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Coming soon! Out in November, Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissloution in Old English Literature applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields... (1/2) wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Coming soon! Out in November, Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissloution in Old English Literature applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields... (1/2) wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
There's a new addition to the Middle English Text Series! We're excited to announce the publication of 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau d'amour"' ed. by Dana M. Symons.For more information, visit our website: wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
There's a new addition to the Middle English Text Series! We're excited to announce the publication of 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau d'amour"' ed. by Dana M. Symons.For more information, visit our website: wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Our final entertainment recommendation for August is "Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games," edited by Allison Levy.
Why do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the
Why do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our final entertainment recommendation for August is "Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games," edited by Allison Levy.
Why do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the
Why do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the
Performances and mummings were another form of entertainment in the Middle Ages, and this text will give you fantastic examples. "Mummings and Entertainments" edited by Claire Sponsler, contains multiple different writings of John Lydgate.
John Lydgate, the Benedictine monk of Bury, was a
John Lydgate, the Benedictine monk of Bury, was a
August 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Performances and mummings were another form of entertainment in the Middle Ages, and this text will give you fantastic examples. "Mummings and Entertainments" edited by Claire Sponsler, contains multiple different writings of John Lydgate.
John Lydgate, the Benedictine monk of Bury, was a
John Lydgate, the Benedictine monk of Bury, was a
We promised you mirth, and this text will explain exactly how medieval peoples conveyed this joy to audiences. "Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren" edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman, focuses on the concept of story in
August 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We promised you mirth, and this text will explain exactly how medieval peoples conveyed this joy to audiences. "Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren" edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman, focuses on the concept of story in
Competition is a key part of games, so today we're highlighting a text that focuses on that: "Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tale" edited by Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger.
Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales,
Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales,
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Competition is a key part of games, so today we're highlighting a text that focuses on that: "Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tale" edited by Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger.
Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales,
Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales,
Happy August! To celebrate the end of summer, we're spending all month highlighting playful texts. Games, mummings, and mirth await!
To kick us off, we have to recommend one of our newest titles: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero AX/2
To kick us off, we have to recommend one of our newest titles: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero AX/2
August 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy August! To celebrate the end of summer, we're spending all month highlighting playful texts. Games, mummings, and mirth await!
To kick us off, we have to recommend one of our newest titles: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero AX/2
To kick us off, we have to recommend one of our newest titles: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero AX/2
Our final post for disability pride month is "Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections," edited by E. Gordon Whatley, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch. While many of the hagiographies in this volume offer ideas on the body and disability, pay particular attention to the chapter (1/5)
July 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our final post for disability pride month is "Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections," edited by E. Gordon Whatley, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch. While many of the hagiographies in this volume offer ideas on the body and disability, pay particular attention to the chapter (1/5)
Jumping back to the TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, this week we recommend "John Stone's Chronicle: Christ's Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472," selected, translated, and introduced by Meriel Connor.
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's (1/2)
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Jumping back to the TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, this week we recommend "John Stone's Chronicle: Christ's Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472," selected, translated, and introduced by Meriel Connor.
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's (1/2)
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's (1/2)
Our next disability studies recommendation is 'The Book of Margery Kempe," edited by Lynn Staley. This title features healing, possession, uncontrollable weeping, and many other events that lend themselves to a lens of disability studies.
Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery (1/5)
Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery (1/5)
July 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our next disability studies recommendation is 'The Book of Margery Kempe," edited by Lynn Staley. This title features healing, possession, uncontrollable weeping, and many other events that lend themselves to a lens of disability studies.
Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery (1/5)
Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery (1/5)
Great news! "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell is now available. This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the 1/3
July 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great news! "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell is now available. This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the 1/3
Our first recommendation is a title from TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, 'Source for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England,' selected, introduced, and translated by Carole Rawcliffe. This volume features sections on mental illness, the body, epidemics, and medical ethics, and so (1/4)
July 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our first recommendation is a title from TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, 'Source for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England,' selected, introduced, and translated by Carole Rawcliffe. This volume features sections on mental illness, the body, epidemics, and medical ethics, and so (1/4)
New release announcement! "Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature" edited by Rebecca Menmuir is available for purchase from De Gruyter Brill!
What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or 1/4
What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or 1/4
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New release announcement! "Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature" edited by Rebecca Menmuir is available for purchase from De Gruyter Brill!
What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or 1/4
What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or 1/4
To emphasize the importance of disability studies and accessibility within academia, we recommend the forthcoming title 'Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists,' edited by Alexandra R.A. Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison, and E.R.P. Champion. This volume sits between (1/?)
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
To emphasize the importance of disability studies and accessibility within academia, we recommend the forthcoming title 'Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists,' edited by Alexandra R.A. Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison, and E.R.P. Champion. This volume sits between (1/?)
July in the United States is Disability Pride Month, so it's only right that our theme this month is all about disability and disability studies. Each title we share this month will have aspects that would benefit from disability studies. Check back every Friday for a new recommendation!
July 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
July in the United States is Disability Pride Month, so it's only right that our theme this month is all about disability and disability studies. Each title we share this month will have aspects that would benefit from disability studies. Check back every Friday for a new recommendation!
Our final Pride Month recommendation is "Prose Merlin" edited by John Conlee. Many tales are contained within this text, but a good starting point for a queer interpretation would be the establishment of the homosocial bonds of King Arthur's court.
This anonymously authored Middle English (1/?)
This anonymously authored Middle English (1/?)
June 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our final Pride Month recommendation is "Prose Merlin" edited by John Conlee. Many tales are contained within this text, but a good starting point for a queer interpretation would be the establishment of the homosocial bonds of King Arthur's court.
This anonymously authored Middle English (1/?)
This anonymously authored Middle English (1/?)
We are happy to announce the newest installment in our New Queer Medievalisms series: 'Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature' by Christopher Vaccaro!
Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English (1/4)
Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English (1/4)
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We are happy to announce the newest installment in our New Queer Medievalisms series: 'Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature' by Christopher Vaccaro!
Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English (1/4)
Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English (1/4)
For our third Pride Month recommendation, we present: "Ancrene Wisse," edited by Robert Hasenfratz. Within this text we find depictions of both God and Christ as mother, Christ as a lover, depictions of earthly love and celestial love, and more!
The early thirteenth-century devotional guide (1/?)
The early thirteenth-century devotional guide (1/?)
June 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For our third Pride Month recommendation, we present: "Ancrene Wisse," edited by Robert Hasenfratz. Within this text we find depictions of both God and Christ as mother, Christ as a lover, depictions of earthly love and celestial love, and more!
The early thirteenth-century devotional guide (1/?)
The early thirteenth-century devotional guide (1/?)
Check out the newest post on the MIP blog: The Bar Convent and Esopus arma Christi rolls and women's devotions, by Mary Morse author of MIP's English Birth Girdles! wmich.edu/medievalpubl... #medieval #medievalstudies #manuscript #manuscriptstudies
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Check out the newest post on the MIP blog: The Bar Convent and Esopus arma Christi rolls and women's devotions, by Mary Morse author of MIP's English Birth Girdles! wmich.edu/medievalpubl... #medieval #medievalstudies #manuscript #manuscriptstudies
This week, we recommend "Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain," edited by Mary Flowers Braswell. Both romances are rich texts with opportunity to discuss gender, sexuality, and the depictions of masculinity and femininity.
This edition brings together two very different Middle English (1/?)
This edition brings together two very different Middle English (1/?)
June 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This week, we recommend "Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain," edited by Mary Flowers Braswell. Both romances are rich texts with opportunity to discuss gender, sexuality, and the depictions of masculinity and femininity.
This edition brings together two very different Middle English (1/?)
This edition brings together two very different Middle English (1/?)
Our first Pride recommendation is "The Cloud of Unknowing," edited by Patrick J. Gallacher. Its depiction of God as beyond conception loans itself well to scholarship discussing gender and sexuality.
This anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as The Cloud of Unknowing invites 1/?
This anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as The Cloud of Unknowing invites 1/?
June 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our first Pride recommendation is "The Cloud of Unknowing," edited by Patrick J. Gallacher. Its depiction of God as beyond conception loans itself well to scholarship discussing gender and sexuality.
This anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as The Cloud of Unknowing invites 1/?
This anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as The Cloud of Unknowing invites 1/?
Happy Pride Month everyone! To celebrate, this year we're going to be recommending METS titles that are ripe for a queer reading. Each of the recommended titles have something in them that could benefit from queer studies. What that is, is up to you! To start, we highly recommend reading (1/2)
June 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Pride Month everyone! To celebrate, this year we're going to be recommending METS titles that are ripe for a queer reading. Each of the recommended titles have something in them that could benefit from queer studies. What that is, is up to you! To start, we highly recommend reading (1/2)
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The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website!
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
The English Apocalypse: A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of
Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03
Before translators at the University of Oxford began producing the first Wycliffite Bibles in the 1380s, few complete books of the Bible had ever been translated into Middle English. One notable excep...
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May 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website!
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
For our penultimate summer preview, we've got an highly anticipated title: 'Gaming the Medieval English Text: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript' by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell.
This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with 1/?
This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with 1/?
May 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
For our penultimate summer preview, we've got an highly anticipated title: 'Gaming the Medieval English Text: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript' by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell.
This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with 1/?
This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with 1/?
This recommendation from our forthcoming titles is a reminder of the great work the Middle English Text Series does. 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau D'Armour"' edited by Dana M. Symons is an edition coming from MIP and METS this 1/?
May 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This recommendation from our forthcoming titles is a reminder of the great work the Middle English Text Series does. 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau D'Armour"' edited by Dana M. Symons is an edition coming from MIP and METS this 1/?