Other Middle Ages Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society Edited and Translated by Michael Goodich "Anyone interested in medieval history would profit from this well-conceived and well-translated collection of sources."--Church History "Other Middle Ages serves as an important balance to the many source collections that reflect the ideology of the dominant classes and neglect the voices that bring us insights from the edge of society. Goodich's anthology opens a new chapter in medieval studies, focusing on the margins and the people living there."--The Medieval...

Last Things Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages Edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman "Last Things will repay the serious attention of readers concerned with any aspect of medieval religion."--Speculum When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately--not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their souls would go...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 2001 "Revisions have made this anthology stronger and even more essential."--Choice Praise for the first edition: "Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching and meticulously prepared...The volume, copiously illustrated, reveals the shocking impact of the belief in witches on Europe's Middle Ages, and examines the struggles of thinkers...to confront the phenomenon on rational terms. This is a major work in the genre."--Publishers Weekly "Anyone prepared to come to grips with man's most bloody...

From Boys to Men Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe Ruth Mazo Karras "A founding document in the field of men's history."--Jo Ann McNamara, author of Sisters in Arms "The book, well written and accessible, will find a broad audience. It would work well in the classroom, either as a source of lecture material or as assigned reading. Effectively combating the nonspecialist's view of the Middle Ages as a monolithic and static society, it will encourage more subtle thinking about gender identities in the past and in the present. The book also sets a research agenda for...

Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

The Saxon Mirror A "Sachsenspiegel" of the Fourteenth Century Translated by Maria Dobozy "A significant addition to the texts of later medieval European law available in English."--Paul Brand, All Souls College, Oxford, and Institute of Historical Research, London The Sachsenspiegel, or Saxon Mirror, compiled in 1235 by Eike von Repgow, may be said to mark the beginning of vernacular German jurisprudence. For the first time, Maria Dobozy offers an English translation of this influential lawbook, the oldest, and most important, set of customary law in the German language. This...

Spiritual Economies Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England Nancy Bradley Warren Winner of the 2004 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities "An ambitious study of the actual and symbolic place of women and femininity in fifteenth-century English monastic, literary, and political culture."--Nicholas Watson, University of Western Ontario "Impressive. . . . Warren is careful to honor the integrity of religious life while looking at the multiple forces that influenced it, and that it influenced as well."--Sharon Elkins, Wellesley College "The sheer range of Warren's stimulating, provocative...

Those of My Blood Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia Constance Brittain Bouchard Winner of the 2002 best book by an Ohio Historian Award of the Ohio Academy of History "Constance Bouchard tackles five major themes: the definition of 'family, ' the position of women in noble families, the flexibility in constructing who was considered family, the impact of family strategies on early medieval politics, and the 'transformation' of the nobility around the year 1000. . . . A wonderful introduction to those new to the subject as well as a welcome contribution to the debate on the nature of...

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial and gender theory. Ingham argues that late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular...

Imaginary Betrayals Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England Karen Cunningham "Cunningham's is an undeniably important study, central in many respects to the cultural history of the period, and a timely contribution to the new and growing field of Law and Literature."--Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University "The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham explores provide important resources for those interested in the early modern period."--Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia In...