Recent Publications (from the past 6 months)

Early Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Edition of the Texts, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600

Edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lister M. Matheson (Michigan State University)

This volume comprises new editions of all of the known works on Robin Hood, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600, drawn from the original manuscripts and early printed books. All the relevant texts are...

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2013 | 310 + xxvi pp. | 978-0-86698-476-8 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 428 | $75 | £57

Germania Remembered 1500–2009: Commemorating and Inventing a Germanic Past

Edited by Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland

Germania Remembered provides a genuinely multidisciplinary examination of how the remote history of Germany has been invoked in scholarly and popular imagination since 1500. It looks at...

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2013 | 426 + xxxviii pp. | 978-0-86698-473-7 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 425 | $80 | £60

Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript

By Asa Simon Mittman (California State University, Chico) and Susan M. Kim (Illinois State University)

Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefrægelicu (inconceivable)....

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2013 | 318 pp. | 978-0-86698-481-2 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 433 | $95 | £72

Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400–c.1600

Edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh

Negotiating the Political is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of case studies on the creation of identity in late medieval and Renaissance urban society. At a time of far-...

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2013 | 212 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-482-9 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 434 | $60 | €55

Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey

Edited by Stephen J. Harris and Michael Moynihan
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Edited by
Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan, and Sherrill Harbison

Vox Germanica celebrates the career and scholarship of James E. Cathey, who retired from the University...

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2013 | 288 + xx pp. | 978-0-86698-477-5 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 429 | $65 | £52

John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon

By Jane Beal

In this new academic monograph, Jane Beal examines the rhetorical strategies John Trevisa used to establish his authority and justify his translation of Ranulf Higden’s Latin Polychronicon...

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2012 | 172 + xvi pp. | 978-0-86698-485-0 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 437 | $54 | €60

Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings

Edited by Patricia Fumerton

Includes two audio CDs with the recorded ballads.

How can students and scholars in an informed way navigate the large and multifarious offerings of the online English Broadside Ballad...

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2012 | 336 + xxiv pp. | 978-0-86698-469-0 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 421 | $95 | £72

Saints' Lives and Homilies

By Rolf H. Bremer, Jr. and Kees Dekker

Volume 21
Descriptions by Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. and Kees Dekker
A. N. Doane and M. T. Hussey, Editors

Please visit the Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche...

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2012 | 978-0-86698-461-4 | Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5 in
MRTS 413 |

The Virtuoso Circle: Competition, Collaboration, and Complexity in Late Medieval French Poetry

By Adrian Armstrong

French poets in the period 1420-1530 form a “virtuoso circle”: a self-conscious professional community that extends across different generations and political affiliations. They collaborate and...

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2012 | 204 + xxii pp. | 978-0-86698-463-8 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 415 | $58 | £43

Death Before Compline: Short Stories by Sharan Newman

By Sharan Newman

Sharan Newman is a medieval historian and author. She took her Master’s degree in Medieval Literature at Michigan State University and then did her doctoral work at the University of California at...

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2012 | 126 pp. | 978-0-86698-800-1 | Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5 in
$9.95 |