Scholarly Book Series
Medieval Institute Publications at 澳门六合彩官网直播 publishes the following series of scholarly books:
Christianities Before Modernity
Challenging the perception of Christianity as a unified and European religion before the sixteenth century, this series interrogates the traditional chronological, geographical, social and institutional boundaries of premodern Christianity.
Early Drama, Art and Music
This series publishes studies of the medieval performing and visual arts broadly conceived, on topics including鈥攂ut not limited to鈥攎usic; civic and liturgical festivals; plays and dramatic literature; performance objects, architecture and technology; and ritual and homiletics.
Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
This series publishes occasional volumes in honor of significant scholars of various fields of humanistic study and the premodern past, as well as texts of significant public lectures or lecture series in the same fields.
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance and Material Culture
Engaging in the material vitality of the dramatic text, this series publishes studies on political culture, theatre and performance history, theatrical design, performance spaces, gendering court entertainments, child- and adult-actors, music, dance, audiences in London and on tour and more.
Ludic Cultures, 1100-1700
This series publishes monographs and essay collections treat medieval and early modern play in all its innumerable eccentricities, conceiving of play as a phenomenon that extends well beyond leisure activities and child's play, finding expression in virtually every facet of cultural production.
Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
This series examines monastic and ascetic movements, monastic institutions, patronage and sites of veneration amid broader religious and cultural traditions from around the world.
Monsters, Prodigies and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
This series is dedicated to the study of monstrosity and alterity in the medieval and early modern world, and to the investigation of cultural constructions of otherness, abnormality and difference from a wide range of perspectives.
New Queer Medievalisms
Exploring new directions in the study of queer, gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex and asexual medieval identities, this series extends the important work of investigating the intersection of queer theory with the study of the Middle Ages.
The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe
Highly interdisciplinary in scope, this series publishes studies that use historical, archaeological, literary and other methodologies to engage with all of medieval Scandinavia, including regions around the world that were part of the Norse universe in the Middle Ages.
Premodern Transgressive Literatures
Taking a decisively political, intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to medieval and early modern literature, this series supports scholarship that transgresses normative bounds along various axes, including the transgression of temporal boundaries that superficially separate the premodern era from our twenty-first century moment.
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (monographs) and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections) are sister series originally inspired by themes drawn from the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. These series provide a home for high鈥恞uality humanities research on topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods.
Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center
This series of monographs and essay collections presents research on the history, literature and material culture of early medieval England in its wider chronological and geographical context, including its links with the European Continent and the Celtic world, placing particular emphasis on the study of manuscripts.
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Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations
Serving as a companion series to the successful journal Studies in Iconography, this series publishes monographs or tightly-conceived essay collections focusing on the visual culture of the period before 1600.
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections) and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (monographs) are sister series originally inspired by themes drawn from the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. These series provide a home for high鈥恞uality humanities research on topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods.
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The Medieval Institute Publications Gift Fund helps support the publication of high-quality research in medieval and early modern studies, including the monographs and edited collections in our Scholarly Book Series. Your tax-deductible gift will help us continue to offer texts at affordable prices, support scholars from a variety of backgrounds, build our collection of open access texts, and more.
