#  The Scrinium 

 



**Monographs, edited volumes, and translations by Medieval Studies faculty**

> Paretur itaque librorum quantum satis sit, nihil in apparatum  
> -Seneca, De tranquillitate animae

*The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire* (Reaktion, 2005) (Gülru Necipoğlu)

*Alan of Lille’s Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-Century Intellectual* (Medieval Academy of America, 1985) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Alfonso de la Torre's 'Visión Deleytable': Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Spain* (Brill, 2001) (Luis Girón-Negrón*)*

*Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel* (Harvard University Press, 2005) (Panagiotis Roilos)

*Anchoritic Spirituality:* Ancrene Wisse *and Associated Works* (Paulist Press, 1991) (Nicholas Watson)

*Les annales du haut Moyen Age* (Brepols, 1975) (Michael McCormick)

*Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite* (Oxford University Press, 2012) (Charles Stang)

*Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries* (MIT Press, 1991) (Gülru Necipoğlu)

*Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism* (Oxford University Press, 1992) (Christine Smith)

*Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity c. 1300* (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (Suzanne Preston Blier)

*The Art of Armenia: An Introduction* (Oxford University Press, 2018) (Christina Maranci)

*The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures* (Brill, 2017) (Gülru Necipoğlu)

*Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic* (Mouton, 1974) (Michael Flier)

*Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation*. Vol. 1: *Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) (Nicholas Watson)

*The Baptistry of Pisa* (Garland, 1978) (Christine Smith)

*Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800* (University of Chicago Press, 2005) (Khaled El-Rouayheb)

*The Beneventan Chant* (Cambridge University Press, 1989) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Summer Season: Liturgical Sermons from Rogationtide and Pentecost* (Cistercian Publications, 1991) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections* (University of Chicago Press, 2016) (Jeffrey Hamburger, William Stoneman, and Anne-Marie Eze)

*Beyond Words: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections* (Brepols, 2021) (Jeffrey Hamburger, William Stoneman, and Anne-Marie Eze)

*The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century* (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*The Bishop: Power and Piety at the First Millennium* (Lit-Verlag, 2004) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and the Spiritual Edifice* (MRTS, 2006) (Christine Smith)

*Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents* (Harvard University Press, 2007) (James Simpson)

*The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century* (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Dimiter Angelov)

*Byzantine Icons in Steatite* (Vienna Academy of Sciences, 1985) (Ioli Kalavrezou)

*Byzantine Women and their World* (Yale University Press, 2003) (Ioli Kalavrezou)

*The Cambridge History of Medieval Music* (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*The Cambridge Songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia)* (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Capturing Music: The Story of Notation* (W.W. Norton, 2014) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Chant and its Origins* (Ashgate, 2009) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Charlemagne's Survey of the Holy Land* (Harvard University Press, 2011) (Michael McCormick)

*Cistercians, Heresy, and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229* (York Medieval Press, 2001) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned* (Boydell and Brewer, 2005) (Suzannah Clark)

*Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge* (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) (Tómas Ó Cathasaigh)

*Color in Cusanus* (Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2021) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*A Commentary on Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin* (Harvard University Press, 2023) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography* (Brill, 2020) (Alexander Riehle)

*A Companion to Catherine of Siena* (Brill, 2011) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423* (Cornell University Press, 2003) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim* Fiqh (Brill, 1999) (Baber Johansen)

*Conversing With Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland* (Cornell University Press, 1997) (Joseph Nagy)

*Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash en la poesía judeoespañola* (Gredos, 2006) (Luis Girón-Negrón*)*

*Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries* (Columbia University Press, 2008) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History* (Oxford University Press, 2010) (James Simpson)

*Le débat sur le Roman de la rose* (Champion, 2006) (Virginie Greene)

*Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present* (University of California Press, 2011) (Daniel Lord Smail*)*

*De ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages* (Medieval Institute Publications, 1989) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*The Development of Arabic Logic (1200-1800)* (Schwabe Verlag, 2019) (Khaled El Rouayheb)

*Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross* (University of Chicago Press, 2020) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Digital Medieval Studies—Crusaders and Computers* (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*Digital Medieval Studies—Experimentation and Innovation* (ARC Humanities Press, 2024) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation* (ARC Humanities Press, 2022) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*A Distinct Voice: Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O.P.* (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997) (William Stoneman)

*Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence* (Princeton University Press, 1985) (Katharine Park)

*Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law* (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (Intisar Rabb)

*Early Music: A Very Short Introduction* (Oxford University Press, 2011) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World* (Giles, 2006) (Eurydice Georganteli)

*El envés de lo inefable*: *Estudios de literatura mística española* (Iberoamericano Vauvert, 2025) (Luis Girón Negrón)

*Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond: An Anthology with Critical Essays* (Routledge, 2021) (Alexander Riehle)

*Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Medieval West* (Cambridge University Press, 1986) (Michael McCormick)

*The Exultet in Southern Italy* (Oxford University Press, 1996) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies* (University of Michigan Press, 2007) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe* (Cornell University Press, 2003) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*The Favor of Friends: Intercession and Aristocratic Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe* (Brill, 2014) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*Five Hundred Unknown Glosses from the Palatine Virgil: The Vatican Library, MS. Pal. lat. 1631* (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1992) (Michael McCormick)

*Flesh and Fabric: The Raiment of the Passion in a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti* (Officina Libraria, 2024) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France* (Harvard University Press, 2007) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Haec Figura Demonstrat: Das Pariser Exemplar Von Lothar de Segnis "De Missarum Mysteriis"* (De Gruyter, 2013) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches* (DeGruyter, 2018) (Stephen Mitchell)

*A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries* (D.S. Brewer, 1989) (James Simpson)

*The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt* (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) (Tómas Ó Cathasaigh)

*Heroic Sagas and Ballads* (Cornell University Press, 1991) (Stephen Mitchell)

*Hildegard of Bingen and Her Gospel Homilies* (Brepols, 2009) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image* (Oxford University Press, 2002) (James Simpson)

*Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille* (Cornell University Press, 2000) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium (1204-1330)* (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Dimiter Angelov)

*The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal* (University of Chicago Press, 2022) (Josiah Blackmore)

*Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent* *(*Croom Helm, 1988) (Baber Johansen)

*Jezebel: A Norman Latin Poem of the Early Eleventh Century* (Peter Lang, 1989) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England* (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006) (James Simpson)

*The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity*, 6 vols. (Open Book Publishing, 2018) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Koinotaton Doron: Das späte Byzanz zwischen Machtlosigkeit und kultureller Blüte (1204–1461)* (De Gruyter, 2016) (Alexander Riehle)

*Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend* (Blackwell, 2003) (Daniel Donoghue)

*Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments About Marriage in Five Courts* (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Charles Donahue)

*Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) (Intisar Rabb)

*Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest* (Harvard University Press, 2008) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe* (Harvard University Press, 2016) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal* (Catholic University of America Press, 2008) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy* (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (Virginie Greene)

*The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies* (Ashgate, 2008) (Michael McCormick)

*Magdalena Coline: A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe* (Princeton University Press, 2025) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire* (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) (Josiah Blackmore)

*Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation* (Peeters, 2001) (Christina Maranci)

*The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) (Virginie Greene)

*Medieval Christianity: A New History* (Yale University Press, 2015) (Kevin Madigan)

*The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium* (Harrassowitz, 2015) (Panagiotis Roilos)

*The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric: Poems of the Gogynfeirdd 1137-1282* (Ford and Bailie, 1991) (Catherine McKenna)

*The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages* (Princeton University Press, 2005) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture* (Brepols, 2014) (Stephen Mitchell)

Nigel of Canterbury, *Miracles of the Virgin* and *Tract on Abuses* (Harvard University Press, 2023) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee with a Prologue by the Friar Erhard von Pappenheim* (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015) (David Stern)

*Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa* (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) (Josiah Blackmore)

*Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589* (Cambridge University Press, 1998) (Donald Ostrowski)

*Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century* (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (Suzannah Clark)

*Nostalgia and the German(ic) Past: The Medieval Poem of Walthare* (Chronos Verlag, 2024) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Nota bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages* (Brepols, 2007) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent* (University of California Press, 1997) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages* (Brill, 1998) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Old English Literature: A Short Introduction* (Blackwell, 2004) (Daniel Donoghue)

*Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages* (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) (Kevin Madigan)

*On Deep History and the Brain* (University of California Press, 2008) (Daniel Lord Smail*)*

*Oral and Written Transmission in Chant* (Ashgate, 2009) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) (Kevin Madigan)

*The Ordinal of Montecassino and Benevento: Breviarium sive ordo officiorum, 11th century* (Spicilegium Friburgense, 2008) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900* (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (Michael McCormick)

*The Oxford Chaucer* (Oxford University Press, 2024) (James Simpson)

*The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer* (Oxford University Press, 2020) (James Simpson)

*The Passion of St. Lawrence: Epigrams and Marginal Poems* (Brill, 1994) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*The Passions of Christ in High-Medieval Thought: An Essay on Christological Development* (Oxford University Press, 2007) (Kevin Madigan)

*The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection* (Yale University Press, 2005) (David Roxburgh)

*Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-text* (Longman, 1990) (James Simpson)

*Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony* (Cambridge University Press, 1992) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1725* (M.E. Sharpe, 2011) (Donald Ostrowski)

*The Practice of Medieval Music: Studies in Chant and Performance* (Ashgate, 2010) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran* (Brill, 2001) (David Roxburgh)

*La punta del disio: Semantica del desiderio nella Commedia* (Cadmo, 2005) (Lino Pertile)

*Purloined Letters: The Twelfth-Century Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Hexateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius B. iv)* (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011) (William Stoneman)

*La puttana e il gigante: Del Cantico dei Cantici al Paradiso terrestre di Dante* (Longo, 1998) (Lino Pertile)

*Queenship and Sanctity: The* Lives *of Mathilda and the* Epitaph *of Adelheid* (Catholic University of America Press, 2004) (Sean Gilsdorf)

*Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance* (Duke University Press, 1999) (Josiah Blackmore)

*Ravenne: l'age d'or* (Editions Salera, 1977) (Christine Smith)

*The Records of the Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts* (Duncker and Humblot, 1989-94) (Charles Donahue)

*Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547* (Oxford University Press, 2002) (James Simpson)

*Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900* (Brill, 2010) (Khaled El-Rouayheb)

*Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority* (Cambridge University Press, 1991) (Nicholas Watson)

*The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300* (Yale University Press, 1990) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*The Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form* (H.N. Abrams, 1998) (Suzanne Preston Blier)

*St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology* (University of California Press, 2002) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's* Anticlaudianus *and John Gower's* Confessio amantis (Cambridge University Press, 1995) (James Simpson)

*Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the* *Origins of Human Dissection* (Zone Books, 2006) (Katharine Park)

*Select Cases from the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury, c. 1200–1301* (Selden Society, 1981) (Charles Donahue)

*Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History* (The University of Chicago Press, 2002) (Amy Hollywood)

*The Sermon* (Brepols, 2000) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*Solomon and Marcolf* (Harvard University Press, 2008) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions* (Harvard University Press, 2022) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*The* Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions *of Hildegard of Bingen* (Cistercian Publications, 2014) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart* (Notre Dame Press, 1995) (Amy Hollywood)

*The Sources of Beneventan Chant* (Ashgate, 2011) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*Le sujet et la mort dans* La mort Artu (Librarie Nizet, 2002) (Virginie Greene)

*Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry, 750-1150* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*Les Témoins manuscrits du chant bénéventain* (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, 1992) (Thomas Forrest Kelly)

*The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture* (Oxford University Press, 1996) (Gülru Necipoğlu)

*Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900* (Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2007) (David Roxburgh)

*The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise* (Princeton University Press, 1986) (Jeffrey Schnapp)

*The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an* (Brill, 2012) (Shady Nasser)

*Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media* (The Ohio State University Press, 2015) (Nicholas Watson)

*Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition* (Oxford University Press, 2010) (James Simpson)

*Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader* (University of Toronto Press, 2009) (Daniel Lord Smail)

*Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia* (Brepols, 2015) (Christina Maranci)

*The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years* (Yale University Press, 2008) (Jan Ziolkowski)

*The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany* (MIT Press, 1998) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*Vita di Alessandro Magno con figure secondo il ms. Cracovia, Biblioteca Jagellonica, Ital. Quart. 33* (Brepols, 2016) (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja)

*The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity* (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003) (Nicholas Watson)

*Wir Schwestern: Die vergessenen Chorfrauen von Klosterneuburg* (Stift Klosterneuburg, 2024) (Jeffrey Hamburger)

*The Washington Haggadah by Joel ben Simeon: A Fifteenth Century Manuscript from The Library of Congress* (Belknap, 2011) (David Stern)

*The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition* (University of California Press, 1985) (Joseph Nagy)

*Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) (Stephen Mitchell)

*Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity* (University of California Press, 1998) (Beverly Mayne Kienzle)

*Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750* (Zone Books, 1998) (Katharine Park)

*Writing Down the Myths* (Brepols, 2013) (Joseph Nagy)

*The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love* (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006) (Nicholas Watson)



 

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