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REFORMATIONS: Religion, Rulership, and the Sixteenth-Century English Stage
edited by Grace Tiffany

This reprint of a special issue of Comparative Drama makes available major articles informed by the latest scholarship on the effects of the Reformation on the English stage.

EMBLEM, ICONOGRAPHY, AND DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gámez, and John H. Stroupe

Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.

EARLY AND TRADITIONAL DRAMA: Africa, Asia, and the New World
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe

Contains a number of articles that are potentially of interest to medievalists, especially: "The Arrival of Europeans: Folk Dramatizations of Conquest and Conversion in New Mexico" by Max Harris; and "Ta’ziyeh in Exile: Transformations in a Persian Tradition," a discussion of an Iranian passion play, by Milla Riggio.

Published in collaboration with Comparative Drama
Copyright 1994
ISBN 1-879288-43-5 (paperbound only) $12.00

ICONOGRAPHIC AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe; introduction by Meg Twycross

Ten essays that were originally presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theater (Lancaster, 13-19 July 1989).

Published in collaboration with Comparative Drama
Copyright 1991
ISBN 0-918720-49-4 (paperbound only) $11.00

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS:
An Analytical Guide and Bibliography
by Larry E. Syndergaard

English Translations of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballads is the first nearly complete bibliographic record of the translations into English of any major folk genre. The English-speaking world has made these ballads a major Scandinavian literature in translation, in part finding there its own "primitive" past. Here translations are also seen as cross-cultural dialogue and placed within the empirical discipline of Translation Studies.

Copyright 1995
Turku: The Nordic Institute of Folklore
ISSN 0355-8924
ISBN 952-9724-11-X (paperbound) $20.00
ISBN 952-9724-11-X (casebound) $30.00

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Einbinder states in her lecture that "over the thirteenth century, the scattered poetic remains that document persecutions against Jews in royal France often refer to burning books." Young poet Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg "captured the tone of mourning and bereavement following the events of 1242 . . . The polemical and satirical restlessness of DaPiera's poems, the exquisite lyrical imagery of HaLevi's Zionide lament, the longing devotion to the Beloved of vernacular songs, all fuse in a remarkable tribute to Jewish study and students."

Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University:
Occasional Papers III, Copyright 2000, pp. iv + 35
ISBN 1-58044-071-1 (paperbound) $4.00

JEWISH SUFFERING:
The Interplay of Medieval Christian and Jewish Perspectives
by Robert Chazan

Early Christianity understood the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.) as the immediate outcome of Jewish rejection of Jesus, a view later reinforced by the perception of permanent Jewish degradation evident in the continued exile and inferior status of Jews in societies that hosted them. Aware of this view, Jews of Western Christendom interpreted their suffering in more triumphant ways. Hebrew narratives of the First Crusade (1096) depict the Christian understanding of Crusader attacks on Jewish communities as part of the ongoing degradation of Jews and evidence that they ought to convert to Christianity.

Two important Hebrew sources, the Mainz Anonymous and the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, counter this view with the perspective of a glorification of Jewish martyrdom found in the same events. By the mid-thirteenth century, the argument that Jewish suffering was a result of God's rejection of the Jews was paramount to Christian efforts to win over Jews in forced debates and forced sermons — instruments employed, for example, by such converts as Friar Paul and Alfonso of Valladolid. Jewish authors, such as Nahmanides (in his famous debate with Friar Paul) and Rabbi Mordechai ben Joseph of Avignon, asserted that Christian claims of divine favor were erroneous, and that God's promise of redemption for Jews was still valid. These methods to resist Christian assertions of superiority and affirm the grandeur of Jewish experience were essential for the community of Jewish life in the Middle Ages.

Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University:
Occasional Papers II, Copyright 1998
ISBN 1-58044-002-9 (paperbound) $4.00

HOW THE TALMUD WORKS AND WHY THE TALMUD WON:
Solving a Problem in the History of Ideas in the Middle Ages
by Jacob Neusner

In this first of the Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University, Jacob Neusner, Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College, seeks to explain both how the Talmud works—"how its framers made connections and drew conclusions, for the Mishnah and Gemara respectively"—and how the Talmud won—"why it exercised the remarkable power that it did for the entire history of Judaism from its closure in the seventh century into our own time."

Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University:
Occasional Papers I, Copyright 1996
ISBN 0879288753 (paperbound) $4.00

NEW!
V. "William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope"
Derek Pearsall

IV. "'Love and Do What You Will': The Medieval History of an Augustinian Precept,"
by Giles Constable

The fourth Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 1996.

III. "Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer,"
by Siegfried Wenzel

The third Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 1993.

The second Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 1991.

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REFORMATIONS: Religion, Rulership, and the Sixteenth-Century English Stage
edited by Grace Tiffany

EMBLEM, ICONOGRAPHY, AND DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gámez, and John H. Stroupe

EARLY AND TRADITIONAL DRAMA: Africa, Asia, and the New World
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe

ICONOGRAPHIC AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe; introduction by Meg Twycross

In cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Folklore . . . .

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS:
An Analytical Guide and Bibliography
by Larry E. Syndergaard

Lectures on Medieval Judaism, Trinity University . . . .

TRIAL BY FIRE: Burning Jewish Books
Susan Einbinder

JEWISH SUFFERING:
The Interplay of Medieval Christian and Jewish Perspectives
by Robert Chazan

HOW THE TALMUD WORKS AND WHY THE TALMUD WON:
Solving a Problem in the History of Ideas in the Middle Ages
by Jacob Neusner

Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, Harvard University . . . .

NEW!
V. "William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope"
Derek Pearsall

IV. "'Love and Do What You Will': The Medieval History of an Augustinian Precept,"
by Giles Constable

III. "Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer,"
by Siegfried Wenzel

II. "Langland and Allegory,"
by Jill Mann

Distribution

Home Distribution

In cooperation with Comparative Drama . . .

REFORMATIONS: Religion, Rulership, and the Sixteenth-Century English Stage edited by Grace Tiffany

EMBLEM, ICONOGRAPHY, AND DRAMA edited by Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gámez, and John H. Stroupe

EARLY AND TRADITIONAL DRAMA: Africa, Asia, and the New World edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe

ICONOGRAPHIC AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe; introduction by Meg Twycross

In cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Folklore . . . .

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS: An Analytical Guide and Bibliography by Larry E. Syndergaard

Lectures on Medieval Judaism, Trinity University . . . .

TRIAL BY FIRE: Burning Jewish Books Susan Einbinder

JEWISH SUFFERING: The Interplay of Medieval Christian and Jewish Perspectives by Robert Chazan

HOW THE TALMUD WORKS AND WHY THE TALMUD WON: Solving a Problem in the History of Ideas in the Middle Ages by Jacob Neusner

Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, Harvard University . . . .

NEW! V. "William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope" Derek Pearsall

IV. "'Love and Do What You Will': The Medieval History of an Augustinian Precept," by Giles Constable

III. "Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer," by Siegfried Wenzel

II. "Langland and Allegory," by Jill Mann

REFORMATIONS: Religion, Rulership, and the Sixteenth-Century English Stage
edited by Grace Tiffany

EMBLEM, ICONOGRAPHY, AND DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gámez, and John H. Stroupe

EARLY AND TRADITIONAL DRAMA: Africa, Asia, and the New World
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe

ICONOGRAPHIC AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA
edited by Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe; introduction by Meg Twycross

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS:
An Analytical Guide and Bibliography
by Larry E. Syndergaard

TRIAL BY FIRE: Burning Jewish Books
Susan Einbinder

JEWISH SUFFERING:
The Interplay of Medieval Christian and Jewish Perspectives
by Robert Chazan

HOW THE TALMUD WORKS AND WHY THE TALMUD WON:
Solving a Problem in the History of Ideas in the Middle Ages
by Jacob Neusner

NEW!
V. "William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope"
Derek Pearsall

IV. "'Love and Do What You Will': The Medieval History of an Augustinian Precept,"
by Giles Constable

III. "Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer,"
by Siegfried Wenzel

II. "Langland and Allegory,"
by Jill Mann