Collection: Medieval Institute Publications
MIP, based at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo publishes monographs along with several series of affordable essential classroom texts for the Consortium for the teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS): These series include the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, TEAMS Commentary Series, TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions Series, TEAMS Secular Commentary Series and the TEAMS Varia Series.
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The Middle English Breton Lays
First vol. to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.
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The Life of Saint Katherine
In telling the story of the life of the virgin martyr Katherine, Capgrave uses many of the tropes that mark the enormously popular genre of hagiography as it was written throughout the Middle Ages. Incl. digressions on just and unjust rule; on child care; on medieval English feasts, jousts and pa...
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Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem
This new edition makes available to students of English romance and of the Matter of Britain two significant Middle English Arthurian romances. With introductions, glosses, notes, and glossary, a very accessible edition for students.
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Studies in Iconography 43
"Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.
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The Testament of Love
First edition of the text to be published since W. W. Skeat undertook the task in 1897. . . . [I]n this edition, a diplomatic transcription of Thynne [1532 edition] is printed with, contrapuntally, a pointed version of the text which represents the efforts of R. Allen Shoaf, the editor, to constr...
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Confessio Amantis, Volume 1
The complete text of John Gower's poem is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components-with translations-of this bilingual text and extensive glosses, bibliography and explanatory notes. Volume 1 contains the Prologue and Books 1 and 8, in effect the overall structure of Gower's poem.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000)
Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. They contain essays...
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Playthings in Early Modernity
An innovative volume of 15 interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory. "Plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part...
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Sir Torrent of Portingale
Romance written to entertain 15th-century audiences with action-packed tales of love and adventure. Adventures include fights with dragons, giants, and savage beasts; perilous sea journeys; magic horses and swords; sieges and wars in the Holy Land. This new edition collates the surviving manuscri...
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Eye and Mind
The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replac...
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The Scale of Perfection
This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose.
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Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Essays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, perceived relationship between divine and human creativity and an exploration in the phe...
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Poetry, Place, and Gender
The essays in this collection honor Helen Damico's extensive interests in Old Norse and later medieval literatures as well as her primary focus on Anglo-Saxon studies, embracing Old English poetry, archaeology, art history, paleography, liturgy, landscape, and gender.
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Nicholas of Lyra, Literal Commentary on Galatians
A new critical edition of the Latin text of Nicholas of Lyra's literal commentary on Galatians, with a facing English translation.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 17 (2003)
From 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse, and on the historical, religious and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays...
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The English Apocalypse
The English Apocalypse, translated from the French in the early 14th century is valuable to scholars of early English Bible translation and to students of Middle English literature and medieval religious practice. This edition reproduces, for the first time, a copy of this text, which replaced th...
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The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece
During the Frankish Crusader period, Cistercian monks built and developed the monastery of Zaraka in Greece for approximately forty years and were followed first by squatters, then by a seventeenth-century cemetery. The goal of this study has been to identify where the monks came from, how they l...
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The Recovery of Old English
The eight essays in The Recovery of Old English consider major aspects of the progress of Anglo-Saxon studies from their Tudor beginnings until their coming of age in the second half of the seventeenth century.
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Stanzaic Guy of Warwick
The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood.
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The Wallace
"The Wallace" catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed.
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The Shewings of Julian of Norwich
Fascinating first-person account of the visions experienced by the anchoress Julian of Norwich in May of 1373. This practical edition includes a gloss, an introduction, notes, and a glossary, making it valuable to students of Middle English and medieval mysticism alike.
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Aedificia Nova
The essays vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they center on the interpretation of the material world, whether in literature, stone, or the artifacts removed from an archaeological dig. The essays deal mainly with the Germanic and Celtic worlds, but incorporate motifs from ...
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Pearl
"Pearl" resists identification by author, date, occasion or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language.
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The Liturgy of the Medieval Church
Addresses the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples.
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Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women
This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven 14th- and 15th-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious l...
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Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles
This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. Essential reading for any analysis ...
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Sources for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England
Latin and French have been translated into modern English, while vernacular texts have been slightly modified, and obsolete or difficult words explained. Middle English has otherwise been retained to give the past an authentic voice.
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Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom
Consider the role, position and contributions of medieval women; the development of Christian marriage, especially in the High Middle Ages; and the secular family with its legal and emotional relationships.
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The Idea of Music
Accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2
British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics desi...
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Music, Dance, and Society
Performative dance and dance history, social history and musicological issues are all explored, touching on topics from the later Renaissance back through the Carolingian Empire.
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Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour
At the end of the C15th, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. For all its comedy, it stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule. 2nd edition. Sui...
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Medieval Notaries and Their Acts
Explores the beginnings of the continental European notarial tradition, acquainting readers with the format of notarial documents, the books containing notarial acts, and with the variety of notarial acts. Sample documents have been selected for their interest and their illustration of specific t...
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The Intellectual Climate of the Early University
A university exists to make known what can only be revealed by consistent, dedicated effort. Ultimately, a university exists in order to understand the things that are hidden from ordinary, casual view. This is a message that is subtly reinforced by all of the articles in this volume.
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Malory and Christianity
Malory's use of myth and magic to explore his themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look.
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The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English "Gawain" poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism.
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Discovery and Distinction in the Early Middle Ages
Celebrating the career of one of the most prodigious modern scholars of the early Middle Ages, showcases the vibrancy of early medieval European history, highlighting new perspectives on the Carolingian renaissance in art, court culture, ED, politics, religion, travel, and Jewish-Christian relati...
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Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe
This collection of essays is the first published in North America that seeks to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise that is hailed in the preface to the volume as "one of the most vibrant, innovative, and productive movements in medieval scholarship at the present ...
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A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature
New bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the 15th-century works of Jordi de Sant Jordi. Will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.
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Mary of Nemmegen
A prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play this is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the 16th century. An analogue of the Faustus story, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.
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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
"The Third Gender" considers Ælfric of Eynsham's treatment of gender as he translates Latin monastic saints' Lives for his Anglo-Saxon lay audience.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (1996)
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The Book of John Mandeville
A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.
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Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances
An excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. This is a valuable introduction to Charlemagne romances and is accessible to beginners in Middle English because of contextualizing introductions and glosses for eac...
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Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302)
The Audelay manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pistel of Swete Susan."
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Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer
The third Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 1993.
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The Game and Playe of the Chesse
Despite its title, Caxton's "Game and Playe of the Chesse" does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it. Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good.
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Early Prose in France
In this volume Beer demonstrates the sophisticated stylistic propensities of Early French prose, an effort long needed that does a great service to all French literary scholars.
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