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Jan M. Ziolkowski general editor

Daniel Donoghue old english editor

Danuta Shanzer medieval latin editor

Alice-Mary Talbot byzantine greek editor

THE VULGATE BIBLEVolume VI: The New Testament Douay-Rheims TranslationEdited by Angela M. Kinney Introduction by Swift Edgar

Volume VI presents the entirety of the New Testament and completes the six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Chris-tian tradition through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, music, and education, and its contents lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and political history through the Renaissance. At the end of the sixteenth century, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translat-ed the Vulgate Bible into English to combat the influence of Protestant vernacular Bibles.Vol. VI: The New Testament doml 21 2013 1,584 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-99670-0

OLD ENGLISH POEMS OF CHRIST AND HIS SAINTSEdited and translated by Mary Clayton

Religious piety has rarely been ani-mated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great in-ventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different poems, for example, Christ expels Lucifer from heaven, resists the devil’s temptation on earth, mounts the cross with zeal to face death, harrows hell at the urging of John the Baptist, appears in disguise to pilot a ship, and presides over the Last Judgment. Satan and the fallen angels lament their plight in a vividly imagined hell and plot against Christ and his saints. As a collection these ten anonymous poems vividly demonstrate the extraordinary hybrid that emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian themes.

Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints comple-ments the saints’ lives found in The Old English Poems of Cynewulf, DOML 23.doml 27 2013 380 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05318-2

YSENGRIMUSEdited and translated by Jill Mann

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in the course of which the wolf is beaten to a pulp, flayed (twice), mutilated, and finally eaten alive by sixty-six pigs. The cartoon-like violence of the narrative is motivated not by a gratuitous delight in cruelty but by a specific satiric aim: the wolf represents the hybrid ecclesiastic who is both abbot and bishop, whose greed is comparable to the wolf ’s. The details of the narrative are carefully crafted to make the wolf ’s punishment fit the abbot-bishop’s crime, creating a topsy-turvy world in which the preda-tor becomes prey.doml 26 2013 576 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-72482-2

THE WELL-LADEN SHIPEgbert of LiègeTranslated by Robert Gary Babcock

The Well-Laden Ship (Fecunda ratis) is an early-eleventh-century Latin poem composed of ancient and medieval proverbs, fables, and folktales. Compiled by Egbert of Liège, it was planned as a first reader for beginning students. This makes it one of the few surviving works from the Middle Ages writ-ten explicitly for schoolroom use. Most of the content derives from the Bible, especially the wisdom books, from the Church Fathers,

and from the ancient poets, notably Vergil, Juvenal, and Horace; but, remarkably, Egbert also included Latin versions of much folklore from the spoken languages. It features early forms of nursery rhymes, folktales, and even fairy tales. The Well-Laden Ship, which survives in a single medieval manuscript, has been edited previously only once (in 1889) and has never been translated. It will fascinate anyone inter-ested in proverbial wisdom, folklore, medieval education, or medieval poetry.doml 25 2013 426 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05127-0

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ACCOUNTS OF MEDIEVAL CONSTANTINOPLEThe PatriaTranslated by Albrecht Berger

The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Con-stantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by an anonymous author. The Patria constitutes a unique record of popular traditions about the city, especially its pagan statues, held by its medieval inhabitants. At the same time it is the only Medieval Greek text to present a panorama of the city as it existed in the middle Byzantine period. Despite its problems of historical reliability, the Patria is still one of our main guides for the urban history of medieval Constantinople. This translation makes the entire text of the Patria accessible in English for the first time.doml 24 2013 432 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-72481-5

THE OLD ENGLISH POEMS OF CYNEWULFCynewulfEdited and translated by Robert E. Bjork

Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems attest to a pow-erfully inventive imagination, deeply learned in Christian doctrine and traditional verse-craft. Runic letters spelling out the name Cynewulf appear in four poems: Christ II (or The Ascension), Juliana, The Fates of the Apostles, and Elene. To these a fifth can be added, Guthlac B, because of similarities in style and vocabulary, but any signature (if one ever existed) has been lost because its ending lines are missing. In these works Cynewulf reveals an expert control of structure as shown from the changes he makes to his Latin sources and a flair for extended similes and dramatic dialogue.doml 23 2013 288 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-07263-3

LITERARY WORKSAlan of LilleEdited and translated by Winthrop Wetherbee

A product of the cathedral schools that played a foundational role in the so-called Twelfth- Century Renaissance, Alan of Lille was renowned for the vast learning which earned him the title of Doctor Universalis. His writings include many significant contributions to the development of systematic theology, but he was also the most important Latin poet of his time, the great age of Medieval Latin poetry. The works included in this volume aim to give imag-inative expression to the main tenets of Alan’s theology, but the forms in which his vision is embodied are strikingly original and informed by a rich awareness of poetic tradition.doml 22 2013 672 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05996-2

THE LIFE OF SAINT SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIANNiketas StethatosTranslated by Richard P. H. Greenfield

Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Ortho-dox Church. But in his own time a cloud of controversy surrounded him and the suspicion of heresy tainted his reputation long after-ward. The Life was written more than thirty years after Symeon’s

death by his disciple and apologist the theolo-gian Niketas Stethatos. An unusually valuable piece of Byzantine hagiography, it not only presents compelling descriptions of Symeon’s visions, mystical inspiration, and role as a mo-nastic founder, but also provides vivid glimpses into the often bitter and unpleasantly conflicted politics of monasticism and the construction of sanctity and orthodoxy at the zenith of the medieval Byzantine Empire. This translation makes The Life accessible to English readers for the first time. It is based on an authoritative edition of the Greek.doml 20 2013 448 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 9780674057982

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THE VULGATE BIBLEEdited by Swift Edgar and Angela M. KinneyVol. I: The Pentateuch doml 1 2010 1,200 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05534-6Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part A doml 4 2011 1,168 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-99667-0Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part B doml 5 2011 816 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-06077-7Vol. III: The Poetical Books doml 8 2011 1,232 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-99668-7Vol. IV: The Major Prophetical Books doml 13 2012 1,168 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-99669-4Vol. V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees doml 17 2012 672 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-06635-9

THE ARUNDEL LYRICS. THE POEMS OF HUGH PRIMASEdited and translated by Christopher J. McDonoughdoml 2 2010 336 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05557-5

THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPTComplete Texts and The Fight at FinnsburgEdited and translated by R. D. Fulkdoml 3 2010 400 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05295-6

THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICTBenedict of NursiaEdited and translated by Bruce L. Venardedoml 6 2011 304 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05304-5

OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVESEdited and translated by Daniel Anlezarkdoml 7 2011 368 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05319-9

SATIRESSextus AmarciusTranslated by Ronald E. Pepin

EUPOLEMIUSEdited and translated by Jan M. Ziolkowskidoml 9 2011 448 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-06002-9

HISTORIESRicher of Saint-RémiEdited and translated by Justin LakeVol. I: Books 1–2 doml 10 2011 448 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-06003-6Vol. II: Books 3–4 doml 11 2011 1 line illus. 496 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-06159-0

MIRACLE TALES FROM BYZANTIUMTranslated by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnsondoml 12 2012 480 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05903-0

APOCALYPSEPseudo-Methodius

AN ALEXANDRIAN WORLD CHRONICLEEdited and translated by Benjamin Garstaddoml 14 2012 464 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05307-6

OLD ENGLISH SHORTER POEMSVolume I: Religious and DidacticEdited and translated by Christopher A. Jonesdoml 15 2012 496 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05789-0

THE HISTORYMichael AttaleiatesTranslated by Anthony Kaldellis and Dimitris Krallisdoml 16 2012 5 maps 688 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05799-9

ONE HUNDRED LATIN HYMNSAmbrose to AquinasEdited and translated by Peter G. Walsh with Christopher Huschdoml 18 2012 544 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05773-9

THE OLD ENGLISH BOETHIUSwith Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King AlfredEdited and translated by Susan Irvine and Malcolm R. Godden doml 19 2012 480 pp. cloth $29.95 / £19.95 isbn 978-0-674-05558-2

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