The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.
Amer, Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Jun 2008)
Bartels, Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello" (May 2008)
Bitel/Lifshitz, Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (Feb 2008)
Bynum, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (2006)
Davis, Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (Apr 2008)
Dolan, Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (Mar 2008)
Echard, Printing the Middle Ages (Jun 2008)
Forman, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage (Jun 2008)
Karras/Kaye, Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe (Apr 2008)
Katz, The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance (May 2008)
Klepper, The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages (2007)
Miller, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (May 2008)
Watson, Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (2006)
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