Medieval Studies / Medieval History

This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century writer, and offers a critical edition of his major work on moral theology.

Medieval Eastern Europe offers a selection of fascinating primary sources pertaining to the history of East Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the heroic, the hagiographic, and more.

Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine the collapse of an early medieval kingdom.

This volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré.

On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.

The sixth edition of this bestselling textbook offers a gorgeously illustrated guide to the last six hundred years of the Middle Ages.

The sixth edition of this bestselling textbook offers a gorgeously illustrated guide to the first eight hundred years of the Middle Ages.

The sixth edition of this best-selling medieval history textbook offers a gorgeously illustrated guide to more than one thousand years of history.

Curated by best-selling author Barbara H. Rosenwein, A Short Medieval Reader offers an exceptionally alluring and affordable set of primary sources for understanding the Middle Ages.

By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance.

Painting a picture of an unlikely king whose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy, Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s own life but also offers new insight into the sixth-century Mediterranean world.

The Medieval Devil highlights the many ways in which the devil has been imagined and re-imagined over the centuries.

Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.