Arc is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 New Voices Open Access program is:
Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
by Mariah Cooper
How did laws, literature, medical, ecclesiastical, and scientific theories of the Middle Ages intersect to define sexual non-consent? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal court proceedings? And how far have we really come today? Building on recent scholarship that discusses tropes of sexual violence in medieval laws and literature and exposes medieval cultural discourses around gender-based crimes, this book explores the gendered burden of proof of rape in medieval England. This book was the resounding winner in our crowdfunding libraries’ vote. The date of its simultaneous publication in gold open access and hardback is October 2024.
Mariah Cooper received her PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland and teaches at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada). She is a specialist in medieval gender and sexuality, focusing on sexual assault in high to late medieval England.
This book was the resounding winner in our crowdfunding libraries’ vote. The date of its simultaneous publication in gold open access and hardback is October 2024.
Its OA funding derives from donations (i) from fellow medievalists (sometimes in lieu of fees due to them): Cristina Dondi (Oxford), Carol Symes (Illinois); (ii) from university libraries: Western University (CA), Tilburg (NL), and Cardiff, Sheffield, and York (UK); and (iii) from partial match-funding from Arc Humanities Press. We are extremely grateful to all these contributors.
New Voices 2023
We’re proud to announce that the second book to receive funding through the New Voices Open Access program was The Museum as Experience: Learning, Connection, and Shared Space edited by Susan Shifrin, founding director of ARTZ Philadelphia, art historian and arts accessibility advocate.
The book was published in November 2023, in the Collection Development, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities series. It brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the kinds of human experiences and interactions that have converted the once-sterile museum into a space of enlivenment and enrichment, as well as physical and emotional well-being. For more details click here.
Its OA funding derives from an anonymous donor, to whom we are extremely grateful, and partial match-funding from Arc Humanities Press.
New Voices 2022
We are delighted to announce that the first winner of Arc’s Future Perfect New Voices Awards Program is:
Tomislav Matić, Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe: The Humanist Kingmaker
This is a study of tumultuous Central European politics, religion and culture, viewed from the perspective of the life and career of John Vitez, an influential figure of the Early Renaissance.
This monograph by Tomislav Matić, from the Croatian Institute of History, has been published in June 2022 in hybrid Open Access format (that is, free online on several digital platforms including OAPEN, Project MUSE and JSTOR, and also in hardback for libraries that wish to have a printed copy).
Its OA funding derives from donations (i) from fellow medievalists (sometimes in lieu of fees due to them): Ellie Woodacre (Winchester), Cristina Pimenta (Porto), Axel Mueller (Leeds), Andrew Elliott (Lincoln), and Nicholas Morrow Williams (Arizona State); (ii) from university libraries: Tilburg (NL), and Cardiff, Sheffield, and York (UK); and (iii) from partial match-funding from Arc Humanities Press. The sum amounted to £4702. We are extremely grateful to all these contributors.