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.

My book series is part of @mip-medpub.bsky.social You can read the description and get in touch! I would love, love, love to read your MS proposal! Look at how gorgeous these covers are! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

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)

For our third Pride Month recommendation, we present: "Ancrene Wisse," edited by Robert Hasenfratz. Within this text we find depictions of both God and Christ as mother, Christ as a lover, depictions of earthly love and celestial love, and more! The early thirteenth-century devotional guide (1/?)

Check out the newest post on the MIP blog: The Bar Convent and Esopus arma Christi rolls and women's devotions, by Mary Morse author of MIP's English Birth Girdles! wmich.edu/medievalpubl... #medieval #medievalstudies #manuscript #manuscriptstudies

This week, we recommend "Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain," edited by Mary Flowers Braswell. Both romances are rich texts with opportunity to discuss gender, sexuality, and the depictions of masculinity and femininity. This edition brings together two very different Middle English (1/?)

Our first Pride recommendation is "The Cloud of Unknowing," edited by Patrick J. Gallacher. Its depiction of God as beyond conception loans itself well to scholarship discussing gender and sexuality. This anonymous, fourteenth-century spiritual guide known as The Cloud of Unknowing invites 1/?

Happy Pride Month everyone! To celebrate, this year we're going to be recommending METS titles that are ripe for a queer reading. Each of the recommended titles have something in them that could benefit from queer studies. What that is, is up to you! To start, we highly recommend reading (1/2)

The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website! In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes. metseditions.org/editions/89r...

For our penultimate summer preview, we've got an highly anticipated title: '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. This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with 1/?

This recommendation from our forthcoming titles is a reminder of the great work the Middle English Text Series does. 'The Middle English "Castle of Love" and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original "Le Chasteau D'Armour"' edited by Dana M. Symons is an edition coming from MIP and METS this 1/?

As we look towards the 60th @kzooicms.bsky.social next week, we have a new blog post from @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social on our website! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

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The Univ. of Rochester is highlighting METS as one of its targets for their annual Day of Giving! All donations up to the first $2k will be matched, so donate now through May 1st to help support this important staple of medieval literature in the classroom. www.givecampus.com/campaigns/57...

Due to the recent termination of almost all NEH grants, one of our partners, the Middle English Texts Series (METS), needs your support to continue their mission to make medieval texts available to all. Your donation will directly support the METS staff. metseditions.org/donate #medieval #METS

If you happen to be at @medievalacademy.bsky.social's meeting this weekend, come say hello! You can find us in the Barker Center, near registration. @harvardmedieval.bsky.social @dgb-mem.bsky.social

And today, we say: Good morning, Cambridge/Mass.! Excited to join the Medieval Academy’s Centennial Meeting at Harvard. @medievalacademy.bsky.social #MAA2025 @harvardmedieval.bsky.social @mip-medpub.bsky.social

On this last day of February we have two lovely TEAMS recommendations from the MIP catalogue! First is "William Caxton's 'Paris and Vienne' and 'Blanchardyn and Eglantine'" ed. by Harriet Hudson. Here are two of the first knightly romances every printed in England (c. 1480s). 1/4

A fine-looking cover — those angels are all business while they slay those dragons of the apocalypse!Thanks, @mip-medpub.bsky.social!

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me. Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

Happy Valentine's Day! This week's recommendation is 'The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,' eds. @katieebarclay.bsky.social & Bronwyn Reddan. 1/3

Our second recommendation for today is Amoryus and Cleopes, a 15th c. poem by John Metham. This edition is edited by Stephen F. Page, and is the first edition published since 1916. The poem portrays the titular star-crossed lovers as they face challenges of chivalry and quests for fame. 1/2

Register for ICMS 2025 and come to Kalamazoo to see us! We always love to connect with authors, both old, new, and yet-to-be!

February's recommendations are all about love! We have two for you today. The first is The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis, edited by @bgastle.bsky.social and @catherinewcarter.bsky.social with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. 1/3

We're so excited for this one!

Our next recommendation of forthcoming titles is "Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings" by Markus Eldegard Mindrebø. Sagas have been thoroughly studied for centuries, but women have frequently been overlooked in scholarly discussions. (1/2)