"Quaint and Curious Volumes of Forgotten Lore"

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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 in the Middle Ages.  He has recently translated an anthology of medieval stories for Penguin Classics about ghosts, necromancers, and the restless dead in the western tradition from the Romans to the Renaissance and edited and translated (with Christopher Jones) a twelfth-century Latin poem about a phantom army.  

Scott G. Bruce is currently working on several book projects, including an anthology of texts about the history of the punitive afterlife from ancient Gehenna to modern America called The Penguin Book of Hell, forthcoming with Penguin Classics in September 2018.

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