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June 2014

New Monks in Old Habits: The Formation of the Caulite Monastic Order, 1193–1267

Studies and Texts 189. 2014. xvi, 260 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–189–8 • Cloth • $85.00

The eleventh to the thirteenth centuries saw the growth of a number of movements seeking monastic reform. The Caulites, or Valliscaulians, named for the site of their first monastery in northwest Burgundy, were innovators in monastic practice. They expanded throughout a broad region in western Europe, and counted among their benefactors some of the most important noble families of their day. The order lasted almost six centuries, yet remains obscure in the historiography of medieval monasticism.

May 2014

University Education of the Parochial Clergy in Medieval England: The Lincoln Diocese, c.1300–c.1350

Studies and Texts 188. 2014. xiv, 198 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–188–1 • Cloth • $80.00

The need for an educated parochial clergy had been seen from early times. During the first half of the fourteenth century, over twelve hundred rectors of Lincoln diocese received permission to absent themselves from their parishes to attend university. Many dispensations were granted by virtue of Pope Boniface VIII's decretal Cum ex eo of 1298, but the Lincoln bishops' registers reveal a much wider practice. This volume examines this educational phenomenon and concludes with an appendix listing the Lincoln rector/students and the permissions they received.

March 2014

Augustine's Virgilian Retreat: Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum

Studies and Texts 187. 2014. xvi, 192 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–187–4 • Cloth • $80.00

This volume historicizes Augustine's habit of turning to ancient diction through the specific act of quotation, locating this habit in pedagogical and philosophical practices owed to his training. Far from disdaining or rejecting his ancient inheritance, Augustine made his first task at Cassiciacum the articulation of a method by which the pagan auctores represented by Virgil might be made safe for Christianity.

September 2013

The Collectio Burdegalensis: A Study and Register of an Eleventh-Century Canon Law Collection

Studies and Texts 185; Mediaeval Law and Theology 6. 2013. xiv, 248 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–185–0 • Cloth • $95.00

This book offers a study and register of the French canon law collection known as the Collectio Burdegalensis. Considerable attention is devoted to the compiler's use and organisation of legal sources, and a rich historical background of church reform in late eleventh-century Aquitaine is provided. By examining when, where, by whom, and how this collection was made, the study re-evaluates its place and value among other legal collections of the period.

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July 2013

Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations

Studies and Texts 184; British Writers 5. 2013. xvi, 616 pp., plus 2 b/w plates
ISBN 978-0-88844-184-3 • Cloth • $150.00

This volume aims to introduce to a wider audience Peter of Cornwall (c.1140–1221), the diligent and methodical compiler of monumental works, of which one, the Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in Lambeth Palace MS 51, is the focus for this study.

NOTE: Co-published with The Bodleian Library (ISBN 978-1-85124-254-2).  Customers in Europe, including the United Kingdom: please order this title from Bodleian Library Publishing.

July 2013

William Caxton. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose

Studies and Texts 182; British Writers 4. 2013. viii, 652 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–182–9 • Cloth • $150.00

William Caxton’s translation of the prose Ovide Moralisé was the first English version of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Caxton's translation can be used as an entry point into the complex textual tradition of Ovidian commentaries. The present edition seeks to renew interest in Caxton’s text and to encourage study of it in its own right.

NOTE: Co-published with The Bodleian Library (ISBN 978–1–85124–253–5). Customers in Europe, including the United Kingdom: please order this title from Bodleian Library Publishing.

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April 2013

“And Touching Our Society”: Fashioning Jesuit Identity in Elizabethan England

Studies and Texts 183; Catholic and Recusant Texts 3. 2013. xiv, 476 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–183–6 • Cloth • $95.00

The Jesuit mission to Elizabethan England began with the arrival of Edmund Campion and Robert Persons in 1580. This collection brings together thirteen landmark essays by Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, on the Society of Jesus in England, Ireland, and Scotland, four of them appearing in English for the first time.

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March 2013

English School Exercises, 1420–1530

Studies and Texts 181. 2013. xii, 442 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–181–2 • Cloth • $95.00

This edition of twelve collections of grammar-school exercises makes available for the first time the majority of the material in the genre. The exercises – sentences or short prose passages – illustrate the kind of Latin taught in schools at the end of the middle ages and show how schoolmasters went about teaching the language. Together, they also provide a new source for the social and cultural history of England in the century before the Reformation.

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April 2012

Beneventan Discoveries: Collected Manuscript Catalogues, 1978–2008

Edited by Roger E. Reynolds. ST 179; Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana 6. 2012. xxiv, 428 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–179–9 • $90.00

March 2012

Henry of Huntingdon. Anglicanus ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century

ST 180; British Writers 3. 2012. xiv, 562 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–180–5 • $175.00

NOTE: Co-published by The Bodleian Library (ISBN 978–1–85124–284–9). Customers in Europe, including the United Kingdom, please order from Bodleian Library Publishing

November 2011

Odiosa sanctitas: St Peter Damian, Simony, and Reform

ST 177; Mediaeval Law and Theology 4. 2011. xii, 322 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–177–5 • $85.00

September 2011

Of Sodomites, Effeminates, Hermaphrodites, and Androgynes: Sodomy in the Age of Peter Damian

ST 176. 2011. xiv, 538 pp., plus 29 b/w plates. ISBN 978–0–88844–176–8 • $85.00

August 2011

Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian

ST 175. 2011. xii, 214 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–175–1 • $75.00

March 2011

John Gower. Poems on Contemporary Events: The Visio Anglie (1381) and Cronica tripertita (1400)

Edited by David R. Carlson, with a verse translation by A.G. Rigg. ST 174; British Writers 2. 2011. viii, 420 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–174–4 • $150.00

NOTE:Co-published by The Bodleian Library (ISBN 978–1–85124–290–0). Customers in Europe, including the United Kingdom, please order from Bodleian Library Publishing

March 2011

Lady, Hero, Saint: The Digby Play's Mary Magdalene

ST 173. 2011. viii, 232 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–173–7 • $85.00

September 2010

Radulphus Ardens. The Questions on the Sacraments: Speculum uniuersale 8.31–92

ST 171; Mediaeval Law and Theology 3. 2010. viii, 296 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978–0–88844–171–3 • $95.00

July 2010

John Leland. De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men

With the assistance of Caroline Brett. ST 172; British Writers 1. 2010. clx, 868 pp., with 8 black-and-white plates. ISBN 978–0–88844–172–0 • $175.00

NOTE: Co-published by The Bodleian Library (ISBN 978–1–85124–367–9). Customers in Europe, including the United Kingdom, please order from Bodleian Library Publishing

April 2010

Patrons and Painters on Cyprus: The Frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga

ST 169. 2010. 200 pp.; plates. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–169–0 • $95.00

April 2010

Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation

With the assistance of Peter Holmes. ST 170; Catholic and Recusant Texts 2. 2010. xxxiv, 430 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978–0–88844–170–6 • $95.00

November 2009

The Visigoths in History and Legend

ST 166. 2009. xii, 239 pp. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–166–9 • $85.00