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Literary, historical, and material analyses that employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. https://linktr.ee/mip_medpub

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Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 6d ago

Of course, we cannot let Disability Pride Month pass without recommending "Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists." This volume sits between work which centers the experience of disabled academics and which provides guidance for supporting disabled students. 1/3

Cover of "Towards an Accessible Academy."
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · last wk.

It's Monday, and the summer is slowly coming to an end, so let's make it a good week with an extra recommendation! Read by the pool, take it to a park, or celebrate the joys of a climate-controlled indoors with a copy of "Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales" edited by Thomas Hahn!

Cover of Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances of Tales next to a text box. Text box reads: "Including... The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, The Avowyng of Arthur, The Awntyrs off Arthur, The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain, The Greene Knight, The Turke and Sir Gawain, The Marriage of Sir Gawain, The Carle of Carlisle, The Jeaste of Sir Gawain, and King Arthur and King Cornwall"
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our penultimate recommendation is Frederika Elizabeth Bain's "Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of Difference." This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, 1/2

Cover of "Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginary." Next to the cover is the Table of Contents reading: Introduction: Attending to Bodies The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment Gendered Dismemberments Animals of Dismemberment The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others Coda: After Dismemberment
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 3w ago

This week, we recommend Christine Schott's "Canon Fanfiction." This book offers a study of novelizations based on Classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature and suggests ways in which such “literary fanfiction” can be harnessed in the classroom. By responding in kind to literature 1/2

Cover of "Canon Fanfiction." Next to the cover is the Table of Contents, reading: Introduction: To the Teacher Chapter 1. Canon Fanfiction: Theory and Practice Chapter 2. Fix-It Lit: Examples from Published Works Chapter 3. A Case Study: Writing Disability and Intersectionality in Medieval Literature Conclusion: Inhabiting the Past Appendix: Teaching Resources
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Next up, we have "Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England" by Peter Dendle. Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a 1/3

Cover of "Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England" by Peter Dendle. Next to the cover is the table of contents, reading: Introduction Backgrounds to Anglo-Saxon Exorcism Medical and Liturgical Responses Demon Possession in Narrative Portrayals Neurological and Behavioral Pathologies in the Early Middle Ages Conclusions and Further Questions
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · last mo.

The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast has released an episode focused on the MIP title "Towards an Accessible Academy"! This episode, presented by Alexandra R. A. Lee and Hope Doherty-Harrison (both editors of the volume), features interviews with another volume editor and several volume 1/2

Graphic featuring the disability pride flag as a background. Text at the top reads: "The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, Disability and Medieval Studies: Then and Now. Featuring readings from and contributors to" followed by the cover of the book "Towards an Accessible Academy."
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · last mo.

Our first recommendation of July is "Sources for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England." The material contained here derives from a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources, chosen to give some idea of the rich diversity of evidence available to the historian of English medicine 1/2

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Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · last mo.

July is Disability Pride Month and to commemorate it MIP will be sharing titles each week that speak to disabilities in the Middle Ages! Titles will include medical and religious responses to disability, teaching the topic, and the experience of disabled medievalists. Stay tuned for recommendations!

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Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · last mo.

As we close out Pride Month, we recommend "Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies" edited by Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman. While Pride Month may be ending, queer medieval studies continues all year, and this title is an excellent foundation for that work.

Cover of "Medieval Futurity" set in a frame featuring the colors of the transgender pride flag, the intersex pride flag, and the progress pride flag. Pink hyacinth and lavender are in the background. Text reading: This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages arose from a translation symposium at the 28th ICMS. The authors treat a wide range of topics, offering a spectacular collection of modern questions of medieval translation. It is certainly an essential text for all scholars of related issues!

Cover of "Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages" edited by Jeanette Beer. Graphic reading: "By examining John Lydgate’s Troy Book, written at the express commission of Henry [V], I will try to articulate the shifting claims and intentions of the English language as a bearer of imperial myth. In particular, I explore the paradox of renewing a myth of continental empire by translating a Latin text into an insular tongue that excludes the very continental objects of its imperial message. -- Christopher Baswell, 'Troy Book: How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin,' p. 215."
Medieval Institute Publications@mip-medpub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium" represents the third volume of essays originating from sessions of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. This volume provides insight into the shifts and trends in Gower studies over time.

Cover of "On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium" edited by R. F. Yeager.Graphic reading: "… I examine here the association between Wrath and gender construction and the taboos that impose silence about that association. By exposing the mechanisms behind these taboos, Gower builds a case against violence." -- Georgiana Donavin, "'When Reason Torneth into Rage": Violence in Book III of the Confessio Amantis," p. 216.