Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the Leeds International Medieval Conference!
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the Internation Medieval Conference in Leeds. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are also available as e-books. Please browse and follow the links to shop! Use discount IMC20 to receive 40% off.
Have a project you'd like to discuss? A few of our editors acquire books related to medieval and renaissance studies.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
Due to continued state, local, and university precautions, it may take longer than normal to process and ship orders placed via our website or by phone. We ask that you be patient and know that your order will be processed and shipped as soon as we are able to do so. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Forming Sleep
Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance
Edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon
Framing the Church
The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture
Maile S. Hutterer
The Bonds of Humanity
Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550
Cary J. Nederman
The Sculpted Ear
Aurality and Statuary in the West
Ryan McCormack
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams
Truth in Many Tongues
Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire
Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
Matthew M. Reeve
Chaucer
Contemporary Approaches
Edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin
Medieval Art in Motion
The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
Pygmalion’s Power
Romanesque Sculpture, the Senses, and Religious Experience
Thomas E. A. Dale
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
C. David Benson
Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Gail Orgelfinger
War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade
Megan Cassidy-Welch
Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic
Edited by Frank Klaassen
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas R. Jones
Robert the Devil
The First Modern English Translation of Robert le Diable, an Anonymous French Romance of the Thirteenth Century
Translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg
Middle English Marvels
Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
Tara Williams
Hazards of the Dark Arts
Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic
Translated by Richard Kieckhefer
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Patrick J. Murphy
Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art
Heidi C. Gearhart
Magic in the Modern World
Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities
Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare
Danila Sokolov
Being Bewitched
A True Tale of Madness, Witchcraft, and Property Development Gone Wrong
Kirsten C. Uszkalo
The Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Edited and translated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau
Chaucer
Visual Approaches
Edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin
Painting the Hortus deliciarum
Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time
Danielle B. Joyner
The Continuity of the Conquest
Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
The Monk’s Haggadah
A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Edited by David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Toledo Cathedral
Building Histories in Medieval Castile
Tom Nickson
Worlds Within
Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna
Elina Gertsman
Sacred Plunder
Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
David M. Perry
Rewriting Magic
An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk
Claire Fanger
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
Elizabeth Lapina
Contested Treasure
Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
Thomas W. Barton
Jewish Literary Cultures
Volume 1, The Ancient Period
David Stern
Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France
Tracy Adams
The Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Frank Klaassen
Magic in the Cloister
Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Sophie Page
Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising
Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381
Lynn Arner
Strange Beauty
Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204
Cynthia Hahn
Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan
Jean d'Arras, and Translated and with an introduction by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox
Invoking Angels
Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Edited by Claire Fanger
Alchemical Belief
Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
Bruce Janacek
The Sensual Icon
Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium
Bissera V. Pentcheva
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious
Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
Translated, with introductions and annotations, by Thomas F. X. Noble
Unlocked Books
Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe
Benedek Láng
Binding Words
Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages
Don C. Skemer
The Writings of Julian of Norwich
A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love
Edited by Nicholas Watson and Jacqueline Jenkins
Battling Demons
Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Michael D. Bailey
Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler
Public Piers Plowman
Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
C. David Benson
Icons of Power
Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Naomi Janowitz
Spiritual and Demonic Magic
From Ficino to Campanella
D.P. Walker
The Medieval Calendar Year
Bridget Ann Henisch
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Elizabeth M. Butler
The Fortunes of Faust
Elizabeth M. Butler
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Richard Kieckhefer
Conjuring Spirits
Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
Edited by Claire Fanger
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
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