Table of Contents

Introduction
Matti Kilpiö

The Rök Stone through Anglo-Saxon Eyes
Joseph Harris

Not Christianity versus Paganism, but Hall versus Bog: The Great Shift in Early Scandinavian Religion and its Implications for Beowulf
Frank Battaglia

Why there are Three Eddic Meters
Geoffrey Russom

On Finnic and English Alliterative Metres
Jonathan Roper

The Ghost of M.I. Steblin-Kamenskij: Interpreting Old English Literature through Saga Theory
Jonathan Wilcox

The St. Petersburg Bede: St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS. lat. Q.v.I.18
George Hardin Brown

The ‘Old North’ from the Saxon South in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Barbara Yorke

Ships and their Terminology between England and the North
Katrin Thier

Race and Tillage: Scandinavian Influence on Anglo-Saxon Agriculture?
Debby Banham

The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen’s Translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae (Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12/289)
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.(Troy University) and Philip Edward Phillips(Middle Tennessee State University) eds., introduction by Quan Manh Ha (Texas Tech University)
This book comprises an extensive Introduction that makes particular note of the Elizabeth’s educational preparation for translating the Latin text and the circumstances under which the translation was made, an edition of the translation that distinguishes first-draft inscriptions in which the queen was directly involved and second-draft inscriptions that reveal no supervisory attention by Her Majesty, extensive notes that allow readers to understand the relationship between the entries in Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12/289 and the order in which the entries are presented in the edition, and a glossary of problematic words appearing in the translation.
2009 / 239 + xii / ISBN: 978-0-86698-414-0 / MR 366 / $63, £45

‘La Geste Francor’: Chansons de geste of Ms. Marc. Fr. XIII (=256). Edition with Glossary, Introduction and Notes
Leslie Zarker Morgan
This new edition of Biblioteca Nazionale Manoscritto Marciano fondo francese XIII (=256) of Venice (V13), presents a reliable interpretative edition of the text, unique in its language (Franco-Italian), and its form (linking nine segments among the most popular later chansons de geste: Enfances Bovo d'Antona; Berta dai piedi grandi; Chevalerie Bovo d’Antona; Karleto; Berta e Milone; Enfances Uggieri il Danese; Orlandino; Chevalerie Uggieri il Danese; and Macario), in a cohesive whole. The edition begins with a description of the manuscript and its history. A literary introduction presents precedents and parallels to the individual texts throughout Europe, and a linguistic introduction offers a survey of problems in the Franco-Italian of V13. The edition is accompanied by footnotes including earlier readings, and is followed by endnotes discussing points of interpretation. It concludes with a complete glossary.
2009 / 2 volumes / 1,483 + xx pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-396-9 / MR 348 / $165, £100

New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006
Edited by Michael Denbo
2008 / 388 + xii pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-393-8 / MR 345 / $48, £40

Robert Paynell’s Exchequer Reports (1627-1631)
W. Hamilton Bryson, ed. (University of Richmond)
Robert Paynell’s law reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer are extraordinarily good by the standards of law reporting of his time, the seventeenth century. Paynell made it his business to be regularly in the Court of Exchequer to record systematically the arguments of counsel and the opinions of the judges as they were being rendered. He apparently was doing this with a wider audience in view, but, due to the vagaries of seventeenth-century law publishing, this book now published by ACMRS is the editio princeps.

These reports cover a wide range of legal topics, but, directly or indirectly, they all touch on the sovereign prerogative and the royal revenue. This was the period of the personal reign of Charles I, and these legal issues had major political ramifications, which make these cases interesting to political historians as well as legal historians.

The bibliographical importance of this book is that it publishes all of the remaining known manuscript Exchequer law reports from the time of Charles I, thus completing that which was begun by Selden Society, vol. 118 (2001), and Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer in the Time of King Charles I (Hein, 2006). Also, it extends the recent publication of seventeenth-century Exchequer cases, complementing those from the time of the later Stuarts, Equity Cases in the Court of Exchequer 1660 to 1714 (ACMRS, 2007), and Samuel Dodd’s Reports 1678-1713 (Carolina Academic Press, 2000).
2009 / 518 + xxvi pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-406-5 / MR 358 / $63, £53

Volumes in Progress

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The following ACMRS volumes are expected to be released in the coming months. Please visit our website often for updated information on these projects.

Titles Currently at Press

Expected delivery date for this title is November 13, 2009

The Occasional Meditations of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
Raymond Anselment (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
The occasional meditations of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, contribute significantly to a genre of increasing seventeenth-century importance. The many pieces she wrote over a period of fifteen years have a religious and personal immediacy that sets them apart from other works in this tradition. Rich in domestic detail, vivid analogies, and homely comparisons, the Countess of Warwick’s occasional mediations are a memorable expression of a deeply religious woman who achieved a distinctive sense of self as she strove to make her life one with God. This first edition is a testament of her accomplishment.
2010 / xvi + 218 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-411-9 / MR 363 / $48, £35

Expected delivery date for this title is November 25, 2009

Byzantine Art: Recent Studies, Essays in Honor of Lois Drewer
Colum Hourihane, ed. (Director of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)
Stretching from Russia to the Mediterranean, the Byzantine world encompasses a multitude of distinct styles and areas, many of which are examined in this volume. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, the studies deal with the architecture and art of the Eastern world from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. Underpinned by iconography, style, reception and date, these essays attempt to contextualize the eastern world and the west, the Muslim and the Christian, the specific detail and the larger picture. Looking at many topics for the first time, these essays are destined to open the field of scholarship for future research in the area.

The contributors include:
Slobodan Curcic
Anthony Cutler
Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Catherine Jolivet-Lévy
Henry Maguire
Robert Ousterhout
Sofia Kotzabassi
Nancy P. Sevcenko
Don C. Skemer

Forthcoming 2009 / ISBN: 978-0-86698-426-3 / MR 378

Titles in Production

“The Mirror” of Jaume Roig: An Edition and an English Translation of MS. Vat. Lat. 4806
María Celeste Delgado-Librero
This is an annotated edition and English translation of Jaume Roig’s Spill, a vast, late 15th-century Iberian narrative poem composed in Valencian Catalan. The work is considered to be one of the most significant pieces of literature in that dialect, but it is usually overlooked because of the difficulties of the language despite it’s serving as a major touchstone for knowledge of late medieval medicine (Roig was a physician), misogyny, Marian theology, and a huge array of cultural practices such as midwifery, wet nursing, marriage, and civil law.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-398-3 / MR 350)

Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450-1700
Stella Revard (Southern Illinois University, Emerita)
Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450-1700 is the companion volume to the earlier study, Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-Ode. Its particular focus is on the development of the political ode in Italy and France in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and its dissemination throughout continental Europe and finally to England in the seventeenth century. It also considers how the funeral and familiar pindaric and the city ode developed as ancillary to the political ode. It includes discussion of odes by early Italian experimenters, Ronsard and his followers, and major English poets—Milton, Marvell, Cowley, Dryden, Behn, Drayton, Jonson, and Spenser.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-399-0 / MR 351 )

This title is a copublication with Brepols Publishers (ASMAR vol. 27).
It will be available in North America through Cornell University Press Services
and outside of North America through Brepols.

The Hospital of Incurable Madness (1586)
Translated with notes by Daniela Pastina and John W. Crayton, Introduction by Monica Calabritto
This translation of Tomaso Garzoni's Renaissance "best-seller" provides a rich and revealing window on sixteenth-century views of madness and foolishness, and social deviance. Garzoni's encyclopedic work is perhaps the most important contribution of the last half of the century to the "fools" genre to which Erasmus' Praise of Folly and Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools also belong. Garzoni provides a spoof of academic writing on madness, with extensive "reviews of the medical literature" on certain types of madness. A final, intriguing section on the varieties of madness to be found in Garzoni's female "patients" reveals much about late-Renaissance attitudes towards women.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-400-3 / MR 352)

This title is a copublication with Brepols Publishers (ASMAR vol. 26).
It will be available in North America through Cornell University Press Services
and outside of North America through Brepols.

Calendar of the Letter of Pierre de Cros, Chamberlain to Pope Gregory XI (1371-1378)
Daniel Williman
Pierre de Cros, chamberlain of Pope Gregory XI from 1371 to 1378, was responsible for most of the accumulated worldly wealth of the Roman Church and for much of its activity not related to its religious character. For the purposes of political, economic, and social history, therefore, his official correspondence is of great interest. We’re fortunate that many of his letters were registered in the offices of the Camera Apostolica at Avignon before being dispatched, and those letters constitute the subject matter and most of the content of this book and accompanying CD-Rom.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-404-1 / MR 356)

Góngora’s Shorter Poetic Masterpieces in Translation
Diane Chaffee-Sorace, ed. (Loyola College in Maryland)
The aim of Góngora’s Shorter Poetic Masterpieces in Translation is to make the shorter poems of Luis de Góngora y Argote accessible to English speakers as well as to bring together in one volume the Spanish texts, their English prose translations, and critical commentary for students and scholars interested in the bard’s work. Whereas there are editions of Góngora’s poetry, critical studies on his verse, and English translations of some of his shorter poems, no book includes all of these.

Góngora’s Shorter Poetic Masterpieces in Translation is a modern annotated prose translation of seventy-four of the poet’s sonnets, romances, and letrillas. The source for Góngora’s texts printed in this book is the Chacón Manuscript, the only authorized collection of the bard’s complete poetry, which is housed at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. The book includes amorous, moral, consolatory, religious, satirical, burlesque, and funereal poems, some of which have never before been translated. The poems are rich in information about Góngora, his poetic style, and the society and politics of his day, a period spanning the reigns of Philip II to Philip IV. In addition to an introduction, the book has notes explaining difficult verses, summarizing commentaries by critics, and defining period vocabulary. There is also an index of poems by category and by first lines both in English and Spanish.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-405-8 / MR 357)

Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period
Edited by Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia) and Juanita Feros Ruys (University of Sydney)
The essays in this volume, many of which are in dialogue with Francoise Waquet’s Latin or the Empire of a Sign, showcase some of the most exciting and sophisticated new work in the field of neo-Latin studies. They illustrate the significance of “Latinity” for understanding the early modern world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and will be of interest not only to neo-Latinists but to students of the modern European vernaculars, social historians of language, lexicographers, intellectual and scientific historians, and to cultural and cross-cultural historians. Under the second term of the title, "Alterity," our volume explores humanist Latin’s “opposition” to mediaeval Latin and the modern vernaculars; the “otherness” of women’s Latinity; the construction of the non-European in Latin humanism; and the Latin writings of non-Europeans, from indigenous Americans to Africans. The exploration of these themes helps us more fully to understand what Latin “really meant” during the early modern period.

Table of Contents

1. Distant Empires, Buried Signs: In Search of New Worlds of Latin in the Early Modern Period (Introduction)
Yasmin Haskell

2. Other Latins, Other Cultures
Ann Moss

3. Latin and the Vernacular: The Silence at the Beginning of Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum
Siobhan O’Rourke and Alison Holcroft

4. De ortu et occasu linguae latinae: The Latin Language and the Origins of the Concept of Language Death
John Considine

5. Translation and Re-translation: Boileau’s Art poétique Latinized
Christopher Allen

6. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711): Art Poétique translated into Latin by François Gacon (1667-1725), text edited and annotated by
Christopher Allen and Frances Muecke

7. From Virile Eloquence to Hysteria: Reading the Latinity of Heloise in the Early Modern Period
Juanita Feros Ruys

8. Latin in Cuauhtémoc’s Shadow: Humanism and the Politics of Language in Mexico after the Conquest
Andrew Laird

9. New World ‘Ethiopians’: Slavery and Mining in Early Modern Brazil through Latin Eyes
Alexandra de Brito Mariano

10. “Sub herili venditur Hasta”: An Early Eighteenth-Century Justification of the Slave Trade by a Colonial Poet
John Gilmore

11. Can the Subaltern Speak Latin? The Case of Capitein
Grant Parker

12. Latin Terms and Periphrases for Native Americans in the Jesuit Relations
John Gallucci

12. History and Poetry in Philippus Meyerus’s Humanist Latin Portraits of the Prophet Mohammed and the Ottoman Rulers (1594)
Marc Laureys

Language and Style in the Old English Composite Homilies
Hiroshi Ogawa (Showa Women's University)
This book, which is another in a long line of distinguished linguistic studies of Old English texts to come out of Japan in the last 50 years, focuses on a group of late Old English homilies that were cobbled together by anonymous compilers from the work primarily of the great homilists Wulstan and Ælfric. A number of scholars have recently turned their attention to these texts as interest in the vast body of Old English prose has come increasingly under scholarly scrutiny. Ogawa has made here a substantial contribution to our knowledge and appreciation of these texts.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-409-6 / MR 361)

The Company She Keeps: The Medieval Swedish Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria and Its Transformations
Tracey Sands (University of Colorado, Boulder)
This study examines the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria, one of the most widely venerated saints of the medieval Christian world, in what was in many ways a far-flung and remote corner of Christendom. A number of recent studies have established that this saint appealed to a wide range of different groups across Europe, and her legend and cult were capable of generating and fulfilling many different meanings, both for individuals and for organizations. The saint's great popularity in much of Europe is easily understandable, but her popularity in Sweden raises a number of interesting questions that have not previously been explored in such a sustained and focused manner. How did this Mediterranean saint, a Greek-speaking princess or queen of Alexandria, come to be one of the most beloved saints in a cold and remote northern region? How did a figure renowned for her learning become an intercessor for people whose access to the written word was limited at best? What possible functions could this cult fulfill for the Swedes? These are among the questions this study addresses, and it addresses them exceedingly well.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-410-2 / MR 362)

Robert Paynell’s King's Bench Reports (1625-1627)
W. Hamilton Bryson, ed. (University of Richmond)
This book is the promised complement of the editor’s collection of Robert Paynell's Exchequer Reports (1627-1631) published by ACMRS. This new volume will be welcomed by scholars as it illuminates how law was practiced in the English Court of King’s Bench and sheds light on the particular legal concerns of this particular lawyer. These law reports cover some important common law cases which have been heretofore known only by very imperfect older reports. In addition, the introduction discusses generally the reporting of law cases in the time of King Charles I.
Forthcoming 2009 / ISBN: 978-0-86698-417-1 / MR 369

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