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ases like the Library of Latin Texts, as well as the co-operation with highly respected institutes like I.R.H.T. (Paris) and the Institute for Medieval Studies (Leeds), explain and testify why Brepols works are being used in every well-respected academic library all over the world. Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols) has established a reputation for the quality and authority of its scholarly monographs and catalogues raisonnés in the field of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art. Besides publications under its own imprint Brepols distributes works from many world-class academic institutions. The mediums in which Brepols Publishers operates are the printed book (monographs, miscellanies and journals), microfiche, CD-ROM, online publishing (BREPOLiS) and online journals. Languages: English and French but also German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch (as well as old languages like Latin, Greek, Occitan etc.) Brepols Publishers has been founded in 1796 and is located in a 17th century building of the historic beguinage of Turnhout. Brepols Publishers has an editorial office for art history in New York (Harvey Miller / Brepols). The CTLO, a centre for computer-assisted research of classical languages, is also organised by Brepols Publishers and is housed in the Corpus Christianorum Library & Knowledge Centre.

04/06/2026

Small Towns and Cities in World History
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Peter Clark

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This volume provides for the first time a comparative view of the development of small towns and smaller cities across the world from the Middle Ages to the present day. It examines the evolution of their role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It focuses on key topics and cutting edge questions relating to the urban economy, population, social life, governance and cultural life. Reassessing the conventional picture of small towns in decline, it argues for the dynamic dimension of their development and their importance for global urbanisation over the long run. This is a major pioneering study, bringing together the latest research by leading and younger scholars which sheds sustained light on a major component of the urban system in both the Global North and South thus makes an essential contribution to understanding world urban development over time.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Authors’ Biographies

Preface

1.Introduction
Peter Clark

2. Small towns and urbanization in medieval England
Christopher Dyer

3. Small towns in late medieval Hungary: levels and factors of urbanity
Katalin Szende

4. Small towns in China: History and policy from the Middle Ages to the Present
William T. Rowe

5. The evolution of Castilian small towns: context and forces for Change in regional Spain from the Pre-Modern Period to the Present
María A. Castrillo Romón, Marina Jiménez Jiménez, Miguel Fernández-Maroto and Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz

6. Small towns in Latin America: transformations during the 18th and 19th centuries
Mariana Canedo

7. Small towns or small cities: the non-metropolitan United States, 1820-2020
Carl Abbott

8. The rise and fall of small towns in Sweden, 1800-2020
Lars Nilsson

9. Small towns and cultural identity: heritage, regionalism and beyond in the Czech Lands, c. 1900-1950
Jaroslav Ira

10. Global connectivity and small towns in the Central African urban network during the Colonial Period before the Second World War
Johan Lagae

11. The changing importance of small towns: Malaya in the Modern Era
Lynn Hollen Lees

12. Smaller frontier cities of Jordan: Unveiling historical dynamics and paths to sustainable development in the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period
Janset Shawash

13. Greek small island towns in transition: 19th to 21st century
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou and Lydia Sapounaki-Dracaki

Indexes

03/06/2026

𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗥𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Edited by Paweł Szczepanik and Dirk Steinforth

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Before Christianity came to the societies and communities of Central and Northern Europe between the sixth and thirteenth centuries, there were numerous different ‘pagan’ religions and beliefs. Little is known about some of these, particularly with regard to details such as ritual practices, human-animal relations, conversion, ideas of the afterlife, or the place of religion in the landscape, largely due to a lack of archaeological and historical evidence. To gain new information, it is essential to draw on sources and methodologies from different disciplines.

This volume brings together a collection of case-studies that apply interdisciplinary approaches to various aspects of traditional religion. Together, they shine a new light on the multi-faceted variety of expressions of belief in Central and Northern Europe, from sacrifice and burial customs to sacred objects and iconography, and to the changes and continuations in the face of coming Christianity. Arranged in four categories — space and landscape, death and burial, objects and images, and people and violence — these twelve chapters by international researchers combine archaeological studies with the input of history and literature, cultural anthropology, history of religion, and archaeozoology, to offer a valuable resource to all those interested in pre-Christian religion, and in prehistoric and early medieval spiritual culture in Europe.

02/06/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 (𝗕𝗕𝗜𝗛) 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱
3,593 records were added.
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The 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝗴𝗶𝗻 now offers access to 341,086 citations in BBIH, adding a powerful new layer of insight!
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02/06/2026

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀
Stones of Zadar. The Capital of Venetian Dalmatia
By Laris Borić

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The Committee for the Award of the Croatian Society of Art Historians grants the award in the category of scholarly or professional book to Dr. Larisa Borić for the monograph 'In between and on the Edge: Stones of Zadar, the Capital of Venetian Dalmatia', published in the international series 'Archipelagus. Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Adriatic'.

This scholarly grounded and methodologically innovative monograph offers a comprehensive interpretation of the architecture and sculpture of Zadar under Venetian rule from the mid-fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century. The author approaches the material from a new perspective, examining architecture through the prism of sculpture and thereby placing at the centre of the study the work of stonecutters and builders who, in collaboration with patrons, shaped the visual identity of Renaissance Zadar. In doing so, Borić systematically connects previous scholarship with new archival findings, reinterprets well-known material, and presents a series of new discoveries, conclusions, and interpretations.

By being published by a prestigious international publishing house and made available in open access on the BrepolsOnline platform, Larisa Borić’s book significantly contributes to the international visibility of Croatian artistic heritage and contemporary research in Croatian art history. The Committee therefore recognizes this monograph as an outstanding scholarly contribution and awards it the annual prize of the Croatian Association of Art Historians.

01/06/2026

Corpus Christianorum in Translation, vol. 50
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗔𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘂𝘀, 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝘅 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟰 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀
Translated by Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett, David Porreca, and Matteo Stefani

Over the last two-thousand years, the legendary ancient Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus has had dozens of works, practical and theoretical, pseudepigraphically attributed to him in multiple different languages. This volume presents a collection of works drawn in particular from the Latin philosophical tradition, here translated into modern English. This includes the Asclepius, the Glosses on Trismegistus, the Book of Six Principles of Things, and the Book of 24 Philosophers, each of which had an important role in the intellectual life of the medieval Latin west. Prefaced by introductions and accompanied by copious notes, these translations serve to make a set of frequently overlooked works more accessible to students and scholars alike. All translations are based on the most recent critical editions published in the Hermes Latinus sub-series of the Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis (CC, CM 142, 143, and 143A) and in Textes et Études du Moyen Âge (volume 41).

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29/05/2026

𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁
𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘆𝘇𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹
Edited by Rubina Raja and Andrew Wilson

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This book explores how people in the ancient world lived through, reacted to, and recovered after major crises. From earthquakes and eruptions to shortages, plagues, and sudden environmental shifts, the book shows disasters not as stand-alone events but as moments that changed communities in lasting ways. Drawing on a wide mix of evidence such as archaeological remains, texts, landscapes, and scientific data, it brings together engaging case studies that highlight real human experiences of fear, loss, recovery, and resilience. The contributors offer new ways to understand how ancient societies coped with catastrophic events, what resources they relied on, and how they adapted to new realities. Comprehensive, engaging, and wide-ranging, this volume presents the ancient world through the lens of challenge and response, showing how crises shaped everyday life and long-term history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

1. Catastrophe and Response in the Ancient World
Rubina Raja and Andrew Wilson
2. War and Urbanism: The Boudican Revolt and the Reconstruction of Londinium
Lacey Wallace
3. Re-evaluating the Impact of the Earthquake(s) of AD 62/63 in Roman Pompeii
Michael A. Anderson
4. The Catastrophic AD 79 Eruption of Vesuvius: Survivors and Post-eruption Intervention at the Local and Imperial Level in Four Communities
Steven L. Tuck
5. The Economic Impact of the Antonine Plague
Andrew Wilson
6. Catastrophes and Resilience: The Archaeology of Crises at Palmyra, 150–272
Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
7. Cyrenaica and the Plague of Cyprian
Andrew Wilson
8. Catastrophes and the Dynamic Landscape of Thonis-Heracleion
Damian Robinson and Franck Goddio
9. Catastrophic(?) Floods in the Roman North: Chronologies, Causes, and Contexts
Tyler Franconi
10. Resilience in Late Fifth-Century Aphrodisias: An Archaeological Perspective from the Tetrapylon Street
Ine Jacobs
11. The Environmental Context for the Outbreak of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean
Brandon McDonald, Andrew Wilson, and Arietta Papaconstantinou
12. Contextualizing Late Antique Natural Disasters: The Elements and Effects of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the Justinianic Plague
Brandon McDonald

28/05/2026

𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗰. 𝟯𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟬
Edited by Kirsty Bolton, and Lauren Sisson

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From Eve to Mary to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and many others, medieval depictions of mothers in literature and historical record reveal the significance of conceptions and performances of motherhood during the Middle Ages. Discourses surrounding mothers, maternity, and motherhood during the medieval period were complicated and had far-reaching implications in all areas of medieval life. Drawing upon medieval literature, politics, medicine, and religion, this book explores the importance of mothers and motherhood to every facet of medieval society. Throughout the volume, each chapter illuminates a particular mother or act of maternity, coming together to show how literature elucidates mothers and motherhood as integral to the construction of societies and cultures spanning across the length of the medieval period in the West. Together, the diversity of the topics addressed in each of the essays contributes a rich and intricate portrait of the theme which unites them: motherhood in the medieval world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Motherhood in the Medieval World

Part 1: Encountering Motherhood
Bradley Phillis,
Richilde of Hainaut, Motherhood, and the Historiography of the Flemish Civil War of 1071
Diana Myers,
Best Mom Ever: Defining the Maternal Sanctity of St. Anne in High Medieval Liturgy

Part 2: Maternal Identities in Religious Context
Mary Hitchman, Martyred Mothers: Augustine’s Sermons on Perpetua and Felicitas
Harley Campbell,
Eve (Un)Bound: Bounding the Maternal Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve

Part 3: Maternal Bodies
Dana Oswald, Pregnancy and Knowledge in the Old English Medical Tradition
Kaitlin Sager, Physiognomy and Filiation in Coudrette's Roman de Mélusine
Lauren Sisson, Consuming Mothers, Incorporated Sons

Part 4: Questioning Maternity
Sara Ameri, Undecidable Borders: The Readerly Construction of Julian of Norwich’s Motherhood
Kirsty Bolton, Guinevere’s Lack of Maternity in Arthurian Literature

Index

26/05/2026

‘𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲
𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹
𝟭𝟳𝟲𝟬-𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟬
By Marie Claude Beaulieu Orna

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, British landscape painting had evolved from the literal or idealised rendering of a view into the expression of a sensitive perception of a scene that would ‘tell its story’. To achieve this evolution, certain late eighteenth-century landscape artists synthesized aesthetical, educational, and practical approaches. For many, a sojourn in Italy, where their practice was largely devoted to the exercise of plein-air sketching, became a laboratory to experiment with processes and deal with issues of materiality in a particularly innovative manner. This book investigates the roots of this renewal, explores technical and material innovations, and examines their diffusion through engraving and publishing.

26/05/2026

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
We are delighted to share that from 2027, the book series 'Medium Ævum Monographs' of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature will be published by Brepols.

Dr Anthony Lappin (Stockholm University) shall continue in his current role as lead editor, and will be joined by Drs. Yun Ni (Peking University) and Justin Willson (Yale University).

President of SSMLL Professor Alastair Minnis writes:
'The intellectual values of our monograph series, and indeed of SSMLL at large, align perfectly with those of this press: we promote the scholarly interests and skills necessary for study of the production transmission and cultural reception of texts in their several medieval languages, ensuring they are placed clearly in the historical contexts that gave them meaning.'

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22/05/2026

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