“Offers a thoughtful step away from viewing the Moon as solely the domain of the astronomer. We learn the Moon—as fact, as metaphor, as symbol—is for everyone.”—Emily Winterburn, BBC Sky at Night

“We might not consider the moon a planet anymore, but we still feel the pull of its tender gaze and a sense of kinship with its magic, the many forms of which illuminate Lazikani’s book.”—Mathew Lyons, Literary Review

“Reading this sensitive study, it is hard not to feel a deep sense of connection with those long-ago skygazers. This celestial sphere has lost none of its mystery and allure.”—Katherine Harvey, Engelsberg Ideas

“Lazikani has committed to creating a work that is beautiful as well as informative, drawing us back through the ages to feel the moon observing and changing us, as medieval people did.”—Mary Hitchman, Times Literary Supplement

“Lazikani … offers a genuinely global vision of the period, taking in Japanese, Polynesian, and Mayan culture. [This] book powerfully reminds us that the moon was once, and can still be, the enchanted orb of poets.”—Francis Young, History Today

“The Medieval Moon opens up for us the mysterious world of our nearest celestial neighbour in a rich, vibrant fashion that will appeal to curious minds who want to understand the medieval world better.”—Holly A. Brown, Medieval Musings

“A remarkably broadly conceived and illuminating study.”—Carolyne Larrington, Fortean Times

“This book tells the extraordinary global story of the imaginative power of the medieval moon, via Sufi poetry and Zodiac men, Old English riddles and Inca statues, Andalusian medicine and Old Norse theology. The Medieval Moon is a beautiful and innovative book, accessibly written, rigorously researched, and touched by the transformative potential of its subject.”—Marion Turner, author of The Wife of Bath

“Ayoush Lazikani triumphs again—this time with a deeply thoughtful and lyrically sublime book. This sensitive, dreamscape of a study offers alluring new insights and confirms Lazikani’s position at the very forefront of her field.”—Liz Herbert McAvoy, author of The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

“The Medieval Moon presents not a moon, but the moons of poets and natural philosophers, astrologers and travellers from areas as far apart from one another as Japan, China, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the kingdoms of Christendom. Lazikani’s approach is as cross-cultural as it is interdisciplinary, written in a style that is both entertaining and erudite, filled with wonderful stories from a broad array of traditions.”—Scott E. Hendrix, Carroll University

“Ayoush Lazikani’s wonderful and beautifully-written book of the moon surveys the nights and enchantments of the middle ages, ranging widely in place, time and culture. Seldom has so much learning, and so much magic, been contained in one elegant and readable volume.”—Peter Davidson, author of The Last of the Light

Ayoush Lazikani is a lecturer at the University of Oxford. A specialist in medieval literature, she is the author of Cultivating the Heart and Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250, and an associate editor for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages.

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