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QUAINT AND CURIOUS VOLUMES OF FORGOTTEN LORE
A scholar of the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages, Scott G. Bruce has written widely on the frontiers of the monastic imagination in premodern Europe. His books treat a diverse range of topics in medieval religious and cultural history, from monastic sign language to European perceptions of Islam to the meaning of the restless dead in medieval culture. In 2018, SGB published an anthology of texts about the history of the punitive afterlife from ancient Gehenna to modern America called The Penguin Book of Hell, which received featured reviews in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A Russian translation by Alpina Publishers appeared in 2020 and a Greek translation from Alexandria Publications appeared in 2022.
SGB is currently working on several book projects. His most recent book is The Penguin Book of Dragons (Penguin Classics, 2021), a definitive anthology of historical legends and lore about the most popular mythological creature in the human imagination. A Russian translation by Mann, Irvanov, and Ferber Publishers is forthcoming in autumn 2022.
SGB is currently working on several book projects. His most recent book is The Penguin Book of Dragons (Penguin Classics, 2021), a definitive anthology of historical legends and lore about the most popular mythological creature in the human imagination. A Russian translation by Mann, Irvanov, and Ferber Publishers is forthcoming in autumn 2022.
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