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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture fyi Tom Thomas Izbicki Collection Development Coordinator Eisenhower Library Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD 21218 (410)516-7173 fax (410)516-8399 >>> Brill Academic Publishers <[log in to unmask]> 01/01/06 2:34 AM >>> History E-Bulletin January 2006 Brill Academic Publishers Leiden / Boston website: www.brill.nl This History E-Bulletin is a free E-bulletin from Brill Academic Publishers. Please send your comments or questions to: [log in to unmask] Design & lay-out: Canvass Marketing If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here HAPPY NEW YEAR! On behalf of acquisitions editors Julian Deahl and Hendrik van Leusen, assistant editors Marcella Mulder and Boris van Gool and everyone here at BRILL we extend you our best wishes for 2006. As of January, we begin a new feature in this E-Bulletin: Book Series of the Month. Every month we select a book series from our History list for special attention. 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Past Tense Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict Edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks ISBN 90 04 14976 7 Hardback (320 pp.) List price EUR 125.- / US$ 169.-This special issue of the Journal of Conflict Archaeology serves as an introduction to the journal and the field. 13 essays deal with battlefield remains in Europe, Africa, North American and Asia. read more on www.brill.nl Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714 The Atlantic Connection Edited by Allan I. Macinnes and Arthur H. Williamson ISBN 90 04 14711 X Hardback (xiv, 394 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 135.- The Atlantic World, 5Shaping the Stuart World examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and especially the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America. read more on www.brill.nl The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance Timothy Kircher ISBN 90 04 14637 7 Hardback (xii, 320 pp.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 184.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 133The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility. read more on www.brill.nl Power and Religion in Baroque Rome Barberini Cultural Policies Peter Rietbergen ISBN 90 04 14893 0 Hardback (xviii, 438 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 135.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 135This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what we now call 'Baroque Culture'. read more on www.brill.nl The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe Edited by Wim Janse and Barbara Pitkin ISBN 90 04 14909 0 Hardback (viii, 576 pp.) List price EUR 169.- / US$ 228.- Dutch Review of Church History, 85This rich volume by an interdisciplinary group of American and European scholars offers an innovative portrait of the complex formation of clerical and confessional identities within the context of the radically changed religious and political situations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. read more on www.brill.nl Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700 Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion Edited by D.J.B. Trim and Mark Charles Fissel ISBN 90 04 13244 9 Hardback (xxxvi, 500 pp., 31 illus.) List price EUR 135.- / US$ 182.- History of Warfare, 34This anthology explains how Europeans used amphibious warfare to exert military and economic power in the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and the adjacent coasts; and how war, commerce and the growth of the European State system sustained one another. read more on www.brill.nl Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period Edited by Hugh Kennedy ISBN 90 04 14713 6 Hardback (xx, 344 pp. (80 pp. fc), 180 illus. (80 pp.)) List price EUR 147.- / US$ 198.- History of Warfare, 35This book investigates the Muslim castles of greater Syria from c.700 to c.1700 from archaeological and historical perspectives. read more on www.brill.nl General Issues in the Study of Medieval Logistics Sources, Problems and Methodologies Edited by John F. Haldon ISBN 90 04 14769 1 Hardback (xiv, 290 pp., illus. on CD-Rom) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- History of Warfare, 36This collection of studies introduces the study of logistics in the late Roman and medieval world as an integral element in the study of resource production, allocation and consumption, and hence of the social and economic history of the societies in question. read more on www.brill.nl "Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew" Herbert of Bosham's Christian Hebraism Deborah L. Goodwin ISBN 90 04 14905 8 Hardback (xii, 300 pp. with Hebrew texts) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 126This engaging, meticulously documented examination of Herbert of Bosham's twelfth-century psalms commentary, which used Hebrew sources, locates the commentary's author at the nexus of contemporary intellectual and social movements and presents a nuanced, integrated perspective on medieval Jewish-Christian relations. read more on www.brill.nl John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation Calvin's First Commentaries R. Ward Holder ISBN 90 04 14926 0 Hardback (x, 318 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 127This book presents a new model for analyzing Calvin's biblical interpretation, rescuing him from the quagmire of anachronistic interpretations. Concentrating upon Calvin's description of biblical interpretation, the book suggests new insights for hermeneutics, exegesis in the Reformations, and Calvin's ecclesiology. read more on www.brill.nl Lutheran Reformation and the Law Edited by Virpi Mäkinen ISBN 90 04 14904 X Hardback (xii, 276 pp.) List price EUR 89.- / US$ 120.- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 112The study based on interdisciplinary research by theologians and legal historians investigating the legal, philosophical and theological aspects of the Lutheran Reformation in the church and society, and the impact of the Reformation on law in the Nordic countries. read more on www.brill.nl Sprache als Akt bei Thomas von Aquin Hanns-Gregor Nissing ISBN 90 04 14645 8 Hardback (xiv, 834 pp. in German) List price EUR 212.- / US$ 303.- Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 87This study offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophy of language of Thomas Aquinas by analysing the acts of human reason as principles of language and by establishing them as the overarching point of reference for semiotic, epistemological, semantic, pragmatic and scientific considerations. read more on www.brill.nl Wind, Water, Work Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology Adam Lucas ISBN 90 04 14649 0 Hardback (xxii, 442 pp., 34 illus.) List price EUR 146.- / US$ 197.- Technology and Change in History, 8This comparative empirical study of milling technology in the pre-modern period draws on the latest research in archaeology, history and sociology to illuminate the social and economic significance of milling and the extent to which the modern period is built on ancient and medieval foundations. read more on www.brill.nl back to top Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance Edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Jan Papy ISBN 90 04 14766 7 Hardback (xiv, 338 pp.) List price EUR 95.- / US$ 125.- Intersections, 6 read more on www.brill.nl The Grammar of Profit: The Price Revolution in Intellectual Context Andrea Finkelstein ISBN 90 04 14958 9 Hardback (x, 374 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 138read more on www.brill.nl Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany Edited by Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett ISBN 90 04 14947 3 Hardback (xxxii, 576 pages with German, Latin, Hebrew texts) List price EUR 145.- / US$ 196.- Studies in Central European Histories, 37 read more on www.brill.nl back to top Table of Contents Via our host IngentaConnect the latest Table of Contents is available for: Journal of Early Modern History, Volume 9, Number 3-4, 2005. Medieval Encounters, Volume 11, Number 1-2, 2005. Vivarium, Volume 43, Number 2, 2005. First Volume of Journal of Conflict Archaeology Published This December the first issue of the new Brill journal Journal of Conflict Archaeology was published. This English-language annual is devoted to battlefield and military archaeology and other spheres of conflict archaeology, covering all periods with a worldwide scope. For the contents of Volume 1 click here. Alerting Services from IngentaConnect Registered users of IngentaConnect can elect to have the latest tables of contents of up to five publications emailed to them when new issues are available. For more information on e-mail alerts for researchers click here. You can also choose to set up free RSS feeds free of charge. RSS means keeping up-to-date by receiving notification when new issues of publications are made available online. Follow the link within the feed to move directly to the tables of contents on IngentaConnect. The feeds show the latest issue numbers and dates together with a link to the full table of contents at www.ingentaconnect.com. For more information on these RSS feeds from IngentaConnect click here. Subscription rates for individuals lowered for 2006 The Journals Price List for 2006 is now available. Please note that many rates for individual subscribers have been lowered significantly. For more information on the new rates for our Medieval and Early Modern Studies journals, please click here where the list may be downloaded. back to top On Frederik II and the Protestant Cause - Frederik II and the Protestant Cause by Paul Douglas Lockhart: '*a detailed account of Danish politics largely unknown to English readers*' D.C. Baxter, Choice, 2005. 'Lockhart does a fine job of leading the reader through the twists and turns of these complex events, and his rehabilitation of Frederik is largely successful. [*] It is a fine achievement and a fascinating story.' Andrew Pettegree, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005 read more on www.brill.nl On The Kiss of Peace - Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West by Kiril Petkov: '* for readers with some basic familiarity with the theory of ritual, with legal history or anthropology, or with the scholarship of the development of the identity of the self, this is a book well worth reading.' Janis M. Gibbs, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005 'Some of Petkov's observations on the psychological impact of peacemaking rituals are profound, even brilliant*Highly recommended' Thomas Renna, The Catholic Historical Review, 2004. read more on www.brill.nl On John Calvin on the Visions of Ezekiel - Historical and Hermeneutical Studies in John Calvin's 'sermons inédits', especially on Ezek. 36-48 by E.A. de Boer: '* this monograph offers an engaging and important contribution to research on Calvin's exegesis. It is an admirable addition to the growing study of Calvin's homiletical works and will surely encourage further study of his Ezekiel sermons.' Jon Balserak, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005 '...the book in the whole is a model of thorough and careful scholarship*' William Young, Renaissance Quarterly. read more on www.brill.nl back to top First titles presented in VOC-History project This December, the first four volumes of Brill's Monograph series Towards A New Age of Partnership - a VOC-History project, have been presented to Prof. Dr. P. Nijkamp, Chairman of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research at Leiden University, the Netherlands. The TANAP project was jointly developed in 1997 and 1998 by the National Archives of the Netherlands at The Hague and the Research School for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies of Leiden University. For more information click here. back to top AHA 2006 Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2006 The 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 5*8, 2006 in downtown Philadelphia. Brill's senior acquisitions editors, Julian Deahl and Hendrik van Leusen, will be attending with a display of latest books, journals and electronic products. They look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the press in the conference book exhibit. back to top THE NORTHERN WORLD North Europe and the Baltic c.400-1700A.D. Peoples Economies and Cultures This new series has got off to a very good start. Since 2001 there have been 18 volumes published and plenty more are in the production process. The purpose of the series was to be a northern counterpart to 'The Medieval Mediterranean' but with an especially inter-disciplinary scope. As the initial blurb said, this was intended to include 'all historical subjects, every branch of archaeology, saga studies, language topics including place-names, art history and architecture, sculpture and numismatics', and indeed books on nearly all of these disciplines have already appeared. History has predominated, with important studies such as The Mother of all Trades (NW 3 by Milja van Tielhof) on the Baltic grain trade in Amsterdam, and Families, Friends and Allies (NW 6 by Heather Tanner) on Boulogne and politics in Northern France and England from c.879-1160, and Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century (NW 13 by J.T. Kotilaine). But there have been a few archaeological themes such as Tools Weapons and Ornaments (NW 1 by Herbert Schultz) on Germanic material culture in pre-Carolingian Central Europe 400-750, and Viking Rus (NW 12 by Wladyslaw Duczko), on the presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. Texts and Runic inscriptions have been covered in Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway (NW 7 by Alison Finlay), and Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions (NW 4 by Tineke Looijenga), while a numismatic volume will soon be appearing: Coinage and History in the North Sea World c. 500-1250 (NW 19 edited by Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams). Geographical coverage has been equally extensive. Medieval England (NW 8), Scotland (NW 16), Scandinavia (NW 9), Germany (NW10), the Low Countries (NW 14), the Baltic and Russia (NW 13 and 15), Iceland (NW 17) and North Sea studies (NW 5 and 18). This series is intended to make monographs on north Germany, the Slav lands and Russia available to English-speaking readers (all volumes so far have been in English). The series has happily coincided with the opening up of Eastern Europe and the range of topics reflects this. It also reflects and makes the vibrant northern societies which developed and matured in the medieval and early modern period much better known. 20 December 2005 Barbara Crawford, St. Andrews Editorial board: Barbara Crawford, St. Andrews David Kirby, London Jon-Vidar Sigurdsson, Oslo Ingvild Řye, Bergen Richard W. Unger, Vancouver Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, Warsaw Proposals can be sent to: Brill Academic Publishers, attn. Marcella Mulder at [log in to unmask] or P.O. Box 9000, 2300 PA Leiden, the Netherlands Standing Orders: For your convenience, Northern World is available on standing order basis. Simply indicate the volume number from which you would like your order to commence. We will then automatically send you each new volume. The standing order ensures that your series library is complete and that you receive each new volume upon its publication. Titles Published or Forthcoming: In honor of this first Book Series of the Month we are offering all Northern World titles at special prices throughout the month! Mention code NW48001 with your order and receive 25% discount on Northern World titles. Special offer prices are valid until 1 February 2006. Tools, Weapons and Ornaments Germanic Material Culture in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750 Herbert Schutz ISBN 90 04 12298 2 Hardback (lvi, 256 pp., 152 illus.) List price EUR 162.- / US$ 232.- Special offer price EUR 121.- / US$ 174.- The Northern World, 1read more on www.brill.nl Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves ISBN 90 04 12341 5 Hardback (xviii, 268 pp., 36 illus.) List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.- Special offer price EUR 81.- / US$ 115.- The Northern World, 2read more on www.brill.nl The 'Mother of all Trades' The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late 16th to the Early 19th Century Milja van Tielhof ISBN 90 04 12546 9 Hardback (xviii, 372 pp., 32 illus.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 184.- Special offer price EUR 96.- / US$ 138.- The Northern World, 3read more on www.brill.nl Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions Tineke Looijenga ISBN 90 04 12396 2 Hardback (xiv, 410 pp.) List price EUR 111.- / US$ 159.- Special offer price EUR 83.- / US$ 119.- The Northern World, 4read more on www.brill.nl An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 Alexia Grosjean ISBN 90 04 13241 4 Hardback (xvi, 312 pp., 8 illus., 3 maps) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 142.- Special offer price EUR 74.- / US$ 106.- The Northern World, 5read more on www.brill.nl Families, Friends and Allies Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c.879-1160 Heather J. Tanner ISBN 90 04 13243 0 Hardback (xxiv, 400 pp.) List price EUR 105.- / US$ 150.- Special offer price EUR 78.- / US$ 112.- The Northern World, 6read more on www.brill.nl Fagrskinna, A Catalogue of the Kings of Norway A Translation with Introduction and Notes Alison Finlay ISBN 90 04 13172 8 Hardback (328 pp.) List price EUR 87.- / US$ 124.- Special offer price EUR 65.- / US$ 93.- The Northern World, 7read more on www.brill.nl Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves ISBN 90 04 13613 4 Hardback (vi, 392 pp.) List price EUR 112.- / US$ 160.- Special offer price EUR 84.- / US$ 120.- The Northern World, 8read more on www.brill.nl Queen Margrete I (1353-1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union Vivian Etting ISBN 90 04 13652 5 Hardback (xviii, 254 pp., 75 illus.) List price EUR 135.- / US$ 193.- Special offer price EUR 101.- / US$ 144.- The Northern World, 9read more on www.brill.nl Frederik II and the Protestant Cause Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596 Paul Douglas Lockhart ISBN 90 04 13790 4 Hardback (xxii, 388 pp., 12 illus.) List price EUR 105.- / US$ 150.- Special offer price EUR 78.- / US$ 112.- The Northern World, 10read more on www.brill.nl Sagas, Saints and Settlements Edited by Gareth Williams and Paul Bibire ISBN 90 04 13807 2 Hardback (x, 158 pp.) List price EUR 50.- / US$ 72.- Special offer price EUR 37.- / US$ 54.- The Northern World, 11read more on www.brill.nl Viking Rus Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe Wladyslaw Duczko ISBN 90 04 13874 9 Hardback (xiv, 290 pp., 72 illus.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 184.- Special offer price EUR 96.- / US$ 138.- The Northern World, 12read more on www.brill.nl Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century Windows on the World J.T. Kotilaine ISBN 90 04 13896 X Hardback (xviii, 614 pp., 32 illus.) List price EUR 147.- / US$ 198.- Special offer price EUR 110.- / US$ 148.- The Northern World, 13read more on www.brill.nl High Germans in the Low Countries German Merchants and Commerce in Golden Age Antwerp Donald J. Harreld ISBN 90 04 14104 9 Hardback (xii, 220 pp.) List price EUR 88.- / US$ 126.- Special offer price EUR 66.- / US$ 94.- The Northern World, 14read more on www.brill.nl The Discovery of the Baltic The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) Nils Blomkvist ISBN 90 04 14122 7 Hardback (x, 774 pp.) List price EUR 95.- / US$ 128.- Special offer price EUR 71.- / US$ 96.- The Northern World, 15read more on www.brill.nl The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49 Edited by Richard D. Oram ISBN 90 04 14206 1 Hardback (xiv, 346 pp., 28 illus.) List price EUR 130.- / US$ 176.- Special offer price EUR 97.- / US$ 132.- The Northern World, 16read more on www.brill.nl Icelanders and the Kings of Norway Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts Patricia Pires Boulhosa ISBN 90 04 14516 8 Hardback (xvi, 256 pp.) List price EUR 115.- / US$ 164.- Special offer price EUR 86.- / US$ 123.- The Northern World, 17read more on www.brill.nl Network North Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 Steve Murdoch ISBN 90 04 14664 4 Hardback (xii, 440 pp., 12 illus.) List price EUR 147.- / US$ 198.- Special offer price EUR 110.- / US$ 148.- The Northern World, 18read more on www.brill.nl Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. 500-1250 Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald Edited by Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams ISBN 90 04 14777 2 Hardback (xiv, 794 pp.) List price EUR 159.- / US$ 215.- Special offer price EUR 119.- / US$ 161.- The Northern World, 19read more on www.brill.nl Kinship and Clientage Highland Clanship 1451-1609 Alison Cathcart ISBN 90 04 15045 5 Hardback (288 pp., 8 illus.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Special offer price EUR 74.- / US$ 100.- The Northern World, 20 read more on www.brill.nl back to top ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html