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Recent Publications of Interest

Forthcoming in 2009

Deane, Jennifer. “The Auffahrtabend Prophecy and Henry of Langenstein: German Adaptation and Transmission of the 'Visio fratris Johannis,'” Viator 40:1 (spring 2009): 355-386.

Garver, Valerie L. Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, fall 2009).

Larson, Atria A. "Bestowing Pardon and Favor: Emperor Henry III's Pardons in Context," Viator 40:1 (spring 2009).

MacLean, Simon. History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: the Chronicle of Regino of Prüm and Adalbert of Magdeburg (Manchester UP: Manchester, 2009).

MacLean, Simon. "Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle," English Historical Review 124 (2009): 1-28.

Scales, Leonard. In a German Mirror: Authority, Crisis, and German Identity, 1245-1414. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Wolverton, Lisa, trans., Cosmas of Prague's Chronicle of the Czechs. Catholic University Press, 2009.

2008

Bailey, Michael D. "Concern over Superstition in Late Medieval Europe," in The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present, ed. S. A. Smith and Alan Knight, Past and Present Supplement 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 115-33.

Bailey, Michael D. "The Age of Magicians: Periodization in the History of European Magic," Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 3 (2008): 1-28.

Collins, David J. Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Edited by David C. Steinmetz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Deane, Jennifer. “’Beguines’ Reconsidered: Historiographical Problems and New Directions,” Monastic Matrix, Commentaria #3461 (August 2008).

Lyon, Jonathan R. "Fathers and sons: preparing noble youths to be lords in twelfth-century Germany," Journal of Medieval History 34:3 (2008): 291-310.

MacLean, Simon. "Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France: Adso’s 'Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist' Reconsidered," Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire / Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis 86 (2008).

MacLean, Simon. "Making a Difference in Tenth-Century Politics: King Athelstan’s Sisters and Frankish Queenship," in P. Fouracre and D. Ganz (eds.), Frankland. The Franks and the World of Early Medieval Europe (Manchester UP: Manchester, 2008), pp. 167-90.

Sheffler, David. Schools and Schooling in Late Medieval Germany: Regensburg 1250-1500. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Weiler, Björn. "Suitability and right: imperial succession and the  norms of politics in early Staufen Germany," in: Making and Breaking the Rules: succession in medieval Europe, c. 1000 – c. 1600, ed. Frédérique Lachaud and Michael Penman (Turnhout, 2008), 71-86.

Weiler, Björn. "Review article: Politics and power in Europe, c.850-1170," Early
Medieval Europe
16 (2008), 474-93. (on Timothy Reuter's collected papers)

Weiler, Björn. "Stupor Mundi: Matthäus Paris und die zeitgenössische Wahrnehmung
Friedrichs II. in England," in Herrschaftsräume, Herrschaftspraxis
und Kommunikation zur Zeit Friedrichs II
, ed. Knut Görich, Jan Keupp and
Theo Broekmann (Munich, 2008), 63-95.

2007

Arnold, Ellen F., “Engineering Miracles: Water Control, Conversion, and the Creation of a Religious Landscape in the Medieval Ardennes,” in Environment and History 13:4 (November 2007): 477-502.

Bowlus, Charles R. “Mitteleuropa: The Making of Europe between Byzantium and the Latin West ca. 800-1025," in Paradigms and Methods in Late Ancient and Early Medieval Studies: A Reconsideration, ed. Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).

Eldevik, John. Medieval Germany - Research and Resources. GHI Reference Guide, no. 21 (2007). Now available for download at http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/rg/rg021/index.html.

Garver, Valerie. “Old Age and Women in the Carolingian World,” in Old Age in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance
, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2007), 121-41.

Górecki, Piotr. A Local Society in Transition: The ‘Henrykow Book’ and Related Documents. Studies and Texts 155. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007.

Jones, Christopher. Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late Medieval France. Cursor mundi, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

Lyon, Jonathan. "The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Evidence from Twelfth-Century Germany," in Old Age in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2007), 143-170.

Weiler, Björn. Kingship, Rebellion & Political Culture: England and Germany, c. 1215-1250 (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2007).

Wormald, Patrick and Janet L. Nelson, eds., Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

2006

Bachrach, David S. “Making Peace and War in the ‘City-State’ of Worms, 1235-1273.” German History 24 (2006): 505-525.

Bowlus, Charles R. The Battle of Lechfeld and Its Aftermath: August 955. The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West. Adershot: Ashgate Press, 2006.

Bowlus, Charles R. “Mobility, Politics, and Society in Medieval Germany.“ In German Literature of the High Middle Ages. Vol. 3. Ed. Will Hasty. Camden History of German Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006: 277-290.

Collins, David J. "Latin Hagiography in Germany, 1450-1550." In Hagiographies: Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550, edited by Guy Philippart, 4: 522-582. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.

Collins, David J. "Renaissance Revisions: A Brief Analysis and Critical Edition of Cincinnius's Vita s. Ida, a Revision of BHL 4143." Analecta bollandiana 124 (2006): 335-358.

Deane, Jennifer. “Archiepiscopal Inquisitions in the Middle Rhine: Urban Anticlericalism and Waldensianism in Late Fourteenth-Century Mainz,” The Catholic Historical Review 92:3 (July, 2006): 197-224.

Murray, Alan. "Zum Transfer von Zahlungsmitteln bei Kreuzzugsexpeditionen: Überlegungen zur Logistik des Kreuzzuges Kaiser Friedrichs I. (1189-1190)," in Transfer in der Stauferzeit: Akten der 4. Landauer Staufertagung, ed. Jürgen Krüger (Speyer: Verlag der Pfälzischen Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, 2006), pp. 25-37.

Weiler, Björn. King Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216-1272. Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer; London: Royal Historical Society, 2006.

Weiler, Björn and Simon Maclean, eds. Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, 800-1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.