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FORTHCOMING seemingly paradoxically – allowed HISTORY Islamic law and its application to be Viking Empires uniquely independent of the ‘state.’ Highlights Angelo Forte Themes in Islamic Law, 1 University of Aberdeen 2004 228 x 152 mm 280pp 2 maps Richard Oram 0 521 80332 2 Hardback c. £40.00 FORTHCOMING University of Aberdeen 0 521 00580 9 Paperback c. £14.99 Publication December 2004 Science and and Frederik Pedersen University of Aberdeen Civilisation in China Viking Empires is a definitive new NEW Volume 7: Science and Chinese Society history of five hundred years of Viking Part 2: Reflections and Conclusions civilization and the first study of the History and Memory in Joseph Needham global implications of the expansion, the Carolingian World Edited by Kenneth Girdwood integration, and reorientation of the Rosamond McKitterick Robinson Viking World. From the first contact in University of Cambridge University of Cambridge the 790s the book traces the political, The writing and reading of history in the It would be difficult to overstate the military, social, cultural and religious early Middle Ages form the key themes importance of Joseph Needham’s history of the Viking Age from Iceland to of this book. The primary focus is on the Science and Civilisation in China series. Lithuania. The authors show that it is no remarkable manifestations of historical For nearly fifty years, Needham and his longer possible to understand the writing in relation to historical memory collaborators have revealed the ideals, history of the Norman Conquest, the in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth concepts and achievements of China’s successes of David I of Scotland or and ninth centuries. It considers the scientific and technological traditions German settlement in Poland, Prussia audiences for history in the Frankish from the earliest times to about 1800 and the Baltic States without integrating kingdoms, the recording of memory in through this great enterprise. During his the internal history of Scandinavia. The new genres including narrative histories, long working lifetime, Needham kept in book concludes with a new account of cartularies and Libri memoriales, and draft various essays, some written with the end of the Viking era, arguing that thus particular perceptions of the collaborators, in which he set out his there was no sudden decline but only Frankish and Christian past. It analyses broad views on the Chinese social and the gradual absorption of the both original manuscript material and historical context. These essays, edited Scandinavian kingdoms into the larger key historical texts from the Carolingian by one of his closest collaborators, project of the the crusades and a period, a remarkably creative period in Kenneth Robinson, are contained in the refocusing of imperial ambitions on the the history of European culture. present volume. A reading of this Baltic States and Eastern Europe. Presentations of the past developed in material makes it possible to reconstruct 2004 247 x 174 mm 420pp this period were crucial in forming an the assumptions and problematics that 20 line diagrams 60 half-tones 3 maps historical understanding of the Greco- underpinned and drove the Needham 0 521 82992 5 Hardback c. £25.00 Roman and Judaeo-Christian past and, Publication October 2004 project throughout the nearly one half in subsequent centuries, of early century during which he was at the medieval Europe. They also played an helm. The documents gathered here FORTHCOMING extraordinarily influential role in the reveal the intellectual foundations of The Origins and formation of political ideologies and one of the greatest scholarly enterprises senses of identity within Europe. of the twentieth century. Evolution of Islamic 2004 228 x 152 mm 362pp Contents: 1. Prefaces; 2. Foreword Joseph Law 0 521 82717 5 Hardback c. £50.00 Needham;3.Science and society in east Wael B. Hallaq 0 521 53436 4 Paperback c. £17.99 and west Joseph Needham;4.The roles of McGill University, Montréal Publication June 2004 Europe and China in the evolution of Long before the rise of Islam in the ecumenical science Joseph Needham;5.The early seventh century, Arabia had come nature of Chinese society: a technical to form an integral part of the Near interpretation Huang Jen-yü and Joseph Needham;6.History and human values: a East. This book, covering more than Chinese perspective for science and three centuries of legal history, presents technology Joseph Needham;7.Literary an important account of how Islam Chinese as a language for science Kenneth developed its own law while drawing Robinson and Joseph Needham;8.General on ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, conclusions; 9. Joseph Needham: a Arabian customary law and Quranic soliloquy Kenneth Robinson;Bibliographies. reforms. The development of the Science and Civilisation in China judiciary, legal reasoning and legal 2004 246 x 189 mm 300pp 21 half-tones authority during the first century is 0 521 08732 5 Hardback c. £55.00 Publication July 2004 discussed in detail as is the dramatic rise of prophetic authority, the crystallization of legal theory and the formation of the all-important legal schools. 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A Christian University of Durham This is the first-ever history of the church organisation was established, Edited in association with John literary theory and criticism produced the first towns came into being, and the Insley during the Middle Ages that covers all unification of the three medieval and Margaret Gelling kingdoms of Scandinavia began, the main traditions in Latin, the major coinciding with the formation of the This alphabetical dictionary is a totally European vernaculars, and Byzantine unique Icelandic ‘Free State’. new compilation, based on the archives Greek. Starting with the study of of the English Place-Name Society and Contents: Introduction Knut Helle;Part I. grammar and the formal ‘arts’ of poetry, reflecting the most recent scholarship in The Geography and Prehistory of letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds Scandinavia: 1. The Scandinavian landscape the subject, of all the names of cities, to offer a full description of the Latin and its resources Ulf Sporrong;2.The Stone towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, streams, commentary tradition on classical and and Bronze Ages Ari Siiriäinen;3.The Iron hills and other geographical locations classicizing literature, followed by Age Bjørn Myhre;4.Languages and ethnic included in the Ordnance Survey Road explanations of medieval views on groups Michael Barnes; Part II. From Vikings Atlas of Great Britain (1983) plus many literary imagination and memory, and to Kings: 5. The Viking expansion Peter more. It provides a reflection of the ways in which certain texts were Sawyer;6.Viking culture Else Roesdahl and contemporary England, not just its believed to achieve moral profit through Preben Meulengracht-Sørensen; historical past. Every place-name entry pleasure. Subsequent essays explore the 7. Scandinavia enters Christian Europe has a unique National Grid reference Birgit Sawyer and Peter Sawyer;8.Early diverse theoretical and critical traditions number, a list of historical spellings, the political organisation; 8(a). Introductory which developed in the vernacular survey Thomas Lindkvist;8(b). The making age and meaning of the name and its languages, ranging from Medieval Irish of the Danish kingdom Inge Skovgaard- etymology (pre-Indo-European, Indo- to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High Petersen;8(c). The early unification of European, Celtic, Primitive Welsh, Anglo- German, concentrating particularly on Norway Claus Krag;8(d). The Norse Saxon, Old Norse, Old French, Middle Dante and his commentators and Italian communities of the western ocean Magnús English, Modern English). Where humanist criticism. The volume Stefánsson; 8(e). Kings and provinces in appropriate, a commentary is provided concludes with an examination of the Sweden Thomas Lindkvist;Part III. 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arranged by subject-matter. It contains opportunity; 7. Tested again; 8. Losing provincial households competed with much lore of the late classical world control; 9. Conclusions: Heraclius’ crises; each other for control over community beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, Chronological table; Bibliography. decisions. The emperors exercised just including Rhetoric, and touches on 2003 228 x 152 mm 372pp 9 half-tones enough strength at the right times to 10 maps hundreds of topics ranging from the 0 521 81459 6 Hardback £50.00 prevent the leaders of important names of God, the terminology of the households in the core provinces from Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships becoming rulers themselves. and agriculture to the names of cities FORTHCOMING Membership in a successful household, and rivers, the theatrical arts, and Byzantium in the wealth, capacity for effective violence cooking utenils. 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FORTHCOMING in Islamic markets, the funduq evolved into the fondaco.These merchant The Islamic Tales from Another colonies facilitated trade and travel World, the Byzantium between Muslim and Christian regions. Celestial Journey and Local Before long, fondacos also appeared in Middle East Community in the Medieval southern European cities. This study of Greek Apocrypha the diffusion of this institutional family and Asia Jane Baun demonstrates common economic University of Oxford interests and cross-cultural The rich corpus of medieval Greek communications across the medieval An Introduction to apocryphal religious literature has been Mediterranean world, and provides a Islam little used by historians. This book is the striking contribution to our Second edition first full-length study of two medieval understanding of this region. 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Coming at the and shed new light on the reception of Translated by Jean Birrell end of a book which has explored the church doctrine and imperial This is a revised and translated edition ideas and traditions of Islam in depth, governance by ordinary Byzantine of Gilbert Dagron’s Empereur et prêtre, this new section offers thought- Christians. Though their heroines tour an acknowledged masterwork by one of provoking reflections on the place of the Other World, their true concern is the great Byzantine scholars of our religion in the current conflicts. this world, and the reinforcement of time. The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was Introduction to Religion social, moral, and ritual norms within 2003 228 x 152 mm 380pp 22 half-tones local communities. Providing original also designated a priest, has long 1 map translations of both texts, the book fascinated the western imagination. 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FORTHCOMING The Archaeology of personal beauty, and theories of Seafaring in Ancient disposition. The book ends with a Voyagers’ Verities, sustained examination of the theory and Travellers’ Tales South Asia practice of erotic love in the context of The World of the Indo-Persian Himanshu Prabha Ray the wider social dynamics and anxieties Jawaharlal Nehru University Travel Account, 1400–1800 which faced the people of the court. Muzaffar Alam Prior to European expansion, Cambridge Studies in Indian History and and Sanjay Subrahmanyam communities of the Indian subcontinent Society, 10 had a strong maritime orientation. In 2004 228 x 152 mm 322pp This is a path-breaking work based on this new archaeological study, 5 line diagrams 15 half-tones 1 table detailed and sensitive readings of travel- Himanshu Prabha Ray explores 0 521 81627 0 Hardback c. £45.00 accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Publication June 2004 seafaring activity, religious travel and Iran, and Central Asia between about political economy in this ancient period. 1400 and 1800. It is the first By using archaeological data from the Cambridge Studies in comprehensive treatment of this Red Sea to the Indonesian archipelago, neglected genre of literature (safar Islamic Civilization she reveals how the early history of nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids Series Editor: David Morgan peninsular South Asia is interconnected and Central Asia in a crucial period of with that of its Asian and transformation and cultural contact. 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Tolerance and Coercion Law, Society and Islamic Historiography in Islam Culture in the Chase F. Robinson Interfaith Relations in the Maghrib, 1300–1500 University of Oxford Muslim Tradition David S. Powers Chase Robinson’s book offers a well- Yohanan Friedmann Cornell University, New York composed, accessible and timely Hebrew University of Jerusalem introduction to Islamic historiography David Powers analyses the application from its origins in the seventh and Since the beginning of its history, Islam of Islamic law through six cases which eighth centuries to the fifteenth century. has encountered other religious took place during the period 1300 to The book covers the rise of the communities both in Arabia and in the 1500 in the Maghrib. The source for tradition, the historians’ principal territories conquered during its these disputes are fatwas issued by the genres, assumptions and methods, and expansion. 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The mercantile system; overcome the extreme fragmentation of eleventh century, when women and 6. The just price and the just wage; 7. The early Southeast Asian historiography, men set out to test the old frontiers of nature of usury: the usurer as winner; 8. The and to connect Southeast Asian to Europe. The book recreates the lives of theory of interest; the usurer as loser; world history. Lieberman argues that ordinary women but also tells personal Conclusion; Appendix: notes on the main over a thousand years, each of writers and anonymous works used in the stories of individuals. Each chapter also text; Glossary; Bibliography. mainland Southeast Asia’s great questions an assumption of medieval lowland corridors experienced a pattern Cambridge Medieval Textbooks historiography, and uses the few 2002 216 x 138 mm 274pp of accelerating integration punctuated documents produced by women 0 521 45260 0 Hardback £40.00 by recurrent collapse. 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Barrell borders. manuscript of a tenth-century monk, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Richer, as a point of entry into the 2000 216 x 138 mm 310pp 3 maps Thought: Fourth Series, 62 author’s world, and asks how he and 4 genealogical tables 2004 228 x 152 mm 768pp 9 maps 0 521 58443 4 Hardback £40.00 his contemporaries in the religious and 25 genealogical tables intellectual community of Reims 0 521 58602 X Paperback £14.99 0 521 57172 3 Hardback c. £90.00 Publication November 2004 engaged in Frankish politics. By shifting focus from the events and actors that typically occupy centre stage in political theatre to the writing of history and its authors, it offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between politics and history. As a case study it aims, ultimately, to articulate new possibilities for the study of early medieval politics

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and, at the same time, to provide a Rule: Introduction; 3. The financial and (876–888). The later decades of the model for a type of historical inquiry in judicial administration of mudéjar society; empire are conventionally seen as a which the development of questions 4. Muslims in the economy of the Christian dismal period of decline and fall, and the exploration of possibilities Ebro; 5. Mudéjar ethnicity and Christian scarred by internal feuding, unfettered stand more prominent than the society; 6. Muslims and Christian society; aristocratic ambition and Viking Part III. Individual and Community in the conclusions drawn from them. Christian Ebro: Case study 1; Case study onslaught. This book offers a fresh Contents: Introduction; Part I. Religious 2; Case study 3; Case study 4; Case study interpretation, arguing that previous and Intellectual Landscapes: 1. Richer of 5; Case study 6; Conclusions: mudéjar generations of historians misunderstood Reims; 2. Canon and cantor at cathedral of ethnogenesis; Appendices. the nature and causes of the end of the Reims; 3. Intellectual culture; 4. Monk at Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and empire, and neglected many of the Saint Remegius; Conclusions; Part II. Thought: Fourth Series, 59 relatively numerous sources for this Political History: 5. A Frankish civil war, 2004 228 x 152 mm 484pp 4 figures period. Topics covered include the 987–991; 6. Archbishop Gerbert of Reims, 7 maps significance of aristocratic power; 981–998; 7. Richer and his narrative; 8. A 0 521 82234 3 Hardback c. £55.00 political structures; the possibilities and tenth-century treasure; Conclusions; Part III. Historian and Community, Past and Present: limits of kingship; developments in royal 9. Flodoard of Reims; 10. Carolingians and NEW ideology; the struggle with the Vikings Robertians, 888–929; 11. The contested see In the Shadow of and the nature of regional political of Reims, 925–948; 12. Kingship and identities. In proposing new community; Conclusions; Epilogue: A Burgundy explanations for the empire’s The Court of Guelders in the Curious Journey; Appendices; Bibliography. disintegration, the book has broader Late Middle Ages Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and implications for our understanding of Gerard Nijsten Thought: Fourth Series, 60 this formative period of European 2004 228 x 152 mm 356pp 10 half-tones Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam history more generally. 4 figures 2 maps Translated by Tanis Guest 0 521 83487 2 Hardback c. £50.00 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Publication July 2004 In recent years the study of medieval Thought: Fourth Series, 57 courts has become a flourishing field. 2003 228 x 152 mm 286pp 8 maps The courts of kings and popes, or of the 1 genealogical table NEW Burgundian dukes, have usually 0 521 81945 8 Hardback £45.00 The Victors and the attracted most attention. This book Vanquished offers by contrast a wide-ranging study Kings, Barons and Christians and Muslims of of a little-known, medium-sized court – Justices Catalonia and Aragon, that of Guelders in the Low Countries. The Making and Enforcement of 1050–1300 Guelders offers an excellent vantage Legislation in Thirteenth-Century Brian A. Catlos point for the study of European late England University of California, Santa Cruz medieval court culture. It was Paul Brand This is a revisionary study of Muslims surrounded by the vast territories of the All Souls College, Oxford living under Christian rule during the dukes of Burgundy, and it felt the This book is a study of two important Spanish ‘reconquest’. It looks beyond growing power of the Valois dukes, yet and related pieces of thirteenth-century the obvious religious distinctions and the duchy managed to remain English legislation – the Provisions of delves into the subtleties of identity in independent until 1473. Rich archival Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, sources – including a long and virtually Marlborough of 1267 – and is the first uncovering a social dynamic in which unbroken series of ducal accounts – on any of the statutes of this period of sectarian differences comprise only one reveal much about the rise of territorial major legislative change. The Provisions of the many factors in the causal or ‘proto-national’ awareness and about of Westminster were the first major complex of political, economic and the role of the court in this process. The legislation enacted in England after cultural reactions. Beginning with the book also conveys the striking cultural Magna Carta, when Henry III final stage of independent Muslim rule and political richness of the court, surrendered control of government to a in the Ebro valley region, the book poised between French and German baronial council with an agenda of traces the transformation of Islamic spheres of influence. institutional reform. The Provisions were Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and revised and reissued by the king in society into mudéjar society under Thought: Fourth Series, 58 Christian domination. 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University of St Andrews, Scotland Contents: Introduction; Part I. Muslim This is the first major study in any Domination of the Ebro and its Demise: language of the collapse of the pan- Introduction; 1. Thaghr and taifa; European Carolingian empire and the 2. Christians and Muslims: contact and reign of its last ruler, Charles III ‘the Fat’ conquest; Part II. Muslims under Christian History: The Medieval West 15

Envoys and Political the first time a consistency between his Making Agreements in Communication in the realist metaphysics and his political and Medieval Catalonia ecclesiological theory. Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200 Late Antique West, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and 411–533 Thought: Fourth Series, 54 Adam J. Kosto Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and 2003 228 x 152 mm 252pp Andrew Gillett Thought: Fourth Series, 51 0 521 63346 X Hardback £45.00 Macquarie University, Sydney 2001 228 x 152 mm 390pp 6 tables Warfare and dislocation are obvious 8 figures 1 map features of the break-up of the late Literacy in Lombard 0 521 79239 8 Hardback £50.00 Roman West, but this crucial period of Italy, c. 568–774 At the Gate of Christendom change was characterised also by Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Nicholas Everett Medieval Hungary, c. 1000–c. 1300 communication and diplomacy. The Harvard University, Massachusetts great events of the late antique West Nora Berend Italy had long experienced literacy under Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and were determined by the quieter labours Roman rule, but what happened to Thought: Fourth Series, 50 of countless envoys, who travelled 2001 228 x 152 mm 362pp 2 maps literacy in Italy under the rule of a between emperors, kings, generals, high 0 521 65185 9 Hardback £50.00 barbarian people? This book examines officials, bishops, provincial councils, the evidence for the use of literacy in and cities. This book examines the role Lombard Italy c. 568–774, a period FORTHCOMING of envoys in the period from the usually considered as the darkest of the establishment of the first ‘barbarian Medicine in the Dark Ages in Italy due to the poor kingdoms’ in the West, to the eve of survival of written evidence and the Crusades Justinian’s wars of re-conquest. It shows Warfare, Wounds and the reputation of the Lombards as the how ongoing practices of Roman Medieval Surgeon fiercest of barbarian hordes ever to imperial administration shaped new Piers D. Mitchell invade Italy. A careful examination of patterns of political interaction in the University College London the evidence, however, reveals quite a novel context of the earliest medieval different story. This study considers the This first ever book on any aspect of states. Close analysis of sources with different types of evidence in turn and medicine in the crusades will be of special interest in embassies offers offers a re-examination of the nature of interest not only to scholars of the insight into a variety of genres: Lombard settlement in Italy and the crusades specifically, but also to chronicles, panegyrics, hagiographies, question of their cultural identity. Far scholars of medieval Europe, the letters, and epitaph. This study makes a from constituting a Dark Age in the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. significant contribution to the history of literacy, Lombard Italy The work focuses on injuries and their developing field of ancient and medieval possessed a relatively sophisticated surgical treatment. In order to communications. written culture prior to the so-called understand this fully Piers D. Mitchell Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and considers medical practitioners, Thought: Fourth Series, 55 Carolingian Renaissance of the ninth century. hospitals on battlefields and in towns, 2003 228 x 152 mm 364pp 3 tables torture and mutilation, emergency and 2 maps Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and 0 521 81349 2 Hardback £47.50 Thought: Fourth Series, 53 planned surgical procedures, 2003 228 x 152 mm 400pp 12 half-tones bloodletting, analgesia and anesthesia. 2 maps He provides an assessment of the Philosophy and Politics 0 521 81905 9 Hardback £50.00 exchange of medical knowledge that in the Thought of John took place between East and West in Wyclif The Making of the the crusades, and of the medical Stephen E. Lahey Slavs negligence legislation for which the Le Moyne College, Syracuse History and Archaeology of the kingdom of Jerusalem was famous. The John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century Lower Danube Region, book presents a radical reassessment of English thinker responsible for the first c. 500–700 many outdated misconceptions English Bible, and for the Lollard Florin Curta concerning medicine in the crusades movement which was persecuted widely University of Florida and the Frankish states of the Latin for its attempts to reform the church This book offers a new approach to the East. through empowerment of the laity. 2004 228 x 152 mm 272pp 10 half-tones problem of Slavic ethnicity in south- 4 tables 1 map 4 plans Wyclif had also been an Oxford eastern Europe between c. 500 and 0 521 84455 X Hardback c. £45.00 philosopher, and was in the service of c. 700. The author shows how Byzantine Publication December 2004 John of Gaunt, the powerful duke of authors ‘invented’ the Slavs, rejects the Lancaster. 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of crusading H. E. J. Cowdrey; 12. Holy war Firearms Warfare and holy men: Erdmann and the lives of the A Global History to 1700 saints John France; 13. The Bible moralisée Kenneth Chase and the crusades Christoph T. Maier; 14. The The Experience of hospitallers in twelfth-century Constantinople This is a history of firearms across the Crusading Anthony Luttrell; 15. Serving king and world from the time of their invention in Volume 1: Western Approaches crusade: the military orders in royal service China, to the time when European Edited by Marcus Bull in Ireland, 1220–1400 Helen Nicholson; firearms had become clearly superior. University of Bristol Part III. Retrospective: 16. The first crusade Steppe and desert nomads imposed a in post-war fiction Susan Edgington; and Norman Housley different style of warfare on the Middle 17. Nineteenth-century perspectives of the University of Leicester East, India, and China – a style with first crusade Elizabeth Siberry. which firearms were incompatible. By The study of the crusades is one of the 2003 228 x 152 mm 324pp 4 half-tones most thriving areas of medieval history. 2 maps the time that better firearms allowed This collection of seventeen essays by 0 521 81168 6 Hardback £45.00 these regions to turn the tables on the leading researchers in the field reflects nomads, Japan’s self-imposed isolation the best of contemporary scholarship. left Europe with no rival in firearms The Experience of design, production, or use, with The subjects handled are remarkably Crusading wide-ranging, focusing on the theory consequences that are still with us and practice of crusading and the Volume 2: Defining the Crusader Kingdom today. contributions which were made by the Edited by Peter Edbury 2003 228 x 152 mm 308pp Cardiff University 1 line diagram 9 half-tones 5 maps military orders. Chronologically, the 0 521 82274 2 Hardback £25.00 essays range from the church’s and Jonathan Phillips Royal Holloway, University of London approach towards warfare in the pre- crusade era, to the way in which the Contents: Jonathan Riley-Smith, the Social and Cultural crusades and the Latin east: an First Crusade has been depicted in post- appreciation; Part I. People and Politics: History war fiction. Together with its companion 1. The ‘muddy road’ of Odo Arpin from volume, The Experience of Crusading: Bourges to La Charité-sur-Loire; 2. Alice of Volume 2. Defining the Crusader Antioch: a case study of female power in The Origins of the Kingdom, edited by Peter Edbury and the twelfth century; 3. Gaufridus abbas English Gentry Jonathan Phillips, this collection has Templi Domini: an underestimated figure in Peter Coss been published to celebrate the 65th the early history of the kingdom of Cardiff University Jerusalem; 4. The career of Philip of Nablus birthday of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the The gentry played a central role in leading British historian of the crusades. in the kingdom of Jerusalem; Part II. Re- reading the Sources: 5. A second medieval England, yet this is the first The volume includes an appreciation of incarnation in Frankish Jerusalem; 6. The sustained attempt to explore the origins his work on the crusades and on the Old French translation of William of Tyre as of the gentry and to account for its military orders. an historical source; 7. The Freiburg leaf: contours and peculiarities between the ‘This is certainly a Festschrift to be crusader art and loca sancta around the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth welcomed ...’ year 1200; 8. Reading John of Jaffa; Part III. century. The book deals with the deep Alan Borg, Church Times History and Historiography: 9. Churches and roots of the gentry, but argues against Contents: Jonathan Riley-Smith, the settlement in crusader Palestine; 10. King views which see the gentry as formed or Fulk of Jerusalem as city lord; 11. The crusades and the military orders: an created earlier. It investigates the appreciation Norman Housley and Marcus adventure of John Gale, knight of Tyre; relationship between lesser landowners Bull;Part I. The Crusades and Crusading: 12. Hülegü Khan and the christians: the 1. Views of Muslims and of Jerusalem in making of a myth; 13. Orientalism and the and the Angevin state, the miracle stories, c. 1000–c. 1200: reflections early development of crusader studies; Part transformation of knighthood, and the on the study of first crusaders’ motivations IV. Commerce in Context: 14. Notes on the role of knights in the rebellion of mid Marcus Bull;2.A further note on the economic consequences of the crusades; thirteenth-century England. The role of conquest of Lisbon in 1147 Giles 15. New Venetian evidence on crusader lesser landowners in the society and Constable;3.Costing the crusade: Acre; 16. The role of the Templars and the politics of Edwardian England is then budgeting for crusading activity in the Hospitallers in the movement of put under close scrutiny. It also fourteenth century Norman Housley;4.The commodities involving Cyprus, 1291–1312; emphasises changes in social 17. From Tunis to Piombino: piracy and crusading motivation of the Italian city terminology and the rise of social republics in the Latin East, c. 1096–1104 trade in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 1397–1472. gradation, the emergence of the county Christopher Marshall;5.Odo of Deuil’s De 2003 228 x 152 mm 328pp 7 half-tones profectione Ludovici VII in orientem as a 1 map as an important focus of identity, the source for the second crusade Jonathan 0 521 78151 5 Hardback £45.00 gentry’s control over the populace, and Phillips;6.Innocent III and Alexius III: a their openness to the upward mobility crusade plan that failed James M. Powell; The Experience of of professionals. 7. The Venetian fleet for the fourth crusade Past and Present Publications and the diversion of the crusade to Crusading 2003 228 x 152 mm 344pp 3 half-tones Constantinople John H. Pryor;Part II. The 2 Volume Set 0 521 82673 X Hardback £45.00 Catholic Church and the Crusade: 8. 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Individuals, Families, FORTHCOMING The Uses of Script and and Communities in Gender in the Early Print, 1300 –1700 Europe, 1200–1800 Edited by Julia Crick Medieval World University of Exeter The Urban Foundations of East and West, 300–900 Western Society and Alexandra Walsham Edited by Leslie Brubaker University of Exeter Katherine A. Lynch University of Birmingham Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania and Julia M. H. Smith This volume builds upon the widening This new interpretation of European University of St Andrews, Scotland interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval family and society examines the family In this book, sixteen scholars on the and early modern Europe. Focusing on at the centre of life of ‘civil society’. cutting edges of their disciplines explore England, it takes a critical look at the Using a variety of evidence from the ideas and expressions of gender scholarly paradigm of the shift from European towns and cities, Katherine that characterised the centuries from c. script to print, exploring the possibilities Lynch explores how women and men 300 to 900 in milieux ranging from York and limitations of these media as created voluntary associations to Baghdad, via Rome and vehicles of information and meaning. (communities) outside the family to Constantinople. Deploying a variety of The essays examine how pen and the complement or even substitute for disciplines and perspectives, they draw press were used in the spheres of solidarities based on kinship. Drawing on the evidence of material culture as religion, law, scholarship, and politics. on demographics, economics, religion well as texts to demonstrate the wide They assess scribal activity both before and politics she argues that European range of gender identities that informed and after the advent of printing, cities provided tools for fashioning the social, political and imaginary illuminating its role in recording and communities for mutual protection. worlds of these centuries. The essays transmitting polemical, literary, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy make clear that the fixed point in the and Society in Past Time, 37 antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They gender systems of the period was 2003 228 x 152 mm 268pp 10 half-tones also investigate script and print in constituted by the hegemonic 4 tables 3 maps relation to the spoken word, 0 521 64235 3 Hardback £47.50 masculinity of the ruling elite, emphasising the constant interaction 0 521 64541 7 Paperback £17.99 marginalised groups often invisible as and symbiosis of these three media. In historical subjects in their own right sum, this collection will help to refine were omnipresent in, and critical to, the The Making of a Court the boundaries between cultures of gendered discourses which buttressed Society speech, manuscript and print, and to assertions of power. Kings and Nobles in Late reconsider the historical fissures which Medieval Portugal Contents: 1. Introduction Julia M. H. they have come to represent. Smith; Part I. Gender in Late antique, Rita Costa Gomes 2003 228 x 152 mm 312pp 6 half-tones Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Byzantine and Islamic Societies: 2. Gender 5figures and ethnicity in the early middle ages Translated by Alison Aiken 0 521 81063 9 Hardback £45.00 Walter Pohl; 3. Clothes maketh the man: This is the first full-length study of the power dressing and elite masculinity in the Portuguese royal court in the fourteenth later roman world Mary Harlow; 4. Social Also of interest and fifteenth centuries. It describes the transformation, gender transformation: the fundamental importance of the court in court eunuch, 300–900 Shaun Tougher; defining the social position of kings, and 5. Sex, lies and textuality: the secret history Geography and History shows how kings and nobles redefined of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in Bridging the Divide sixth-century Byzantium Leslie Brubaker; one another, despite many celebrated Alan R. H. Baker 6. Romance and reality in the Byzantine Emmanuel College, Cambridge political rivalries within the broader brideshows Martha Vinson; 7. Men, women Geography and History is the first book Iberian context. The book contains a and slaves in Abbasid society Julia Bray; detailed comparative analysis of the 8. Gender and politics in the harem of for over a century to examine way royal courts were organised, and of al-Muqtadir Nadia Maria El Cheikh; Part II. comprehensively the interdependence of the status, professional and gender Gender in Germanic Studies: 9. Dressing the two disciplines. Alan Baker considers groups inside the Portuguese court. The conservatively: women’s brooches as in turn locational geographies and characteristics of the court society as a markers of ethnic identity? Bonnie Effros; spatial histories, environmental whole, however, were rooted mostly in 10. Gendering courts in the early medieval geographies and histories, landscape the dynamics of hierarchy and west Janet L. Nelson; 11. Men, women and geographies and histories, and regional liturgical patronage of culture in interdependence – in the specific ways geographies and regional histories. Merovingian Gaul Yitzhak Hen; the different parts and the individuals Cambridge Studies in Historical 13. Genealogy defined by women: the case Geography, 36 were bonded to each other. These bonds of the Pippinids Ian Wood; 14. Brideshows 2003 228 x 152 mm 296pp are discussed in light of later medieval revisited: praise, slander and exegesis in the 8 line diagrams 7 half-tones 3 maps concepts and theories. The book also reign of the Empress Judith Mayke de Jong; 0 521 24683 0 Hardback £47.50 describes the constant displacement of 15. ‘What is the word if not semen?’ 0 521 28885 1 Paperback £17.99 this complex community within Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis Portugal, and how life at court was Lynda Coon; 16. 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narrative sources were shaped by include the political history of Bruges, its Political History sectional interests and created imagined position as a node and network, the visions of the past. wool, cloth and gold trade and the role NEW 2003 247 x 174 mm 368pp 37 half-tones of women in the market. This book 18 figures 10 maps serves not only as a case-study in Family, Friends and 0 521 81335 2 Hardback £55.00 medieval economic history, but also as a Followers social and cultural history of medieval Political and Social Bonds in The Dynasty of Bruges. 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Ritual was also often used to that, after the Mongols invaded Rus’ in NEW create and strengthen these bonds, and 1237, the two branches from the House conduct and behaviour within social The Cambridge History of Monomakh living in the Rostov- groups was shaped by unwritten rules. Suzdal’ and Galicia-Volyn’ regions of Western Textiles People bound in these ways had a right emerged as the most powerful. Edited by David Jenkins to expect help and support from one However, careful examination of the University of York another. Such bonds were both a fact chronicle accounts reporting the Textiles have been essential to the and a necessity of life in the middle dynasty’s history during the second half everyday lives of all societies. Besides ages. Over time, however, these bonds of the twelfth and the first half of the helping provide protection and warmth, and relationships changed, as did the thirteenth century shows that the they have fulfilled social, cultural, rules and norms which governed them. Ol’govichi of Chernigov successfully military, legal and symbolic functions, The aim of this book is to document challenged the Monomashichi for and have been an essential part of the and describe the history of these crucial supremacy in Rus’. Through a critical economic activity of societies from bonds, and the ways in which they analysis of the available primary sources ancient times. The Cambridge History of shaped political life in Europe in the (such as chronicles, archaeology, coins, Western Textiles brings together and early and high middle ages. seals, ‘graffiti’ in churches, and extends current knowledge on the 2004 228 x 152 mm 205pp production and uses of textiles, through 0 521 77054 8 Hardback £45.00 architecture) this book attempts correct 0 521 77934 0 Paperback £16.99 the pervading erroneous view by the eyes of archaeologists, economic Publication June 2004 allocating to the Ol’govichi their rightful and social historians, historians of place in the dynastic hierarchy of Kievan fashion and the history of dress, and Northumbria, Rus’. museum curators familiar with surviving 2003 228 x 152 mm 476pp 18 half-tones artefacts. The history of all the major 500–1100 6 maps 6 genealogical tables textile industries, including wool, linen, Creation and Destruction of a 0 521 82442 7 Hardback £55.00 silk, cotton and artificial fibres is Kingdom explored. Processes and technical terms David Rollason are explained carefully, while the role University of Durham FORTHCOMING and impact of textiles in western This book deals with the rise and fall of Bruges, Cradle of economies and societies are examined. the kingdom of Northumbria. It Capitalism, 1280–1390 In sum, the book offers an authoritative examines the mechanisms of ethnic, James Murray account of three thousand years of the political, social and religious change University of Cincinnati production and consumption of textiles which, beginning after the end of the Teeming with merchants from all over in the western world. Roman Empire, welded the large and Europe, medieval Bruges provides an Contents: Preface; Part I. Textile Industries disparate area between the Humber and early model of a great capitalist city. of the Ancient World: 1. Introduction John the Firth of Forth into one of the most Bruges established a sophisticated Peter Wild and Penelope Walton Rogers; powerful kingdoms of early medieval money market and an elaborate 2. Ancient Egypt; Anatolia; Mesopotamia England, and those which led to its network of agents and brokers. and the Levant; the late Bronze Aegeans; disintegration and its replacement by Moreover, it promoted co-operation the near east in the Iron Age; Europe Joan political structures of northern England Allgrove McDowell, John Peter Wild and between merchants of various nations. Lise Bender Jørgensen; 3. The Greeks; the and southern Scotland. The story is set In this book James Murray explores how in a wider European context so that the Romans; northern Europe in the Roman Bruges became the commercial capital Iron Age; the eastern Mediterranean Ian history of Northumbria is seen as of Northern Europe in the late Jenkins, John Peter Wild and Lise Bender paradigmatic for an understanding of fourteenth century. He argues that a Jørgensen; 4. Textile industries of the early state formation and religious and combination of fortuitous changes such medieval world to AD 1000 Lise Bender cultural change in the early medieval as the shift to sea-borne commerce and Jørgensen, Penelope Walton Rogers, John world. Full attention is given to the extraordinary efforts of the city’s Peter Wild, Joan Allgrove McDowell and archaeological and art-historical population served to shape a great Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood; Part II. The Medieval Period: 5 (i) Medieval woollens; material, and the extent to which commercial centre. Areas explored textiles, textile technology and industrial History: Philosophy and Religion 19 organisation, c. 800–1500, 5 (ii) The The Cambridge western European woollen industries and Philosophy and their struggles for international markets, Companion to c. 1000–1500 John Munro;6.Silk in the Religion Medieval Jewish medieval world Anna Muthesius; 7. The Philosophy uses of textiles, c. 1000–1500 Frances The Cambridge Edited by Daniel H. Frank Pritchard; Part III. The Early Modern Period: University of Kentucky 8. The west European woollen industries, Companion to and Oliver Leaman 1500–1750 Herman Van der Wee; 9. The Medieval Philosophy University of Kentucky linen industry in early modern Europe Leslie Clarkson; 10. Fashioning cottons; Asian Edited by A. S. McGrade From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries trade, domestic industry and consumer The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and demand, 1660–1780 Beverly Lemire; Philosophy takes its readers into one of Christian lands philosophized about 11. Calico printing in Europe before 1780 the most exciting periods in the history Judaism. Influenced first by Islamic Serge Chassagne; 12. Silk in the early of philosophy. It spans a millennium of theological speculation and the great modern period, c. 1500–1780 Natalie thought extending from Augustine to philosophers of classical antiquity, and Rothstein; 13. Knitting and knitware Joan Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes then in the late medieval period by Thirsk; 14. Lace in the early modern period, Christian Scholasticism, Jewish c. 1500–1780 Santina Levey; 15. Early not only the thinkers of the Latin West modern tapestries and carpets, but also the profound contributions of philosophers and scientists reflected on c. 1500–1780 Edith Standen and Jennifer Islamic and Jewish thinkers such as the nature of language about God, the Wearden; 16. Furnishings, c. 1500–1780 Avicenna and Maimonides. Leading scope and limits of human Natalie Rothstein and Santina Levey; specialists examine what it was like to understanding, the eternity or 17. Dress in the early modern period, do philosophy in the cultures and createdness of the world, prophecy and c. 1500–1780 Aileen Ribeiro; Part IV.The institutions of the Middle Ages and divine providence, the possibility of Nineteenth Century: 18. Cotton, engage all the areas in which medieval human freedom, and the relationship 1780–1914 Douglas Farnie; 19. The philosophy flourished, including between divine and human law. 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The book will appeal to Thirteenth to the same-sex love during the centuries that Anglo-Saxonists with a special interest Twentieth Century gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, in literature, art history and theology. Edited by Donald Scragg and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle Contents: List of plates Acknowledgements University of Manchester illustrates how ‘sodomy’ becomes a List of abbreviations 1. Introduction and Carole Weinberg 2. Feasts of the Virgin: origin and University of Manchester problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of development 3. The cult of the Virgin in the Studies literary responses towards the the period denounce sodomy and use liturgy 4. Private prayer to Mary 5. Marian Anglo-Saxons from the medieval period accusations of sodomitical practice as a dedications, relics and pilgrimage in Anglo- to the present. Saxon England 6. 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FORTHCOMING Christi College, MS 392 (K); 38. On the Poetry and Music in margins; Part II. Occasions of Preaching: Latin Sermon 39. Introduction; 40. Preaching in the Medieval France From Jean Renart to Guillaume Collections from Later medieval church and in the parishes; 41. Bishops as preachers; 42. Monastic de Machaut Medieval England preaching; 43. The Friars; 44. University Ardis Butterfield Siegfried Wenzel preaching; 45. Other occasions; Part III. University College London University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Orthodox Preaching: 46. An English In Poetry and Music in Medieval France Until the Reformation, almost all theology; 47. Preaching and the pastoral Ardis Butterfield examines vernacular sermons were written down in Latin. office; 48. The word of God and Pastoralia; song in medieval France. She begins This is the first scholarly study 49. The preacher’s voice; 50. Orthodox and with the moment when French song heterodox; Final reflections; Inventories; systematically to describe and analyse first survives in writing in the early Works cited; Index. the collections of Latin sermons from thirteenth century, and examines a large Cambridge Studies in Medieval the golden age of medieval preaching in Literature, 53 corpus of works which combine England, the fourteenth and fifteenth 2004 228 x 152 mm 550pp elements of narrative and song, as well centuries. Basing his studies on the 0 521 84182 8 Hardback c. £90.00 as a range of genres which cross extant manuscripts, Siegfried Wenzel Publication November 2004 between different musical and literary analyses these sermons and the categories. Emphasising the occasions when they were given. Larger Documentary Culture cosmopolitan artistic milieu of Arras, issues of preaching in the later Middle and the Making of Butterfield describes the wide range of Ages such as the pastoral concern contexts in which secular songs were about preaching, originality in sermon Medieval English quoted and copied, including narrative making, and the attitudes of orthodox Literature romances, satires and love poems. She preachers to Lollardy, receive detailed Emily Steiner uses manuscript evidence to shed light attention. The surviving sermons and University of Pennsylvania on medieval perceptions of how music their collections are listed for the first Emily Steiner describes the rich and poetry were composed and time in full inventories, which intersections between legal documents interpreted. The volume is well supplement the critical and contextual and English literature in the fourteenth illustrated to demonstrate the rich visual material Wenzel presents. This book is and fifteenth centuries. The literature of culture of medieval French writing and an important contribution to the study this period, from Passion lyrics to Lollard music. This interdisciplinary study will be of medieval preaching, and will be sermons, abounds in documentary of interest to both literary and musical essential for scholars of late medieval language and metaphors. Steiner argues scholars of late medieval culture. literature, history and religious thought. that documentary culture (including Cambridge Studies in Medieval Contents: Prolegomena; Part I. The charters, testaments, patents and seals) Literature, 49 Collections: 1. Overview; 2. John Sheppey enabled writers to think in new ways 2003 228 x 152 mm 398pp 24 half-tones 4 tables 18 music examples (SH); 3. Richard FitzRalph (FI); 4. Oxford, about the conditions of textual 0 521 62219 0 Hardback £50.00 Bodleian Library, MS Auct.F.inf.2 (F); 5. John production in late Medieval England. Waldeby (WA); 6. Thomas Brinton (BR); She explains that the distinctive 7. Philip Repingdon (RE); 8. John Felton rhetoric, material form, and ritual Gestures and Looks in (FE); 9.Mirk’s Festial; 10. Robert Rypon (RY); 11. Cambridge, Pembroke College, performance of legal documents offered Medieval Narrative MS 199 (P1); 12. Cambridge, Pembroke writers of Chaucer’s generation and the J. A. Burrow College, MS 257 (P2); 13. Cambridge, generation succeeding him a model of University of Bristol Gonville and Caius College, MS 356/583 literary practice. Covering a wide variety John Burrow examines the role of non- (C); 14. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley of medieval texts: sermons, lyrics, Piers verbal communication in a range of 649 (O); 15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, narrative texts. Laud misc. 706 (R); 16. Oxford, Bodleian The Book of Margery Kempe, heretical Cambridge Studies in Medieval Library, MS Laud misc. 200 (L); 17. Oxford, writings, and trial records, this study will Literature, 48 Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. d. 1 (Q); be of interest to scholars of medieval 2002 228 x 152 mm 214pp 18. John Dygon (DY); 19. Oxford, Magdalen literary studies and medieval studies in 0 521 81564 9 Hardback £40.00 College, MS 96 (CO); 20. Oxford, Balliol College, MS 149 (S); 21. Henry Chambron; general. 22. Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, Contents: Part I. Documentary Poetics: The Beginnings of MS 342 (D); 23. Cambridge, University 1. Bracton, Deguileville and the defense of Medieval Romance Library, MS Kk.4.24 (B); 24. Cambridge, allegory; 2. Lyric, genre, and the material Fact and Fiction, 1150–1220 text; Part II. Langland’s Documents: 3. Piers Jesus College, MS 13 (J); 25. Worcester D. H. Green Plowman and the archive of salvation; Cathedral Library, MS.F.126 (X); University of Cambridge 26. Worcester Cathedral Library, MS F.10 4. Writing public: documents in the Piers (W); 27. Hereford Cathedral Library, Plowman tradition; Part III. Identity, Up to the twelfth century writing in the MS O.iii.5 (E); 28. Oxford, Trinity College, Heterodoxy, Documents: 5. Lollard western vernaculars dealt almost MS 42 (V); 29. Richard Alkerton; community and the Charters of Christ; exclusively with religious, historical and 30. Thomas Wimbledon, “Redde rationem”; 6. Lollard rhetoric and the written record: factual themes, all of which were held 31. Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.8 Margery Baxter and William Thorpe; to convey the truth. The second half of (A); 32. Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, Epilogue: ‘My lordys lettyr & the seel of the twelfth century saw the emergence MS 184 (154) (Z); 33. London, St Paul’s Cawntyrbery’. of a new genre, the romance, which Cambridge Studies in Medieval Cathedral Library, MS 8 (Y); 34. London, was consciously conceived as fictional British Library, MS Harley 331 (H); 35. Literature, 50 and therefore allowed largely to break Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Latin 2003 228 x 152 mm 284pp 11 half-tones 367 (M); 36. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 0 521 82484 2 Hardback £45.00 free from traditional presuppositions. MS Barlow 24 (N); 37. Cambridge, Corpus Dennis Green explores how and why this happened, and examines this period Literature and Language: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 27 of crucial importance for the birth of the The Wycliffite Heresy The Making of romance and the genesis of medieval Authority and the Interpretation Chaucer’s English fiction in the vernacular. Although the of Texts A Study of Words crucial innovative role of writers in Kantik Ghosh Christopher Cannon Germany is Green’s main concern, he University of Oxford University of Cambridge also takes literature in Latin, French and Studies how the debates initiated by the A substantial reappraisal of the place of Anglo-Norman into account. 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Cambridge The Cambridge Landmarks of Companions Companion to World Literature to Literature Medieval Women’s Writing Edited by Carolyn Dinshaw Chaucer: The NEW EDITION New York University Canterbury Tales The Cambridge and David Wallace Second edition University of Pennsylvania Winthrop Wetherbee Companion to Chaucer The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Cornell University, New York Second edition Women’s Writing seeks to recover the This introductory guide places the Edited by Piero Boitani lives and particular experiences of Canterbury Tales in the context of the Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, medieval women by concentrating on crisis in English society in the fourteenth Italy various kinds of texts: the texts they century. It examines the social diversity and Jill Mann wrote themselves as well as texts that University of Notre Dame, Indiana of Chaucer’s pilgrims, the stylistic range attempted to shape, limit, or expand of their tales and the psychological The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer their lives. The first section investigates richness of their interaction. The volume is an extensively revised version of the the roles traditionally assigned to offers students a clear image of the first edition, which has become a classic medieval women (as virgins, widows, powerful representation of the social in the field. This new volume responds and wives); it also considers female reality that makes the Canterbury Tales to the success of the first edition and to childhood and relations between one of the most important texts in recent debates in Chaucer Studies. women. The second section explores English literature. Emphasis is placed on Important material has been updated, social spaces, including textuality itself: the language of the poem, the place of and new contributions have been for every surviving medieval manuscript Chaucer in subsequent literary tradition, commissioned to take into account bespeaks collaborative effort. It and an entire chapter is devoted to the recent trends in literary theory as well considers women as authors, as General Prologue which is widely as in studies of Chaucer’s works. New anchoresses ‘dead to the world’, and as studied on undergraduate courses. chapters cover the literary inheritance preachers and teachers in the world Finally, the volume offers a helpful traceable in his works to French and staking claims to authority without chronology of the period and an Italian sources, his style, as well as new entering a pulpit. The final section invaluable guide to further reading. approaches to his work. Other topics considers the lives and writings of covered include the social and literary Contents: Chronology; 1. Introduction; remarkable women, including Marie de 2. The general prologue; 3. Gentles: chivalry scene in England in Chaucer’s time, and France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of and the courtly world; 4. Churls: commerce comedy, pathos and romance in the Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female and the material world; 5. Women; 6. The Canterbury Tales.The volume now lyricists and romancers whose names art and problems of tale-telling; 7. The final offers a useful chronology, and the are lost, but whose texts survive. tales; 8. Afterword: the reception of the bibliography has been entirely updated Canterbury Tales. Contents: Contributors; Chronology Chris to provide an indispensable guide for Landmarks of World Literature (New) Africa;Introduction Carolyn Dinshaw and 2004 198 x 129 mm 136pp today’s student of Chaucer. David Wallace;Part I. Estates of Women: 0 521 83249 7 Hardback £27.50 Contents: 1. The social and literary scene 1. Female Childhoods Daniel T. Kline; 0 521 54010 0 Paperback £9.99 in England Paul Strohm;2.Chaucer’s French 2. Virginity Ruth Evans;3.Marriage Dyan inheritance Ardis Butterfield;3.Chaucer’s Elliott;4.Widows Barbara Hanawalt; Italian inheritance David Wallace;4.Old 5. Between Women Karma Lochrie;Part II. Dante: The Divine books brought to life in dreams: the Book Texts and Other Spaces: 6. Women and Comedy of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the authorship Jennifer Summit;7.Enclosure Parliament of Fowls Piero Boitani;5.Telling Christopher Cannon;8.At home; out of the Second edition the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark house Sarah Salih;9.Beneath the pulpit Robin Kirkpatrick Lambert;6.Chance and destiny in Troilus Alcuin Blamires; Section III. Medieval Robinson College, Cambridge and Criseyde and The Knight’s Tale Jill Women: 10. Heloise Christopher Baswell; In this accessible critical introduction to Mann;7.The Legend of Good Women Julia 11. Marie de France Roberta L. Krueger; Dante’s Divine Comedy Robin Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards;8.The 12. The Roman de la Rose,Christine de Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante Canterbury Tales: personal drama or Pizan, and the querelles des femmes David as a poet and storyteller. He addresses experiments in poetic variety? C. David F. Hult; 13. Lyrics and romances Sarah important questions such as Dante’s Benson;9.TheCanterbury Tales I: Romance McNamer; 14. Julian of Norwich Nicholas J. A. Burrow; 10. The Canterbury Tales II: Watson; 15. Margery Kempe Carolyn attitude towards Virgil, and Comedy Derek Pearsall; 11. The Canterbury Dinshaw; 16. Continental women mystics demonstrates how an early work such Tales III: Pathos Robert Worth Frank, Jr; and English readers Alexandra Barratt; as the Vita nuova is a principal source 12. The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and 17. Joan of Arc Nadia Margolis;Guide to of the literary achievement of the fable A. C. Spearing; 13. Literary structures further reading. Comedy.His detailed reading reveals in Chaucer Barry A. Windeatt; 14. Chaucer’s Cambridge Companions to Literature how the great narrative poem explores style Christopher Cannon; 15. Chaucer’s 2003 228 x 152 mm 312pp the relationship that Dante believed to presence and absence, 1400–1542 James 0 521 79188 X Hardback £45.00 exist between God as creator of the Simpson; 16. New approaches to Chaucer 0 521 79638 5 Paperback £16.99 universe and the human being as a Carolyn Dinshaw; 17. Further reading: a guide to Chaucer studies Joerg Fichte. creature of God. In addition, Kirkpatrick Cambridge Companions to Literature takes due account of the historical and 2004 228 x 152 mm 334pp philosophical dimensions of the poem. 0 521 81556 8 Hardback £45.00 0 521 89467 0 Paperback £16.99 Literature and Language: Landmarks of World Literature 29

Contents: List of abbreviations; Milton: Paradise Lost volume examines Virgil’s psychological Chronology; 1. Change, vision and Second edition and philosophical insights, and explains language: the early works and Inferno David Loewenstein the poem’s status as the central classic Canto Two; 3. The Divine Comedy;4.After University of Wisconsin, Madison of European culture. The final chapter Dante; Guide to further reading. considers the Aeneid’s influence on later Landmarks of World Literature (New) This volume offers an accessible and writers including Dante and the 2004 228 x 152 mm 130pp stimulating introduction to one of the 0 521 83230 6 Hardback £27.50 most influential texts of western Romantics. The guide to further reading 0 521 53994 3 Paperback £9.99 literature. This guide highlights Milton’s has been updated and will prove to be imaginative daring as he boldly revises an invaluable resource to students coming to The Aeneid for the first time. Murasaki Shikibu: The the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates Contents: Preface; Part I. Background: Tale of Genji upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of 1. Virgil in the light of his time; 2. Life of Second edition the Fall. The book considers the Virgil; 3. The Eclogues; 4. The Georgics; 5. Metrical unity and continuity; Part II. Richard Bowring heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost Selwyn College, Cambridge Virgil and Homer: 6. ‘Arms and the man’; and its theology, while situating Milton’s 7. The Aeneas legend; 8. The ‘Odyssean’ Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, great poem in its literary, religious, and written in Japan in the early eleventh Aeneid; 9. The ‘Iliadic’ Aeneid; Part III. political contexts. A concluding chapter Reading The Aeneid: 10. The text; 11. The century, is acknowledged to be one of addresses the influence of Milton’s story; 12. Structure; 13. Expression and Japan’s greatest literary achievements, sublime poem as a source of creative sensibility; 14. Narrative technique; 15. The and sometimes thought of as the inspiration for later writers, from the world of the dead; 16. Father-figures; world’s first novel. It is also one of the Restoration to the Romantics. Finally, 17. Juno; 18. War and heroism; 19. Fate earliest major works to be written by a the volume offers an extremely useful and free will; 20. Conclusions; Part IV.The woman. This introduction to the Genji and newly updated guide to further After-Life of the Aeneid: 21. Influences and reputation; 22. Virgil and Dante; 23. Virgil sketches the cultural background, offers reading, which students will find and renaissance epic; 24. Virgil and detailed analysis of the text, discusses invaluable. matters of language and style and ends romanticism; Principal characters of the Contents: Chronology; The chronology of poem; Guide to Further Reading. by tracing the history of its reception events in Paradise Lost; Part I. Paradise Lost Landmarks of World Literature (New) through nine centuries of cultural in Milton’s Career and Age: 1. ‘Long 2004 198 x 129 mm 120pp change. This book will be useful for choosing, and beginning late’; 2. Lycidas; 0 521 83213 6 Hardback £27.50 survey courses in Japanese and World 3. Writing in the English Revolution and the 0 521 53980 3 Paperback £9.99 Literature. Because The Tale of Genji is Restoration; 4. Milton’s blindness; 5. The so long, it is often not possible for Christian Doctrine and Milton’s theological students to read it in its entirety and heresies; Part II. Interpreting Paradise Lost: Homer: The Odyssey this book will therefore be used not 6. ‘Say first what cause’: Paradise Lost and Second edition only as an introduction, but also as a beginnings; 7. ‘To raise/That Name’: Jasper Griffin Balliol College, Oxford guide through the difficult and Paradise Lost and epic ambition; 8. The voice of the poet; 9. Answerable styles; convoluted plot. This handy guide to The Odyssey will 10. Satan: daring ambition and heroic introduce students to a text, which has Contents: Preface; Genji chapter titles; ideology; 11. Hell: geographical place and Genealogical chart; Part I. The Cultural internal state; 12. God, providence, and free been fundamental to literature for Background: 1. Politics; 2. Murasaki Shikibu; will; 13. Milton’s Eden; 14. Adam and Eve nearly 3000 years. Readers will be 3. Religion; 4. Language; 5. A grammar of and human sexuality; 15. The material introduced to the world in that the sexual relations; 6. History and fiction; Part cosmos of Paradise Lost; 16. War in Odyssey was produced, to the text itself II. The Tale of Genji:7.Sexual politics Heaven; 17. Creation; 18. The tragedy of and to its origins in oral poetry. This (chapters 1–12); 8. Penance and restitution the Fall; 19. Postlapsarian history and the volume gives a summary of the poem (chapters 12–21); 9. A prospect of flowers inner paradise; Part III. The Literary Afterlife and examines its structure. The unity, (chapters 22–33); 10. Dangerous of Paradise Lost: 20. Revisions from the values and techniques of the poem are obsessions (chapters 34–41); 11. A passion restoration to the romantics. clearly outlined, as are the reasons for for self-destruction (chapters 42–54); Part Landmarks of World Literature (New) its longstanding appeal. This guide III. Language and style: 12. The narrator’s 2004 198 x 129 mm 156pp presence; 13. Kashiwagi’s tortured mind; 0 521 83212 8 Hardback £27.50 delves into the diverse world of the 14. 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comes down to us; Part II. The Poem: NEW 8. Summary; 9. Translating Homer; MUSIC 10. Shape and unity; 11. The epic style: Eight Centuries of grandeur and realism; 12. The epic: AND ART Troubadours and technique and variety; 13. The Odyssey and the Iliad; 14. Myth and folklore; 15. Some Trouveres problems; 16. Men and gods; 17. Men and WINNER OF THE ROYAL The Changing Identity of women; 18. Society and geography; 19. The PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Medieval Music values of the Odyssey;Part III. The Odyssey BOOK AWARD IN 2003 John Haines University of Toronto and After: 20. The after-life of the Odyssey; The Modern Invention Guide to further reading. This book traces the changing Landmarks of World Literature (New) of Medieval Music interpretation of troubadour and Scholarship, Ideology, 2004 198 x 129 mm 112pp trouvère music, a repertoire of songs Performance 0 521 83211 X Hardback £27.50 which have successfully maintained 0 521 53978 1 Paperback £9.99 Daniel Leech-Wilkinson King’s College London public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to FORTHCOMING Medieval music has been made and contemporary rap renditions. A study of remade over the past two hundred their reception therefore serves to The Heavenly Writing years. For the nineteenth century it was Divination and Horoscopy, and illustrate the development of the vocal, without instrumental modern concept of ‘medieval music’. Astronomy in Mesopotamian accompaniment, but with barbarous Culture Important stages include sixteenth- harmony that no one could have wished century antiquarianism, the Francesca Rochberg to hear. For most of the twentieth University of California, Riverside Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly century it was instrumentally In antiquity, the expertise of the and popular traditions, and the infusion accompanied, increasingly colourful and of archaeology and philology in the Babylonians in matters of the heavens increasingly enjoyed. At the height of its was legendary and the roots of both nineteenth century, leading to more popularity it sustained an industry of recent theories on medieval rhythm. western astronomy and astrology are players and instrument makers, all traceable in cuneiform tablets going More often than not, writers and engaged in recreating an apparently performers have negotiated a back to the second and first millennia medieval performance practice. During B.C. The Heavenly Writing discusses compromise between historical research the 1980s it became vocal once more, and a more imaginative approach to Babylonian celestial divination, exchanging colour and contrast for horoscopy, and astronomy, their envisioning the music of the cleanliness and beauty. But what troubadours and trouvères. This book differentiations as well as happens to produce such radical interconnection and their place in points not so much to a resurrection of changes of perspective? And what can medieval music in modern times as to a Mesopotamian intellectual culture. we learn from them about the way we Focusing chiefly on celestial divination continuous tradition of interpreting interact with the past? How much is these songs over eight centuries. and horoscopes, it traces the emergence really known about the way medieval Contents: Introduction; 1. The first readers; of personal astrology from the tradition music sounded? Or have modern beliefs of celestial divination and the way 2. The changing song; 3. Enlightened been formed and sustained less by readers; 4. The science of translation; astronomical methods were employed evidence than the personalities of for horoscopes. It further takes up the 5. Recent readings; 6. Conclusions; scholars and performers, their ideologies 7. Epilogue. historiographical and philosophical issue and their musical tastes? Musical Performance and Reception of the nature of these Mesopotamian Contents: Introduction; 1. The invention of 2004 228 x 152 mm 359pp 12 tables ‘celestial sciences’ by examining the voices-and-instruments hypothesis; 26 figures 53 music examples elements traditionally of concern to the 2. The invention of the a cappella 0 521 82672 1 Hardback £50.00 philosophy of science (empiricism, hypothesis; 3. Hearing medieval harmonies; prediction, and theory) in relation to the 4. Evidence, interpretation, power and NEW Babylonian material without sacrificing persuasion; Conclusion. the ancient methods, goals, and Musical Performance and Reception The Cambridge interests to a modern image of science. 2002 228 x 152 mm 348pp 1 half-tone Companion to Giotto This book will be of particular interest 5 music examples 0 521 81870 2 Hardback £50.00 Edited by Anne Derbes for those concerned with the early Hood College, Maryland history of science and the problems and Mark Sandona introduced by modern distinction Hood College, Maryland between science, magic, and religion for The Cambridge Companion to Giotto the study and understanding of ancient serves as an introduction to one of the cultures. most important masters of early Italian 2004 228 x 152 mm 340pp art. 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Padua. Designed to serve as an Comneni; 11. The Latin occupation; 12. The architects, including Bramante, essential resource for students of late Palaeologian dynasty; 13. The fall of Michelangelo and Bernini, of the early medieval and early Renaissance Italy, Byzantium. modern period. This volume presents an The Cambridge Companion to Giotto 2004 253 x 203 mm 352pp overview of St. Peter’s history from the 53 line diagrams 108 half-tones also provides a chronology of the artist’s 51 colour plates late antique period to the twentieth life and a select but comprehensive 0 521 77257 5 Hardback £55.00 century. bibliography. 2004 276 x 219 mm 416pp 300 half-tones Contents: 1. Giotto past and present: an NEW 0 521 64096 2 Hardback c. £70.00 introduction Anne Derbes and Mark Publication December 2004 Sandona; 2. In search of an artist Hayden B. Early Medieval Bible J. Maginnis; 3. Giotto and the St Francis Illumination and the cycle at Assisi Bruno Zanardi; 4. 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NEW institutional roles. Based on archival different functions of heavenly imagery findings that are published here for the in different texts and traditions in order The Franciscans and first time, Thomas’s groundbreaking to map the patterns of unity and Art Patronage in Late study contributes to a growing literature diversity within the religious landscape Medieval Italy that reexamines the role and influence of Late Antiquity. Louise Bourdua of gender on religious imagery in the Contents: Introduction: ‘In Heaven as it is University of Aberdeen early modern period. on Earth’ Ra’anan S. Bouston and Annette In this book, Louise Bourdua examines Contents: Part I. The Social Function of the Yoshiko Reed; Part I. Between Earth and how Franciscan church decoration Institution: 1. Partial and impartial evidence; Heaven: 1. The bridge and the ladder: narrow passages in late antique visions developed between 1250 and 1400. 2. Female religious communities Fritz Graf; 2. ‘Heavenly Steps’: Manilius Focusing on three important churches – characterized; 3. Issues of gender: an Augustinian view; Part II. The Spatial 4.119–121 and its background Katharina San Fermo Maggiore, Verona, San Dimension: 4. The architectural Volk; 3. Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, Lorenzo, Vicenza and Sant’Antonio, development of the conventual complex; and the transmission of knowledge in Padua – she argues that local 5. Plans – distinctions drawn in space; 1 Enoch 6–16 Annette Yoshiko Reed; Franciscan friars were more interested in 6. Inventories and conventual chronicles – 4. ‘Connecting Heaven and Earth’: the their own conception of how artistic art recorded in space; 7. Visual distinctions function of the hymns in Revelation 4–5 programs should work than merely and the demarcation of space; Part III. Art Gottfried Schimanowski; 5. Working following models for decoration issued and Space: 8. Distinctive imagery in the overtime in afterlife; or, no rest for the from the mother church at Assisi. In private and public sphere; 9. Franciscan virtuous Sarah Iles Johnson; Part II. tertiaries (i); 10. Franciscan tertiaries (ii); Institutionalizing Heaven: 6. Earthly sacrifice addition, lay patrons also had and heavenly incense: the law of priesthood considerable input into the decoration 11. Tracking change in conventual imagery: images relocated and altered; in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees Martha programs. These case studies serve as a 12. Re-assessment of conventual imagery: Himmelfarb; 7. Who’s on the throne?: multiform model of patronage, which is role of suppression documents; Part IV: revelation in the long year John W. tested against other commissions of the 13. The politics of display; 14. A Dominican Marshall; 8. The earthly monastery and the Trecento. The author also demonstrates angle: San Domenico del Maglio in transformation of the heavenly city in late how archival documentation and art can Florence; 15. Varying degrees of emphasis antique Egypt Kirsti B. Copeland; be combined to extend our on titular saints; 16. The nature of gaze; 9. Contextualizing heaven in third-century understanding of Franciscan art 17. Hierarchies within the establishment: North Africa Jan N. Bremmer; 10. Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth: programs. San Niccolò in Prato; 18. The resonance of time and experience: varying patterns of approaches to the imagery of divine Contents: 1. The Franciscans, poverty, behaviour; 19. Communication; Part V. pedagogy in the East-Syrian tradition Adam property and benefaction; 2. San Fermo Perspectives on Conventual Patronage: H. Becker; Part III. Tradition and Innovation: Maggiore, Verona: a northern response to 20. Commissioning bodies: insiders, 11. Angels in the architecture: temple art Assisi?; 3. San Lorenzo in Vicenza: the outsiders and less familiar asides; and the poetics of praise in the Songs of friars, the donor, the procurators and the 21. Frameworks of association. the Sabbath Sacrifice Ra’anan S. Bouston; artist; 4. Sant’Antonio in Padua. 2003 279 x 215 mm 430pp 12. The collapse of celestial and chthonic 2004 247 x 174 mm 256pp 5 line diagrams 88 half-tones realms in late antique ‘Appollonian 4 line diagrams 69 half-tones 12 colour plates Invocation’ (PGMI 262–347) Christopher A. 0 521 82158 4 Hardback £50.00 0 521 81188 0 Hardback £75.00 Faraone; 13. In heaven as it is in hell: the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit Art and Piety in the Peter Schäfer; 14. The faces of the moon: FORTHCOMING cosmology, genesis and the Mithras Liturgy Female Religious Imagining Heaven in Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 15. ‘O Paradoxical Communities of Fusion!’: gregory of Nazianzus on baptism the Religions of Late Renaissance Italy and cosmology (Orations 38–40) Susanna Iconography, Space and the Antiquity Elm. Religious Woman’s Perspective Edited by Ra’anan S. Bouston 2004 228 x 152 mm 368pp University of Minnesota 0 521 83102 4 Hardback c. £50.00 Anabel Thomas and Annette Yoshiko Reed Publication October 2004 Art and Piety in the Female Religious McMaster University, Ontario Communities of Renaissance Italy is the The idea of heaven held a special place FORTHCOMING first systematic study of the function, in the late antique imagination, which The Urban Image of character, and commissions of art was marked by a poignant sense of the created for and used in conventual relevance of otherworldly realities for Late Antique communities. Anabel Thomas challenges earthly life. Such concerns can be found, Constantinople the received assumptions about art not only in Judaism and Christianity, but Sarah Bassett works in religious establishments also in the Greco-Roman religious, Wayne State University, Detroit populated by women, among them, that philosophical, scientific, and ‘magical’ From its foundation in the fourth such communities contained few works traditions. Transcending social, regional century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks of art; that these works did not have and creedal boundaries, the in the fifteenth, the city of gender-specific qualities; and that preoccupation with heaven in Late Constantinople boasted a collection of religious women played no role in Antiquity serves as a focus for an antiquities unrivaled by any city of the commissioning such imagery or in interdisciplinary approach to medieval world. The Urban Image of influencing its design and purpose. understanding this formative era in Late Antique Constantinople Through case studies, she establishes Western culture and history. Drawing reconstructs the collection from the time that in fact artistic imagery did figure upon the expertise of scholars of that the city was founded by prominently in conventual communities Classics, Ancient History, Jewish Studies, Constantine the Great through the sixth and she also identifies its various and Patristics, this volume explores the century reign of the emperor Justinian. Music and Art 33

Drawing on medieval literary sources public in Amalfitan religious space; and, to a lesser extent, graphic and 4. Amalfi and the new metropolis: the archaeological material, it identifies and decline of the Art of mercatantia. describes the antiquities that were 2004 246 x 189 mm 352pp 12 line diagrams 81 half-tones known to have stood in the city’s public 0 521 81187 2 Hardback c. £50.00 spaces. Individual displays of statues are Publication July 2004 analyzed as well as examined in conjunction with one another against the city’s topographical setting, in an FORTHCOMING effort to understand how ancient Observation and sculpture was used to create a distinct Image-Making in historical identity for Constantinople. Gothic Art Contents: 1. The shape of the city; Jean Givens 2. Creating the collection; 3. The University of Connecticut Constantinian collections; 4. Theodosian Constantinople; 5. The Lausos collection; Observation and Image-Making in 6. Justinian and antiquity. Gothic Art examines the working 2004 247 x 174 mm 336pp practices of medieval artists and 1 line diagram 42 half-tones 7 maps challenges many assumptions about 0 521 82723 X Hardback c. £50.00 pre-modern science and art, especially Publication August 2004 the notion that descriptive art is a natural response to scientific FORTHCOMING empiricism. Late medieval images range Art and Patronage in from vividly specific to barely identifiable, but descriptiveness in the the Medieval medieval context rarely correlates with a Mediterranean modern notion of function. Rather, Merchant Culture in the Region scientific illustrations are often less of Amalfi descriptive than sacred art, and thus an Jill Caskey inversion of the relationship between University of Toronto art and science. In this study, Jean An important trade center in the Givens defines late medieval visual Medieval Mediterranean, Amalfi and the communication strategies and reveals surrounding region of southern Italy the various modes of organizing and sustained strong art production and displaying knowledge. She demonstrates patronage from the eleventh through how medieval image making offers new thirteenth centuries. Merchant patrons insights into the syntax of visual realized a wide variety of religious and communication and the function of residential complexes that were descriptive art in both sacred and evocative of Byzantine, Islamic, Western, secular contexts. and local traditions. With the rise of the Contents: 1. Gothic naturalism; 2. The Angevin kingdom, a demise of this testimony of sight; 3. Images and eclectic art tradition took place and by information; 4. The uses of likeness; the fourteenth century, Amalfitan 5. Models and copies; Conclusion: the painting and sculpture reflects mind’s eye. compromises between local and 2004 247 x 174 mm 256pp 63 half-tones Neapolitan styles, demonstrating the 8 colour plates 0 521 83031 1 Hardback c. £45.00 erosion of its autonomy. Publication September 2004 This book evaluates the Amalfitan art production in terms of moral, economic, and social structures, including investment strategies, anxieties about wealth and salvation, and southern Italy’s diverse religions communities. Historiographical analyses and postcolonial models of interpretation offer further insight into Amalfitan art and its ever-shifting relationship to the visual cultures of sovereign authorities in southern Italy. Contents: Introduction: the art of mercatantia:Medieval commerce and culture in southwest Italy; 1. The Experience and Politics of mercatantia;2.Amalfitans at home: Residential Architecture and its Mediterranean Syntheses; 3. Private and

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Bull, Marcus ...... 16 Crick, Julia...... 17 Author and Burgwinkle, William E...... 25 Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon Burrow, J. A...... 26 England, The...... 25 Title Index Butterfield, Ardis...... 26 Culture and Conquest in Mongol Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul, The ....31 Eurasia ...... 11 A Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era Curta, Florin ...... 15 (680–850) ...... 8 Abulafia, David...... 4 Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of D Eynsham...... 25 C Dagron, Gilbert...... 9 Aiken, Alison...... 17 Çakmak, Ahmet...... 31 Dante: The Divine Comedy ...... 28 Airlie, Stuart...... 6 Cambridge Ancient History, The...... 7 Davis, Lisa Fagin ...... 24 Alam, Muzaffar...... 10 Cambridge Companion to Abelard, The ...19 Davis, M. C...... 20 Alchemy Reader, The...... 21 Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, The...28 Derbes, Anne ...... 30 Ali, Daud ...... 10 Cambridge Companion to Giotto, The...... 30 Derolez, Albert...... 24 Allmand, Christopher ...... 4 Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther, Design and Construction in Allsen, Thomas T...... 11 The ...... 20 Romanesque Architecture...... 31 Althoff, Gerd...... 18 Cambridge Companion to Medieval Dimnik, Martin...... 18 Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Jewish Philosophy, The ...... 19 Dinshaw, Carolyn...... 28 Stage...... 25 Cambridge Companion to Medieval Documentary Culture and the Making Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic Philosophy, The ...... 19 of Medieval English Literature ...... 26 World ...... 24 Cambridge Companion to Medieval Dodwell, C. R...... 25 Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo- Women's Writing, The ...... 28 Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146–1246, Saxon England, The...... 25 Cambridge Dictionary of English The ...... 18 Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily...11 Place-Names, The...... 5 Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Cambridge Historical Dictionary of E Africa, The...... 10 Disease, The...... 5 Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Early History of Greed, The...... 27 South Asia, The ...... 10 The ...... 5 Early Medieval Bible Illumination and Armi, C. Edson...... 31 Cambridge History of Medieval English the Ashburnham Pentateuch ...... 31 Art and Patronage in the Medieval Literature, The ...... 22 Edbury, Peter ...... 16 Mediterranean ...... 33 Cambridge History of Scandinavia, The....5 Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Art and Piety in the Female Religious Cambridge History of the Book in Trouveres ...... 30 Communities of Renaissance Italy ...... 32 Britain, The ...... 6 Emperor and Priest ...... 9 At the Gate of Christendom...... 15 Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Envoys and Political Communication in Authority in Byzantine Provincial The ...... 18 the Late Antique West, 411–533...... 15 Society, 950–1100...... 8 Cambridge Illustrated History of the Erler, Mary C...... 27 Middle Ages, The...... 6 Everett, Nicholas...... 15 Experience of Crusading, The ...... 16 B Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World, The...... 7 Baker, Alan R. 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J...... 21 Glenn, Jason...... 13 1280–1390 ...... 18 Gottschalk Antiphonary, The...... 24 Author and Title Index 35

Gransden, K. W...... 29 Kiple, Kenneth F...... 5 Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Green, D. H...... 26 Kirkpatrick, Robin ...... 28 Early Thirteenth Centuries, The...... 13 Gretsch, Mechthild...... 25 Kosto, Adam J...... 15 Northumbria, 500–1100...... 18 Griffin, Jasper ...... 29 Guest, Tanis...... 14 L O Guilfoy, Kevin...... 19 Lahey, Stephen E...... 15 Observation and Image-Making in Latin Sermon Collections from Later Gothic Art...... 33 H Medieval England ...... 26 Old Icelandic Literature and Society...... 27 Haines, John ...... 30 Law, Society and Culture in the Oram, Richard...... 2 Haldon, John ...... 8 Maghrib, 1300–1500...... 11 Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law, Hallaq, Wael B...... 2 Leader, Damian Riehl ...... 4 The ...... 2 Hanbury-Tenison, Sarah ...... 6 Leaman, Oliver...... 19 Origins of the English Gentry, The...... 16 Handbook of Dates, A...... 6 Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel...... 30 Outhwaite, Ben...... 20 Harrison, S. J...... 29 Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer, The .....8 Haykel, Bernard ...... 10 Lewis, Wendy...... 7 P Heavenly Writing, The ...... 30 Lieberman, Victor...... 12 Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Linden, Stanton J...... 21 Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Cambridge Genizah Collections...... 20 Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774....15 Books, The ...... 24 Helle, Knut...... 5 Literary Appropriations of the Anglo- Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Hellinga, Lotte ...... 6 Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Anglo-Saxon Literature...... 25 Hen, Yitzhak ...... 23 Twentieth Century...... 25 Patterns of Piety ...... 20 Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium ...... 8 Loewenstein, David...... 29 Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in History and Memory in the Carolingian Loud, Graham A...... 13 the Later Middle Ages...... 27 World ...... 2 Lukowski, Jerzy...... 21 Pedersen, Frederik...... 2 History of Cambridge University Press, A....4 Luscombe, David...... 3 Peters, Christine...... 20 History of Parliament on CD-ROM Luther on Women ...... 20 Phillips, Jonathan...... 16 (LAN), The...... 6 Lynch, Katherine A...... 17 Philosophy and Politics in the Thought History of Parliament on CD-ROM of John Wyclif ...... 15 Plagues, Priests and Demons...... 7 (WAN), The ...... 6 M History of Parliament, The ...... 6 Poetry and Music in Medieval France.....26 History of the University of Cambridge, A...4 MacLean, Simon ...... 14 Political Economy of Craft Production, Homer: The Odyssey...... 29 Maddox, Donald ...... 27 The ...... 9 Houben, Hubert ...... 13 Magyar, Anna ...... 21 Politics and History in the Tenth Housing the Stranger in the Making Agreements in Medieval Century...... 13 Mediterranean World ...... 9 Catalonia...... 15 Power, Daniel...... 13 Housley, Norman ...... 16 Making of a Court Society, The...... 17 Powers, David S...... 11 Making of Chaucer's English, The...... 27 Print, Manuscript and the Search for Making of the Slavs, The ...... 15 Order, 1450–1830 ...... 23 I Mann, Jill...... 28 Imagining Heaven in the Religions of Marsack, Robyn...... 6 R Late Antiquity ...... 32 Marsden, Richard...... 22 In the Shadow of Burgundy ...... 14 McGrade, A. 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F...... 6 Reed, Annette Yoshiko ...... 32 in Europe, 1200–1800...... 17 McKim, Donald K...... 20 Reff, Dan ...... 7 Insley, John...... 5 McKitterick, David...... 4, 23 Reform of the Frankish Church, The...... 13 Insoll, Timothy...... 10 McKitterick, Rosamond ...... 2, 3 Representations of the Natural World Intellectual Foundations of the English Meale, Carol M...... 27 in Old English Poetry...... 25 Benedictine Reform, The...... 25 Medicine before Science ...... 21 Reuter, Timothy...... 3 Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, Medicine in the Crusades...... 15 Revival and Reform in Islam...... 10 An ...... 22 Medieval Economic Thought...... 12 Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Introduction to Islam, An ...... 9 Medieval Scotland ...... 13 Century...... 25 Isidore of Seville's Etymologies...... 7 Meens, Rob ...... 23 Riley-Smith, Jonathan ...... 3 Islamic Historiography...... 11 Milburn, Diane...... 13 Robinson, Chase F...... 11 Milton: Paradise Lost...... 29 Robinson, Kenneth Girdwood...... 2 Rochberg, Francesca ...... 30 J Minnis, Alastair...... 5 Mitchell, Piers D...... 15 Roger II of Sicily...... 13 Jenkins, David...... 18 Modern Invention of Medieval Music, Rollason, David...... 18 Johns, Jeremy ...... 11 The ...... 30 Johnson, Ian ...... 5 Molnár, Miklós...... 21 S Jones, Christopher A...... 25 Morgan, Victor...... 4 Jones, Michael ...... 4, 6 Sandona, Mark ...... 30 Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji ...... 29 Scarfe Beckett, Katharine ...... 24 Murray, James...... 18 Science and Civilisation in China...... 2 K Scragg, Donald ...... 25 Kabir, Ananya Jahanara...... 25 N Scriptorium and Library at Monte Kaegi, Walter E...... 8 Needham, Joseph ...... 2 Cassino, 1058–1105, The...... 24 Karant-Nunn, Susan C...... 20 Neville, Jennifer ...... 25 Searby, Peter...... 4 Karkov, Catherine E...... 25 Neville, Leonora...... 8 Sinopoli, Carla M...... 9 Keynes, Simon...... 22 New Cambridge Medieval History, The...3, 4 Smith, Julia M. H...... 17 Kings, Barons and Justices ...... 14 Newhauser, Richard ...... 27 Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Newton, Francis...... 24 Medieval Literature ...... 25 Century...... 14 Nijsten, Gerard ...... 14 Sondheimer, Janet...... 6

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T Tales from Another Byzantium...... 9 Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England ...... 25 Thomas, Anabel ...... 32 Tolerance and Coercion in Islam...... 11 Trapp, J. B...... 6 Treharne, Elaine M...... 25 Tronzo, William ...... 31

U Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople, The...... 32 Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700, The ...... 17

V Various Authors ...... 7 Verhulst, Adriaan ...... 12 Verkerk, Dorothy...... 31 Victors and the Vanquished, The...... 14 Viking Empires...... 2 Virgil: The Aeneid...... 29 Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium...... 24 Voyagers' Verities, Travellers' Tales...... 10

W Waines, David...... 9 Wallace, David...... 22, 28 Walsham, Alexandra ...... 17 Ward-Perkins, Bryan...... 7 Watts, Victor ...... 5 Weinberg, Carole...... 25 Wenzel, Siegfried...... 26 Wetherbee, Winthrop...... 28 Whitby, Michael...... 7 Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E...... 20 Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 ...... 27 Women as Scribes ...... 23 Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100 ...... 12 Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England ...... 27 Wood, Diana ...... 12 Woolf, Greg ...... 7 Wycliffite Heresy, The ...... 27

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