Medium Aevum articles from March 1998

Medium Aevum archives from March 1998

Making a cloister of the soul in medieval religious treatises.
March 22, 1998... The allegory of the cloister of the soul springs into currency in the middle of the twelfth century, apparently fathered by Hugh of Fouilloy,(1) and then developed by devotional writers until well into the fifteenth century. It serves different...

Calendar and text: Christ's ministry in the York plays and the liturgy.
March 22, 1998... The modern reader tends to accept that mystery plays are based on the Bible, thereby reading them into an intellectual milieu, the world of the professional Church. Yet we know nothing of the individual authors, and increasingly more, thanks to...

Inescapable Rose: Jean le Seneschal's 'Cent Ballades' and the art of cheerful paradox.
March 22, 1998... The Societe des Anciens Textes Francais brought out an elegant, meticulous edition of Jean le Seneschal's Livre des cent ballades in 1905:(1) the response has been, very largely, a resounding silence. At best, the collection is referred to,...

Gottfried's 'huote' excursus ('Tristan' 17817-18114). (Gottfried von Strassburg)
March 22, 1998... The aim of this study is to offer a new reading of the excursus in Gottfried von Stra[Beta]burg's Tristan in which the narrator examines the appropriateness, given the essential nature of women, of a husband putting a guard round his wife.(1) The...

Note: two Middle English carols from an Exeter manuscript.
March 22, 1998... It is in the nature of manuscript studies that one always finds more than one seeks. So it was that in the course of examining fifteenth-century English manuscripts known to contain medieval Latin rhetorical treatises, I came across a...

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3d ed.
March 22, 1998... The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F. L. Cross, 3rd edn ed. E. A. Livingstone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), xxxviii + 1786 pp. ISBN 0-19-211655-X. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. E. A. Livingstone's new edition is as...

Heaven and Earth in the Middle Ages: The Physical World before Columbus.
March 22, 1998... Rudolf Simek, Heaven and Earth in the Middle Ages: The Physical World before Columbus, trans. Angela Hall (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996). xii + 164 pp.; 32 illustrations + 4 maps. ISBN 0-85115-608-8. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. In this...

Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.
March 22, 1998... Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, "Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1696 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996). xviii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-8153-1287-3. $68.00 These two books offer a...

Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.
March 22, 1998... Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Jane Chance (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996). xviii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1391-7. $59.95. These two books offer a wealth of interesting perspectives and material on the interrelated...

Des Rats et des ratieres: anamorphoses d'un champ metaphorique de Saint Augustin a Jean Racine.
March 22, 1998... Jacques Berchtold, Des Rats et des ratieres: anamorphoses d'un champ metaphorique de Saint Augustin a Jean Racine (Geneva: Droz, 1992). 274 pp.; 40 plates. Sw. Fr. 75.00. While Modern English speakers and readers of Orwell's 1984 will be...

Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Medieval Thought and Literature.
March 22, 1998... David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996). xiv + 392 pp.; 90 plates. ISBN 0-85989-5416. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. Monster haben derzeit...

Pensee mythique et narrations medievales.
March 22, 1998... Jean-Jacques Vincensini, Pensee mythique et narrations medievales, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 34 (Paris: Champion, 1996). 472 pp. ISBN 2-85203-543-x. F. Fr. 385.00. The aim of this dense and sometimes exasperating volume (an abridged...

Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent.
March 22, 1998... Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997). xxvi + 318 pp.; 12 plates + 117 figures. ISBN 0-520-20386-0. $55.00. Jeffrey Hamburger's...

Johannes Molanus: Traite des saintes images.
March 22, 1998... Johannes Molanus: Traite des saintes images, introd., trans., and ed. Francois Boespflug, Olivier Christin, and Benoit Tassel, Patrimoines Christianisme (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1996). 2 vols. 669 pp. + 11 figures; 465 pp. + 84 figures. ISBNs...

Apocalypse of Paul: A New Critical Edition of Three Long Latin Versions.
March 22, 1998... Apocalypse of Paul: A New Critical Edition of Three Long Latin Versions, ed. Theodore Silverstein and Anthony Hilhorst, Cahiers d'Orientalisme XXI (Geneva: Patrick Cramer Editeur, 1997). 213 pp. + 54 plates. Sw. Fr. 120.00. Theodore...

The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography.
March 22, 1998... The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography, ed. Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross (Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Four Courts Press, 1996). viii + 299 pp. ISBN 1-85182-187-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Mary of Egypt is the most...

The Chronicle of Adam Usk: 1377-1421.
March 22, 1998... The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377-1421, ed. and trans. C. Given-Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). xciii + 290 pp. ISBN 0-19-820483-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. As a participant-observer of many events he describes, Adam Usk offers a vital...

Dictionary of Old English: Fascicle A and Fascicle E.
March 22, 1998... Antonette diPaolo Healey et al., Dictionary of Old English: Fascicle A (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1994). 8 fiches. ISBN 0-88844-922-4. $12.00; Fascicle E (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996). 6...

Beowulf.
March 22, 1998... Beowulf, read in Anglo-Saxon by Trevor Eaton (`Pearl' label; Wadhurst: Pavilion Records, 1997). Two CDs, total running time 145' 02". Accompanying booklet 12 pp. ISBN 7-27031-96422-3. 25.90 [pounds sterling]. Trevor Eaton's reading of Beowulf,...

The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama, vol 1.
March 22, 1998... Richard Rastall, The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama, vol. I (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 1996). xxi + 422 pp. ISBN 0-85991-428-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. It seems appropriate to begin this...

A Companion to the Gawain-Poet.
March 22, 1998... A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, ed. Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, Arthurian Studies 38 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), vi + 442 pp.; 26 plates. ISBN 0-85991-433-X. 49.50 [pounds sterling]. `The life of the aristocracy', argues Nicholas...

The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet.
March 22, 1998... Sandra Pierson Prior, The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet, Medieval Texts and Studies 18 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. xiv + 222 pp.; 17 figures. ISBN 0-87013-460-4. $37.95. `The life of the aristocracy', argues Nicholas...

An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet.
March 22, 1998... Ad Putter, An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet (London and New York: Longman, 1996). x + 256 pp. ISBN 0-582-22574-4. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. `The life of the aristocracy', argues Nicholas Watson, `is carefully presented [in the poems of London,...

Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86.
March 22, 1998... Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, introd. Judith Tschann and M. B. Parkes, Early English Text Society, ss 16 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the EETS, 1996). lxii + 424 facsimile pp. ISBN 0-19-722417-2. 60.00 [pounds...

The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture.
March 22, 1998... David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). 310 pp. ISBN 0-271-0154-1, 40.50 [pounds sterling],...

The Later Versions of Sir Degarre: A Study in Textual Degeneration.
March 22, 1998... Nicholas Jacobs, The Later Versions of Sir Degarre: A Study in Textual Degeneration, Medium AEvum Monographs NS 18 (Oxford, 1995). x + 127 pp. ISBN 0-907570-11-9. 11.00 [pounds sterling]. The point of departure here is G. Schleich's edited text...

Piers Plowman: The C Version.
March 22, 1998... Piers Plowman: The C Version, ed. George Russell and George Kane (London and Berkeley, California: Athlone Press/University of California Press, 1997), xi + 700 pp. ISBN 0-485-11408-9. 130.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume (R-K hereafter),...

Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse.
March 22, 1998... Michaela Paasche Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1996). ix + 200 pp. ISBN 1-57003-102-9. $29.95. In taking as her topic the speech of Chaucer's characters, including...

Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in 'Le Morte Darthur'.
March 22, 1998... Andrew Lynch, Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in `Le Morte Darthu', Arthurian Studies 39 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xx + 169 pp. ISBN 0-85991-511-5. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. Students encountering Malory for the first time...

John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist.
March 22, 1998... Gabriele Stein, John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist, Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 511 pp. ISBN 0-19-823505-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. Although any authoritative assessment of this immensely...

Medieval Welsh Literature.
March 22, 1998... Andrew Breeze, Medieval Welsh Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997). 174 pp. ISBN 1-85182-229-1. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. Within just 150 pages of text, Andrew Breeze strives to provide a survey of Welsh literature from the very earliest...

The Art of Medieval French Romance.
March 22, 1998... Douglas Kelly, The Art of Medieval French Romance (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). xvi + 473 pp. ISBN 0-299-13190-4. 49.95 [pounds sterling]. This detailed, scholarly study encourages the non-anachronistic reading of...

The Medieval Medea.
March 22, 1998... Ruth Morse, The Medieval Medea (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996). xvi + 267 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 0-85991-459-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Ruth Morse aime a reflechir sur le statut du mythe et de la legende, ou sur les problemes de la veracite et de...

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England.
March 22, 1998... William Calin, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). xvi + 587 pp. ISBN 0-8020-0565-9, 49.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-8020-7202-x, 19.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b)....

Le Dit et sa technique litteraire des origines a 1340.
March 22, 1998... Monique Leonard, Le Dit et sa technique litteraire des origines a 1340, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 38 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1996). 464 pp. ISBN 2-85203-56I-8. F. Fr. 360.00. This work, which is a version prepared for publication of...

Ambivalent Conventions: Formula and Parody in Old French.
March 22, 1998... Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Ambivalent Conventions: Formula and Parody in Old French, Faux Titre 101, Etudes de Langue et Litterature Francaises (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), 180 pp. ISBN 90-5 5183-872-7. No price given. This is a valuable study linking...

Les Espaces de la transgression dans le Tristan de Beroul.
March 22, 1998... Neda Chernack Zovic, Les Espaces de la transgression dans le Tristan de Beroul, Studies in the Humanities, Literature -- Politics -- Society 19 (New York: Peter Lang, 1996). 127 pp. ISBN 0-8204-2787-x. $36.95. This book, which started life as a...

Le Jeu d'Adam.
March 22, 1998... Le Jeu d'Adam, ed. Wolfgang van Emden, British Rencesvals Publications 1 (Edinburgh: Societe Rencesvals British Branch, 1996). xix + 83 PP. ISBN 0-9519791-2-4. No price given. Wolfgang van Emden's new edition of the Anglo-Norman Adam play is...

Gautier d'Arras: Ille et Galeron.
March 22, 1998... Gautier d'Arras: Ille et Galeron, ed. and trans. Penny Eley, King's College London Medieval Studies 13 (London: King's College London Medieval Studies, 1996). liv + 228 pp. ISBN 0-9522119-5-5. 9.50 [pounds sterling]. In the introduction to her...

Poeme anglo-normand sur l'Ancien Testament.
March 22, 1998... Poeme anglo-normand sur l'Ancien Testament, ed. Pierre Nobel, 2 vols, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 37 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1996). 608 + 968 pp. ISBN 2-85203-560-x. F. Fr. 960.00. This work, a verse translation of the Vulgate text with...

Le Bel Inconnu de Renaut de Beaujeu: Rite, mythe et roman.
March 22, 1998... Philippe Walter, Le Bel Inconnu de Renaut de Beaujeu: Rite, mythe et roman (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996). xii + 356 pp. ISBN 2-13-048089-6. F. Fr. 168.00. This is a study of the mythological strata embedded in Renaut de...

Robert Le Chapelain: A Rhymed Commentary on the Seven Sacraments.
March 22, 1998... Robert Le Chapelain: Corset: A Rhymed Commentary on the Seven Sacraments, ed. K. V. Sinclair, Anglo-Norman Text Society 52 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1995). x + 150 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-905474-32-5. 15.00 [pounds sterling]. Having...

Garin le Loherenc.
March 22, 1998... Garin le Loherenc, ed. Anne Iker-Gittleman, 3 vols, Classiques Fransais du Moyen Age 117, 118, 119 (Paris: Champion, 1996-7). 264 pp. ISBN 285203-536-7, 2-85203-559-6, 2-85203-574-x. F. Fr. 120 per volume. It is fifty years since the last...

La Suite du roman de Merlin.
March 22, 1998... La Suite du roman de Merlin, ed. Gilles Roussineau, Textes Litteraires Francais 472, 2 vols (Geneva: Droz, 1996). cxlvi + 806 pp.; 5 plates. ISBN 2-60000163-8. Sw. Fr. 132.60. This edition of the Suite du Merlin that does not form an integral...

Ricettari medico-farmaceutici medievali nella Francia meridionale, vol. 1.
March 22, 1998... Ricettari medico-farmaceutici medievali nella Francia meridionale, ed. Maria Sofia Corradini Bozzi, Vol. I, Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere `La Colombaria', `Studi' CLIX (Florence: Olschki, 1997). 505 pp. ISBN 88222-4490-7. L. 110,000....

Boeces: De Consolacion, Edition critique d'apres le manuscrit Paris, Bibl. nationale fr. 1096, avec introduction, variantes, notes et glossaires.
March 22, 1998... Boeces: De Consolacion, Edition critique d'apres le manuscrit Paris, Bibl. nationale fr. 1096, avec introduction, variantes, notes et glossaires, ed. J. Keith Atkinson, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie 277 (Tubingen: Max...

Living and Dying in Medieval Paris: The Household of a Fourteenth-Century French Knight.
March 22, 1998... Nicole Crossley-Holland, Living and Dying in Medieval Paris: The Household of a Fourteenth-Century French Knight (Cardiff: University of Wiles Press, 1996). xii + 244 pp.; 24 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1368-x. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The...

Writing East: The 'Travels' of Sir John Mandeville.
March 22, 1998... Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing Ease The `Travels' of Sir John Mandeville (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), ix + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3343-3. $49.95. Mandeville's Travels, which begins as a conventional...

Le Mystere de Saint Remi.
March 22, 1998... Le Mystere de Saint Remi, ed. Jelle Koopmans, Textes Litteraires Francais 477 (Geneva: Droz, 1997). 824 pp. ISBN 2-600-00203. Sw. Fr. 108.15. The Mysteri de Saint Remi (SR) is one of the few French mystery plays not to have received a modern...

Dante's Political Purgatory.
March 22, 1998... John A. Scott, Dante's Political Purgatory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) xi + 295 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3346-8. No price given. Dante's Political Purgatory sets out to demonstrate that a closer link than has...

Antonia Pulci: Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival: Seven Sacred Plays.
March 22, 1998... Antonia Pulci: Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival.' Seven Sacred Plays, trans. James Wyatt Cook (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1996). xxx + 282 pp. ISBN 0-226-68567-9. $33.00; 26.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers)....

Il 'Llibre del plant de l'hom: Versione catalana del Liber de miseria conditionis di Lotario Diacono.
March 22, 1998... Il `Llibre del plant de l'hom': Versione catalana del Liber de miseria conditionis di Lotario Diacono, ed. Vincenzo Minervini, Biblioteca della Ricerca, Philologica 2 (Brindisi: Schena, 1996), 174 pp. ISBN 88-7541-905-4. L. 22,000. During a...

The Cambridge History of German Literature.
March 22, 1998... The Cambridge History of German Literature ed. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xiii + 613 pp. ISBN 0-521-43417-3. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Given the fact that no authoritative account in English of the...

Die Vermittlung geistlicher Inhalte im deutschen Mittelalter: Internationales Symposium, Roscrea 1994.
March 22, 1998... Die Vermittlung geistlicher Inhalte im deutschen Mittelalter. Internationales Symposium, Roscrea 1994, ed. Timothy R. Jackson, Nigel F. Palmer, and Almut Suerbaum (Tubingen: 1996). viii + 337 pp. ISBN 3-484-10727-8. DM 152.00. As the title...

The Minnesinger Heinrich von Morungen: An Introduction to his Songs.
March 22, 1998... Rodney W. Fisher, The Minnesinger Heinrich von Morungen: An Introduction to his Songs (San Francisco, California, London, and Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1996). x + .321 pp. ISBNs 1-57309-117-0 (hard covers); 1-57309-116-2...

Marner-Studien.
March 22, 1998... Jens Haustein, Marner-Studien, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 109 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1995). ix + 285 pp. ISBN 3-484-89109-2. DM 82.00. Under the heading `Marner', the Codex Manesse contains a...

Das Bremer Evangelistar.
March 22, 1998... Das Bremer Evangelistar, unter Mitarbeit von Marion Bockelmann und Andreas Kerstan eingeleitet und herausgegeben von Jochen Splett, Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Volker, neue Folge 110 (234) (Berlin;...

Paris un Wiene: Ein jiddischer Stanzenroman des 16. Jahrhunderts von (order aus dem Umkreis von) Elia Levita.
March 22, 1998... Paris un Wiene: Ein jiddischer Stanzenroman des 16. Jahrhunderts von (oder aus dem Umkreis von) Elia Levita, eingeleitet, in Transkription herausgegeben und kommentiert von Erika Timm unter Mitarbeit von Gustav Adolf Beckmann (Tubingen: Niemeyer,...

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215.
March 22, 1998... Bruce L. Venarde, Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), xix + 243 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3203-0. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. This study takes issue...

Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.
March 22, 1998... David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996). ix + 301 pp. ISBN 0-691-03375-7. 23.95 [pounds sterling]. The principal purpose of this boldly...

Studies in the Cult of Saint Columba.
March 22, 1998... Studies in the Cult of Saint Columba, ed. Cormac Bourke (Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Four Courts Press, 1997), 252 pp.; 11 maps, 44 illustrations. ISBN 1-85182-268-1/2. 17.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b); 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers). This...

Blue in Old English: An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study.
March 22, 1998... C. P. Biggam, Blue in Old English: Mn Interdisciplinary Semantic Study, Costerus NS CX (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 333 PP. ISBN 90-420-0148-8. $62.00. A study of the various terms in Old English that may imply the hue `blue'...

The Metrical Organization of 'Beowulf": Prototype and Isomorphism.
March 22, 1998... Seiichi Suzuki, The Metrical Organization of `Beowulf: Prototype and Isomorphism, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 95 (Berlin and New York: Mouton De Gruyter, 1996). xxiv + 537 PP. ISBN 3-11-015134-0. DM 278.00. The current...

The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XI: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge.
March 22, 1998... The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XI: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge, compiled by Linne R. Mooney (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995). xxxviii + 251 pp. ISBN 0-85991-457-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The latest...

The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the 'De regimine principum' of Aegidius Romanus, vol 1.
March 22, 1998... The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the `De regimine principum' of Aegidius Romanus ed. David C. Fowler, Charles F. Briggs, and Paul G. Remley, Garland Medieval Texts 19 (New York and London: Garland...

The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade.
March 22, 1998... William of Tudela and an Anonymous Successor, The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade, trans. Janet Shirley (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996). xiv + 210 pp.; 5 maps, 2 figures. ISBN 1-85928-331-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]....

Le Miroir de la Mort.
March 22, 1998... George Chastelain, Le Miroir de la Mort, ed. Tania Van Hemelryck, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Publications de l'Institut d'Etudes Medievales: Textes, Etudes, Congres, 17 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut d'Etudes Medievales de l'Universite...

Tirant lo blanc.
March 22, 1998... Joanot Martorell and Marti Joan de Galba, Tirant lo blanc, trans. David H. Rosenthal (Baltimore, Maryland, and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). xxix + 640 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5421-0. $19.95. This reprint of David Rosenthal's 1984...