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U.S. Postage 3905 Spruce Street PAID Permit No. 185 Philadelphia, PA 19104 Philadelphia, PA www.pennpress.org and Early Modern Studies Late Ancient, Medieval, Medieval, Ancient, Late Featured Titles 1 Titles Featured 2019 Contents Index Medieval 1 Addiction and Devotion in Praise 18 Lupic, Ivan 24 Salloum Elias, Leila 17 Early Modern Donoghue, Daniel 11 Machiavelli 29 Salloum, M.S.M., Early Modern 19 England 27 Drimmer, Sonja 13 Marcus, Ivan G. 18 Habeeb 17 African Kings and Black Early Modern Histories of Marie of France 9 Salloum, Muna 17 Slaves 30 Late Ancient 31 Time 20 Maskarinec, Maya 15 Saltzman, Benjamin A. 7 After the Black Death 17 Einbinder, Susan L. 17 Masten, Jeffrey 22 Sanok, Catherine 7 Allsen, Thomas T. 4 Journals 38 Elegies of Maximianus 37 Matter of Virtue 23 Saving Shame 34 Ancient Christian Elf Queens and Holy McCormick, John P. 29 Scheherazade’s Feasts 17 Ecopoetics 31 Review, Desk, and Examination Copies 39 Friars 13 Miller, Patricia Cox 33 Scott-Warren, Jason 19 Anna Zieglerian and the Evergates, Theodore 9 “Sefer Hasidim” and the Lion’s Blood 20 Miller, Tanya Stabler 10 Fallon, Samuel 21 Ashkenazic Book in Apocalypse of Empire 32 Mixed Faith and Shared Faraone, Feeling 26 Medieval Europe 18 Art of Illusion 13 Christopher A. 36 Monster with a Thousand “Sefer Yesirah” and Its Baldwin, John W. 1 Fathers Refounded 33 Hands 26 Contexts 35 Barker, Hannah 6 Florentine Political New Legends of England 7 Shakespeare’s First Barney, Stephen A. 12 Reader 19 Writings from Petrarch Nirenberg, David 4 Beguines of Medieval to Machiavelli 29 Shakespearean Notini, Sylvia 28 Paris 10 Galloway, Andrew 12 Intersections 24 Nummedal, Tara 20 Bennett, Herman L. 30 Geltner, G. 3 Shoemaker, Stephen J. 32 Nuns’ Priests’ Tales 14 Berman, Constance Godman and the Sea 32 Stacey, Orlemanski, Julie 2 Hoffman 10 Green, Richard Firth 13 Robin Chapman 11 Paper Monsters 21 Between Christ and Griffiths, Fiona J. 14 Steppe and the Sea 4 Caliph 35 Parker, Patricia 24 Gurnis, Musa 26 Stern, Paul 15 Black Metaphors 8 Penn Commentary on Piers Guynn, Noah D. 9 Subjects of Advice 24 Blood Matters 27 Plowman 12 Hanna, Ralph 12 Symptomatic Subjects 2 Bonds of Secrecy 7 Perett, Marcela K. 14 Hershenzon, Daniel 30 That Most Precious Bregoli, Francesca 28 Periodization and Merchandise 6 How the Anglo-Saxons Sovereignty 6 Burrus, Virginia 31, 34 Thate, Michael J. 32 Read Their Poems 11 Piano, Natasha 29 Captive Sea 30 To Live Like a Moor 4 In the Eye of the Plato’s Persona 25 Chenoweth, Katie 22 Animal 33 Tommasino, Poet and the City of Saints 15 Pier Mattia 28 Inventing the Berbers 5 Antiquaries 25 Clark, Elizabeth A. 33 Jordan, Transformation of Greek Politics of Roman Amulets in Roman Colonial Justice and the William Chester 1 Memory 36 Jews of Venetian Imperial Times 36 Jurdjevic, Mark 29 Poole, Kristen 20 Crete 16 Two Powers 3 Juster, A. M. 37 Preachers, Partisans, and Connecting Histories 28 Venetian Qur’an 28 Knights, Lords, and Rebellious Religion 14 Constable, Vose, Robin 4 Ladies 1 Prosthetic Tongue 22 Olivia Remie 4 Wall, Wendy 23 Krueger, Derek 34 Pure Filth 9 Constantine and the Weiss, Tzahi 35 Kruse, Marion 36 Queer Philologies 22 Cities 37 Weitz, Lev E. 35 ART CREDITS Lander Johnson, Ray, Meredith K. 29 Cook, Megan L. 25 Bonnie 27 Whalen, Brett Edward 3 Recipes for Thought 23 Front cover: The Sinking of the Genoese Fleet, May 1241, from Matthew Paris’s Chronica maiora. The Crocker, Holly A. 23 Lauer, Rena N. 16 Whitaker, Cord J. 8 Roads to Health 3 Parker Library, MS 16, f. 147r. Courtesy of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. From Brett Edward Dante’s Philosophical Law and the Imagination White Nuns 10 Whalen, The Two Powers (see page 3). Roberts, Michael 37 Life 15 in Medieval Wales 11 Williams, Owen 20 Robichaud, Denis J.-J. 25 Back cover: Bernardo Bellotto, “View of Krakowskie Przedmieście from the Cracow Gate,” 1767–68 Davis, Kathleen 6 Lawler, Traugott 12 (detail). State Art Collection, Royal Castle, Warsaw. Three Jewish merchants in dark brown robes can be Rodgers, Amy J. 26 Decamp, Eleanor 27 Lemon, Rebecca 27 seen standing together to the right of the Column of King Sigismund III. From Francesca Bregoli and Rouighi, Ramzi 5 Decter, Jonathan 18 Lenski, Noel 37 David B. Ruderman, Connecting Histories (see page 28). Ruderman, David B. 28 Dominion Built of Liturgical Subjects 34 Medieval Knights, Lords, and Ladies In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180–1220 John W. Baldwin Foreword by William Chester Jordan At the beginning of the twelfth century, the region around Paris had a reputation for being the land of unruly aristocrats. Entrenched within their castles, the nobles were viewed as quarrelling among themselves, terrorizing the countryside, harassing churchmen and peasants, pillaging, and committing unspeakable atrocities. By the end of the century, during the reign of Philip Augustus, the situation was dramatically different. The king had created the principal governmental organs of the Capetian monarchy and replaced the feudal magnates at the royal court with loyal men of lesser rank. The major castles had been subdued and peace reigned throughout the countryside. In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin turned to church charters, royal inventories of fiefs and vassals, aristocratic seals and documents, vernacular texts, and archaeological evidence to create a detailed picture of the transformation of aristocratic life in the areas around Paris during the four decades of Philip Augustus’s reign. Working outward from the reconstructed biographies of seventy-five individuals from thirty-three noble families, Baldwin offers a rich description of their domestic lives, their horses and war gear, their tourneys and crusades, their romantic fantasies, and their penances and apprehensions about final judgment. Knights, Lords, and Ladies argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only because they contributed to Philip Augustus’s increase of royal power and because they contributed to the wealth of churches and monasteries but also for their own establishment as an elite and powerful social class. John W. Baldwin (1929–2015) was the Charles Homer Haskins Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of numerous books including The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages, Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190–1230, and Paris, 1200. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected to numerous academies including the Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres, and decorated by the French Government with the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, among other honors. William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. The Middle Ages Series Oct 2019 | 456 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 39 color, 35 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-5128-9 | Cloth | $59.95 Symptomatic Subjects Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England Julie Orlemanski “An exciting, accomplished, and dazzling book. Julie Orlemanski is reinventing the field of literature and medicine, making a signal contri- bution to the medical humanities while gifting the field of Middle English studies with a bracing series of new interpretations that will influence our readings of medieval and other literatures for many years to come.”—Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia In the period just prior to medicine’s modernity— before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism—England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and the emergence of printed English books a century and a quarter later, thousands of discrete medical texts were copied, translated, and composed, largely for readers outside universities. These widely varied texts shared a model of a universe crisscrossed with physical forces and a picture of the human body as a changeable, composite thing, tuned materially to the world’s vicissitudes. According to Julie Orlemanski, when writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson, Thomas Hoccleve, and Margery Kempe drew on the discourse of phisik—the language of humors and complexions, leprous pustules and love sickness, regimen and pharmacopeia—they did so to chart new circuits of legibility between physiology and personhood. Orlemanski explores the texts of her vernacular writers to show how they deployed the rich terminology of embodiment and its ailments to portray symptomatic figures who struggled to control both their bodies and the interpretations that gave their bodies meaning. As medical paradigms mingled with penitential, miraculous, and socially symbolic systems, these texts demanded that a growing number of readers negotiate the conflicting claims of material causation, intentional action, and divine power. Examining both the medical writings of late medieval England and the narrative and poetic works that responded to them, Symptomatic Subjects illuminates the period’s conflicts over who had the authority to construe bodily signs and what embodiment could be made to mean. Julie Orlemanski teaches English at the University of Chicago. Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science 2019 | 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-5090-9 | Cloth | $69.95 2 Medieval The Two Powers The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century Brett Edward Whalen “The Two Powers offers a new and convincing statement on the relations between papacy and empire in the first half of the thirteenth century and demolishes the current rather simplistic assessments of papal attitudes to Frederick II.” —R.