Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
"In this mostly elegant, sometimes workmanlike, study—part detective story and part history—University of Urbino medievalist Falconieri raises significant questions about the tale. Was Giannino a historical figure or a literary invention? Was he really the royal child switched at birth by a wet nurse intent on saving her marriage? Through an examination of other similar medieval tales and contemporary works that discuss such stories (e.g., Dante’s Commedia), Falconieri answers these questions while offering fascinating glimpses into the intrigues of the medieval French and Italian courts and the weaving of classical Greek and biblical tales into medieval stories about the revelation of royal identity."—Publishers Weekly
Armando Maggi
In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
"Maggi gives us an original and penetrating interpretation of Renaissance demonology, with a brilliant analysis and with a challenge to the reader for deeper thoughts on a theme that attracts scholars, but has still some new views."—Michaela Valente, Renaissance Quarterly
Valentina Izmirlieva
All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic
"A scintillating combination of historical knowledge, philosophical sophistication, and literary verve testifies to the intellectual vitality of this young scholar. Valentina Izmirlieva has laid bare the classical ‘names of God’ in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, leading inquiring readers to a veritable feast."—David Burrell, University of Notre Dame
Meyer Schapiro
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
"Schapiro was a figure of seigneurial cosmopolitanism who felt absolutely rooted in his time and place, a man with a serene self-assurance who was insatiably curious about other people and times and places. … There may be no American thinker of the mid-century years who was at once so deeply attracted to the grandeur of European ideas and so skeptical about those enormous visions as Meyer Schapiro."—Jed Perl, New Republic
Ingrid D. Rowland
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
"Rowland skillfully weaves her way through this long-forgotten controversy, framing it within the cultural and political struggles between Rome and Tuscany, and the larger intellectual debates of the period. At every turn she provides fascinating detail about the workings of the scholarly world … In a mere 150 pages… she summons up a world and an age."—William Grimes, New York Times
James A. Schultz
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
"Drawing on the rich medieval German literary tradition, this book argues that what moderns think of as sex is, in fact, a historical construct."—Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
Chiara Frugoni
A Day in a Medieval City
"A captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life on the city streets, in homes, fields, schools and places of worship. From urban planning and education to child care, hygiene and the more leisurely pursuits of games, food, books and superstitions, Frugoni unearths the daily routines of the private and public lives of the citizens in Italy."—History Today
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Medieval and Renaissance studies
from the University of Chicago Press
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Social and cultural history
- Bell, Rudolph M.: How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians • Read some Renaissance advice.
- Biow, Douglas: Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy
- Brundage, James A.: The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
- Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso di: The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
- Cartwright, Jane: Feminine Sanctity in Medieval Wales
- Cohen, Thomas V.: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy • Read an excerpt.
- Durning, Louise: Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford
- Frugoni, Chiara: A Day in a Medieval City
- Fumerton, Patricia: Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England
- Greer, R. Margaret: Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires
- Huizinga, Johan: The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Kuefler, Mathew: The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
- Lieberman, Max: The March of Wales: A Borderland of Medieval Britain 1067-1300
- Loewenstein, Joseph: The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright
- Mahdi, Muhsin: Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy
- Maiolo, Francesco: Medieval Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua and Bartolous of Saxoferrato
- Marcus, Leah S.: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
- Mills, Robert: Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
- Ohly, Friedrich: Sensus Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture
- Redon, Odile: The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy • Sample six recipes.
- Rowland, Ingrid D.: The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
- Schultz, James A.: Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
- Walsh, Richard: Charles the Bold and Italy 1467-1477: Politics and Personnel
- Yates, Frances A.: The Art of Memory
- Yates, Frances A.: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Women, gender, gay and lesbian
- Boswell, John: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
- d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise: Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle
- de Gournay, Marie le Jars: Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works
- Franco, Veronica: Poems and Selected Letters
- Guasco, Annibal: Discourse to Lady Lavinia His Daughter
- Hammill, Graham L.: Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon
- Jordan, Mark D.: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
- King, Margaret L.: Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe
- Meltzer, Francoise: For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
- Morata, Olympia: The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic
- Neal, G. Derek: The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
- Pascal, Jacqueline: A Rule for Children and Other Writings
- Poullain de la Barre, Francois: Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
- Puff, Helmut: Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600
- Riccoboni, Sister Bartolomea: Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436
- Robin, Diana: Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy
- Rosenthal, Margaret F.: The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
- Salazar, Maria de San Jose: Book for the Hour of Recreation
- Scudery, Madeleine de: The Story of Sapho
The sciences
Religion
- Avicenna: The Metaphysics of The Healing
- Bede: Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah
- Boureau, Alain: The Myth of Pope Joan
- Boureau, Alain: Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
- Brague, R‰mi: The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
- Brantley, Jessica: Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England
- Colonna, Vittoria: Who Is Mary?: Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary
- Davis, Raymond: Lives of the Eighth Century Popes AD 715-817
- de Certeau, Michel: The Possession at Loudun
- Gameson, Richard: The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral
- Harvey, L. P.: Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
- Herzig, Tamar: Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy
- Izmirlieva, Valentina: All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic
- Maggi, Armando: In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
- Maggi, Armando: Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology
- McAvoy, Liz Herbert: Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body Within Discourses of Enclosure
- Morgan, Nigel J.: The Douce Apocalypse
- Paravicini-Bagliani, Agostino: The Pope's Body
- Rudolph, Conrad: Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela • Read an excerpt.
- Sluhovsky, Moshe: Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism
- Tylus, Jane: Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others
- von Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina: Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ
- Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita: Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literatures, Liturgy and Iconography
Art and architecture
- Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla: Leonardo, The Last Supper • View fourteen images.
- Bober, Phyllis Pray: Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
- Burckhardt, Jacob: The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
- Camille, Michael: The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
- Camille, Michael: Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
- Campbell, Stephen J.: Artists at Court: Image-Making and Identity 1300-1550
- Curran, Brian: The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy
- Eck, Xander van: The stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk at Gouda II: The works of Dirck and Wouter Crabeth
- Harten-Boers, Henny van: The Stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk at Gouda I: The glazing of the clerestory of the choir and of the former monastic church of the Regulars
- Hersey, George L.: High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican: An Interpretive Guide
- Jardine, Lisa: Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West
- Netzer, Nancy: Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne
- Netzer, Nancy: Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Perkinson, Stephen: The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France
- Recht, Roland: Believing and Seeing: The Art of Gothic Cathedrals
- Ruyven-Zeman, Zsuzsanna van: The stained-glass windows in the sint Janskerk at Gouda III: 1556-1604
- Schapiro, Meyer: Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Steinberg, Leo: The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
- Wood, S. Christopher: Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art
- Zorach, Rebecca: The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Theatre and music
Literature
- Andrew, Malcom: The Poems of The Pearl Manuscript, 5th Edition: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Gawain and the Green Knight
- Barker-Benfield, B. C.: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, Volume 13
- Battiferra degli Ammannati, Laura: Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology
- Bloch, R. Howard: The Anonymous Marie de France
- Clopper, Lawrence M.: Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
- Coignard, Gabrielle de: Spiritual Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition
- Colonna, Vittoria: Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition
- Dolven, Jeff: Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance
- Enders, Jody: Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
- Greenblatt, Stephen: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
- Gregory, Tobias: From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic
- Harrington, K. P.: Medieval Latin: Second Edition
- Holsinger, Bruce: The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
- Jager, Eric: The Book of the Heart • Read a web-only essay Reading the Book of the Heart from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century.
- Kirkham, Victoria: Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
- Labé, Louise: Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition
- Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine: Zayde: A Spanish Romance
- Montrose, Louis: The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation
- Morgan, Nigel J.: The Douce Apocalypse
- Nogarola, Isotta: Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations
- North, Marcy L.: The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
- Ong, S.J., Walter J.: Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason
- Rollason, David: Durham Liber Vitae: The Complete Edition
- Rose, Mary Beth: Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature
- Shannon, Laurie: Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts
- Shapiro, Norman R.: Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard
- Smith, Bruce R.: The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
- Sullivan, Karen: Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature
- Summit, Jennifer: Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
- Targoff, Ramie: Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England
- Tiller, Kenneth J.: Layamon's Brut and the Anglo-Norman Vision of History
- Tornabuoni de' Medici, Lucrezia: Sacred Narratives
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