Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Instrument of Memory

Encounters with the Wandering Jew

By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art

Bad Chaucer

The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

By Tison Pugh
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s blunders in the classic Canterbury Tales make it far from a perfect masterpiece

Trial by Farce

A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

By Jody Enders
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

In the Middle Ages as now, the search for justice can make for high drama—or low drama—as in these hilarious French legal farces in translation

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance

By Emily Houlik-Ritchey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

An innovative comparative study of Middle English and medieval Castilian romance

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander's World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

By Miriamne Ara Krummel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Confronts the fraught temporal dissonances that are written into the structure of sacred Jewish and Christian time

Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Religion, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience—and feel—their place within the future history of humankind

Ottoman Eurasia in Early Modern German Literature

Cultural Translations (Francisci, Happel, Speer)

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Europe and the Ottoman Empire through three 17th-century writers

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

By Pablo Alvarez & Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Cataloging the largest of collection of Greek manuscripts in America

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Following Chaucer

Offices of the Active Life

By Lynn Staley
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman

Understanding the relationship between individuals and their communities in the works of Chaucer

Intimate Reading

Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae

By Jessica Barr
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Explores how medieval women mystics sought to create an experience of the divine through the medium of the text

Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire

By Laura Wangerin
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

What makes a successful government?

Monstrous Kinds

Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Reading, Ownership, Circulation

By Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Rediscovering and reframing the rich and multifaceted history of early modern British women’s book ownership and library compilation

Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss

By Emily Hodgson Anderson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

How Garrick and company resurrected Shakespeare, guaranteeing his immortality—and theirs 

Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat

By Donka Markus
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

An engaging textbook for intermediate students of Medieval Latin

A Poetry Precise and Free

Selected Madrigals of Guarini

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Music

New translations and insightful commentary on art and courtly love in Renaissance Italy breathe fresh life into Guarini’s finest madrigals

The Birth of the Archive

A History of Knowledge

By Markus Friedrich
Translated by John Dillon
Subjects: History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Intellectual History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society

Living in the Future

Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales

By Susan Nakley
Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Political Science, Political Theory

Looks beneath Chaucer’s vision of a British past to discover a deeply politicized fantasy of England’s national identity
 

The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa

By David Frederick Grose
Edited by Russell Scott
Subjects: Classical Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Archaeology
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

A landmark contribution to our knowledge of the Roman glass industry in the Western Mediterranean
 

Medieval Jerusalem

Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews

By Jacob Lassner
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies

A compelling consideration of Jerusalem during the formative period of Islamic civilization

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