BOOKS
TURNING AWAY: THE POETICS OF AN ANCIENT GESTURE
“This is a book that makes a difference, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate, attraction and repulsion, thought and feeling that make us the crazy animals we are.” — W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want?
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“Composed with an electric blend of writerly elegance and moral urgency, this erudite book compels its readers to keep our eyes fixed on its pages.” — Marta Figlerowicz, author of Spaces of Feeling: Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature
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“This lavish and virtuosic book finds in the gesture of turning away an entire history of why we turn to art to understand what we cannot look at directly.” — D. Vance Smith, author of Atlas’s Bones
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“Endlessly rich, and as imaginative as it is scholarly, Turning Away gives us startlingly new insights into a fascinatingly negative gesture.” — Sianne Ngai, author of Ugly Feelings
THINKING OF THE MEDIEVAL: MIDCENTURY INTELLECTUALS AND THE MIDDLE AGES
“This fascinating volume promises to make a valuable intervention in medieval studies and a rich and challenging contribution to our understanding of the life of the Middle Ages in modernity.”
- Josh Davies, King's College London
BONDS OF SECRECY:
LAW, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE LITERATURE OF CONCEALMENT IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
"Saltzman’s book is impressive in its range, compelling in its argument, and significant in its contribution. It will undoubtedly remain a touchstone for scholarship on early medieval notions of agency, interiority, and legal identity for a long time to come."
—Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies