An interview with Michael D. Bailey

An interview with Marina Rustow

An interview with Miri Rubin

How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present...

An interview with Roland Betancourt

Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...

The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...

Darke investigates the Islamic origins of Gothic architecture, tracing its history through pre-Islamic Syria through the Islamic empires to the tall European cathedrals between the 12th and 17th centuries...

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,

Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...

Lee looks at the relationship between humanists of northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire...

Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium...

Despite the competition it posed to the Romans’ eastern empire and the longevity it enjoyed compared to its Iranian predecessors,..

Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?

Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.

McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...

The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England...

Cecil weaves together material from the Sanskrit text Skandapurāṇa, physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons to provide groundbreaking insight into the earliest known community of Śiva devotees: the Pāśupatas...

Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets...