April 13, 2024
The fourth series of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources (first published as Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History from 1964–2023) provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence from the… READ MORE
April 12, 2024
What brought you to the field of Biblical analogies in the first place? I have been asked this question quite a few times, and I always feel like I give… READ MORE
April 7, 2024
What is this book about? Tomaso Costo’s Fuggilozio (which translates roughly as “The Cure for Indolence”) is a collection of short stories first published in Naples, Italy, in 1596. As was common… READ MORE
March 21, 2024
Have you ever wanted to quickly consult one section of one of our reference volumes without having to buy the whole book? Or to be able to access all the… READ MORE
March 3, 2024
It is with a sense of discomfort that I write about my new book, as the shadows of unspeakable violence are cast over my homeland Israel/Palestine. The book deals with… READ MORE
February 16, 2024
Was there a Golden Age? A set of persistent questions propelled the writing of this book since before its inception. As a student I read widely through the history and… READ MORE
January 5, 2024
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. Yet the intrusion of humanized experiences into museum spaces has revised this historical vision in the past few… READ MORE
December 13, 2023
Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write this book because it didn’t exist. In a sense that might be part of why all books get… READ MORE
December 5, 2023
Virtually ignored for the past four hundred years and overshadowed by the acclaim accorded Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s final and posthumous novel of 1617, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia… READ MORE
September 11, 2023
Q. Can you summarize what your book is about? What are its findings? The book is a study of Early American impressions, retellings, and appropriations of Merovingian history between 1776 and… READ MORE