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The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar
Translated by Margaret Cormack, With an Introduction byPeter Foote
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020

This volume contains a translation of the version of the Saga of St. Jón of Hólar that is probably closest to the first Latin vita. It is only the second saga of an Icelandic episcopal saint to appear in a modern translation in the present century. The volume consists of two parts, the first comprising a general introduction and a translation by Margaret Cormack. The second part provides a detailed scholarly analysis of the manuscripts, contents, style, and literary connections of the saga by the late Peter Foote, one of the foremost scholars of Old Norse and Icelandic literature. 

The Jóns saga was written in the early thirteenth century, nearly a century after the death of its protagonist, the first bishop of the diocese of Hólar in Northern Iceland. The author of the saga combined Latin learning with native folklore to produce a readable narrative that is contemporary with the earliest family and contemporary sagas. This text provides valuable insight into the religious life of ordinary Icelanders in the thirteenth century, and the introduction corrects common misconceptions about ecclesiastical history and the cult of saints in Iceland. It will be of value to scholars of medieval Icelandic literature, hagiography, and history. 

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Seeing Race Before Race
Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
Edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2023
Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.
 
The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance.

Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls “the racial matrix” and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition “Seeing Race Before Race”—a collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Library—as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory.
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SMRH 15
Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020

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SMRH 16
Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021

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The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn
A Poem by Lancelot de Carle
Edited, Translated, and with Essays by JoAnn DellaNeva
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021

The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn is a critical edition and translation of a long narrative poem written by the secretary to the French ambassador in London within two weeks of Anne Boleyn’s execution. It was intended as a diplomatic dispatch, relating the astonishing news of the queen’s demise (along with that of five alleged lovers). Uniquely among diplomatic correspondence, this dispatch was written in verse form. It thus straddles the domains of literature and history, of chronicle and fiction.  

The base text for this edition is a previously unstudied manuscript housed at the British Library. Variants are given from all other known manuscripts found in Europe, including several key verses that were previously unpublished and that shed new light on the interpretation of the poem. The book features a sense-for-sense translation into modern English in free verse form, along with extensive explanatory notes. It also provides a study focusing on the historical background to the poem, an essay on the poet and the reception of his work, and a literary analysis of the poem.

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
Volume 13
Joel T. Rosenthal
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019
Formerly published by AMS Press, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History continues with an annual volume now published by ACMRS.
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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
Volume 14
Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019
Formerly published by AMS Press, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History continues with an annual volume now published by ACMRS.
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Syncretism in the West
Pico's 900 Theses (1486) With Text, Translation, and Commentary
S. A. Farmer
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016

This is the 2016 paperback printing of the 2008 edition of the popular text, translation, and commentary by S. A. Farmer. (The 2008 edition was a revised edition of the 1998 original publication).

Published by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) in Tempe, Arizona as part of the MRTS (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) Series, this book -- previously available only in hardcover and otherwise out-of-print since 2014 -- is now available in its entirety in paperback format.

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