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May 2024

Salome and the Kin of Jesus: The Treatises of Maurice of Kirkham and Herbert of Bosham

With the assistance of Samuel Baudinette and Rina Lahav

Studies and Texts 237; British Writers 8 • cxxx, 226 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-237-6 • Cloth • $125

In the twelfth century a matter was debated that still confronts readers of the New Testament, namely, just who constituted the kin of Jesus? The question held considerable significance, politically as well as theologically. It was popularly held that St Anne, mother of the Virgin, had had three husbands, and that James the Less, James the Great and John the Evangelist were all descended from her. However, this story, proposed by the Carolingian commentator Haimo of Auxerre, included the belief that Salome, the mother of the disciples James and John, was in fact a man and St Anne’s third husband.

February 2025

The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

Studies and Texts 234; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World 4 • xxvi, 554 pp. plus 8 colour plates • ISBN 978-0-88844-234-5 • Cloth • $150

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This is the first book-length study of how the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568–1573) was made. The Antwerp Polyglot has long been recognized as one of the most ambitious typographical enterprises of the sixteenth century. Upon completion, it was the most elaborate Bible ever printed, a library of biblical erudition with editions of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin versions together with new scholarly instruments necessary to study and compare them. Yet powerful contemporaries also perceived it as a threat to the Church.

February 2025

Johann Buxtorf, Impresario of Hebrew and Jewish Books

Studies and Texts 239; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World 5 • xii, 276 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-239-0 • Cloth • $125

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Johann Buxtorf (1564–1629) pursued the study of Hebrew and Aramaic and the writings and rituals of Jewish tradition through a long and productive life as a professor at the University of Basel and an impresario of Jewish texts. The focus of this work is on Buxtorf’s scholarly practices – for example, the ways in which he read and made excerpts from a wide variety of Jewish texts, recycled them in his polemical Jüden schul (1603), a treatise on the customs and ceremonies of Ashkenazic Jews, and surveyed them in pioneering if incomplete bibliographies.

March 2025

A Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford: Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364–ca. 1435

Studies and Texts 240; Toronto Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric 2 • xii, 584 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-240-6 • Cloth • $150

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This book documents an unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford that began in the second half of the fourteenth century and continued through the first half of the fifteenth century.

April 2025

Richard Rolle. Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum / Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead

Forthcoming.

Studies and Texts 238; British Writers 9 • clvi, 260 pp. + 12 colour plates • ISBN 978-0-88844-238-3 • Cloth • $150

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At the end of his career, the Yorkshire hermit and mystic Richard Rolle (d. 1349) wrote a Latin commentary on the passages from the Book of Job read in Matins in the Office of the Dead. The text circulated widely in pre-Reformation England, and as it moved beyond Rolle’s close circle of earliest readers, it helped shape religious and literary attitudes in ways that have, until now, been unappreciated and unrecognized.