A growing number of historians have realized that the terms “Byzantium” and “the Byzantines” distort the reality and identity of the society being studied. Anthony Kaldellis proposes a name change for the field of Byzantine Studies.
A discussion of Nordic medieval laws in the period 1100–1300, focusing on the female criminal and highlighting the complex relationship between gender, law, and society during this transformative period.
This book explores the potential of network analysis for medieval and early modern book history, with case studies of the Cotton Library, the Digital Index of Middle English Verse, and the Pforzheimer Collection.
Offers new ways to think about how disease and death, healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across the global medieval world.
The first collection of network analysis case studies dedicated to the study of the European Middle Ages.
Hildegard of Bingen’s understandings of the womb from natural philosophy (in her medical work Cause et Cure) and theology (in her visionary work Scivias).
Translations of texts attributed to Emma of Normandy and Edith of Wessex—mother and wife, respectively, of Edward the Confessor.
This volume uncovers the role of manuscripts in shaping the premodern social fabric of which they were part.
This study shows the importance of carolling in the celebrations and festivities of medieval Britain and demonstrates its longevity from the eleventh century to the sixteenth.
A collection featuring essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contribution to the popular medieval and early modern genre of romance.