In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues
of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept …

On the eve of the Council of Trent, there was no outright ban on vernacular Bible reading in
the Catholic world, but only regionally diversified positions. In Germany the Low Countries …

" Adam, Eve, the Serpent, the Garden of Eden... and the apple. That fruit is one of the most
potent symbols in all of human history. It is so closely tied to temptation, knowledge, the" Fall …

Apart from Latin, French was Britain and England's only medieval supraregional language:
English remained a regional language of the British Isles until well into the early modern …

A look into an enchanting, underexplored genre of illustrated manuscripts that reveals new
insights into urban life in the Middle Ages In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a …

Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe provides an expansive view of women
negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious and cultural scene of the sixteenth …

In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden
Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints' lives in Europe. This study …

One of the most enduring myths of the Protestant Reformation concerns the role played by
vernacular translations of the Bible. According to this myth, the Catholic Church had …

JUST north of London, outside the old city wall by the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the
Great, stands a paved circular area. The street and sidewalk run around a small fenced park …

Henrike Manuwald takes a fourteenth-century devotional manuscript (Montpellier, BU
Médecine, H 396) as a starting point for discussing the general question of how to …