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New Books in Medieval History

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Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)

42 mins; April 01, 2026

Elisheva Baumgarten, "Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2026)

53 mins; March 28, 2026

Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

53 mins; March 21, 2026

Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)

74 hours 24 mins; March 20, 2026

E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; March 02, 2026

Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

43 mins; February 14, 2026

Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

68 hours 10 mins; February 09, 2026

A. Bagliani and N, Şenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)

60 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2026

Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025)

41 mins; January 29, 2026

Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

56 mins; January 26, 2026

Nena Vandeweerdt, "Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay" (Leuven UP, 2025)

42 mins; January 25, 2026

Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)

46 mins; January 24, 2026

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

76 hours 26 mins; January 19, 2026

Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

50 mins; January 19, 2026

Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)

44 mins; January 18, 2026

Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)

35 mins; January 06, 2026

Thomas J. Mazanec, "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China" (Cornell UP, 2024)

74 hours 58 mins; January 05, 2026

Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)

93 hours 18 mins; January 04, 2026

Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, "Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life" (Reaktion, 2023)

36 mins; December 30, 2025

Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

51 mins; December 24, 2025

Judith Jesch, "The Saga of the Earls of Orkney" (Birlinn, 2025)

49 mins; December 21, 2025

Arthur Bahr, "Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

42 mins; December 20, 2025

Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)

33 mins; December 19, 2025

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)

59 mins; December 12, 2025

Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

71 hours 37 mins; December 10, 2025

Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

36 mins; November 28, 2025

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

44 mins; November 27, 2025

Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, "Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field" (Birlinn, 2025)

68 hours 27 mins; November 18, 2025

John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)

56 mins; November 17, 2025

Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)

45 mins; November 13, 2025

Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

40 mins; November 05, 2025

Elizabeth Currie, "Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio" (Reaktion, 2025)

37 mins; November 02, 2025

John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

51 mins; October 30, 2025

Thomas Smith, "Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

45 mins; October 16, 2025

Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)

42 mins; October 11, 2025

Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

49 mins; September 29, 2025

Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

29 mins; September 28, 2025

Katherine L. French, "Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

52 mins; September 23, 2025

Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)

64 hours 56 mins; September 18, 2025

Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)

56 mins; September 09, 2025

Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

100 hours 9 mins; September 08, 2025

David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)

39 mins; September 02, 2025

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

31 mins; August 31, 2025

Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

57 mins; August 30, 2025

Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

74 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2025

Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

56 mins; August 17, 2025

Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty" (Routledge, 2024)

80 hours 58 mins; August 15, 2025

David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)

47 mins; August 03, 2025

Anne M. Blackburn, "Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: A Pali Arena, 1200-1550" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

56 mins; August 01, 2025

Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)

37 mins; July 25, 2025

Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski, "The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596: Politics, Culture, Diplomacy" (Brepols, 2024)

46 mins; July 21, 2025

How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research

22 mins; July 19, 2025

Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024)

66 hours 4 mins; July 02, 2025

Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

43 mins; June 14, 2025

John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)

34 mins; June 13, 2025

Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)

59 mins; May 24, 2025

Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)

53 mins; May 13, 2025

Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)

63 hours 29 mins; April 30, 2025

Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)

63 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025

Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)

39 mins; April 18, 2025

Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)

39 mins; April 10, 2025

Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)

49 mins; March 29, 2025

Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)

48 mins; March 28, 2025

Bruce L. Venarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

66 hours 56 mins; March 27, 2025

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, "A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years" (NYU Press, 2022)

49 mins; March 25, 2025

Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)

64 hours 46 mins; March 14, 2025

Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

50 mins; March 12, 2025

Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

35 mins; March 11, 2025

Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)

43 mins; March 08, 2025

Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)

49 mins; March 08, 2025

Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa

53 mins; March 07, 2025

Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

34 mins; March 03, 2025

Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)

62 hours 32 mins; March 03, 2025

Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

40 mins; March 02, 2025

Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

51 mins; March 01, 2025

Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)

68 hours 14 mins; February 28, 2025

Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)

67 hours 52 mins; February 26, 2025

Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)

55 mins; February 22, 2025

Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

60 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025

Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)

28 mins; February 21, 2025

Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)

70 hours 47 mins; February 17, 2025

Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)

52 mins; February 16, 2025

Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

25 mins; February 16, 2025

Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)

46 mins; February 15, 2025

Erika Graham-Goering et al., "Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

46 mins; February 14, 2025

Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

39 mins; February 09, 2025

Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)

58 mins; January 30, 2025

Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)

51 mins; January 21, 2025

Alec Goldstein, "Maimonides on the Book of Exodus" (Kodesh Press, 2019)

35 mins; January 16, 2025

Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)

69 hours 17 mins; January 14, 2025

Anthony Bale, "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes" (Norton, 2024)

37 mins; January 11, 2025

Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

54 mins; January 06, 2025

Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

43 mins; December 21, 2024

Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)

46 mins; December 21, 2024

David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)

64 hours 26 mins; December 12, 2024

Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)

45 mins; December 12, 2024

Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

52 mins; December 06, 2024

James Mallinson, "The Dattatreyayogasastra" (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2024)

69 hours 8 mins; November 27, 2024

Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

80 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024

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