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Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy

Editor: Marco Mostert
Publishing Manager: Guy Carney
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ISSN 2034-9416

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One of the most important developments in European history took place in communication. A transition is clearly visible from illiterate societies to societies in which most members are active users of the written word. This complex process, which started in Antiquity, and is still not complete, gained momentum during the Middle Ages. The series provides a forum for publications on the medieval history of non-verbal, oral and written communication and their interrelationship.

  • EDITORIAL BOARD

    General Editor
    Marco Mostert, Universiteit Utrecht

    Editorial Board
    Gerd Althoff, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Pierre Chastang, Université Versailles St. Quintin-en-Yvelines
    Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia
    Mayke de Jong, Universiteit Utrecht
    Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge
    Arpád Orbán, Universiteit Utrecht
    Francesco Stella, Università degli Studi di Siena
    Richard H. Rouse, UCLA

  • AUTHOR INFORMATION

    Main languages accepted: English, French
    Occasional languages: German, Italian

    All volumes in this series are evaluated by an Editorial Board, strictly on academic grounds, based on reports prepared by referees who have been commissioned by virtue of their specialism in the appropriate field. The Board ensures that the screening is done independently and without conflicts of interest. The definitive texts supplied by authors are also subject to review by the Board before being approved for publication.

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A Latin-Polish Sermon Collection and the Emergence of Vernacularisation

Dorota Maslej
ISBN 978-2-503-61927-9 USML 65 | 2025 € 80,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-61932-3 (E-book)

Diplomatics in the Netherlands

The Use, Editing, and Study of Charters by Dutch Historians from the Middle Ages to the Present J.W.J. Burgers
ISBN 978-2-503-61753-4 USML 63 | 2025 € 160,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-61754-1 € 160,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English

Matti Peikola, Jukka Tyrkkö, Mari-Liisa Varila (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-60045-1 USML 61 | 2025 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60046-8 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Accountability in Late Medieval Europe

Households, Communities, and Institutions Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-61670-4 USML 62 | 2025 € 85,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-61671-1 € 85,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Inscrire l’art médiéval

Objets, textes, images Vincent Debiais
ISBN 978-2-503-59740-9 USML 60 | 2024 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-59741-6 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Materiality of Medieval Administration in Northern England

Abigail Armstrong
ISBN 978-2-503-60743-6 USML 59 | 2024 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60744-3 (E-book)

Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message

Peter Lucas
ISBN 978-2-503-60031-4 USML 58 | 2024 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60032-1 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

New Light on Formulas in Oral Poetry and Prose

Daniel Sävborg, Bernt Ø. Thorvaldsen (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-60428-2 USML 57 | 2023 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60429-9 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius

Forms of Writing and Rhetorical Spaces in the City Jakub Niedzwiedz
ISBN 978-2-503-60430-5 USML 55 | 2023 € 140,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60431-2 (E-book)

Writing Names in Medieval Sacred Spaces

Inscriptions in the West, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisa Pallotini, Janneke Raaijmakers † (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-60236-3 USML 56 | 2023 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-60237-0 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Visible English

Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550 Wendy Scase
ISBN 978-2-503-59842-0 USML 54 | 2022 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-59843-7 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe

Circulation and Reception of Popular Texts Pavlína Cermanová, Vaclav Zurek (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-59463-7 USML 52 | 2021 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-59464-4 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages

Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, Lisbeth Imer, Bjorn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-59674-7 USML 53 | 2021 € 120,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-59675-4 € 120,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Roles of Medieval Chanceries

Negotiating Rules of Political Communication Christina Antenhofer, Mark Mersiowsky (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-58964-0 USML 51 | 2021 € 70,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58965-7 € 70,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Carolingian Revolution

Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I Francesco Stella
ISBN 978-2-503-58799-8 USML 48 | 2021 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58800-1 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature

Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II Francesco Stella
ISBN 978-2-503-58801-8 USML 49 | 2021 € 80,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58802-5 € 80,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Use of Pragmatic Documents in Medieval Wallachia and Moldavia (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)

Mariana Goina
ISBN 978-2-503-58797-4 USML 47 | 2020 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58798-1 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Words in the Middle Ages / Les Mots au Moyen Âge

Victoria Turner, Vincent Debiais (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-58795-0 USML 46 | 2020 € 90,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58796-7 € 90,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe

Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political Impact Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-58853-7 USML 50 | 2020 € 85,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58854-4 (E-book)

Le scribe d’archives dans l’Occident médiéval

formations, carrières, réseaux Xavier Hermand, Jean-François Nieus, Étienne Renard (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-58433-1 USML 43 | 2019 € 140,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58434-8 € 140,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Stilus – modus – usus

Regeln der Konflikt- und Verhandlungsführung am Papsthof des Mittelalters / Rules of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Papal Court in the Middle Ages Jessika Nowak, Georg Strack (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-58507-9 USML 44 | 2019 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58508-6 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Documenting the Everyday in Medieval Europe

The Social Dimensions of a Writing Revolution, 1250–1350 Paul Bertrand
ISBN 978-2-503-57990-0 USML 42 | 2019 € 130,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-58246-7 € 130,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Looking Back from the Invention of Printing

Mothers and the Teaching of Reading in the Middle Ages Michael Clanchy
ISBN 978-2-503-58083-8 USML 40 | 2018 € 75,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback)

Trust, Authority, and the Written Word in the Royal Towns of Medieval Hungary

Katalin Szende
ISBN 978-2-503-57881-1 USML 41 | 2018 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-57882-8 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages

Practices of Reading and Writing Mariken Teeuwen, Irene van Renswoude (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-56948-2 USML 38 | 2018 € 155,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56949-9 € 155,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Urban Literacy in Late Medieval Poland

Agnieszka Bartoszewicz
ISBN 978-2-503-56511-8 USML 39 | 2018 € 130,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-57329-8 € 130,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts

Matti Peikola, Aleksi Mäkilähde, Hanna Salmi, Mari-Liisa Varila, Janne Skaffari (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-57464-6 USML 37 | 2017 € 90,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-57465-3 € 90,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Sins of the Tongue in the Medieval West

Sinful, Unethical, and Criminal Words in Middle Dutch (1300-1550) Martine Veldhuizen
ISBN 978-2-503-56946-8 USML 36 | 2017 € 75,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56947-5 € 75,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages

Formal Aspects of Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions) Sébastien Barret, Dominique Stutzmann, Georg Vogeler (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-56743-3 USML 35 | 2017 € 140,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56744-0 € 140,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Sensory Perception in the Medieval West

Simon Thomson, Michael Bintley (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-56714-3 USML 34 | 2016 € 100,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56717-4 € 100,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Forms of Individuality and Literacy in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-55220-0 USML 31 | 2015 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55289-7 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Medieval Letters

Between Fiction and Document Christian Høgel, Elisabetta Bartoli (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-55520-1 USML 33 | 2015 € 130,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56189-9 € 130,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Manuscript Communication

Visual and Textual Mechanics of Communication in Hagiographical Texts from the Southern Low Countries, 900-1200 Tjamke Snijders
ISBN 978-2-503-55294-1 USML 32 | 2014 € 130,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56042-7 € 130,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Uses of the Written Word in Medieval Towns

Medieval Urban Literacy II Marco Mostert, Anna Adamska (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-54960-6 USML 28 | 2014 € 120,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55008-4 € 120,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Writing and the Administration of Medieval Towns

Medieval Urban Literacy I Marco Mostert, Anna Adamska (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-54959-0 USML 27 | 2014 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55007-7 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Pragmatic Literacy in Medieval Serbia

Đorđe Bubalo
ISBN 978-2-503-54961-3 USML 29 | 2014 € 120,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56040-3 € 120,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Scraped, Stroked, and Bound

Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts Jonathan Wilcox (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-54549-3 USML 23 | 2013 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54638-4 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Spoken and Written Language

Relations between Latin and the Vernacular Languages in the Earlier Middle Ages Mary Garrison, Arpad P. Orbán, Marco Mostert (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-50770-5 USML 24 | 2013 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54321-5 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages

Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion Sabrina Corbellini (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-54569-1 USML 25 | 2013 € 110,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54741-1 € 110,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication

Marco Mostert
ISBN 978-2-503-54477-9 USML 2 | 2012 € 140,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56039-7 € 140,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity

Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North Kristel Zilmer, Judith Jesch (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-54294-2 USML 4 | 2012 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54318-5 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas

The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) Geoffrey Koziol
ISBN 978-2-503-53595-1 USML 19 | 2012 € 120,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56037-3 € 120,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Zwischen Pragmatik und Performanz

Dimensionen mittelalterlicher Schriftkultur Christoph Dartmann, Thomas Scharff, Christoph Friedrich Weber (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-54137-2 USML 18 | 2011 € 90,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54206-5 € 90,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Medieval Legal Process

Physical, Spoken and Written Performance in the Middle Ages Marco Mostert, Paul S. Barnwell (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-54174-7 USML 22 | 2011 € 85,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54207-2 € 85,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries)

Steven Vanderputten (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-53482-4 USML 21 | 2011 € 85,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-54028-3 € 85,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Vernacularity in England and Wales, c. 1300-1550

Elizabeth Salter, Helen Wicker (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-52883-0 USML 17 | 2011 € 70,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53980-5 € 70,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Along the Oral-Written Continuum

Types of Texts, Relations and their Implications Slavica Rankovic, Leidulf Melve, Else Mundal (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-53407-7 USML 20 | 2010 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53935-5 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Homo Legens

Styles et pratiques de lecture: Analyses comparées des traditions orales et écrites au Moyen Âge / Styles and Practices of Reading: Comparative Analyses of Oral and Written Traditions in the Middle Ages Svetlana Loutchitsky, M.C. Varol Bornes (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-53409-1 USML 26 | 2010 € 35,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53936-2 € 35,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular

The Swedish Example Inger Larsson
ISBN 978-2-503-52747-5 USML 16 | 2009 € 95,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-56033-5 € 95,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Strategies of Writing

Studies on Text and Trust in the Middle Ages: Papers from “Trust in Writing in the Middle Ages” (Utrecht, 28-29 November 2002) Petra Schulte, Marco Mostert, Irene van Renswoude (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51758-2 USML 13 | 2008 € 85,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53933-1 € 85,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Transforming the Medieval World

Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages. A CD-ROM and Book Franz-J. Arlinghaus, Marcus Ostermann, Oliver Plessow, Gudrun Tscherpel (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51166-5 USML 6:English | 2006 € 50,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53939-3 € 50,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Conversing with the Saints

Communication in Pre-Carolingian Hagiography from Auxerre Wolfert S. van Egmond
ISBN 978-2-503-51760-5 USML 15 | 2006 € 30,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55993-3 € 30,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Reading Images and Texts

Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication. Papers from the Third Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, Utrecht, 7-9 December 2000 Mariëlle Hageman, Marco Mostert (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51437-6 USML 8 | 2005 € 90,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53940-9 € 90,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000" (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003) Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison, Marco Mostert (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51759-9 USML 14 | 2005 € 70,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53934-8 € 70,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages

Essays on a Conjunction and its Consequences in Honour of D. H. Green Mark Chinca, Christopher Young (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51451-2 USML 12 | 2005 € 30,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53932-4 € 30,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Social Consequences of Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia

Arnved Nedkvitne
ISBN 978-2-503-51450-5 USML 11 | 2005 € 55,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55992-6 € 55,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central Europe

Anna Adamska, Marco Mostert (eds)
ISBN 978-2-503-51449-9 USML 9 | 2004 € 75,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53941-6 € 75,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad

Sarah Rees Jones (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-51076-7 USML 3 | 2003 € 40,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53937-9 € 40,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

St Anselm and the Handmaidens of God

A Study of Anselm's Correspondence with Women Sally N. Vaughn
ISBN 978-2-503-51337-9 USML 7 | 2003 € 70,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-55583-6 € 70,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin

Roger Wright
ISBN 978-2-503-51338-6 USML 10 | 2003 € 75,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-52638-6 € 75,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

Charters and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Society

Karl Heidecker (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-50771-2 USML 5 | 2000 € 70,00 EXCL.VAT  (Hardback) ISBN 978-2-503-53938-6 € 70,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)

New Approaches to Medieval Communication

Marco Mostert (ed)
ISBN 978-2-503-50814-6 USML 1 | 1999 € 45,00 EXCL.VAT  (Paperback) ISBN 978-2-503-54168-6 € 45,00 EXCL. VAT   (E-book)