Studies and Texts
The Saga of the Sister Saints
This book examines the cults and legends of Martha and Mary Magdalen in medieval Scandinavia, especially Iceland. While a number of parallels may be drawn between Iceland and mainland Scandinavia in terms ...
Painting the Page in the Age of Print
The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book overnight; ...
Optics, Ethics, and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
This volume examines afresh the various ways in which the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed thirteenth-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled ...
The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ
Robert Persons is recognized as one of the most intriguing public figures of the Reformation era in England. As the superior of the Jesuit English mission from 1580 until 1610, he was engaged in a campaign ...
On the Incarnation of Christ
Simon of Tournai was a theological master who flourished in the Paris of the 1160s and enjoyed considerable renown. According to the chronicles of Matthew Paris, Simon was an outstanding teacher gifted ...
Chaucer's "House of Fame" and Its Boccaccian Intertexts
Geoffrey Chaucer's House of Fame has rightly been read as an ironic response to Dante's Commedia. Chaucer's narrator carries out his dream-journey in realms far from Dante's spiritual geographies: the ...
Interlacing Traditions
This book is the first comprehensive study of the neo-Gregorian chants for the Proper of the Mass that circulated in the Beneventan region between the tenth and the thirteenth centuries. This extensive ...
Liturgy and Law in a Dalmatian City
The manuscript that is the subject of this study and edition constitutes a rich source for the study of the society and culture of the southern Dalmatian coast. The major parts of the manuscript were ...
The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin
With the triumph of the codex, medieval literature became more deeply hermeneutic in character. A vast range of texts, in various languages and genres, were not only copied with the commentaries and glosses ...
Body-Worlds
In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and had a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely ...