Publications
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Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, ...
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
(2023)
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to ...
Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on ...
A Companion to the Cavendishes
(2020)
“The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's ...
Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage
(2018)
This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
(2015)
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism ...
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
(2020)
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral ...
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
(2021)
Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit ...
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
(2021)
This book explores the lives of Sufi masters who functioned as embodiments of Islamic sainthood and left a lasting mark on the land. These figures lived in the ancient cities of Syria and their surrounding towns and villages ...
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
(2020)
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin traditions of the ...
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
(2021)
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in
Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic
folktales collected in Iceland during the ...
Beowulf by All
(2021)
Beowulf By All is the first ever community translation of the poem known as Beowulf, and is published here for the first time in workbook form as Beowulf By All: Community Translation and Workbook in order to provide space ...
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
(2021)
Military history; Ecological history; war and the environment; Natural barriers in history; wildlife protection, mosasaur; premodern environmentalism
Remapping Travel Narratives (1000–1700)
(2018)
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse ...
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
(2022)
This volume is the product of a collaborative research program undertaken since 2014 by the Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (seifmar). This program has focused on various ...
The Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral
(2022)
The shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most popular pilgrim destinations in medieval Europe, as well as the focal point for the liturgy of the cathedral’s monastic community. In 1428 the ...
Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe
(2022)
The subject of this study is the life, career, and public activities of John Vitez of Sredna (early 1400s–1472)—a politician, prelate, diplomat and one of the most influential personages in the history of Renaissance ...
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
(2022)
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical ...
The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land
(2022)
The concept of the Rus’ Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of “Russia,” but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. ...
Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades
(2022)
This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and ...