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:1. Editions and translations2. Historiography, historians, and critical theory3. Jewish studies4. Philosophical and theological legacies5. Magic and the marvelous6. Visual cultureAlbert the Great, Saint. On Job, Volume 2 [Super Iob]. Translated and edited by Franklin T. Harkins. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation Series, vol. 23. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 352 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [First English translation of Albert's On Job. This volume contains the second half of the commentary, chaps. 22–42.]Armitage, Simon. The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation. The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. 144 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Verse translation by the UK Poet Laureate of the early thirteenth-century Middle English poem, with facing-page Middle English text.]Barr, Helen, trans. and ed. Patience. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2024. 132 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Verse translation of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem Patience, which until now was the only one of four poems from British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x. that had not been translated into modern English verse.]Böhme, Jacob. Von der wahren Gelassenheit (1622). Edited by Günther Bonheim and Giulia Baldelli. Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe, Part 1, Schriften, vol. 17. Stuttgart: frommann-holzboog, 2024. xlviii, 168 pp., 10 illus. Hardcover, ebook. [First modern critical edition of the German mystic's treatise on “true serenity.”]Bonaventure, Saint. “Into God,” Student Edition: “Itinerarium mentis in Deum” of Saint Bonaventure. Translated and edited by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM Cap. Introduction by Joshua C. Benson. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 104 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Latin text with a facing-page new English translation.]Callinicus. The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae [Vios tou hosiou patros hëmön Hypatiou tou en Rouphinianais]. Translated and edited by Bradley K. Storin. Cisterian Studies Series, vol. 301. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2025. viii, 175 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Translation of the mid-fifth-century Life of Hypatius by Callinicus, second abbot of the monastery founded by Hypatius near Constantinople.]Cawsey, Kathy, and Elizabeth Edwards, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2023. 512 pp., 8 color plates. Paperback, ebook. [Modern English translations, some of which have facing-page medieval texts.]Comester, Peter. Peter Comester's Lectures on the Gospel of Luke and Its Glosses. Translated and edited by Simon Whedbee. Texts and Studies in High Medieval Scholastic Thought. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 340 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [A study with a critical edition of the Latin text with facing-page English translation.]Cox, Virginia, and Lisa Sampson, with a translation by Anna Wainwright. Drama, Poetry, and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi. London: UCL Press, 2023. xv, 536 pp., 16 figs., 1 table. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [First-ever study of the life of Leonora Bernardi (1559–1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca and a highly regarded poet, dramatist, and singer, with modern Italian edition and English translation of her recently discovered corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript.]Della Valle, Federico. The Queen of Scots: La reina di Scotia. Translated and edited by Fabio Battista. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. x, 186 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [First English translation of Della Valle's tragedy depicting the final hours of the Scottish queen's life, including an English translation of a widely circulated letter detailing the queen's momentous execution.]Didymus the Blind. Didymus the Blind: On Job. Translated and edited by Peter D. Steiger. The Fathers of the Church, vol. 150. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 250 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [First full-length English translation of the commentary on the Book of Job by Didymus the Blind, one of the earliest line-by-line commentaries on Job to survive from late antiquity.]Duns Scotus, John. Treatise on the First Principle [De primo principio]. Translated and edited by Thomas M. Ward. Hackett Classics Series. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2024. 192 pp. Paperback, ebook. [English translation of Scotus's treatise.]Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus: Controversies. Edited and translated by Ronald Begley, Carol Begley, and Daniel Sheerin. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 79. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. 416 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [Presents two works written by Erasmus in a controversy with the Carthusian monk Pierre Cousturier, offering some of his most important reflections on his aim to cultivate humanism and linguistic expertise in the service of advancing the Gospel.]Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel. The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of Aquitaine: The Songs That Built Europe. Studies in Medieval Literature. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2023. lxiii, 249 pp., illus. Hardcover, ebook. [French texts with facing-page English translations and a study of the poetry of the first of the medieval troubadours.]Freeman, Philip, trans. and ed. The Letters of St. Patrick and Early Patrician Literature. Library of Early Christianity. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 180 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Latin texts of Patrick's Letter to the Soldiers of Croticus and his Confession with facing-page English translations, along with other key texts of the Patrician tradition, including Muirchu's Life of St. Patrick, Tírechán's Journey of St. Patrick, The First Synod of St. Patrick, The Hymn of St. Secindinus, and the Old Irish St. Patrick's Breastplate.]Kidd, Michael, trans. and ed. Black Protagonists in Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2023. xiii, 337 pp. Paperback, ebook. [English translations of three Spanish plays from around 1620 that feature Black protagonists: Juan Latino by Diego Jiménez de Enciso, The Brave Black Soldier by Andrés de Claramonte y Corroy, and Virtues Overcome Appearances by Luis Vélez de Guevara.]María de Jesús, de Ágreda, Sor. Tratado de la redondez de la tierra. Edited by Judith Farré Vidal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Department of Romance Languages, 2023. 160 pp., 24 figs. Paperback, ebook. [First critical edition of the mystic's cosmological and geographical treatise, with study of María de Jesús's life and authorship.]Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo: Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation. Edited by Gianluca Rizzo. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. x, 338 pp. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [Tusiani's 1961 translation with facing-page Italian texts, along with Tusiani's original introduction, a biographical profile of Tusiani, and an interview with him on the art of translation.]Milton, John. Paradise Regained: The Biblically Annotated Edition. Edited by Matthew Stallard. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2025. lxiii, 183 pp. Paperback. [Edition of Milton's epic with annotations documenting Milton's use of the 1534 Tyndale Bible, 1539 Coverdale Bible, 1540 Great Bible, 1560 Geneva Bible, 1568 Bishops Bible, 1610 Douay-Rheims Bible, and the revised 1612 Authorized Version of the Bible.]Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī. Das Buch der metaphysischen Durchdringungen (Kitāb al-mašāʿir). Translated and edited by Roland Pietsch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. viii, 94 pp. Paperback, ebook. [German translation of the introductory treatise on the metaphysics of being by the major Islamic philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā (1572–1649).]Muratori, Ludovico Antonio. On the Moderation of Reason in Religious Matters [De ingeniorum moderatione]. Translated by Ulrich L. Lehner. Early Modern Catholic Sources, vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2024. ix, 238 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [Translation of Muratori's treatise, which gained magisterial status among Catholics of the eighteenth century seeking to revitalize Catholic theology.]Opitz, Martin. Martin Opitz—Die Epistellieder: Erweiterte historisch-kritische Edition unter Einbeziehung der Texttradition in der “Praxis Pietatis Melica.” Edited by Hans-Otto Korth, with Irmgard Scheitler. Hallesche Quellenpublikationen un Repertorien, vol. 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. viii, 233 pp., illus. Hardcover. [Edition of the Protestant lyric poet Opitz's Epistle Songs of 1628, which were printed in their entirety in the 1666 hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica.]Pascal, Blaise. Writings on Grace: The Complete “Écrits sur la grâce.” Translated and edited by Paul J. Griffiths. Early Modern Catholic Sources. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2025. 198 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [First complete English translation, based on Michel Le Guern's edition from the Oeuvres complètes.]Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. 900 Conclusions [Conclusiones secundum doctrinam latinorum philosophorum et theologorum]. Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 100. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2025. lxv, 611 pp. Hardcover. [A new critical edition of the Latin text with facing-page English translation.]Vivian, Tim, trans. and ed. Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Revised edition. Cisterian Studies Series, vol. 300. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press; Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications, 2024. xxxiii, 482 pp. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [Sayings of the desert fathers and mothers arranged in daily readings.]Whobrey, William T., trans. and ed. Kudrun: With “The Book of King Otnit” and “The Book of Wolf Dietrich.” Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2025. 344 pp. Paperback, ebook. [English translations of three Middle High German heroic epics.]Adams, Tracy, and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, eds. The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France. The Early Modern Exchange. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2023. vi, 283 pp., 20 color illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [Studies that challenge Huizinga's vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance.]Andrea, Alfred J. Expanding Horizons: The Globalization of Medieval Europe, 450–1500. Critical Themes in World History. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2024. xxxii, 152 pp., illus. Paperback, ebook.Beltramini, Enrico. Desecularizing the Christian Past: Beyond R. A. Markus and the Religious-Secular Divide. New York: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 248 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [On the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and early medieval Christianity.]Blair, Ann, and Nicholas Popper, eds. New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. viii, 273 pp., 17 color plates. Hardcover, ebook.Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Beate Fricke. Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Grabowski, Antoni. The Craft of History: Turning History into a Discipline in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, vol. 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. 298 pp. Hardcover, ebook.Luis-Martínez, Zenón, ed. Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse: Unwritten Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. xiv, 336 pp. Hardcover, OA ebook. [Unearths notions of the poet's art that remained largely unwritten in the official literary criticsm of the period.]Mazzio, Carla, ed. Histories of the Future: On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 290 pp., 1 illus. Hardcover, ebook.O'Donnell, Thomas, Jane Gilbert, and Brian Reilly, eds. Medieval French Interlocutions: Shifting Perspectives on a Language in Contact. York: York Medieval Press, 2024. 368 pp., 6 color and 15 black-and-white illus. Hardcover, ebook. [On French as a cosmopolitan language in contact zones including Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities, among others.]Silva, Andie, and Scott Schofield, eds. Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New York: Iter Press, 2024. 353 pp. Paperback, ebook.Stahuljak, Zrinka. Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature. 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