New and upcoming Medieval History titles at MUP

Posted by rhiandavies - Monday, 24 Oct 2022

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MUP have a number of exciting new and upcoming Medieval History titles this Autumn. These titles and others in our Medieval Studies series will make even the most experienced medievalists see familiar topics in a fresh light

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Painful pleasures

Painful pleasures

Christopher Vaccaro

The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.

Bestsellers and masterpieces

Bestsellers and masterpieces

Heather Blurton, Dwight F. Reynolds

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the 'modern canon' of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.

Hybrid healing

Hybrid healing

Lori Ann Garner

This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.

The reign of Edward II, 1307-27

The reign of Edward II, 1307-27

Wendy Childs, Phillipp Schofield

This volume presents a concise history of the reign of Edward II, as well as essential sources in translation that allow for comparison of the scattered evidence available from this significant period in English history.

The heat of <i>Beowulf</i>

The heat of Beowulf

Daniel C. Remein

The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains insensible.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany

Alison I. Beach, Shannon M. T. Li, Samuel Sutherland

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons, the process of monastic reform, and the local and supra-regional disruption driven by the struggle over investiture.

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