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New Books in Medieval History

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Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

63 hours 2 mins; November 01, 2023

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

49 mins; October 31, 2023

Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

53 mins; October 29, 2023

Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)

71 hours 32 mins; October 27, 2023

Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)

30 mins; October 22, 2023

Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)

102 hours 40 mins; October 08, 2023

Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2023

Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

35 mins; October 02, 2023

Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

31 mins; September 30, 2023

Series Spotlight: Central European Medieval Texts (CEMT)

38 mins; September 29, 2023

Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)

83 hours 14 mins; September 27, 2023

The Secret History of the Mongols

60 hours 10 mins; September 24, 2023

Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)

89 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2023

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

51 mins; September 17, 2023

Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

69 hours 19 mins; September 13, 2023

Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

61 hours 8 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

32 mins; September 12, 2023

Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings

62 hours 51 mins; September 12, 2023

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

46 mins; September 11, 2023

Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)

56 mins; September 10, 2023

Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

102 hours 3 mins; September 01, 2023

H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)

61 hours 2 mins; August 30, 2023

Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)

96 hours 37 mins; August 30, 2023

Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

41 mins; August 17, 2023

Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)

60 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2023

Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

68 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023

Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 13, 2023

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

46 mins; August 11, 2023

Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

59 mins; August 07, 2023

Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

52 mins; August 04, 2023

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

52 mins; August 02, 2023

Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

51 mins; July 25, 2023

Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

33 mins; July 24, 2023

Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)

53 mins; July 23, 2023

Brigitte Buettner, "The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2022)

60 hours 30 mins; July 23, 2023

Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

65 hours 20 mins; July 21, 2023

Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)

36 mins; July 20, 2023

The Future of the Sacred Nation: A Discussion with Anna M. Grzymała-Busse

37 mins; July 10, 2023

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

60 hours 0 mins; July 10, 2023

Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

53 mins; July 09, 2023

Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)

42 mins; July 08, 2023

Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; July 03, 2023

Queer Mysticism

22 mins; June 29, 2023

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

71 hours 34 mins; June 29, 2023

Miri Rubin, "The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

50 mins; June 27, 2023

Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

50 mins; June 25, 2023

Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

38 mins; June 21, 2023

Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)

56 mins; June 10, 2023

Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

29 mins; June 08, 2023

Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond" (U California Press, 2022)

65 hours 29 mins; May 27, 2023

Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

49 mins; May 23, 2023

Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)

48 mins; May 22, 2023

Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)

43 mins; May 16, 2023

Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; May 11, 2023

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

43 mins; May 05, 2023

Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)

50 mins; May 02, 2023

Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,

46 mins; April 27, 2023

Ninon Dubourg, "Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service?" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

47 mins; April 22, 2023

Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

51 mins; April 10, 2023

Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)

58 mins; April 06, 2023

Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)

52 mins; April 05, 2023

Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

34 mins; April 02, 2023

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, "Dindshenchas Érenn" (U College Cork, 2022)

48 mins; March 29, 2023

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)

61 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2023

Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

60 hours 54 mins; March 25, 2023

John Soderberg, "Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise" (Lexington Books, 2021)

47 mins; March 24, 2023

John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

23 mins; March 21, 2023

Peter Heather, "Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300" (Knopf, 2023)

60 hours 25 mins; March 21, 2023

Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

49 mins; March 19, 2023

Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 18, 2023

Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)

51 mins; March 11, 2023

Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)

60 hours 38 mins; March 10, 2023

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

44 mins; March 10, 2023

Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)

46 mins; March 09, 2023

Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

69 hours 16 mins; March 08, 2023

Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

38 mins; March 06, 2023

Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

70 hours 5 mins; March 05, 2023

Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

60 hours 46 mins; March 03, 2023

Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

80 hours 10 mins; February 25, 2023

Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

51 mins; February 20, 2023

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; February 19, 2023

David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)

41 mins; February 19, 2023

Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)

42 mins; February 15, 2023

Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)

57 mins; February 14, 2023

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)

44 mins; February 11, 2023

Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)

89 hours 13 mins; February 11, 2023

Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

46 mins; February 09, 2023

Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)

49 mins; February 05, 2023

Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

55 mins; February 03, 2023

Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)

69 hours 40 mins; February 01, 2023

War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence

65 hours 51 mins; January 31, 2023

Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)

88 hours 42 mins; January 26, 2023

Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)

38 mins; January 26, 2023

James Morton, "Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

78 hours 18 mins; January 21, 2023

Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

52 mins; January 21, 2023

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

46 mins; January 17, 2023

Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)

47 mins; January 14, 2023

Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)

78 hours 12 mins; January 12, 2023

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