This book examines how the administrative bodies of Amsterdam managed to undertake and complete immense projects in planning history their city from the viewpoints of urban design, infrastructure, water management, logistics, and finance.

First book-length study of the elegiac love poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080)

First English translation from the Latin of the first monograph written on the Eucharist: On the Body and Blood of the Lord by the Carolingian theologian Paschasius Radbertus appearing in the critical edition found in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis volume 16.