PIMS:New and Recent Titles

		• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Academics • Administration • Library • Research • Amici • Internexus

Signs, portents, prognostications:
announcing new textual arrivals
An illustration for the chapter “De portentis”
in Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis.
Montecassino, MS 132, p. 168 (detail)
© Archivio dell’Abbazia, Montecassino

All the Institute's recently published titles are listed below. Current announcements and sales, as well as recommended texts for undergraduate and graduate courses and periodic sales on titles from our backlist, are sent periodically to individuals and libraries on our email list. Users may also view the complete list of Publications by series or download a PDF version of the current catalogue.

To receive announcements about new publications and offers, please sign up for e-mail alerts.

Ordering?

Please print and fill out the convenient PDF order form, then submit to us using one of the four methods available: (Prepayment is also available)

New Releases

A collection of documents associated with the contentious question of Catholic conformity in Elizabethan and early Jacobean England and Scotland, entitled Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England, will be available this spring. In March we will be publishing a revised edition of Gregory of Vinsauf's Poetria nova with updated scholarship and an improved format.

We are proud to be publishing as well The Sermons of William of Newburgh. This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh. Among other volumes forthcoming this spring are editions and translations of the liturgical commentaries of St Symeon of Thessalonika and a study of the frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga on Cyprus.

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 appreciate 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." We plan to publish the fourth and final book of the Sentences in April of 2010.

Volume 71 of Mediaeval Studies, the Institute journal, dedicated to Virginia Brown (1940–2009), is also published this spring, and will be available in April.

New and Forthcoming Books, 2010


	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. View prelims and contents Other Mediaeval Sources in Translation Print order form

	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. View prelims and contents Other Toronto Medieval Latin Texts Print order form

	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 View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	JENS T. WOLLESEN Patrons and Painters on Cyprus: The Frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga Studies and Texts 169. Forthcoming April 2010. 200 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–169–0 • Casebound • $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. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	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. Forthcoming April 2010. 336 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. Book 1 \| Book 2 \| Book 3 Print order form

	ST SYMEON OF THESSALONIKA The Liturgical Commentaries Edited and translated by Steven Hawkes–Teeples Studies and Texts 168. Forthcoming August 2010. 300 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–168–3 • Casebound • $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. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

Recent Publications


	J.N. HILLGARTH The Visigoths in History and Legend Studies and Texts 166. 2009. xii, 239 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–166–9 • Casebound • $80.00 This book explores one of the central myths of Spain. A study of the evolution and persistence of the nation's Gothic roots, it promises to become essential reading for both historians and literary scholars. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	FRANKLIN T. HARKINS Reading and the Work of Restoration: History and Scripture in the Theology of Hugh of St Victor Studies and Texts 167; Mediaeval Law and Theology 2. 2009. xii, 336 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–167–6 • Casebound • $80.00 This book represents the first comprehensive study of the role of historia in the processes of reading and restoration (or salvation) in the theology of Hugh of St Victor and will be of interest not only to scholars and students of medieval theology, but also to intellectual historians and literary critics. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	Image, Text and Church, 1380–1600: Essays for Margaret Aston Edited by Linda Clark, Maureen Jurkowski, and Colin Richmond Papers in Mediaeval Studies 20. 2009. xiv, 289 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–820–0 • Casebound • $90.00 Reaching beyond history into the cognate disciplines of literature, theology, art history and codicology, these twelve essays by distinguished scholars of the late medieval and early modern Church reflect the extraordinary breadth of Dr Aston’s interests. View prelims and contents Other Papers in Mediaeval Studies Print order form

	Peace and Protection in the Middle Ages Edited by T.B. Lambert and David Rollason Durham Medieval and Renaissance Monographs and Essays 1. 2009. xii, 202 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–860–6 • Casebound • $75.00 This book explores peace and protection as a fundamental motor of medieval society, across a broad geographical and chronological span, bringing together literary, legal and historical studies that make use of a wide range of approaches. View prelims and contents Print order form

	The Church and Vernacular Literature in Medieval France Edited by Dorothea Kullmann Studies and Texts 165; Toronto Studies in Romance Philology 1. 2009. viii, 296 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–165–2 • Casebound • $75.00 Specialists from the disciplines of linguistics, literature, history, and musicology address the interaction between lay and religious cultures and the productive tension that resulted from the particular situation of the Church that obtained in medieval France. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	JOHN OF SALISBURY Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives Translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald E. Pepin Mediaeval Sources in Translation 46. 2009. viii, 108 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–298–7 • $19.95 John of Salisbury (d. 1180) was a member of Becket's household and present at the archbishop's infamous murder. Within two years of that fateful event, John composed a brief Life of his friend, the martyr. It would join the first biography, of Anselm, he had written at the behest of Archbishop Thomas Becket himself early in 1163. View prelims and contents Other Mediaeval Sources in Translation Print order form

	SHERRI OLSON A Mute Gospel: The People and Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields Studies and Texts 162. 2009. x, 242 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–162–1 • Casebound • $75.00 The overall goal of this study is to gain a more balanced view of medieval society by considering how peasants thought about themselves and their world as revealed in English manorial court records. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	PIERRE J. PAYER Sex and the New Medieval Literature of Confession, 1150–1300 Studies and Texts 163. Mediaeval Law and Theology 1. 2009. x, 249 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–163–8 • Casebound • $75.00 This volume studies the treatment of sex in the "new" literature of penance and confession that flourished from the late twelfth century until the end of the middle ages. Although these writings shed valuable light on both medieval canon law and theology, they remain unknown and under-utilized as a historical source. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

	ROGER BACON The Art and Science of Logic. A translation of the Summulae dialectices with notes and introduction, by Thomas S. Maloney Mediaeval Sources in Translation 47. 2009. xxviii, 256 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–297–0 • $39.95 Among the many works Roger Bacon authored at the University of Paris before he returned to Oxford around 1247 is a treatise on logic titled Summulae dialectices, here annotated and presented in translation. View prelims and contents Other Mediaeval Sources in Translation Print order form

	WALTER CHATTON Lectura super Sententias: Liber I, Distinctiones 8–17 Edited by †Joseph C. Wey and Girard J. Etzkorn Studies and Texts 164. 2009. xvi, 442 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–164–5 • $90.00 The Lectura, Chatton's second commentary (1323–1324) on Book I of the Sentences ends in the middle of distinction 17, question 7. This volume brings to a close the critical edition of Chatton's commentaries on Peter Lombard. View prelims and contents Other Studies and Texts Print order form

Highlights from our Backlist

A selection of recent titles is 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.


Adamson and Reynolds	Machan	Gilson	Mediaeval Studies	Maurer	Smith

Berggren et al.	Bedouelle	Hilken	Gilson Lectures	Gorecki	Healey and Kiernan

Academics • Administration • Library • Research • Publications • Amici • Internexus
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
© PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES • • Webmaster / Retifex