THOMAS M. McCOOG
"And Touching Our Society": Fashioning Jesuit Identity in Elizabethan England
Studies and Texts 183; Catholic and Recusant Texts 3. 2013. xiv, 476 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–183–6 • Cloth • $95.00
The Jesuit mission to Elizabethan England began with the arrival of Edmund Campion and Robert Persons in 1580. This collection brings together thirteen landmark essays by Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, on the Society of Jesus in England, Ireland, and Scotland, four of them appearing in English for the first time.

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Landscapes and Societies in Medieval Europe East of the Elbe
Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations
Edited by Sunhild Kleingärtner, Timothy P. Newfield, Sébastien Rossignol, and Donat Wehner
Papers in Mediaeval Studies 23. 2013. xiv, 406 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–823–1 • Cloth • $95.00
This volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of studies on the lands "east of the Elbe," a region without a Roman past, focusing on the connections between human populations and the natural world. A broad variety of approaches and methodologies drawn from the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany, and palaeozoology illuminate the history and development of these landscapes in the middle ages.

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Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu
New Editions and Studies
Edited by John Flood, James R. Ginther, and Joseph W. Goering
Papers in Mediaeval Studies 24. 2013. xiv, 430 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–824–8 • Cloth • $90.00
Fourteen papers on the works and intellectual context of Robert Grosseteste, bishop, philosopher, and theologian, including new editions and English translations of Grosseteste's De luce, his Latin translation of John of Damascus, and his Sermon 86.

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PETER HOWARD
Aquinas and Antoninus
A Tale of Two Summae in Renaissance Florence
Etienne Gilson Series 35. 2013. 30 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–735–7 • Paper • Complimentary
The 2011 Etienne Gilson Lecture explores the complex issue of the way Thomas Aquinas was cited by later authors, and how Thomas's theology was moulded to meet the needs of particular local contexts.

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WILLIAM CAXTON
The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose
Edited by Richard Moll
Studies and Texts 182; British Writers 4. June 2013. viii, 652 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–182–9 • Cloth • $150.00
William Caxton’s translation of the prose Ovide Moralisé was the first English version of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Caxton's translation can be used as an entry point into the complex textual tradition of Ovidian commentaries. The present edition seeks to renew interest in Caxton’s text and to encourage study of it in its own right.

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ROBERT EASTING and RICHARD SHARPE
Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations
Studies and Texts 184; British Writers 5. June 2013. xvi, 616 pp., plus 2 b/w plates
ISBN 978–0–88844–184–3 • Cloth • $150.00
This volume aims to introduce to a wider audience Peter of Cornwall (c.1140–1221), the diligent and methodical compiler of monumental works, of which one, the Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in Lambeth Palace MS 51, is the focus for this study.

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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The House of Fame
Second edition
Edited by Nicholas R. Havely
Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts 3. April 2013. Approx. 200 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–563–6 • Paper • $35.00
The House of Fame is an omnivorous poem. Like its own “House of Rumour,” it draws in a multiplicity of material: literary and technological; old and new; learned and lewde. The present edition is based on a collation of five witnesses and provides a substantial list of variants.

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WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE
On Morals
Translated with an introduction and notes by Roland J. Teske
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 55. June 2013. Approx. 275 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–305–2 • Paper • $25.00
William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249, was not only one of the most prolific writers in philosophy and theology of the first half of the thirteenth century but also one of the first to use the new translations of Greek and Islamic thought that poured into the Latin West in that century. In On Morals he extols the value of the nine virtues in a sophisticated narrative where each of the virtues speaks for itself, explaining its importance.

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NICHOLAS ORME
English School Exercises, 1420–1530
Studies and Texts 181. 2013. xii, 442 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–181–2 • Cloth • $95.00
This edition of twelve collections of grammar-school exercises makes available for the first time the majority of the material in the genre. The exercises – sentences or short prose passages – illustrate the kind of Latin taught in schools at the end of the middle ages and show how schoolmasters went about teaching the language. Together, they also provide a new source for the social and cultural history of England in the century before the Reformation.

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ROBERT GROSSETESTE
The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De colore
Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary Analysis
By Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Giles E.M. Gasper, Michael Huxtable, Tom C.B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti and Hannah Smithson
Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts 4. 2013. x, 94 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–564–3 • Paper • $19.95
Robert Grosseteste's De colore (On Colour), in which Grosseteste constructs a combinatorial account of colour, plays an important role within the canon of his scientific works. In this edition, translation and commentary, the conceptual and analytical tools of contemporary science, itself a descendent of Grosseteste and his contemporaries, bring his physical and mathematical reasoning into sharper relief.

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ROGER BACON
On Signs
Translated with an introduction and notes by Thomas S. Maloney
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 54. 2013. xii, 148 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–304–5 • Paper • $19.95
Roger Bacon's Opus maius represents an attempt to create a whole new vision of what Christian education should be, one centered on service to the Church. One chapter of this work, "On Signs," is the most comprehensive and innovative treatise on semiotics in the thirteenth century. To understand the myriad ways in which things and words signify, Bacon says, is "a thing of marvelous usefulness and beauty."

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The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240
Hebrew texts translated by John Friedman; Latin texts translated by Jean Connell Hoff; historical essay by Robert Chazan
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 53. 2012. x, 182 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–303–8 • Paper • $19.95
In 1239, Pope Gregory IX sent a message to secular authorities and leading clergy throughout Europe: allegations that the Talmud was harmful were to be carefully investigated, and – if substantiated – the Talmud was to be destroyed. Only one European ruler, the pious King Louis IX of France, acted on the papal injunction by convening a trial of the Talmud in Paris. This unprecedented event is richly reflected in a variety of sources, both Christian and Jewish, here brought together in English translation for the first time.

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Thomas Hatfield: Bishop, Soldier, and Politician
Edited by Anthony Bash
Durham Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2012. viii, 76 pp. + 4 colour plates
ISBN 978–0–88844–440–0 • Paper • $19.95
Thomas Hatfield (c. 1310–81) rose to become a valued royal servant under King Edward III. In 1345 he was elected Bishop of Durham; as bishop he helped manage northern England and England’s relations with Scotland. Based on a series of lectures given at Hatfield College in 2010, this volume highlights the unique military, political, and clerical roles Hatfield performed and his notable legacies.

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Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, ca. 1000
On the Variety of Our Times by Alpert of Metz
Translated with an introduction by David S. Bachrach
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 52. 2012. xxxviii, 96 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–302–1 • Paper • $16.95
Written in the early eleventh century, the De diversitate temporum by Alpert of Metz is an indispensable contemporary account for our understanding of the history of the Low Countries at the turn of the first millennium, and provides insight into the organization of the German kingdom at a point of transition that was marked by the end of the Ottonian dynasty.

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Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy
Edited by Giles E.M. Gasper and Ian Logan
Durham Medieval and Renaissance Monographs and Essays 2. 2012. xii, 460 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–861–3 • Cloth • $95.00
This collection of twenty-one essays is based on papers originally delivered at a conference commemorating the nine hundredth anniversary of Anselm’s death in 1109. The breadth of the essays presented in this volume reflects the enduring fascination with Anselm and his world in ways that stress both the continuities and discontinuities with the present-day.

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COREY L. BARNES
Christ's Two Wills in Scholastic Thought: The Christology of Aquinas and Its Historical Contexts
Studies and Texts 178; Mediaeval Law and Theology 5. 2012. viii, 358 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–178–2 • Cloth • $85.00
This book investigates scholastic discussions of Christ's wills from Anselm of Canterbury to John Duns Scotus, concentrating on Thomas Aquinas. The general analysis serves as a backdrop for examining the role granted to Christ's humanity by Aquinas.

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Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages
Edited by Slavica Ranković with Ingvil Brügger Budal, Aidan Conti, Leidulf Melve, and Else Mundal
Papers in Mediaeval Studies 22. 2012. viii, 428 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–822–4 • Cloth • $90.00
The articles in this volume are geared towards reopening the debate concerning who should be credited with creativity – the talented individual, tradition/society, or the creative process itself. The products of medieval culture, with their own dynamics of networked authorship and narratives that often precede their tellers, provide a uniquely rich resource for anyone attempting to conceptualise authorship today.

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PETER OF LIMOGES
The Moral Treatise on the Eye
Translated with an introduction by Richard Newhauser
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 51. 2012. xxxiv, 272 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–301–4 • Paperback • $35.00
This volume makes The Moral Treatise on the Eye available for the first time in English. In fifteen chapters, the text moves from what can be established about the eye and vision on scientific grounds to the moral or spiritual interpretation of optics. The Treatise helped legitimate the cultural utility of natural science by making it part of a theological process of allegorizing the revealed world.

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HENRY OF HUNTINGDON
Anglicanus ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century
Edited and translated by Winston Black
Studies and Texts 180; British Writers 3. 2012. xiv, 562 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–180–5 • Cloth • $175.00
Written entirely in Latin verse, the recently discovered Anglicanus ortus describes the medicinal uses of 160 different herbs, spices, and vegetables. Winston Black's translation includes a commentary on every poem as well as an extensive introduction.

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VIRGINIA BROWN
Beneventan Discoveries: Collected Manuscript Catalogues, 1978–2008
Edited by Roger E. Reynolds
Studies and Texts 179; Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana 6. 2012. xxiv, 428 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–179–9 • Cloth • $90.00
This book reprints Virginia Brown's five lists of recently discovered Beneventan manuscript items, which first appeared in the journal Mediaeval Studies. A preface and comprehensive indexes compiled by Roger E. Reynolds are also included.

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Robert Grosseteste: His Thought and Its Impact
Edited by Jack P. Cunningham
Papers in Mediaeval Studies 21. 2012. xviii, 362 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–821–7 • Cloth • $90.00
Robert Grosseteste's significant contributions to science and theology are a testament to his reputation as a consummate polymath. This wide-raging collection of essays in honour of James McEvoy also includes two essays by him.

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GREG PETERS
Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian
Studies and Texts 175. 2011. xii, 214 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–175–1 • Cloth • $75.00
This book seeks to renew interest in a figure who was an important contributor to the larger field of Byzantine monasticism. Using unedited manuscripts, prosopographical evidence, and published sources, this study attempts not only to recover the shape of Peter’s life and work but also to elucidate his spirituality.

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GLENN W. OLSEN
Of Sodomites, Effeminates, Hermaphrodites, and Androgynes
Sodomy in the Age of Peter Damian
Studies and Texts 176. 2011. xiv, 538 pp., plus 29 b/w plates
ISBN 978–0–88844–176–8 • Cloth • $85.00
Part one of this study treats basic questions in the historical study of sex and gender, beginning with the ancient world and moving through the early middle ages. Part two analyzes the work of Peter Damian, especially his Epistle 31, the so-called Book of Gomorrah.

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WILLIAM D. McCREADY
Odiosa sanctitas: St Peter Damian, Simony, and Reform
Studies and Texts 177; Mediaeval Law and Theology 4. 2011. xii, 322 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–177–5 • Cloth • $85.00
In 1067, Bishop Pietro Mezzabarba was accused of simony. Cardinal-bishop St Peter Damian's involvement in this affair provides the vantage point for a new reading of the latter part of his career and of selected aspects of his thought.

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MEDIAEVAL STUDIES
ISSN 0076–5872
Volume 73 (2011) • ISBN 978–0–88844–675–6 • $90
An annual journal of scholarship on the Middle Ages. A description of the journal and editorial policy, as well as tables of contents for recently published volumes, and indexes in electronic form, are available on the Mediaeval Studies page elsewhere on this site.