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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Sir Gawain
This volume is the first affordable, modern collection of all eleven of the known Middle English Gawain tales, and aims to make these texts accessible to a wider, contemporary audience. Incorporating glosses and introductions for each text as well as an extensive glossary, this edition is excelle...
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The Destruction of Jerusalem, or Titus and Vespasian
Marked by antisemitism, Christian nationalism and violence, the Middle English poem The Destruction of Jerusalem is a C15th fictionalised version of the historical Roman siege of Jerusalem. Presented in the most comprehensive edition to date the poem will be of particular interest to scholars and...
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Renaissance Retrospections
From Shakespeare’s manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, essays explore the ways that early modern writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, int...
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Elizabeth I, the Subversion of Flattery, and John Lyly's Court Plays and Entertainments
Looks at both the light and the dark side of the Elizabeth character in each of Lyly's court plays, while at the same time considering how that allegory works in terms of the various issues Lyly debates within the plays.
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The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
An edition and accompanying translation of this late C13th anthology of early Middle English verse. In addition to the original text and Modern English translations, the edition contains a substantial scholarly introduction, notes and a substantial bibliography. The book is designed for use by t...
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Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England
Investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance.
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The Book of Margery Kempe
This edition, faithful to the original Middle English text but edited for accessibility to students, includes a gloss, notes, introduction, and a glossary, making The Book of Margery Kempe an excellent choice for any class interested in religion, gender, travel, or even daily life in late medieva...
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Accessus ad auctores
Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the 12th century these introductions were anthologised. First critical edition of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, saec. XII, with new translation and explanatory notes addressing dif...
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Oton de Granson, Poems
Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English read...
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Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints
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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John of Garland's 'Integumenta Ovidii'
John of Garland wrote Integumenta Ovidii (Allegories on Ovid) in early C13th Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. This edition presents the Latin text with facing-page modern English translation and comprehensive explanatory notes to help readers understand John’s al...
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The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law
This anthology aims to add to a deeper understanding of the tradition of natural law throughout the medieval period. It runs contrary to the opinion so commonly held since the Renaissance, that any tradition deemed medieval has little or even nothing to offer to contemporary needs and interests.
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The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems
Reflects the wide scope of these "prison poems" by bringing together a new edition of "The Kingis Quair," a selection from Charles d'Orleans' "Fortunes Stabilnes," a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote abou...
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The English 'Loathly Lady' Tales
This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.
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Closure in the Canterbury Tales
For all its spiritual cheerfulness and obvious importance as a tale to conclude tales, The Parson's Tale seems to have inspired sentence and solaas in remarkably few critics. . This rethinking of traditional scholarship on The Canterbury Tales will be of great interest to Chaucer scholars and stu...
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Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus
In the early ninth century Theodulf of Orleans and Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel served as advisers to Charlemagne. This book provides English translations of a Latin commentary on the Apocalypse written by Theodulf and three homilies on the Apocalypse by Smaragdus.
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The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays
One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579 and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 9 (1995)
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 Yearbook of Langland Studies 2 (1988)
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 Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34)
Newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, "Hali Meidenhad"; and a psychologically astute sermon, "Sawles Warde" ("The Guardianship of the Soul").
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Ten Bourdes
A "bourde" is an English comedic poem similar to a French fabliau but with a moralizing element and less of an emphasis on violence. Collection of ten Middle English bourdes, specifically designed for students, and has contextualizing introductions, copious notes, glosses, and a glossary..
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The Jeu d'Adam
An Anglo-Norman mid-twelfth-century representation of several biblical stories, including the temptation of Adam and Eve and the subsequent fall, Cain and Abel, and the prophets Isaiah and Daniel. This collection of essays explores whether this early play was monastic or secular, its Anglo-Norman...
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The Centre and Its Compass
Collection of essays in honor of John Leyerle. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. Essays reflect his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, int...
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The Palis of Honoure
Excellent introduction to Middle English, Scottish poetry. This edition includes an ample gloss and notes, as well as an informative introduction and glossary, making it a perfect edition for use in classrooms of all levels.
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The Play of Daniel
Tthe first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New York Pro Musica. This book provides for the first time a critical introduction to the staging and production, music, and setting of the play in its architectural and historical context.
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Prik of Conscience
First modern edition of the poem since 1863, presents it to a new audience of students. Attributed to the mystic Richard Rolle, it became one of the most popular poems in medieval England and appears in more than any other Middle English poem. Extensive annotations and gloss, accessible to studen...
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The Minor Latin Works
Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time—Anglo-French, English and Latin—was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three languages.
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De Ore Domini
Thirteen essays, constituting a series of chapters in the history of preaching. The essays present a diversity of historical periods, audiences, and methodologies. Ranging in time from the 700s to 1511, from Johannes Herolt's Germany to Ramon Llull's Mallorca, from Bede's England to the Italy of ...
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 7 (1993)
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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Vox Feminae
Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This is not an attempt to completely cover the field but to offer an introduction and guide to those who are not familiar with woman's song, and ...
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Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft
A close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.
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The Complete Works (Robert Henryson)
New edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, offers editions of Henryson's Fables, The Testament of Cresseid, Orpheus and Eurydice and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson, as well as the glosses and explanatory and textual notes characteristic ...
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Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller
Essays on many aspects of medieval French and Occitan literatures and Romance linguistics in tribute to Hans-Erich Keller, one of our most productive and wide-ranging scholars. As a group, the essays reflect the state of the art of medieval French and Occitan studies and Romance linguistics, with...
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Iconographic and Comparative Studies in Medieval Drama
Articles drawn from papers presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theatre. The connections between medieval art and drama are explored in topics ranging from English mystery plays to the Assumption to the Cuzco Corpus Christi paintings.
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Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg.
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Troy Book
One of the most ambitious attempts in medieval vernacular poetry to recount the story of the Trojan war. John Lydgate, monk of the great Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, began composing the poem in October 1412 on commission from Henry, Prince of Wales, later King Henry V and he ...
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Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Presents a collection of saints' lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints’ leg...
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Brunetto Latini, La rettorica
Brunetto Latini's La rettorica is the first Italian translation of Cicero's early and widely influential De inventione, and this volume is a translation of Latini's translation, including both Cicero's work and Brunetto's commentary.
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Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum
These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society.
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The Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002)
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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Rebels and Rivals
The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies.
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The Salt of Common Life
Throughout the career of Ambrose Raftis two themes or convictions have been in evidence: a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and women and a belief in their ability to make choices.
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