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An illustration for the chapter “De portentis”
in Rabanus Maurus,
De rerum naturis.
Montecassino, MS 132, p. 168 (detail)
© Archivio dell’Abbazia, Montecassino

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New and Forthcoming Books, 2010

We are proud to have published James Carley's edition and translation of John Leland's De uiris illustribus as the inaugural volume in the series British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. As David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, observes, "James Carley, the world's leading expert on Leland and his Henrician contexts, has laboured for decades on this superb edition and translation of the De uiris illustribus; it will prove a landmark in the history of medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation scholarship."

The second volume in the British Writers series, editions and translations of Latin poems on contemporary events by John Gower, is forthcoming in November. Other editions and translations to be published this fall are those of the questions on the sacraments of Radulphus Ardens, and of the liturgical commentaries of St Symeon of Thessalonika. The Antwerp–London Glossaries, perhaps the last long Old English text never to have been properly edited, will be available in December, as will translations of three of William of Auvergne's shorter spiritual works.

Two different but complementary philosophical works are also published this fall: a wide-ranging study of philosophies of beauty, ancient, medieval and modern, is followed by an exploration of faith and order, and of faith in order, from Augustine and Anselm to Bonaventure and Scotus. A new study of the complex figure of Mary Magdalene in the late medieval Digby play completes our list of publications for the year 2010.

In a review of the first two volumes of Giulio Silano’s translation of Peter Lombard published in the American Philosophical Quarterly, Philipp Rosemann concluded: "To render all of the Sentences into English is a very large task, and a self-effacing one, which the modern academic world does not always apprsceciate as it ought to. We should thank Professor Silano all the more warmly for this fine accomplishment, which – needless to say – belongs in the library of every seminary, theology department, and medievalist in the English-speaking world." Previously announced, the fourth and last book of the Sentences is finally released in October this year.

Leland: De uiris illustribus


JOHN LELAND
De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men
Edited and translated by James P. Carley with the assistance of Caroline Brett
Studies and Texts 172; British Writers 1. 2010. clx, 868 pp., with 8 black-and-white plates
ISBN 978–0–88844–172–0 • Cloth • $175.00
NOTE: Published in Europe, including the United Kingdom, by The Bodleian Library
Intended to be a comprehensive dictionary of British writers, this work lay incomplete at Leland's death; a sometimes inaccurate edition was printed in 1709. In the current edition, longer omitted passages have been included and the original order of Leland's text has been restored.

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Questions on the Sacraments


RADULPHUS ARDENS
The Questions on the Sacraments: Speculum uniuersale 8.31–92
Edited and translated by Christopher P. Evans
Studies and Texts 171; Mediaeval Law and Theology 3. Forthcoming September 2010. 300 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–171–3 • Cloth • $95.00
In his Speculum uniuersale, Radulphus Ardens (fl. 1190s) builds upon the sacramental theology of Peter Lombard and Simon of Tournai and advances the ideas of his predecessors, sometimes in unique ways.

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Beauty and Being


PIOTR JAROSZYNSKI
Beauty and Being: Thomistic Perspectives
Translated by Hugh McDonald
Etienne Gilson Series 33. Forthcoming October 2010. 320 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–733–3 • Cloth • $85.00
This book attempts to define what beauty is in metaphysical terms, to arrive at a better understanding of beauty as a transcendental property of being, and to establish beauty's place in philosophy alongside truth and the good.

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Lombard: Sentences 4


PETER LOMBARD
The Sentences – Book 4: The Doctrine of Signs
Translated by Giulio Silano
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 48; St Michael's College Mediaeval Translations. Previously announced; forthcoming October 2010. 350 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–296–3 • $39.95
The sacraments take up forty-two of the fifty Distinctions of Book 4 of the Sentences: Baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, sacred orders, and marriage. The book concludes with eight Distinctions on the last things.

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Poems on Contemporary Events


JOHN GOWER
Poems on Contemporary Events: The Visio Anglie (1381) and Cronica tripertita (1400)
Edited and translated by David R. Carlson and A.G. Rigg
Studies and Texts 174; British Writers 2. Forthcoming November 2010. 350 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–174–4 • Cloth • $125.00
The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340–1408) wrote Latin poems witnessing crucial political events of his day. This volume includes Latin texts of these poems, with commentary on Gower's relation with the rest of the contemporary historical record and with his literary forebears and contemporaries, as well as verse translations.

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Lady, Hero, Saint


JOANNE FINDON
Lady, Hero, Saint: The Digby Play's Mary Magdalene
Studies and Texts 173. Forthcoming December 2010. 260 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–173–7 • Cloth • $85.00
This study examines the late medieval Digby Mary Magdalene play, which is dominated by its female protagonist. Recalling genres as varied as lyric poetry, romance, fabliau, sermons, meditations, and hymns, the play presents an especially complex version of the popular saint.

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Faith in Order


LOUIS MACKEY
Faith in Order: Natural Theology in the Augustinian Tradition
Editions, Essays, and Monographs. Forthcoming December 2010. 240 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–421–9 • Cloth • $80.00
The Augustinian idea of order is discernible in the proofs of God's existence offered by many philosopher-theologians. Mackey shows how, even within the bounds of the Augustinian tradition, modes of proof and conceptions of what is to be proven can vary when questioned from within or challenged from without.

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Antwerp-London Glossaries


DAVID W. PORTER
The Antwerp–London Glossaries: The Latin and Latin–Old English Vocabularies from Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus 16.2 – London, British Library Add. 32246
Volume 1: Texts and Indexes
Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 8. Forthcoming December 2010. 400 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–908–5 • Cloth • $85.00
The Antwerp–London Glossaries are eleventh-century descendents of the earliest school text in the English language. A varied collection with five distinguishable parts, the glossaries have at their heart the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. This edition is accompanied by textual apparatuses and complete English and Latin indexes. A second volume will include introduction, translation, and explanatory notes.

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Liturgical Commentaries


ST SYMEON OF THESSALONIKA
The Liturgical Commentaries
Edited and translated by Steven Hawkes–Teeples
Studies and Texts 168. Previously announced; forthcoming December 2010. 250 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–168–3 • Cloth • $90.00
The commentaries Explanation of the Divine Temple and "On the Sacred Liturgy" follow the ancient Christian literary tradition of explaining the meaning of the Divine Liturgy; they also prescribe how the liturgy should be executed.

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Selected Spiritual Writings


WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE
Selected Spiritual Writings: Why God Became Man; On Grace; On Faith
Translated by Roland J. Teske
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 50. Forthcoming December 2010. 100 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–300–7 • $15.95
This volume contains translations of three of William of Auvergne's shorter works. Each touches upon the understanding of the relation between nature and grace, the moral and theological virtues, and the need for our redemption by Christ. The introduction situates the treatises within William's works and within the thought of the early thirteenth century.

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Recently Published

Poetria Nova


GEOFFREY OF VINSAUF
Poetria nova – Revised edition
Translated by Margaret F. Nims
Introduction to the revised edition by Martin Camargo
Mediaeval Sources in Translation 49. 2010. vi, 96 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–299–4 • $15.95
The Poetria nova, written by the Englishman Geoffrey of Vinsauf shortly after 1200, was the most influential medieval treatise on rhetorical poetics.

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TMLT


The Sermons of William of Newburgh
Edited by A.B. Kraebel
Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 31. 2010. x, 118 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–481–3 • $12.95
This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm.

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McCoog


Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation
Edited by Ginevra Crosignani, Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. and Michael Questier with the assistance of Peter Holmes
Studies and Texts 170; Catholic and Recusant Texts 2. 2010. xxxiv, 464 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–170–6 • Cloth • $95.00
"This collection will be an invaluable resource for future scholars and students of post-Reformation Catholicism in the British Isles." — Alexandra Walsham, University of Exeter

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Frescoes in the Royal Chapel


JENS T. WOLLESEN
Patrons and Painters on Cyprus: The Frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga
Studies and Texts 169. 2010. xiv, 180 pp., including 48 black-and-white plates and 4 colour plates
ISBN 978–0–88844–169–0 • Cloth • $95.00
The fresco decoration of the Royal Chapel in Pyrga on Cyprus is usually dated 1421. The study presents iconographical and stylistic evidence supporting a much earlier dating into the first half or the middle of the fourteenth century.

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Books Published in 2009

All our most recent titles are included here; descriptions and bibliographical details of these and all other new releases are integrated into the Complete Catalogue of Publications. Click on the cover image for details.

Olson Hillgarth Chatton Mediaeval Studies Kullmann Lambert and Rollason
Aston festschrift Payer Old English poems Harkins John of Salisbury Roger Bacon

 


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