Table Of ContentTHE NEW MIDDLE AGES
BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particu-
lar emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed
series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE:
Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture
Patronage, and Piety edited by Stewart Gordon
edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: Literature
On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine
by Gregory B. Stone M. Rose
Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the
Literati Tradition Middle Ages
edited by Sherry J. Mou edited by Francesca Canad é Sautman and
Pamela Sheingorn
The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard:
Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular
by Constant J. Mews Desires
by Suzannah Biernoff
Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault
by Philipp W. Rosemann Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the
Formation of Religious Women in the
For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh Middle Ages
by Frances A. Underhill edited by Constant J. Mews
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the
Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology
Middle Ages
by Richard A. Lee, Jr.
edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane
Weisl Gender in Debate from the Early Middle
Ages to the Renaissance
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England
edited by Thelma S. Fenster and
by Mary Dockray-Miller
Clare A. Lees
Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century
Malory’s Morte D’Arthur : Remaking Arthurian
Woman
Tradition
edited by Bonnie Wheeler
by Catherine Batt
The Postcolonial Middle Ages
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious
edited by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen
Literature
Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Dun-
Discourse can Robertson, and Nancy Warren
by Robert S. Sturges
Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image
Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500
European and Heian Japanese by Kathleen Kamerick
Women Writers
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary
edited by Barbara Stevenson
Structure in Late Medieval England
and Cynthia Ho
by Elizabeth Scala
Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in Creating Community with Food and Drink in
the Later Middle Ages Merovingian Gaul
by Laurel Amtower by Bonnie Eff ros
Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: Image Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on
and Empire Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity
by Anne McClanan by John M. Ganim
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Queer Love in the Middle Ages
Texts, Images by Anna Klosowska
edited by Dé s ir é e G. Koslin and Janet Snyder
Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender,
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady and the Iberian Lyric
edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi by Denise K. Filios
Parsons
Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval
England
Isabel La Cató lica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays
by David Gary Shaw
edited by David A. Boruchoff
Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages
Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male
edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst Wenzel
Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century
by Richard E. Zeikowitz
Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy
duQuesnay Adams, Volumes 1 and 2
Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and
edited by Stephanie Hayes-Healy
Politics in England 1225–1350
by Linda E. Mitchell
False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle
English Literature
Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc
by Elizabeth Allen
by Maud Burnett McInerney
Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the
The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures
Middle Ages
in Contemporary Culture
by Michael Uebel
by Angela Jane Weisl
Capetian Women Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern
edited by Kathleen D. Nolan Cultures: New Essays
edited by Lawrence Besserman
Joan of Arc and Spirituality
Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages
edited by Ann W. Astell and Bonnie Wheeler
edited by Jane Chance and
The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Alfred K. Siewers
Southern Low Countries
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval
edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam
England
Charlemagne’s Mustache: And Other Cultural by Frank Grady
Clusters of a Dark Age
Byzantine Dress: Representations of
by Paul Edward Dutton
Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-Century
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Painting
Medieval Text and Image by Jennifer L. Ball
edited by Emma Campbell and
The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the “Work” of
Robert Mills
the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350–1500
Queering Medieval Genres by Kellie Robertson
by Tison Pugh
The Dogaressa of Venice, 1250–1500: Wife and Icon
Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism by Holly S. Hurlburt
by L. Michael Harrington
Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and
The Middle Ages at Work Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things
edited by Kellie Robertson and Michael by Eileen C. Sweeney
Uebel
The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the
Chaucer’s Jobs Medieval Religious Renewal Movement
by David R. Carlson by Patricia Ranft
On the Purifi cation of Women: Churching in Northern On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle
France, 1100–1500 Ages
by Paula M. Rieder by Valerie Allen
Voices from the Bench: The Narratives of Lesser Folk Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the
in Medieval Trials Limits of Epic Masculinity
edited by Michael Goodich edited by Sara S. Poor and Jana K.
Schulman
Writers of the Reign of Henry II:
Twelve Essays
Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema
edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon
edited by Lynn T. Ramey and Tison Pugh
Meecham-Jones
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages
Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English
by Noah D. Guynn
Lament and the African-American Blues Song
by M. G. McGeachy England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th
Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges
Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval
edited by Mar í a Bull ó n-Fern á ndez
English Nunneries
by Anne Bagnall Yardley The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process
by Albrecht Classen
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to
Chaucer
Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval
by Robert R. Edwards
Literature
by Cary Howie
Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in
Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
edited by Bonnie Wheeler
by Heather Blurton
Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and
The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English
Other Cultural Imaginings
Guild Culture
edited by E. Jane Burns
by Christina M. Fitzgerald
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case
Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood
for St. Florent of Saumur
by Holly A. Crocker
by George Beech
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle
by Jane Chance
Ages
by Erin L. Jordan Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature
by Scott Lightsey
Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval
Britain: On Diffi cult Middles American Chaucers
by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen by Candace Barrington
Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer’s Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature
Pandarus by Michelle M. Hamilton
by Gretchen Mieszkowski
Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies
The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz
by Jeremy J. Citrome
The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La
Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the Cava
Canterbury Tales by Elizabeth Drayson
by Lee Patterson
Langland’s Early Modern Identities
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing by Sarah A. Kelen
by Lara Farina
Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages
Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman,
by Sachi Shimomura Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey
Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval
Edition, Translation, and Discussion Wales
by Sarah L. Higley edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon
Meecham-Jones
Medieval Romance and the Construction of
Heterosexuality T he Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement,
by Louise M. Sylvester Inscription, Performance
by Seeta Chaganti
Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in
the Later Middle Ages The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages:
by Jeremy Goldberg Power, Faith, and Crusade
edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace Stuckey
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the
Fifteenth Century The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein: An English
edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Translation of the Complete Works
Denny-Brown (1376/77–1445)
by Albrecht Classen
Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle
English Literature Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing:
by Tison Pugh Reading the Book of Life
edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Liz
Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century
Herbert McAvoy
Spain: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen Amor
by Louise M. Haywood Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature:
Singular Fortunes
The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in
by J. Allan Mitchell
the Late Middle Ages
edited by Catherine E. L é glu and Stephen J. Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval
Milner English Literature
by Kathleen E. Kennedy
Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and
Identity in the Chinese Middle Period
The Post-Historical Middle Ages
edited by Don J. Wyatt
edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early
Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofi ction in the
Modern Hispanic Literature
Critical Tradition
by Emily C. Francomano
by Geoff rey W. Gust
Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval
Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of a Visual
Queenship: Maria de Luna
Imagery of Queenship in Capetian France
by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
by Kathleen Nolan
In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and
Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art
the Relevance of the Past
edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, and
edited by Simon R. Doubleday and
John K. Downey
David Coleman, foreword by Giles Tremlett
Strange Beauty: Ecocritical Approaches to Early
Chaucerian Aesthetics
Medieval Landscape
by Peggy A. Knapp
by Alfred K. Siewers
Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi
Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political
Drama
Women in the High Middle Ages
by Theodore K. Lerud
by Miriam Shadis
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages:
Julian of Norwich’s Legacy: Medieval Mysticism and
Archipelago, Island, England
Post-Medieval Reception
edited by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen
edited by Sarah Salih and Denise N. Baker
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and
Chaucer’s Fecopoetics Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer
by Susan Signe Morrison by Mary Catherine Davidson
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval
Their Collected Correspondence and England: Collected Essays
Related Writings edited by Leo Carruthers, Raeleen
translated and edited by Mary Martin Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec
McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature:
Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe Power, Anxiety, Subversion
edited by Theresa Earenfi ght by Mary Hayes
Visual Power and Fame in Ren é d’Anjou, Geoff rey Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the
Chaucer, and the Black Prince Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
by SunHee Kim Gertz by Jerold C. Frakes
Geoff rey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and Fairies in Medieval Romance
New Media by James Wade
by Brantley L. Bryant
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the
Perle -poet, and the Cloud- author: Seeing from the
Margaret Paston’s Piety
Center
by Joel T. Rosenthal
by Linda Tarte Holley
Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
by Theresa Tinkle The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance
Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocris y
Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature
edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman
by Roger A. Ladd
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early
Magnifi cence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Modern England: Speaking as a Woman
Art, Architecture, Literature, Music by M. C. Bodden
edited by C. Stephen Jaeger
Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds
Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Objects in by Lesley Kordecki
Global Perspective: Translations of the Sacred
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval
edited by Elizabeth Robertson and
Christian Discourse
Jennifer Jahner
edited by Jerold C. Frakes
Late Medieval Jewish Identities: Iberia and Beyond
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in
edited by Carmen Caballero-Navas and
Interarts Theory
Esperanza Alfonso
by Claire Barbetti
Outlawry in Medieval Literature
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature
by Timothy S. Jones
and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature by Nizar F. Hermes
by Tory Vandeventer Pearman
Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of
The Lesbian Premodern Medieval European Holy Women
edited by Noreen Giff ney, Michelle M. Sauer, edited by Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Brad
and Diane Watt Herzog
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in
Absent, Virtually Present Medieval Catalonia (1276–1313)
by Miriamne Ara Krummel by Gregory B. Milton
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance Marriage, Property, and Women’s Narratives
by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi by Sally A. Livingston
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative
Ghent Work of Terry Jones
by Shennan Hutton edited by R. F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya
Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval
Renaissance Literary Texts
by Michaela Paasche Grudin and Robert edited by Jennifer N. Brown and Marla Segol
Grudin
Music and Performance in the Later
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic Middle Ages
edited by Benjamin Hudson by Elizabeth Randell Upton
Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The
Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late
Canterbury Tales
Medieval Marseille
by John A. Pitcher
by Susan Alice McDonough
Writing Medieval Women’s Lives
Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and
edited by Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy
Power
Livingstone
by J ó hanna Katr í n Fri ð riksd ó ttir
The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of
Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages
Aragon (1162–1213)
edited by John M. Ganim and Shayne Aaron
by Ernest E. Jenkins
Legassie
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades
by Myra Miranda Bom Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
edited by Katie L. Walter
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern
World The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the
by Maggie M. Williams Emergence of the Individual in the Middle Ages
by Suzanne Verderber
The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of
Identity, 1300–1600 Received Medievalisms: A Cognitive Geography of
edited by Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Viennese Women’s Convents
Terrell by Cynthia J. Cyrus
Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
The King’s Bishops: The Politics of Patronage in
by Anne McTaggart
England and Normandy, 1066–1216
by Everett U. Crosby
Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: The Texts,
Commentaries, and Diagrams of the Sefer Yetsirah
Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe ,
by Marla Segol
1534–1934
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts by Julie A. Chappell
edited by Carolynn Van Dyke
Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun”
The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Reassessed
Development, Duplication, and Gender by Brian Moloney
by Robin Waugh
The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The
The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space Formation and Diff usion of a Saintly Cult,
by Samuel W. Collins c. 300–c. 800
by John Charles Arnold
The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy
Past Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: A Life in
edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Perspective
Aronstein by Catherine Keene
Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
edited by Gail Ashton and Dan Kline edited by Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance:
and Fictions of Literary Creation Mothers, Identity, and Contamination
by Brooke Heidenreich Findley by Angela Florschuetz
The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in
Adaptation Boccaccio’s Decameron
edited by Andrew James Johnston, Margitta by Valerio Ferme
Rouse, and Philipp Hinz
Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political
Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Allegory
Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century by Amanda J. Gerber
by Michael A. Faletra
Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature
edited by Serina Patterson
Power and Sainthood: The Case of Birgitta of Sweden
by P ä ivi Salmesvuori Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe:
Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
The Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics
by Alfred Thomas
in Peter Abelard’s Carmen ad Astralabium and
Planctus Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval
by Juanita Feros Ruys Spain
by Geraldine Hazbun
Teaching Medieval and Early Modern
Cross-Cultural Encounters Chaucer the Alchemist: Physics, Mutability, and the
edited by Karina F. Attar and Lynn Medieval Imagination
Shutters by Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe
Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to
edited by Irit Ruth Kleiman
the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card
edited by Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal
Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman by Jameson S. Workman
Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English Vision and Audience in Medieval Drama: A Study of
and Old Norse in His Life and Work The Castle of Perseverance
by M. J. Toswell by Andrea Louise Young
Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama:
Travel Literature Theaters of Authority
by Michael Harney by Robert S. Sturges
The Gnostic Paradigm: Forms of Knowing in English Joan de Valence: The Life and Infl uence of a
Literature of the Late Middle Ages Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman
by Natanela Elias by Linda E. Mitchell
Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion
edited by Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. and Society in Late Medieval Europe
Galinsky by Philip Daileader
Consolation in Medieval Narrative: Augustinian Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth-Century Quest
Authority and Open Form (forthcoming)
by Chad D. Schrock by Mary Martin McLaughlin
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