New Books across the Disciplines

“New Books across the Disciplines” is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author’s name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations, including availability in hardcover, paperback, or ebook (OA is indicated for open access ebooks). For paperback reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With some exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution.The topics for this issue include: Editions and translationsBiographical studiesIslamic studiesDiplomacyGender and works of womenAnimaliaAndreini, Isabella. Letters [Lettere]. Translated and edited by Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 100. New York: Iter Press, 2023. ix, 331 pp., 2 color illus. Paperback, ebook. [English translation of a fictional epistolary collection by the commedia dell’arte diva (1562–1604).]Bruno, Giordano. “On the Heroic Frenzies”: A Translation of “De gli eroici furori” (1585). Translated by Ingrid D. Rowland. Edited by Eugenio Canone. The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (2013) 2023. lxix, 395 pp., 28 illus. Paperback. [Italian text with facing-page English translation.]Carey, Mary. A Mother’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies. Edited by Pamela S. Hammons. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 101. New York: Iter Press, 2023. xi, 135 pp., 9 figs. Paperback, ebook. [First gathering of all of Lady Mary Carey’s writings, both prose and poetry, in a single edition.]Curta, Florin, ed. Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300: A Reader. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, vol. 25. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. xxv, 361 pp., 5 maps, 13 figs. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Enders, Jody, ed. and trans. Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage. 284 pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Hardcover, paperback, OA ebook.Engel, William E., Rory Loughnane, and Grant Williams, eds. The Death Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2022) 2023. xx, 386 pp., 20 illus. Ebook. [First-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, drawing together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations.]Polwhele, E. The Faithful Virgins. Edited by Ann Hollinshead Hurley. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 104. New York: Iter Press, 2023. xiii, 103 pp., 7 figs. Paperback, ebook. [First printed edition of a tragicomedy (ca. 1669–71) by Elizabeth Polwhele from the Restoration period, which has been available until now only in a Bodleian Library manuscript.]Varano, Camilla Battista da, Saint. “The Spiritual Life” and Other Writings. Translated and edited by William V. Hudon. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 103. New York: Iter Press, 2023. xv, 381 pp., 3 color and 5 black-and-white illus. Paperback, ebook. [English translations of spriritual writings—some appearing for the first time—by the Franciscan nun and saint (1458–1524), who was the illegitimate daughter of Giulio Cesare, prince of Camerino.]Walter, Archdeacon of Thérouanne. “The Life of Count Charles of Flanders” and “The Life of Lord John, Bishop of Thérouanne” [Vita Karoli comitis Flandrie and Vita Domni Ioannis Morinensis episcopi.] Translated and edited by Jeff Rider. Corpus Christianorum, In Translation, vol. 44. Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 217. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. 276 pp., 1 map, 2 genealogies. Paperback, ebook. [First English translations of the vitae, along with several related short works, constituting the principal sources for the reign and assassination of Charles the Good and the bishopric of John of Warneton.]Zacuto, Moses. Hell Arrayed (Tofteh ‘arukh): A Seventeenth-Century Hebrew Poem on the Punishment of the Wicked in the Afterlife. Translated and edited by Michela Andreatta. Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, vol. 18. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2023. 190 pp., 1 color plate. Paperback, ebook. [English verse translation of the dramatic depiction of hell according to the teachings of Kabbalah by the Mantuan rabbi and scholar (ca. 1610–1697).]Acres, Alfred. Jan van Eyck: Within His Art. Renaissance Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 238 pp., 63 color plates. Hardcover.Andersson, Peter K. Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023. x, 210 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [On Will Somer, Henry’s famous court fool.]Bernhardt, Elizabeth. Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender, and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, vol. 19. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 344 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Brilli, Elisa, and Giuliano Milani. Dante’s New Lives: Biography and Autobiography. Translated from the Italian by Mary Maschio and Eva Plesnik. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 362 pp., 1 genealogy, 4 maps. Hardcover.Brown, Michelle P. Bede and the Theory of Everything. Medieval Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 312 pp., 45 color and 5 blank-and-white illus. Hardcover.Büttner, Nils. Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares. Renaissance Lives. London: Reaktion Books, (2016) 2023. 208 pp., 59 color and 4 black-and-white illus. Paperback. [On Bosch’s career as a painter for aristocratic and courtly circles.]Cusato, Michael F. Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision, and Companions. Medieval Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 224 pp., 30 color and 6 black-and-white illus. Hardcover.Goethals, Jessica. Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. xiii, 321 pp., 30 illus. Hardcover, ebook.Grant, Stephen H. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2014) 2023. xvi, 244 pp., 5 tables, 33 figs. Paperback.Heard, Kate. Holbein at the Tudor Court. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2023. 160 pp. Color plates throughout. Paperback. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, in 2023.]Leu, Urs B. Conrad Gessner (1516–1565): Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance. Translated from the German by Bill C. Ray. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, vol. 38. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xix, 476 pp., 92 color illus., 4 tables. Hardcover, ebook.Margolis, Oren. Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher. Renaissance Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 206 pp., 17 color and 23 black-and-white illus. Hardcover.McLaughlin, Martin. Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. 400 pp., 17 illus. Hardcover, ebook. [First book in English to examine Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian.]Owen, Richard. Chaucer’s Italy. London: The Armchair Traveller, Haus Publishing, 2022. 208 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Ansari, Hassan, and Nebil Husayn, trans. and eds. Caliphate and Imamate: An Anthology of Medieval Muslim Texts on Political Theology. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. lxvii, 174 pp. [Collection of classical Arabic texts on the question of power and authority after the Prophet Muhammad.]Baer, Marc David. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs. New York: Basic Books, in association with Hachette Book Group, 2021. 543 pp., 3 maps, 36 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Bellino, Francesca, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, and Luca Patrizi, eds. L’“adab,” toujours recommencé: “Origins,” Transmissions, and Metamorphoses of “Adab” Literature. Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies, vol. 4. Boston: Brill, 2023. xvi, 872 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [On the notion of adab, prescribed Islamic ethical conduct.]Berto, Luigi Andrea, ed. and trans. Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: A Sourcebook. Abingdon: Oxford University Press, 2024. vi, 170 pp., 5 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [A collection of primary sources from the ninth to eleventh centuries about how Muslims and Christians understood and perceived each other.]Cardoso, Elsa. The Door of the Caliph: Concepts of the Court in the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Studies in Medieval History and Culture. London: Routledge, 2023. 292 pp., 29 illus. Hardcover, ebook.Dabashi, Hamid. The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2023. xv, 334 pp. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Ehrlich, Michael. The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800. Medieval Islamicate World. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022. 160 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Fuentes, Marcelo E. Contradictory Muslims in the Literature of Medieval Iberian Christians. The New Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. viii, 227 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Holm, Bent, and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, eds. Imagined, Embodied, and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe. Ottomania, vol. 10. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2021. xiv, 534 pp., 61 figs. Hardcover, ebook.Karateke, Hakan T., and Helga Anetshofer, eds. The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xx, 322 pp., 42 figs. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Kazim, Nadir. Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary. Translated by Amir Al-Azraki. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. xi, 193 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Marlow, Louise, ed. and trans. Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Political Advice. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xviii, 374 pp. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Ottewill-Soulsby, Sam. The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023. xv, 363 pp., 4 illus., 5 maps. Hardcover, ebook.Öztürk, Onur, Xenia Gazi, and Sam Bowker, eds. Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2022. 244 pp., 47 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook.Rassi, Salman. Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ‘Abdīshō‘ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition. Oxford Oriental Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 320 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [Focusing on the works of Abdisho of Nisibis, bishop and polymath of the Church of the East, this study examines the intellectual strategies employed to justify Christianity against Muslim and Jewish criticisms.]Richardson, Kristina. Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (2012) 2022. 168 pp., 4 illus. OA ebook.Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (2008) 2022. xii, 286 pp., 28 color and 177 black-and-white illus. Paperback.Shepard, Jonathan, and Luke Treadwell, eds. Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and Islam in the World of Ibn Fadlan. Library of Medieval Studies. London: I. B. Tauris, 2023. xxxvi, 403 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Simonsohn, Uriel I. Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. viii, 263 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [On the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in premodern Near Eastern societies.]Zadeh, Travis E. Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2023. 445 pp., 1 map. Hardcover, ebook. [Focusing on the hugely influential book by Zakariyyā’ Qazwīnī entitled ‘Ajā’ib wa-Gharā’ib, this study examines how Muslim intellectuals and religious authorities conceived of the world before the discovery of the western hemisphere and the rise of heliocentrism.]Bombi, Barbara. Anglo-Papal Relations in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy. Oxford Studies in Medieval European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii, 273 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Ebben, Maurits, and Louis Sicking, eds. Beyond Ambassadors: Consuls, Missionaries, and Spies in Premodern Diplomacy. Rulers and Elites: Comparative Studies in Governance, vol. 19. Leiden: Brill, 2021. x, 223 pp., 2 maps, 1 table. Hardcover, ebook.Gebke, Julia, Stephan F. Mai, and Christof Muigg, eds. Das diplomatische Selbst in der Frühen Neuzeit: Verhandlungsstrategien—Erzählweisen—Beziehungsdynamiken / The Diplomatic Self in Early Modern Times: Negotiating—Narrating—Shaping Relations. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022. vi, 278 pp., 1 map, 3 tables. Paperback, ebook. [Articles in German or English.]Netzloff, Mark. Agents Beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi, 267 pp., 4 illus. Hardcover, ebook.O’Leary, Jessica. Elite Women as Diplomatic Agents in Italy and Hungary, 1470–1510: Kinship and the Aragonese Dynastic Network. Gender and Power in the Modern World. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022. xvi, 106 pp., 3 figs., 2 maps. Hardcover, ebook.Pastrnak, Patrik. Dynasty in Motion: Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. 296 pp., 28 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [On the way marital travels of princely brides and grooms operated on a grand scale as diplomatic events.]Rothman, E. Natalie. The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism. Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. xxiii, 419 pp., 57 figs., 3 tables. Paperback, OA ebook.Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, and Berta Cano-Echevarría, Exile, Diplomacy, and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, vol. 74. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xi, 232 pp., 6 illus. Hardcover, OA ebook.Taylor, Kathryn. Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice. The Early Modern Exchange. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 2023. 238 pp. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [Explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information, drawing much on diplomatic correspondence among other sources.]Thomas, Anabel. The Art and Government Service of Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei (c. 1421–c. 1495): Visual Propaganda and Undercover Agency for the Republic of Siena. Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 276 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Brizio, Elena, and Marco Piana, eds. Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance. Essays and Studies, vol. 55. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2022. 305 pp., 1 map, 22 color and 3 black-and-white illus. Paperback, ebook.Detlefsen, Karen, and Lisa Shapiro, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2023. xvi, 638 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Falkeid, Unn, and Anna Wainwright, eds. The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, vol. 242. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xiv, 363 pp., 25 illus. Hardcover, OA ebook.Frelick, Nancy M., and Edith Benkov, eds. Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France; Essays in Honour of Colette H. Winn. Reflections on Early Modernity / Réflexions sur la première modernité, vol. 1. New York: Iter Press, 2024. xxv, 412 pp., 4 color illus. Paperback, ebook.Genieys-Kirk, Séverine. Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. xiv, 372 pp., 7 illus. Hardcover, ebook.Hutton, Ronald. Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe; An Investigation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 256 pp., 21 color and black-and-white plates. Hardcover.Ifft Decker, Sarah. The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, vol. 7. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xvi, 233 pp., 15 tables, 4 figs., 1 map, 1 genealogy. Translation in Early Modern England: Women and the of Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. pp. Hardcover, and eds. Women’s in Medieval Literature. New Studies in Medieval Culture. State University Press, 2022. viii, pp. Hardcover, paperback, Kathryn. Women in Early Modern Religious Gender in the Middle vol. 18. Cambridge: D. S. 2021. xi, pp. and the of Gender in Renaissance Italy. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, vol. 18. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [A of the of Renaissance David and European Women’s from the to the Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, OA and eds. Women’s Lives: and in the Middle Essays in Honour of Elizabeth and in the Middle Ages. University of Press, 2022. xiii, pp., 1 illus. Hardcover, and eds. Gendering the Renaissance: and in Early Modern Italy. The Early Modern Exchange. University of Press, 2023. ix, pp., 4 color and 9 black-and-white illus. Hardcover, paperback, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. pp., 3 illus., 2 tables. Hardcover, and eds. Gender and the in the Middle Ages. and in the Middle Ages. University of Press, 2023. pp., 1 Hardcover, Gender, and from to Early Modern of the Palgrave Studies in Theory and Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xi, pp. Hardcover, in the Middle and Renaissance: and The London: Publishing, 2023. pp., illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [First study of the and and eds. of the and Cultures, vol. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. xii, pp., illus. Hardcover, and eds. of the and Cultures, vol. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. xii, pp., 9 illus. Hardcover, Sarah in Early Modern Europe: Art and Studies in Baroque vol. London: 2022. 296 pp., color plates. and in the World. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. pp., illus. the Medieval Medieval University of Press, 2022. xv, pp., color black-and-white illus. Paperback, and eds. and De 2020. pp. of in the Early Medieval Yale Studies New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2020. xx, pp., 7 maps, color black-and-white illus. Hardcover, and eds. and Cultures, vol. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 208 pp., 22 illus. Ebook. [On and the of in the with and eds. Palgrave Studies in and Literature. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xii, pp. Hardcover, ebook. [A of The and the Wild: and after Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2024. pp., figs., 2 maps. [On the between and the the of in the of the Gender, and in Medieval Culture. New Studies in Medieval Culture. State University Press, 2023. xii, pp., illus. Hardcover, the Medieval Medieval University of Press, 2020. xiv, pp., 7 illus. Paperback, The An English Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. pp., 30 illus. Hardcover, the Medieval Medieval University of Press, 2023. pp., 15 illus., 1 table. Paperback, ebook.

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