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The following ACMRS volumes are have come out
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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
2009 / 197 + xx pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-426-3 / MR 378
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
Private
Libraries in Renaissance England: A
Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists
R. J. Fehrenbach, general editor
Joseph L. Black, editor
This series provides
substantial information about English private libraries compiled from
manuscript sources (e.g., account books, wills, probate records), presented
in detailed entries, and including summary biographical and bibliographical
information for each collection.
Volume
VII, PLRE 151-166
This volume completes the editing of the Oxford book-lists of approximately 9,000 books
begun with Volume II.
2009 / xxxiii + 366 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-398-3 / MR370 / $60,
£43
Anglo-Saxons and the North: Essays Reflecting the Theme of the 10th Meeting
of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Helsinki, August 2001
Edited by Matti Kilpiö, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Jane Roberts, and Olga Timofeeva
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
2009 / 191 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-412-6 / MR 364 / $44, £32
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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 December 31, 2009
Nicholas Oldisworth’s Manuscript (Bodleian MS. Don.c.24)
Edited by John Gouws (Professor Extraordinary, North West University, South Africa)
This edition makes available for the first time a collection of poems assembled
as a possible wedding anniversary gift by the author, Nicholas Oldisworth, for
his wife. Within weeks of completing the manuscript, Oldisworth, a devout and
dutiful clergyman, died of the plague in 1645. The collection is valuable for its
own sake, since it presents a series of poems of above average quality written
mostly between 1628 and 1636. There are not many such autograph collections,
and certainly none in which the author annotates the occasion of writing many
of the poems. For this reason it is a significant contribution to the understanding
of poetic communities in Caroline England. The edition would be of value
to those working in the fields of Early Modern Studies in general, not simply
English Literature, history, or textual and manuscript studies.
2009 / 978-0-86698-428-7 / MR 380
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
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-408-9 / MR 360)
This title is a copublication with
Brepols Publishers (ASMAR vol. 30).
It will be available in North America through Cornell University Press
Services
and outside of North America through Brepols.
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)
This title is a copublication with
Brepols Publishers (ASMAR vol. 31).
It will be available in North America through Cornell University Press
Services
and outside of North America through Brepols.
Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri
Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Carla P. Weinberg (University of the Arts) and E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)
The Ogdoas, a series of dialogues about proper rulership, true nobility, and the afterlife,
take place between deceased members of the Visconti family of Milan and one Adorno of Genoa,
in a sort of Christian/Pagan Limblo. Written c. 1420 by the otherwise unknown Alberto Alfieri,
who was serving at the time as schoolmaster of the Genoese colong of Caffa on the Black Sea,
the dialogues are an interesting mirror of political and cultural self-consciousness in the early Renaissance.
Originally written in Latin, the Ogdoas is known only in one manuscript and has never before been translated into any
modern language.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-413-3 / MR 365)
Mothering Baby: On Being a Woman in Early Modern Germany:
Johannes Praetorius's Apocalypsis Mysteriorum Cybeles. Das ist Eine Schnakische Wochen-Comedie (1662)
Edited and Translated by Gerhild Scholz Williams (Washington University in St. Louis)
Until he died from the plague in his hometown of Leipzig, Germany, the writer and journalist Johannes Praetorius (1630-1680)
produced a prolific body of writing. He constructed a panorama in print in which wonders, the occult, the emerging
scientific way of thinking, geography, astrology, politics, and family life and social mores are recurrent themes.
No small part of his oeuvre is devoted to gender and class, to his observations about the social realities of young girls
and grown women, of husband and lovers during the early modern period in Germany. In the modest tract presented here,
the Apocalypsis / Mysteriorum Cybeles. / Das ist / Eine Schnakische / Wochen-Comedie (1662)
[A birthing chamber comedy], Praetorius observes and satirizes a new mother’s life during her lying-in period,
the six weeks after birth she had to spend in the confinement chamber visited only by female relatives and friends.
Through the eyes and ears of a male listener hidden behind the chamber door, the reader witnesses the interactions
of several groups of women as they come and go keeping the new mother company, gossiping and offering advice about
everything from nursing to dealing with maids and husbands. The reader will smile at the young women’s struggles
as they navigate early modern social conventions described in lengthy, funny, and sometimes acerbic detail
by the visiting matrons. The underlying message of this amusing yet serious tract points to the women’s gendered
ways of knowing, to their struggles with husbands, children, households, money, and maids, all, in the end,
tied to the purported need to insure social discipline in urban society. The intimate and the public lives
of these women unfold before us as we listen in on the conversations amused as well as instructed about
seventeenth-century domesticity and family matters.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-419-5 / MR 371)
The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester
Edited and Translated by Paul Antony Hayward (Lancaster University, England)
The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles are the foremost examples of
‘the breviate world chronicle in annalistic format’ to survive for twelfth-century England.
Their importance lies not only in what they have to say about the histories of houses and
regions in which they were produced, but also in their close connection with the Chronica chronicarum
of John of Worcester. This book edits and translates both texts in full for the first time.
It includes comprehensive source-critical and historical commentaries, and an extensive introduction
explaining their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-421-8 / MR 373)
John Bale’s Catalogue of Tudor Authors: An Annotated Translation of Records from the
Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae . . . Catalogus (1557–1559)
Translated by J. Christopher Warner (Le Moyne College)
A meticulously annotated translation of the Tudor-era title entries in John Bale’s two-part
Catalogue of British Authors, identifying over 1500 extant and lost works by 237 writers
of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Each title is translated from the Latin and
if extant identified, with cross-references to STC and other catalogues, locations of manuscript and non-STC works,
a general index, STC index, and other indices that make this an indispensable resource for the study of
Tudor political and intellectual history, the English Reformation, early English Renaissance literature,
and the rise of the printing press and English book culture.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-423-2 / MR 375)
Courtly Seductions, Modern Subjections: Troubadour Literature and the Medieval Construction of the Modern World
Fidel Fajardo-Acosta (Creighton University)
A critical analysis of courtly love and medieval troubadour literature, this book claims they were instrumental
in the constitution of the modern subject and its preparation for life in the highly regulated societies of the modern world.
Relating troubadour texts to the rise of commerce, luxury commodities, social differentiation, the centralization of authority,
and the crusades, the author proposes that western romantic love, from its courtly beginnings, eroticized the forms and
values of the early European commercial economy and nation-states—playing a key role in the subjection of medieval hearts,
minds and bodies to the disciplines of emerging modern powers.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-424-9 / MR 376)
Coptic Legal Documents: Law as Vernacular Text and Experience in Late Antique Egypt
Translated by Leslie S.B. MacCoull
This volume contains annotated English translations of fifty selected legal documents originally written in the Coptic language,
dating from the mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. They include land transfers, sales, wills, property divisions,
and intergenerational disputes. The choice of which language to use in recording their transactions was meaningful for the documents’
framers. The introduction sets the texts in their historical contexts of the changing society of Egypt, first under Byzantine rule,
then under Islamic rule. Since the originals are in a language not known to most classicists and medievalists, making the documents
available in English should enable them to be read, studied, and appreciated by a wider audience.
(ISBN: 978-0-86698-425-6 / MR 377)
This title is a copublication with
Brepols Publishers (ASMAR vol. 32).
It will be available in North America through Cornell University Press
Services
and outside of North America through Brepols.
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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