TMLT 35 • x, 122 pp. • 2018 • ISBN 978-0-88844-485-1 • Paper • $17.95

The fifteen short texts edited here offer vivid examples of the wit and irreverence of medieval Latin parody, a tradition whose humour – sometimes bookish, sometimes ribald, and often both – was never far from the cultures of monastery, school, and court. Mock sermons, prayers, Gospel-texts, and scholastic exercises all bear witness to the wry sensibilities indulged by scholars and clerics alike in their off-hours.

Edited from Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 458

TMLT 34. viii, 102 pp. 2017. ISBN 978-0-88844-484-4 • Paper • $17.95

A school dialogue most likely composed in southeastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic novices and oblates in abbey schools of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires. Its question-and-answer format between students and master deploys an elementary Latin that would have consolidated linguistic skills at the same time as offering instruction on the nature of body and soul, the books of the Old and New Testaments, the Mass, and the Lord’s Prayer. The text’s intrinsic interest for historians of early medieval education is matched by its usefulness to modern students as a short course in what constituted basic cultural literacy in the monastic schoolrooms of the ninth through eleventh centuries, as drawn above all from the works of Isidore of Seville, but also from Augustine, Gregory the Great, Bede, and Alcuin.

Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 860 by ANDREW N.J. DUNNING

TMLT 33. x, 122 pp. 2016. ISBN 978-0-88844-483-7 • Paper • $17.95

Preserved in a single manuscript from the abbey library of Bury St Edmunds, and here edited for the first time, Samuel Presbiter’s series of short, extensively annotated poems offers a rare record of one of the innovative formats that medieval schoolmasters used to engage students beyond conventional lectures. The text affords the reader a vivid experience of immersion in the pedagogical techniques of the twelfth-century classroom. The poems and commentary present key lessons from the doctrinal instruction of William de Montibus (c. 1140–1213), the beloved master of the school of Lincoln Cathedral.

Edited from Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, MS 802 by ALEXANDER ANDRÉE

TMLT 32.  x, 108 pp. 2015. ISBN 978-0-88844-482-0 • $17.95

Peter Abelard’s Letter to a Friend, frequently known as The Story of My Calamities, recounts the meteoric and disastrous career of one of the driving forces of the twelfth-century renaissance. The son of a minor Breton noble family, a public intellectual who turned the academic establishment on its head, lover of Heloise, and sometimes his own worst enemy, Abelard produced in elegant prose one of the signal works of medieval autobiography. This new edition presents the Latin text as it appears in the earliest manuscript—until recently misdated by a hundred years—studded with a commentary that explicates the circumstances of its composition, context, and language.

Edited by A.B. Kraebel. TMLT 31. 2010. x, 118 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–481–3 • $17.95

TMLT 30. 2008. x, 94 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–480–6 • $17.95

TMLT 29. 2007. viii, 104 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–479–0 • $17.95 

TMLT 28. 2005. viii, 136 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–478–3 • $17.95

TMLT 27. 2002. viii, 104 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–477–6 • $17.95

TMLT 26. 2000. viii, 112 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–476–9 • $17.95

Edited by M. Michèle Mulchahey. TMLT 24. 1997. viii, 119 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–474–5 • $17.95

TMLT 23. 1997. viii, 56 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–473–8 • $17.95

TMLT 25. 1997. viii, 168 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–475–2 • $17.95

TMLT 22. 1996. x, 134 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–472–1 • $17.95 

Edited by Nicholas Watson. TMLT 21. 1995. viii, 88 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–471–4 • $17.95

TMLT 20. 1991. x, 148 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–470–7 • $17.95

TMLT 19. 1990. x, 78 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–469–1 • $17.95

TMLT 18. 1987. viii, 102 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–468–4 • $17.95

Edited by Jan Ziolkowski. TMLT 17. 1986. x, 101 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–467–7 • $17.95

Edited by Daniel J. Nodes. TMLT 16. 1985. viii, 71 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–466–0 • $17.95