Publications
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Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery
(2024)
Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies performed in nunneries. This volume focuses on monastic performances and, in particular, on performances given in the English abbey ...
Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
(2024)
How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? ...
Poetry of Loss and the Early Medieval Chinese Court of the Warlord Cao Cao (155–220)
(2024)
Upon the fall of the Han empire, the warlord Cao Cao (155–220) established a new political domain. The Cao court became known for its accomplished writers, including the warlord himself and two of his sons, Cao Pi (187–226) ...
Lincoln Readings of Texts, Materials, and Contexts
(2024)
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (first published in 1964), provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence ...
The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition
(2024)
This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650–1100.
In the wake of recent seminal studies on Aldhelm, these essays collectively explore the wider poetic ...
The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
(2024)
Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process ...
St. Radegunde of Poitiers’ Treatise of Consolation to Lepers
(2025)
This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, ...
Negotiating Childlessness in the Middle Ages
(2025)
This book examines the ways in which people wrote about and engaged with infertility in the German Middle Ages. Striking differences emerge across the vernacular stories, legends, and romances concerned. For some, childlessness ...
Trans Histories of the Medieval Book
(2025)
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the communities that make them. For most of western history queer, trans, ...
The Medieval Womb
(2025)
This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively, ...