Medium Aevum articles from March 1993

Medium Aevum archives from March 1993

Chaucer and Deguileville: the 'ABC' in context.
March 22, 1993... Georgia Ronan Crampton's article |Chaucer's singular prayer' (MAE, LIX),(1) is a welcome study in detail of the relationships between Chaucer's ABC and its source, Deguileville's ABC prayer in the Pelerinage de la vie humaine.(2) There is,...

'Judas': the first English ballad?
March 22, 1993... Hit wes upon a scereporsday pat vre louerd aros,(1) Ful milde were pe wordes he spec to Judas: |Judas, pou most to Jurselem oure mete for to bugge; Pritti platen of seluer pou bere up o pi rugge. pou comest fer i pe brode stret, fer in pe brode...

Ausias March and the 'Baena' debate on predestination.
March 22, 1993... Like a number of the poems of Ausias March, the relatively long piece known as the cant espiritual cannot easily be related to the main genres of fifteenth-century verse.(1) It is usual to refer to it as a prayer both because its declared...

Conception, flies, and heresy in Skelton's 'Replycacion.' (John Skelton, 'A Replycacion Against Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late')
March 22, 1993... The abjuration of Thomas Bilney and Thomas Arthur on 8 December 1527, the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin, occasioned the composition of Skelton's last extant poem, |A Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers Abjured of Late'. Long...

Old English 'hring' in Riddles 48 and 59. (Exeter Book)
March 22, 1993... Two of the Old English riddles in the Exeter Book (numbers 48 and 59), describe the object to be idendfied as a hring.(1) Various solutions have been put forward for these riddles, most of them suggesting that the hring is some soft of...

Black, white and grey in 'Hali Meidhad' and 'Ancrene Wisse.' (evidence for dating from mention of religious orders' habits)
March 22, 1993... Black, white and grey are the shades which more than any other have served to clothe Christian religious. Worn either singly or in carefully specified combinations, they have also served to differentiate one religious order from another....

Margery Kempe's white clothes.
March 22, 1993... When Margery Kempe protested Christ's command to wear white clothing, |yf I go arayd on oper maner pan oper chast women don, I drede pat pe pepyl wyl slawndyr me', she was noting that |oper chast women', that is women vowed to chastity,...

The exemplum of the eagle and the hunter ('Libro de buen amor' 270-2).
March 22, 1993... The bibliography relating to the brief exemplum of the eagle which is fatally wounded by an arrow fletched with one of its own feathers, used in the Libro de buen amor to illustrate the Deadly Sin of luxuria, is not as extensive as might be...

Studies in 'Ragnars saga Lothbrokar' and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues.
March 22, 1993... Medium AEvum Monographs, n.s. 15 (Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1991). xii + 2.75 pp. ISBN 0-907570-08-9. 11.00 [pounds. This modestly titled work consists of a detailed probing of the complex...

Recontres de cultures dans la philosophie medievale: Traductions et traducteurs de l'antiquite tardive au xive siecle: Actes du Colloque international de Cassino 15-17 juin 1989 organise par la Societe Internationale pour l'Etude de la philosophie medievale et l'Universita degli Studi di Cassino.
March 22, 1993... Jacqueline Hamesse and Marta Fattori, Textes, Etudes, Congres II, Rencontres de Philosophie Medievale, I (Louvain-la-Neuve; Cassino: Institut d'Etudes Medievales de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1990). viii + 402 pp.; 8 plates. B.fr 1750...

The Cosmic Contest: A Systems Study in Indo-European Epic, Myth, Cult and Cosmogony.
March 22, 1993... Brendan Stannard, (Southport: Carib Publishing Co., 1992). 302 pp. ISBN 0-9508947-1-0. No price given. The author of this book attempts to interpret a variety of texts as realizations of a mythic pattern (termed FIM or |formal intellectual...

Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson.
March 22, 1993... E d. by Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward. (London; Rio Grande, Ohio: The Hambledon Press, 1992), xiv + 322 pp. ISBN 1-85285-069-8. No price given. Twenty-one essays on a variety of topics in intellectual history are dedicated to Margaret Gibson,...

Thomas de Chobham: 'Summa de arte praedicandi.'
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Franco Morenzoni, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevaliss, 82 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1988). lxxxiii + 380 pp. ISBN 2-503-03821-0. No price given. Thomas Chobham, student of Peter Chanter, subdean of Salisbury and Parisian academic, is...

The Exeter Book: A Bibliography.
March 22, 1993... Comp. by Bernard J. Muir, Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies (Exeter University of Exeter Press, 1992). xiii + 133 pp. ISBN 0-85989-370-7. 17.50[pounds]. This is a comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date bibliography of the vast body of...

A Book of Middle English.
March 22, 1993... John A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992). xii + 303 pp. ISBN 0-631-16097-3. 12.95[pounds]. Designed and laid out as a companion to Mitchell and Robinson's Guide to Old English, this book is a wide-ranging and...

Piers Plowman: The A Version, Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-Well, rev. ed.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by George Kane, rev. edn (London: The Athlone Press; Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988). ix + 463 pp. ISBN 0-485-1139-2. 75.00[pounds]. George Kane's superb 1960 edition of the A-Text of Piers Plowman has now been...

Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the 'Pearl'-Poet.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Y. Miller, and Julian N. Wasserman. (Troy, NY: Whitston, 1991). xix + 254 pp. ISBN 0-87875-402-4. No price given. Intended to 'survey important approaches currently applied to the Pearl poems' and to |suggest the...

Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 1992). xiii + 255 pp. ISBN 0-85991-351-1. 49.50[pounds]. This Festschrift bears warm witness to the contribution made by Japanese scholars,...

Mary of Nemmegen.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Margaret M. Raftery, Medieval and Renaissance Texts, 5 (Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1991). 85 pp.; 13 illustrations. ISBN 90-04-0922-8. Du. gu. 56. Mariken van Nieumeghen, printed at Antwerp c. 1515, is part prose, part dramatic...

Les Chansons de Perrin d'Angicourt: Concordances et index etablis d'apres l'edition de G. Steffens.
March 22, 1993... G. Lavis and M. Stasse, (Liege: Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, 1991). iii + 338 pp. B. fr. 700. This concordance, based on the 1905 edition (Romanische Bibliothek, i8), improves on its source in some details: four...

Miracles de Notre-Dame: Tires du Rosarius.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Pierre Kunstmann, Publications medievales de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 17 (Ottawa: Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 1991). xxx + 302 pp. ISBN 2-7603-0342-x. Can. $36. This is a useful edition of fifty-two enjoyably written Miracles de...

La Passion du Palatinus: Mystere du XIVe siecle.
March 22, 1993... Texte et traduction, ed. par Grace Frank, presente et traduit par Jacques Ribard. (Paris: Champion, 1992). 275 pp. ISBN 2-85203-221-x. No price given. This second volume in the CFMA series of texts with translations is particularly welcome...

Compte du Mystere de la Passion: Chateaudun, 1510.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Marcel Couturier and Graham A. Runnalls. (Chartres: Societe Archeologique d'Eure-et-Loire, 1991). ISBN 2-905866-05-5. 182 pp. No price given. This edition of the hitherto almost unknown accounts for the Passion play presented in...

Ocelli Nominum: Names and Shelf Marks of Famous/Familiar Manuscripts.
March 22, 1993... Wilma Fitzgerald, Subsidia Mediaevalia, 19 (Tororonto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1992). 170 pp. ISBN 0-88 844-368-4. $35.00. This book consists of two alphabetical indexes, of the familiar names of manuscripts, and of the towns...

Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir. (Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991). xx + 224 pp.; 8 colour plates; 84 black-and-white figures. ISBN 3-7186-5133-5. No price given. This book is an uneven collection of essays on the...

Childhood in the Middle Ages.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Judith Lieu, John North and Tessa Rajak. (London; New York: Routledge, 1992). xvii + 198 pp. ISBN 0-415-4972-5. 30.00[pounds]. Contents: Tessa Rajak, |The Jewish community and its boundaries'; Martin Hengel, |The pre-Christian Paul';...

The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire.
March 22, 1993... Shulamith Shahar, Ages, trans. Chaya Galsi. (London; New York: Routledge, 1992). x + 342 pp. ISBN 0-415-07329-4. 12.99[pounds] (p/b). Professor Shahar intends to refute what she asserts is Phillipe Aries's argument that the Middle Ages had no...

The Jews in Christian Europe: 1400-1700.
March 22, 1993... John Edwards, The Jews in Christian Europe, 1400-1700 (London; New York: Roudledge, 1991) x + 194 pp. ISBN 0-415-06213-6. No price given. The paperback edition of John Edwards's subtle and wide-ranging study includes some minor collections to...

Droits savants et pratiques francaises du pouvoir: XIe-XVe siecles.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Jacques Krynen and Albert Rigaudiere. (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1992.). 316 pp. ISBN 2-86781-135. F. fr. 150. In this very interesting and wide-ranging volume deriving from a |round table' at the University of...

Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
March 22, 1993... Barbara M. Kreutz, Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (Philadelph University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). xxi + 228 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3101-5. $27.95. This is a scholarly but accessible account of the history of...

The Cartulary of Flavigny: 717-1113.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Constance Brittain Bouchard, Medieval Academy Books, 99 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Academy of America, 1991). ix + 166 pp. ISBN 0-915651-05-x. $24.00. The first full critical edition of the eleventh/twelfth-century cartulary of the...

France in the Middle Ages: 987-1460.
March 22, 1993... Georges Duby, translated by Juliet Vale. (Oxford; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell 1991). xxviii + 331 pp.; 15 plates. ISBN 0-631-17026-x. 35.00[pounds]. If one likes it, this is |mature Duby'; if one doesn't, it is |late Duby'--in other...

'Land' and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria.
March 22, 1993... Otto Brunner, trans. and introd. by Howard Kaminsky and James Van Horn Melton. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). lxiv + 425 pp. ISBN 0-8122-8183-7. $35.00. This translation of the final revision of Land und Herrschaft...

From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy.
March 22, 1993... E. E., (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991) xii + 265 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3079-5. 35.10[pounds]. As a treatment of the origins and development of the office of General Receiver of Flanders in the thirteenth and fourteenth...

Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire.
March 22, 1993... S. J. Payling, Polilical Society in Lancastrian England: the Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire (Ox Clarendon Press, 1991). xiv + 276 pp. ISBN 0-19-820209-1. 30.00[pounds]. This book is a useful contribution to the growing body of literature on...

The Age of Chivalry: Art and Society in Late Medieval England.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Nigel Saul, A History Today Book (London: Collins & Brown, 1992). 144 pp.; 16 colour figures. ISBN 1-85585-052-4. 20.00[pounds]. Nigel Saul, Juliet and Malcolm Vale, Nigel Ramsay, Peter Draper, janet Backhouse, Brian Stone, Pamela...

The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune.
March 22, 1993... Carol Lansing, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991). xv + 265 pp. ISBN 0-691-03154-100. 2.5[pounds]. Fourteenth-century Florence has, over the last thirty years, attracted the attention of a succession of distinguished...

Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, vol. 18.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Paul Maurice Clogan, n.s. XVIII (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992). x + 249 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-8476-7705-2. The volume includes: Lillian M. Bisson, |Brunetto Latini as a failed mentor; John Finlayson, |King Horn and Havelok...

Lecture du Testament Villon, huitains I a XLV et LXXVIII a LXXXIV.
March 22, 1993... |Il reste encore dans le texte de Villon bien des incertitudes et dans l'interpretation de ce texte bien des obscurites.'(1) Despite the many articles and books that have appeared on Villon in the course of the century, what Gaston Paris wrote...

Comedia o Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.
March 22, 1993... Over the last twenty years, Castalia has been building up a formidable reputation for producing scholarly editions of Spanish literary texts which are accessible to the general public as well as to the student and more specialised reader. This...

Dichtung des europaischen Mittelalters: Ein Fuhrer durch die erzahlende Literatur.
March 22, 1993... ed. by Rolf Brauer. (Munich: Beck, 1991). 576 pp.; 16 coloured plates. ISBN 3-406-34563-8. DM 58. This book, a joint product of the Munich publishing house and the firm Volk und Wissen of the former GDR, is an early result of the...

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell. (Ithaca, NY; London: Cornell University Press, 1991). viii + 315 pp.; 21 illustrations. ISBN 0-8014-2507-7; 0-8014-9745-0. $40-25 (hard covers); $15.25 (p/b). This welcome collection is...

Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.
March 22, 1993... Caroline Walker Bynumm, (New York: Zone Books, 1991). 426 pp. ISBN 0-942299-63-9. 22.50[pounds]. The Apostles' Creed commits Christians to a belief in the resurrection of the body. Comforting as this article of faith may be to those...

Exempel und Exempelsammlungen.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger, Fortuna Vitrea, 2 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1991). viii + 317 pp. ISBN 3484-15502-7. DM 86. This second volume in the highly promising (and handsomely produced) new series Fortuna Vitrea contains...

Les Espirits et les morts: Croyances medievales.
March 22, 1993... Claude Lecouteux and Philippe Marcq, Collections Essais (Paris: Honore Champion, 1990). 2Z5 pp. ISBN 2-852.030-99-3. F. fr. 132. No price given. As a contribution to |l'archeologie mentale', this is potentially a valuable addition to an...

Old English Runes and Their Continental Background.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Alfred Bammesberger, Anglistische Forschungen, 217 (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1991). 632 pp.; 14 plates. ISBN 3-533-04464-5; 3-533-04463-7. DM 100 (hard covers); DM 75 (p/b). The majority of articles in this book...

Pagan Words and Christian Meanings.
March 22, 1993... Richard North, Costerus, n. s., 8 i (Amsterdam; Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1991). xvi + 198 pp. ISBN 90-5183-305-9. Du. gu. 65; $32-50. This book is a brave attempt to revive the search for Anglo-Saxon paganism by a cautious investigation of...

Alfred's Metres of Boethius.
March 22, 1993... By Bill Griffiths. (Pinner, Middlesex: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1991), 197 pp. ISBN 0-9516209-5-9. 12-95[pounds]. This new edition of the Metres of Boethius makes a welcome contribution to Alfredian scholarship; the standard edition by G. P....

A Guide to Early Irish Law.
March 22, 1993... Fergus Kelly, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988). ISBN 0-901282-95-2. Irish 16.00[pounds]. Written in the hope of making |the fascinating subject of early Irish law accessible to a wider readership than before' (p. xvi),...

The Welsh Laws.
March 22, 1993... T. M. Charles-Edwards, The Welsh Laws (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1989.105 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1032-x. 3.50[pounds]. Written in the hope of making |the fascinating subject of early Irish law accessible to a wider readership than...

The Dublin 'Visitatio Sepulcri' Play.
March 22, 1993... Maire Egan-Buffet and Alan J. Fletcher, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 90, C, 7 (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1990). 83 pp.; 13 plates. ISSN 0035-8991. Irish 9.95[pounds]. Of the many hundreds of versions of the Quem queritis...

St. Patrick's Purgatory: Two Versions of 'Owayne Miles' and 'The Vision of William of Stranton' Together with the Long Text of the 'Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii.'
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Robert Easting, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 298 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the EETS, 1991). xciii + 338 pp. ISBN 019-722300-1. 25.00[pounds]. This volume contains editions of all the major Middle English...

Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by John W. Conlee. (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press, 1991; distributed outside the US by Boydell & Brewer). xlii + 329 pp. ISBN 0-937191-18-3; ISBN 0-937191-23-x. 29.50[pounds] (hard covers); 14.95[pounds (p/b). This anthology...

The Teaching of Grammar in Late Medieval England: An Edition, with Commentary, of Oxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 130.
March 22, 1993... Cynthia Renee Bland, Medieval Texts and Studies, 6 (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press, 1991). xxi + 235 pp. ISBN 0-937191-16-7. 19.95.[pounds] This book is a revision of Bland's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of...

Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority.
March 22, 1993... Nicholas Watson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 13 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). xiv + 358 pp. ISBN 0-521-39017-6. 45.00[pounds. This massive, and impressively achieved, work constitutes a major and welcome...

Nature and Salvation in 'Piers Plowman.'
March 22, 1993... Hugh White, Plowman Studies, 6 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988). 128 pp. ISBN 0-85991-271-X. 27-50.[pounds] Mary Clemente Devlin's book offers a rewardingly close reading of some of the puns and wordplay in four of the passus in Piers...

'A Game of Heuene': Word Play and the Meaning of 'Piers Plowman.'
March 22, 1993... Mary Clemente Davlin, OP, Piers Plowman Studies, 7 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989). 147 pp. ISBN 0-85991-272-8. 27-50.[pounds] Mary Clemente Devlin's book offers a rewardingly close reading of some of the puns and wordplay in four of the...

Reformist Apocalypticism and 'Piers Plowman.'
March 22, 1993... Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). xii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-521-342.98-8. 30-00.[pounds] |Reformist apocalypticism' is a term coined by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton to...

Seeing the 'Gawain'-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception.
March 22, 1993... Sarah Stanbury, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). x + 15 5 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3119-0. 21.95.[pounds] Mediaevalists are going to divide over the question whether visual perception is a factor which so consistently engages...

The Latin Verses in the 'Confessio Amantis.'
March 22, 1993... The Latin Verses in the |Confessio Amantis', an annotated translation by Sian Echard and Claire Fanger, with a preface by A. G. Rigg, Medieval Texts and Studies, 7 (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press; Woodbridge: Boyden & Brewer, 1991)....

The Manuscripts of the 'Canterbury Tales.'
March 22, 1993... Charles A. Owen, Jr, Chaucer Studies, 17 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 199I). xii + 13 3 pp. ISBN 0-85991-334-1. 35.00.[pounds] After so much recent attention to the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS, it is a pleasure to welcome a book devoted to all...

Chaucer and the Subject of History.
March 22, 1993... Lee Patterson, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Routledge, 1991). xiv + 489 pp. ISBN 0-415-07315-4; 0-415-073i6-2. 35-00[pounds] (hard covers); 10.99[pounds] (p/b). The tide of this book turns on a now-familiar Gallic pun on...

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, King's College London Medieval Studies, 5 (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991). x + 174 pp. ISBN 0-9513085-4-8. 8.75[pounds]. The titles of these...

Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by R. F. Yeager, English Literary Studies Monograph Series, 51 (Victoria, BC, Canada: English Literary Studies, 1991). 152 pp. ISBN 0-920604-54-4. $8.50. The titles of these collections speak volumes for the power of Chaucer. Both...

The Middle English 'Weye of Paradys' and the Middle French 'Voie de Paradis': A Parallel-Text Edition.
March 22, 1993... Ed. F. N. M. Diekstra, Medieval and Renaissance Texts, 1 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1991). xvi + 544 pp.; 5 figures. ISBN 90-04-09118-1. Du. gu. 200. It is hard to imagine an edition more thorough than F. N. M. Diekstra's of the Middle French...

The N-Town Play: Cotton MS Vespasian D.8.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Stephen Spector, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 11, 12, 2 Vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the EETS, 1991). lvii + 661 pp. ISBN 019-722411-3; 019-722412-1. 45.00[pounds]. |BL MS Cotton Vespasian D.8...

Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of 'A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English.'
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Felicity Riddy, York Manuscripts Conference: Proceedings Series, 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991). xiv + 214 pp.; 6 plates; 20 maps; 6 figures. ISBN 0-85991-311-2. 35.00[pounds]. The programme of the 1989 York Manuscripts Conference...

A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3d ed.
March 22, 1993... P. H. Reaney, third edition with corrections and additions by R. M. Wilson. (London; New York: Routledge, 1991). lxx + 509 pp. ISBN 0-425-05737-x. 50.00[pounds]. The third edition of Reaney's dictionary, now with |English' in the tide...

Thomas: Le Roman de Tristan.
March 22, 1993... By Felix Lecoy, Classiques francais du moyen age, 113 (Paris: Champion, 1991). 176 pp. ISBN 2-85203-216-3. 11.49 [pounds]. Strange though it may seem in the case of a text as familiar as this, Felix Lecoy's edition is arguably the first to...

Beroul: The Romance of Tristan.
March 22, 1993... By Norris J. Lacy, Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, 36 (New York; London: Garland: 1989). xxvi + 237 pp. ISBN 0-8240-877-1. 37.00 [pounds] Norris Lacy's edition of Beroul's Tristran is only one of a number which have...

The 'Alexis' in the Saint Albans Psalter: A Look into the Heart of the Matter.
March 22, 1993... Rachel Bullington, Garland Studies in Medieval Literature, 4 (New York; London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1991). xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-8240-4038-4. No price given. This is a book written from a real depth of enthusiasm (Dr Bullington refers...

The Broken Pot Restored: 'Le Jeu de la Feuillee' of Adam de la Halle.
March 22, 1993... By Gordon Douglas McGregor, ed. by Karl D. Uitti and Joseph Miller. (Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum Publishers, 1991). 185 pp. ISBN 0-917058-76-3. $14.85.) This book consists of three chapters which analyse and discuss the Jeu,...

La Vie et les Epistres Pierres Abaelart et Heloys sa fame: Traduction du XIIIe siecle attribuee a Jean de Meun, Avec une nouvelle edition des textes latins d'apres le MS Troyes, Bibl. mun. 802, vol. 1.
March 22, 1993... By Eric Hicks, Tome I: Introduction, Textes, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age, 16 (Paris: Champion, 1991). lix + 322. pp. ISBN 2-85203-218-x. F. fr. 250. This translation survives in only one faulty manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque...

Poemetti misogini antico-francesi, vol. 1, Le blasme des fames.
March 22, 1993... Mario Pagani, Universita di Catania, Quaderni del Siculorum Gymnasium, 19 (Catania: Universita di Catania, 1990). ix + 2.36 pp. No price given. Mario Pagani has chosen, as the first of a corpus of short misogynistic poems, a text extant in...

The Monophonic Songs in the 'Roman de Fauvel.'
March 22, 1993... By Samuel N. Rosenberg and Hans Tischler. (Lincoln; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991). 172 pp.; 27 plates. ISBN 0-8032-3898-3. No price given. Fauvel, the fourteenth-century satirical horse symbolizing the vices, is truly in the...

Le Livre de Jehan de Mandeville. Une 'Geographie' au XIVe siecle.
March 22, 1993... Publications de l'Institut d'Etudes Medievales: Textes, Etudes, Congres, 8 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1988). lix + 511 pp. F. fr. 380. The present study is a most valuable complement to J. W. Bennett's The...

Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio.
March 22, 1993... (Durham, North Carolina; London: Duke University Press, 1991). 223 pp. ISBN 0-8223-1104-6; 0-822 3-1117-8. 33-20[pounds] (hard covers); 11.95 [pounds] (p/b). A challenging sub-title offers fair warning of contentious matter to follow. The...

Petrach's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy.
March 22, 1993... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). 225 pp. ISBN 0-520-07293-6. $34-95. The author of this study of Petrarch's Canzoniere writes as a theologian, and proposes a reading which takes Petrarch's own |theological' claims for...

The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz.
March 22, 1993... (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990). vii + 171 pp. ISBN 0-8122-8225-6. 23-70[pounds]. My powerful Father, I give you thanks because you hid your secret and profound mysteries from the lettered and the wise and...

Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative.
March 22, 1993... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991). XIV + 217 pp. ISBN 0-8020-6789-1; 0-8020-5867-1. 30-00[pounds] (hard covers); 10.00[pounds] (p/b). Skaldic strophes apparently dating from the Viking period are preserved in later mediaeval...

Performing Definitions: Two Genres of Insult in Old Norse Literature.
March 22, 1993... Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture, 3 (Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1991). 149 pp. No price given. The genres in question are mannjafnadr and senna, two |ethnic' or contemporary Norse (as opposed to |analytic' or...

Fruhe deutsche Literatur und lateinische Literatur in Deutschland, 800-1150.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Walter Haug and Benedikt Konrad Vollmann, Bibliothek des Mittelalters, I (Frankfurt am Main: Deutsche Klassiker Verlag, 1991). 1593 pp. ISBN 3-698-66010-3. DM 240. With this beautifully produced first volume, the new series of...

Die deutsche Trojaliteratur des Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit: Materialien und Untersuchungen.
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Horst Brunner, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 3 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1990). ISBN 3-88226-473-x-53 pp. DM 215. Whereas no one would deny that the Trojan War is one of the great international themes of European literature, the...

Zwei ostmitteldeutsche Bearbeitungen lateinischer Prosadenkmaler: Eine anonyme deutsche Ubersetzung des 'Buches von Troja nach Guido de Columnis.'
March 22, 1993... Ed. by Hildegard Bokova and Vaclav Bok; Der ostmitteldeutsche Traktat |Welch furste sich unde syne erbin wil in synem furstethum festin' nach Aegidius Romanus, |De regimine principum'. Whereas no one would deny that the Trojan War is one of...