Studies in Medieval Culture

Studies in Medieval Culture was first published in 1964 as a vehicle for papers delivered at what were then biennial Conferences on Medieval Studies hosted by the Medieval Institute and held at Western Michigan University. The first twelve volumes of the journal reflect this structure and covered conferences from the first (1962) through the twelfth (1977).

But the Conference evolved over the years, becoming first an annual event and then an International Congress containing within it special sessions and symposia in which scholars from around the world explore particular topics or multi-disciplinary approaches to a single subject.

To reflect this evolution Studies changed from a journal to a series. Since the publication in 1978 of Social Groups and Religious Ideas in the Sixteenth Century (SMC XIII) succeeding volumes have borne individual titles.

Each year participants in the International Congress on Medieval Studies are invited to submit proposals for volumes in the Studies in Medieval Culture Series. Proposed volumes should focus on a single topic or on interdisciplinary approaches to a specific subject. Scholars who organize a series of papers that are topically or methodologically related and who wish to propose those papers as a future volume in the series should submit their proposals, in writing, to the Managing Editor of Medieval Institute Publications.

“In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . .
“ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction

“A significant value of continuing collections culled from “Gower at Kalamazoo” is the insight they provide, through comparison, into the shifts and trends of Gower scholarship over time. It would not be an exaggeration to observe that in the last two decades Gower studies have developed in response to a widening appreciation of his poetry, often spurred or supported by essays in the earlier two volumes of what might be called this “Kalamazoo series,” but responsive as well to the larger drifts and swells of literary-critical interests. . . . The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. Salient among them is the concern with representations of place, understood both as geography and as culture, in the poetry. . . . As well as place, the political element in Gower’s writings has been subject to fruitful recent scrutiny; and again, there are important linkages and overlaps among these essays on such matter too. . . . [A]nother element discernable in common among these essays: their easy range over the whole of Gower’s trilingual corpus. . . . Testimony at once of where Gower studies at their best have been as the twentieth century drew to a close, they anticipate as well the scholarly course of the next few years, the first of a new millennium." - from the Introduction

- “To attribute hands to the tongue is to ascribe power to the instrument of speech, and through it to speech itself. Like the sword and fire, two central sapiential and biblical figures for the tongue recast endlessly in medieval texts, this metaphor conveys the tongue’s power to destroy life as well as to preserve it. The hands also insist upon the corporeality of the tongue as the instrument of speech and so upon its capacity to act: its words are deeds with consequences for speakers and listeners. . . .
- “What institutions—and what social groups enmeshed in them—determined that certain types of speech were destructive in medieval culture? What institutionally sanctioned social, religious, and political norms and practices demanded that some speech acts be judged as deviant, as departing (“de via”) from beneficial forms of living? And who policed speech, promulgating norms and punishing deviant acts? Finally, how were these norms and disciplinary actions contested, insofar as the written and visual record discloses that?
- “The sheer range of medieval institutions and social groups that evolved norms for deviant, as for sanctioned, speech demands that this collection of essays be multidisciplinary. We are social historians, literary historians and critics, historians of religion, and an art historian. Many of our essays bridge disciplines, with social historians adducing evidence from lyrics, narrative poetry, and plays, or literary historians working from oral theology and biblical exegesis. . . . Together [the essays] present a clear picture of what we know about deviant speech in medieval culture, a picture that has begun to achieve the depth and richness of scholarship on slander in the early modern period, exploring what speech acts can tell us about gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics, and literary craftsmanship.”—from the Introduction

“As a scholar, senator, and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds—the world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Ages—and his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both. . . . The articles and the critical edition selected from the first decade of Carmina Philosophiae for inclusion in this volume reflect the exciting new directions that are being taken in Boethian studies.”—from the Introduction

This volume contains collected papers on medieval England's "names and naming patterns--mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names." According to Rosenthal, there are "three lines of assault upon the culture and practice by way of analysis of names and naming"--"micro-social or family dynamic, village life, [and] limited name stock that confronts us when we tally the range of names that served the bulk of the population."-- from the Introduction

PERSONAL NAMES STUDIES OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE:
Social Identity and Familial Structures
edited by George T. Beech, Monique Bourin,
and Pascal Chareille

This collection of essays is the first published in North America that seeks to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise that is hailed in the Preface to the volume as "one of the most vibrant, innovative, and productive movements in medieval scholarship at the present time."

Under the direction of Monique Bourin an international team of scholars has been considering onomastics from the perspective of history rather than that of linguistics or philology. By examining data on both the micro and macro levels, researchers are beginning to describe how medieval patterns of naming have implications for our understanding of family relationships, kinship, and larger social structures that were not fully realized by earlier scholars.

SMC XLIII, Copyright 2002, pp. xvi + 205
ISBN 1-58044-063-0 (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 1-58044-064-9 (paperbound) $15.00

MARVELS, MONSTERS, AND MIRACLES:
Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations
edited by Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger

"This collection of essays examines the perceptions of the marvelous and monstrous by the people of medieval and early modern Europe. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena which people of these periods experienced as marvels. They explore how these people interpreted their experience of astonishment and how they re-created it for others. They trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monsters and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities. Finally, these essays ask what legacies the medieval confrontations with marvels have left for the modern world and how the modern fascination with medieval marvels has defined the difference between the two periods."—from the Introduction

SMC XLII, Copyright 2002, pp. xxvi + 306
ISBN 1-58044-065-7 (casebound) $45.00
ISBN 1-58044-066-5 (paperbound) $20.00

CLOSURE IN THE CANTERBURY TALES:
The Role of The Parson's Tale
edited by David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley

This collection of nine essays, plus an extensive bibliography, seeks to reexamine The Parson's Tale and its place in The Canterbury Tales, especially since so many readers and critics who love Chaucer have found it difficult to love the Parson and what he has to say.

As the editors say in their Introduction: "The studies included here span the range of Parson's Tale criticism from the textual, to the philological, to the hermeneutical. What they share is the assumption that if one is to understand the role of The Parson's Tale, one must begin by accepting the language and method by which Chaucer fashioned it. Such is the example of Chaucer's earliest editors, who judged the tale interesting and worthy of being copied with care. A tale which, more than any other of The Canterbury Tales, directs a reader to a life of good works, good thoughts, and happy ending deserves no less."

SMC XLI, Copyright 2000, pp. xxii + 268
ISBN 1-58044-011-8 (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 1-58044-012-6 (paperbound) $20.00

THE PRESERVATION AND TRANSMISSION
OF ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE:
Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting
of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
edited by Paul E. Szarmach and Joel T. Rosenthal

This collection represents most of the papers delivered on the conference theme of the Fifth Meeting (1991) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, which was the first ISAS meeting in the United States. Accordingly, the conference (and its volume) considered mainly how the subject of Anglo-Saxon Studies is conducted in the United States. After an Introduction by the dean of Anglo-Saxon Studies in America, Fred C. Robinson, the seventeen papers discuss Historiography, Medieval Reception of Anglo-Saxon England, Art and Archaeology, Literary Approaches, and Manuscript Studies. There is an Index of the whole, manuscript citations included.

Robin Fleming on Henry Adams, J. R. Hall on 19th-century study in America, Helen Damico on Klaeber, and William Stoneman on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in America provide new insights into how Anglo-Saxon England crossed the Atlantic, Janet L. Nelson on Francia, George H. Brown on Alcuin's debt to Bede, David A. E. Pelteret on Wales and the Normans, and Herbert Broderick on Genesis iconography show how Anglo-Saxon culture was an export item in the Middle Ages. The late Robert Deshman on art, Rosemary Cramp on archaeology, Ursula Schaefer on orality and literacy, and Rosemary Huisman on modern literary theory severally describe the present state and future directions of disciplines and sub-disciplines. The concluding section shows that the art of studying manuscripts is alive and well: Jonathan Wilcox on Vercelli X, Andreas Fischer on the West Saxon Gospels, Peter J. Lucas on Junius and Judith, Joyce Hill on Ælfric's Lives of Saints, and Robert McColl Millar and Alex Nichols on Ælfric's De Initio Creaturae so bear witness.

SMC XL, Copyright 1997, pp. xx + 488
ISBN 1-879288-90-7 (casebound) $50.00
ISBN 1-879288-91-5 (paperbound) $20.00

THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE OF THE
EARLY UNIVERSITY: Essays in Honor of Otto Gründler
edited by Nancy Van Deusen

"Universities, [in the early Middle Ages] and now, are monuments to cultivation-monuments to the fact that complex, hidden things and issues do, in fact, exist, to be slowly exposed through a lifetime of patient, daily effort. This is the seat of the power of the university and the crux of its message as an institution as it actively forms a polarity to exigency and daily necessity-a contrast to what is obviously, hastily, conveniently perceived. A university exists to make known what can only be revealed by consistent, dedicated effort. Ultimately, a university exists in order to understand the things that are hidden from ordinary, casual view. This is a message that is subtly reinforced by all of the articles in this volume."—from the Preface

SMC XXXIX, Copyright 1997, pp. x + 219
ISBN 1-879288-83-4 (casebound) $30.00
ISBN 1-879288-84-2 (paperbound) $15.00

TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
edited by Jeanette Beer

Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages is a collection of essays derived from a symposium conducted as part of the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 6-9 May 1993).

Topics examined in the symposium-and reflected in this collection-include "Translation and Authority," "Translation and Gender," "Translation and Literality," "Translation in Contexts of Bilingualism," and "Modern Translations of Medieval Texts." All of these are hotly debated by scholars, and the outlines of the debates are evident in the fifteen essays included here.

The volume concludes with two essays that consider modern translations of works from the Middle Ages, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. The essays "reveal," according to the editor, "that the theory and practice of translation continue to stimulate the same debates and display the same preoccupations that were evident in the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXVIII, Copyright 1997, pp. vi + 282
ISBN 1-879288-81-8 (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 1-879288-82-6 (paperbound) $20.00

WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY
IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM: Essays in
Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B.
edited by Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal

"The eleven essays offered here in Father Sheehan's memory reflect his imprint and spirit as well as the originality of his former students. These essays consider three thematic categories that were dominant in most of Sheehan's own scholarly work. These are the role, position, and contributions of medieval women; the development of Christian marriage, especially in the High Middle Ages; and the secular family with its legal and emotional relationships. . . . The collection expands on several of Sheehan's research areas; it shows a considerable interest in medieval England but does not disregard the Continent."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXVII, Copyright 1998, pp. xx + 431
ISBN 1-879288-65-6 (casebound) $45.00
ISBN 1-879288-66-4 (paperbound) $20.00

THE SALT OF COMMON LIFE:
Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church:
Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis
edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt

"The essays in this volume have been produced to honor J. Ambrose Raftis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. . . . [A]lthough disparate in content and approaches [they] are united, and by more than their simply being devoted to medieval subjects. Throughout the career of Ambrose Raftis two themes or convictions have been in evidence: a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and women, and a belief in their ability to make choices. However much environment, custom, social structure, even biology, might constrain or otherwise affect personal behavior, the men and women who appear in the often laconic entries of medieval court rolls were distinctive, one-of-a-kind persons, and their actions-their deeds and their misdeeds, their triumphs and their failures, their follies-were often the result of choices they had made. In this, the essays of this volume are united."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXVI, Copyright 1995, pp. xviii + 545
ISBN 1-879288-46-X (casebound) $50.00
ISBN 1-879288-47-8 (paperbound) $20.00

TRANSLATION AND THE TRANSMISSION
OF CULTURE BETWEEN 1300 AND 1600
edited by Jeanette Beer and Kenneth Lloyd-Jones

"Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and Their Craft (Medieval Institute Publications, 1989) and, like Medieval Translators, its aim is to provide the modern reader with a deeper understanding of the early centuries of translation in France. It works from the premise that translation never was, and should not now be, envisaged as a genre. Translatio was, and is, infinitely variable, generating a correspondingly variable range of products from imitatively creative poetry to treatises of science."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXV, Copyright 1995, pp. xii + 358
ISBN 1-879288-55-9 (casebound) $38.00
ISBN 1-879288-56-7 (paperbound) $18.00

THE "OTHER TUSCANY":
Essays in the History of Lucca, Pisa, and Siena During
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
edited by Thomas W. Blomquist and Maureen F. Mazzaoui

"The . . . papers in the present volume are designed to offer non-Italian scholars a representative sample of current European research and a summary of recent debates regarding the historical evolution of those republics that posed the most formidable obstacles to the extension of Florentine hegemony: Lucca, the earliest Tuscan city to rise to prominence on the basis of overland trade; Pisa, the principal maritime city of central Italy; and, finally, the wealthiest and most powerful commune to the south, Siena."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXIV, Copyright 1994, pp. vi + 233
ISBN 1-879288-41-9 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-42-7 (paperbound) $15.00

THE CENTRE AND ITS COMPASS: Studies in
Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle
edited by Robert A. Taylor, James F. Burke,
Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees

"All medievalists in North America, and many beyond, owe a great debt to John Leyerle. As teacher, scholar, and administrator, John has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. To celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday and salute his many contributions to our common academic life, colleagues at the University of Toronto have assembled the essays in this volume as witness of gratitude, affection, and esteem."—from the Preface

"By exemplifying what is and what will be the Leyerle legacy, the writers indeed honour the man and advance the subject he has so extraordinarily served."—from University of Toronto Quarterly 64/1 (Winter 1994)

"The combination of expertise and enquiry which runs through the volume is one of the best forms of tribute to John Leyerle's teaching and inspiration."—from Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995)

SMC XXXIII, Copyright 1993, pp. xii + 474
ISBN 1-879288-29-X (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 1-879288-30-3 (paperbound) $20.00

HEROIC POETRY IN THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD:
Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr.
edited by Helen Damico and John Leyerle

Eighteen essays by some of the most prominent British and North American students of heroic poetry. The essays, plus two poems and a bibliography, are gathered to honor Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., whose innovative studies of heroic poetry have instructed a generation of scholars and whose performances of Anglo-Saxon poems are legendary.

SMC XXXII, Copyright 1993, pp. xxx + 437
ISBN 1-879288-27-3 (casebound) $45.00
ISBN 1-879288-28-1 (paperbound) $20.00

THE USES OF MANUSCRIPTS
IN LITERARY STUDIES:
Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen
edited by Charlotte C. Morse, Penelope R. Doob,
and Marjorie C. Woods

"Judson Boyce Allen loved his work and encouraged other scholars by his enthusiasm for theirs. He had an unusually wide range of interests, from the specialized study of manuscripts through the interpretation of particular literary texts to the broadest issues of literary theory."—from the Introduction

SMC XXXI, Copyright 1992, pp. xviii + 338
ISBN 1-879288-13-3 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-14-1 (paperbound) $15.00

JOURNEYS TOWARD GOD:
Pilgrimage and Crusade
edited by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur

Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on 27-28 October 1988. The essays explore "[t]he interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought. . . ."—from the Preface

SMC XXX, Copyright 1992, pp. xii + 229
ISBN 1-879288-03-6 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-04-4 (paperbound) $15.00

REBELS AND RIVALS:
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
edited by Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin,
and Peter C. Braeger; Foreword by Derek Pearsall

"Established scholars will enjoy the versatility and incisiveness of much of the reading in these essays, even though they may be heard muttering stifled oaths from time to time. New readers will relish the combativeness and assurance, the readiness to try out new ideas. No one could miss the vitality and open-mindedness of approach, or remain uninvigorated by it."—from the Foreword

SMC XXIX, Copyright 1991, pp. xxiv + 269
ISBN 0-918720-41-9 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-42-7 (paperbound) $15.00

LAW, CUSTOM, AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC IN
MEDIEVAL EUROPE: Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon
edited, with an appreciation, by Bernard S. Bachrach
and David Nicholas

An "excellent volume" [that] "hangs together . . . to a considerable extent, because a common set of questions informs so much of its research. . . . The contents of the volume testify to [Bryce Lyon's] network of students and friends, to the status he has earned, and to the exciting diversity of medieval scholarship."—from Medieval Prosopography 12/1 (Autumn 1991)

SMC XXVIII, Copyright 1990, pp. xxvi + 304
ISBN 0-918720-30-3 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 0-918720-31-1 (paperbound) $16.00

DE ORE DOMINI:
Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages
edited by Thomas L. Amos, Eugene A. Green,
and Beverly Mayne Kienzle

"This collection of essays, . . . though it cannot substitute for a much-needed history of medieval preaching, will give readers a sense of the development of medieval preaching and its interaction with many aspects of medieval life."—from Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991)

"This volume of fourteen essays should receive a grateful welcome given the dearth of modern studies of medieval preaching."—from Church History (March 1992)

SMC XXVII, Copyright 1989, pp. xiv + 269
ISBN 0-918720-28-1 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-27-3 (paperbound) $16.00

JOHN GOWER, RECENT READINGS
edited by R. F. Yeager

Essays in this volume, presented by scholars at meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, 1983-88), unpublished elsewhere, and re-written exclusively for this collection, represent a fresh approach to the study of the works of John Gower. This book was conceived in the spirit of Christopher Ricks, who wrote that "the poetry [of Gower] itself-is still warm of flesh and bone and full of life" ("Metamorphosis in Other Words," in Gower's "Confessio Amantis": Responses and Reassessments, edited by A. J. Minnis, 1983).—from the Introduction

"These thirteen essays continue the energetic enterprise of the John Gower Society to bring Gower and his poetry to the attention of the medieval sect. They evince such careful reading and such learning as to abash summary criticism."—from Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991)

SMC XXVI, Copyright 1989, pp. xvi + 366
ISBN 0-918720-99-0 (casebound) $36.00
ISBN 0-918720-26-5 (paperbound) $16.00

MEDIEVAL TRANSLATORS AND THEIR CRAFT
edited by Jeanette Beer

". . . the editor must be congratulated on a job well done. Usually in such collections not all articles maintain the same level of excellence; this is not true for Beer's work."—from Fifteenth-Century Studies 16 (1990)

"On the basis of this volume . . . we must conclude that translation studies as a species of literary history are alive and flourishing."—from Allegorica 12 (1991)

"We should have many more books like this one: books that study traditions of translating which vary from place to place and books that focus on case-by-case translations because only from their concrete results is it possible to assess on solid grounds a phenomenon to which we owe a major part of our culture."—from Speculum (January 1992)

SMC XXV, Copyright 1988, pp. x + 428
ISBN 0-918720-95-8 (casebound) $38.00
ISBN 0-918720-96-6 (paperbound) $18.00

ROMANCE EPIC:
Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre
edited by Hans-Erich Keller

"Those scholars who wish to maintain as broad a view of medieval literature as possible would be well advised to peruse the essays in Keller's volume."—from Speculum (July 1991)

"Professor Keller is to be commended on having brought this collection of essays by established scholars to the attention of the scholarly community, and in a format with very few editorial errors. Romance Epic is an important book which will find a wide readership."—from Envoi 2/1 (Spring 1990)

SMC XXIV, Copyright 1987, pp. xii + 241
ISBN 0-918720-85-0 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-86-9 (paperbound) $16.00

RELIGION, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES:
Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan
edited by Thomas F. X. Noble and John J. Contreni

Essays in this volume explore wide-ranging topics: from Constantinople, Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and Pilgrimages to the works or lives of Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and Anselm of Havelberg. Like the scholarship of the man who inspired the essays-Richard Sullivan-the essays are broad and incisive.

"I would recommend this book to all medievalists, particularly specialists of early Western History."—from The American Historical Review (June 1989)

SMC XXIII, Copyright 1987, pp. xx + 256
ISBN 0-918720-83-4 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-84-2 (paperbound) $16.00

THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF NATURAL LAW
edited by Harold J. Johnson

"In this wide-ranging anthology on the medieval tradition of natural law we find . . . discussions of the basis of natural law, the nature of the phenomenon, its developments and mutation in the Middle Ages, its deep influence on such later writers as Vitoria, Biel, Luther, and Machiavelli, and its impact on this curious post-medieval world in which we at present live and work. . . . Specific contributors are naturally interested in specific questions-the nature of legal obligation, the question of the just price, the Iberian connection and so on-but as Harold Johnson points out in his introduction to the volume, the whole point of the anthology is not to be exhaustive but to provide 'a representative sampling of the ramifications of the tradition' (p. 2). That it succeeds in doing so is not in doubt. . . ."—from Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 12/2

". . . [T]his anthology should be of benefit to anyone wishing to acquire some acquaintance with the character and historical significance of the natural law tradition."—from Canadian Philosophical Reviews (January 1988)

SMC XXII, Copyright 1987, pp. viii + 211
ISBN 0-918720-81-8 (casebound) $33.00
ISBN 0-918720-82-6 (paperbound) $16.00

THE MEETING OF TWO WORLDS:
Cultural Exchange between East and West
during the Period of the Crusades
edited by Vladimir P. Goss;
associate editor, Christine Verzár Bornstein

Essays that examine issues arising from the confrontation between East and West during the Crusade period-"of the travel of forms, ideas, and artists; of the role of social classes and institutions in this cultural migration; [and] of the contribution to the process of cultural exchange made by the road, by the man of the road, by masses in motion."—from the Editor's Preface

SMC XXI, Copyright 1986, pp. viii + 523
ISBN 0-918720-58-3 (casebound only) $40.00

CLASSICAL RHETORIC AND
MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
edited by Ernst Breisach

"A contribution to the remarkable renaissance of rhetorical studies which, since 1945, have occurred in the wider context of the investigations of the relationships between language and reality."—from History and Theory (May 1986)

"The editor and authors are to be congratulated for providing a coherent and stimulating investigation of an important topic in the study of medieval historiography. . . ."—from The American Historical Review (June 1987)

SMC XIX, Copyright 1985, pp. vi + 237
ISBN 0-918720-56-7 (casebound) $18.00
ISBN 0-918720-57-5 (paperbound) $11.00

ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES
TO MEDIEVAL EUROPE
edited by Kathleen Biddick

"The growing emphasis on medieval archaeology is well represented by the fourteen essays. . . . the contributions deal with sites all over western Europe, but perhaps the most significant aspect of the collection is the methodology."—from American Notes & Queries (September/October 1985)

"Biddick's collection distinguishes itself as one of very few to include discussion of non-British sites and to consider the wider European and Mediterranean context for medieval archaeology."—from Speculum (January 1987)

"No overarching theme unites these studies, but none is needed. The display of themes and methods is dazzling. The word for medieval archaeology is versatility; the title of this book is correctly in the plural."—from Journal of Interdisciplinary History

SMC XVIII, Copyright 1984, pp. x + 301
ISBN 0-918720-53-2 (casebound only) $28.00

VERNACULAR POETICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
edited by Lois Ebin

"A group of studies touching on various topics of interest to many students of the literature of the Middle Ages. A side benefit to the insights and elucidations presented is that they are representative of the varied approaches and interests existing in medieval circles today."—from Studies in the Age of Chaucer (1985)

SMC XVI, Copyright 1984, pp. xvi + 293
ISBN 0-918720-22-2 (casebound) $25.00
ISBN 0-918720-19-2 (paperbound) $15.00

VOX FEMINAE:
Studies in Medieval Woman's Songs
edited by John F. Plummer

"We have here, for the first time in English to my knowledge, a book identifying 'woman's songs' in various languages and bringing together the scholarly writing on the subject."—from Speculum (October 1983)

SMC XV, Copyright 1981, pp. viii + 223
ISBN 0-918720-12-5 (paperbound only) $11.00