ACMRS Occasional Publications

ACMRS Occasional Publications is a new series that includes works that are not necessarily scholarly in nature but have relevance to the teaching and study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as memoirs, collections of personal essays, and historical fiction.

Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist

By Norman F. Cantor

Norman F. Cantor, who died in 2004, was one of the leading American medieval historians of his generation, and in terms of the size of the readership of his books among the educated public, he was...

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2002 | 241 pp. | 978-0-86698-293-1 | Cloth | 6 x 9 in
$28.95 | £24.00

Jeffrey's Story: The Autobiography of Paul J. Meyvaert (Executive Emeritus of the Medieval Academy of America)

By Paul J. Meyvaert

Jeffrey’s Story is the autobiography of Jeffrey Meyvaert, a former monk who became an esteemed historian and director of the Medieval Academy of America, the most prestigious organization...

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2005 | 128 pp. | 978-0-86698-336-5 | Paperback | 6 x 9 in
$12.95 |

A Viking Slave’s Saga (Jan Fridegård’s Trilogy of Novels About the Viking Age): Land of Wooden Gods; People of the Dawn; and Sacrificial Smoke

Translated by Robert E. Bjork (Arizona State Univesity)

Winner of the 1987 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation

This trilogy centers on a 9th-century thrall named Holme, his wife, Ausi, and their daughter,...

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2007 | 367 + vi pp. | 978-0-86698-375-4 | Paperback | 6 x 9 in
$43 | £30

Mosaics in the Eternal City

By Michael G. Sundell

Mosaics in the Eternal City presents a composite portrait of Rome between 400 and 1300 by examining the major works of monumental public visual art that remain there from this period: the...

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2007 | 214 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-376-1 | Paperback | 6 x 9 in
$39 | £27

The Letters of the Swiss Jesuit Missionary Philipp Segesser (1689–1762): An Eyewitness to the Settlement of Eighteenth-Century Sonora (Pimería Alta)

Edited by Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

Forthcoming: August 2012

The early history of Sonora/Arizona (Pimería Alta) was profoundly influenced and determined by the Jesuit missionaries from Europe. After Padre...

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2012 | 240 + x pp. | 978-0-86698-498-0 | Paperback | 6 x 9 in