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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Lybeaus Desconus
Mid-14th-century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur to prove himself worthy of joining Arthur's knights. The young knight is tested in a variety of ways, and learns both chivalric codes of conduct and...
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Middle English Marian Lyrics
The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone and aesthetic quality. Taken together, they express the full range of a people’s effort to voice its anxieties and joys through Mary.
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My Wyl and My Wrytyng
Examines Audelay's biography, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons found in 'The Counsel of Conscience' to the salutations and carols that follow in the manuscript, concluding with a defense of the authorship of 'Three Dead Kings' and Fein's study of the multiple endi...
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John Stone's Chronicle
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own monastic community-obituaries of monks, the celebration of the liturgy, even the weather-set against the wider events of the tumultuous fifteenth century in England.
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The Towneley Plays
A collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherd...
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Piers Plowman, Three-book set: Vol I (text), Vol II Part 1 (textual notes) and Vol II Part 2 (commentary and glossary)
3 volume set parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol I) alongside both the textual notes (Vol II, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol II, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition ava...
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John Gower
The 13 essays included here all represent a fresh approach by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower's work and serve as both an excellent introductio...
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William Caxton's "Paris and Vienne" and "Blanchardyn and Eglantine"
These texts are English versions of romances well known in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, but outside the modern canon of early English literature. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and criticism, including new critical editions of French texts closely related to Caxton's sourc...
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The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf
The two texts of the dialogue presented here, a Latin version printed c. 1488 and a Middle English translation printed in 1492, preserve lively, entertaining and revealing exchanges between the Old Testament wisdom figure Solomon and Marcolf, a medieval peasant who is ragged and foul-mouthed but ...
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Blandin de Cornoalha: A Comic Occitan Romance
This volume makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, including the original Occitan text, a translation and an introduction to the work.
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The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3
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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The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen
The first collection of essays on Hildegard's wonderfully unique Ordo Virtutum, along with a reduced facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden MS.2 that contain the drama.
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The Hero Recovered
The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark brings together studies concerning heroes and heroisms in Old English, Old Icelandic, Middle English, and modern literature as a tribute to the scholarship and teaching of George Clark. The thirteen essays in this collection ...
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Trial By Fire
Eibinder states in her lecture that over the thirteenth century, the scattered poetic remains that document persecutions against Jews in royal France often refer to burning books. Young poet Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg captured the tone of mourning and bereavement following the events of 1242 i...
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Early Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse
Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the seventh and eighth centuries. The introduction highlights the unique features of each commentary and the interrelationship of the three texts.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies
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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Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey
The Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky owns the eclectic Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of manuscripts, which contains not only medieval manuscripts but materials of interest for the study of the French Revolution. Most items are of Cistercian origin, but other monastic tradition...
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The Miracle of Theophilus by Gautier de Coinci
The legend of Theophilus is a medieval miracle story which reveals the period's deep fear of hell and the Devil. This first English translation of Gautier de Coinci's pre-Faustian version of the legend is presented in a facing-page translation with the original Old French, along with a full intro...
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The Complete Works (William Dunbar)
Dunbar's poems offer vivid depictions of late medieval Scottish society and serve up a striking pageant of colorful figures at the court of James IV (r. 1488-1513), with which he was associated for much of his adult life.
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Inventing Latin Heretics
Focusing on the ninth-century beginnings of Byzantine writings against the Latin addition of the Filioque to the creed, illuminates several aspects of Byzantine thought-their self-definition, their theology, their uniquely constituted state.
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Romance Epic
The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through c...
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The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Composed around 1250 by an unknown author in the region of Orleans, it is the most widely disseminated and reproduced medieval work on Ovid's epic compendium of classical mythology and materialist philosophy. This volume presents translations of both book one of Ovid's "Metamorphosis" and the com...
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The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352
This fresh classroom edition of the Middle English poems of Laurence Minot, with its introduction, gloss, notes, and glossary, enables students of all levels to encounter Minot's poetry.
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Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque
Examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contemporary world.
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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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Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9
New edition of Guillaume de Machaut's 23 motets, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. User-friendly format indicates variants on the scores. The lyrics, with fu...
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Church and Society in Late Byzantium
The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late Byzantine society, especially on the relationship between the church and the lay world and the response of individuals to the challenges faced by Orthodoxy.
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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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On the Truth of Holy Scripture
Wyclif's 1377-78 On the Truth of Holy Scripture represents an effort in reform: the recognition of the inherent perfection and veracity of the Sacred Page which serves as the model for daily conduct, discourse, and worship, thereby forming the foundation upon which Christendom itself is to be ord...
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Richard Coer de Lyon
With a substantial introduction and comprehensive explanatory and textual notes, this new edition of "Richard Coer de Lyon" signally contributes to the reappraisal and understanding of what became—during the centuries-long process of its composition—one of the most popular of medieval romances.
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Commentary on the Book of Jonah
Haimo of Auxerre's Commentary on the Book of Jonah was probably written as a study text for scholars in the monastery.
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The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
Rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and glossed, an essential resource for the study o...
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Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
This collection of essays examines the perceptions of the marvelous and monstrous by the people of medieval and early modern Europe.
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Piers Plowman, Volume I: Text
Volume 1 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition avai...
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Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2
The second volume of thirteen in preparation offering the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut, based on the most reliable manuscript of two of Machaut's best known dits, the Remede de Fortune (Remedy for Fortune) and the Confort d'ami (Consolation from...
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Medieval Exegesis in Translation
This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation.
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The Temple of Glas
Takes the form of an elusive and suspenseful—but for that reason all the more sensational—dream vision that demands close attention to detail and the dynamic way in which the meaning of events unfolds.
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The York Corpus Christi Plays
The feast of Corpus Christi, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city. In this way the people might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history.
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The Old English Hexateuch
Its over four hundred images make this manuscript (Cotton Claudius B. iv) one of the most extensively illustrated books to survive from the early Middle Ages and preserve evidence of the creativity of the Anglo-Saxon artist and his knowledge of other important early medieval picture cycles.
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Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages
This edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. The editions include notes, glosses, an introduction, and a glossary, making them accessible to beginning and advanced students in M...
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History as Literature
Excerpts and translations set as parallel-text of three C13th South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. They represent the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic and u...
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Shakespeare's Play Within Play
In his foreword to the volume, Clifford Davidson praises Guilfoyle’s application of the concept of scenic form in her study of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and her exposition of historical consciousness. Any student of Shakespeare will benefit from the nuanced study of his imagery and how it c...
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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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