Recent Publications (from the past 6 months)

Book in Honor of Augustus (Liber ad Honorem Augusti) by Pietro da Eboli

Translated by Gwenyth Hood

Forthcoming May 2012

Book in Honor of Augustus is a translation of Pietro da Eboli’s Liber ad Honorem Augusti, published with the original Latin text,...

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2012 | 560 + vi pp. | 978-0-86698-446-1 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 398 | $80 | £60

Early Modern Women on the Fall: An Anthology

Edited by Michelle M. Dowd and Thomas Festa

This anthology presents the works of eighteen early modern Englishwomen addressing the biblical story of the Fall from the Book of Genesis. The texts, many of which are available in a modern...

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2012 | 386 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-458-4 | Paperback | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 410 | $60 | £45

Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-century Byzantium

By Dimitris Krallis

This volume is about a unique, understudied eleventh-century account and interpretation of Byzantine imperial decline. Focusing on the History, the major work of the judge and courtier...

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2012 | 294 + xlii pp. | 978-0-86698-470-6 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 422 | $70 | £53

Dame Philology’s Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien’s Lancelot: Essays in Memory of Karl D. Uitti

Edited by Gina L. Greco and Ellen M. Thorington

This volume, written in memory of Karl D. Uitti of Princeton University, brings together essays that use the Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot) by Chrétien de Troyes as a starting point...

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2012 | 268 + xvi pp. | 978-0-86698-456-0 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 408 | $60 | £45

Manuscripts in Switzerland

Volume 20
Descriptions by Joseph P. McGowan
A. N. Doane and M. T. Hussey, Editors

Please visit the Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile main...

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2012 | 978-0-86698-460-7 | Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5 in
MRTS 412 |

Catherine of Siena: An Anthology

Translated by Suzanne Noffke, O.P.

Drawing from all of the writings of Catherine of Siena—The Letters, The Dialogue, and The Prayers—this anthology gathers texts in three collections:

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2012 | (2 vols.) 1154 + xxxii pp. | 978-0-86698-454-6 | Cloth | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 406 | $120 | £90

Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanism and the Irony of Leon Battista Alberti

By Timothy Kircher

This study evaluates the way Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) assessed humanist moral philosophy in Renaissance Italy. It helps us understand not only the allure of Renaissance humanism, but also...

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2012 | 310 + vi pp. | 978-0-86698-471-3 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 423 | $70 | £53

William Petty on the Order of Nature: An Unpublished Manuscript Treatise

Edited by Rhodri Lewis

Stung by the allegation that his version of the new philosophy tended towards atheism and materialism, Sir William Petty – medic, mathematician, pioneering political economist, intellectual...

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2012 | 178 + xvi pp. | 978-0-86698-447-8 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 399 | $55 | £40

The Greek Library of Saints John and Paul (San Zanipolo) at Venice

By Donald F. Jackson

Giochino Torriano, superior of the community of San Zanipolo at Venice and later Governor General of the Dominican Order at Rome, began collecting Greek manuscripts to aid in his instruction of...

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2012 | 92 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-439-3 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 391 | $45 | £35

Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri

Edited by Carla P. Weinberg (University of the Arts) and E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)

The Ogdoas, a series of dialogues about proper rulership, true nobility, and the afterlife, take place between deceased members of the Visconti family of Milan and one Adorno of Genoa, in...

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2011 | 194 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-413-3 | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in
MRTS 365 | $55 | £40