Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

The Fordham Series in Medieval Studies publishes innovative studies utilizing interdisciplinary methods, especially cross-cultural studies. The series offerings include original studies, translations, multiauthor volumes, and source materials on late antique and medieval culture.

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Remember the Hand

Remember the Hand

Catherine Brown

Catherine Brown

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have...

ISBN: 9780823298914

Viking Mediologies

Viking Mediologies

Kate Heslop

Kate Heslop

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic...

ISBN: 9780823298259

Medieval Nonsense

Medieval Nonsense

Jordan Kirk

Jordan Kirk

Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong,...

ISBN: 9780823294473

Whose Middle Ages?

Whose Middle Ages?

Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, David Perry, Geraldine Heng, Sandy Bardsley, Adam Bishop, Marian Bleeke, Will Cerbone, William Diebold, Fred Donner, Sarah Guérin, J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Lauren Mancia, Stephennie Mulder, W. Mark Ormrod, Pamela Patton, Nicholas L. Paul, Andrew Reeves, Ryan Szpiech, Magda Teter, Elizabeth Tyler, Cord Whitaker, Maggie Williams, Katherine Wilson, Helen Young

Edited by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul and Nina Rowe

Afterword by Geraldine Heng

Contributor(s): Sandy Bardsley, Adam Bishop, Marian Bleeke, Will Cerbone, William Diebold, Fred Donner, Sarah Guérin, J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Lauren Mancia, Stephennie Mulder, W. Mark Ormrod, Pamela Patton, Nicholas L. Paul, Andrew Reeves, Ryan Szpiech, Magda Teter, Elizabeth Tyler, Cord Whitaker, Maggie Williams, Katherine Wilson and Helen Young

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes...

ISBN: 9780823285563

Ecstasy in the Classroom

Ecstasy in the Classroom

Ayelet Even-Ezra

Ayelet Even-Ezra

Ecstasy in the Classroom analyzes the early thirteenth century theological discourse about Paul’s rapture and other modes of cognizing God. It reconstructs the perceptions of transformation and self they imply, and demonstrate their role in establishing the peculiar professional identity of scholastic theologians compared with other seers of God.

ISBN: 9780823281916

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Damian J. Smith, Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith, James J. Todesca

Edited by Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln and Damian J. Smith

Contributor(s): Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith and James J. Todesca

King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history...

ISBN: 9780823284146

The French of Outremer

The French of Outremer

Laura K. Morreale, Nicholas L. Paul

Edited by Laura K. Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul

A collection of essays devoted to the culture of the Francophone European crusading states of the eastern Mediterranean. Contributors, including historians of the crusades, Old French literature, and medieval art, each address different themes and questions related to life, literature, and language in the Frankish Levant.

ISBN: 9780823278169

Europe After Wyclif

Europe After Wyclif

J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Michael Van Dussen

Edited by J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael Van Dussen

This volume brings together scholarship on pan-European late-medieval religious controversy, with particular attention to developments in England, Bohemia, and at general church councils. It builds on recent work by approaching late-medieval cultural transaction and controversy internationally. Contributors examine textual transmission and compilation, polemical rhetoric, and philosophical and theological interchange, among other subjects.

ISBN: 9780823274420

Ecclesiastical Knights

Ecclesiastical Knights

Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J.

Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J.

Ecclesiastical Knights is a spirituality study of the three military orders of Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara in Leon-Castile from the twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries. It explores the fundamental problem of the military orders: how the traditions of knighthood and monasticism were combined into a single way of life.

ISBN: 9780823265954

Medieval Education

Medieval Education

Ronald B. Begley, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.

Edited by Ronald B. Begley, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.

This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academicsense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes...

ISBN: 9780823224258

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia

Felice Lifshitz

Felice Lifshitz

This study of the intellectual culture of the women’s monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas).

ISBN: 9780823256877

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Martin Chase

Edited by Martin Chase

Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry.

ISBN: 9780823257812

Dante For the New Millennium

Dante For the New Millennium

Teodolinda Barolini, H. Wayne Storey

Edited by Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey

The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world’s great poets. The...

ISBN: 9780823222728

Medieval Cultures in Contact

Medieval Cultures in Contact

Richard F. Gyug

Edited by Richard F. Gyug

Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west’s debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the...

ISBN: 9780823222131

Isaac On Jewish and Christian Altars

Isaac On Jewish and Christian Altars

Devorah Schoenfeld

Devorah Schoenfeld

Rashi's commentary and the Glossa Ordinaria both developed in the late eleventh and early twelfth century with no known contact between them. Nevertheless, they shared a way of reading text that shaped their interpretations of the near-sacrifice of Isaac. This work compares them both with each other and their respective sources to show their similarity.

ISBN: 9780823243495

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Seeta Chaganti

Edited by Seeta Chaganti

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.

ISBN: 9780823243242

Poets of Divine Love

Poets of Divine Love

Alessandro Vettori

Alessandro Vettori

St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi (c.1236-1306) were but two exemplars of a rich school of mystical poets writing in Umbria in the Franciscan religious tradition. Their powerful...

ISBN: 9780823223251