Medium Aevum articles from March 2002

Medium Aevum archives from March 2002

Dead virgins: feminine sanctity in medieval Wales.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Medieval Welsh literature is rich in hagiographical lore. A number of vitae and bucheddau survive which record the medieval traditions associated with many of the native Welsh saints, for example SS David, Beuno, Cadog, Illtud, and Teilo. (1)...

Who is the nun from Heidenheim? A study of Hugeburc's Vita Willibaldi.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Sometime between 776 and 786, (1) a nun of Anglo-Saxon origin, at the Bavarian double monastery of Heidenheim, composed the Lives of two of her kin, SS Willibald and Wynnebald. As a woman following the conventions of her time, she left the...

Unspeakable horror, ineffable bliss: riddles and marvels in the Prose Tristan.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The opening section of the Prose Tristan, like the Estoire del Saint Graal in the Lancelot-Grail cycle, establishes the prehistory of the Tristan legend, focusing on the Christianization and interrelations of kingdoms that will be important in...

`As dewe in Aprylle': `I syng of a mayden' and the liturgy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... `AS DEWE IN APRYLLE': `I SYNG OF A MAYDEN' AND THE LITURGY I syng of a mayden that is makeles, Kyng of alle kynges to here sone che ches. He cam also stylle ther his moder was As dewe in Aprylle that fallyt on the...

A Middle English poem on the fleeting nature of material wealth.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 229 (s. xiv) was one of the codices in the early collection of books belonging to the college, as is proven by an entry on the verso side of its last folio in a hand of the fourteenth century: `Liber Aule valence...

The dating and authorship of the Cloud corpus: a reassessment of the evidence.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In 1944, Phyllis Hodgson published an edition of The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Priuy Counselling for the Early English Text Society. In editing these two texts, her base manuscript was London, British Library, MS Harley 674, a...

Fifteenth-century political verses from the Holkham archives.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The verses printed for the first time below are found in a mid-fifteenth-century document in the archives of Holkham Hall, in north Norfolk, and the circumstances of their preservation, together with their dialect, suggest that it was at or...

Harald Kleinschmidt, Understanding the Middle Ages: the Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World.
March 22, 2002... (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). xix + 401 pp. ISBN 0-85115-770-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. A manful struggle with Harald Kleinschmidt's opaque introduction having shed scant light, I was pleased to find that the corpus of the...

Caroline Walker Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity.
March 22, 2002... (New York: Zone Books, 2001). 280 pp.; 15 figures. ISBN 1-890951-22-6. 19.50 [pounds sterling]. This is another collection of Caroline Walker Bynum's essays, two of the four well known and two others interlocking in interests. The tone of...

Wilfried Werner, Die mittelalterlichen nichtliturgischen Handschriften des Zisterzienserklosters Salem.
March 22, 2002... Kataloge der Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg 5 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2000). lxv + 428 pp.; 14 colour plates. ISBN 3-89500-047-7. Eur. 102.00. Salem, one of the great German Cistercian abbeys, was founded in 1138. It played a leading role...

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, c.1150-1300: Virginity and its Authorizations.
March 22, 2002... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). xvi + 314 pp. ISBN 0-19-811279-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This impeccably scholarly and busily factual book resists easy summary or appraisal. The focus is on Anglo-Norman texts that had an...

Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition.
March 22, 2002... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), ix + 278 pp. ISBN 0-19-818730-0. $65.00. Characterized by meticulous and undogmatic scholarship, Hugh White's book will be an indispensable guide to the contradictoriness of Nature in medieval...

Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: the Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature.
March 22, 2002... Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 41 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xiv + 246 pp. ISBN 0-521-38522-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$64.95. Scholars of the later Middle Ages, mindful of Huizinga or the Pardoner's use of 1...

Margaret Jubb, The Legend of Saladin in Western Literature and Historiography.
March 22, 2002... (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000). xiv + 263 pp. ISBN 0-7734-7686-5. $89.95. Margaret Jubb's study of the legendary figure of Saladin does two things. Firstly, it presents an apparently comprehensive account of the various aspects of...

Andrew G. Watson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford.
March 22, 2002... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). 178 pp. ISBN 019-920192-7. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Andrew Watson's new catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford, replaces the Exeter entries in H. O. Coxe's Gatalogus codicum...

Einblattdrucke des 15. und fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts. Probleme, Perspektive, Fallstudien.
March 22, 2002... ed. Volker Honemann, Sabine Griese, Falk Eisermann, and Marcus Ostermann (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2000). x + 533 pp. ISBN 3-484-64012-X. Eur. 88.00. The single-leaf print in the late-medieval and early modern periods has been...

Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, Der Elisabethpsalter in Cividale del Friuli. Buchmalerei fur den Thuringer Landgrafenhof zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts.
March 22, 2002... (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 2001). 378 pp.; 213 black and white and 74 colour plates. ISBN 3-87157-184-9. Eur. 149.00. To begin with a review of the book considered in this book: the Elisabeth Psalter is one of two...

Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars tertia CCLI-CCCXC.
March 22, 2002... edited by L. Van Acker and M. Klaes-Hachmoller, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis XCIB (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), xxxi + 352 pp. ISBN 2-503-03916-2. Eur. 158.00 (hard covers); Eur. 145.00 (p/b). The first volume of the letters...

AElfric's `Catholic Homilies': Introduction, Commentary and Glossary.
March 22, 2002... ed. Malcolm Godden, EETS, SS 18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2000). lxii + 794 pp. ISBN 0-19-722419-9. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Scholars owe a twofold debt to Malcolm Godden for this book, important...

Alan J. Fletcher, Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland: a Repertory of Sources and Documents from Earliest Times until c.1642.
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2001), v-xii + 624 pp. ISBN 0-85991-573-5. 90.00 [pounds sterling]. Modelled on other volumes in the Records of Early English Drama series, this Repertory is intended to provide...

Roger Dalrymple, Language and Piety in Middle English Romance.
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). x + 270 pp. ISBN 0-85991-598-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. In Pragmatism (1907), William James complained about the philosophers' habit of finding the solutions to problems in the power-bringing name: `"God",...

David Aers, Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England, 1360-1409.
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xii + 153 pp. ISBN 0-85991-561-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. `The conventional assumption that it is lawful to repel force with force, and so to make defensive war, is judged as one of Antichrist's...

John M. Bowers, The Politics of Pearl: Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II.
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). viii + 236 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 1-085991-599-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. John Bowers's book is an important critical intervention into received ways of reading Pearl. As he...

The `Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive, Vol. I: Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 201 (F).
March 22, 2002... ed. Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). CD-ROM. ISBN 0-472-00275-9....

The `Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive Vol. II: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.17 (W).
March 22, 2002... ed. Hoyt N. Duggan and Thorlac Turville-Petre, Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001). CD-ROM. ISBN 0-472-00303-8. $62.50/39.00 [pounds sterling]. This represents the second...

John Chamberlin, Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and their Place in Langland's Poetics.
March 22, 2002... (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000). 185 pp. ISBN 0-7735-2073-2. 39.00 [pounds sterling]. Books on Langland's poetics being rarities, the late John Chamberlin's study is very welcome. Recognizing grammar as `the ground of...

Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, The `Decameron' and the `Canterbury Tales': New Essays on an Old Question.
March 22, 2002... (Madison, Wis.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000). 352 pp. ISBN 0-8386-3800-7. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Chaucer's debt to Filostrato and the Teseida has long been generally acknowledged;...

Steve Ellis, Chaucer at Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination.
March 22, 2002... Medieval Cultures 24 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), xiv + 204 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3376-2. $29.95. Where in the last 150 years do we find Chaucer at large (i.e. outside universities)? Why is it that when Shakespeare won BBC...

Kathryn L. Lynch, Chaucer's Philosophical Visions.
March 22, 2002... Kathryn L. Lynch, Chaucer's Philosophical Visions. Chaucer Studies 27 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). viii + 178 pp. ISBN 0-85991-600-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Michael St John, Chaucer's Dream Visions: Courtliness and Individual...

Caroline A. Jewers, Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel.
March 22, 2002... (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). xii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1823-4. $49.95. A number of interesting arguments structure this book. First, Caroline Jewers contends that medieval romance is unjustly given short shrift in...

John W. Baldwin, Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil 1190-1230.
March 22, 2002... (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). xx +360 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6188-8. 38.50 [pounds sterling]. In his study of two thirteenth-century romancers, John Baldwin proposes `unabashedly to read vernacular literary texts as...

Sandra Billington, Midsummer: a Cultural Subtext from Chretien de Troyes to Jean Michel.
March 22, 2002... Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000). 263 pp. ISBN 2-503-51084-1. Eur. 50.00. Although the title of the book might suggest that the author intends to study the impact of a broad range of midsummer...

Brian J. Levy, The Comic Text: Patterns and Images in the Old French Fabliaux.
March 22, 2002... Faux Titre 186 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000). vii + 312 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 90-420-0429-0. 33.00 [pounds sterling] This book, the culmination of many years' work by Brian Levy, develops several earlier articles and adds much new...

Elizabeth W. Poe, Compilatio: Lyric Texts and Prose Commentaries in Troubadour Manuscript H (Vat. Lat. 3207).
March 22, 2002... Edward Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature 11 (Lexington, Ky: French Forum, 2000). 307 pp. ISBN 0-917058-93-3. $34.50. This lively and erudite book is essentially a study of a particular case of the reception of the troubadour lyric...

Charles d'Orleans in England (1415-1440).
March 22, 2002... ed. Mary-Jo Arn (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). x + 231 pp. ISBN 0-85991-580-8. $75.00/45.00 [pounds sterling]. This excellent collection would have been unthinkable not so very long ago. Charles's English poems languished in dusty...

Sara Sturm-Maddox, Ronsard, Petrarch, and the `Amours'.
March 22, 2002... (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999), x + 209 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1721-1. $49.95. This well-written book constitutes a thoughtful and authoritative contribution to the considerable corpus of critical work on the origins, nature,...

Stephan Muller, Vom Annolied zur Kaiserchronik. Zu Text-und Forschungssgeschichte einer verlorenen deutschen Reimchronik.
March 22, 2002... (Heidelberg: Winter, 1999), x + 340 pp. ISBN 3-8253-0897-9. Eur. 50.00. The disproportion of the Annolied that has long preoccupied scholarship (a lengthy general historia followed by a relatively Short vita of the saint) also...

Martin Fuss, Die religiose Lexik des Althochdeutschen und Altsachsischen.
March 22, 2002... Martin Fuss, Die religiose Lexik des Althochdeutschen und Altsachsischen, Europaische Hochschulschriften 1765 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2000). 434 pp. ISBN 3-631-36780-5. Eur. 51.10/33.00 [pounds sterling]. Bettina Heinrich,...

Clara Strijbosch, The Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth Century `Voyage of Saint Brendan'.
March 22, 2002... trans. Thea Summerfield (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), x + 325 pp. ISBN 1-85182-483-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/Eur. 55.00/$65.00. The Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis, composed in Latin around AD 800, tells of a sixth-century abbot...

Maria C. Sherwood-Smith, Studies in the Reception of the `Historia scholastica' of Peter Comestor: the `Schwarzwalder Predigten', the `Weltchronik' of Rudolf von Ems, the `Scolastica' of Jacob van Maerlant and the `Historiebijbel van 1360'.
March 22, 2002... Medium AEvum Monographs, NS 20 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2000). x + 181 pp. ISBN 0-907570-13-5. 12.00 [pounds sterling]. The Historia scholastica by Peter Comestor constituted one of the most...

Cultures in Contact: Scandinavian Settlement in England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
March 22, 2002... ed. Dawn Hadley and Julian Richards, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000). 331 pp. ISBN 2-503-50978-9. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. If the Scandinavian impact on Anglo-Saxon England were the princess who had her suitors...

Susan Signe Morrison, Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance.
March 22, 2002... (London: Routledge, 2000), 194 pp. ISBN 0-415-22180-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Susan Signe Morrison has written a book that helps to illuminate one area of late-medieval piety. The question that generated her study--what was the...

Katherine J. Lewis, The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England.
March 22, 2002... (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000), xviii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-85115-773-4. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Katherine J. Lewis's study of the lay cult of St Katherine in the period 1300-530, based on her 1997 York Ph.D. thesis, is a valuable contribution to...

Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. with an introductory essay by Jon Whitman, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 101 (Leiden: Brill, 2000). xv + 513 pp. ISBN 90-04-11039-9. Eur. 100.00/$123.00. This is a handbook, containing the work of eighteen contributors, offering a...

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... trans. Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson (Minneapolis: Arthur J. Banning Press, 2000), xxxiv + 574 pp. ISBN 0-938060-38-4. $11.00. This volume contains English translations, based on F. S. Schmitt's editions of Anselm, of the Monologion,...

Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from the Philadelphia Collections. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), xiv + 256 pp.; 143 colour and 42 black and white illustrations. ISBN 0-87633-1445-2, $55.00 (hard covers); 0-87633-144-4, $34.95 (p/b). This volume records a major...

Pamela J. Willetts, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2000), xxv + 619 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 0-85991-579-4. 120.00 [pounds sterling]. The Society of Antiquaries is a major repository of medieval manuscripts, with about sixty...

New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Derek Pearsall (York: York Medieval Press, 2000), xvi + 214 pp. ISBN 1-90353-01-8. $90.00. Contents: Derek Pearsall, `Introduction'; A. I. Doyle, `Recent directions in medieval manuscript study'; C. David Benson, `Another fine manuscript...

Paul Saenger, Space between Words: the Origins of Silent Reading. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xxii + 480 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4016-X. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The subject of Paul Saenger's innovative and magisterial book, published in hardback by Stanford University Press in 1997, is `the...

Medieval Conduct. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark, Medieval Cultures 29 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), xx + 241 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 0-8166-3575-7, 41.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-8166-3576-5, 16.50 [pounds...

Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Kathleen Ashley and Wim Husken, Ludus 5 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001). 257 pp.; 8 illustrations. ISBN 90-420-1265-X, $55.00 (hard covers); 90-420-1255-2, $21.00 (p/b). Kathleen Ashley's introduction is followed by C. Clifford Flanigan's 1993...

Francoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane, Dress in the Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... trans. Caroline Beamish (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). vii + 167 pp.; 60 plates. ISBN 0-300-06906-5, 22.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-300-08691-1, 9.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This is a reprint of the 1997 translation of Se...

Peter Fleming, Family and Household in Medieval England. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... Social History in Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001). viii + 162 pp. ISBN 0-333-62079-2. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This is a lucid and concise handbook on marriage, family law, and local custom in medieval England, 1066-1520. Peter...

Medieval Arab Cookery. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... essays and translations by Maxime Rodinson, A. J. Arberry, and Charles Perry, with a foreword by Claudia Roden (Totnes: Prospect Books, 2001). 527 pp. ISBN 0907325-91-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Perhaps the best place to get a flavour of this...

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001). viii + 119 pp.; 7 figures. ISBN 0-333-76465-X. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. A balanced, well-structured overview of witchcraft intended to offer students a succinct guide to the principal themes, names, and events in...

Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays in Honour of Felicity Riddy. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchinson, Carol Meale, and Lesley Johnson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), xv + 433 pp.; 10 plates. ISBN 2-503-50979-7. Eur. 50.00. This wide-ranging collection brings together work by...

Queering the Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger, Medieval Cultures 27 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), xxiii + 318 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3403-3, 41.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-8166-3404-1, 16.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The essays...

The Individual in Celtic Literatures. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Joseph Falaky Nagy, CSANA Yearbook 1 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001). 128 pp. ISBN 1-85182-568-1. 35.44 [pounds sterling]. This is the first of what promises to be an annual yearbook published by the Celtic Studies Association of North...

Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). x + 268 pp. ISBN 0-19-514295-0. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. This book provides an ethical critique of what Sigurd Burckhardt termed the `killing poem'--where a poet devises a plot to bring a character to...

Missale ad usum ecclesie Westmonasteriensis. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Johannes Wickham Legg, Henry Bradshaw Society I, V, and XII, first pub. 1891 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999). xvi + 1731 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 1-870252-12-8. 95.00 [pounds sterling]/$170.00. This is a reprint of one of the standard works of...

Symeon of Durham: Libellvs de exordio atqve procvrsv istivs, hoc est Dvnhelmensis, ecclesie/Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. and trans. David Rollason, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), xcvi + 355 pp. ISBN 0-19-820207-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This edition, with a parallel translation, of Symeon of Durham's history of the church of Durham...

Ordines coronationis Franciae: Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... Vol. II, ed. Richard A. Jackson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). viii + 437 pp.; 33 plates. ISBN 0-8122-3542-8. $69.95/52.00 [pounds sterling]. Volume I of the edition of the Frankish and French ordines, which covered the...

Medieval Ghost Stories: an Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... comp. and ed. Andrew Joynes (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). 162 pp. ISBN 0-85115-817-X. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. Medieval ghost stories tend to be short (seventy-seven are assembled here), and often moral, especially when the moral might...

Legends of King Arthur. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... selected and presented by Richard Barber (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001). 462 pp.; 8 plates. ISBN 0-85115-837-4. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of Arthurian stories is largely drawn from existing translations, though Richard Barber...

New Medieval Literatures 4. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). 269 pp.; 3 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-818738-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Devoted to studies of `nation, identity, and otherness', including the otherness of...

A Bibliography of Publications on Medieval English Language and Literature in Japan, April 1990-March 1994. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... comp. Tadao Kubouchi, Yasuhiro Yano, and John Scahill (Tokyo: Centre for Medieval English Studies, 2001 for 1999), 127 pp. No ISBN or price. The volume contains bibliographic details of some 600 or 700 publications, divided by subject. Over 300...

Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, Costerus, NS 133 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001). xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 90-420-1001-0. $53.00. In addition to a tribute to the honorand and a bibliography of her work (her first publication, as long ago as...

Text and Language: `Beowulf', Chaucer and Related Works. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Shunichi Noguchi and Tadao Kubouchi (Tokyo: Centre for Medieval English Studies, 2001 for 1999). 90 pp. No ISBN or price. This second and final collection of papers produced under the auspices of the now defunct Tokyo Centre for Medieval...

The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... SUNY Series in Medieval Studies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. viii + 207 pp. ISBN 0-7914-5009-0, $62.50 (hard covers); 0-7914-5010-4, $20.95 (p/b). Shari Horner explores representations of female enclosure (monastic,...

Dafydd ap Gwilym: His Poems. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... trans. Gwyn Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001. xxxiv + 318 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1664-6. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This handsome translation of all the poems that can be confidently attributed to Wales's greatest medieval poet...

The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001). 320 pp. ISBN 1-85182-269-0. 43.32 [pounds sterling]/Eur. 55.00/$65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a collection of nineteen papers dealing with a variety of aspects of the Early Irish culture. Some are available...

Franciscus Junius: Caedmonis monachi Paraphrasis poetica Genesios ac praecipuarum sacrae paginae historiarum. (Shorter Notices.
March 22, 2002... ed. Peter J. Lucas, Early Studies in Germanic Philology 3 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000). xlix + 123 pp.; 12 illustrations. ISBN 90-420-0343-X. $34.00 (p/b). This facsimile edition of Franciscus Junius' ground-breaking publication of 1655 is...

Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: `The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism' and `Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury'. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xv + 158 pp. ISBN 0-85991-588-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Published together here are two studies, one already a classic and the other based on recent scholarship, by a scholar who has done so much to rectify...

The Old English Version of the Gospels, Vol. II: Notes and Glossary. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. R. M. Liuzza, EETS 314 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). xxii + 369 pp. ISBN 0-19722-313-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This companion volume to The Old English Version of the Gospels (EETS 304) by the same editor contains three...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a Collaborative Edition. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... Vol. VIII: MS F, ed. Peter S. Baker (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2000). cxii + 158 pp. ISBN 0-85991-490-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, Vol. V: MS C, ed....

Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: an Electronic Reference. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001). CD-ROM. ISBN 0-474-0079-1. $54.50/45.00 [pounds sterling]. This electronic database will prove an indispensable reference tool for further study...

The Cynewulf Reader. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Robert Bjork, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 4 (New York: Routledge, 2000. xxv + 367 pp.; 18 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-93754-X. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A corrected paperback reprint of the collection of major articles on...

The Invention of Middle English: an Anthology of Primary Sources. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... Making the Middle Ages 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), xii + 244 pp. ISBN 2-503-50769-7. Eur. 50.00. This anthology is a selection of primary sources which document how the study of Middle English developed. The extracts date from the early...

Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Robert F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse (Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2000. xvii + 650 pp.; 38 plates. ISBN 0-8057-3983-1. $120.00. This Festschrift for V. A. Kolve contains twenty-six original essays on medieval and Renaissance drama,...

Magic in Medieval Romance from Chretien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000). 208 pp. ISBN 1-85182-536-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a disappointing study of a fascinating subject. Despite the breadth suggested by the title, only a very few works are treated, and these often...

New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: a Festschrift for R. A. Waldron. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Susan Powell and Jeremy J. Smith (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xii + 190 pp. ISBN 0-85991-590-5. $75.00/45.00 [pounds sterling]. Contents: Susan Powell and Jeremy Smith, `Preface'; Derek Pearsall, `Ronald Waldron: a personal memoir';...

The Yearbook of Langland Studies. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... 14 (2000) ed. Andrew Galloway (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001). 241 pp. ISBN 1-58044-027-4. $25.00 subscription price. A number of the papers in this volume were first presented at the 1999 Langland conference at...

Chaucer. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Corinne Saunders, Blackwell Guides to Criticism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001). 356 pp. ISBN 0-631-21711-8, 60.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-631-21712-6, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The first in a new series of `guides to...

Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse. (Shorter Notices).
March 22, 2002... ed. Alan T. Gaylord (New York: Routledge, 2001). 449 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2951-2. $ 50.00. After a polemical introduction pleading for proper attention to be paid to Chaucer as poet--to his versification, metrics, rime (Gaylord is very insistent on...