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Adams, Jenny and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016). Contributors: Arlyn Diamond, Susanna Fein, Howell Chickering, Michael T. Davis, Lynn Staley, Nadia Margolis, Jill C. Havens, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Eleanor Johnson, Robert R. Edwards, C. David Benson, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Jenny Adams
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Anderson, Benjamin. Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
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Andriolo, Azzurra Elena and Suzanne Reynolds. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Five: Volume One: Books Printed in Italy before 1501. (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols, 2017).
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Arentzen, Thomas. The Virgin in Song Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
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Atkin, Tamara and Francis Leneghan, eds. The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation . (Woodbridge: D.S.Brewer, 2017). Contributors: Daniel Anlezark, Mark Faulkner, Vincent Gillespie, Michael P. Kuczynski, David Lawton, Francis Leneghan, Jane Roberts, Mike Rodman Jones, Elizabeth Solopova, Lynn Staley, Annie Sutherland, Jane Toswell, Katherine Zieman
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Barrett, Sébastien, Dominique Stuzmann, and George Vogeler, eds. Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages: Formal Aspects of Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions) . Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 35. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). Contributors: Martin Bauch, Diego Belmonte Fernández, Isabelle Bretthauer, Claire De Cazanove, Irene Ceccherini, Émilie Cottereau-Gabillet, Els De Paermentier, Harmony Dewez, Tamiko Fournier-Fujimoto, Rahel Fronda, Maria Gurrado, Cyprien Henry, Tobias Hodel, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Ayda Kaplan, Claire Lamy, Jean-Baptiste Renault, Jinna Smit, Peter Stokes, Valeria Van Camp
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Bates, David. William the Conqueror. Series: The English Monarchs Series. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
Contributors: Laura Aiello, Zohar Amar, Tamar Backner, Adrian J. Boas, Nativ Dudai, Rafael Frankel, Jonathan J. Gottlieb, Lydia Perelis Grossowicz, Timothy B. Husband, Nurith Kenaan-Kedar, Rabei G. Khamisy, Robert Kool, Dorit Korngreen, Rafael Lewis, Nili Liphschitz, Cecilia Luschi, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard, Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Kristjan Toomaspoeg, Andrea Wähning, David Whitehouse, and Mark Wypyski.
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Benedictow, Ole Jørgen. The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016)..
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Blurton, Heather and Hannah Johnson. The Critics and the Prioress Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017)..
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Bradford, Phil and Alison K. McHardy, eds. Proctors for Parliament: Clergy, Community and Politics, c.1248-1539. (The National Archives, Series SC 10), Volume I: c.1248-1377 . (Woodbridge: Canterbury &York Society, 2017).
Contributors: Matthias Kaufmann, Danaë Simmermacher, Benjamin Slingo, Paula Oliveira e Silva, Isabelle Mandrella, Tobias Schaffner, Anselm Spindler, Dominik Recknagel, Alejandro Vigo, Mauricio Lecón
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Bradley, John, Cóilin Ó Drisceoil and Michael Potterton, eds. William Marshal and Ireland. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016). Contributors: John Bradley, Miriam Clyne, Billy Colfer, David Crouch, Adrian Empey, Gillian Kenny, Ben Murtagh, Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Daniel Tietzsch-Tyler.
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Bydén, Börje and Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist, eds. The Aristotelian Tradition: Aristotle’s Works on Logic and Metaphysics and Their Reception in the Middle Ages. Series: Papers in Mediaeval Studies, 2017. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). Contributors: Sten Ebbesen, Heine Hansen, Fabrizio Amerini, Michael Peramatzis, Jakob Leth Fink, David Bloch, Julie Brumberg- Chaumont, Simo Knuuttila, Ana María Mora-Márquez, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Miira Tuominen
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--- Clark, Linda and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays presented to Carole Rawcliffe . (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017). Contributors: Jean Agnew, John Alban, Brian Ayers, Caroline Barron, Christopher Bonfield, Carole Hill, Peregrine Horden, Hannes Kleineke, Nicholas Vincent.
--- Cornelison, Sally J., Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, and Peter Howard, eds. Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World Word, Deed, and Image. Series: Europa Sacra, 19. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). Contributors: Anne Holloway, Nancy Thompson, Peter Howard, Melissa Moreton, Allen Stevens, Ashley Elston, Madeline Rislow, Sally J. Cornelison, Anthony J. Watson, John Zaleski, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
--- Creighton, Oliver H and Duncan W. Wright. The Anarchy: War and Status in 12th-Century Landscapes of Conflict . Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe . (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017). Contributors: Michael Fradley and Steven Trick
--- Daussy, Stéphanie-Diane, Nicolas Reveyron, and Herbert Kessler, eds. L'église, lieu de performances: In Locis competentibus. (Paris: Picard, 2016). Contributors: Marcello Angheben, Xavier Barral i Altet, Gerardo Boto Varela, Susannah Crowder, Brigitte H'Haunaut-Zveny, Stéphanie Diane Daussy, Vincent Debiais, Jean-Paul Deremble, Thomas Golsenne, Olivier Manaud, Herbert L. Kessler, Sarah Guerin, Alicia Miguelez Cavero, Bruno Phalip, Nicolas Reveyron, Marc Sureda i Jubany, Gaspard Salatko, Martin Roch, Cécile Voyer, Catherine Vincent
--- Dinkova-Bruun, Greti and Tristan Major, eds. Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Gernot R. Wieland. Series: Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 11. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). Contributors: Sinéad O'Sullivan, David Townsend, Siân Echard, Lucia Kornexl, Tristan Major, Frans van Liere, Patrizia Lendinara, Scott G. Bruce, Alexander Andrée, Gregory Hays, Michael Herren, Greti Dinkova-bruun
--- Dora, Cornel, ed. Arznei für die Seele – Mit der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen durch die Jahrhunderte. (St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2017). Contributors: Uwe Jochum, Cornel Dora, Philipp Lenz, Karl Schmuki
--- Enders, Jody, ed. "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English . Series: Middle Ages Series. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
--- Frederiksen, Britta Olrik, ed. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, Opuscula, vol. XIV. Series: Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, 48. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum PRess, 2016). Contributors: Kirsten Wolf, Jeffrey S. Love, Philip Lavender, M.J. Driscoll, Kolbrún Haraldsdóttir, Stefan Drechsler, Knud Ottosen, Stefán Karlsson, Alex Speed Kjeldsen, Natasha Fazlic
--- Frey, Stefan. Fromme Feste Junker: Neur Stadtadel im spätmittelalterlichen. Series: Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich, 84. (Zürich: Chronos, 2017).
--- Garrison, Jennifer. Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature. Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2017).
--- Goldstein, R. James. The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Jefferson: McFarland, 2017).
--- Hamburger, Jeffrey F. and Nigel F. Palmer, eds. The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin. Volume 1: Art-Historical and Literary Introduction, Volume 2: Reproductions and Critical Edition. (Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015). Contributor: Conservation Report by Ulrike Bürger
--- Ingesman, Per, ed. Religion as an Agent of Change: Crusades – Reformation – Pietism . Series: Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture, 72. (Leiden: Brill, 2016). [Electronic review copy] Contributors: Arne Bugge Amundsen, Ole Peter Grell, Martin H. Jung, Thomas Kaufmann, Fred van Lieburg, Christoph T. Maier, Peter Marshall, Hugh McLeod, Jonathan Phillips, Felicitas Schmieder, John Wolffe
--- Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
--- Johnson, Flint F. The British Heroic Age A History, 367-664. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2017).
--- Johnston, David, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara, eds. Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017). Contributors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Giovanni Giorgini, Gabriele Pedullà, Miguel Vatter, Quentin Skinner, Erica Benner, Stephen Holmes, Paul A. Rahe, Benedetto Fontana, Jérémie Barthas, Marco Geuna, Jean-Fabien Spitz, John P. McCormick, Luca Baccelli, Michele Battini, Marie Gaille
--- Jordan, William Chester and Jenna Rebecca Phillips, eds. The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314. Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 22. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). Contributors: William J. Courtenay, Anne E. Lester, Sean L. Field, M. C. Gaposchkin, Xavier Hélary, Hagar Barak, Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Julien Théry-Astruc, Jochen Burgtorf, Paul F. Crawford, Helen J. Nicholson
--- Kay, Sarah. Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017).
--- Könitz, Daniel, ed. Der Bussard: Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Series: Zeitschirft für Deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur Beinhefte, 24. (Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag, 2017).
--- Lavezzo, Kathy. The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016).
--- Lawton, David. Voice in Later Medieval English Literature: Public Interiorities. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
--- Legassie, Shayne Aaron. The Medieval Invention of Travel. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017).
--- Legge O. P., Dominic. The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
--- Liddiard, Robert, ed. Late Medieval Castles. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016). Contributors: Charles Coulson, Nicola Coldstream, Philip Dixon and Beryl Lott, P. A. Faulkner, Graham Fairclough, Philip Dixon, John Goodall, Michael Prestwich, T. E. McNeill, Richard K. Morris, Christopher Taylor, Muriel A. Whitaker,
--- Longo, F. Dominic . Spiritual Grammar Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity. Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
--- Loud, Graham A. and Martial Staub, eds. The Making of Medieval History. (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2017). Contributors: Christine Caldwell Ames, Peter Biller, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Richard Hitchcock, Bernhard Jussen, Joep Leerssen, G.A. Loud, Christian Lübke, Jinty Nelson, Bastian Schlüter, Martial Staub, Ian Wood.
--- Lyon, Stewart. The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins. Series: Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
--- Marciniak-Kajzer, Anna. Archaeology on Medieval Knights' Manor Houses in Poland. (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2016).
--- Marvin, Julia. The Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle The Manuscript Culture of Late Medieval England. Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages. (Woodbridge UK: York Medieval Press, 2017).
--- McDougall, Sara. Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
--- Constant J. Mews, Carol J. Williams, John N. Crossley, and Catherine Jeffreys, eds. Guy of Saint-Denis Tractatus de tonis. Series: TEAMS Varia. (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017).
--- Mooney, Catherine M. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance. Series: Middle Ages Series. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
--- Moore, Deborah L. Medieval Anglo-Irish Troubles: A Cultural Study of BL MS Harley 913 . Series: Texts and Transitions, 8. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016).
--- Münster-Swendsen, Mia, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, and Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn , eds. Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century: The Scandinavian Connection . Series: Durham Medieval and Renaissance Monographs and Essays, 5. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). Contributors: Elizabeth Van Houts, Nora Berend, Alheydis Plassmann, Lasse C.A. Sonne, Rodney A. Thomson, Michael G. Gelting, Michael Winterbottom, Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, Roman Hankeln, Nils Holger Petersen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, C. Stephen Jaeger, Thomas Foerster, Jenny Benham
--- Nowlin, Steele. Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention . Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016).
--- O'Neill, Patrick P., ed. Old English Psalms. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 42. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).
--- Orwin, Alexander. Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
--- Papaioannou, Stratis, ed., trans. Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017).
--- Peterson, Gary Dean. Vikings and Goths: A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden. (Jefferson: McFarland, 2016).
--- Pfeffer, Wendy. Le festin du troubadour: Nourriture, société et littérature en Occitanie (1100-1500). (Paris: Éditions La Louve, 2016).
--- Prenderghast, Gerald. Richard III and the Princes in the Tower The Possible Fates of Edward V and Richard of York. (Jefferson N.C.: McFarland, 2016).
--- Räsänen, Marika. Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies . (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).
--- Rieger, Dietmar. Esclarzir paraul’escura: Regards sur la diversité des lettres médiévales. Series: Recherches littéraires médiévales, 22. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016).
--- Robertson, Kellie. Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy. Series: Middle Ages Series. (Philadelphia: university of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
--- Taylor, Craig and Jane J.M. Taylor, eds. The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II le Meingre. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016).
--- Tracy, Larissa, ed. Flaying in the Pre-Modern World: Practice and Representation . (Woodbridge: D.S.Brewer, 2017). Contributors: Frederika Bain, Peter Dent, Kelly DeVries, Valerie Gramling, Perry Neil Harrison, Jack Hartnell, Emily Leverett, Michael Livingston, Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Asa Mittman, Mary Rambaran-Olm, William Sayers, Christine Sciacca, Susan Small, Larissa Tracy, Renée Ward
--- Weinryb, Ittai. The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2016).
--- Wenzel, Siegfried. The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal. Series: Sermo, 13. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017).
--- Werronenm, Sheryl McDonald. Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítíða saga. Series: Crossing Boundaries, 5. (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2016).
--- Werronen, Stephen. Religion, Time and Memorial Culture in Late Medieval Ripon. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017).
--- Williams, Janet Hadley, ed. Duncane Laideus Testament and other Comic Poems in Older Scots. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. (Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society, 2016).