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The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Iron Age

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment
  • Edited by Dennis Denisoff
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    01 March 2027
  • Today's environmental decimation and climate crises have arisen from our drive for individual material prosperity. We even appreciate nature primarily for its fulfilment of our interests, whether economic productivity, aesthetic pleasure, or personal well-being. And yet, we still ask how we have reached this dire ecological condition and what it is that has kept us from acting effectively to maintain a thriving and diverse biosphere. This collection of essays by major scholars from around the world analyzes how the industrial, imperialist Victorian era gave rise to today's unwillingness to move beyond our acquisitive drive. But it also explores the Victorians' initiation of the modern environmentalist movement, formulation of the first legislation defending rights of nonhuman animals, and invention of literary forms for contesting environmental degradation. In this most unlikely of eras, the volume uncovers both valuable insights into the limitations of our own environmentalism and innovative suggestions for overcoming them.

The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church
  • Edited by Andrew Mellas, Bronwen Neil
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 April 2026
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church explores the intricate dimensions of the Church in Byzantium-its emergence, theology, art, liturgy and histories-and its afterlife, in captivity and in the modern world. Thirty leading theologians and historians of eastern Rome examine how people from Greece to Russia lived out their faith in liturgies, veneration of the saints, and other dimensions of church life, including its iconic art and architecture. The authors provide a rich overview and insights from the latest scholarship on the lives and beliefs of emperors and subjects across the Byzantine empire. The volume thereby fills a prominent gap in current offerings on the development and continuing impacts of the Byzantine church from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, a companion for students and an introduction for the wider community to this fascinating chapter in the history of Christianity.

The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price
  • Edited by Samantha Ege, A. Kori Hill
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    March 2026
    Print publication:
    31 March 2026
  • Active in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century, Florence B. Price was an African American composer, pianist, organist and music teacher, and a central figure in the first generation of Black composers of art music in the US. Price's aesthetic engaged with Black music of the enslavement period, and her gendered racial identity deserves careful consideration, while her geography and era distinguish her trajectory from those of her European and Anglo-American counterparts. This Companion introduces readers to archives and sources on Price, the style and genre of her music, and her artistic communities, and reception. It contextualizes Price's music and life in relation to the sociocultural climate of her time, the Black classical scene to which she belonged, and the compositional aesthetics that informed her craft. It offers an alternative view of music's capacity to uplift and amplify underrepresented voices.

The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Dance Music
  • Edited by Hillegonda C Rietveld, Toby Young
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
  • Electronic dance music is increasingly the focus of a multitude of academic research projects around the world but has been drastically under-represented in accessible core published material. This innovative scholarly collection provides an important 'first stop' for researchers and students wishing to work in this area. It examines the key features of numerous electronic dance music scenes and (sub)genres alongside discussions of the musical, social and aesthetic experiences of participants to consider how these musical practices create purpose and cultural significance for millions around the world. At the same time, it introduces diverse theoretical approaches to the understanding of electronic dance music cultures and addresses the issues and debates in electronic dance music culture studies. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawn from both music and cultural studies – including music aesthetics, technologies, venues, and performativity – from a broad geographical perspective, the volume sheds fresh light on electronic dance music cultures.

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater
  • Edited by Kate Hext
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
  • This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least understood writers, Pater evinced a new mode of hedonism that presented a fundamental challenge to the prevailing moral and social norms of his contemporaries, responding to post-Darwinian sensibility, waning faith, and new philosophies in ethics and epistemology. In his diverse and daring writings, Pater spoke for a generation that encompassed aestheticism, decadence and the emergence of a queer literary canon, including writers such as Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Michael Field. His defining influence continued to be felt long after his rise to fame and notoriety by such major writers such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Featuring exceptional detail and thematic breadth of coverage, this Companion accessibly introduces Pater's main works and demonstrates his ongoing significance.

The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society
  • Edited by Geoffrey Jones, Sabine Pitteloud
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
  • Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud present the latest research on the global history of multinationals and their impact on society and the environment. Bringing together leading international scholars, these essays survey key themes in our relationship with multinationals, from taxation and corruption to gender and the climate. Though often associated with large corporations like Apple or Nestlé, the contributors highlight the remarkable diversity in multinational strategies and organizational structures. They challenge the idea of an inescapable rise of multinationals by looking beyond the experience of Western countries and considering the effects of dramatic political shifts. Multinationals have often acted opportunistically, with their resilience carrying social costs through the exploitation of weak regulations, corrupt governments, inequalities, poor human rights, and environmental harm. This is an essential introduction to the historical role of multinationals for scholars and students as well as for policymakers and stakeholders navigating today's economic landscape.

The Cambridge Companion to World Trade Law

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
  • Edited by Caroline Edwards
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, fanzines, and poetry. Scholars and students interested in the utopian imagination will find nuanced analyses of British texts, situated within their materialist contexts. With a particular focus on countercultural and subcultural narratives, the book explores how British utopian visions of better societies offer a forceful critique of contemporary inequities such as racism, gender-based violence, class politics, and ecological harm. Blending the utopian with other genres, including the dystopia, the post-apocalypse, and ecocatastrophe narratives, the texts discussed reveal powerful images of utopian possibility. These works offer us vital imaginative and critical resources at a time of ongoing political, economic, and social crises.

The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song
  • Edited by Stephen Rumph
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of scholarly interest in the French art song, or mélodie, with a flood of new books, articles, and editions. This Companion draws on the best of this new research, with chapters by world-renowned scholars and performers examining French art song through the practicality of performance, both pianistic and vocal. The book surveys the repertory chronologically from the 1820s into the 1950s, covering all the central composers (Berlioz, Gounod, Fauré, Debussy, Duparc, Chausson, Ravel, Poulenc, Messiaen, and many more). It includes chapters on the role of women in the creation, performance, and diffusion of French song; the analysis of French prosody and poetic forms; the position of the mélodie in French literary history; and the interpretation of mélodie in performance. Scholars, students, performers, and music lovers will find thorough and up-to-date resources to enable them to explore this crucial yet understudied song repertory.

The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music
  • Edited by Ross Cole
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • A groundbreaking critical introduction to folk music and song focused on questions of identity, community, representation, politics, and popular culture. Written by a distinguished international team of authors, this Companion is an indispensable resource for rethinking the confluence of sound, heritage, and identity in the twenty-first century. A unique addition to the literature, it highlights the fundamentally hybrid and (post)colonial dynamics that have shaped people's cultures around the globe, from the Appalachian mountains to the Indian subcontinent. It provides students with new critical paradigms essential for understanding how and why certain musical traditions have been characterised as 'folk'-and what continues to inspire folkloric imaginaries today. The twenty specially commissioned chapters explore folk music from a variety of perspectives including ethnography, revivalism, migration, race, class, gender, protest, and the public sphere. Among these chapters are four 'Artist Voices' by world-renowned performers Peggy Seeger, Angeline Morrison, Jon Boden, and Yale Strom.

The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity
  • Edited by Jan Machielsen, Emily Michelson, Katrina B. Olds
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • This groundbreaking Companion explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped religious identities, sacred traditions, and devotional practices that transformed Catholicism into the first global religion. Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, it moves beyond traditional debates about Reformation and Reform and presents sanctity as the defining lens through which to view the period's transformative changes. By examining the lives, representations, and global impact of saints, the Companion demonstrates how sanctity countered the Protestant challenge and also transformed the very fabric of Catholicism between 1500 and 1750. Organized into four thematic sections – models of sanctity, the creation and contestation of sanctity, the representation of saints, and everyday interactions with saints – the volume also provides insight into the role of holiness during this pivotal period in Church history. Connecting history, theology, art history, and material culture, this interdisciplinary Companion serves as an indispensable resource for scholars and students seeking a comprehensive understanding of early modern Catholicism's influence on European and global history.

The Cambridge Companion to Late Medieval English Kingship
  • Edited by Gwilym Dodd
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • For over a hundred years scholars have written about late medieval kingship, and a vast body of published work now exists on the subject. However, in all this rich coverage, no accessible introduction to the subject exists. The Cambridge Companion to Late Medieval Kingship addresses this need by bringing together, within a single volume, a series of themed chapters which consider key aspects of the workings of the English monarchy between 1200 and 1500. Featuring leading experts in the field, each chapter provides a concise and accessible guide, offering insights, synthesis and explanation to help readers understand not only how kings ruled, but also what made their rule more – or less – effective. By adopting a holistic approach to kingship, the contributors also consider how kingship impacted on the king's subjects, thereby illuminating the complex interplay of cooperation and conflict that shaped both the monarchy and the wider polity in late medieval England.

The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris
  • Edited by James G. Clark
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • Matthew Paris is one of the most remarkable and renowned figures in the cultural history of medieval England. A career-monk at the influential Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Paris' creative work bears witness to the rich intellectual, artistic, social and political environment of the monasteries and their lasting impact on the wider world. His compelling accounts of recent history and the lives of legendary saints and churchmen are a distinctive and valuable guide to the emergence of the English kingdom and its place in European Christendom. His accomplished and vivid artwork brings into focus both the craft skill and visual sensibility stimulated by the medieval Church. This systematic survey, the first published for almost seventy years, brings together expert scholarship and offers fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives on Paris', his life's work as writer, artist, cartographer and maker of manuscript books, and its enduring legacy.

The Cambridge Companion to the Nazi-Soviet War
  • David Stahel
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest and most brutal theatre of the Second World War, fought between two of the most ruthless states ever to exist. Bringing together twenty-four of the most accomplished authors in both German and Soviet history, this Cambridge Companion provides the most authoritative, and yet highly accessible, guide to the conflict. Each chapter examines a key aspect of the war from war planning, the opposing forces and the campaigns to criminality and occupation, alliances, the home fronts and postwar legacies and myth-making. The authors demonstrate that the Nazi-Soviet war was both a conventional clash of arms in which millions of soldiers fought in titanic battles, but also a non-conventional war in which soldiers and security forces murdered countless non-combatants. It was a war of resources, industry, mobilisation, administration, and popular support, with implications that still drive European security debates today.

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
  • Edited by Auritro Majumder
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, and the Caribbean, it suggests the centrality of colonial-capitalist empire and global exchanges in the development of major genres of literary fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Illuminating the vital role of categories such as race, class, gender, religion, commerce, war, slavery, resistance, and decolonization, the twenty-one chapters of the book chart major aspects of British literature and empire. In rigorous yet accessible prose, an international team of experts provides an updated account of earlier and latest scholarship. Suitable for a general readership and academics in the field, the Companion will aid readers in familiarizing with Britain's imperial past and its continuing relevance for the present.

  • 4 - Christology in the Ecumenical Councils

  • from Part I - The Christological Sources
  • Edited by Timothy J. Pawl, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Michael L. Peterson, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christology
    Published online:
    15 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 60-76

  • Summary

    After a brief survey of the key christological teachings (along with the major figures) of the seven Ecumenical Councils, this chapter turns in a constructive theological vein to the influential critiques put forward by N. T. Wright, Bruce McCormack, and Sergius Bulgakov. The chapter then articulates a theological defense of the Christology of the Councils in light of exegetical and philosophical commitments.

  • 10 - Jewish Receptions

  • from Part II - The Christological Reception
  • Edited by Timothy J. Pawl, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Michael L. Peterson, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christology
    Published online:
    15 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 162-179

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on contemporary Jewish receptions of Christology, featuring four scholars with extraordinary knowledge of christological discourse. Harry Austryn Wolfson, the philosophers Peter Ochs and Emil Fackenheim, and the New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine all encourage Christian theologians to address difficult questions – about the unity of God, about evil, and about Jewish–Christian relations – in the specifically Christian language of Christology.

  • 2 - Christology in the New Testament: Gospels and Acts

  • from Part I - The Christological Sources
  • Edited by Timothy J. Pawl, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Michael L. Peterson, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christology
    Published online:
    15 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 27-44

  • Summary

    The chapter begins with an overview of Christology in the history of New Testament scholarship. It next turns to the portrayal of Jesus’s divinity and relationship to God in the Gospels and Acts. The chapter then concludes by exploring how a reframing of our understanding of divinity, especially in terms of “divine fluidity,” can provide a pathway forward to the question of Jesus’s own divinity in the Gospels and Acts, as well as the New Testament more broadly.

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