Medium Aevum articles from March 2003

Medium Aevum archives from March 2003

Sticks or stones? The story of Imma in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 41 of the Old English Bede, and Old English tan ('twig').(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... The story of Imma is preserved in book IV, chapter xx of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a work completed in AD 731. There are also two other, later versions of the story in Old English, both largely dependent on Bede's Latin...

The tremulous hand of Worcester and the Nero scribe of the Ancrene Wisse.
March 22, 2003... The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as the tremulous hand of Worcester is known from entries in over twenty manuscripts dating from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. Several of the manuscripts are large homiliaries...

The 'Short Charter of Christ': an unpublished longer version, from Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6686.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... The poem known as the 'Short Charter of Christ' (IMEV 4184), (1) printed from thirteen manuscripts by M. C. Spalding in 1914, has since received intermittent but increasing attention. (2) It has usually been treated as an adjunct to the...

Unrecorded Middle English verse texts in a Canterbury Cathedral Library manuscript.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Canterbury Cathedral Library, MS Add. 46 is a collection of paper leaves, now Numbered 1-9. Although they have been virtually unstudied, (1) these leaves are of some interest to the student of Middle English since they provide previously...

King Arthur at Oxbridge: Nicholas Cantelupe, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Cambridge's Arthurian foundation myth.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... The marvelous logic of the mad... seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many of its errors, so many words...

What has Baldr to do with Lamech? The lethal shot of a blind man in Old Norse myth and Jewish exegetical traditions.(Beowulf)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem set in pre-Christian Scandinavia. No one now doubts that it was composed by a poet thoroughly versed in Christian and biblical traditions, but whether its author had the same degree of knowledge of the background...

Raoul De Soissons: a postscript. (Note).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In a recent article in these pages (MAE 70 (2001), 95-111), Ineke Hardy investigates the authorship of the crusading song 'Nus ne porroit de mauvese reson' (RS, 1887), (1) which Pierre Desray, in his 1500 edition, attributed to Raoul de...

Ralph Hanna III, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... using material collected by the late Jeremy Griffiths, with photographs by Christopher Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 408 pp. ISBN: 0-19-920239-7. 80.00 [pounds sterling]. Ralph Hanna's new catalogue of the medieval...

Brian Stock, After Augustine: the Meditative Reader and the Text.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). 132 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3602-5. 23.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays by Brian Stock on the relationship of the 'self' and its literary representation in the European...

The New Oxford History of Music, Vol. III.1: Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. R. Strohm and B. J. Blackburn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), xxxi + 460 pp. ISBN 0-19-816205-7. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. The introduction to this latest volume in the new edition of the New Oxford History of Music begins with...

Charles Ridoux, Evolution des etudes medievales en France de 1860 a 1914.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Paris: Honore Champion, 2001), 1187 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0318-X. 149.40 [euro]. This thesis offers a detailed survey suggestive in its insights into the political and cultural history of an academic discipline. Charles Ridoux traces the...

Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture/Hofische Literatur und Klerikerkultur
March 22, 2003... ed. Christoph Huber and Henrike Lahnemann (Tubingen: Attempto Verlag, 2002), xi + 246 pp. ISBN 3-89308-342-1. 39.00 [euro]/Sw. Fr. 64.50. Two features of this collection of sixteen essays are particularly noteworthy. The first is its...

Jean-Olivier Signoret, Deo gubernante: navigations miraculeuses et miracles marins au Moyen Age: l'union des cultures paiennes et chretiennes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Theses a la carte (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2002). 523 pp. ISBN 2-284-02531-6 41.16 [euro]. Au Moyen Age lamer inspire la peur: cette grande surface sans points de repere fixes peut changer d'un moment a...

Elizabeth Archibald, Incest and the Medieval Imagination.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), xvi + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-811209-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Elizabeth Archibald aptly describes this book as 'literary archaeology'. She understands the 'medieval imagination' of her tide to be largely a...

Andrew Taylor, Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). 300 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3642-4. $55.00/38.50 [pounds sterling]. This book examines three manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in different monastic...

Scott D. Westrem, The Hereford Map: a Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Scott D. Westrem, The Hereford Map: A Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary, Terrarum orbis I (Turnhout: Brepols Press, 2001), lix + 476 pp.; 26 plates. ISBN 2-503-51056-6. 70.00 [euro]. Naomi Reed Kline, Maps of...

Jeffrey P. Mass, The J. P. Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2003... Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 56 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). ix + 470 pp.; 82 plates. ISBN 0-19-7262546. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The publication of the J. P. Mass collection of English Short Cross coins (1180-1247)...

Salterio di Santa Elisabetta. Facsimile del ms. CXXXVII del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cividale del Friuli.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Claudio Barberi (Udine: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Soprintendenza regionale per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali Friuli Venezia Giulia). 319 pp.; colour facsimile 356 pp.; CD-Rom. 'It is in no way to depart from the...

'Lastworda Betst': Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell, with her Unpublished Writings.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Carole Hough and Kathryn A. Lowe, with a foreword by R. I. Page (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2002). xvi + 298 pp. ISBN 1-900289-53-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The late Professor Fell is a highly revered and much-missed scholar. Both...

Patrick P. O'Neill, King Alfred's Old English Prose Translation of the First Fifty Psalms.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Medieval Academy Books 104 (Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America, 2001), vii + 36z pp. ISBN 0-915651-13-0. $50.00. It is impossible to do justice in 500 words to this long-awaited and most important edition of a sorely--and...

Excerptiones de Prisciano: The Source for AElfric's Latin-Old English Grammar.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. David W. Porter, Anglo-Saxon Texts 4 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). 408 pp. ISBN 0-85991-635-9. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. The publication of a new and substantial text by AElfric of Eynsham is a major event in Anglo-Saxon studies, and...

Peter Dendle, Satan Unbound: the Devil in Old English Narrative Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001). xiv + 196 pp.; 8 pp. of plates. ISBN 0-8020-4839-0, 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00 (hard covers); 0-8020-8369-2, 12.00 [pounds sterling]/$22.95 (p/b). Peter Dendle's book contains useful...

Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), x + 244 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3628-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Clare Lees and Gillian Overing tell us that 'this is a book about women's agency, but it is also a book...

Masaji Tajiri, Studies in the Middle English Didactic Tail-Rhyme Romances.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Tokyo: Eiho-Sha Press, 2002), x + 232 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 4-269-72068-9. [yen] 2,600. Masaji Tajiri explores Middle English didactic tail-rhyme romances falling into one of two categories, the 'Eustace-Constance-Florence-Griselda' legend...

Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), vii + 229 pp. ISBN 0-19-811242-4. 32.00 [pounds sterling]. By redefining Middle English literary writings as social discourses, Helen Barr connects a variety of late-medieval texts within a social...

R. Allen Shoaf, Chaucer's Body: the Anxiety of Circulation in the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). xvi + 163 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2423-4. $55.00. Al Shoaf offers a new book on Chaucer that is sometimes intellectually bracing but more often frankly bizarre. He proposes that in the Tales,...

Brenda Deen Schildgen, Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Gainesville: University of Florida, 2001). xiv + 184 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2107-3. $59.95. A richly epistemological study, Brenda Deen Schildgen's Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales deals, inter alia, with the...

Andrew James Johnston, Clerks and Courtiers: Chaucer, Late Middle English Literature and the State Formation Process.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2001). 410 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1234-8. 59.70 [euro]. This is one of the most solid and wide-ranging hooks on Chaucer to appear in the last decade. Instead of a narrative of literary history that privileges the emergence...

Julian of Norwich: 'Showing of Love': Extant Texts and Translation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, CP, and Julia Bolton Holloway (Florence: Sismel--Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001). xvi + 848 pp.; 18 plates. ISBN 88-8450-095-8. 191.09 [euro]. The four principal surviving traditions of the text of Julian of...

The Works of a Lollard Preacher: the Sermon 'Omnis plantacio', the Tract 'Fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere', and the Tract 'De oblacione iugis sacrificii'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Anne Hudson, EETS, OS 317 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). lxxiv + 397 pp.; 5 plates. ISBN 0-19-722320-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Anne Hudson's latest edition is a companion volume to her Two Wycliffite Texts published as...

Rita Copeland, Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 44 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). xii + 243 pp. ISBN 0-521-65238-3. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$64.95. Most published work on Lollardy has focused on situating the writings of...

Nicholas Perkins, Hoccleve's 'Regiment of Princes': Counsel and Constraint.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), xii + 235 pp. ISBN 0-85991-631-6. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. How is Hoccleve, as a minor government official, to give counsel to Prince Henry that will not be a mere echo of what the prince wants to hear? To...

Karin Boklund-Lagopolou, 'I have a young suster': Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002). 269 pp. ISBN 1-85182-627-0. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. This book explores the complex relationships between lyrics and other medieval forms in an effort to determine the extent of popular, 'folk'...

Alan Hindley, Frederick W. Langley, and Brian J. Levy, Old French-English Dictionary.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xvi + 621 pp. ISBN 0-521-34564-2. 85.00 [pounds sterling]/$140.00. It is something of a surprise that hitherto there has been no substantial Old French-English dictionary (the slim A Short Old...

Yvan G. Lepage, Guide de l'edition de textes en ancien francais.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Moyen Age: outils de synthese 1 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2001). 168 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0540-9. 25.90 [euro]. This manual is an impressive achievement. Not only is it extremely dense and informative, but it remains admirably clear in its...

Fabienne Pomel, Les Voies de l'au-dela et l'essor de l'allegorie au Moyen Age.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Paris: Champion, 2001). 649 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0320-1. 99.10 [euro]. This book, a revised version of the author's these d'etat, is a thorough study of Old French texts treating of a visionary or bodily journey made by a living person into the...

Arthurian literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... XVIII, ed. Keith Busby (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001). viii + 255 PP. ISBN 0-85991-617-0. [pounds sterling]45.00. Keith Busby notes in his foreword that this volume is the first in the series in which miscellanies will alternate with theme...

Catherine Leglu, Between Sequence and 'Sirventes': Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Legenda/Research Monographs in French Studies 8 (Oxford: EHRC, 2000), 160 pp. ISBN 1-900755-44-0. [pounds sterling]14.50. Catherine Leglu proposes here to explore a restricted corpus of troubadour songs in order to raise questions about the...

Luca Barbieri, Le liriche di Hugues de Berze.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Humanae litterae 5 (Milan: Edizioni CUSL, 2001). xxxvi + 334 PP. ISBN 88-8132-054-1. [euro]20.66. Critical editions of trouvere songs are always welcome, especially when the poet occupies such an interesting place in the lyric tradition...

Marianne J. Aries, The 'Song of Roland': on Absolutes and Relative Values.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Studies in Mediaeval Literature 20 (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2002), v + 177 pp. ISBN 0-7734-7229-0. [pounds sterling]39.95/$79.95. Marianne Ailes's book falls into the general category of useful introductions to the Roland. It does not...

Philip E. Bennett, 'La Chanson de Guillaume' and 'La Prise d'Orange'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Philip E. Bennett, 'La Chanson de Guillaume' and 'La Prise d'Orange', Critical Guides to French Texts 12.1 (London: Grant & Cutler, 2002). 134 pp. ISBN 0-7293-0420-5. 6.95. La Chanson de Guillaume (La Chanfun de Wilame), ed. and trans....

Molly Lynde-Recchia, Prose, Verse and Truth-Telling in the Thirteenth Century: an Essay on Form and Function in Selected Texts, Accompanied by an Edition of the Prose 'Thebes' as Found in the 'Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature 10 (Lexington, Ky: French Forum, 2000). 200 pp. ISBN 9-917058-92-5. $28.95. This volume is a reworking of the author's i993 doctoral thesis on the prose Thebes, and includes...

Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian, The 'Romance of the Rose' Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 223 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002). xxxviii + 137 PP. ISBN 0-86698-265-5. $48.00/[pounds sterling]42.00. The National Library of Wales houses seven manuscripts...

Guillaume de Machaut: the Capture of Alexandria & La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria).(two translations)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Guillaume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria, trans. Janet Shirley, introd. and notes Peter W. Edbury, Crusade Texts in Translation 8 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), xiv + 218 pp.; 1 illustration. ISBN 0-7546-0101-3. [pounds sterling] 37.50. ...

Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, Vol. I: Depart des voyageurs et traversee de la Perse.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Vol. I: Depart des voyageurs et traversee de la Perse, ed. Philippe Menard, Marie-Luce Chenerie, and Michele GueretLaferte, TLF 533 (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2001. 288 pp.; 9 illustrations. ISBN 2-600-00479-3. Sw. Fr. 42.00. Le compte rendu...

Le Jour du Jugement: texte original du XIVe siecle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. and trans. Jean-Pierre Perrot and Jean-Jacques Nonot (Chambery: Editions Comp'Act, 2000). 278 pp.; 31 plates. ISBN 2-87661-213-5. F. Fr. 120.00. The editors of this latest edition of the Jour du Jugement ('Doomsday') have a two-pronged...

Le Mistere du siege d'Orleans.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. V. L. Hamblin, TLF (Geneva: Droz, 2002). 818 pp. ISBN 2-600-00643-6. Sw. Fr. 125.00. This new edition of a particularly interesting play, hitherto only available in a few libraries in the excellent-for-its-time edition of 1862, is a...

The 'Fiore and the 'Detto d'amore': a Late Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the 'Roman de la Rose'. Attributable to Dante.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Attributable to Dante, ed. and trans. Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000). 558 pp. ISBN 0-268-00893-0. $45.00. The Fiore is in every sense a problematic work. Quite apart from...

Zygmunt Baranski, Chiosar con altro testo: leggere Dante nel Trecento.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2001. 184 pp. ISBN 88-7923-235-9. 18.00 [euro]. It is not often that a volume on medieval hermeneutics and on the Dante commentators of the fourteenth century turns out to be entertaining. Informative, yes, but...

La Garcineida.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Estudio y edicion critica con traduccion de Maurilio Perez Gonzalez, Ediciones griegas y latinas 1 (Leon: Universidad de Leon, 2000). 391 pp. ISBN 84-7719-961-2. 17.73 [euro]. The Garcineida, also known as Tractatus... de reliquiis...

Antonio Cortijo Ocana, La Fernan Nunez Collection de la Bancroft Library, Berkeley: estudio y catalogo de los fondos castellanos (parte historica).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 23 (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2000). 78 pp. ISBN 0-904188-63-9. 7.00 [pounds sterling]. As might be expected from the tide, this work is principally a catalogue of the...

The Dream of Bernat Metge.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... trans, with introd. and notes by Richard Vernier (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). xxxvii + 87 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0691-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This curiously disjointed but intriguing text by the fourteenth-century Catalan bureaucrat Bernat...

Cyril Edwards, The Beginnings of German Literature: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Old High German.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002), xviii + 197 pp.; 14 illustrations. ISBN 1-57113-235-X. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The title and the publisher's description of this book (it 'examines the breakthrough into literacy') promise much more...

Cornelia Schu, Vom erzahlten Abenteuer zum Abenteuer des Erzahlens: Uberlegungen zur Romanhaftigkeit von Wolframs Parzival.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002). 483 pp. ISBN 3-631-38672-0. 47.00 [pounds sterling]. The author of this book sets herself two goals, so that accordingly this review can fall into two parts. She sets out, as the subtitle makes clear,...

Neil Thomas, 'Diu Crone' and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Arthurian Studies 50 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). 152 pp. ISBN 0-85991-636-7. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In ihrer intertextuellen Anlage reihen sich die insgesamt sehr anregenden Studien zu Heinrichs von dem Turlin Artusroman Diu Crone...

Heinz Kischkel, Tannhausers heimliche Trauer: Uber die Bedingungen von Rationalitat und Subjektivitat im Mittelalter.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Hermaea: Germanistische Forschungen, NF 80 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998). 332 pp. ISBN 3-484-15080-7. 49.00 [euro]. Since the later Middle Ages the literary works of Tannhauser, a German lyric poet active around the middle of the...

Mechthild von Magdeburg: Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Gisela Vollmann-Profe, Bibliothek des Mittelalters 19; Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker 181 (Frankfurt a.M.: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 2003). 870 pp. ISBN 3-618-66190-8. 76.00 [euro](D). This new edition of Mechthild von Magdeburg's...

Susanne Burkle, Literatur im Kloster. Historische Funktion und rhetorische Legitimation frauenmystischer Texte des 14. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Bibliotheca Germanica 38 (Tubingen and Basel: Francke, 1999), vii + 368 pp. ISBN 3-7720-2029-1. 69.00 [euro]. The mystical writings of fourteenth-century nuns from the convents of Adelhausen, Helfta, St. Katharinental, Kirchberg, Medingen,...

Christoph Reske, Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nurnberg/The Production of Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft 10 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), xx + 203 pp.; CD-ROM. ISBN 3-447-04296-6. 64.00 [euro]. Anyone thinking this is a 200-page study of the Nuremberg Chronicle is in for a big surprise: it is at the same...

Gudrun Nordal, Tools of Literacy: the Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001). X + 440 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4789-0. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. With a major international project under way to re-edit the entire corpus ascribed to skalds from the ninth to fourteenth centuries,...

Simon Franklin, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), xii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-521-81381-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. For Simon Franklin the history of culture, religion, and intellectual development in Kievan Rus' is inseparable from the history of...

Los rebanos de Gerion: pastores y transhumanica en Iberia antigua y medieval.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Joaquin Gomez-Pantoja, Collection de la Casa de Velazquez 73 (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 2001), xiii + 348 pp. ISBN 84-95555-17-4. 30.05 [euro]. This volume, picturesquely entitled 'The herds of Gereon' and with a picture of a...

The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, Third Series, 1 (New York: AMS Press, 2001), xviii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-404-62850-8. $82.50. The contributors to this volume explore many aspects of medieval...

G. R. Evans, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Routledge Key Guides (London: Routledge, 2002), xxiv + 183 pp. ISBN 0-415-23663-0. 11.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This brief volume offers a useful and accessible reference tool to students and scholars alike. It is arranged chronologically,...

Richard Mathews, Fantasy: the Liberation of Imagination.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Genres in Context (New York: Routledge, 2002). xx + 223 pp. ISBN 0-415-93890-2. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback reprint of this study, first published in 1997 by Twayne. This important and accessible consideration of genre places...

Hans Christian Andersen, Stories and Tales.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... trans. H. W. Dulcken, Routledge Classics (London: Routledge, 2002). xii + 404 pp.; 80 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-28598-4. 9.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A useful and accessible reprint of Dulcken's translation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy...

The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnacion (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 0-312-24001-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays originates in a series of papers presented at the Berkshire Conference on the...

Barbara Baert, Een erfenis van heilig hout: de neerslag van het teruggevonden kruis in tekst en beeld tijdens de Middeleeuwen.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Symbolae Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis B 22 (Louvain: Presses Universitaires, 2001). 474 pp. ISBN. 90-5867-112-7. 38.00 [euro]. This important art-historical study, which also makes extensive reference to literary and liturgical material,...

Fifteenth-Century Studies, Volume 26.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2001). 303 pp. ISBN 1-57115-228-7. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Annually published collection of essays comprising Edelgard E. DuBruck surveying the current state of...

Fifteenth-Century Studies, Volume 27.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Yael Even (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2002). 294 pp. ISBN 1-57113-018-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$75 .00. A special issue focusing on representations of violence in fifteenth-century texts and images. Yael Even...

Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). xxii + 248 pp.; 12 plates. ISBN 0-226-39117-5. 9.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback reprint of Eric Jager's important and thought-provoking study of the medieval identification of the...

King Arthur: a Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Edward Donald Kennedy, Arthurian Characters and Themes 1 (New York: Routledge, 2002). lvi + 311 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 0-415-93912-7. 17.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A welcome paperback reprint of this collection of essays first published by...

Lancelot and Guinevere: a Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Lori J. Walters, Arthurian Characters and Themes 4 (New York: Routledge, 2002), lxxx + 310 pp.; 18 plates. ISBN 0-415-93911-9. 17.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). Another useful paperback reprint of a collection of essays in the Routledge...

Tristan and Isolde: a Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Joan Tasker Grimbert, Arthurian Characters and Themes 2 (New York: Routledge, 2002). cxviii + 520 pp.; 26 plates. ISBN 0-415-93910-0. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A useful paperback reprint of this collection of essays first published by...

Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. G. Halsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). xiv + 208 pp. ISBN 0-521-81116-3 37.50 [pounds sterling]/$50.00. This wide-ranging, eclectic collection of essays arises from various sessions at the 1998 Leeds International...

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Avicenna's 'De anima' in the Latin West: the Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul 1160-1300.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Warburg Institute Studies and Texts 1 (London: Warburg Institute; Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, 2000). x + 350 pp. ISBN 0-85481-125-7. 32.00 [pounds sterling]. This study is concerned with the history of the influence of the Kitab an-nafs or De...

Gillian R. Knight, The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux: a Semantic and Structural Analysis.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), xii + 303 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0067-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), Abbot of Citeaux, was a prolific letter-writer. Gillian R. Knight's...

Carmina Burana: textes choisis, introduction, traduction, notes et bibliographie.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. A. Micha, F. Joukovsky, and P. Buhler, Textes et traductions des Classiques francais du Moyen Age 8 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2002), xvi + 275 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0713-4. 25.50 [euro]. This is a useful bilingual edition of 222 songs from the...

Alfred P. Smyth, The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great: a Translation and Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), xx + 280 pp. ISBN 0-333-69917-3. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. In his 1995 biography of King Alfred, Alfred Smyth argued that Asset's Life of Alfred was not in fact written by Asser at the end of the ninth century, but...

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: a History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of his Patrimony.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Ted Johnson South, Anglo-Saxon Texts 3 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). x + 158 pp.; 1 plate; 1 figure; 2 maps. ISBN 0-85991-627-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The importance of the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto lies partly in the fact that it...

Medieval English Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. J. B. Trapp, Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, 2nd edn, Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 56 + 626 pp. ISBN 0-19-513492-3. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). Noticeable additions to the 1st edition...

Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), viii + 279 pp.; 34 plates. ISBN 1-900289-12-1. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The essays in this Festschrift volume accurately reflect Robert R. Raymo's interest in medieval...

Anglo-Saxon England 30.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), viii + 565 pp. ISBN 0-521-802105. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. The usual high-quality collection of articles on a range of historical,...

The Apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, Edited from the Auchinleck Manuscript and from Trinity College, Oxford, MS 57.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... ed. Brian Murdoch and J. A. Tasioulas, Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002). viii + 158 pp. ISBN 0-85989-698-6. 16.99 [pounds sterling]/$29.95 (p/b). This welcome volume offers accessible texts...