This book offers the first analysis of female monasticism across the last three centuries of the ...

The seventh century was a period of radical transformation in the Balkans in terms of political, ...

This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, and sexuality in medieval Europe and North ...

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserve...

Issues relating to disability and war remain largely overlooked by military and disability histor...

This book explores the mobility of merchants' manuscripts--understood as written records in vario...

Slavery and family were deeply linked in Byzantine society. When Byzantine writers and theologian...

This volume uncovers the ways in which trust and mistrust affected people's lives in premodern Eu...

This book centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc--a global medievalist trend of women bein...

This study is a heavily annotated translation and discussion of Xiao Yi's (508-555) 'Xuanlan fu' ...

This volume by Arc Humanities Press, doubling as a special issue of the journal Early Middle Engl...

This book presents the first annotated English translation of Judah Bonsenyor's Book of Words and...

This book focuses on the Byzantine court in Constantinople and the young females (aged fourteen o...

Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies perfor...

This book examines the ways in which people wrote about and engaged with infertility in the Germa...

This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research paradigms for the modern and th...

How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the ...

This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and...

New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture showcases current and ori...

After languishing on the disciplinary peripheries, Pictish studies is now undergoing significant ...

Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixt...

This book explores how new cultural identities in transformation are challenging the notion and s...

Literary archives differ from most other types of archival papers in that their locations are mor...

Exploring the work of writers, illuminators, and craftspeople, this volume demonstrates the perva...

This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond w...

Alfred the Great is a rare historical figure from the early Middle Ages, in that he retains a pop...

This book reevaluates our conception of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle A...

This New Companion brings together preeminent scholars from around the world: each chapter explor...

This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and ear...

This exploration of the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways these were expressed, and t...

A new cultural history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West, focusing on the man...

This book explores the profound impact the Battle of Lyndanise in 1219 (on the site of Tallinn to...

Architecture is shown to be a reliable 'textual' source for understanding dynastic state developm...

This book examines Chaucer's Canterbury Tales from the perspective of the current debate about ra...

Tales from Tomaso Costo's Fuggilozio (The Cure for Indolence, 1596) selected and translated as a ...

Examines the ways in which some medieval behaviours and identities were categorized as criminal o...

With contributions from academics and museum professionals, this edited volume explores the role ...

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in...

This book explores the ways contemporary authors respond to and transform key aspects of Old Nors...

Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies perfor...

Best known for his works on the mystical practice of meditative recollection, Franciscan friar Fr...

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But w...

As scholarship continues to expand the idea of medieval Europe beyond 'the West,' the Rus' remain...

Is it possible to summarize the history of the Jews in late antiquity? The lack of source materia...

Over the last decade or two, the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies has witnessed the co...

This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a m...

Since the inclusion of medieval studies in the modern academy, professional scholars have insiste...

This book re-examines the history of the Carpathian-Danubian region during the eighth and the nin...