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MEDIEVAL STUDIES
2020
Stone Fidelity Together forever
Magnificence Richard Barber on princely splendour
The Black Death A complete history of its terrible toll
Anglo-Saxon England An imagined ideal?
Mappae Mundi England, Iceland, and the world
New Paperbacks For reading lists and course adoption
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Anglo-Norman Studies XLII CHURCH 12 History of the County of York: East Riding Scottish Episcopal Acta SHEAD 10
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in CROUCH 12 Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica (1272-1363) KING
Eighteenth-Century Britain FRAZIER WOOD 18 Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess 4
Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval of Leicester and Pembroke, 1265 WILKINSON 7 Slow Scholarship KARKOV 13
Europe BUCKLOW / MARKS / WRAPSON 4 Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660 Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War
Arthurian Literature XXXV KING 11 CURRY / AMBUHL 9
ARCHIBALD / JOHNSON 18 Imagining Anglo-Saxon England KARKOV 3 St Stephen’s College, Westminster BIGGS 10
Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman Jean de Bueil: Le Jouvencel TAYLOR / TAYLOR 9 Stone Fidelity BARKER 11
World, 900-1200 WEIKERT 5 John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Studies in Medievalism XXIX FUGELSO 18
Baldric of Bourgueil: “History of the Jerusalemites” DRIVER / PEARSALL / YEAGER 15 Studies in the Age of Gower CHEWNING 16
EDGINGTON 8 Journal of Medieval Military History Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation MILES 16
Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law FRANCE / D E VRIES / ROGERS 12
Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean
M C KELVIE 7 King John and Religion WEBSTER 4 THEOTOKIS 6
Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century Kings, Lords and Courts in Anglo-Norman England Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages
SMITH 8 KARN 6 KERBY-FULTON / BUGYIS / ENGEN 17
Cartulary and Charters of the Priory of Saints Law, Liberty and the Constitution POTTER 4 Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert,
Peter and Paul, Ipswich ALLEN 10 Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the c.700-1130 ROZIER 10
Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books Middle Ages BARBER 3 Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England
in the Library of the University of Glasgow Manuscript and Meaning of Malory’s Morte Darthur DOLMANS 14
BALDWIN 19 WHETTER 5
Charles d’Orléans’ English Aesthetic Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
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The Complete History of the Black Death Magnificence and Princely
OLE J. BENEDICTOW Splendour in the Middle Ages
Benedictow’s magisterial study draws on RIC HARD BARBE R
records from across Europe to throw light on This highly-illustrated volume by bestselling
the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, author, Richard Barber, shows how medieval
mortality, and its impact on history. princes proclaimed their special status
Building upon his acclaimed study of 2004, Ole through displays of magnificence.
Benedictow here draws upon new scholarship How do you recognise a medieval king when
and research to present a comprehensive, you see one? For those who followed the Roman
definitive account of the Black Death and its emperors, the special status of royalty was
impact on European history. The medical and asserted by their display of kingly grandeur, or
epidemiological characteristics of the disease, ‘magnificence’. This was applied to everything:
its geographical origin, its spread across Asia his person, his courtiers, the artists, the
Minor, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe garments he wore, the musicians and architects
and Russia, and the mortality in the countries he employed. Above all, it was on show in his
and regions for which there are satisfactory studies, are clearly presented public appearances, his feasts and ceremonies. The ‘magnificent’ collections
and thoroughly discussed. The pattern, pace and seasonality of the spread of jewels, manuscripts and holy relics were displayed to a handful of favoured
of the disease reflects current medical work and standard studies on the visitors. Those visitors also had to be entertained, and royal feasts developed
epidemiology of bubonic plague. into an amazing form of performance art.
Benedictow’s findings make it clear that the true mortality rate was far higher All this is explored in this wide-ranging survey, covering the whole of
than had been previously thought. In the light of those findings, the discussion western Europe, but centring on France, the wealthiest of the kingdoms,
of the Black Death as a turning point in history takes on a new significance. members of whose extended royal family were at different times kings of
OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo. Poland, Hungary, Naples, Jerusalem, England, and, most spectacularly, dukes
£125/$175(s) September 2020 of Burgundy.
978 1 78327 516 8 RICHARD BARBER is the author of numerous books on medieval history and
3 colour illus.; 1,200pp, 24 x 17, HB
Arthurian legend. He was visiting Professor at the University of York until
2016 and was awarded an honorary doctorate there in 2015. His major works
include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in
A Critical Companion to English Mappae 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, and The Holy Grail: the history
of a legend.
Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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The first full collection on the seven most 104 colour & 8 b/w illus.; 382pp, 29.7 x 21, HB
significant English mappae mundi from the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. See also: Designing Norman Sicily (p. 6)
Mappae mundi (maps of the world) offer huge
insights into how medieval scholars conceived Imagining Anglo-Saxon England
the world and their place within it. They are Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia
a fusion of “real” geographical locations with
fantastical, geographic, historical, legendary and C AT H E RI NE E . KARKOV
theological material. Their production reached its A fresh approach to the construction of
height in England in the twelfth and thirteenth “Anglo-Saxon England” and its depiction in
centuries, with such well-known examples as art and writing.
the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, This book suggests that what came to be called
and the Vercelli map. This volume provides a “Anglo-Saxon England” has always been an
comprehensive Companion to the seven most significant English mappae imaginary place, an empty space into which
mundi and begins with a survey of the maps’ materials, types, shapes, sources, ideas of what England was, or should have been,
contents, conventions, idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving or should be, have been inserted from the arrival
on to locate the maps’ creation and use in the realms of medieval rhetoric, of peoples from the Continent in the fifth and
Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also establishes the shared sixth centuries to the arrival of the self-named
history of map and book making, and demonstrates how pre-and post- “alt-right” in the twenty-first. It argues that the
Conquest monastic libraries in Britain fostered and fed their complementary political and ideological violence that was a part
relationship. A chapter is then devoted to each individual map. of the origins of England and the English has never been fully acknowledged;
DAN TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University; instead, the island was reimagined as a chosen land home to a chosen people,
NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. the gens Anglorum. Unacknowledged violence, however, continued to haunt
CONTRIBUTORS: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle Brown, Daniel Connolly, Helen English history and culture. Through her examination here of the writings
Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa of Bede and King Alfred, the Franks Casket and the illuminated Wonders of
Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla, Chet Van Duzer the East, and the texts collected together to form the Beowulf manuscript,
£50/$90(s) November 2019 the author shows how this continues to haunt “Anglo-Saxon Studies” as a
978 1 78327 422 2, ebook 978 1 78744 454 6 discipline and Anglo-Saxonism as an ideology.
10 colour & 28 b/w illus.; 347pp, 24 x 17, HB CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor of Art History, University of Leeds.
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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See also: The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland (p. 17) 5 colour & 6 b/w illus.; 282pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
See also: Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of
Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain (p. 18)
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LITERATU RE & T HE AT R E H I S TO RY Places of Contested Power
Conflict and Rebellion in
The Manuscript and Meaning Gaelic Influence in the England and France, 830-1150
of Malory’s Morte Darthur Northumbrian Kingdom RYAN L AVE L L E
Rubrication, Commemoration, The Golden Age and the Viking Age The first full examination of
Memorialization F IONA EDMON D S why and how certain
K. S. W HET T ER The first full-scale, locations were chosen for
An examination of the interdisciplinary treatment of opposition to power, and the
rubricated letters in the Morte the wide-ranging connections meaning they conveyed.
makes a convincing case for the between the Gaelic world and In this volume the hitherto
design being by Malory himself. the Northumbrian kingdom. neglected role of place and
[An] original, profoundly Northumbria was the most landscape in acts of opposition
researched, at times combative northerly Anglo-Saxon and rebellion is explored for its meaning and
monograph.. Graduate students kingdom, with an impressive significance to the protagonists. It includes a
and seasoned Malorians landscape featuring two sweeping coastlines, consideration of a range of factors relevant to the
alike will find this book indispensable. MODE RN which opened the area to a variety of cultural choice of location for such events, and examines
L A NG UAG E REVIEW connections. This book explores influences the declarations and motivations of political
that emanated from the Gaelic-speaking world, actors, from disaffected princes to independently
A highly stimulating and interesting read [and] an minded nobles, as well as those who responded
including Ireland, the Isle of Man, Argyll and the
important contribution to Arthurian and Malorian to rebellion, to show how places and landscapes
kingdom of Alba (the nascent Scottish kingdom),
studies. ARC HIV FD SNSL became used in political disputes. These include
during Northumbria’s “Golden Age”, the political
Ambitious, genial, knowledgeable, closely argued, and scholarly high-point of the seventh and early both “public” and “private”, religious, urban and
and attractively illustrated. ME DIUM AEV UM eighth centuries. rural space, in England and northern France,
£19.99/$24.95(s) April 2020 Dr FIONA EDMONDS is Reader in History and from the late Carolingian period through to the
978 1 84384 563 8 aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
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Director of the Regional Heritage Centre at
Arthurian Studies Lancaster University. RYAN LAVELLE is Professor of Early Medieval
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Edited by SAR AH C ARPEN TER ,
ELISABETH DUT TON, Medieval Welsh Genealogy
GORD ON KI PLI NG & M EG T W YC RO S S An Introduction and Textual Study Authority, Gender and
Essays on the performance of BEN G UY
Space in the Anglo-Norman
drama from the middle ages, The first in-depth
World, 900-1200
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significance. the medieval manor pre- and
Medieval English Theatre Genealogy was a central element post-Conquest.
of life in medieval Wales: The ways in which medieval
the force that held society manors shaped – and were
together and the framework for all political shaped by – their occupants to
The Roman de Troie by action. For these reasons, genealogical writing express social authority have not
Benoît de Sainte-Maure in medieval Wales, as elsewhere in Europe, yet been fully explored.This book provides a fuller
A Translation became a fundamental tool for representing and account of how concepts of space and domestic
manipulating perceptions of the socio-political place were understood, represented, and used by
Translated by GLYN S. BURG ES S order across historical and literary time. From their occupants in England and Normandy from
& D OUGL AS KELLY its beginnings within an early medieval Insular c. 900 to c. 1200, and how this illuminates aspects
The first English translation of an genre of genealogical writing, Welsh genealogy of gender and authority in the period. Blending
important twelfth-century developed across the Middle Ages as a unique approaches from archaeology and history, it
romance, giving an account of the and pervasive phenomenon. This book provides uses evidence from Anglo-Saxon wills, standing
Trojan war and its consequences. the first integrated study of and comprehensive and excavated manorial sites in England and
Winner of the 2018 CHOICE introduction to genealogy in medieval Wales, Normandy, and a variety of written texts from
Outstanding Academic Title setting it in the context of genealogical writing vitae to history to poetry, in order to delve into,
Award from Ireland, England and beyond and tracing its deconstruct and reconstruct gendered notions of
evolution from the eighth to the sixteenth century. authority in the period.
Will serve as the standard
Dr BEN GUY is a Junior Research Fellow at KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early
English-language version of the medieval French text
Robinson College, Cambridge. Medieval History at the University of Winchester.
for the foreseeable future. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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H I S TO RY
Conquests in Eleventh- Warfare in the Norman
Century England: 1016, 1066 Mediterranean
Edited by L AUR A ASHE Edited by GE ORGIO S T H E OTOK I S
& E M I LY JOAN WARD Analyses of different aspects
The cataclysmic conquests of of the history of warfare in
the eleventh century are here the Mediterranean in the
set together for the first time. eleventh and twelfth centuries
Eleventh-century England The kingdom of Sicily plays
suffered two devastating a huge part in the history of
conquests, each bringing the the Norman people; their
rule of a foreign king and the conquest brought in a new era
imposition of a new regime. of invasion, interaction and
Yet only the second event, the Norman Conquest integration in the Mediterranean. However, much
of 1066, has been credited with the impact and previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on
influence of a permanent transformation. The their activities in England and the Holy Land. This
essays in this volume offer multidisciplinary volume redresses the balance by focusing on the
perspectives on a century of conquest: in politics, Hautevilles, their successors and their followers.
law, governance, and religion; in art, literature, It considers the operational, tactical, technical
economics, and culture; and in the lives and and logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the
experiences of peoples in a changing, febrile, and South looking also at its impact on Italian and
hybrid society. Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English Literature narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges
and Fellow and Tutor in English, Worcester and diffusion between the “military cultures” of
College, Oxford; EMILY JOAN WARD is Moses and the Normans and the peoples they encountered in
Mary Finley Research Fellow, Darwin College, the South, and their varied policies of conquest, Designing Norman Sicily
Cambridge. consolidation and expansion in the different Material Culture and Society
CONTRIBUTORS: Timothy Bolton, Stephanie operational theatres of land and sea.
Edited by E M I LY A. W I N K L E R ,
Mooers Christelow, Julia Crick, Sarah Foot, John Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn
L IAM FI T Z GE R AL D
Gillingham, Charles Insley, Catherine Karkov, Haldun University, Istanbul.
& ANDREW SM AL L
Lois Lane, Benjamin Savill, Peter Sigurdson CONTRIBUTORS: Matthew Bennett, Daniel P.
Lunga, Niels Lund, Rory Naismith, Bruce O’Brien, Franke, Michael S. Fulton, Serban V. Marin, David Essays showing how the stuff of Norman
Rebecca Thomas, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Elisabeth Nicolle, Francesca Petrizzo, Luigi Russo, Charles Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and
van Houts, Emily Joan Ward D. Stanton, Georgios Theotokis, James Titterton architecture, was used to construct its history.
£70/$99(s) June 2020 £65/$99(s) June 2020 Material culture played a crucial role in
978 1 78327 416 1, ebook 978 1 78744 836 0 978 1 78327 521 2, ebook 978 1 78744 855 1 developing the cultural narrative of Norman
1 colour & 12 b/w illus.; 432pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Sicily. These essays consider how images, designs,
Warfare in History artefacts, structures and objects were used to
help create the story of the medieval kingdom,
and what they reveal about the complex political
Kings, Lords and Courts in
Anglo-Norman England Robin Hood and social dynamics that underpinned the
so-called “multicultural” state. Arguing that a
NICHOL AS KARN Legend and Reality visual language developed in medieval Sicily and
The first study of the origins of DAV ID C RO OK southern Italy in this period, the contributions
the lordship courts that Detailed research into documentary sources journey through both familiar and unexplored
dominated the lives of the offers an exciting new identification of the aspects of Siculo-Norman art.
peasantry of medieval England. “real” Robin Hood. EMILY A. WINKLER is a Fellow of St Edmund
Hall and member of the History Faculty at the
About the year 1000, hundreds For over a century and a half, scholars have
University Oxford; LIAM FITZGERALD is a PhD
and shires were the dominant debated whether or not the legend of Robin
student at King’s College London; ANDREW
and probably the only local Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so,
SMALL is a DPhil student at Exeter College,
assemblies for doing legal and when and where he lived. This new survey offers
University of Oxford.
other business in England. Later, lords established a radical and exciting new theory, based on the
author’s detailed research into the early records CONTRIBUTORS: Martin Carver, Emma Edwards,
separate courts which gave them greater
autonomy: these can be seen clearly by the early of the English royal administration and common Liam Fitzgerald, Katherine Jacka, Alessandra
twelfth century, and were the basis from which law, putting forward evidence that points to the Molinari, Lisa Reilly, Fabio Scirea, Margherita
the later manorial courts, courts leet and honour possible origins of the legend in the activities of a Tabanelli, William Tronzo, Sarah Whitten, Emily
courts originated. This book shows, for the first notorious Yorkshire criminal, tracked down and A. Winkler
time, how they came into being. beheaded in 1225. £60/$99(s) March 2020
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NICHOLAS KARN is Associate Professor of History DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working
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H ISTO RY
Edward I: New Interpretations The Medieval Tournament Bastard Feudalism, English
Edited by ANDY KI NG as Spectacle Society and the Law
& A NDREW M. SPENC ER Edited by AL AN V. M U RR AY The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520
Exciting fresh perspectives on & KA R EN WAT T S GOR D ON M C K E LVI E
Edward I as man, king and Fresh insights into the development of the
administrator. A fresh look at the idea of
tournament as an opportunity for social bastard feudalism, deploying
The reign of Edward I was display. little-used records to provide
one of the most important of The period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth new insights.
medieval England, but the king’s century witnessed a rapid development of the Regulation of the distribution
activities and achievements tournament. Alongside the original tourney – a of liveries and the practice of
have not always received the full mass battle fought between opposing armies retaining, which underpinned
attention they deserve. The essays collected here of knights with minimal and rudimentary the so-called system of
offer fresh insights into Edward’s own personality regulation – new forms of chivalric military bastard feudalism in late medieval England, are
as well as developments in law, governance, war contests emerged, in which entertainment the subject of this book. Rather than relying
and culture. Edward the man emerges in chapters featured alongside the necessity of practice primarily on the records of noble estates, as much
on his early life, his piety and his family, while for war. This volume brings together the latest previous scholarship has done, it draws on the
the administrator king is discussed in evaluations research on the late medieval tournament, records of the court of King’s Bench, covering all
of his two great ministers, his handling of the demonstrating how such events, particularly at 336 known cases of illegal livery and retaining
crucial issue of law and order and the way the courts of France, Burgundy, England and over 130 years. The author examines the political
he managed the realm from abroad through the German principalities, were increasingly events and legal processes surrounding illegal
his correspondence. Edward’s nobles, both in integrated in wider festivities, ceremonies livery, by exploring the nature of the legislation
England and Scotland, naturally appear as vital to and diplomatic negotiations. Published in and its enforcement, particularly the relationship
understanding the reign, while his rule is set in a association with the Royal Armouries, it will between law-making in parliament and law-
British and European context. appeal to all those interested in chivalric culture enforcement in the localities.
ANDREW M. SPENCER is Senior Tutor at Gonville and medieval warfare.
Dr GORDON MCKELVIE is a lecturer in History at
& Caius College, Cambridge; ANDY KING is CONTRIBUTORS: Natalie Anderson, Cathy Blunk,
the University of Winchester.
a Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Rosalind Brown-Grant, Ralph Moffat, Alan
Southampton. £60/$99(s) February 2020
V. Murray, James Titterton, Iason-Eleftherios
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Fourteenth Century
YORK MEDIE VA L P RE SS Chronicle and Annals S . J. DR AK E
of Gilles le Muisit The links between Cornwall,
The Household Roll of Eleanor Edited by RIC HARD BARBE R , a county frequently
de Montfort, Countess of Translated by DAVI D PRE E ST considered remote and
Leicester and Pembroke, 1265 The first English translation of an important separate in the Middle Ages,
British Library, Additional MS 8877 chronicle for the early years of the Hundred and the wider realm of
Years’ War. England are newly discussed.
Edited and Translated
LOU I SE J. WI LKI NSON A careful and reliable author, Gilles li Muisit, Drawing on a wide range of
abbot of Tournai in north-east France, presents published and archival material,
Edition with English translation of a this book seeks to show how Cornwall remained
a largely realistic counterweight to the narratives
document shedding huge light on one of the strikingly distinctive while still forming part
of chivalrous exploits in Jean le Bel and Froissart.
most important figures of her time. of the kingdom. It argues that myths, saints,
They, like him, cover the period from 1330 to
The household roll of Eleanor, countess of 1351. Li Muisit’s caution about the battle of government, and lordship all endowed the name
Leicester and Pembroke, offers a fascinating Crecy – that no-one knows what is happening and notion of Cornwall with authority in the
insight into one of the most important domestic in a battle – is a remarkably modern view. minds of its inhabitants, forging these people into
establishments in England during the Second And his voice speaks not for the nobility, for a commonalty. At the same time, the earldom-
Barons’ War of 1263-7. As the wife of Simon de whom war represented glory and profit, but for duchy and the Crown together helped to link the
Montfort, earl of Leicester, the leading figure the defenceless and weak who were the main county into the politics of England at large.
within the baronial regime, and the sister and sufferers. S.J. DRAKE is a Research Associate at the Institute
aunt of King Henry III and the Lord Edward, of Historical Research. He was born and brought
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respectively, Countess Eleanor occupied a 978 1 78327 360 7 up in Cornwall.
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Evesham on 4 August 1265. 2 b/w illus.; 512pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
LOUISE J. WILKINSON is professor of medieval
history at Canterbury Christ Church University.
£60/$99(s) May 2020
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H I S TO RY / H I STORY OF D RESS / CRUSADE S
N EW SER I E S! H I S TO RY O F DR E SS CR U S ADE S
POLITICAL CULTURE Refashioning Medieval Baldric of Bourgueil: “History
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
and Early Modern Dress of the Jerusalemites”
Monarchy, State and A Tribute to Robin Netherton A Translation of the
Political Culture in Late Edited by GAL E R . OW E N - C RO C K E R Historia Ierosolimitana
Medieval England & M A R EN C L E GG H Y E R Translated by SU S AN B. E D GI NG TON ,
Essays in Honour of Essays on costume, fabric and Introduction by ST EVE N J. BI DDLE C OMBE
W. Mark Ormrod clothing. The first translation of Baldric’s
Edited by GWI LYM D ODD All those who work with Historia Ierosolimitana.
& CR AIG TAYLOR historical dress and textiles must The Historia Ierosolimitana is
New approaches to the political culture of the in some way re-fashion them. a prose narrative of the events
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This fundamental concept is of the First Crusade written at
developed and addressed by the the abbey of Bourgueil in the
These essays celebrate the distinguished career articles collected here, ranging Loire Valley around 1105. Its
of Professor W. Ormrod, reflecting the vibrancy over issues of gender, status and power. Topics author, the abbot Baldric, used
and range of his scholarship on the structures, include: the repurposing and transformation the anonymous Gesta Francorum for much of the
personalities and culture of ruling late medieval of material items for purposes of religion, factual material presented, but provided literary
England. Encompassing political, administrative, memorialisation, restoration and display; attempts enhancements and amplifications of the historical
Church and social history, the volume focusses on to regulate dress, both ecclesiastical and secular, the narrative and the characters found therein. This
three main themes: monarchy, state and political reasons for it and the refashioning which was both volume provides the first modern-language
culture. Particular topics addressed include a result and a reaction. Taken together, they honour translation of the Historia, with a full introduction
Edward III’s reactions to the deaths of his kinfolk the costume historian and editor Robin Netherton. setting out its historical, social, political and
and close associates; political defamation in the See its page at www.boydellandbrewer.com for details of manuscript contexts, and notes.
fourteenth century; the function and jurisdiction the editors and the full list of contributors
SUSAN B. EDGINGTON is a Teaching and Research
of the Court of Chivalry; the working practices £75/$135(s) November 2019
Fellow at Queen Mary University of London;
of the privy seal clerk, Thomas Hoccleve; and the 978 1 78327 474 1, ebook 978 1 78744 616 8
30 colour &17 b/w illus.; 311pp, 24 x 17, HB STEVEN J. BIDDLECOMBE edited the Latin text
political culture of regulation and code-breaking,
Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles of Baldric’s Historia (2014) and is currently an
via discussion of the household ordinances of
independent scholar.
Cecily, duchess of York.
See its page at www.boydellandbrewer.com for details of £60/$99(s) January 2020
978 1 78327 480 2, ebook 978 1 78744 453 9
the editors and the full list of contributors
£60/$99(s) October 2020
Medieval Clothing 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
978 1 90315 395 6 and Textiles 16 Crusading in Context
12 b/w illus.; 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Edited by MON IC A L . W RIGH T
Political Culture in the Middle Ages
with ROBIN N ET H E RTON
& G A L E R . OW E N - C RO C K E R The Bible and Crusade Narrative
The best new research on in the Twelfth Century
Power-Brokers and the medieval clothing and textiles. KAT H E RI NE AL L E N SM I T H
Yorkist State, 1461-1485 Following the Journal’s tradition A new investigation into the
A LEX ANDER R . BRONDA R BIT of drawing on a range of twelfth-century accounts of
An examination of the role played by key disciplines, these essays extend the First Crusade, showing
figures around the monarchy in the Wars of chronologically from the tenth their complex relationship
the Roses. through the sixteenth century with the Bible.
and cover a wide geography.
The reigns of Edward IV and Richard III have They include an examination of The Bible exerted an enormous
long engendered fascination and debate, not least the lexical items for banners in Beowulf, evidence influence on the crusading
concerning the extent of the authority and power of of the use of curved template for the composition movement: it provided medieval
key individuals surrounding the court at the time. in the Bayeux Tapestry, a discussion of medieval Christians with language to describe holy war,
This book examines the most influential men and cultivation of hemp for use in textiles in Sweden, spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications
women at the centre of their regimes: the political and a reading of Lady Mede’s costume in Piers for conquests in the East. This book offers a
power-brokers. They served the king in matters Plowman. reappraisal of the early twelfth-century narratives
of diplomacy, warfare, court ceremony, local of the First Crusade as works of biblical exegesis
CONTRIBUTORS: Melanie Schuessler Bond, John
government, and the maintenance of order amid rather than simply historical texts. It restores
Bloch Friedman, M. Wendy Hennequin, Cynthia
the ongoing crisis of kingship sparked by the Wars these works and their authors to the context
Jackson, Mark D. Johnston, Maggie Kneen, Gale
of the Roses. It allows a more detailed image of the of the monastic and cathedral schools where
R. Owen-Crocker, Git Skoglund, John Slefinger
influence the power-brokers wielded and their place the curricula centred on biblical study, and
in the Yorkist state, and analyses the manifestation £40/$70(s) April 2020 demonstrates how the crusade’s narrators applied
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of their power and the manner in which they 16 colour &74 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.5 x 15.6, HB familiar methods of scriptural commentary to
exercised their influence publicly and privately; Medieval Clothing and Textiles the crusade, treating it as a text which could,
and establishes their importance in the foundation, like the Bible, be understood through historical,
maintenance, and downfall of the Yorkist dynasty. allegorical, and mystical lenses.
ALEXANDER BRONDARBIT is an Academic KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH is professor of history
Planning Analyst at the University of California, at the University of Puget Sound.
Santa Cruz. £60/$99(s) June 2020
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CR USADE S / MILITARY H ISTO RY
M I L I TARY H I S TO RY Jean de Bueil: Le Jouvencel
Translated by C R AIG TAY LOR
The Soldiers’ Chronicle of & JANE H . M . TAY LOR
the Hundred Years War The first full English
College of Arms Manuscript M9 translation of a major text.
Edited by ANN E C U RRY Le Jouvencel is one of the most
& R EM Y AM BU H L important and revealing sources
A previously unpublished English chronicle for the study of medieval
of the Hundred Years War covering the warfare and chivalry. It tells the
period 1415 to 1429, written for the English story of a poor young soldier
commander Sir John Fastolf. whose skill at arms enables
him to rise through the ranks and eventually
This previously unpublished chronicle from the marry a foreign princess. Jean de Bueil (1406-
mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in 1477), the “plague of the English”, wrote the
France from 1415 to 1429. It is highly unusual in book around 1466, following his retirement from
that it was written by two soldiers, Peter Basset military service, drawing heavily upon his own
and Christopher Hanson. The content is unusual, experiences as one of the most prominent French
as it includes many lists of individuals serving soldiers of the fifteenth century. As a result, this
in the war, and records their presence at battles, remarkable chivalric narrative offers a window
naming more than 700 in all. Over half these into the martial culture of French soldiers during
individuals are French or Scottish, so it would the final stages of the Hundred Years War. This
seem that the authors had a particularly detailed first English translation is presented with an
knowledge of French military participation. The introduction to the text and to Jean de Bueil, and
narrative is important for the English campaigns explanatory notes.
CRU SA D E S in Maine in the 1420s in which Fastolf was heavily
Dr CRAIG TAYLOR is Reader in Medieval History
involved and which otherwise receive little
at the University of York; JANE H.M. TAYLOR
The Miraculous and the attention in chronicles written on either side of
is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham
Writing of Crusade Narrative the Channel.
University.
£60/$99(s) June 2020
BETH C. SPAC EY £60/$99(s) July 2020
978 1 78327 514 4
The first comprehensive study of miracles in 224pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB 978 1 78327 540 3, ebook 978 1 78744 834 6
448pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Crusade narrative, showing how and why
they were deployed by their authors.
The medieval Latin Christian narratives of the Military Cultures and Martial Chivalry and Violence in
crusades are replete with references to miracles,
visions and signs; but these references have never
Enterprises in the Middle Ages Late Medieval Castile
been studied together, a gap which this book aims Essays in Honour of S AM U E L A. C L AU S SE N
to fill, offering an analysis of the role of miracles, Richard P. Abels
marvels, visions, dreams, signs and augury in The first full investigation in English into
Edited by JOH N D. HO SL E R the role played by chivalric ideology in late
narratives of the crusades of 1096 to1204 and & STEV EN I S AAC
produced between c.1099 and c.1250. It argues that medieval Castile.
the miraculous and its related themes represented
Essays on aspects of medieval military history, The Kingdom of Castile in the late Middle Ages
a powerful tool for the authors of crusade narrative
encompassing the most recent critical approaches. suffered from regular civil strife, warfare, dynastic
because of its ability to convey divine agency and These essays honour the career and achievements contests, and violence. The chaos that marked
will, ideas which were central to the belief held of Richard Abels, the distinguished historian of this period was not mere chance, but the result
among Latin Christian contemporaries that crusade medieval military history; in particular, they aim of key historical developments which have not
was divinely inspired and spiritually salvific. to reflect how the “cultural turn” in the field has been fully examined in Anglophone scholarship,
BETH C. SPACEY is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow led to exciting new developments in scholarship. This book explores the roots of the disorder that
at the University of Queensland. Ranging from the late eighth century to the plagued Castile in the fourteenth and fifteenth
fifteenth, from northern England to the Levant, centuries, identifying the ideology of chivalry and
£60/$99(s) March 2020
978 1 78327 518 2, ebook 978 1 78744 871 1 the chapters analyze how medieval kings and its knightly practitioners as the chief instigators
214pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB commanders practiced a genuine military science, of the violence that destabilized the kingdom. The
Crusading in Context how the meanings of victory and defeat were author argues that chivalry was far from being a
constructed by chroniclers and whole societies, code of good behaviour, scrupulously observed,
how wars were remembered and propagandized, but rather encouraged knights to avenge
and how religion and war mixed. themselves violently upon their neighbours,
CRUSADING IN See its page at www.boydellandbrewer.com for details of pursue a zealous holy war against Islam, and tear
CONTEXT SERIES the editors and the full list of contributors at the social fabric of Castilian society.
The crusading movement was a defining feature £60/$99(s) June 2020 SAMUEL A. CLAUSSEN is Assistant Professor of
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of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean 5 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB History at California Lutheran University.
and the Near East during the central and later £60/$99(s) November 2020
Middle Ages. Ideas and practices associated 978 1 78327 546 5, ebook 978 1 78744 846 9
with it touched the lives of people within and 208pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB
beyond Christendom and the Islamicate world, Warfare in History
regardless whether they were ever directly
engaged in, witnesses to, or victims of acts of
crusading violence themselves.
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H I S TO RY O F REL I G I ON
HISTORY OF R E L I G I O N Herbert Grundmann The Martyrology of the
(1902-1970) Regensburg Schottenkloster
Reading and Shaping Essays on Heresy, Edited by PÁDR AIG Ó RIAI N
Medieval Cartularies Inquisition, and Literacy Edition, with introduction and notes, of
Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Edited by JE NN I FE R KOL PAC OFF DE ANE important Irish liturgical texts found in Bavaria.
Patterns of Growth. A Study of the The first English translation The earliest Irish martyrology was compiled in
Earliest Cartularies of Glasgow of seminal essays on heresy prose and verse at Tallaght, near Dublin, about
Cathedral and Lindores Abbey and other aspects of medieval the year 830. Little has hitherto been known of its
JOA NNA TUC KER religious history. circulation before the period 1150-60, when the
surviving copy of the prose version was made.
The physical nature of the In the field of medieval religious
medieval cartulary examined history, few scholars have Emeritus Professor PÁDRAIG Ó RIAIN is a member
alongside its textual contents. matched the originality of the of the Placenames Commission of Ireland and one
German academic Herbert of the editors of the Locus project.
Medieval cartularies are
Grundmann (1902-1970) who published a series £60/$99(s) December 2019
one of the most significant
of brilliant books and articles that fundamentally 978 1 90749 736 0
sources for a historian of the 263pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB
Middle Ages. Once viewed reshaped how historians of culture and religion
conceptualized the medieval past. Yet although H EN RY B R A D S H AW S O C I ETY
as simply repositories of
charters, cartularies are now regarded as carefully later generations of scholars have since
curated collections of texts whose contents and approached their research from vantage points The Cartulary and Charters
arrangement reflect the immediate concerns shaped by his arguments, few of his writings have of the Priory of Saints
been previously accessible to an Anglophone
and archival environment of the communities
audience. This volume presents translations of six
Peter and Paul, Ipswich
that created them. One feature of the cartulary
in particular that has not been studied so fully of Grundmann’s most significant essays on the Part II: The Charters
is its materiality: the fact that it is a manuscript. intertwined themes of medieval heresy, literacy, Edited by DAVI D AL L E N
Consequently, it has not been recognised that and inquisition. Together, they offer new access to
Edition of documents from
many cartularies are multi-scribe manuscripts Grundmann’s scholarship, one which will catalyze
an important East Anglian
which “grew” for many decades after their initial new perspectives on the medieval religious past
ecclesiastical institution.
creation, both physically and textually. and enable a fresh consideration of his intellectual
legacy in the twenty-first century. The charters presented here,
JOANNA TUCKER gained her PhD from the
JENNIFER KOLPACOFF DEANE is Professor of
with full explanatory notes,
University of Glasgow.
History at the University of Minnesota, Morris. complement the contents of
£75/$130(s) February 2020 the priory’s cartulary published
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in 2018. They illuminate the
22 colour illus.; 332pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB
Studies in Celtic History 276pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB religious life of the priory, its community, spiritual
Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages rewards for its benefactors, steps taken to safeguard
YO R K M ED IEVA L P R ES S its assets, and the circumspection sometimes shown
by the convent in its dealings with the powerful.
Writing History in DAVID ALLEN was archivist in the Suffolk Record
the Community of St St Stephen’s College, Office for over thirty years.
Cuthbert, c.700-1130 Westminster £60/$99(s) March 2020
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Suffolk Charters
CHA RLES C . ROZI ER
EL IZ A BET H BIGGS
An examination of the texts produced by the
community of St Cuthbert. The first full-length account
of St Stephen’s Chapel,
This book offers a narrative of historiographical bringing out its full Scottish Episcopal Acta
production within St Cuthbert’s community importance and influence Volume II: The Early Thirteenth
from the time of its foundation on the island of throughout the Middle Ages. Century, c.1200-c.1240
Lindisfarne, through subsequent translations
to Chester-le-Street and Durham, down to In St Stephen’s College, the Edited by NORM AN F. SH E AD
the vibrant intellectual revival of the Anglo- royally-favoured religious The first modern edition of the Acta of
Norman period. Focusing on several watershed institution at the heart of medieval Scottish bishops.
moments in the story of this community, it the busy administrative world of the Palace
of Westminster, church and state met and This volume brings together for the first time
identifies political, religious, intellectual and the 244 surviving documents issued by, or in
cultural triggers for historical writing, and argues collaborated for two centuries; it was part of
the shift at Westminster from the king’s most the name of, all the Scottish bishops of the early
that knowledge of past events gave successive thirteenth century, building on the previously-
guardians of Cuthbert’s cult their single most important home into the centre of political life
in the sixteenth century. This book recreates the published twelfth-century Acta. Every Latin text is
valuable tool in the continuous effort to define printed in full, preceded by an English summary
who they were, where they had come from, and entire world of a lost institution, bringing its
growth and development vividly to life. and followed by an explanation of the date
what they hoped to continue to be. ascribed to the document and, where appropriate,
CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval
Dr ELIZABETH BIGGS has taught at York and the
textual notes and comments.
European History at Durham University. University of the West of England.
NORMAN F. SHEAD is an Honorary Research
£60/$99(s) March 2020
£60/$99(s) June 2020 Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
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Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 978 0 90624 544 6
Writing History in the Middle Ages
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YORK MEDIE VA L P RE SS Scottish History Society 6th Series
S C OT T IS H H IS TO RY S O C IETY
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A RT & A RC HI T E C T U R E Stone Fidelity East Anglian Church Porches
Marriage and Emotion in and their Medieval Context
Reliquary Tabernacles in Medieval Tomb Sculpture H E L E N E . LU NNON
Fourteenth-Century Italy JES SIC A BARK E R A major interdisciplinary
Image, Relic and Material Culture Pioneering investigation of study.
BETH WI LLIAMSON the popular “double tomb” The church porches of medieval
Ground-breaking study of the effigies in the Middle Ages. England are among the most
unique tabernacles which for This is the first book to beautiful and glorious aspects
the first time combined relics address the phenomenon of of ecclesiastical architecture; but
and images. the medieval “double tomb”, in comparison with its stained
drawing the rich history of glass, for example, they have been relatively little
Images and relics were
tomb sculpture into dialogue studied. This book, the first detailed study of them
central tools in the process
with discourses of power, marriage, gender and for over a century, gives new insights into this
of devotional practice in
emotion, and placing them in the context of often over-looked element. Focussing on the rich
medieval Europe. The reliquary
ecclesiastical material culture of the time more corpus of late-medieval East Anglian porches, it
tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the
broadly. It offers new interpretations of some begins with two chapters placing them in a broad
area of Central Italy surrounding the city of
of the most famous medieval monuments, cultural outline; it then moves on to consider their
Siena, combined images and relics, presented
such as those found in Westminster Abbey commissioning and design, their architecture and
visibly together, within painted and decorated
and Canterbury Cathedral, as well as drawing ornamentation, their use and their meaning. This
wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various
attention to a host of lesser-known memorials book will appeal to all those interested in church
media and materials worked together to create
from throughout Europe. In turn, these fabric and function.
a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in
several contexts, both in procession and static, as monuments provide a vantage point from which Dr HELEN LUNNON, an Honorary Researcher in
the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This to reconsider the culture of medieval marriage. the School of Art, Media and American Studies at
first full-length study of these enigmatic artefacts Dr JESSICA BARKER is a Lecturer in Medieval Art the University of East Anglia, is Head of Learning
focuses on their materiality, investigating the at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
connotations and effects. Published with the generous financial £60/$99(s) June 2020
assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation. 978 1 78327 526 7, ebook 978 1 78744 851 3
BETH WILLIAMSON is Professor of Medieval
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Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture LO C AL H I S TO RY
Petitions from Lincolnshire,
Houses and Society in c.1200-c.1500
The Fabric Accounts Norwich, 1350-1660 Edited by GW I LYM D ODD
of St Stephen’s Chapel, Urban Buildings in the & AL I S ON K . MC HARDY
Westminster, 1292-1396 Age of Transition with L I S A L I DDY
Edited by T I M AYERS, Transcriptions by C H R IS K I NG Stories of injustice, feuding,
MAU REEN JURKOWSK I The first full archaeological study of the urban chicanery and natural
The first publication, with environment of Norwich when its power was disasters told through the
English translation, of the at its height. words of Lincolnshire people.
accounts of the building of St Norwich was second only to London in size and When the normal channels
Stephen’s Chapel. economic significance from the late Middle Ages for righting wrongs or asking
Begun by Edward I in 1292 and through to the mid-seventeenth century. This favours were unavailable, the
completed by Edward III, the book brings together the rich archaeological people of medieval England
rebuilding and decoration of evidence for urban households and domestic life petitioned their kings – in parliament, council,
St Stephen’s Chapel took three in Norwich, using surviving buildings, excavated or chancery. Lincolnshire’s inhabitants took
reigns and over 60 years. Produced by the royal sites, and material culture. It offers a broad full advantage of these opportunities, and their
Exchequer and now in The National Archives, overview of the changing forms, construction stories are told now through their petitions drawn
the fabric accounts for this important complex of and spatial organisation of urban houses during from The National Archives, edited here. The
buildings are exceptionally rich, but have not been the period, ranging across the social spectrum introduction sets the documents within England’s
fully published, until now. Sixty rolls are presented from the large courtyard mansions occupied administrative, legal, political, economic and
here with full introduction, notes, the original text by members of the mercantile and civic elite, to social framework, and is followed by the texts of
and a facing English translation. the homes of the urban “middling sort” and the almost 200 petitions, accompanied by extensive
small two- and three-roomed cottages of the city’s notes.
TIM AYERS is Professor of the History of Art at the
University of York. weavers and artisans. GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History
CHRIS KING is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham; ALISON K.
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