FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE (FMC)
Ed. by Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) and Marilyn Sandidge (Westfield State University, MA)
Published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York
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The contributions to the individual books are always peer reviewed. Because of the team spirit, each article is normally peer-reviewed by six to eight or more colleagues.
This new book series was launched in 2007, with a
First volume by Albrecht Classen, The Power of a Woman’s Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to Violence Against Women in Premodern Times.
The second volume also appeared in 2007:
Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic, ed. Albrecht Classen (2007)
Third volume: Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen (2008)
Fourth volume: Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (2009), ed. Albrecht Classen
Fifth volume: Laughter in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (2010), ed. Albrecht Classen
Sixth volume: Friendship in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, ed. Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge (2010)
Seventh volume: Albrecht Classen, Sexual Violence and Rape in Medieval German and European Literature (2011)
Eighth volume: War and Peace in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen and Nadia Margolis (2011, forthcoming)
Ninth volume: Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen and Christopher R. Clason (2012)
Tenth volume: Chess in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Daniel E. O’Sullivan (2012)
The article by Paul Milliman in this volume received the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy
Eleventh volume: Crime, Criminality, and Punishment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, ed. Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough (2012)
Twelfth volume: Authority in the Middle Ages, ed. Sini Kangas et al. (2013)
Thirteenth volume: Connie Scarborough, Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature (2013)
Fourteenth volume: East Meets West in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, ed. Albrecht Classen (2013)
Fifteenth volume Mental Health, Relgion and Spirituality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen (2014)
Sixteenth volume: Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Albrecht Classen (2016)
Seventeenth volume: Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Albrecht Classen (2016)
Eighteenth volume: Charles W. Connell, Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages (2016)
Nineteenth volume: Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. Albrecht Classen (2017)
Twentieth volume: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Albrecht Classen (2017)
Twenty-First volume: On the Road Again: Travel in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (ed. open)
next possible volumes:
Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Natural Catastrophes, Earthquakes, Flooding, Climate
Birth, Health, and Death in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (ed. open)
Trade and Money in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (ed. open)
Learning and Wisdom, Knowledge and Ideas: Messages from the Past for Us Today
Future editors of individual topics and authors of monographs that would fit in the broad framework are invited to contact the series editors. We are, of course, also interested in submissions to the volume(s) currently in preparation. And new proposals for similarly broad fundamental anthologies are very welcome.
Please contact: aclassen@u.arizona.edu; or: msandidge@wsc.ma.edu