Medium Aevum articles from March 2001

Medium Aevum archives from March 2001

SOUTH ENGLISH LEGENDARY STYLE IN ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE.
March 22, 2001... Two huge momuments of later thirteenth-century literary activity, the South English Legendary (SEL), which contains principally saints' lives, and the historical chronicle that goes under the name of Robert of Gloucester, have long been known...

JOSEPH OF EXETER'S PAGAN GODS AGAIN.
March 22, 2001... Some years ago in this journal, Hugh C. Parker described how the pagan gods function in Joseph of Exeter's Ylias.(1) Thetis, when drowning Orontes (V. 167-70) or searching for Achilles (v.381-4), is simply the sea. Aurora, when mourning Memnon...

THE AMPLIFIED SAGA: STRUCTURAL DISUNITY IN MORKINSKINNA.
March 22, 2001... The paettir of Morkinskinna De gamle sagaer om de enkelte konger er bleven udvidede med storre og mindre paettir, der skal tjaene til at belyse kongernes karakter; de star ikke i nogen organisk sammenhaeng med hovedsagaen.(1) ...

THE FORM OF THE SELF: ANCRENE WISSE AND ROMANCE.
March 22, 2001... How can you be together to bear witness to secrecy, separation, singularity? (Derrida)(1) It is difficult to separate the self from the world. To lock oneself away, to give away everything one owns, to think of nothing but the...

THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND THE EARLS OF MARCH: GARTER KNIGHTS AND SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.
March 22, 2001... `Hony soit qui mal pence': this slightly altered version of the motto of the Order of the Garter appears at the end of the Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK), the only extant copy of which is to be found in...

THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN LYDGATE'S SIEGE OF THEBES: ITS SCOTTISH OWNERS AND INSCRIPTIONS.
March 22, 2001... John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes has received increasing attention in recent years: scholars have debated its date of composition (probably in 1421), its conception as an additional `Canterbury Tale', and, above all, its structure and precise...

`NUS NE POROIT DE MAUVAISE RAISON' (R1887): A CASE FOR RAOUL DE SOISSONS.
March 22, 2001... The crusade song(1) `Nus ne poroit de mauvaise raison' appears in only two manuscripts, neither of which supplies the author's name. A third source takes the form of an incunabulum published in 1500 by Pierre Desrey de Troyes, who attributes...

A NEW MIDDLE ENGLISH CAROL.
March 22, 2001... Since the publication of Greene's revised standard edition of the Middle English carol corpus(1) a handful of new ones have come to light.(2) There is, however, among the medieval materials in the collection of Professor T. Takamiya in Tokyo,...

Die `Alemannischen Vitaspatrum': Untersuchungen und Edition.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ulla Williams, Die `Alemannischen Vitaspatrum': Untersuchungen und Edition, Texte und Textgeschichte 45 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996). x + 145 + 438 pp. ISBN 3-484-36045-3. DM 296.00. Le groupe de recherche de Wurzbourg `Prosa des...

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. III: 1400-1557.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. III: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xxiv + 744 pp.; frontispiece + 64 plates. ISBN 0-521-57346-7. 85.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Civil Strife and National Identity in the Middle Ages.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Civil Strife and National Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. Paul Maurice Clogan, Medievalia et Humanistica, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 26 (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), iv + 224 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9449-6. $75.00. ...

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Carolyn Dinshaw, Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, Q Series (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), xii + 345 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2330-3, 37.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-8223-2365-6, 12.95 [pounds...

Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility.(Review)
March 22, 2001... C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 304 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3494-4. $45.00/34.00 [pounds sterling]. Ennobling Love begins with two textual moments which the...

Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Julie Coleman, Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), xvii + 599 pp. ISBN 090-420-0433-9. $74.50. Julie Coleman's inventory of the lexical domains of love, sex, and marriage from Old English to the...

The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Lisa Fagin Davis, The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 8 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xv + 316 pp. ISBN 0-521-59249-6. 55.00 [pounds...

Le Devin maudit: Merlin, Lailoken, Suibhne. Textes et etude.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Le Devin maudit: Merlin, Lailoken, Suibhne. Textes et etude, ed. Philippe Walter, Jean-Charles Berthet, Christine Bord, and Nathalie Stalmans (Grenoble: ELLUG, Universite Stendhal, 1999). 254 pp. ISBN 2-84310-018-6. F. Fr. 160.00. This...

Die angelsachsischen Handschriften in den Pariser Bibliotheken mit einer Edition von AElfrics Kirchweihehomilie aus der Handschrift Paris, BN lat. 943.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Birgit Ebersperger, Die angelsachsischen Handschriften in den Pariser Bibliotheken mit einer Edition von AElfrics Kirchweihehomilie aus der Handschrift Paris, BN lat. 943, Anglistische Forschungen 261 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter,...

The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Daithi O hOgain, The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999). viii + 259 pp. ISBN 0-85115-747-5. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. In The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland,...

Burial in Medieval Ireland 900-1500: A Review of the Written Sources.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Susan Leigh Fry, Burial in Medieval Ireland 900-1500: A Review of the Written Sources (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999). 224 pp. ISBN 1-85182-309-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. In The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland,...

Maxims in Old English Poetry.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Paul Cavill, Maxims in Old English Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999). x + 205 pp. ISBN 0-85991-541-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Paul Cavill's book on Maxims in Old English Poetry is somewhat like the Old English gnomic poems...

The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature, ed. W. R. J. Barron, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 2 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), xvii + 395 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1477-5. 35.00 [pounds...

Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Karma Lochrie, Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 292 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3473-1. $45.00. Karma Lochrie's introduction to Covert Operations promises a study of the `practices...

Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Lazamon.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Elizabeth J. Bryan, Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Lazamon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), xx + 238 pp.; 8 plates. ISBN 0-472-10949-9. $49.50/31.00 [pounds sterling]. This book makes five...

Chaucer and the Energy of Creation: The Design and the Organization of the `Canterbury Tales'.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Edward I. Condren, Chaucer and the Energy of Creation: The Design and the Organization of the `Canterbury Tales' (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999). 296 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1679-7. $49.95. The press sheet accompanying Chaucer and...

The Poems of William Dunbar.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Poems of William Dunbar, ed. Priscilla Bawcutt, Association for Scottish Literary Studies 27-8 (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1998). 2 vols. x + 277 and 342 pp. ISBN 0-948877-38-3. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Alfred Robert Kraemer, Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography, Studies in the Humanities: Literature -- Politics -- Society 44 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). x + 129 pp. ISBN 0-8204-41236. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

A Bilingual Edition of the Love Songs of Bernart de Ventadorn in Occitan and English: Sugar and Salt.(Review)
March 22, 2001... A Bilingual Edition of the Love Songs of Bernart de Ventadorn in Occitan and English: Sugar and Salt, trans. with an introduction, notes, and commentary by Ronnie Apter, singable translations co-translated by Mark Herman, Studies in Medieval...

The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Peter Damian-Grint, The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999), xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-85115-760-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume under review is a densely, at...

Esope au feminin: Marie de France et la politique de l'interculturalite.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Sahar Amer, Esope au feminin: Marie de France et la politique de l'interculturalite, Faux Titre 169 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), iv + 246 pp. ISBN 90-420-0607-2. Hfl. 85.00/F. Fr. 255.00/25.50 [pounds sterling]. Sahar Amer seeks to remedy...

Philippe de Remi; Le Roman de la Manekine.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Philippe de Remi; Le Roman de la Manekine, ed. from Paris, BN, MS f. fr. 1588 and trans. Barbara N. Sargent-Baur with contributions by Alison Stones and Roger Middleton, Faux Titre 159 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), ii + 672 pp. ISBN 90-420-0614-5....

Textus: de la tradition latine a l'esthetique du roman medieval.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Romaine Wolf-Bonvin, Textus: de la tradition latine a l'esthetique du roman medieval. `Le Bel Inconnu', `Amadas et Ydoine' (Paris: Honore Champion, 1988). 379 pp. ISBN 2-85203-647-9. F. Fr. 330.00. In this study, with an afterword by...

Perceforest.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Perceforest, Part II, ed. Gilles Roussineau, Vol. I, Textes litteraires francais 506 (Geneva: Droz, 1999), lxxviii + 703 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 2-600-00330-4. F. Fr. 124.00. Medievalists will welcome the appearance of this new volume in the...

Jourdain de Blaye en alexandrins.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jourdain de Blaye en alexandrins, ed. Takeshi Matsumura, Textes litteraires francais 520 (Geneva: Droz, 1999), 2 vols. 1163 pp. ISBN 2-600-00380-0 and 2-600-00381-9. F. Fr. 100.00. This is a welcome first critical edition of a text which is...

(The Book of the True Poem).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Guillaume de Machaut, Le Livre dou voir dit (The Book of the True Poem), ed. Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, trans. R. Barton Palmer, Garland Library of Medieval Literature 106A (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). cxvi + 766 pp.; 30 illustrations....

Le Livre du voir dit (Le Dit veridique).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Guillaume de Machaut, Le Livre du voir dit (Le Dit veridique), ed. and trans. Paul Imbs, introd. and rev. Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, index and glossary by Noel Musso, Lettres Gothiques (Paris: Livre de Poche, 1999). 829 pp. ISBN...

At Play in the Tavern: Signs, Coins, and Bodies in the Middle Ages.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Andrew Cowell, At Play in the Tavern: Signs, Coins, and Bodies in the Middle Ages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999). 279 pp. ISBN 0-472-11007-1. $47.50. This book is about the tavern and its associated thematics in a group of...

Christine de Pizan; Epistre Othea.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Christine de Pizan; Epistre Othea, ed. Gabriella Parussa, Textes litteraires francais 517 (Geneva: Droz, 1999). 541 pp. ISBN 2-600-00376-2. F. Fr. 66.00. The Epistre Othea is a work of moral instruction, in verse and prose, that has clear...

Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and Poetics in France, 1470-1550.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Adrian Armstrong, Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and Poetics in France, 1470-1550, Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000). xii + 246 pp.; 37 plates. ISBN 0-19-815989-7. 45.00 [pounds...

Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Peter S. Hawkins, Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), xx + 380 pp. ISBN 08047-3492-5, 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 08047-3701-0, 11.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). ...

From the Resende Songbook.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Stephen Reckert, From the Resende Songbook (London: of Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1998). 108 pp. ISBN 0-904188-46-9. 9.00 [pounds sterling]. The affable, rotund personality of Garcia de Resende, Portuguese historian, poet,...

Deutschsprachige Literatur des Mittelalters: Studienauswahl aus dem `Verfasserlixikon' (Band 1-10).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Deutschsprachige Literatur des Mittelalters: Studienauswahl aus dem `Verfasserlixikon' (Band 1-10), ed. Burghart Wachinger (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2001). 554 pp. ISBN 3-11-016911-8. DM 68.00. Burghart Wachinger's selection of articles from the...

Das Eckenlied: samtliche Fassungen.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Das Eckenlied: samtliche Fassungen, ed. Francis B. Brevart, Altdeutsche Text-bibliothek iii (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999). 3 vols. Vol. I: 103 pp.; Vol. II: 112 pp.; Vol. III: 108 pp. ISBN 3-484-20211-4. DM 142.00. The Eckenlied is...

Die Metaphorik der spatmittelalterlichen Mystik. Vol. I: Systematische Untersuchung. Vol. II: Bildspender -- Bildempfanger -- Kontexte: Dokumentation und Interpretation.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Michael Egerding, Die Metaphorik der spatmittelalterlichen Mystik. Vol. I: Systematische Untersuchung. Vol. II: Bildspender -- Bildempfanger -- Kontexte: Dokumentation und Interpretation (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1997). 247 + 752 pp....

Die Bibliothek des ehemaligen Zisterzienserrinnenklosters Kirchheim am Ries: Buchpflege und geistiges Leben in einem schwabischen Frauenstift.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Arnold Schromm, Die Bibliothek des ehemaligen Zisterzienserrinnenklosters Kirchheim am Ries: Buchpflege und geistiges Leben in einem schwabischen Frauenstift, Studia Augustana 9 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1998). xi + 401 pp.; 22 plates. ISBN...

Johannes Reuchlin: Briefwechsel.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Johannes Reuchlin: Briefwechsel, ed. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften in co-operation with the town council of Pforzheim, Vol. 1: 1477-1505, with the co-operation of Stefan Rhein, rev. Matthias Dall'Asta and Gerald Dorner (Stuttgart:...

Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany: The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Chris Wickham, Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany: The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). xiv + 276 pp.; 5 maps. ISBN 0-19-82074-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This book...

Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350: Fontevraud in England.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Berenice M. Kerr, Religious Life for Women C.1100-C.1350: Fontevraud in England, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), xix + 299 pp. ISBN 0-19-820752-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The development of the Order of...

The Order of the Garter, 1348-1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Hugh E. L. Collins, The Order of the Garter, 1348-1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), xi + 327 pp. ISBN 0-19-820817-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Order of...

Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Peter Russell, Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000). xvi + 448 pp. ISBN 0-300-08233-9. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. There is a sense in which Sir Peter Russell has been working up to this book...

The Arthurian Name Dictionary.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Christopher W. Bruce, The Arthurian Name Dictionary (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), xii + 532 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2865-6. 54.00 [pounds sterling]. This dictionary covers Arthurian names in relation to literature in a wide range of languages...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed. Roberta L. Krueger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xix + 290 pp. ISBN 0-521-55342-3, 37.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-521-55687-2, 13.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A...

Homo narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2001... John D. Niles, Homo narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 280 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3504-5. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. John Niles, a well-respected Anglo-Saxonist, here extends...

The Oral Epic: Performance and Music.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Oral Epic: Performance and Music, ed. Karl Reichl, Intercultural Music Studies 12 (Berlin: Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000), 248 pp. ISBN 3-86135-643-0. DM 68.00. After an introduction by the editor, the volume contains essays on...

The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Mary Carruthers, The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xvii + 399 pp. ISBN 0-521-79541-9. 15.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback edition of the book...

Sexualitat im Gedicht. II. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle fur europaische Lyrik.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Sexualitat im Gedicht. II. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle fur europaische Lyrik, ed. Theo Stemmler and Stefan Horlacher (Mannheim: Forschungsstelle fur europaische Lyrik an der Universitat Mannheim, 2000). 278 pp. ISBN 3-8233-4156-1. Price not...

Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages, ed. J. A. Burrow and Ian P. Wei (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). xiv + 188 pp. ISBN 0-85115-779-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Originating in a conference held at Bristol in 1997, the...

Medieval Practices of Space.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Medieval Practices of Space, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Michael Kobialka, Medieval Cultures 23 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), xviii + 269 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 0-8166-3545-5. 17.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The...

Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton, ed. Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis (Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000). 261 pp....

Iconography, Propaganda and Legitimation.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Iconography, Propaganda and Legitimation, ed. Allan Ellenius, European Science Foundation: The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th-18th Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). ix + 310 pp. ISBN 0-19-820550-3. 45-00 [pounds sterling]....

The Miracles of our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Marcus Bull, The Miracles of our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999). xi + 223 pp. ISBN 0-85115-765-3. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In his ninety-page introduction, Marcus Bull discusses the importance of...

Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain, ed. D. A. Trotter (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 237 pp. ISBN 0-85991-563-8. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Developed from a colloquium held in 1997, these papers address a range of issues in language...

The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2000), xiii + 761 pp.; 34 maps. ISBN 0-631-13666-5, 70.00 [pounds sterling]/$74.95 (hard covers); 0-631-21890-4,...

Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam, ed. John Victor Tolan (New York: Routledge, 2000). xxi + 414 pp. ISBN 0-415-92892-3. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback edition of the book noticed in MAE, 66 (1997), 177.

Fifteenth-Century Studies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Fifteenth-Century Studies 25, ed. William C. McDonald (Rochester, NY: Camden House (Boydell and Brewer), 2000). 392 pp. ISBN 1-57113-077-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume contains articles by Edelgard E. DuBruck, on Paracelsus; Louise M....

Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland, ed. Jennifer Britnell and Richard Britnell, Studies in European Cultural Transition 6 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). xxv + 211 pp.; 6...

Medievalism and the Academy II: Cultural Studies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Medievalism and the Academy II: Cultural Studies, ed. David Metzger, Studies in Medievalism X (1998) (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 246 pp. ISBN 0-85991-567-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. After an introduction by the editor, the opening section,...

Ecrit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries medievales: espace francais, espace anglais.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ecrit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries medievales: espace francais, espace anglais, ed. K. Fianu and D. J. Guth, Federation internationale des instituts d'etudes medievales, Textes et etudes du moyen age 6 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Brepols, 1997)....

Faire memoire: souvenir et commemoration au moyen age.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Faire memoire: souvenir et commemoration au moyen age, ed. Claude Carozzi and Huguette Carozzi (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1999). 370 pp.; 32 figures and illustrations. ISBN 2-85399-436-8. F. Fr. 250.00. This...

Estudios romanicos.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Estudios romanicos, 10 (Catedra de Filologia Romanica, Universidad de Murcia, 1998). The following articles deal with medieval language and literature: Fernando Carmona, `Las transformaciones de la novela europea. 2. Siglos XIII-XIV'; Josefa...

Les Niveaux de vie au moyen age: mesures, perception et representations. Actes du Colloque international de Spa 21-25 Octobre 1998.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Les Niveaux de vie au moyen age: mesures, perception et representations. Actes du Colloque international de Spa 21-25 Octobre 1998, ed. Jean-Pierre Sosson, Claude Thiry, Sandrine Thonon, and Tania van Hemelryck (Louvain-la-Neuve:...

Melusines continentales et insulaires: actes du colloque international tenu les 27 et 28 mars 1997 a l'Universite Paris XII et au College des Irlandais.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Melusines continentales et insulaires: actes du colloque international tenu les 27 et 28 mars 1997 a l'Universite Paris XII et au College des Irlandais, ed. Jeanne-Marie Boivin and Proinsias Mac Cana (Paris: Editions Honore Champion, 1999). 350...

A Reading of Beowulf.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Edward B. Irving, Jr, A Reading of Beowulf (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1999). 262 pp. ISBN 0-8425-2452-5. 8.50 [pounds sterling]. C. L. Wrenn, reviewing this book on its first publication in 1968 in MAE, 38 (1969), 175-7, described its...

Stone, Skin, and Silver: A Translation of `The Dream of the Rood'.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Richard J. Kelly and Ciaran L. Quinn, Stone, Skin, and Silver: A Translation of `The Dream of the Rood' (Midleton, Co. Cork: Litho Press, 1999). xii + 125 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 1-8711213-5-3. [pounds sterling] IE 19.95. This book's...

Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Jonathan Wilcox (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 162 pp. ISBN 0-85991-576-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. After the editor's introduction, John D. Niles writes on `Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of...

Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English VI: Old English Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English VI: Old English Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign, compiled by Greg Waite (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 394 pp. ISBN 0-85991-591-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. A helpful introduction...

Eschatology and Christian Nurture: Themes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Religious Life.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Milton McC. Gatch, Eschatology and Christian Nurture: Themes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Religious Life, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). 346 pp. ISBN 0-86078-827-X. 57.50 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains...

Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: An Edition of Briathra Flainn Fhina maic Ossu.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: An Edition of Briathra Flainn Fhina maic Ossu, ed. and trans. Colin A. Ireland, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 205 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,...

Caledonian Craftsmanship: The Scottish Latin Tradition.(Review)
March 22, 2001... David Howlett, Caledonian Craftsmanship: The Scottish Latin Tradition (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), 210 pp. ISBN 1-85182-485-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. In this latest of his intensive run of publications, David Howlett argues that details...

Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection, ed. J. E. Cross and Andrew Hamer, Anglo-Saxon Texts 1 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), x + 183 pp. ISBN 0-85991-534-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume, the first of a new series, presents a canon law...

William of Malmesbury; `Historia nouella': The Contemporary History.(Review)
March 22, 2001... William of Malmesbury; `Historia nouella': The Contemporary History, ed. Edmund King, trans. K. R. Potter, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), xv + 143 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-19-820192-3. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a...

Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of `De spermate'.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Paivi Pahta, Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of `De spermate', Memoires de la Societe Neophilologique de Helsinki 53 (Helsinki: Societe Neophilologique, 1998). xii + 328 pp. ISBN 951-45-8346-9. $45.00. Enquiries to tiederkirja@...

A History of English Literature.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Michael Alexander, A History of English Literature, Macmillan Foundations (Basingstoke: Palgrave [Macmillan] Press, 2000). xii + 387 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 0-333-67227-6. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). It is a brave man in these days...

Medieval Literature and Historical Enquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Medieval Literature and Historical Enquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall, ed. David Aers (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xv + 212 pp. ISBN 0-85991-555-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains articles by Nicolette Zeeman, `The...

Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends, ed. and trans. Karen A. Winstead (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 201 pp.; 7 figures. ISBN 0-8014-3569-2, $39.95 (hard covers); 0-8014-8557-6, $16.95 (p/b). The volume...