Our penultimate recommendation for April is the incomparable "Fools and Folly" edited by Clifford Davidson. This title analyzes the Fool in many contexts, and would make an excellent addition to any collection!

Medieval People, volume 40, is coming out soon! Learn more and subscribe at wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Coming soon to our Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture series: "Paul Dolnstein and His Sketchbook: The Soldiering Experience of an Early Landsknecht, 1490–1505," edited by Danielle Mead Skjelver, Casper J. van Dijk, and Stegan Krause!

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Our next title focuses on games and game theory! "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell is a fantastic addition to any library.

Welcome home, Artemis II! Image: The Fleet of Aeneas Arrives in Sight of Italy (Aeneid, Book III), The Met Museum, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1925.

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For the month of April, we're recommending titles to do with fun, fools, and frolics! Check back every week for a new title. To kick us off, we recommend "Blandin de Cornoalha", A Comic Occitan Romance, edited by Wendy Pfeffer and translated by Margaret Burrell and Wendy Pfeffer.

We're glad to hear Artemis II has re-established contact after passing behind the moon! Fascination with the moon is as old as humanity, and we are lucky to get to witness such huge bounds in human ingenuity and science. Image credit: Cosmography, Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, W.73, fol. 4r.

Forthcoming from MIP and METS, it's "The Middle English Seven Sages of Rome" edited by Rory G. Critten and Alison Wiggins. The Middle English Seven Sages of Rome was translated from French ca. 1300 by an anonymous writer whom scholarship locates in London. The text relates a tale-telling 1/4

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Our final recommendation of March is "Hiberno-Latin Saints' 'Lives' in the Seventh Century" by John Higgins!

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an online, peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality in medieval studies. Volume 60, number 2 is available now! #medievalsky

Another week, another recommendation for you! Today we recommend Colin A. Ireland's "The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede".

☘️ #StPatricksDay and you can’t wait for a pub night? Impress everyone by explaining how the hagiography of St Patrick served to create a narrative of early Irish history and support the elites: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #medievalsky @mip-medpub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

ROMARD is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) and published by Medieval Institute Publications on an annual basis. ROMARD is currently accepting submissions for our 2026 issue. #medievalsky

Our second recommendation is the fascinating "The Third Gender and Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints'" by Rhonda L. McDaniel!

Did you know MIP also publishes journals? Here's a highlight from one of our journal series, Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks! (New issue coming soon!) #medievalsky #academicsky

Our first recommendation for March is (drum roll please)... "John Capgrave 'The Life of Saint Katherine" edited by Karen A. Winstead!

Medieval Ecocriticisms is the first regular venue dedicated to medieval ecocritical studies, and seeks out the most current and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and the environment in the global Middle Ages. 2025's issue is themed around Plant Temporalities!

Happy March! With spring fast approaching, we're restarting our book recommendation series. For our first month, we're recommending books dealing with hagiography. Check back with us every week for a new title recommendation! Image: Saint Catherine, The Met, 1982.47.3b.

Since it's still Library Lovers' Month, you might as well expand your collection by learning about other collections!

Studies in Iconography is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. Check out this highlight! #medievalsky #academicsky

February is National Library Lovers' Month, so why not celebrate and add a new title to your shelf?

Coming soon from the TEAMS Commentary Series and MIP! "Nicholas of Lyra's Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis" edited and translated by Philip D. W. Krey and Ian Christopher Levy.

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Happy Valentine's Day from MIP! Don't worry if you forgot to pick up the cards for your loved ones, we've got you covered.

Coming this summer from MIP's Christianities Before Modernity series, "Conceiving Heroic Christianity in Early Medieval England" by David G. Pedersen!

Check out the new releases that have joined us here at MIP! linktr.ee/mip_medpub

As it is the first Tuesday in February, in accordance with xkcd's comic “Misconceptions”, check out some titles that discuss common misconceptions about the Middle Ages! Image: Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1990. (1/2)

#internationalplaydate Day, but no one has time? Just pick up "Gaming the Medieval English Text" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell (Series Ludic Cultures), which is all about multidimensional games with readers! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @mip-medpub.bsky.social #medievalsky

Today is Giving Tuesday! Help support the publication of high-quality research in medieval and early modern studies, including monographs and edited collections, classroom texts, peer-reviewed journals and more, by donating to the Medieval Institute Publications fund! wmich.edu/medieval/giv...

Coming soon! Out in November, Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissloution in Old English Literature applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields... (1/2) wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

There's a new addition to the Middle English Text Series! We're excited to announce the publication of 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau d'amour"' ed. by Dana M. Symons.For more information, visit our website: wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Our final entertainment recommendation for August is "Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games," edited by Allison Levy. Why do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the

Performances and mummings were another form of entertainment in the Middle Ages, and this text will give you fantastic examples. "Mummings and Entertainments" edited by Claire Sponsler, contains multiple different writings of John Lydgate. John Lydgate, the Benedictine monk of Bury, was a

We promised you mirth, and this text will explain exactly how medieval peoples conveyed this joy to audiences. "Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren" edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman, focuses on the concept of story in

Competition is a key part of games, so today we're highlighting a text that focuses on that: "Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tale" edited by Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger. Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales,

Happy August! To celebrate the end of summer, we're spending all month highlighting playful texts. Games, mummings, and mirth await! To kick us off, we have to recommend one of our newest titles: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero AX/2

Our final post for disability pride month is "Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections," edited by E. Gordon Whatley, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch. While many of the hagiographies in this volume offer ideas on the body and disability, pay particular attention to the chapter (1/5)

Jumping back to the TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, this week we recommend "John Stone's Chronicle: Christ's Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472," selected, translated, and introduced by Meriel Connor. It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's (1/2)

Our next disability studies recommendation is 'The Book of Margery Kempe," edited by Lynn Staley. This title features healing, possession, uncontrollable weeping, and many other events that lend themselves to a lens of disability studies. Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery (1/5)

Great news! "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell is now available. This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the 1/3

Our first recommendation is a title from TEAMS Documents of Practice Series, 'Source for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England,' selected, introduced, and translated by Carole Rawcliffe. This volume features sections on mental illness, the body, epidemics, and medical ethics, and so (1/4)

New release announcement! "Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature" edited by Rebecca Menmuir is available for purchase from De Gruyter Brill! What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be ‘authentic’ in the Middle Ages or 1/4

To emphasize the importance of disability studies and accessibility within academia, we recommend the forthcoming title 'Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists,' edited by Alexandra R.A. Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison, and E.R.P. Champion. This volume sits between (1/?)

July in the United States is Disability Pride Month, so it's only right that our theme this month is all about disability and disability studies. Each title we share this month will have aspects that would benefit from disability studies. Check back every Friday for a new recommendation!

Our final Pride Month recommendation is "Prose Merlin" edited by John Conlee. Many tales are contained within this text, but a good starting point for a queer interpretation would be the establishment of the homosocial bonds of King Arthur's court. This anonymously authored Middle English (1/?)

We are happy to announce the newest installment in our New Queer Medievalisms series: 'Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature' by Christopher Vaccaro! Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English (1/4)