Marcel Elias is the editor of the September 2025 special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The issue is entitled New Directions in Medieval...
We are delighted to announce the 2025 Stansky Book Prize shortlist!
The committee has selected the following four books for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize shortlist for the...
Vanishing Acts by Cynthia Zarin, from Estate, is featured in the October issue of Harper’s Magazine:
When did I become interested in disappearance? In November 1961,...
Knights! Swords! Fighting!
A medieval fencing manual that is still consulted today.
We have all seen sword fights on film, on TV, in games. But what was medieval fencing...
Congratulations to two Yale ladder faculty members recognized for outstanding books on history and empire.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...
Unflinching and deeply human—Derek Green perfectly encapsulates the quiet dramas of modern America.
The characters in Jackson State live in a land of contradictions—where...
Less than two years after the publication of her critically acclaimed novel “Inverno,” the poet Cynthia Zarin has written a follow-up to be published in November. Zarin is a...
