April 5, 2022
Karen Louise Jolly’s new edited volume, with Britton Elliott Brooks, interrogates materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural… READ MORE
April 4, 2022
We are delighted that Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance, featuring selected proceedings of the Romance in Medieval Britain conference held at Cardiff University in 2018, has been published in time… READ MORE
March 10, 2022
To say it was strange to find myself carefully picking my way over a forest of sharp spurs gripping a medieval helmet would be somewhat of an understatement. I was… READ MORE
February 28, 2022
The first book to come out of Boydell & Brewer’s partnership with Durham University IMEMS Press, British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion… READ MORE
February 22, 2022
Deception is part of warfare – or should be if you want to win! But how was it regarded and how did it fit into medieval societies that so valued… READ MORE
February 16, 2022
Stephen J. Joyce’s new book presents a major new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation. “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a… READ MORE
February 14, 2022
With the recent publication of Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance, edited by Victoria Flood and Megan G. Leitch, we wanted to highlight Studies in Medieval Romance from DS Brewer. This… READ MORE
February 3, 2022
It’s quite rare to find an important chronicle which has not been published before, but that is the case for this narrative of the period 1415-1429 in College of Arms… READ MORE
January 25, 2022
In the Anglo-Norman Life of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology preaches to the birds. He tells them to praise and give honour to the Creator, who… READ MORE
December 20, 2021
We are thrilled to share this guest blog post written by Krista A. Murchison, where she discusses her newly published book Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from Ancrene Wisse… READ MORE
Books to Look out for in June 2023