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Social and Cultural History

Death in Babylon

Barletta, Vincent
Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient
May 2010 E-book

Law of God

Brague, Rémi
The Philosophical History of an Idea
May 2007

Legend of the Middle Ages

Brague, Rémi
Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
April 2009

Reading in the Wilderness

Brantley, Jessica
Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England
December 2007 E-book

Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

Brundage, James A.
Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
May 2008 E-book

Man Who Believed He Was King of France

Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso di
A True Medieval Tale
September 2008 E-book

Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group

Chewning, Susannah M.
June 2010

Mapping the Medieval City

Clarke, Catherine A. M.
Space, Place and Identity in Chester c. 1200-1600
February 2012

Modulated Scream

Cohen, Esther
Pain in Late Medieval Culture
May 2010

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Cohen, Thomas V.
November 2004 E-book

Shakespeare and the Law

Cormack, Bradin
A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
April 2013 New Book E-book

Itineraries of William Wey

Davey, Francis
June 2010

Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817

Davis, Raymond
February 2008

Galateo

Della Casa, Giovanni
Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior
June 2013 New Book E-book

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I,
Translations, 1544-1589
January 2009 E-book

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands

Fox, Harold
Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages
April 2012

Day in a Medieval City

Frugoni, Chiara
September 2005

Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe

Grafton, Anthony
February 2012

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt, Stephen
November 2010 E-book

Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages

Griffiths, R. A.
April 2012

Medieval Maps of the Holy Land

Harvey, P. D. A.
December 2012 New Book

Timber Castles

Higham, Robert
February 2013 New Book

Medieval Castles of Wales

Kenyon, John R.
January 2011

Medieval Kitchen

Klemettilä, Hannele
A Social History with Recipes
September 2012 New Book

Torture and the Law of Proof

Langbein, John H.
Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
August 2006 E-book

Double Agents

Lees, Clare A.
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
February 2010

Battle of Brunanburh

Livingston, Michael
A Casebook
June 2011

Thinking with Shakespeare

Lupton, Julia Reinhard
Essays on Politics and Life
May 2011

Venice

McNeill, William H.
The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797
November 2009 E-book

Suspended Animation

Mills, Robert
Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
February 2006 E-book

Why Europe?

Mitterauer, Michael
The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path
July 2010 E-book

Divas in the Convent

Monson, Craig A.
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
June 2012 New Book E-book

Nuns Behaving Badly

Monson, Craig A.
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
November 2010 E-book

Sea Monsters

Nigg, Joseph
A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map
October 2013 New Book

Shock of the Ancient

Norman, Larry F.
Literature and History in Early Modern France
April 2011 E-book

Arbitrary Rule

Nyquist, Mary
Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
May 2013 New Book E-book

Lucretian Renaissance

Passannante, Gerard
Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
November 2011 E-book

Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Price, J. L.
May 2011

Medieval Kitchen

Redon, Odile
Recipes from France and Italy
April 2000

Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll

Roberts, Benjamin
Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age
December 2012 New Book

Giordano Bruno

Rowland, Ingrid D.
Philosopher / Heretic
September 2009

Pilgrimage to the End of the World

Rudolph, Conrad
The Road to Santiago de Compostela
May 2004 E-book

Medieval Dress and Fashion

Scott, Margaret
June 2007

Key of Green

Smith, Bruce R.
Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
December 2008 E-book

Egyptian Oedipus

Stolzenberg, Daniel
Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
April 2013 New Book E-book

History of Wales 1485-1660

Thomas, Hugh
November 2012 New Book

New World Gold

Vilches, Elvira
Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain
May 2010 E-book

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Yates, Frances A.
February 1991

History of the Book

Discovering, Identifying and Editing Early Modern Manuscripts

Beal, Peter
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 18
May 2013 New Book

Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World

Brown, Michelle P.
December 2010

World of the Luttrell Psalter

Brown, Michelle P.
January 2007

Physiologus

Curley, Michael J.
A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
September 2009 E-book

Medieval Flower Book

Fisher, Celia
April 2013 New Book

Marvellous to Behold

Jackson, Deirdre
Miracles in Illuminated Manuscripts
December 2007

Royal Manuscripts

McKendrick, Scot
The Genius of Illumination
February 2012

Turning Over a New Leaf

McKitterick, Rosamond
Change and Development in the Medieval Book
December 2012 New Book

Manifold Greatness

Moore, Helen
The Making of the King James Bible
May 2011

Magical Tales

Purkiss, Diane
Myth, Legend, and Enchantment in Children's Books
June 2013 New Book

Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library

Solopova, Elizabeth
A Select Catalogue
May 2013 New Book

Memory's Library

Summit, Jennifer
Medieval Books in Early Modern England
August 2008 E-book

Medieval Cats

Walker-Meikle, Kathleen
December 2011

Medieval Dogs

Walker-Meikle, Kathleen
May 2013 New Book

Monk and the Book

Williams, Megan Hale
Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
December 2006 E-book

Philosophy

Renaissance Philosophy of Man

Cassirer, Ernst
Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives
February 1956

Isaac Israeli

Israeli, Isaac
A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early Tenth Century
October 2009 E-book

Teaching Other Voices

King, Margaret L.
Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe
February 2007 E-book

City and Cosmos

Lilley, Keith D.
The Medieval World in Urban Form
September 2009 E-book

Debate of the Romance of the Rose

Pizan, Christine de
April 2010 E-book

Story of Sapho

Scudery, Madeleine de
June 2003 E-book

Leo Strauss on Maimonides

Strauss, Leo
The Complete Writings
April 2013 New Book E-book

Religion

Satan the Heretic

Boureau, Alain
The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
November 2006

Who Is Mary?

Colonna, Vittoria
Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary
August 2009 E-book

Rereading the Black Legend

Greer, Margaret R.
The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires
January 2008 E-book

Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614

Harvey, L. P.
May 2005 E-book

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proofs of Prophecy

Hatim al-Razi, Abu
A Parallel Arabic-English Text
April 2012

Savonarola's Women

Herzig, Tamar
Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy
December 2007

Reading Medieval Anchoritism

Hughes-Edwards, Mari
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
August 2012 New Book

Anchoritism in the Middle Ages

Innes-Parker, Catherine
Texts and Traditions
June 2013 New Book

Bede: On Genesis

Kendall, Calvin B.
May 2008

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam

Lassner, Jacob
Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
March 2012 E-book

In the Company of Demons

Maggi, Armando
Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
June 2006 E-book

Ancrene Wisse/Guide for Anchoresses

Millett, Bella
A Translation
September 2009

Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553 - 2 vol set

Price, Richard
With Related Texts on the Three Chapters Controversy
September 2009

Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553

Price, Richard
With Related Texts on the Three Chapters Controversy
September 2012 New Book

Magic and Religion in Medieval England

Rider, Catherine
December 2012 New Book

Believe Not Every Spirit

Sluhovsky, Moshe
Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism
May 2007 E-book

End of Sacrifice

Stroumsa, Guy G.
Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
April 2009

Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

Sullivan, Karen
April 2011 E-book

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati, Houari
August 2010

Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

Tufayl, Ibn
A Philosophical Tale
November 2009

Odyssey of Ibn Battuta

Waines, David
Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer
July 2010

Bede: Commentary on Revelation

Wallis, Faith
June 2013 New Book

Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ

von Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina
June 2009 E-book

Literary Studies and Literature

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

Altschul, Nadia R.
Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic
March 2012 E-book

Authoring the Past

Aurell, Jaume
History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia
April 2012 E-book

Fragments and Assemblages

Bahr, Arthur
Forming Compilations of Medieval London
March 2013 New Book E-book

Dreams of Waking

Barletta, Vincent
An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700
March 2013 New Book E-book

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella

Campanella, Tommaso
A Bilingual Edition
March 2011 E-book

Spiritual Sonnets

Coignard, Gabrielle de
A Bilingual Edition
December 2003 E-book

Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature

Echard, Sian
The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin
July 2011

Murder by Accident

Enders, Jody
Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
June 2009 E-book

Songbook

Galvez, Marisa
How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
May 2012 New Book E-book

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Gardner, John
In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction
November 2011 E-book

Plague Writing in Early Modern England

Gilman, Ernest B.
June 2009 E-book

Five Words

Greene, Roland
Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
June 2013 New Book E-book

From Many Gods to One

Gregory, Tobias
Divine Action in Renaissance Epic
December 2006 E-book

Selected Poems of Fulke Greville

Greville, Fulke
May 2009

Arthur of the Germans

Jackson, Harry
The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
February 2012

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Johnson, Eleanor
Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve
May 2013 New Book E-book

Arthur of the North

Kalinke, Marianne E.
The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus’ Realms
July 2011

Boccaccio

Kirkham, Victoria
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
January 2014 New Book

Petrarch

Kirkham, Victoria
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
August 2009 E-book

Zayde

Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine
A Spanish Romance
August 2006 E-book

Dating the Sagas

Mundal, Else
Reviews and Revisions
April 2013 New Book

Trade and Romance

Murrin, Michael
October 2013 New Book

Katherine Parr

Parr, Katherine
Complete Works and Correspondence
June 2011 E-book

Romance of the Middle Ages

Perkins, Nicholas
April 2012

Complete Danteworlds

Raffa, Guy
A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy
May 2009 E-book

Danteworlds

Raffa, Guy
A Reader's Guide to the Inferno
May 2007 E-book

Kiss My Relics

Rollo, David
Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
October 2011 E-book

Complete Poems

Stampa, Gaspara
The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition
October 2010 E-book

Dante and the Limits of the Law

Steinberg, Justin
October 2013 New Book

Unrepentant Renaissance

Strier, Richard
From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
December 2011 E-book

John Donne, Body and Soul

Targoff, Ramie
April 2008 E-book

Illustrating Shakespeare

Whitfield, Peter
May 2013 New Book

Holy Grail

Wood, Juliette
History and Legend
November 2012 New Book

Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo

de Quevedo, Francisco
A Bilingual Edition
August 2009 E-book

Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega

de la Vega, Garcilaso
A Bilingual Edition
October 2009 E-book

Theatre and music

Improbability of Othello

Altman, Joel B.
Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood
March 2010 E-book

Holistic Shakespeare

Charlton, Debra
An Experiential Learning Approach
April 2012

Lark in the Morning

Kehew, Robert
The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition
September 2005

Shakespeare Only

Knapp, Jeffrey
October 2009 E-book

Eloquent Shakespeare

Logan, Gary
A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue
February 2009 E-book

Persecution, Plague, and Fire

MacKay, Ellen
Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
March 2011 E-book

Essential Shakespeare Live  Encore

The British Library,
February 2010

Essential Shakespeare Live

The British Library,
February 2010

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation

The British Library,
Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
April 2012

Art and architecture

Filming the Middle Ages

Bildhauer, Bettina
March 2011

Gargoyles of Notre-Dame

Camille, Michael
Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
June 2009 E-book

Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist

Clayton, Martin
July 2012 New Book

Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

Fitchen, John
A Study of Medieval Vault Erection
April 1997

Northern Renaissance

Heard, Kate
Dürer to Holbein
June 2011

Arcimboldo

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta
Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting
May 2010 E-book

Pamphilj and the Arts

Leone, Stephanie C.
Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome
October 2011

Pilgrimage and Pogrom

Merback, Mitchell B.
Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria
March 2013 New Book

Douce Apocalypse

Morgan, Nigel
Picturing the End of the World in the Middle Ages
May 2007

Controversy of Renaissance Art

Nagel, Alexander
September 2011

Likeness of the King

Perkinson, Stephen
A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France
October 2009

Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art

Quiviger, François
June 2010 E-book

Believing and Seeing

Recht, Roland
The Art of Gothic Cathedrals
October 2008

Medieval Painting in Bohemia

Royt, Jan
April 2003

St. Margaret's Gospel

Rushforth, Rebecca
The Favourite Book of a Queen of Scotland
May 2007

Nicola and Giovanni Pisano

Seidel, Max
Father and Son
December 2012 New Book

Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages

Vroom, Wim
The Generosity of the Faithful
December 2010

Forgery, Replica, Fiction

Wood, Christopher S.
Temporalities of German Renaissance Art
August 2008

Passionate Triangle

Zorach, Rebecca
August 2011

Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome

Zorach, Rebecca
Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
May 2008

History of Science

Fictions of the Cosmos

Aït-Touati, Frédérique
Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
November 2011 E-book

Regimens of the Mind

Corneanu, Sorana
Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
January 2012 E-book

Medieval Views of the Cosmos

Edson, E.
October 2004

Baroque Science

Gal, Ofer
March 2013 New Book E-book

Terra Incognita

Hiatt, Alfred
Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
July 2008

Beginnings of Western Science

Lindberg, David
The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition
April 2008 E-book

On Hemorrhoids

Maimonides, Moses
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation
July 2012 New Book

Between Raphael and Galileo

Marr, Alexander
Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
June 2011

Secret Science

Portuondo, María M.
Spanish Cosmography and the New World
June 2009 E-book

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe, Lawrence M.
November 2012 New Book E-book

Panaceia's Daughters

Rankin, Alisha
Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany
March 2013 New Book E-book

Crafting of the 10,000 Things

Schäfer, Dagmar
Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China
May 2011 E-book

Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine

Siraisi, Nancy G.
An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice
June 1990 E-book