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In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. The Devil’s Historians casts aside the myths of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular culture: one that is diverse, thriving, courageous, compelling, and far more complex than those who want to bring us back to the Middle Ages would have you believe.

Amy S. Kaufman is a scholar of medieval studies and popular culture.

Paul B. Sturtevant is Editor in Chief of The Public Medievalist and a Visitor Research Specialist at The Smithsonian Institution.

2020 978-1-4875-8784-0

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“The Devil’s Historians should be read by every teacher and student of medieval studies.

This is a well-researched and highly scholarly book written

with journalistic ease and page-turning appeal.”

– Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, President of the Canadian Society of Medievalists

Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press

Summer 2020

Edited by E. RUTH HARVEY, M. TERESA TAVORMINA, and SARAH STAR

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Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English. Liber Uricrisiarum describes medieval humoral theory, anatomy, physiology, disease, medical astronomy, reproductive processes, and more, all within the broader context of uroscopic diagnosis. This edition presents the Middle English text, with a general glossary, glossary of proper names, and explanatory notes.

“This volume is the culmination of decades

of study by important scholars in the field, and the University of Toronto Press is to be congratulated on its

publication.”

– Linda Ehrsam Voigts, FSA, FMAA, University of Missouri-Kansas City

2020 978-1-4875-0601-8

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The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions –thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages – and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region.

2018 978-1-4426-3673-6

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In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures – as well as their Eurasian connections – in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region.

2018 978-1-4426-3622-4

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Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor Emerita, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions (600–1700), What Is the History of Emotions? (with Riccardo Cristiani), The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (with Elina Gertsman), A Short History of the Middle Ages, and Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World.


E X P E R I E N C I N G M E D I E VA L A R T

Herbert L. Kessler

Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers often-strange objects and the materials of which they are

made, circumstances of production, the conflictual relationship between art objects and notions of an ineffable deity, the context surrounding medieval art, the playfulness of art and the formal movements it engaged, as well as questions of apprehension, aesthetics, and modern presentation.

RETHINKING THE MIDDLE AGES

Experiencing Medieval Art

Herbert L. Kessler

Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church explores the career of one of the most influential of King Louis’s reformers,

Philippe of Cahors. Using the records of Philippe’s work in Reims, Paris, and Évreux, William Chester Jordan reconstructs Philippe’s career, providing a fascinating portrait of the successes and failures of reform in the thirteenth century.

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Servant of the Crown and Steward of the ChurchThe Career of Philippe of Cahors

William Chester Jordan

2020 978-1-4875-2461-6

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128 pages

2019 978-1-4426-0071-3

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296 pages

In the early twelfth century a Burgundian monk set out to tell the 500-year history of his monastery, embedded

within a broader history of early medieval France. The Cartulary-Chronicle of St.-Pierre of Bèze is both a history of the monastery and a collection of its 331 charters, from its seventh-century foundation until the middle of the twelfth century.

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The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Béze

Edited by Constance Brittain Bouchard

2020 978-1-4875-0615-5

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368 pages

Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our

institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. Epidemics and the Modern World assumes no prior experience with the history of science or medicine and is accessible for undergraduate students, while its challenging approach to the history of the modern world will engage readers of all levels and all interests.

Epidemics and the Modern World

Mitchell L. Hammond

2020 978-1-4875-9373-5

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This is the first and only book-length biography of Prince Manuel, the progenitor of the longest ruling dynasty in the

history of Spain. In his capacity as the monarch’s closest advisor, Manuel maintained critical working relationships with the most notable leaders of his age including James I and Peter III of Aragon, Louis IX and Philippe III of France, Edward I and Queen Eleanor of England, and Popes Alexander IV and Gregory X.

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Dawn of a DynastyThe Life and Times of Infante Manuel of Castile

Richard P. Kinkade

2019 978-1-4875-0460-1

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ARVIND THOMAS

PIERS PLOWMAN and the Reinvention of Church Law

in the Late Middle Ages

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the

lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, this book examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal “makyngs” in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland.

Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages

Arvind Thomas

2019 978-1-4875-0246-1

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288 pages

Lives UncoveredA Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

EDITED BY NICHOL AS TERPSTRA

Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, this book is a fascinating collection of early modern primary

sources organized around the human life cycle: from birth through youth and adulthood to death. Providing an in-depth social history of the period, Lives Uncovered is an excellent resource for those eager to deepen their understanding of the period.

Lives UncoveredA Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

Edited byNicholas Terpstra

2019 978-1-4426-0732-3

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At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo

Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.

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The Republic of VeniceDe magistratibus et republica

Venetorum

Gasparo Contarini Edited and introduced by Filippo Sabetti

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A WOMEN’SHISTORY OF

THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCHTwo Thousand Years of Female Leadership

ELIZABETH GILLAN MUIR

Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines

the various positions women have filled in the church. Offering broad coverage of both the Catholic and Protestant traditions and extending geographically well beyond North America, this book presents a chronological account of how women developed new sects and new churches, such as the Quakers and Christian Science.

A Women’s History of the Christian ChurchTwo Thousand Years of Female Leadership

Elizabeth Gillan Muir

2019 978-1-487-59384-1

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400 pages

Deborah McGrady

The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France

The Writer’s

Gift or the

Patron’s

Pleasure?

This book introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of

literary sponsorship, Charles V of France. When upturning literary dynamics by soliciting works to satisfy his stated desires, the king triggered a multi-generational literary debate concerned with the effect a work’s status as a solicited or unsolicited text had in determining the value and purpose of the literary enterprise.

The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure?The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France

Deborah McGrady

2019 978-1-4875-0365-9

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David A. Wacks

Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction

and the Mediterranean World

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian

authors reimagined the idea of Crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The Crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day.

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Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World

David A. Wacks

2019 978-1-4875-0501-1

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288 pages

The Roman de toute chevalerie

Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England

Charles Russell Stone

The medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved

so many source-texts and languages, but because it incorporated such diverse perspectives on the conqueror. To shed light on the origins and treatment of this romance, Charles Russell Stone reads each manuscript within the contexts of its production, scribal interpolations, and patronage and readership in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

The Roman de toute chevalerieReading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England

Charles Russell Stone

2019 978-1-4875-0189-1

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PReaching ApocRypha IN Anglo-SAxon England

BRandon W. Hawk

This book is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives

in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching.

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England

Brandon W. Hawk

2018 978-1-4875-0305-5

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424 pages

A Cognitive Historical Analysis STEVEN WAGSCHAL

Minding Animals in the

Oldand New Worlds

This book employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how

humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including the utility of anthropomorphism and the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts.

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Minding Animals in the Old and New WorldsA Cognitive Historical Analysis

Steven Wagschal

2018 978-1-4875-0332-1

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The term fragment is used to describe isolated bits of manuscript material or any piece of a larger text. Investigating the vital

role fragments played in medieval and early modern Iberian manuscript culture, this book is focused on fragments from five major Iberian literary traditions, including Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew poetry, Latin and Castilian epics, chivalric romances, and the literature of early modern crypto-Muslims.

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Cultures of the FragmentUses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100–1600

Heather Bamford

2018 978-1-4875-0240-9

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This book sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English

piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy.

Fruit of the OrchardReading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Jennifer N. Brown

2019 978-1-4875-0407-6

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MEDIEVAL

WARFARE

A Reader

READINGS IN MEDIEVAL

CIVILIZATIONS AND

CULTURES: XXI

series editor: Paul Edward Dutton

edited by

Kelly DeVries and

Michael Livingston

This book examines how armed conflict was experienced in the Middle Ages both on the field of battle and

at home. This comprehensive collection of primary source materials traces over one thousand years of military developments including the fall of Rome, the fight for Jerusalem, the building of castles and other fortifications, the rise of gunpowder, and the negotiation of treaties.

Medieval WarfareA Reader

Edited by Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the

Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings.

The Viking AgeA Reader, Third Edition

Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald

Assuming no previous knowledge of medieval civilizations, this volume allows readers to experience the

excitement of men and women who ventured into new lands. By addressing cross-cultural interaction, religion, and travel literature, the collection sheds light on how travel shaped the way we perceive the world, while also connecting history to the contemporary era of globalization.

Medieval Travel and TravelersA Reader

Edited by John F. Romano

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this

comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard’s Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

European Magic and WitchcraftA Reader

Edited by Martha Rampton

2020 978-1-4875-8802-1

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Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures



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GENERAL EDITORS: LUIGI BALLERINI AND MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA

Translation and Notes by Richard Lansing

Introduction by Akash Kumar

The Complete Poetry

Giacomo da Lentini

Giacomo da Lentini is hailed as the earliest poet to import the Occitan tradition of love poetry into the Italian vernacular. This edition fills a gap in the canon of translations of Italian

literature in English and serves as a vital reference source for scholars interested in the literature of the romance languages

LORENZO DA PONTE ITALIAN LIBRARY

The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini

Giacomo da Lentini

Translation and Notes by Richard Lansing, with an Introduction by Akash Kumar

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This book highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth

century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks.

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Reconsidering BoccaccioMedieval Contexts and Global Intertexts

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