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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Chaucer and the Poems of 'Ch'
This particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes with by far t...
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Studies in Iconography, Volume 42
"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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Studies in the Harley Manuscript
This book is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature.
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Magister Paulus Niavis
Edition of the Latin letters of the late fifteenth-century German schoolmaster whose career spanned an era of radical curriculum reform in the arts faculties at schools and universities, where the centuries-old program of scholasticism was being replaced by a program based on the Italian studia h...
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Telling Tales and Crafting Books
This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance of the transference of this mirth to audiences.
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The Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs
Translated with an introduction and notes by Mary Dove. In this translation of glosses on the Song of Songs, Mary Dove offers a readily accessible and inexpensive resource for students and scholars.
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Medieval Prosopography Vol. 35
The aim of this annual journal is to provide a venue for work engaged with the methodology of using data drawn from analysis of a group or relationships between individuals to restore to view the lives of those who would otherwise remain unexamined or to yield new insight into the medieval past
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Late Medieval England (1377-1485)
This volume is the first part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, and covers categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts. This volume is a must for any scholar of the period.
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Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation
In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages: the Latin Liturgy.
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Regular Life
This volume offers readers a revised and considerably expanded version of the first Regular Life, The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the "Rules" of life of the major religious orders within the monastic, canonical and mendicant traditions.
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Studies in Iconography Volume 41
"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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Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
A text book on Wills and Testaments in Medieval England, casting a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. For use by students of medieval English history.
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The Canterbury Tales
When Chaucer died in 1400, the Canterbury Tales, was unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps. Chaucerian apocrypha collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all l...
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Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales
Comprehensive collection of materials that deal with Robin Hood and such other outlaw figures as Hereward the Wake. In this text the figure of Robin can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays and romances that grew and impressed h...
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Medieval Lives and the Historian
Proceedings of the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Prosopography (Bielefeld, Germany, December 1982).
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Ars musice
Composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music.
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Six Ecclesiastical Satires
On anticlerical poetry in late medieval England. These Middle English poems attack ecclesiastical corruption; most of the poems were written by disgruntled Lollards about clerics and friars in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. Well glossed and include introductions and copious notes...
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The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire
The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. Aids those studying the early art, including relics and musical iconography, of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and other Warwickshire ...
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Neidhart
Neidhart is one of the most important German poets of the medieval era, his satirical songs standing in marked contrast to courtly love songs. This book presents annotated English translations of a representative collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet making them accessible to an au...
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Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace
The Middle English texts of three "Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent". An edition aimed at students and designed for classroom use, with contextual introductions and marginal glosses of unfamiliar words and phrases. Second, revised edition.
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Love & Marriage in Late Medieval London
Depositions (or testimony) in marriage cases brought before fifteenth-century English church courts reveal the attitudes and feelings of medieval people towards the marital bond.
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Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600
"Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600" is a companion volume to "Medieval Translators and Their Craft" (Medieval Institute Publications, 1989) and, like "Medieval Translators," its aim is to provide the modern reader with a deeper understanding of the early centuries ...
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Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge
"A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge," usually believed to have been written between 1380 and 1425, is the longest and most significant piece of dramatic criticism in Middle English. It reflects the hostility of Wycliffite (or Lollard) authors toward dramatic representation and related activity, espec...
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The N-Town Plays
The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles.
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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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The Other Tuscany
Essays in this volume offer non-Italian scholars a representative sample of current European research and a summary of recent debates regarding the historical evolution of those republics that posed the most formidable obstacles to the extension of Florentine hegemony.
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Christine de Pizan's Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation
Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English translations, Stephen Scrope's precise translation The Epistle of Othea and the anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod, once criticized as a flawed translation. Substantial introductions, comprehensive explanatory notes.
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Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050-1150
Texts of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning – that is not found elsewhere in the European Middle Ages. Usefull in teaching as they illustrate a great number of character...
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King Arthur's Death
This edition-with contextualizing introductions, helpful glosses, plentiful notes, and useful glossary-comprises a great introduction to Middle English Arthuriana for students of the Middle Ages.
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Beowulf at Kalamazoo
This is a collection of essays designed to capitalize on the success of Seamus Heaney' prize-winning translation of Beowulf, which bridges the gap between the ivory tower where most who study Beowulf reside and lay readers drawn to the poem because of Heaney's reputation, the reviews or even perh...
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Aribo, De musica and Sententiae
Music was central to the medieval church's public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. This new critical edition presents the Latin text and the first English translation of Aribo's musical treatise. Addresses newly discovered manuscripts of the treatise, paying...
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Emblem, Iconography, and Drama
Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.
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Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580
This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.
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The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages
The study of popular hymnody is remote not only from contemporary experience but also from very many contemporary scholars. The first English study of the form. Illustrated, including musical notation and black-and-white plates.
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Journeys Toward God
Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays explores the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought.
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Sentimental and Humorous Romances
A unique collection of Middle English romances, each with a different view of society, ranging from a tale of oriental wonders ("Floris and Blancheflour") to excellent examples of the burlesque ("The Tournament of Tottenham" and "The Feast of Tottenham").
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Medieval London
Caroline Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles revised and updated here.
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ROMARD Volume 56/57. Early English Drama
ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University ...
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Homo, Memento Finis
The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times.
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Medieval Translators and Their Craft
Authors treat the methods and reception of translators of vernacular to Latin and vernacular to vernacular, texts of a variety of genres and many different languages and periods. The collection will present a welcome offering of different scholarly approaches to the critical issue of medieval tra...
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The Chaucerian Apocrypha
The poems in this volume were prized and preserved because of their association with Chaucer’s name and have been, paradoxically, almost entirely ignored by modern readers for the same reason. The various genres represented in this sampler attest to the diversity of late medieval literary tastes ...
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