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York Medieval Press Series
Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
The subject matter of this series is interpreted broadly, from studies of health or palaeopathology at one end of the spectrum to a medical humanities approach to the history of healing at the other. It welcomes both monographs and focussed edited collections written in English, covering any centuries or geographical areas to which the term 'medieval' can be productively applied.
Enquiries about the series may be sent to Series Editors Peregrine Horden (All Souls College, Oxford), Claire Burridge (University of Oslo), and Series Advisers Sara Ritchey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Linda Voigts (University of Missouri, Kansas City). Book proposals should be supported by a one-page prospectus, a brief chapter outline, and a one-page curriculum vitae.
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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy: England and Central Europe, 1350-1434. By Patrick Outhwaite. Published 28 May 2024.
Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation. Edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan. Published 18 November 2025.
Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death. By Joanne Edge. Published 5 March 2024.
Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
York Medieval Press had been an occasional publisher of books on the history of heresy and inquisition, such as Texts and the Repression of Medieval History, ed. Caterina Bruschi and Peter Biller, and Beverly Kienzle’s Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229. The original idea for a dedicated series came from Caroline Palmer at Boydell and Brewer in 2010, and the first volume was published in 2011, Lucy Sackville’s Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century: The Textual Representations.
The series presents a wide range of work on medieval heresy and its repression, understood in broad terms, ranging from late antiquity to the end of the middle ages. It aims to bring important international scholarship to an Anglophone audience, and publishes a variety of monographs, edited collections, and translated materials.
The series editors invite serious scholarly contributions on any aspects of heresy and its repression, whether as monographs, collections of essays, or translations of primary sources.
Enquiries about the series may be sent to Series Editors John H. Arnold (University of Cambridge), Peter Biller (University of York) and Lucy J. Sackville (University of York).
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Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700. Edited by Peter Biller, L J Sackville, published 1 February 2022.
The Beguines of Medieval Świdnica, by Paweł Kras, Tomasz Gałuszka, published 28 February 2023.
Herbert Grundmann (1902-1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy. Edited by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, published 20 September 2019.
York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
The Centre published in this field long before York Medieval Press was created, notably a series of proceedings of York Manuscript Conferences. More recently and until the retirement of Professor Linne Mooney in 2018 the YMP’s series in this field was called Manuscript Culture in the British Isles. The YMP Board invited us to take over the editorship of the series, now proceeding under the title York Manuscript and Early Print Studies.
This series has been established to further the study of handwritten and early print sources for literature and intellectual history in the pre-modern period. It champions an interconnected mode of analysis for the textual, material and cultural, whether the focus is local, regional, national or transnational.
The series editors invite contributions providing critical approaches to manuscript studies, history of the book, cultural history, philology and editing, for publication formats including (but not limited to) monographs, edited collections, and catalogues. Please email our Series Editors simultaneously at Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge) and Holly James-Maddocks (University of York).
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NLW MS Brogyntyn ii.1: Understanding a Multi-Scribe Manuscript Miscellany. Edited by Nancy P Pope, published 8 July 2025.
Making Books in Fifteenth-Century Cambridge, by Ann Eljenholm Nichols, published 4 March 2025.
Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts. Edited by Misty Schieberle, published 1 October 2024.
Political Culture in the Middle Ages
This series is devoted to understanding the political culture of medieval England, its structures, personalities, customs, conventions and beliefs. The first volume in the new series is Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod, ed. Gwilym Dodd and Craig Taylor.
This collection of essays, written by Ormrod's former PhD students and research collaborators, encompasses political, administrative, legal, Church and social history, exploring three main themes: monarchy, state and political culture. They provide important insights into late medieval English history and fittingly reflect the cultural approach to political history and close archival work that he has espoused. The series welcomes contributions in this vein in the form or monographs or edited collections from scholars across the full chronology of the Middle Ages.
Please send enquiries or proposal forms to series editor Anthony Musson (Historic Royal Palaces).
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Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England
Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod, published 17 July 2020.
Writing History in the Middle Ages
History-writing was a vital form of expression throughout the European Middle Ages, and is fundamental to our understanding of medieval societies, politics, modes of expression, cultural memory, and social identity. This series publishes innovative work on history-writing from across the medieval world; monographs, collections of essays, and editions of texts are all welcome.
Please write to our Series Editors Laura Cleaver (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) and Liesbeth Van Houts (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
Robert of Torigni’s Chronography and the Universal Chronicle Tradition. By Gabriele Passabì. Published 3 February 2026.
Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England's Past. Edited by Matthew Firth. Published 14 January 2026.
Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain’s Long Twelfth Century. By Jacqueline M Burek. Published 10 January 2023.