ISD

01/26/2025

We're excited to announce some very special pricing on AUC Press books we've acquired. The following title is $29.50 (original price $65.00) while stocks last!
Read more: https://buff.ly/4hucf2O

01/24/2025

This volume explores the material advantages & disadvantages of motherhood, the food & objects present in the birthing room, the evidence & memorialization of death in childbirth, attitudes towards the pregnant body, the material culture of healing, and the ritual items used during childbirth.

tinyurl.com/MedievalEarlyModernChildbirth

Brepols

01/23/2025

Take a look at our list of deeply discounted INSTAP Academic Press volumes that are available while supplies last! View the list and special pricing here: https://www.isdistribution.com/CatalogLeafletRender.aspx?lId=239
Click any title on the list to be taken to the book description on the ISD website and to order.

01/21/2025

"The Spider Dance" looks at local Pagans and at their ritual practice and interpretation of the traditional dance and music called pizzica. Pizzica is associated with tarantismo, a form of malaise and physical suffering thought to be provoked by the bite of tarantula spiders- a phenomenon present in that area for hundreds of years and attested until the second half of the XX century. Read more: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=178758

01/20/2025

𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Edited by Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici

More info: https://bit.ly/4g4rXAI

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Current Perspectives on Personal and Institutional Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
IONUŢ EPURESCU-PASCOVICI

Accountability or Culpability? Territorial Officers Facing the French Monarchy, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
MARIE DEJOUX

Private Accounting in Curial Avignon: The Ledgers of Pierre Boyer, Papal Servant under Urban V, Gregory XI, and Clement VII
ARMAND JAMME

A Book of One’s Own: Private Records and Accountability through a Gendered Perspective in Late Medieval Florence
SERENA GALASSO

Accountability and Corruption in the Fifteenth-Century Kingdom of Sicily
ALESSANDRO SILVESTRI

The Municipal Accountability of Fourteenth-Century Marseille
FRANÇOIS OTCHAKOVSKY-LAURENS

The Venetian Counts of Late Medieval Dalmatia: Institutional Responsibilities and Accountability Mechanisms
DANA-SILVIA CACIUR-ANDREESCU

The Venetian and Genoese Black Sea Agents: Accountability and Institutional Dialogue with the Metropolis (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries)
ALESSANDRO FLAVIO DUMITRAŞCU

Reddere Rationem: Financial Management in the Mendicant Orders (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
EMANUELE CARLETTI

Indirect Taxation, Liability, and ‘Semi-Public’ Records: The Accounting Practices of the Gabellers of the Commune of Bologna (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
MARCO CONTI

Urban Measurements and Accountability in Late Medieval Florence
ANNA POMIERNY-WĄSIŃSKA

Artisans and Small Merchants as Accountants of Tuscan Institutions (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
PAOLA PINELLI

Contributors

01/18/2025

This new volume offers a unique and multi-layered picture of the ways in which Ancient Egyptian language and hieroglyphs emerged within Ancient Egyptian culture, and the means by which they interacted with other script systems and languages.
Read more: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=181444

01/17/2025

Available for preorder in the U.S. 🎺
https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=183542

Today, 14 January, is Kenny Wheeler’s 95th birthday!

New biography by Brian Shaw and Nick Smart publishing 14 February

Watch out for further announcements and a discount code here soon

01/16/2025

Very special offer! Originally $70.00, now $29.50 while stocks last!
Illustrated with 160 drawings and photographs, this book sheds unprecedented light upon the experience of childhood in and represents a major contribution to the growing field of ancient-world childhood studies. https://buff.ly/42iLutQ

01/15/2025

In discussing feature films from Germany and four Balkan countries, this book presents the distinct social-traumatic histories, how they are negotiated in different societies, and the motifs cinema uses to narrate them.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ScreeningtheScars

Karnac Books

01/15/2025

Some of the new titles in our Religious & Biblical Studies Leaflet!
Browse here: https://buff.ly/4ae4yf3

01/14/2025

Very special offer! Originally $24.95, now $10.50 while stocks last!
Using many sources dealing with ordinary women from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Coptic era, this book aims to forever change the general view on women in ancient Egypt, which is far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra. https://tinyurl.com/MrsTsenhor

01/13/2025

Peeters Publishers' "Infant Milk or Hardy Nourishment? The Bible for Lay People and Theologians in the Early Modern Period" has made Theology Research News' "Five Must-Reads" list!
Link to order in the U.S. in comments . . .

TRN Book List:
Five Must-Reads on the Early Modern Vernacular Bible selected by Timothy Twining https://buff.ly/40uqOxK

01/13/2025

The current volume affirms the possibility of knowing something about God and argues, on that basis, that it is possible to formulate propositions that are true. Among other results, both philosophical and theological, this book offers a better understanding of the role of theology as a truth-seeking discipline.
https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=184728

01/08/2025

A sampling of recently published Music titles!
Browse our online leaflet and click on any cover for more information and to order.
20% leaflet discount! https://buff.ly/4h6RqdH

01/07/2025

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘀 (𝗟𝗟𝗧)

The Library of Latin Texts (LLT) has been updated as of 20 December 2024. The LLT now contains 12,149 works, totalling over 167 million words. For Late Antiquity, the update includes texts by Pelagius and Eusebius of Emesa. Notable additions from medieval literature include Vincent of Beauvais‘ Speculum historiale and various logical and grammatical texts from Brepols’ Artistarium series. Justus Lipsius‘ Monita et exempla and John Barclay‘s Icon animorum complete the set of updates for Neo-Latin literature.

More Info: https://bit.ly/3ZZRtRI

01/07/2025

PODCAST
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼: 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Miranda Melcher (New Books Network) interviews author Theresa Flanigan on the genesis of this book, and discusses her research on this iconic Florentine landmark.

Listen & Info: https://bit.ly/3DH29gC

01/04/2025

Good morning, attendees! ☕ Come check out these volumes from the American School of Classical Studies Athens, Archaeopress, Logos Verlag, INSTAP Academic Press and others!

01/03/2025

Books from UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, L'Erma di Bretschneider, and Brepols are some of the many volumes we've brought to the 2025 annual meeting!