Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Social Emotions in Premodern Philosophical Thought
1st Edition
By Ritva Palmén
November 19, 2026
In recent decades, emotion studies have expanded rapidly across the humanities and social sciences, yet the philosophical analysis of social emotions in premodern thought has remained strikingly underdeveloped. Social Emotions in Premodern Philosophical Thought addresses this gap by examining how ...
The Social Politics of Criminal Justice in Florentine Tuscany, c. 1282–1382: A Popular Failure
1st Edition
By Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm
July 31, 2026
This book explores how medieval Florentines, grappling with the rising inequality and political instability of rapid urbanization and economic growth, addressed the challenge of questioning the goals of public power and public institutions such as criminal courts. Through archival records, it ...
The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Panos Sophoulis, Florin Curta
July 29, 2026
The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500, is the first publication of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of Southeastern Europe during the late medieval period. Scholars have long recognized the 14th and 15th centuries as an extremely important period in the history of ...
Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London
1st Edition
By Janet S. Loengard
July 20, 2026
Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes. This book examines the Custom of London on light, which reflected centuries-old ideas about the right to have, or prevent neighbors from having, windows. The...
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices
1st Edition
Edited
By Abigail P. Dowling, Nancy Ann McLoughlin, Tanya Stabler Miller
July 20, 2026
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labor, and interfaith history. This volume explores and builds on Farmer’s influence through 20 ...
The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea: Humanism, Early Colonial Politics and Agency
1st Edition
By Eleni Tounta
July 20, 2026
This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of ...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Dušan Zupka
June 22, 2026
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages. Focusing on the historical regions of Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania, the book provides a ...
Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders
1st Edition
By Matthew Firth
June 22, 2026
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact. The Íslendingasögur present themselves as histories, but they are difficult historical ...
Status and Social Roles of Women in Central Europe in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Beata Możejko, Aneta Pieniądz, Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek
June 15, 2026
This book presents a comprehensive overview of women's activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social elite to rural women, townswomen and poor noblewomen...
Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power
1st Edition
By Sverrir Jakobsson
April 27, 2026
In the ninth century, at the beginning of this account, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller Arctic animals. In the middle of the sixteenth century, by the end of this history, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the periphery of Europe. The ...
Societies in Late Medieval Prussia: Ethnicities
1st Edition
Edited
By Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Radosław Biskup
December 30, 2025
From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country. A ...
New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily N. Savage
December 26, 2025
This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the ...