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Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
  • The Woman in the Mirror
  • Morgan Powell
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these “vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not “women readers” but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.

The Third Crusade (1189-1192)
  • New Interpretations
  • Edited by John D. Hosler, Stephen Bennett
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
  • Fresh perspectives on one of the largest and most complex crusades ever launched, covering all aspects of the expeditions - from preparation and commencement to results and consequences.

    Saladin's victory at the Battle of Hattin in 1187 produced three profound results: a shattered Jerusalem army, a pope falling dead from the news, and the launching of the Third Crusade in response. Under the banners of renowned rulers like Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus, and Frederick Barbarossa, men and women from across Latin Christendom took the Cross and joined in the largest western military expedition since Urban II's call to arms in 1095 for the First Crusade.

    Long dormant in the renewal of crusade studies in the twenty-first century, the Third Crusade has in recent years begun to attract increased scholarly attention. Adopting a cross-cultural focus that examines both western and eastern societies, this book offers a substantial and timely reappraisal. Chapters shed light on the crusade's causes, context, organization, participants, preparations, commencement, military progress, and short and long-term consequences, and scrutinise well-known sources through new lenses. They also engage with communication theory, the history of emotions, textual criticism and textuality, historiography, archaeology, and topography. Together, they provide both a fresh view of this complex and multifaceted war and a useful survey of its major contours.

Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
  • Daphna Ephrat
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This book explores the creation of saintly spheres surrounding Sufi masters who functioned as embodiments of Islamic sainthood and imprinted their tangible mark on the land. Situated in the Syrian milieu of the counter-crusader period that was marked by intense religious excitement and re-sanctification of the landscape, the study centres on the role of Sufi saints as revivers of the prophetic legacy and as patrons of fellow believers, and their association with the glorious history of ancient Syrian cities and the expanding sacred landscape. Based upon a variety of literary sources, including hitherto unexplored saintly vitas, the investigation aims to contribute to an understanding of the process through which the religious and charismatic leadership of the venerated shaykhs was sustained and diffused, and their holiness emplaced and commemorated. This book is available as Open Access.

Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War
  • Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  • Edited by Claire McIlroy, Anne M. Scott
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's ground-breaking Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects private human lives caught up in public and political situations. The essays, many of them influenced by the burgeoning field of study in the history of emotions, examine the often unconsidered effects of war—on the individual and on the commune—as revealed in the study of well-known texts such as Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, as well as other lesser-known works that mirror the concerns of the society in which they were conceived. These latter range from the twelfth-century chansons of the Crusades, through the fifteenth-century French and English political works of Alain Chartier, to the twentieth-century anti-war satirical films of Mario Monicelli.

The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
  • Georgina Pitt
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process of reform. There has been a tendency to assume that these reforms would obviously be beneficial, but Alfred’s elites were not to know that in advance. What motivated them to do as their king bid them? This book analyzes how objects and behaviours shaped aristocratic response to the reform program, using assemblage theory and social practice theory. The Alfred Jewel (as shown on the cover) exercised a powerful persuasive agency in Alfredian reform. Broadening the frame of inquiry beyond textual evidence, giving objects and behaviours their due, permits a richer and more nuanced understanding.

Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter
  • The Middle English and Latin Versions
  • Edited by James H. Morey
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter was one of the most important collections of psalm verses in the Middle Ages. Commonly found in primers and books of hours, it was the primary medium for lay people to imitate the monastic divine office, even as it offered concessions to harsh personal circumstances. This edition presents the Middle English versions in parallel, followed by the Latin version in the Lincoln Thornton manuscript. An introductory review considers the psalter in general and the origins of abbreviated psalters in particular. Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter is the most widespread text in the abbreviated psalter tradition and it illustrates an important aspect of lay devotional life from the eighth to the sixteenth century. The English versions contribute both to the history of English prose and to the history of biblical translation in English.

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
  • Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
  • Edited by Mark C. Amodio
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory, an interdisciplinary school of thought heavily influenced by John Miles Foley, whose work provides the jumping-off point for this volume. The book includes a useful introduction to the history of oral theory and Foley’s ground-breaking and influential work. This book is available as Open Access.

Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century
  • Thomas Ward
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.Two moments frame the treatment of American colonialism’s physical and mental pathways and the liberative response to them, known as liberation thinking. These are St. Thomas More’s Utopia, published in 1516, and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s thousand-page Nueva crónica y buen gobierno, completed one hundred years later. These works and others by Erasmus and Bartolomé de las Casas trace the development of the idea of human liberation in the face of degrading chattel and encomienda slavery as well as the peonage that gave rise to the hacienda system in the Americas. Catholic humanists such as More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma developed arguments, theories, and even theology that attempted to deconstruct those subordinating structures.

Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
  • Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200–1700
  • Edited by Mercedes Pérez Vidal
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women’s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.

Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
  • The Meuse Region, 1250-1850
  • Sander Govaerts
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe’s Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers’ long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint. This book is available as Open Access.

Beowulf by All
  • Community Translation and Workbook
  • Edited by Jean Abbott, Elaine Treharne, Mateusz Fafinski
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of the poet’s views of heroism, conflict, loyalty, and the human condition. The poem is widely taught in schools and universities, and has been adapted, modernized, and translated dozens of times, but this is the first large-scale polyvocal translation. Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation. We hope that it turns the common question "Why do we need yet another translation?" on its head, asking instead, "How can we hear from more translators?," and "How can previously unheard, or marginalized voices, find space, like this, in the world of Old English Studies?" With this in mind we invite a new generation of readers to try their own hand at translating Beowulf in the workbook space provided opposite this community translation. It is often through the effort of translating that we see the reality of the original. This book is available as Open Access.

The Many Joans of Arc
  • Embodying Medievalism Worldwide
  • Ellie Crookes
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This book centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc—a global medievalist trend of women being celebrated as their nation’s own Joan. Though these women bear the name of a medieval French woman, use of the title is bound to diverse and shifting preoccupations, prejudices, and prerogatives of the post-medieval world. Joan’s legend has been moulded to fit a vast array of sometimes strange, often problematic agendas. The overarching aim of this book is to demystify the implications that arise when the ghost of Joan leaves the temporal and spatial bounds of medieval France to haunt post-medieval spaces and possess post-medieval personas. 

Shakespeare and Superheroes
  • Jeffrey Kahan
  • Published by:
    Arc Humanities Press
  • This short book offers a series of thought experiments and invites Shakespeareans to rediscover the wonders and pleasures of fandom. Shakespeare Studies conferences and Comic-Cons are celebrations, unless, of course, the participants involved forget the nature of play. And that, in the instance of formal literary study, is arguably what has happened. Shakespeare and Superheroes does not argue that comic books can or should replace Shakespeare. The goal is to explore both, to think of comics as allusively Shakespearean, telling similar stories, expressing similar concerns, exploring similar values.  Readers of Shakespeare and Superman alike may need to re-evaluate their assumptions and hierarchies; Shakespeare and Superheroes encourages all readers to engage in and to respond to literary arguments using their own personal tastes, interests, and experiences. The author argues that the more readers trust themselves, the more they bring of themselves to the text or texts, the greater the rewards.
Islam and Extraterrestrial Life

Islam and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Parandis Tajbakhsh
  • Published online:
    30 June 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2026
  • This Element offers a general overview of the topic of extraterrestrial life – its possible existence, forms, and cultural as well as religious views on it – with particular attention to Islamic perspectives, past and present. It begins with a brief survey of the history of the debate over the plurality of the worlds as it unfolded in Christendom, followed by a concise, albeit non-technical, summary of the recent advances in the search for extrasolar planets and for life in the cosmos. The focus then shifts to the Qur'ān and hadīth as foundational sources for developing an Islamic perspective on the question of extraterrestrial life. Finally, several Islamic concepts that might require re-evaluation in light of the discovery of extraterrestrial life are presented, underscoring the urgent need for the development of an Islamic astrotheology.
Early Christian Georgian Literature

Early Christian Georgian Literature
  • Making Christian Identity in an Iranic Culture
  • Stephen H. Rapp Jr
  • Published online:
    30 June 2026
    Print publication:
    06 August 2026
  • This Element re-evaluates the genesis and early development of Georgian literature. Sparked by the Christian invention of a Georgian script ca. 400 AD, this literature was a product of the Christianization of the Caucasus region. But to what extent was early Georgian literature a Christian one? What were the ecclesiastical, cultural, and linguistic contexts of Georgian literature? And how did Georgia's, and Caucasia's, existing ties to Iranian cultural world affect the evolution of a distinctly Georgian literature?

  • Chapter 2 - Voices of Dissent

  • Omaar Hena, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    British Black and Asian Poetry
    Print publication:
    30 June 2026, pp 60-97
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    Chapter 2 focuses on the dramatic monologues of Valerie Bloom, Jean “Binta” Breeze, and Amryl Johnson in the late 1980s and mid 1990s. In the aftermath of the radicalism of Black British feminist organizations in the 1970s, the politics of dissent remained an abiding force both in racialized feminism and in Black British women’s poetry. Bloom’s personae take on different postures towards Black feminist politics in Touch Mi! Tell Mi!. In Riddym Ravings, Breeze writes “meta-monologues” to take on the voice of marginalized, socially alienated, often psychically disturbed Black female figures. In contrast, Amryl Johnson composes a “multiple monologue” in Gorgons, which adapts the myth of Medusa in a contemporary context. While these authors certainly do not provide a blueprint for Black feminist praxis, their dramatic monologues voice dissent as constitutive of any racial politics of solidarity as an open-ended problem and unfinished process.

  • Introduction

  • Omaar Hena, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
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    British Black and Asian Poetry
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    30 June 2026, pp 1-23
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    The Introduction delineates a core contradiction structuring British Black and Asian poetry over the past fifty years. This book tracks poetry’s increasing centrality in British culture even as poets and poems self-reflexively engage with deepening social inequality and racial violence. I situate my study in the context of post-1970s economic decline, in the field of Black British studies especially in the critical work of Stuart Hall, and in conversation with recent scholarship on poetry and race. Looking to T. W. Adorno’s concept of the “nonidentical,” I maintain that poems – as mediations of struggle, conflict, and contestation – stage crises of social inequality through crises of aesthetic representation. In particular, this book reads for poetic experimentations in persona as the key mechanism for inventing forms of racial politics, including resistance, dissent, recognition, progressive transformation, and abolition. The remainder of the Introduction provides an overview of the ensuing chapters, arguing that poetry remains a vital art form within an increasingly interconnected and deeply divided global Britain.

  • Works Cited

  • Omaar Hena, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
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    British Black and Asian Poetry
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    30 June 2026, pp 235-248
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  • Notes

  • Omaar Hena, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
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    British Black and Asian Poetry
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    30 June 2026, pp 229-234
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  • Omaar Hena, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
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    British Black and Asian Poetry
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    30 June 2026, pp x-x
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