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ReoRienting the eastJewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim WorldMartin Jacobs

An original, comprehensive, and clear account of medieval and early modern Jewish travel writing. Martin Jacobs discusses all known relevant Jewish writings from the period, giving the textual

history of each and often comparing them to contemporary Christian and Muslim texts. Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria

Jewish Culture and Contexts Sep 2014 | 384 pages | 7 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4622-3 Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

the Last CRusade in the WestCastile and the Conquest of GranadaJoseph F. OCallaghan

With this final volume in his ambitious trilogy, Joseph F. OCallaghan offers the fullest history of the Reconquista that has ever been made available in

English.Norman Housley, University of Leicester

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 384 pages | 7 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4587-5 Cloth | $75.00 | $60.00 | 49.00 | 39.20

NeW iN PAPeRbACk the gibRaLtaR CRusadeCastile and the battle for the StraitJoseph F. OCallaghan

OCallaghan lays out with consummate care and with great detail the story of the brutal struggle for control of the Strait of Gibraltara struggle that would ultimately seal the fate of Spanish Islam.Medieval Review

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 392 pages | 13 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2302-6 Paper | $29.95 | $23.96 | 19.50 | 15.60

ZaydDavid S. Powers

Zayd is philologically rigorous and exhibits a sophisti-cated understanding of the complicated intertwinings of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literary works. John C. Reeves, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Jul 2014 | 224 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4617-9 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

PRaCtiCing Piety in MedievaL ashkenaZMen, Women, and everyday Religious ObservanceElisheva Baumgarten

Elisheva Baumgarten assesses the presence, development, and extent of Jewish piety in northern Europe, from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries.

Her emphasis on womens issues and the attempts to isolate the practices of the Jewish layman, rather than the rabbinic elite, are in many ways pioneering. Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University

Jewish Culture and Contexts Oct 2014 | 400 pages | 17 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4640-7 Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96 | 45.50 | 36.40

NeW iN PAPeRbACk hoLy WaRRioRsThe Religious ideology of ChivalryRichard W. Kaeuper

Kaeupers arguments brilliantly elucidate the theological ideas that were used to justify chivalric conduct. . . . Essential reading for any scholar concerned with the

knightly culture of the Middle Ages. American Historical Review

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 344 pages | 1 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2297-5 Paper | $29.95 | $23.96 | 19.50 | 15.60

NeW iN PAPeRbACk CRusade and ChRistendoMAnnotated Documents in Translation from innocent iii to the Fall of Acre, 11871291Edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell

More than just a new source-book. . . . It provides thorough

and thoughtful introductions to sources and their contexts, useful bibliographical notes for each topic, an implicit argument about the nature of the Crusades, and as com-prehensive a collection of sources on the thirteenth-century Crusades as exists on the market.Medieval Review

The Middle Ages Series Jul 2014 | 536 pages | 5 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2313-2 Paper | $34.95 | $27.96 | 23.00 | 18.40

the beguines of MedievaL PaRisGender, Patronage, and Spiritual AuthorityTanya Stabler Miller

Tanya Stabler Miller writes with intelligence and clarity. The contributions she makes to our understanding of how female spir-ituality was connected to female

labor are revelatory. William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 304 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4607-0 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

NeW iN PAPeRbACk sisteRs and bRotheRs of the CoMMon LifeThe Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle AgesJohn Van Engen

Winner of the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, the 2010 Otto Gruendler Prize of the Medieval institute, the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association, and the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History

A grand and important book not only for those bitten by medieval studies but for all interested in Western civilizations transition from medieval to modern. American Historical Review

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 448 pages | 19 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2307-1 Paper | $29.95 | $23.96 | 19.50 | 15.60

NeW iN PAPeRbACk unMaRRiagesWomen, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle AgesRuth Mazo Karras

Awarded the 2012 Joan kelly book Prize by the American Historical Association

This fascinating study of hetero-sexual pair bonds over a thousand

years of European history is a timely argument that while indissoluble monogamous marriage blessed by the Church was culturally dominant in the Middle Ages, it was by no means universally accepted or practised.TLS

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 296 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-2298-2 Paper | $27.50 | $22.00 | 18.00 | 14.40

ReWRiting saints and anCestoRsMemory and Forgetting in France, 5001200Constance Brittain Bouchard

Constance Bouchard has written a substantial, important, and complex book, the fruit of her deep engagement with a range of issues relating to early medieval memory in

the area that would become France. Amy Remensnyder, Brown University

The Middle Ages Series Oct 2014 | 408 pages | 7 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4636-0 Cloth | $79.95 | $63.96 | 52.00 | 41.60

Jean de saintRA Late Medieval education in Love and ChivalryAntoine de La Sale. Translated by Roberta L. Krueger and Jane H. M. Taylor

An important late medieval text that contributes to our under-standing of the development of the modern novel, and offers

important information about material culture, conven-tional gender roles, and social hierarchies in noble court culture.Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 264 pages | 6 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4586-8 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

the Making and unMaking of a saintHagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of AurillacMathew Kuefler

All historians of medieval monasticism know about Gerald of Aurillacor at least we think we do. Mathew Kuefler has written a very original work on Gerald, redating

and reattributing the vitae that form the basis of his fame. Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 320 pages | 34 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4552-3 Cloth | $79.95 | $63.96 | 52.00 | 41.60

the abenCeRRaJe and oZMn and daRaJaTwo Sixteenth-Century Novellas from SpainEdited and translated by Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brew-er-Garca, and Aaron J. Ilika

Faithfully translated into mod-ern, accessible English, The Abencerraje and Ozmn and

Daraja offer rich imaginings of life on the Chris-tian-Muslim frontier and reveal early modern Spains profound fascination with the Moorish culture that was officially denounced and persecuted.

Jun 2014 | 152 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4608-7 Cloth | $39.95 | $31.96 | 26.00 | 20.80

the bishoPs utoPiaenvisioning improvement in Colonial PeruEmily Berquist Soule

Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-break-ing study of the monumental work of Bishop Martnez Compan, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of

research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history. This is cultural, intellectual, and art historical writing at the very highest level.Gary Urton, Harvard University

The Early Modern Americas 2014 | 320 pages | 24 color, 1 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4591-2 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00 | 29.50 | 23.60

NeW iN PAPeRbACk death by effigyA Case from the Mexican inquisitionLuis R. Corteguera

A very engaging piece of microhistory based on a case heard by the Inquisition in late sixteenth-century Mexico. . . . Corteguera does a very good job of unraveling this rather convoluted case and of discussing the motives of all those involved. Sixteenth Century Journal

The Early Modern Americas Nov 2014 | 240 pages | 11 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2316-3 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96 | 16.50 | 13.20

evening neWsOptics, Astronomy, and Journal-ism in early Modern europeEileen Reeves

evening News convincingly demonstrates the entanglement of journalism and the news with optics and astronomy. Sven Dupr, Max Planck Insti-

tute for the History of Science

Material Texts 2014 | 320 pages | 4 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4574-5 Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96 | 45.50 | 36.40

the RoMan inquisition on the stage of itaLy, C. 15901640Thomas F. Mayer

A stunning achievement. . . . No one will be able to treat the Inquisition in the same old-fashioned way again. Edward Muir, Northwestern University

Haney Foundation Series 2014 | 368 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4573-8 Cloth | $79.95 | $63.96 | 52.00 | 41.60

Mad tusCans and theiR faMiLiesA History of Mental Disorder in early Modern italyElizabeth W. Mellyn

Mad Tuscans and Their Families carefully charts the legal and political contexts behind a wide range of behaviors and never loses sight of those who cared

for sufferers when there was no agreed-upon public response or means of care.David Gentilcore, University of Leicester

2014 | 304 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4612-4 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

the MedievaL saLentoArt and identity in Southern italyLinda Safran

A richly detailed and illuminating examination of a little-studied region of medieval southern Italy. Safrans interdisciplinary approach pushes the boundaries of iden-tity scholarship by relying in particular on art historical and anthropological methods. Joanna Drell, University of Richmond

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 480 pages |20 color 149 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4554-7 Cloth | $95.00 | $76.00 | 62.00 | 49.60

baRbaRous antiquityReorienting the Past in the Poetry of early Modern englandMiriam Jacobson

barbarous Antiquity extends our sense of Ovids dual role as classical exemplar and outlier, and makes a substantial contribution by demonstrating how lyric and narrative poetry were as important

to the English image of the Ottoman Mediterranean as drama and travel writing. John Archer, New York University

Sep 2014 | 288 pages | 13 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4632-2 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

Made fLeshSacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation englandKimberly Johnson

With great energy and insight, Kimberly Johnson shows how both seventeenth-century poetry and Eucharistic theology were steeped in performative language. Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan

2014 | 248 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4588-2 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

Confessions of faith in eaRLy ModeRn engLandBrooke Conti

Confessions of Faith in early Modern england allows us to see these texts as connected to the larger issue of trying to write about ones private religion in a period when religion was public, and ones relation to the state

religion was a matter of importance, fraught with danger. Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College

2014 | 240 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4575-2 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

the queens duMbshoWsJohn Lydgate and the Making of early TheaterClaire Sponsler

This absorbing and well-plotted study affords a rare glimpse into the conceptualization, performance, and impact of drama at a crucial time in the creation of an English vernacular literature. Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign

The Middle Ages Series 2014 | 320 pages | 7 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4595-0 Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

LeaRning to die in London, 13801540Amy Appleford

An original and significant work that demonstrates the different, and evolving, ways in which Londoners understood the nature of death and prepared themselves for it, and for what was to come afterwards.

Caroline Barron, University of London

The Middle Ages Series Dec 2014 | 352 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4669-8 Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

haMLet afteR q1An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean TextZachary Lesser

Zachary Lessers fascinating book about Q1 Hamlet de-tails what happened after the discovery of this black sheep in Shakespeares textual family. The rich cast of characters here,

including both bit players and eminent scholars, makes the story a Stoppard play waiting to be written. Douglas Bruster, University of Texas at Austin

Material Texts Dec 2014 | 328 pages | 27 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4661-2 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

doPPeLgngeR diLeMMasAnglo-Dutch Relations in early Modern english Literature and CultureMarjorie Rubright

Marjorie Rubright moves with great intellectual deftness across a large range of conceptual material. Doppelgnger Dilemmas is a clear corrective to the fetish for the Other in early modern

studies, and returns us to some material that has been overlooked in the scramble for the exotic. Emma Smith, University of Oxford

Sep 2014 | 360 pages | 32 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4623-0 Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96 | 45.50 | 36.40

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PaPeR soveReignsAnglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 16041664Jeffrey Glover

Jeffrey Glover crafts a persuasive story that draws on much of the best historical work, and rig-orously avoids romanticizing (or demonizing) any of the involved parties, showing how indigenous

leaders used the tools and strategies available to them to advance their individual and communal interests. Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

2014 | 328 pages | 14 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4596-7 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

the oPened LetteRNetworking in the early Modern british WorldLindsay ONeill

A great book that itself opens up rich discussions of networking, as well as those to do with letters, let-ter-writing, and news. By concentrating on the relatively understudied late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this book marks a useful intervention. Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Cambridge University

The Early Modern Americas Oct 2014 | 296 pages | 19 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4648-3 Cloth | $47.50 | $38.00 | 31.00 | 24.80

ReLigious tRansfoRMations in the eaRLy ModeRn aMeRiCasEdited by Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett

Religious Transformations in the early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doc-trine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities, exploring the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism.

The Early Modern Americas Oct 2014 | 384 pages | 23 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4654-4 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.95 | 32.50 | 26.00

LituRgiCaL subJeCtsChristian Ritual, biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in byzantiumDerek Krueger

With beautifully crafted prose, Krueger presents a trajectory lucidly drawn. . . moving deftly through its chapters with impressive economy and formidable com-mand of a wide array of textual and material evidence. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Oct 2014 | 320 pages | 24 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4644-5 Cloth | $75.00 | $60.00 | 49.00 | 39.20

tRansLating buddhist MediCine in MedievaL ChinaC. Pierce Salguero

A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation.Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University

Encounters with Asia Jun 2014 | 272 pages | 1 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4611-7 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

food and enviRonMent in eaRLy and MedievaL ChinaE. N. Anderson

Andersons book is, as surely intended, provocative, challenging much inherited wisdom and at the same time extremely wide-ranging, placing Chinas foodways in a broad comparative framework. Thomas Allsen, Professor Emeritus, College of New Jersey

Encounters with Asia Oct 2014 | 400 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4638-4 Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96 | 45.50 | 36.40

NeW iN PAPeRbACk vioLenCe and beLief in Late antiquityMilitant Devotion in Christianity and islamThomas Sizgorich

Thomas Sizgorich is . . . a scholar truly at home in both the late antique and early Islamic worlds who does a superlative job of illustrating the continuities between them.American Historical Review

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Dedicated to publishing articles and reviews on cultural history of the early modern period, Journal for early Modern Cultural Studies provides a venue for exchange between scholars in such traditionally diverse fields as history, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, philology, literary criticism, art history, and African, American, European, and Asian studies.