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Xuanzang (600 - 664 AD) is one of the most important figures of Buddhism, whose travelogue about India and Central Asia (Da Tang Xiyu ji) was widely celebrated. At the same time he is the most important translator of Chinese Buddhism, unique in…

This book originated as a series of papers delivered at a Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture in Honor of J. E. Cross, held in conjunction with the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 1996. The purpose…

The Tria sunt, named for its opening words, was a widely used and highly ambitious book composed in England in the late fourteenth century during a revival of interest in the art of poetry and prose.

The backbone of this comprehensive guide to…

Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent,…

Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adaptation and transmission of cultural inheritance. The…

Cheng Weishi Lun (Chinese: 成唯識論; pinyin: Chéng Wéishì Lùn) or Discourse on the Perfection of Consciousness-only, is a comprehensive discourse on the central teachings of Yogacara framed around Vasubandhu's seminal Yogacara work,…

The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical…

The Donatio Constantini (ca. 8th CE) is one the most important forgeries in all the western world, arguably the most important in all of human history. Purportedly written in the fourth century, the document’s guarantee was left unquestioned for…

This verse translation of The Play of Adam had its world premiere at The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York on December 17-18, 2016. It was restaged and filmed at Illinois in 2017, directed by Kyle A. Thomas. A short documentary about…

The Program in Medieval Studies planned a major conference to celebrate its new global strengths and to further the reach, significance, and meaning of medieval studies. In the first decade since its establishment, our Program has become one of the…

Carol Symes is the founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe, the first academic journal to promote a global approach to medieval studies. This biannual publication explores the modes of communication, materials of exchange, and myriad…

“For Flom, the study of Old Norse and Old English was part of the same case. He was often preoccupied with details that few others cared about; e.g. In 1915 he wrote an article about how the letter Y was written in Norse documents. He compared solar…

The Global Prehumanisms conference, an Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies, was held on October 18-20, 2018 at the Levis Faculty Center and brought together scholars in a variety of disciplines and institutions…

Ibadi Islam is a distinct sect of Islam, neither Sunni nor Shi‘ite, that emerged in the early Islamic period and remains active today in small pockets of North Africa and as the dominant sect of Oman. Despite its antiquity, it has often been…

In The Arthur of the North, Marianne E. Kalinke offers the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century. Preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, in early…

The Arthurian legend reached all levels of society in medieval and Renaissance Italy, from princely courts, with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and popular audiences in the piazza, who enjoyed shorter retellings in…

Career of 38 years at the University of Illinois. He came as an English instructor in 1916, which was interrupted by WWI, when he served as a second lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces. (1917-1919). He was appointed full Professor of…

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narratives into the alien literary environment of Iceland and the acculturation of the import to indigenous…

The eleventh and early twelfth centuries were a period of intense debate over ecclesiastical reform in western Europe. This book examines the debates from a new perspective, exploring the ways in which contemporary political writers conveyed messages…

"A warm and generous teacher, Munakata Kiyohiko was also a thoughtful and insightful scholar whose few but immaculately researched books and articles have been much admired by his peers and will long remain influential contributions to the study of…