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    THE ABENCERRAJE ANDOZMN AND DARAJATwo Sixteenth-Century

    Novellas from Spain

    Edited and translated byBarbara Fuchs, LarissaBrewer-Garca, and Aaron

    J. Ilika

    Faithfully translated into modern,

    accessible English, The Abencerraje and Ozmn andDarajaoffers rich imaginings of life on the Christian-Mus-lim frontier and reveal early modern Spains profound

    fascination with the Moorish culture that was officiallydenounced and persecuted.

    Jun 2014 | 152 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4608-7

    Cloth | $39.95 | $31.96 | 26.00 | 20.80

    JEAN DE SAINTRA Late Medieval Education

    in Love and Chivalry

    Antoine de La Sale. Trans-

    lated by Roberta L. Kruegerand Jane H. M. Taylor

    Jean de Saintris the intriguingstory of a young knights training,his first love, and his disillu-

    sionment. It teems with details of armor, jousting andtournaments, heraldry and crusadingand also with acheerful, and unexpected, eroticism.

    The Middle Ages Series

    May 2014 | 288 pages | 6 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4586-8

    Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

    NEW IN PAPERBACKAUTHORSHIP ANDPUBLICITY BEFORE PRINTJean Gerson and the

    Transformation of Late

    Medieval Learning

    Daniel Hobbins

    Awarded the Jacques Barzun

    Prize for Cultural History from the

    American Philosophical Society

    Authorship and Publicity Before Printis tightly argued,and based on prodigious research, elegantly and

    unobtrusively presented.TLSThe Middle Ages Series

    2013 | 352 pages | 21 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2274-6

    Paper | $27.50 | $22.00 | 18.00 | 14.40

    CONFESSIONS OF FAITHIN EARLY MODERNENGLANDBrooke Conti

    Brooke Contis claims arefresh, insightful, and important.Confessions of Faith in Early

    Modern Englandallows us to seethese texts in a new way, and asconnected to the larger issue of

    trying to write about ones private religion in a period whenreligion was public, and ones relation to the state religionwas a matter of importance, fraught with danger.Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College

    Feb 2014 | 256 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4575-2Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

    MADE FLESHSacrament and Poetics in

    Post-Reformation England

    Kimberly Johnson

    Kimberly Johnsons dual identity

    as scholar and poet animates thisstrikingly original booknot only

    in its limpid, lively prose, but alsoin its resonant reappraisal of aseemingly familiar subject.

    Molly Murray, Columbia University

    Mar 2014 | 248 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4588-2

    Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

    PARROTS ANDNIGHTINGALESTroubadour Quotations and

    the Development of Europe-an Poetry

    Sarah Kay

    Written with clarity, grace, andwit, Parrots and Nightingalesis an important book that will

    illuminate our understanding of the troubadours, the art

    of quotation, and the transition from the Middle Ages tothe Renaissance.William Paden, Northwestern University

    The Middle Ages Series

    2013 | 472 pages | 9 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4525-7

    Cloth | $79.95 | $63.96 | 52.00 | 41.60

    THE QUEENSDUMBSHOWSJohn Lydgate and the

    Making of Early Theater

    Claire Sponsler

    This absorbing and well-plot-ted study affords a rare glimpseinto the conceptualization,performance, and impact of

    drama at a crucial time in the creation of an English

    vernacular literature.Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    The Middle Ages Series

    Apr 2014 | 328 pages | 7 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4595-0Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

    NEW IN PAPERBACKRIVAL QUEENS

    Actresses, Performance,

    and the Eighteenth-Century

    British Theater

    Felicity Nussbaum

    [Rival Queens] has vital rami-fications not only for a renewed

    study of the eighteenth-centurytheater but also for our understandings of the perfor-mance of gender and, specifically, femininity across theperiod.Studies in English Literature 15001900

    Feb 2014 | 392 pages | 29 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2301-9

    Paper | $29.95 | $23.96 | 19.50 | 15.60

    ANIMAL BODIES,RENAISSANCE CULTUREKaren Raber

    Materialist scholarship hasbeen fascinated by bodies in re-cent decades, yet has neglectedto consider embodiment exactly

    where it seems likely to be es-pecially helpful: in the ecocriticalstudy of our connections with

    other animals. Karen Raber resolves that paradox andsolves many of the problems it reflects, in a highly read-able study with vivid instances and large implications.Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles

    Haney Foundation Series2013 | 248 pages | 27 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4536-3

    Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

    BLIND IMPRESSIONSMethods and Mythologies in Book History

    Joseph A. Dane

    Joseph A. Dane examines the field of material bookhistory by questioning its most basic assumptions anddefinitions: How is print defined? What are the limits ofprinting history? What constitutes evidence?

    Material Texts2013 | 228 pages | 9 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4549-3

    Cloth | $65.00 | $52.00 | 42.50 | 34.00

    UNCOMMON TONGUESEloquence and Eccentricity

    in the English Renaissance

    Catherine Nicholson

    An illuminating study.Uncom-mon Tonguesopens up a verydifferent understanding of thecategory and the lineaments ofEnglish eloquence. Nicholson isa very observant, ingenious, and

    persuasive literary critic.

    Jeff Dolven, Princeton University2013 | 224 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4558-5

    Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00 | 36.00 | 28.80

    NOTHING NATURAL IS SHAMEFULSodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

    Joan Cadden

    Joan Cadden teaches us many things we didnt know.What is more important, she challenges the categoriesand principles we have been using so confidently tonarrate what we were sure we knew with certainty.Mark D. Jordan, Washington University in St. Louis

    The Middle Ages Series

    2013 | 336 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4537-0

    Cloth | $85.00 | $68.00 | 55.50 | 44.40

    NEW IN PAPERBACKBEOWULF AND OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMSEdited and translated by Craig Williamson

    Foreword by Tom Shippey

    The translation of Beowulfis a notoriously difficult task,and Williamson is to be commended for producing a fluentand lively text that recalls the language of the original to thebeginning student of Old English literature.Comitatus

    The Middle Ages Series

    2013 | 288 pages | 2 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2275-3

    Paper | $19.95 | $15.96 | 13.00 | 10.40

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    ART AND ARCHITECTURE

    GARDENS IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPEA Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

    Christopher TunnardWith a new foreword by John Dixon Hunt

    A classic and seminal text that inspired a generationof students to change the world of landscape design.For architects and landscape architects alike, this

    book argued for a new aesthetic related to the art andtimes.Laurie Olin

    Penn Studies in Landscape ArchitectureJun 2014 | 208 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-2291-3

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    THE MEDIEVAL SALENTOArt and Identity in

    Southern Italy

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    plary clarity and erudition. Linda Safran provides anenormously rich source to fill in a major lacuna in thescholarship of medieval Italy.Nino Zchomelidse, Johns Hopkins University

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    CAUGHT ON CAMERAFilm in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg

    Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge

    Christian DelageEdited and translated by Ralph Schoolcraft andMary Byrd Kelly

    Caught on Cameraprovides an invaluable overviewof the role films played in the historic internationalcriminal trials that so indelibly marked the second halfof the twentieth century. Ranging in scope and rich inreference, this admirable book shows how prosecutorsused films as evidence in court and how court sessionswere themselves filmed and widely diffused for publicaudiences.Stuart Liebman, Professor Emeritus,CUNY Graduate Center

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    2013 | 352 pages | 77 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4556-1Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96 | 39.00 | 31.20

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