Highlights

The following list is a selection of highlights.
For an overview of publications scheduled to be released within the next three months, please refer to our forthcoming titles page. An overview of recently published titles is available on our recent titles page. Listings over a longer period or more specific requests are available through our online catalogue. You can also browse through our publications by series or navigate through our series by subject.

Medieval Life Cycles. Continuity and Change I. Cochelin, K. Smyth (eds.) This collection prioritises consideration of transitions from one lifecycle stage to the next and inter-generational contact across the medieval period in a range of geographical areas. More information >>	Spoken and Written Language. Relations between Latin and the Vernacular Languages in the Earlier Middle Ages Mary Garrison et al. (ed.) A miscellany based on a multidisciplinary approach which debates the legitimacy of the linguistic medieval Latin-Romance divide theories and the consequences that this would entail. More information >>	Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200 I. Warntjes, D. Ó Cróinín (eds.) Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. Website Price: € 67 excl. taxes More information >>
Inter omnes Plato et Aristoteles. Gli appunti filosofici di Girolamo Savonarola. Introduzione, edizione critica e commento L. Tromboni (éd.) Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) è una delle figure più rappresentative della realtà italiana della fine del Quattrocento. More information >>	Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages S. Corbellini (ed.) This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations. More information >>	'Vie et miracles de saint Josse' de Jean Miélot N.-O. Jönsson "On pouvait (...) difficilement rêver ouvrage plus approprié pour inaugurer cette nouvelle collection (...)." Fr. De Vriendt dans: Analecta Bollandiana, 124 (2006) Website Price: € 40 excl. taxes More information >>
Verdi Reception Lorenzo Frassà, Michela Niccolai (eds.) This book contains fourteen contributions in which international scholars investigate the reception of Verdi's operas in Europe and United States. More information >>	Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe M.-C. Canova-Green, J. Andrews, M.-F. Wagner (eds.) This is the first book to examine the relationship between ceremonial entries as dynastic or civic events and the manner of their reporting. More information >>	Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520). Sources and Analysis Ad Putter, Judith Jefferson (eds.) The essays collected in this volume deal with the multilingual cultures of later medieval England and Wales and aim to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the later medieval period. More information >>
Saint Cyprien. Lettres 1-20 S. Deléani "Ce volume constitue (...) un instrument de travail précieux pour l'étude des lettres de Cyprien." J.-M. A., dans: Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 03 no. 2, 2008, p. 701 Web Price: € 32 excl. taxes More information >>	Gassendi, La Logique de Carpentras Sylvie Taussig Le texte, bien évidemment traduit en français, est ici précédé par une introduction destinée à éclairer les principales caractéristiques des livres IX – XI ; il s’agit de replacer l’exposé de la Canonique par Gassendi à l’intérieur du contexte philosophique plus large. Website Price: € 57 excl. taxes More information >>	Langues médiévales ibériques. Domaines espagnol et portugais S. Boissellier et al. La Péninsule ibérique devient au Moyen Âge une zone de particularismes politiques et de grande diversité culturelle. Cette complexité s’exprime particulièrement dans la variété des langues vulgaires. More information >>
‘Ung bon ouvrier nommé Marquet Caussin’. Peinture et enluminure en Hainaut avant Simon Marmion D. Vanwijnsberghe Until now, little was known about manuscript illumination in Hainault before the arrival of Simon Marmion at Valenciennes around 1458. This monograph intends to bridge that gap by highlighting the work of Marc Caussin, a Hainault miniaturist active in Valenciennes from the 1430s to the 1470s. More information >>	Missions chrétiennes en terres d'islam (XVIIe-XIXe siècles) C. Verdeil (éd.) Ce travail examine les relations entre les missionnaires chrétiennes et les musulmans du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. More information >>	Scraped, Stroked, and Bound. Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts Jonathan Wilcox (ed.) Materially engaged readings of medieval manuscripts that build up such concepts as the philology of smell and touching the past through sensitivity to the handling of books. More information >>
Ottonian Book Illumination H. Mayr-Harting "This study ensures that the Ottonians and their art are set to occupy an increasingly significant place in the awarences of English-speaking historians." - Burlington Magazine Website Price: € 28 excl. taxes More information >>	Anthropologie de l’Antiquité. Anciens objets, nouvelles approches E. Scheid-Tissinier and P. Payen (éd.) Les diverses contributions réunies manifestent une multiplicité des points de vue et des domaines abordés. More information >>	The Nordic Apocalypse. Approaches to Völuspá and Nordic Days of Judgement T. Gunnell, A. Lassen (eds.) A series of articles on new approaches to the Old Norse poem Völuspá and its possible context within the apocalyptic tradition in Northern Europe in the early medieval period. More information >>
Urban Carnival. Festive Culture in the Hanseatic Cities of the Eastern Baltic, 1350-1550 A. Mänd (ed.) This is a significant new study of the festival culture of northern Europe in the later Middle Ages: more specifically of the German-speaking communities of the great cities of the eastern Baltic littoral. Website Price: € 36 excl. taxes More information >>	Mosaics of Time, The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD. Volume I, A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from its Origins to the High Middle Ages R. W. Burgess, Michael Kulikowski The only comprehensive account of Latin chronicles from their beginnings until the fall of the Roman Empire. More information >>	La silve. Histoire d'une écriture libérée en Europe, de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle P. Galand, S. Laigneau-Fontaine (éd.) Les "silves", recueils de poèmes (pseudo) autobiographiques à la manière de Stace, qui se répandent en Europe à la Renaissance, tâchent d'embrasser la variété du monde humain. Le présent volume essaie de rendre compte, de ce phénomène protéiforme, commun à toute l'Europe du début des temps modernes. More information >>
Avicenna and his Legacy Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.) "[...] the volume is an important contribution to early medieval scholarship. It highlights the legacy of Avicenna in the Jewish and Muslim traditions [...]. This interesting volume should generate further interest in Avicenna who was a true polymath of his time." (Tessa Morrison, in: Parergon 27.2, 2010) Website Price: € 90 excl. taxes More information >>	Studies on Medieval Empathies Karl F. Morrison, Rudolph M. Bell (eds.) Crossdisciplinary essays on empathy and creative imagination in medieval Europe. More information >>	Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power A.J.A. Bijsterveld, H. B. Teunis, A. Wareham (eds.) This collection of essays examines the framework of shared social customs and values, that is distinctively medieval and European. Website Price: €24 excl. taxes More information >>
Staging the Court of Burgundy W. Blockmans et al. (ed.) This volume presents a study of the Burgundian court during the 15th century, and provides a forum for new research in various fields. More information >>