Medium Aevum articles from March 2004

Medium Aevum archives from March 2004

Layamon and the fortunes of yogh.(Medium Aevum)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Discussion of one of the most interesting poems written in English between the Conquest and the fourteenth century is made slightly uneasy by problems concerning the title of the poem and the name of the author. Madden's edition of 1847, on...

Are Auchinleck manuscript scribes 1 and 6 the same scribe? The advantages of whole-data analysis and electronic texts.
March 22, 2004... Introduction The Auchinleck Manuscript (National Library of Scotland Advocates' MS 19.2.1) was produced in London in the 1330s and is a volume of forty-four Middle English texts, with approximately sixteen items lost. It is the first...

The third fifteenth-century cookery book: a newly identified group within a family.
March 22, 2004... In a discussion of what I identify as the 'family' groupings of medieval English culinary collections, (1) I indicated that traits which identify recipes as coming from the same collection are their similar, or identical, wording and 'the way...

Colour perception, dyestuffs, and colour terms in twelfth-century French literature.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Seriously injured in battle, King Marsile regains consciousness only in his vaulted chamber, with its many colours depicted on the walls ('plusurs culurs i ad peinz e escrites'). (1) Twelfth-century epics and romances, however, knew only six or...

Le conservatisme de la langue, gage du caractere litteraire du texte et temoin d'une nouvelle conception de l'acte d'ecriture: le cas d'Ysaye le triste.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Dans la premiere moitie du XVIe siecle apparaissent successivement quatre editions imprimecs d'un imposant roman de chevalerie qui raconte l'histoire d'Ysaye, fils de Tristan et Yseut et porte le titre explicite d'Ysaye le Triste, filz de...

The devil's see: a puzzling reference in the Auchinleck Life of Adam.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... The Auchinleck Life of Adam is an early fourteenth-century Adambook comprising 780 lines in rhyming couplets, composed in the Middle English dialect of London or Middlesex and surviving only in the Auchinleck Manuscript which was copied in the...

Owen Glendower's crest and the Scottish campaign of 1384-1385.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... A striking glimpse of Owen Glendower occurs in the work of Ernest Jacob, who refers to the young warrior 'on the Scottish expedition of 1385, during the course of which Iolo Goch describes him while at Berwick "wearing in his helmet the scarlet...

Paul Bush and the Chaucer tradition.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Almost completely unnoticed both by historians of Chaucer reception and by critics of Tudor literature is Paul Bush's poem The Extripacion of Ignorancy, a work of early Tudor Catholic doctrine, dedicated to Princess Mary and printed by Richard...

Incunabula and their Readers: Printing Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Incunabula and their Readers: Printing Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Kristian Jensen (London: British Library, 2003), x + 291 pp.; 24 coloured plates. ISBN 0-7123-4769-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume is made...

Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), xvi + 446 pp.; 49 illustrations. ISBN 0-8122-3691-2. 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$42.00. In...

Suzannah Biernoff, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Suzannah Biernoff, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). x + 248 pp. ISBN 0-333-96120-X. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Suzannah Biernoff's passion for her subject comes through in late chapters on the...

The Bury Bible.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Bury Bible, ed. Rodney Thompson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). 72 pp.; 24 colour and 31 black and white illustrations. ISBN 0-851-15855-2. 450.00 [pounds sterling]/$750.00. The great Bibles produced in western Europe during the later...

The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation, ed. W. R. J. Barron and Glyn S. Burgess (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002). xi + 377 PP. ISBN 0-85989-656-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The...

Silvia Walli, Melodien aus mittelalterlichen Horaz-Handschriften. Edition und Interpretation der Quellen.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Silvia Walli, Melodien aus mittelalterlichen Horaz-Handschriften. Edition und Interpretation der Quellen, Monumenta monodica medii aevi: subsidia, III (Kassel: Barenreiter, 2002), xi + 379 pp. ISBN 3-7618-1597-2. 218.00 [euro]. Renewed...

Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley, Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley, Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), x + 182 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1714-6. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. In Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History, Kelley M....

Mary C. Erler, Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mary C. Erler, Women, Reading& and Piety in Late Medieval England, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 46 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). xii + 226 pp.; 13 plates. ISBN 0-521-81221-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$60.00. ...

William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in 'Piers Plowman'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in 'Piers Plowman' (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2002), x + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8132-1092-5. $64.95. William Elford Rogers combines erudite scholarship with an approachable style of...

Simon Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Simon Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition, Chaucer Studies XXXII (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), x + 179 pp. ISSN 0261-9822. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This detailed and meticulously researched study argues that the study of...

Sources and Analogues of the 'Canterbury, Tales'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sources and Analogues of the 'Canterbury, Tales', Vol. I, ed. Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel, Chaucer Studies 28 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), xii + 623 pp. ISBN 0-85991-628-6. $99.00/ 55.00 [pounds...

Thomas Usk: Testament of Love.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Thomas Usk: Testament of Love, ed. Gary W. Shawver (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). xii + 354 pp. ISBN 0-8020-5471-4. 80.00 [pounds sterling]/$125.00. In 1897, W. W. Skeat included an edition of Thomas Usk's Testament of Love...

Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003), xii + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2603-2. $55.00. Liam O. Purdon's study offers a close reading of the six...

Takako Kato, Caxton's 'Morte Darthur': The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Takako Kato, Caxton's 'Morte Darthur': The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text, Medium Aevum Monographs, Ns XXII (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2002). 102 pp. ISBN 0-907570-15-1. 10.00 [pounds...

Alex Davis, Chilvary, and Romance in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alex Davis, Chilvary, and Romance in the English Renaissance, Studies in Renaissance Literature 11 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), viii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-85991-777-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Alex Davis's new book offers a detailed...

Sarah Carpenter and Meg Twycross, Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early, Tudor England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sarah Carpenter and Meg Twycross, Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early, Tudor England, Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). 418 pp.; 32 plates, 14 figures. ISBN 0-7546-0230-3, 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ...

Rosemary Tzanaki, Mandeville's Medieval Audiences.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rosemary Tzanaki, Mandeville's Medieval Audiences (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003). 315 pp.; 27 black and white illustrations. ISBN 0-7546-0846-8. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. This book aims to discover the audiences (interpreted as scribes,...

Christiane Deluz, Jean de Mandeville: Le Livre des merveilles du monde.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Christiane Deluz, Jean de Mandeville: Le Livre des merveilles du monde (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2000 for 2001). 528 pp. ISBN 2-271-05744-2. 70.00 [euro]. This scholar]y edition of the Insular Version of Mandeville's Travels (one of the two...

Tamarah Kohanski, The Book of John Mandeville.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Tamarah Kohanski, The Book of John Mandeville, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 251 (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 2001). 190 pp. ISBN 0-86698-275-6. $28.00/24.00 [pounds sterling]. The introduction to this modernized...

Interpreting the History of French: A Festschrift for Peter Rickard on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Interpreting the History of French: A Festschrift for Peter Rickard on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, ed. Rodney Sampson and Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Faux Titre 226 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), xix + 373 pp. ISBN 90-420-1580-2. 80.00...

Alison Williams, Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alison Williams, Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 49 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), 236...

A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World, ed. Christopher Harper-Bill and Elisabeth van Houts (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003), xix + 298 pp.; 12 plates. ISBN 0-85115-673-8. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Christopher Harper-Bill and Elisabeth van...

La Fortune: themes, representations, discours.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... La Fortune: themes, representations, discours, ed. Yashima Foehr-Janssens and Emmanuelle Metry, Recherches et rencontres 19 (Geneva: Droz, 2003). 220 pp. ISBN 2-600-00842-X. Sw. Fr. 35.o0. This collection of ten essays on the theme of...

Poetiques en transition: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Poetiques en transition: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. Jean-Claude Muhlethaler and Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Etudes de lettres 2002/4 (Lausanne: Lausanne University Press, 2002). 165 pp. ISBN 2-940331-00-6. Sw. Fr. 18.00. This...

Nadine Henrard, Le Theatre religieux medieval en langue d'oc.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Nadine Henrard, Le Theare religieux medieval en langue d'oc, Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, Fascicule 273 (Liege: Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, 1998). 640 pp. ISBN...

Donald Maddox, Fictions of Identity in Medieval France.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Donald Maddox, Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xx + 295 pp. ISBN 0-521-78105-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This book explores identity and encounter in medieval literature in terms of...

Joanne Rittey, Amplification as Gloss in Two Twelfth-Century Texts: Robert de Boron's 'Joseph d'Arimathie' and Renaut de Beaujeu's 'Li Biaus Descouneus'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Joanne Rittey, Amplification as Gloss in Two Twelfth-Century Texts: Robert de Boron's 'Joseph d'Arimathie' and Renaut de Beaujeu's 'Li Biaus Descouneus', Studies in the Humanities: Literature--Politics--Society 59 (New York: Peter Lang, 2002)....

Wace: The Roman de Rou.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Wace: The Roman de Rou, ed. A.J. Holden, trans. Glyn S. Burgess, notes by Elisabeth van Houts (St Helier: Societe Jersiaise, 2002). Ii + 408 pp. ISBN 0-901897-34-5. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Wace would, I think, have been pleased: his fellow...

Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance, Beitrage zur alteren Literaturgeschichte (Heidelberg: Winter, 2003). 259 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1468-5. 40.00 [euro]. This is a...

The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland/La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland/La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande, ed. and trans. Evelyn Mullally (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002). 179 pp. ISBN 1-85182-643-2. 55.00 [euro]. First edited in 1837 as The Conquest of Ireland, then in 1892...

Le Moniage Guillaume: chanson de geste du [XII.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Le Moniage Guillaume: chanson de geste du [XII.sup.e] siecle, edition de la redaction longue par Nelly Andrieux-Reix, Classiques francais du Moyen Age 145 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2003). 358 pp. ISBN 2-74530753-3. 28.00 [euro]. This...

Orson de Beauvais: chanson de geste du XIIe siecle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Orson de Beauvais: chanson de geste du XIIe siecle, ed. Jean-Pierre Martin, Classiques francais du Moyen Age 140 (Paris: Champion, 2002). 259 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0613-8; ISSN 0775-1959. 17.00 [euro]. The edition of this short 'feudal' epic...

Baudouin de Sebourc.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Baudouin de Sebourc, ed. Larry S. Crist, Societe des anciens textes francais (Paris: Societe des anciens textes francais, 2002). 2 vols. ciii + 1227 pp. ISBN 2-906867-01-2. 75.00 [euro]. As Larry Crist told members of the Societe...

Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Peterson: the 'Canso d'antiocha': an Occitan Epic of the First Crusade.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson, The 'Canso d'antiocha'." An Occitan Epic of the First Crusade (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), xi + 363 pp.; 3 maps. ISBN 0-7546-0410-1. 49.50 [pounds sterling]. This edition had its beginnings in the...

La Cort d' Amor: A Critical Edition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... La Cort d'Amor: A Critical Edition, ed. Matthew Bardell, Legenda/Research Monographs in French Studies II (Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, 2002), 170 pp. ISBN 1-900755-66-1. 14.50 [pounds sterling]/$25.00. This incomplete...

Le Livre du Graal.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Le Livre du Graal, ed. Daniel Poirion and published under the direction of Philippe Walter, Vol. I: Joseph d'Arimathie, Merlin, Les Premiers Faits du roi Arthur, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade 476 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001). lxxvi + 1918 pp. ISBN...

Andrea M. L. Williams: the Adventures of the Holy Grail: a Study of 'La Queste del saint Graal'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Andrea M. L. Williams, The Adventures of the Holy Grail: A Study of 'La Queste del saint Graal' (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001). 206 pp. ISBN 3-906766-84-5. Sw. Fr. 59.00/24.00 [pounds sterling]. Andrea Williams declares her aim to be the...

Anne Marie D'Arcy: Wisdom and the Grail: the Image of the Vessel in the 'Queste del saint Graal' and Malory's 'Tale of Sankgreal'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Anne Marie D'Arcy, Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the 'Queste del saint Graal' and Malory's 'Tale of Sankgreal' (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000). 412 pp. ISBN 1-85182-496-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This important book...

La Vye de seynt Fraunceys.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... La Vye de seynt Fraunceys, ed. D. W. Russell, with the collaboration of A. R. Harden and H. S. F. Collins, Anglo-Norman Text Society LIX-LX (London: Birkbeck College, Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2002). x + 338 pp. ISBN 0-905474-43-0. 60.00...

Elisabeth Gaucher: Robert le Diable: histoire d'une legende.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Elisabeth Gaucher, Robert le Diable: histoire d'une legende, Essais sur le Moyen Age 29 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2003), 284 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0714-2. 55.00 [euro]. Elisabeth Gaucher has published several articles on the legend of Robert le...

La versione occitana dello Pseudo Turpino: Ms. Londra B.M. Additional 17 920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... La versione occitana dello Pseudo Turpino: Ms. Londra B.M. Additional 17 920, ed. Marco Piccat (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2001), v + 211 pp. ISBN 3-484-52308-5; ISSN 0084-5396. 49.00 [euro]/Sw. Fr. 86.00. The publication of a new edition of this...

Jean Wauquelin: La Belle Helene de Constantinople: mise en prose d'une chanson de geste.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jean Wauquelin: La Belle Helene de Constantinople: mise en prose d'une chanson de geste, edition critique par Marie-Claude de Crecy, Textes litteraires francais 547 (Geneva: Droz, 2002), clxxxi + 659 pp. ISBN 2-600-00650-8. Sw. Fr. 130.00. ...

Les Dits d'Henri d' Andeli.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Les Dits d'Henri d'Anadeli, ed. Alain Corbellari, Classiques francais du Moyen Age 146 (Paris: Champion, 2003). 229 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0775-4. 28.00 [euro] (p/b). This timely and most welcome publication at last supersedes that of Heron...

Humanisme et culture geographique a l'epoque du concile de Constance: autour de Guillaume Fillastre, Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de Reims 18-19 novembre 1999.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Humanisme et culture geographique a l'epoque du concile de Constance: autour de Guillaume Fillastre, Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de Reims 18-19 novembre 1999, ed. Didier Marcotte, Terrarum orbis: histoire des representations de l'espace:...

Contexts and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan (Glasgow 21-27 July 2000) Published in Honour of Liliane Dulac.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Contexts and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan (Glasgow 21-27 July 2000) Published in Honour of Liliane Dulac, ed. Angus J. Kennedy with Rosalind Brown-Grant, James C. Laidlaw, and Catherine M....

Octovien de Saint-Gelais: Le Sejour d'Honneur.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Octovien de Saint-Gelais: Le Sejour d'Honneur, ed. Frederic Duval, Textes litteraires francais 545 (Geneva: Droz, 2002). 535 pp. ISBN 2-600-00629-X. 71.70 [euro]. This important rhetoriqueur text has hitherto not been available in a...

Graham A. Runnalls, Les Mysteres dans les provinces francaises (en Savoie et en Poitou, a Amiens et a Reims).(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Graham A. Runnalls, Les Mysteres dans les provinces francaises (en Savoie et en Poitou, a Amiens et a Reims), Bibliotheque du [XV.sup.e] siecle, publiee sous la direction de J. Dufournet (Paris: Honore Champion, 2003). 309 pp. ISBN...

Las 'Mocedades de Rodrigo': estudios criticos, manuscrito y edicion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Las 'Mocedades de Rodrigo': estudios criticos, manuscrito y edicion, ed. Matthew Bailey, King's College London Medieval Studies 15 (London: KCL Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1999). x + 216 pp.; 28 colour plates. ISBN...

Transition in Crusader Valencia: Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1264-1270.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Transition in Crusader Valencia: Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1264-1270, ed. Robert I. Burns, Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. The Registered Charters of its Conqueror Jaume I, 1257-1276, III: Documents 501-1000 (Princeton,...

Walter Haug, Die Wahrheit der Fiktion. Studien zur weltlichen und geistlichen Literatur des Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Walter Haug, Die Wahrheit der Fiktion. Studien zur weltlichen und geistlichen Literatur des Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2003). xi + 708 pp. ISBN 3-484-10853-3. 176.00 [euro]. Following hard upon two earlier...

Sonja Emmerling, Geschlechterbeziebungen in den Gawan-Buchern des 'Parzival'. Woljrams Arbeit an einems literarischen Modell.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sonja Emmerling, Geschlechterbeziebungen in den Gawan-Buchern des 'Parzival'. Woljrams Arbeit an einems literarischen Modell, Hermaea 100 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2003). ix + 358 pp. ISBN 3-484-15100-5. 56.00 [euro]. This book, closely and...

Johanna Thali, Beten--Schreiben--Lesen. Literarisches Leben und Marienspiritualitat im Kloster Engelthal.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Johanna Thali, Beten--Schreiben--Lesen. Literarisches Leben und Marienspiritualitat im Kloster Engelthal, Bibliotheca Germanica 42 (Tubingen: Francke, 2003), ix + 385 pp. ISBN 3-7720-2033-X. 72.00 [euro]. This impressive book deals with...

The New Cambridge Medieval History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. VI: c.1300-c.1415, ed. Michael Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xxx + 1110 pp.; 38 plates. ISBN 0-51-36290-3. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. In a wry flourish at the end of his...

Shorter notices.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Editions Editions Honore Champion, one of the most respected publishers of medieval material in France, has initiated a new series: Champion classiques. These volumes they are not intended to be exclusively medieval--are to include a full...