Recent Publications – Dr. Albrecht Classen

The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (The New Middle Ages) (Hardcover) (New York: Palgrave, 2007)

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Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2008)

The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein: An English Translation (New York: Palgrave, 2008)

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2009)

Deutsche Schwankliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts: Studien zu Martin Montanus, Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof und Michael Lindener. Koblenz-Landauer Studien zu Geistes-, Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, 4 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009)

(together with Lukas Richter) Lied und Liederbuch in der Fruehen Neuzeit (Muenster, New York, et al.: Waxmann, 2010)

Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010)

Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010)

Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen. 3 vols. (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010)

Erasmus Widmann (1571-1634): Edition seiner weltlichen, unterhaltsamen und didaktischen Lieder und Gesänge (Berlin: Weidler, 2011)

The Letters of the Swiss Jesuit Missionary Philipp Segesser (1689-1762). Online at: https://sites.arizona.edu/aclassen/philipp_segessers_letters_english_t… (April 2011)

60. Sexuality and Rape in the Middle Ages. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 8 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), vi, 272 pp.

61. Religion und Gesundheit in der Frühen Neuzeit: Der heilkundliche Diskurs im 16. Jahrhundert, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien, 3 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), VI, 410 pp.

62. Sex im Mittelalter (Badenweiler: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Bachmann, 2011).

63. War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800 ed. Albrecht Classen and Nadia Margolis. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 8 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), viii, 647 pp., 33 ill.

64. Kultur- und kommunikationshistorischer Wandel des Liedes im 16. Jahrhundert: Populaere Kultur und Musik, ed. A. Classen, Michael Fischer, and Nils Grosch (Muenster, New York, et al.: Waxmann, 2012), 256 pp.

65. Gutes Leben und guter Tod von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Ein Philosophisch-ethischer Diskurs über die Jahrhunderte hinweg, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien, 4 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012)

66. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ed. Albrecht Classen. Vol. 24 (Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, et al.: Peter Lang, 2012)

67. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 9 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012), x, 921 pp.

68. Gutes Leben und guter Tod von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Ein Philosophisch-ethischer Diskurs über die Jahrhunderte hinweg, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien, 4 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012)

69. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ed. Albrecht Classen. Vol. 24 (Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, et al.: Peter Lang, 2012), 727 pp.

70. The Letters of the Swiss Jesuit Missionary Philipp Segesser (1689-1762): An Eyewitness to the Settlement of Eighteenth-Century Sonora (Pimería Alta, ed. and trans. Albrecht Classen. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Occasional Series, 5 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012), x, 245 pp., 4 ill.

71. Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time, ed. Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough. (Berlin and New York De Gruyter, 2012)

72. German Jesuit Missionaries in Eighteenth-Century Sonora/Arizona (2013)

73. East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 14 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), ix, 818 pp.

74-76. Medieval Culture: A Handbook. Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen. 2 vols. (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, in preparation).

77. The Forest in Medieval German Literature (Lanham, Boulder, et al.: Lexington Books, forthcoming, 2015)

78. Mediaevistik vol. 27 (forthcoming)

79. Love, Lust, and Life: The Verse Narratives by Heinrich Kaufringer (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2015)

80. The Forest in Medieval German Literature: Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective. Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Lanham, Boulder, et al.: Lexington Books, 2015).

81-83. Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, ed. A. Classen, 3 vols. (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015).

84. Bestseller – gestern und heute: Ein Blick vom Rand zum Zentrum der Literaturwissenschaft / Bestseller – Yesterday and Today: A Look from the Margin to the Center of Literary Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen (80%) and Eva Parra Membrives (20%). Popular Fiction Studies, 2 (Tübingen: Narr, 2016).

85. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death, ed. A. Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 16 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), vi, 545 pp., 73 ill.

86. Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2016), 430 pp.

87. Mediaevistik, vol. 28, ed. (reviews) together with Werner Heinz (articles) (Frankfurt a.m M.: Peter Lang, 2015), 635 pp.

88. Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Communication and Miscommunication in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 17 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), VI, 402 pp.

89. An English Translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), xxxiii, 199 pp.

90. Mediaevistik Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung vol. 29 (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2016), 593 pp.

91. Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Exploration of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water, ed. A. Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 19 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), VII, 615 pp., 4 ill.

92. Translation: T. H. Moedriach, Prydori: Perfection is Us. Translated from the German by Albrecht Classen in cooperation with Anneliese Chittock, Glenn Allen Elms, Nicholas Flannery, Ivana Lea Goldtooth, Benjamin Joseph Michael Horn, Adelina Isabella Lilani Lane, Nicholas Edward McNutt, and Patrick Ploschnitzki. Translation revised and edited by Albrecht Classen and Carolyn Classen (Lubljana, Slovenia: Založištvo Jerneja Jezernik, 2017), 179 pp.

93. Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading. Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, et al.: Lexington Books, 2018), xlvi, 311 pp.

94. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 20 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), x, 757 pp., 36 ill.

95. Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern European Literature. Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture, 8 (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), viii, 329 pp.

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