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The New Middle Ages

“The New Middle Ages series, edited by Bonnie Wheeler, has produced some of the most innovative and exciting publications on medieval topics out there on the market today.”—The Medieval Review

Series Editor: Bonnie Wheeler

THE NEW MIDDLE AGES SERIES contributes to lively pluridisciplinary conversations in medieval cultural studies through its peer-reviewed scholarly monographs and essay collections. This esteemed series provides engaging work in a contemporary idiom about practices, expressions, and ideologies in the Middle Ages.

BONNIE WHEELER teaches at Southern Methodist University where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them the forthcoming The Letters of Heloise and Abelard and Heloise and the Paraclete (with Mary Martin McLaughlin). She is executive editor of Arthuriana and President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

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Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince The New Middle Ages SunHee Kim Gertz Palgrave Macmillan Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how René d’Anjou...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe The New Middle Ages Edited by Theresa Earenfight Palgrave Macmillan The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer The New Middle Ages Mary Catherine Davidson Palgrave Macmillan Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Letters of Heloise and Abelard A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings The New Middle Ages Translated and Edited by Mary Martin McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler Palgrave Macmillan The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain some of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while the writers themselves are probably...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages The New Middle Ages Miriam Shadis Palgrave Macmillan Daughter, wife, and mother of kings, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) was a key figure in the formation of medieval Castile-León. Queen of León from...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Julian of Norwich's Legacy Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception The New Middle Ages Edited by Sarah Salih and Denise N. Baker Palgrave Macmillan This detailed study is the first to outline Julian of Norwich's reception throughout history, from the extant manuscripts to the present day.

Hardcover : $84.95 Buy	Strange Beauty Ecocritical Approaches to Early Medieval Landscape The New Middle Ages Alfred K. Siewers Palgrave Macmillan Strange Beauty brings the developing discipline of environmental literary criticism to bear on narratives of nature and the Otherworld from early cultures...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art The New Middle Ages Edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, and John K. Downey Palgrave Macmillan Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art demonstrates that remembering Saint Francis of Assisi should take place on many levels. The authors in this...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Queens in Stone and Silver The Creation of a Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian France The New Middle Ages Kathleen Nolan Palgrave Macmillan Queens in Stone and Silver makes the intriguing argument that royal women from the early twelfth through the mid-thirteenth centuries exercised cultural...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Constructing Chaucer Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition The New Middle Ages Geoffrey W. Gust Palgrave Macmillan Constructing Chaucer examines the scholarly appropriation and manipulation of Geoffrey Chaucer since his death in 1400 and seeks to enhance the theoretical...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature The New Middle Ages Kathleen E. Kennedy Palgrave Macmillan Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	The Post-Historical Middle Ages The New Middle Ages Edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico Palgrave Macmillan This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages The New Middle Ages Edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers Palgrave Macmillan J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing Reading the Book of Life The New Middle Ages Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Liz Herbert McAvoy Palgrave Macmillan By tracing the theme through different texts and genres, contributors uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women. They...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature The New Middle Ages J. Allan Mitchell Palgrave Macmillan Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress Objects, Texts, Images The New Middle Ages Edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder Palgrave Macmillan This broad-reaching collection of essays constitutes a thorough introduction to the fields and methodologies concerned with studies of textiles and dress of...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Charlemagne's Mustache And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age The New Middle Ages Paul Edward Dutton Palgrave Macmillan Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age presents the reader with seven engaging studies of cultural life and thought in the...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein An English Translation of the Complete Works (1376/77-1445) The New Middle Ages Albrecht Classen Palgrave Macmillan This is the first complete English translation of Oswald von Wolkenstein’s poems, regarded as lyric masterpieces of the late Middle Ages.

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France The New Middle Ages Constant J. Mews, translated by Neville Chiavaroli and Constant Mews Palgrave Macmillan The Lost Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages Power, Faith, and Crusade The New Middle Ages Edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace Stuckey Palgrave Macmillan These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales The New Middle Ages Edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones Palgrave Macmillan The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance The New Middle Ages Seeta Chaganti Palgrave Macmillan Reliquaries, elaborate containers housing the remains of the holy dead, informed numerous aspects of medieval culture. Incorporated into religious ceremonies,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Excrement in the Late Middle Ages Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics The New Middle Ages Susan Signe Morrison Palgrave Macmillan This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	In the Light of Medieval Spain Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past The New Middle Ages Edited by Simon R. Doubleday and David Coleman, foreword by Giles Tremlett Palgrave Macmillan If the idea of the medieval has been widely deployed in the colonial and neocolonial West as a marker of cultural backwardness, the Anglo-American perspective...

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