Publications
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Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography
(2023)
This book explores representations of saints in a variety of Latin and Greek late antique hagiographical narratives, such as saints’ Lives, martyr acts, miracle collections, and edifying tales. The book examines techniques ...
Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables
(2022)
Astronomical tables are a significant yet understudied part of the scientific historical corpus. They circulated among many cultures, and were adopted and transformed by astronomical practitioners for a variety of purposes. ...
Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy
(2023)
This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Bringing together scholars from different backgrounds, the volume aims to stimulate a ...
The Common Thread
(2024)
The Ancient Egyptians used it for both the living and the dead, the Greeks and Romans used it to signal their status, and it aided the Vikings in reaching the far shores of Europe and Eurasia. Textiles have surrounded us, ...
The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism
(2021)
The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone’s Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing ...
Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe
(2018)
This collection of essays compares and discusses women’s participation and experiences in credit markets in early modern Europe, and highlights the characteristics, common mechanisms, similarities, discrepancies, and ...
Dismantling the Medieval
(2021)
Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxières with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies ...
Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory
(2020)
This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the past as manifested in music of the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. It takes the reader on a journey of discovery across the continent, from the ...
Sympozjum Egejskie
(2022)
Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology is a peer-reviewed sub-series of Warsaw Studies in Archaeology. It has been designed to fulfil the role of a platform for presenting and introducing a wide range of new ...
Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(2022)
During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles and values on which societies would ...
Building and Economic Growth in Southern Europe (1050–1300)
(2024)
The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, ...
Bayuda and its Neighbours
(2021)
The Bayuda, although an arid desert located in modern-day Sudan, has nonetheless been inhabited, farmed, worshipped in, and fought over by humans from the Palaeolithic onwards. Yet despite the longevity of its human ...
The Archaeology of War
(2024)
From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that forms modern-day ...
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies
(2023)
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative research based ...
Pietro Metastasio’s Operatic Storm
(2024)
Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. His drammi per musica travelled all around Europe – and beyond – throughout the eighteenth century and ...
Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions
(2024)
Bad arguments have never been in short supply. The scholarly interest they have elicited in recent years, on the other hand, is quite exceptional. Fallacy studies have become a well established and flourishing field of ...
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
(2020)
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of ...
Monuments & Memory: Christian Cult Buildings and Constructions of the Past
(2016)
This volume honours Sible de Blaauw on the occasion of his re- tirement from Radboud University. It is above all a tribute to an influential and respected voice in the field of early Christian art and ar- chitecture. ...
Images in the Borderlands
(2022)
This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which ...
The Art of Publication from the Ninth to the Sixteenth Century
(2023)
Written transmission relies on the fact of ‘publication,’ the step between the authorial process and reception. But what does ‘publishing’ mean in the context of a manuscript culture, in which books were copied slowly and ...
L'Église et les églises
(2024)
Remembering the Dead
(2023)
Medieval memoria - the commemoration of the dead - was both a form of collective memory and a social practice present in every sphere of life. It shaped identities and constituted groups, and thus the study of commemorative ...
Religious Practices and Everyday Life in the Long Fifteenth Century (1350–1570)
(2022)
The essays in this book bring to light and analyse the continuities and shifts in daily religious practices across Europe — from Portugal to Hungary and from Italy to the British Isles — in the transition from the Middle ...
Visions of North in Premodern Europe
(2018)
The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is ‘made’ through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders ...
The Multilingual Physiologus
(2021)
The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated ...
Noble Magnificence
(2024)
The thirty chapters in this book are based on the work of an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers and archivists brought together for the PerformArt project, funded by the European Research Council from ...
Historiography and Identity IV: Writing History Across Medieval Eurasia
(2021)
Historical writing has shaped identities in various ways and to different extents. This volume explores this multiplicity by looking at case studies from Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic World, and China around the turn of ...
Palmyra in Perspective
(2024)
The famous oasis city of Palmyra, located in the Syrian Desert, has long been the subject of scholarly research; and over the last decade, it has been the focus of three key projects based at Aarhus University in Denmark. ...
Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World
(2022)
Who had a say in making decisions about the natural world, when, how and to what end? How were rights to natural resources established? How did communities handle environmental crises? And how did dealing with the environment ...
Travelling Matters across the Mediterranean
(2024)
In the last two decades, objects have become increasingly relevant to historical studies as the primary focus of research discussing cross-cultural relations. Objects are produced, used, modified, preserved, and destroyed ...
Ludwig Senfl (c.1490–1543): A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works and Sources
(2019)
Until now, scholars have had an inadequate picture of the scope and transmission of the œuvre of Ludwig Senfl (c.1490–1543), one of the most important Renaissance composers of the German-speaking lands. The current publication ...
Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
(2023)
This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the ...
Legal Norms and Political Action in Multi-Ethnic Societies
(2023)
The three-volume project Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c.1000 to the Present explores and seeks to find solutions to a crucial problem facing contemporary Europe: in what circumstances can different ...
The Allure of Glazed Terracotta in Renaissance Italy
(2022)
This book explores the role of glazed terracotta sculpture in Renaissance Italy, from c. 1450 to the mid-1530s. In its brightness and intense colour glazed terracotta strongly attracted the viewer’s gaze. Its pure and ...
Roman Identity
(2023)
Recent years have seen a significant increase in migration and displacement. Due to economic, political, and climatic pressures, large numbers of individuals are leaving their countries of origin and settling in new ...
Principia on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
(2024)
Principia were an obligatory step on the medieval university path to becoming a master of theology. As inaugural lectures on the four books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, they provided the first opportunity for a ...
Organising a Literary Corpus in the Middle Ages
(2024)
Through the word corpus, the metaphor of the body is applied to a collection of works by the same author that are transmitted together. These works not only share the same skin, the manuscript, but also function organically ...
Albert the Great and his Arabic Sources
(2024)
Albert the Great created a new programme of science in the thirteenth-century Latin world by extensively commenting upon Aristotle’s philosophical corpus and supplementing that corpus with works of his own wherever he saw ...
A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception
(2015)
This study analyzes in detail the Novum opus dominicale of John Waldeby, a member of the convent of the Augustinian friars in York. This unedited collection of some sixty sermons for Sundays and major feasts is extant in ...
Memories Lost in the Middle Ages. Collective Forgetting as an Alternative Procedure of Social Cohesion
(2023)
The aim of this book is to examine the social, political and cultural consequences of ‘collective forgetting’ in the Middle Ages. Since the seminal work of Maurice Halbwachs, historical research has focused on ‘collective ...
Sympozjum Egejskie, vol. 4
(2024)
Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology is a peer- reviewed series that has been designed to fulfil the role of a platform for presenting and introducing a wide range of new research approaches and themes within ...
The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels
(2015)
Devotion to the Virgin of Seven Sorrows flourished in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries under the auspices of the court of Philip the Fair. Quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon, the ...
Medieval Svaneti: Objects, Images, and Bodies in Dialogue with Built and Natural Spaces
(2023)
The essays collected in this volume emphasize the importance of Svaneti, a historical region of the Georgian Great Caucasus as an unparalleled treasury of medieval arts, describe some of its outstanding monuments, provide ...
Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches
(2021)
Note: the full text of this volume is now available in Open Access at: https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.118545 This volume explores the extent to which the reinstitution of the Empire ...
Message in a Bottle
(2022)
In 1533, a batch of merchants’ letters was to be delivered from Antwerp to London. They never reached their destination, and were only opened in a Hanseatic archive almost 500 years later. Like a message in a bottle, the ...
Historiography and Identity I: Ancient and Early Christian Narratives of Community
(2019)
The six-volume sub-series Historiography and Identity unites a wide variety of case studies from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, from the Latin West to the emerging polities in Northern and Eastern Europe, and also ...
Nicholas Trevet’s Commentary on the Psalms (1317 – c. 1321): A Publishing History
(2024)
How did medieval authors publish their works in the age before print? This study seeks to achieve new insights into the publishing strategies of medieval authors by focusing on Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar ...
Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record
(2022)
Compiled between 1262 and 1272 in Toledo under the patronage of Alfonso X, the Castilian Alfonsine Tables were recast in Paris in the 1320s, resulting in what we now call the Parisian Alfonsine Tables. These materials ...
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
(2020)
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe traces the momentous transformation of institutions and administration under the impact of accounting records and procedures, c. 1250–1500. The volume’s focus on the ...
Contending Representations III: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa
(2024)
Several studies have been devoted to the flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ‘siglo de los Genoveses’, when Genoa became the hub of European trade and an important center of artistic and literary ...
Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies
(2023)
The three-volume project Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c.1000 to the Present explores and seeks to find solutions to a crucial problem facing contemporary Europe: in what circumstances can different ...
The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300
(2024)
While Northern and East Central Europe are often considered to have been peripheral parts of medieval Latin Christendom, they nevertheless embraced many of the same cultural impulses found in more central areas. Key among ...
Lupae
(2024)
Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020)
(2020)
Social inequality is one of the most pressing global challenges at the start of the 21st century. Meanwhile, across the globe at least half of the world’s population lives in urban agglomerations, and urbanisation is still ...
Faith in a Beam of Light
(2022)
An early visual mass medium, the magic lantern was omnipresent in most Western societies between 1880 and 1930. The Christian Church, especially the Catholics, spiritual associations such as the Freemasons, political ...
Archaeological Finds from the Main Town in Gdańsk
(2023)
Between 2002 and 2004, archaeological excavations took place on Powroźnicza Street, in the city of Gdańsk, Poland. Twelve burghers’ plots, located in the centre of this former medieval metropolis, were investigated, and ...