults operated across and The Hereford Breviary Volume II
£55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010
First survey of the religious history of
beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries Cornwall, from the county’s Romano-British
978 1 90749 716 2
in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from 464pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB origins to the sixteenth century.
the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject This volume covers the development of Christianity
of this book. In a series of case studies, the The Hereford Breviary Volume III
£55.00/$105.00(s) March 2010 in the county from its Romano-British origins up
contributions highlight the factors that allowed 978 1 90749 717 9 to the Elizabethan Church Settlement of 1559,
particular cults to prosper in, or that made them 336pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB providing the first ever in-depth study of the
relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. Many of county’s religious history during the Middle Ages
The Second Recension of the
the articles also touch on the development of pan- and the Reformation. The story it tells is full of
Quignon Breviary Volume I
European devotions. interest, covering the uniquely numerous local
(Text)
CONTRIBUTORS: James E. Fraser, Thomas Edited by JOH N W IC K HA M L E G G saints and founders, their legends and the parish
Owen Clancy, Fiona Edmonds, John Reuben £55.00/$105.00(s) April 2010 churches, chapels, holy wells and religious sites
Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally Crumplin, Joanna 978 1 90749 713 1 associated with them.
Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, 466pp, 21.6 x 13.8, PB
£90.00/$170.00(s) July 2010
Jonathan Wooding. The Second Recension of the 978 1 90435 612 7
£50.00/$95.00(s) February 2009 Quignon Breviary Volume II 97 colour, 196 b/w illus.; 336pp, 24.5 x 18.9, HB
978 1 84383 432 8 (Appendices, Notes, Indices) Victoria County History
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Studies in Celtic History 978 1 90749 718 6
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Anglo-Norman Studies 32
Proceedings of the Battle
Conference 2009
Edited by C . P. L EW I S
This volume opens with the R. Allen Brown
Memorial Lecture for 2009, a wide-ranging
reflection by the distinguished French historian
Dominique Barthélemy on the Peace of God and
the role of bishops in the long eleventh century.
Economic history is prominent in papers on
the urban transformation in England between
900 and 1100, on the roots of the royal forest in
England, and on trade links between England
and Lower Normandy. Social history is treated
in papers dealing with the upbringing of the
children of the Angevin counts and with the
developing ideas of knighthood and chivalry in
the works of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and Benoît of
Sainte-Maure. Finally, political ideas are examined
through careful reading of texts in papers on
writing the rebellion of Earl Waltheof in the
twelfth century and on the use of royal titles and
prayers for the king in Anglo-Norman charters.
CONTRIBUTORS: Dominique Barthélemy,
Kathryn Dutton, Leonie Hicks, Richard Holt,
Joanna Huntington, Laurence Jean-Marie, Dolly
Jorgensen, Max Lieberman, Stephen Marritt,
Pamela Taylor.
£45.00/$90.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84383 563 9
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Norman Studies
Fifteenth-Century Studies 35
Edited by M AT T H EW Z. H E I N T Z E L M A N ,
BA R BA R A I . G U SIC K &  
M A RT I N W. WA L SH
Annual volume of essays treating topics
ranging from physical impairment to
narrative afterlife and time.
Volume 35 addresses topics including physical
impairments as depicted in surgical handbooks
printed in Germany and as reflected through
eyeglasses for the blind; literary constructions
of women in de Meun’s Cité des Dames and in
hagiographic legends of Spain; the evolution of the
Order of the Garter as dramatized in Shakespeare;
serious elements in French farces; the festival
context of Villon’s Pet-au-Deable; Boethius in the
late Middle Ages; A Revelation of Purgatory and
Chaucer’s Prioress; Piers Plowman in one British
Library manuscript; and narrative afterlife and
time in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid. Book
reviews conclude the volume.
CONTRIBUTORS: Milagros Alameda-Irizarry,
Chiara Benati, Edelgard E. DuBruck, Rosanne
Gasse, Chelsea Honeyman, Noel Harold Kaylor Jr.,
James N. Ortego II, E. L. Risden, Julie Singer, Geri
L. Smith, Martin W. Walsh.
£40.00/$75.00(s) March 2010
978 1 57113 426 4
194pp, 9 x 6 in, HB
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COLLECTIONS AND MEDIEVALISM
new series
Medievalism
Series editors:  
CHRIS JONES & KARL FUGELSO
‘Medievalism’, a burgeoning and highly-
dynamic multi-disciplinary field of study, is
inspired by the influence and appearance of
‘the medieval’ in the society and culture of
later ages. It sets out to investigate the post-
medieval construction and manifestations
of the Middle Ages – attitudes towards,
and uses and meanings of ‘the medieval’
– in all fields of culture, from politics and
international relations, literature, history,
architecture, and ceremonial ritual to film
and the visual arts. Studies will range from
historiographical subjects to revivalism, with
the emphasis always firmly on what the idea
of ‘the medieval’ has variously meant and
continues to mean.
Anglo-Saxon Culture and
the Modern Imagination
Edited by David Clark
& N ic holas Perkins
An examination of manifestations of the
Anglo-Saxon world in a variety of media.
The productive interplay between early medieval
and modern cultures, and in particular how the
Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been
received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the
modern imagination, are the issues discussed in
this volume. Its fourteen chapters range widely
across the twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, dealing with the works of authors
such as Ezra Pound, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey
Hill, and J. R. R. Tolkien, and there is a special
focus on Beowulf ’s reincarnations in grand
opera, detective fiction, comics, and film.
CONTRIBUTORS: Bernard O’Donoghue, Chris
Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna
Johnson, Clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, Catherine
A. M. Clarke, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Allen J.
Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J. Crawforth,
Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr.
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978 1 84384 251 4
6 colour, 11 b/w illus.; 292pp, 23.4x 15.60, HB
Fourteenth Century England VI
Edited by C H R I S G I V E N - W I L S ON
Several of these original articles touch in one way
or another upon the subject of warfare, but the
approaches which they adopt are significantly
different. Literary texts such as Barbour’s Bruce are
also discussed, and a re-evaluation of one particular
set of records indicates that, in this case at least, the
impact of the Black Death of 1348-9 may have been
even more devastating than is usually thought.
CONTRIBUTORS: Susan Foran, Penny Lawne, Paula
Arthur, Graham E. St John, Diana Tyson, David
Green, Jessica Lutkin, Rory Cox, Adrian R. Bell.
£60.00/$115.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84383 530 1
176pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Fourteenth Century England
Studies in Medievalism XIX
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Edited by KA R L F U G E L S O
An engagement with the huge growth in
neomedievalism forms the core of this volume,
with other essays testing its conclusions.
The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007
International Conference on Medievalism, in
ever more sessions at the annual International
Congress on Medieval Studies, and by many
recent or forthcoming publications has left little
doubt of the importance of this new, provocative
area of study. The volume begins with essays
defining neomedievalism in relationship to
medievalism. Their positions are then tested by
five articles, whose subjects range from modern
American manifestations of Byzantine art, to the
Vietnam War.
CONTRIBUTORS: Amy S. Kaufman, Brent
Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Lesley Coote, Cory
Lowell Grewell, M. J. Toswell, E. L. Risden, Lauryn
S. Mayer, Glenn Peers, Tison Pugh, David W.
Marshall, Richard H. Osberg, Richard Utz.
£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84384 228 6
14 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Medievalism
Studies in Medievalism XVIII
Defining Medievalism(s) II
Edited by KA R L F U G E L S O
Articles which survey and map out the
increasingly significant discipline of
medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects.
The first section determines precisely how to
characterize the subjects of study, their relationship
to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism,
and their relevance to the middle ages, whose
definition is itself a matter of debate. Their
observations and conclusions are then tested in
the articles second part of the book. Their topics
include the notion of progress over the last eighty
or ninety years in our perception of the middle
ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré’s engravings
of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter
Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films; cinematic
representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval
courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson’s The
Passion and The Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in
twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the
Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques
de Voragine’s Golden Legend.
CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell, Aida Audeh,
Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari,
Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas
Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E. L.
Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons,
Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84384 210 1
10 b/w illus.; 306pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Medievalism
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C O L L E C T I O NS AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Medieval Clothing
and Textiles 6
Edited by ROBI N N ET H E RTON
& G A L 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.
This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and
Textiles presents two groundbreaking articles in
novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an
introduction to a previously unexamined class of
embroidery, and an English-language overview of
scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. It
also contains two very different listings of clothing
items from medieval Germany: an invented
lexicon by the mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, and
an accounting of specific real garments worn
by ordinary people and donated to finance the
building of Strasbourg Cathedral. Papers also
consider the mercantile world of clothing in
medieval London. Other articles consider luxurious
dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual
significance, and analyse a French manual for
English housewives, illuminating the often-
overlooked topic of home linen production.
CONTRIBUTORS: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne,
Valerie L. Garver, Christine Sciacca, Sarah L.
Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate
Kelsey Staples, Charlotte A. Stanford.
£30.00/$60.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84383 537 0
4 colour, 33 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
N EW SE R I E S
The Troyes Mémoire
The Production of a Medieval
Choir Tapestry
Translated by T I NA KA N E
Edition of a treatise on how to make a
medieval tapestry, with translation and plates.
The Troyes Mémoire, a medieval manuscript
fortuitously preserved in the archives of the town
of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of
the written instructions used in designing tapestries
during the Middle Ages. This translation, with
its informative introduction and extensive notes,
makes the Mémoire available in English for the
first time. Composed at the end of the fifteenth
century, the Mémoire is unique in presenting
detailed information about how patrons and church
officials communicated complex iconographic
material to medieval artists commissioned to paint
cartoons for tapestries. In addition, another richly
informative document from medieval Troyes is
included, the Account Books of the Church of
Sainte-Madeleine, which introduces us to the actual
people who worked together, between 1416 and
1430, to produce a set of tapestries for the town’s
oldest church.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2010
978 1 84383 570 7
15 colour, 17 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Medieval Clothing and Textiles Subsidia
14
Chaucer and Petrarch
W I L L IA M T. RO S SI T E R
First full study of Chaucer’s readings and
translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater
influence than has hitherto been accepted.
This book, the first full-length study of
Chaucer’s reading and translation of Petrarch,
examines Chaucer’s translations of Petrarch’s Latin
prose and Italian poetry against the backdrop of
his experience of Italy, gained through his travels
there in the 1370s, his interaction with Italians in
London, and his reading of the other two great
Italian medieval poets, Boccaccio and Dante.
The book also considers Chaucer’s engagement
with early Italian humanism and the nature of
translation in the fourteenth century, including
a preliminary examination of adaptations of
Chaucer’s pronouncements upon translation and
literary production. Chaucer’s adaptations of
Petrarch’s Latin tale of Griselda and the sonnet
‘S’amor non è’, as the Clerk’s Tale and the ‘Canticus
Troilii’ from Troilus and Criseyde respectively,
illustrate his various translative strategies.
Furthermore, Chaucer’s references to Petrarch in
his prologue to the Clerk’s Tale and in the Monk’s
Tale provide a means of gauging the intellectual
relationship between two of the most important
poets of the time.
WILLIAM T. ROSSITER teaches at Liverpool Hope
University.
£50.00/$95.00(s) March 2010
978 1 84384 215 6
250pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Chaucer Studies
Chaucer and Religion
Edited by HE L E N PH I L L I P S
New essays on Chaucer’s engagement with
religion and the religious controversies of the
fourteenth century.
Chaucer’s writings are here freshly examined in
relation to the religions, the religious traditions
and the religious controversies of his era. Using
a variety of theoretical, critical and historical
approaches, the essays deal with topics that
include Chaucer and Wycliffism; Chaucer’s
dream poetry and religion; Chaucer and
secularity; gender, sex and marriage; the cult
of the saints, pilgrimage, and the Virgin Mary;
Chaucer’s handling of morality; representations
of Judaism and Islam; fabliaux and religion;
Chaucer’s use of the Bible; death and mutability
in the Canterbury Tales.
CONTRIBUTORS: Anthony Bale, Alcuin Blamires,
Laurel Broughton, Helen Cooper, Graham D.
Caie, Roger Dalrymple, Dee Dyas, D. Thomas
Hanks Jr., Stephen Knight, Carl Phelpstead, Helen
Phillips, David Raybin, Sherry Reames, Jill Rudd.
£55.00/$105.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84384 229 3
240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Comedy in Chaucer
and Boccaccio
C A ROL FA LVO H E F F E R NA N
A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio
sheds new light on both writers, indicating
their mutual use of ancient comic literary
traditions.
Although many of Chaucer’s sources have been
exhaustively studied, relatively little work has
been done on the influence of his contemporary
Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It
examines the relationship of the comic tales, the
so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
and Boccaccio’s Decameron, demonstrating that
not only did Chaucer draw on Boccaccio’s work,
but that they shared the same comic literary
tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting
the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws
new light on Chaucer’s inventiveness and mode
of working.
Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at
the Department of English, Rutgers University,
New Jersey.
£45.00/$90.00(s) September 2009
978 1 84384 201 9
166pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Chaucer Studies
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
A Companion to Medieval
Popular Romance
Edited by R A LUC A L . R A DU L E SC U &
C ORY JA M E S RU SH TON
A comprehensive guide to the medieval
popular romance, one of the age’s most
important literary forms.
The essays in this collection seek to provide
an inclusive and thorough examination of
romance. They provide contexts, definitions, and
explanations for the genre, particularly in, but
not limited to, an English context. Topics covered
include genre and literary classification; race and
ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the
romance and young readers; metre and form;
printing culture; and reception.
CONTRIBUTORS: Rosalind Field, Raluca L.
Radulescu, Maldwyn Mills, Gillian Rogers,
Jennifer Fellows, Thomas H. Crofts, Robert Allen
Rouse, Joanne Charbonneau, Desiree Cromwell,
Ad Putter, Karl Reichl, Phillipa Hardman, Cory
James Rushton.
£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2009
978 1 84384 192 0
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Studies in Medieval Romance
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Expectations of Romance
The Reception of a Genre
in Medieval England
M E L I S S A F U R ROW
What did medieval readers think of romance?
Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the
genre, are explored in this provocative study.
This book tackles the task of discerning what
were the medieval expectations of the genre in
England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe
for monastic, trained readers, romances provided
moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as
valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers
were monks.
Working from what was central to medieval
readers’ concept of the genre from the twelfth
century onward, the book sees the changing
linguistic, literary, religious and political contexts
through such heterogeneous lenses as Denis
Piramus, Robert Manning, and Walter Map; Guy
of Warwick and Guenevere; chansons de geste and
fabliaux; Tristram and Isolde and John Gower’s
uses of the pair as exemplary; Geoffrey Chaucer
as reader and writer of romance; and the Lollards,
clergy, and didacts of the fifteenth century.
MELISSA FURROW is Professor of English at
Dalhousie University.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84384 207 1
2 b/w illus.; 274pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Medieval Romance
The Exploitations of
Medieval Romance
Edited by L AU R A ASH E ,
I VA NA DJOR DJ EV Ić & J U DI T H W E I S S
Important and wide-ranging studies of the
ideological exploitations performed by and
upon the medieval romance.
The romance was exploited for a variety of
social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and
justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies,
and national, local and regional identities; to
rationalize contemporary power structures, and
identify the present with the legendary past; to
align individual desires and aspirations with
social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited
available figures of value, appropriating the tropes
and strategies of religious and historical writing,
and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials
for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this
volume consider individual romances, groups of
writings and the genre more widely, elucidating
a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of
text, context, and intertext.
CONTRIBUTORS: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjević,
Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field,
Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn
Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe.
£55.00/$105.00(s) February 2010
978 1 84384 212 5
202pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Medieval Romance
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Magic and the Supernatural in
Medieval English Romance
C OR I N N E S AU N DE R S
The themes of magic and the supernatural in
medieval romance are here fully explored and
put into the context of thinking at the time in
this first full study of the subject.
This study looks at a wide range of medieval
English texts to show that while they employ
magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds,
they are also grounded in a sense of possibility,
and reflect a complex web of inherited and current
ideas. Opening with a survey of classical and
biblical precedents, and medieval attitudes to
magic, subsequent chapters explore the ways that
romances both reflect contemporary attitudes
and ideas, and imaginatively transform them.
In particular, the author explores the distinction
between ‘white magic’ of healing and protection,
and the more dangerous arts of ‘nigromancy’,
black magic. The ambiguous figures of the
enchantress and the shapeshifter are a special
focus: the faery is contrasted to the Christian
supernatural – miracles, ghosts and demons, and
the motif of demonic conception.
Professor CORINNE SAUNDERS teaches in the
Department of English, University of Durham.
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84384 221 7
300pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Medieval Romance
Christianity and Romance
in Medieval England
Edited by RO S A L I N D F I E L D,
PH I L L I PA HA R DM A N &  
M IC H E L L E S W E E N EY
Essays examining the genre of medieval
romance in its cultural Christian context,
bringing out its chameleon-like character.
Medieval audiences had apparently very different
expectations and demands of their entertainment:
some looking for, and evidently finding, moral
exempla and analogues of biblical narratives,
others secular, even sensational, entertainment of
a type condemned by moralising voices.
The essays collected here offer the reader a
guide as to the additional understanding of the
romances to be gained from reading them in their
cultural Christian context, unfamiliar to many
today.
CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Phillips, Stephen Knight,
Phillipa Hardman, Marianne Ailes, Raluca L.
Radulescu, Corinne Saunders, K. S. Whetter,
Andrea Hopkins, Rosalind Field, Derek Brewer,   and invisible, threatening the communities they
D. Thomas Hanks, Michelle Sweeney
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84384 219 4
224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research
Medieval Literature
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts
Edited by OR I ET TA D A ROL D
& E L A I N E T R E HA R N E
New essays reappraising the history of the
book, manuscripts, and texts.
The dynamic fields of the history of the book
and the sociology of the text are the areas this
volume investigates, bringing together ten
specially commissioned essays that between
them demonstrate a range of critical and
material approaches to medieval, early modern,
and digital books and texts. They scrutinize
individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate
how careful re-reading of evidence permits a
more nuanced apprehension of production, and
reception across time; analyse metaphor for our
understanding of the Byzantine book; examine
the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys
and the digital work in the twenty-first century;
place manuscripts back into specific historical
context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation
of significant periods of manuscript and print
production in the later medieval and early
modern periods.
CONTRIBUTORS: Elaine Treharne, Erika
Corradini, Julia Crick, Orietta Da Rold,  
A. S. G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney
Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna,
Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty
Stanavage.
£30.00/$60.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84384 239 2
2 colour, 16 b/w illus.; 210pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB
Essays and Studies
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality
in Medieval English Literature
DA NA M . O S WA L D
A gendered reading of monster and the
monstrous body in medieval literature.
This book interrogates medieval notions of the
body and the boundaries of human identity.
Case studies of Wonders of the East, Beowulf,
Mandeville’s Travels, the Alliterative Morte Arthure,
and Sir Gowther reveal a shift in attitudes toward
the gendered and sexed body, and thus toward
identity, between the two periods: while Old
English authors and artists respond to the threat
of the gendered, monstrous form by erasing it,
Middle English writers allow transgressive and
monstrous bodies to transform and therefore
integrate into society. This metamorphosis enables
redemption for some monsters, while other
monstrous bodies become dangerously flexible
infiltrate.
DANA M. OSWALD is Assistant Professor of
English, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2010
978 1 84384 232 3
8 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Gender in the Middle Ages
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The Saints Lives of
Jocelin of Furness
Hagiography, Patronage and
Ecclesiastical Politics
H E L E N BI R K ET T
First comprehensive study of four important
medieval saints’ lives, setting them in their
political and ecclesiastical context.
Jocelin of Furness composed four important and
influential saints’ lives which offer a rich corpus of
medieval hagiographical writing. His Vita S. Patricii
and Vita S. Kentegerni provided updated versions
of each saint’s legend and are carefully adapted to
reflect the interests of their respective ecclesiastical
patrons in Ireland and Scotland. The Vita S.
Helenae was probably commissioned by a female
community in England; it represents an idealised
narrative mirror of its early thirteenth-century
context. In contrast, the Vita S. Waldevi was written
to promote the formal canonisation of a new saint,
Waltheof. This first full-length study of the Lives
combines detailed analyses of the composition of
the texts with study of their patronage, audiences,
and contemporary contexts.
HELEN BIRKETT is a Mellon Fellow at the
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
£60.00/$115.00(s) September 2010
978 1 90315 333 8
300pp, 23.4 x 15.6
York Medieval Press
Women and Writing,
c.1340-c.1650
The Domestication of Print Culture
Edited by A N N E L AW R E NC E - M AT H E R S
& PH I L L I PA HA R DM A N
Essays offering a gendered approach to the
study of the move from manuscript to early
printed book show how much women were
involved in the process.
The essays in this volume add female names to
the list of authors who participated in the creation
of English literature, and examine women’s
responses to authoritative and traditional texts in
revealing detail. Taking its cue from the advances
made by recent work on manuscript culture
and book history, this volume also includes
studies of material evidence, looking at women’s
participation in the making of books, and the
traces they left when they encountered actual
volumes. Finally, studies of women’s roles in
relation to apparently ephemeral texts challenge
traditional divisions between public and private
spheres as well as between manuscript and print.
CONTRIBUTORS: Gemma Allen, Anna Bayman,
James Daybell, Alice Eardley, Christopher
Hardman, Phillipa Hardman, Elizabeth Heale,
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Adam Smyth, Alison
Wiggins, Graham Williams.
£50.00/$95.00(s) August 2010
978 1 90315 332 1
6 b/w illus.; 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
York Medieval Press
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The Present and the Past in
Medieval Irish Chronicles
N IC HOL AS EVA N S
A new analysis of a vital source for the history
of Ireland and Scotland in the middle ages.
This book analyses the principal Irish chronicles,
especially the ‘Annals of Ulster’, ‘Annals of
Tigernach’, and the Chronicum Scotorum,
identifying their inter-relationships, the main
changes to the texts, and the centres where they
were written in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
The detailed study enables the author to argue
that the chroniclers were in contact with each
other, exchanging written notices of events,
and that therefore the chronicle texts reflect
the social connections of the Irish ecclesiastical
and secular elites. The author also considers
how the sections describing the early Christian
period were altered by subsequent chroniclers;
by focussing on the inclusion of material on
Mediterranean events as well as on Gaelic
kings, and by comparing the chronicles with
other contemporary texts, he reconstructs the
chronicles’ contents and chronology at different
times, showing how the accounts were altered to
reflect and promote certain views of history.
Dr NICHOLAS EVANS is an Honorary Research
Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
£60.00/$115.00(s) June 2010
978 1 84383 549 3
274pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Celtic History
Sedulius Scottus, De
Rectoribus Christianis
An Edition and English Translation
R . W. DYS ON
Edition and facing English translation of
important Latin text, offering advice for
rulers.
Sedulius Scottus was one of a group of ninth-
century authors who produced short treatises
in which they attempted to clarify the proper
relation between spiritual and secular power. The
Latin text of his De rectoribus Christianis is here
presented in a critical edition more complete and
accurate than anything hitherto available. The
edition is supported by an Introduction setting
it into the context of the general development of
political theory in the Christian West.
Dr R.W. DYSON was educated at the University of
Durham where he taught the History of Political
Thought.
£50.00/$95.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84383 566 0
208pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
The Old English Dialogues
of Solomon and Saturn
Edited & Translated by DA N I E L A N L E Z A R K
First modern edition, with facing translation,
of two of the most mysterious Old English
texts extant.
The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in
MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and
41, are two of the most complex Old English texts
to survive. The first two dialogues, in verse and
prose, present the pagan god Saturn in human
form interrogating King Solomon about the
mysterious powers of the Pater Noster, while in a
second poem the two discuss in enigmatic terms
a range of topics, from the power of books to
the limits of free will. This new edition presents
a parallel text and translation, accompanied
by notes and commentary. The volume also
includes a full introduction, arguing that the
circle which produced the dialogues was located
at Glastonbury in the early tenth century, and
included the young Dunstan, future archbishop
of Canterbury; and locating the texts in the
context of the learned riddling tradition, and
philosophical debates current in the ninth and
tenth centuries.
Dr DANIEL ANLEZARK teaches in the Department
of English at the University of Sydney.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84384 203 3
180pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Saxon Texts
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
The History of the
Kings of Britain
An Edition and Translation
of the De gestis Britonum
(Historia Regum Brittannie)
G E OF F R EY OF MON MOU T H  
Edited by M IC HA E L D. R E EV E
Translated by N E I L W R IG H T
New translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
Latin history – where King Arthur first
appears.
This imaginative history of the Britons, written
in the twelfth century, contains the first
appearance of many mythical figures, King
Lear and King Arthur among them. It rapidly
became a ‘bestseller’ across the British Isles and
Europe: over 200 manuscripts survive. Here, an
authoritative version of the text is presented with
a facing translation, prepared especially for the
volume. It also contains a full introduction and
notes.
This new critical edition [...] is a major advance
in scholarship and will undoubtedly become the
standard text for the foreseeable future.
SPECULUM
£25.00/$47.95 May 2009
978 1 84383 441 0
388pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Arthurian Studies
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The Anglo-Norman
Language and its Contexts
Edited by R IC HA R D I NG HA M
Collection examining the Anglo-Norman
language in a variety of texts and contexts, in
military, legal, literary and other forms.
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman
(the variety of medieval French used in the British
Isles), and the role it played in the life of the
medieval English kingdom, is currently a major
topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume
examine it from a variety of different perspectives
and contexts, though with a concentration on the
theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman
and English, seeking to situate it more precisely
in space and time than has hitherto been the case.
Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained
a strong presence in the linguistic life of England
until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes
a rich and highly valuable record of the French
language in the middle ages.
CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge,
William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers,
Louise Sylvester, Anne Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam
Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand,
Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.
£50.00/$95.00(s) March 2010
978 1 90315 330 7
194pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
York Medieval Press
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Celtic Curses
BE R NA R D M E E S
Full analysis of ancient and medieval
expressions of Celtic cursing, using evidence
ranging from magical charms to curse tablets.
The first comprehensive study of early Celtic
cursing, this work analyses both medieval and
ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation: from
the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul
to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval
period, and other traces of Celtic stipulation and
binding only speculated on in earlier scholarship.
It provides the first full overview and analyses
of the ancient Celtic use of binding curses (as
attested in Old Celtic and Latin inscriptions)
and examines their mooted influence in later
medieval expressions. Ancient finds (among
them long Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse
tablets found from the Alpine regions to Britain,
and fragments of Old Brittonic tablets excavated
from Roman Bath) are subjected to rigorous new
interpretations, and medieval reflections of the
earlier tradition are also considered.
BERNARD MEES gained his PhD from the
University of Melbourne.
£55.00/$105.00(s) May 2009
978 1 84383 457 1
238pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
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Sunday Observance and
the Sunday Letter in
Anglo-Saxon England
Edited & Translated by D OROT H Y HA I N E S
Edition and translation of Anglo-Saxon text,
shedding light on Sunday observance and
other issues.
The so-called Sunday Letter was a text fabricated in
the early middle ages, as a letter from Christ which
dropped out of heaven. In spite of its obviously
spurious nature, it was widely read and copied, and
translated into nearly every vernacular language.
In particular, several, apparently independent,
translations were made into Old English. They
are presented here in a new edition with a facing
modern English translation, with Latin sources
and analogues for each, and explanatory notes. The
introduction sets out the historical and cultural
context, the manuscript tradition, and looks at the
important questions the texts raise, including the
actual observance of Sunday at that time.
£60.00/$115.00(s) June 2010
978 1 84384 222 4
256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Anglo-Saxon Texts
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Language and Culture
in Medieval Britain
The French of England, c.1100-c.1500
Edited by JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE et al.
Groundbreaking surveys of the complex
interrelationship between the languages of
English and French in medieval Britain.
England was more widely and enduringly
francophone in the middle ages than many
standard accounts of its history, culture and
language allow. As the language of nearly a
thousand literary texts, the French of England
needs more attention than it has so far received.
The essays in this volume form a new cultural
history focussed round, but not confined to, the
presence and interactions of French speakers,
writers, readers, texts and documents in England
from the eleventh to the later fifteenth century.
With CO-EDITORS: Carolyn Collette, Maryanne
Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter, David Trotter
CONTRIBUTORS: Henry Bainton, Michael Bennett,
Julia Boffey, Richard Britnell, Carolyn Collette,
Godfried Croenen, Helen Deeming, Stephanie
Downes, Martha Driver, Monica H. Green, Richard
Ingham, Rebecca June, Maryanne Kowaleski,
Pierre Kunstmann, Francoise H. M. Le Saux, Serge
Lusignan, Tim William Machan, Julia Marvin,
Brian Merrilees, Ruth Nisse, Marilyn Oliva, W.
Mark Ormrod, Heather Pagan, Laurie Postlewate,
Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Ad Putter, Geoff Rector,
Delbert Russell, Thea Summerfield, Andrew Taylor,
David Trotter, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Nicholas Watson,
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Robert F. Yeager.
£50.00/$95.00(s) October 2009
978 1 90315 327 7
20 b/w illus.; 560pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
York Medieval Press
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
John Gower, Trilingual Poet
Language, Translation, and Tradition
Edited by E L I S A BET H DU T TON
with JOH N H I N E S & R . F. Y E AG E R
New essays demonstrate Gower’s mastery of
the three languages of medieval England, and
examine the cultural re-definitions which
his translations of literary traditions and
languages achieved.
John Gower wrote in three languages – Latin,
French, and English. The essays collected in
this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet,
exploring Gower’s negotiations between them
as well as the work of medieval translators who
made Gower’s French poetry available in English.
‘Translation’ is also considered more broadly, as
a ‘carrying over’ (its etymological sense) between
genres, registers, and contexts, with essays
exploring Gower’s acts of translation between
the idioms of varied literary and non-literary
forms; and further essays investigate Gower’s
writings from literary, historical, linguistic, and
codicological perspectives.
CONTRIBUTORS: Elisabeth Dutton, Jean Pascal
Pouzet, Ethan Knapp, Carolyn P. Collette, Elliot
Kendall, Robert R. Edwards, George Shuffleton,
Nigel Saul, David Carlson, Candace Barrington,
Andreea Boboc, Tamara F. O’Callaghan, Stephanie
Batkie, Karla Taylor, Brian Gastle, Matthew Irvin,
Peter Nicholson, J. A. Burrow, Holly Barbaccia, Kim
Zarins, Richard F. Green, Cathy Hume, John Bowers,
Andrew Galloway, R. F. Yeager, Martha Driver.
£60.00/$115.00(s) September 2010
978 1 84384 250 7
8 b/w illus.; 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Westfield Medieval Studies
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
The English Clown
Tradition from the Middle
Ages to Shakespeare
ROBE RT HOR N BAC K
A new account of medieval and Renaissance
clown traditions reveals the true extent of
their cultural influence.
From the late-medieval period through to the
seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns
carried a weighty cultural significance. This
groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in
the period looks both at their history, and reveals
their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has
far-reaching implications not only for our general
understanding of English clown types, but also
their considerable role in defining social, religious
and racial boundaries.
Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the
Departments of Literature and Theatre at
Oglethorpe University.
£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2009
978 1 84384 200 2
6 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Renaissance Literature
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G E R M A N, F R ENCH AND SPANISH LITERATURE
King Rother and His Bride
Quest and Counter-Quests
T HOM AS K E RT H
A new view of King Rother in which not
only the wooer but also his bride-to-be
enacts a quest.
King Rother a twelfth-century bridal-quest epic,
occupies an important place in the history of
German literature. The earliest surviving minstrel
epic, it is structurally complex, as the present
study is the first to recognize: the quest structure
is doubled not only in the wooer’s second
quest, but also in the bride’s own actions. This
underscores her equality to him, which is her
essential qualification to be his wife. The study
includes an important English-language summary
of scholarship on King Rother, on the minstrel
epics and on the bridal quest.
THOMAS KERTH is Associate Professor of German
at Stony Brook University.
£40.00/$75.00(s) May 2010
978 1 57113 436 3
264pp, 9 x 6 in, HB
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Lettering the Self in Medieval
and Early Modern France
KAT H E R I N E KONG
A history of the letter in pre-modern French
culture
Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval
and early-modern France reveal the contours of
the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were
complicated compositions which, in addition
to their administrative and artistic functions,
represented the self in relation to its various
others: social superiors and subordinates;
friends and lovers; teachers and students; allies
and adversaries; patrons and supplicants. These
relationships were expressed in the content and
form of letters: the rule-bound medieval discipline
of letter writing structured the expression of
interpersonal relationships in exacting ways, and
writers navigated its rules to express contradictory
and even illicit relations. Each chapter focuses on
a particular epistolary exchange in its intellectual
and cultural context, from Baudri of Bourgueil
and Constance of Angers, through Heloise and
Abelard, Christine de Pizan’s participation in
the querelle du Roman de la rose, Marguerite de
Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet, to Michel de
Montaigne and Étienne de La Boétie, emphasizing
the importance of letter-writing in pre-modern
French culture and tracing a selective yet
significant history of the letter, contributing to
our understanding of the development of the
epistolary genre, and the pre-modern self.
KATHERINE KONG is an Assistant Professor of
French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
£55.00/$105.00(s) July 2010
978 1 84384 231 6
272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Gallica
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Old French Narrative Cycles
Heroism between Ethics and Morality
LU K E SU N DE R L A N D
Detailed readings of four major medieval
cycles.
This is a study of four colossal medieval works
– the Cycle de Guillaume d’Orange, the Vulgate
Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart
– that are normally considered separately. By
placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke
Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic
of cyclicity that cuts across genre. Old French
Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions
and controversies around heroic figures, arguing
that competition between alternative heroes
within these texts makes them a discourse on
heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving
from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author reveals
anxieties surrounding the hero’s relationship to
the ‘good’: the hero oscillates between support for
moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom
that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it
is contended that the instability of the hero as
conduit for morality produces textual confusion
and generates the myriad differing versions of
these vast and perplexing works.
LUKE SUNDERLAND is Research Fellow in French
at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
£50.00/$95.00(s) April 2010
978 1 84384 220 0
220pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Gallica
P R EV IO U SLY A N N O U N C E D
The Troubadour Tensos
and Partimens
A Critical Edition
RU T H HA RV EY & L I N DA PAT E R S ON
A major contribution to knowledge of
medieval Occitan literature.
This three-volume critical edition makes available
for the first time the massive corpus of 160 tensos
and partimens involving real speakers. They
supply a mine of new information on the medieval
Occitan language, contemporary politics, courtly
and judicial mores, and attitudes to gender, class,
and ethnic stereotypes, often presenting a picture of
courtly life, love and sexual relations very different
from that of the better-known love-lyric.
The edition meets the highest standards of scholarly
rigour, and a cumulative index, bibliography and
glossary aid access to these volumes.
RUTH HARVEY is Professor of medieval Occitan
literature at Royal Holloway, University of
London; LINDA PATERSON is Professor Emerita of
French at the University of Warwick.
£225.00/$450.00(s) March 2010
978 1 84384 197 5
1407pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Gallica
Ramon Llull
A Contemporary Life
R A MON L LU L L  
Edited & Translated by A N T HON Y B ON N E R
The autobiography of an influential medieval
Catalan intellectual.
Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer
and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture
during his early years in Majorca furnished him
with a vision of the ‘Other’ quite unique among
medieval European intellectuals. In his thirties he
abandoned the courtly life, immersed himself in
theological and philosophical studies and began
his sustained campaign of conversion. He travelled
on many occasions throughout Europe in search
of royal and papal support and undertook several
missions to north Africa, in the course of one of
which he was stoned and imprisoned. Despite
his many travels he found time to compose more
than 260 works. When he was almost eighty years
old, Llull dictated the story of his life to a group
of Carthusians in Paris, leaving us this fascinating
autobiography. This edition includes both an
English translation and the original Latin version.
ANTHONY BONNER is a translator and scholar
who has published extensively on Ramon Llull.
£16.99/$34.95(s) March 2010
978 1 85566 199 8
16 colour illus.; 112pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Textos
R E C E N T LY P U B L I SH E D
Treacherous Foundations
Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early
Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama
G E R A L DI N E C OAT E S
Representations of treachery in medieval and
early modern Spain.
This first sustained study of the theme of treachery
in the founding myths of the Iberian Peninsula
considers literary versions, in epic, chronicle
and theatre, of the legends of Fernán González,
Bernardo del Carpio and King Sancho II from
medieval and early modern Spain and compares
the representation of treachery across two critical
periods in Spanish history, the thirteenth and
late sixteenth centuries, assessing its political,
ideological, and cultural function. The theme
of treachery is expanded to cover all aspects of
treason and political disloyalty and, engaging
with loyalty, trust and the nature of kingship, the
volume sheds new light on aspects of Spanish
cultural and political history, and provides insight
into the nature of myth and collective memory,
historical change and the collective response to
crisis.
GERALDINE COATES lectures in Medieval Spanish
Literature at the University of Oxford.
£55.00/$105.00(s) November 2009
978 1 85566 188 2
246pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Monografías
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Arthurian Literature XXVI
Edited by E L I Z A BET H A RC H I BA L D
& DAV I D F. JOH N S ON
This volume ranges widely in time and space, from
a Latin romance based on Welsh sources to the
post-Christian Arthur of modern fiction and film.
It begins with a tribute to the late Derek Brewer, a
reprinting of the classic introduction to his edition
of the last two tales of Malory’s Morte Darthur.
Further subjects covered include a possible source
manuscript for Malory’s first tale; the ‘Arthuricity’
of the little-known Latin romance Arthur and
Gorlagon; images of sterility and fertility in the
continuations of Chretien’s Conte du Graal; and
early modern responses to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
account of Arthur’s dealings with Rome. Norris
Lacy ranges widely over the evolution of the
Arthurian legend, and Ronald Hutton considers
representations of both Christian and pagan
religion in modern novels and cinema.
CONTRIBUTORS: Derek Brewer, Jonathan
Passaro, Amanda Hopkins, Thomas Hinton, Sian
Echard, Norris Lacy, Ronald Hutton, Raymond
Thompson.
Arthurian Literature has established its position as
the home for a great diversity of new research into
Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material
across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.
T I M E S LITER ARY SUPPLEMENT
£45.00/$90.00(s) December 2009
978 1 84384 211 8
228pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Arthurian Literature
The Arthurian Way of Death
The English Tradition
Edited by KA R E N C H E R EWAT U K
& K . S . W H ET T E R
The motif of death and dying traced through
over a thousand years of the English
Arthurian tradition.
The essays in this volume explore the presentation
of death and dying in Arthurian literature and
film produced in England and America from the
middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and
topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth,
the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte
Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and
Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory’s
Morte Darthur; Tennyson’s Idylls, Pyle’s retelling
of the myth for American children, David Jones,
T. H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles
and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight
Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald
Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk, Michael W.
Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, Michael
Wenthe, Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton,
Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson
Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty.
£50.00/$95.00(s) November 2009
978 1 84384 208 8
4 b/w illus.; 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Arthurian Studies
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ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Vision and Gender in Lancelot-Grail
Malory’s Morte Darthur The Old French Arthurian Vulgate
MOL LY M A RT I N and Post-Vulgate in Translation
Fresh study of the intricate roles played by Edited by NOR R I S L AC Y
gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in The ‘Vulgate’ and ‘Post-Vulgate’ cycles are the
Malory’s Morte. French equivalent of Malory’s Morte Darthur,
This first book-length study of vision in the Morte written in the thirteenth century. Malory drew
Darthur examines the roles played by sight – seeing on both of them as his source, and they are the
and being seen – in the Morte’s construction of cornerstone text of all Arthurian romance.
gender, highlighting also the influence of the
£195.00/$375.00 March 2010
romance genre in this process. The discussion 978 0 85991 770 4
addresses several key figures: Gareth provides 10 Vols, PB
a paradigm of visible romance masculinity;
Launcelot’s and Trystram’s adulteries introduce
competing needs for both visibility and invisibility;
Palomydes and other less acclaimed knights, and
reactions to their shortcomings, confirm the model Also available in individual volumes
of visible gender; grail knights and Malory retain
secular romance ideas of vision and gender on the Volume: 1. The History of the Holy Grail
religious quest; and the two Elaynes and Percivale’s £25.00/$47.95 March 2010
sister prove femininity more variable and less 978 1 84384 224 8
rigid than masculinity in the text. The book argues 348pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
that visibility is crucial to Malory’s conception of
gender identity and, further, that masculinity and Volume: 2. The Story of Merlin
femininity are determined throughout the Morte by £25.00/$47.95 March 2010
the romance genre. 978 1 84384 234 7
MOLLY MARTIN is Assistant Professor of English 528pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
at McNeese State University.
Volume: 3. Lancelot part I and II
£50.00/$95.00(s) September 2010
978 1 84384 242 2 £25.00/$47.95 March 2010
978 1 84384 226 2
192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
476pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Arthurian Studies
Volume: 4. Lancelot part III and IV
£25.00/$47.95 March 2010
N EW I N PA P E R BAC K 978 1 84384 235 4
416pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion to the Volume: 5. Lancelot part V and VI
Lancelot-Grail Cycle
£25.00/$47.95 March 2010
Edited by C A ROL D OV E R 978 1 84384 236 1
620pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this
French prose cycle together for the first time;
Volume: 6. The Quest of the Holy Grail
scholars explore its social, historical, literary
and manuscript contexts and account for its £25.00/$47.95 March 2010
978 1 84384 237 8
enduring interest. 202pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first
comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Volume: 7. The Death of Arthur
Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The
twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally £25.00/$47.95 March 2010
978 1 84384 230 9
known scholars, locate the work in its social, 202pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In
addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts Volume: 8. The Post Vulgate Cycle. The Merlin
that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to Continuation
modern readers the appeal that the text must have
£25.00/$47.95 March 2010
had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of 978 1 84384 238 5
composition that made it compelling. 454pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Barber, Emmanuele
Baumgartner, Fanni Bogdanow, Frank Brandsma, Volume: 9. The Post-Vulgate Cycle. The Quest
Matilda T. Bruckner, Carol J. Chase, Annie for the Holy Grail & The Death of Arthur
Combes, Helen Cooper, Carol R. Dover, Michael
£25.00/$47.95 March 2010
Harney, Donald L. Hoffman, Douglas Kelly, 978 1 84384 233 0
Elspeth Kennedy, Norris J. Lacy, Roger Middleton, 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
Haquira Osakabe, Hans-Hugo Steinhoff, Alison
Stones, Richard Trachsler. Volume 10. Chapter Summaries for the
Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles and
£19.99/$37.95 March 2010
978 1 84384 245 3 Index of Proper Names
6 b/w illus.; 284pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
£25.00/$47.95 March 2010
Arthurian Studies
978 1 84384 252 1
352 pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB
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the relevant editors are given below. Langland’s Piers Plowman. These CD-ROMs present the edited texts of
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