Northwestern University Press is pleased to announce this volume in its journal addressing late medieval culture (ca. 1300-1550). Constructions of Time in the L

To what extent are the dead truly dead? In medieval society, corpses were assigned special functions and meanings in several different ways. They were still pre

This volume provides a complex discussion of the variety of social efforts which were undertaken to create meaningful communities in the process of the formatio

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical - lawyers' calculations, clocks an