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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Mankind
A morality play warning Mankind how it may be led astray by temptation, while entertaining the audience with banter between the characters representing vice. With a gloss, notes, an introduction, and a glossary, this edition of the lively Middle English play is perfect for any level of instructio...
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Medieval Prosopography
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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Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of Medieval Theater
The expression 'liturgical drama' was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category later in the 19th century. Previously, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as liturgical rites no longer cel...
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The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subvert...
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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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The Study of Chivalry
In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.
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The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing
This book investigates and re-evaluates the impact of Latin culture in crucial areas of late medieval and early modern Scottish literature and the role it played in the development of Scottish writing.
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Prose Merlin
Gives students of medieval Arthurian literature access to the Merlin section of the Old French Vulgate Cycle, an interconnected set of Arthurian works composed during the first half of the 13th century. Written in the latter half of the 15th century, it is a treasure trove of characters, incident...
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Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe
The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable...
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Chester Art
This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history, specifically that of Chester.
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Croxton Play of the Sacrament
The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstandi...
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Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain
The only known English version of Chrétien de Troyes's romance of Perceval. Accompanying this tale is Ywain and Gawain. An excellent introduction to Middle English Arthurian romance, as they include editing, glosses, introductions, and a very helpful glossary for beginning students.
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Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1
Guillaume de Machaut is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. His unique and inventive output is the subject of this new, integrated edition of Machaut's complete poetry and music. Includes the French originals and facing English translations.
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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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A Selection of Early Music
Transcriptions were all designed for performances by the Society for Old Music, and were used in concerts for the local community, the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Concerts ranged from medieval chant and monophonic song to polyphonic choral works, and each concert focused on a part...
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The Early Art of Norfolk
The book (double columns, 357 pages, plus plates) serves as a standard reference source for students of the ecclesiastical arts and also will provide an essential dimension for drama scholars.
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Amoryus and Cleopes
For a wider audience of students and teachers of Middle English with contextualizing introduction, extensive notes, and helpful gloss. This 15th century romance creatively reworks Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe's tragic love. Of interest to students of Middle English romance and all those inte...
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 1
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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Early English Poetic Culture and Meter
Develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative meter, and the linguistics of punctuation and t...
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Fools and Folly
The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer who specialized in clowning. His role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. Indispensable analyses...
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New Directions in Boethian Studies
As a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds—the world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Ages—and his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both.
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Ava's New Testament Narratives
Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127.
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Four Middle English Romances
These four narratives were among the most popular Middle English romances; all survive in multiple manuscripts and continued to circulate in prints through the sixteenth century. All were composed in the northeast Midlands in the fifty years between 1325 and 1375, and they appear together in seve...
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Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages
Collection of essays derived from a symposium conducted as part of the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 6-9,1993
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Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse
Verses about heroic women from the Old Testament. These poems exhibit the attitudes of Late Medieval England towards heroic women, and offer an unusually positive depiction of Judiasm. With extensive notes, glosses, and introductions, invaluable to teachers and students of Middle English.
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Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger
The texts, both anonymous, are "Richard the Redeless," concerning the governmental style of Richard II, and "Mum and the Sothsegger," addressing social issues in the reign of Henry IV. Both works reveal that alliterative poetry continued to be the chief vehicle for political and social criticism ...
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Confessio Amantis, Volume 3
The complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a 3-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 3 contains Books 5, 6, and 7.
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Honorius Augustodunensis, "Exposition of Selected Psalms"
The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (c.1070 - c.1140) participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the Book of Psalms. His Exposition of Selected Psalms highlights a tripartite division of the Psalter, and discovers in the psalms an apocalypticism fitt...
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Studies in Iconography Volume 38
"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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Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents
Wasson here provides the basic tools necessary to transcribe documents, without regard for the historical development of alphabets, letter forms, and the like. This manual will be of great interest to scholars of the arts in need of a guide for their journeys into the archives.
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Two Middle English Prayer Cycles
This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts, each shining its own light on medieval faith. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.
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Moral Love Songs and Laments
Illustrates how, in the devout medieval English sensibility, doctrine was vitally connected to affective receptivity. Narrative moods range from love-longing and passion to bitter grief and sorrowful lament, feelings from the intimately personal state of being God's created creature, individually...
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 13 (1999)
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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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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The French Balades
Gower's "Traitié" and "Cinkante Balades" are the only extant formes fixes ("fixed forms," that is, fourteenth-century French lyrics, essentially the balade, rondeau and virelai, developed as literary styles from thirteenth-century dances) that we can be assured were written by a native Englishman...
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 18 (2004)
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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The Roland and Otuel Romances and the Anglo-Norman Otinel
Four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included.
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The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies
Judson Boyce Allen loved his work and encouraged other scholars by his enthusiasm for theirs. He had an unusually wide range of interests, from the specialized study of manuscripts through the interpretation of particular literary texts to the broadest issues of literary theory.
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Authority of Images / Images of Authority
Essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu and a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centur...
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The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse
This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth century.
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Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England
Concepts of demon possession and exorcism provided a outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of society. A reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that m...
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Codex Ashmole 61
Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance.
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The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Book of Job
The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages. Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164), born in Muslim Spain, composed his commentaries while living in Christian Europe. By writing in Hebrew, rather than Arabic, he also transmitted the intellectual life of ...
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 11 (1997)
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. Each volume contain...
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Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama
The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new historical information concerning this...
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Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden
Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
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