Medium Aevum articles from March 2005

Medium Aevum archives from March 2005

The 'palmtwigede' Pater Noster: horticultural semantics and the old English Solomon and Saturn I.
March 22, 2005... In the initial exchange in the Old English Solomon and Saturn I, both Saturn, the pagan spokesman, and Solomon, the spokesman for Christian truth, refer to the Pater Noster as 'gepalmtwigoda'/'gepalmtwigede', a compound which Menner's glossary...

The middle English book of penance and the readers of the Cursor mundi.
March 22, 2005... Speculation about the readership of Middle English didactic texts has ranged over a number of different possibilities. Earlier studies suggested that vernacular texts addressed the 'leued' layperson, while more recent studies express...

A local source for Horn Child and Maiden Rimnild.(Middle English texts)
March 22, 2005... The opening section of Horn Child and Maiden Rimnild differs substantially from that romance's closest relations, the Anglo-Norman Romance of Horn and the Middle English King Horte. (1) Horn Child's distinctive prologue has never been...

Versification and translation in Sir Beves of Hampton.
March 22, 2005... Sir Beves of Hampton is one of a handful of Middle English romances in which unexpected and not always obviously motivated changes in verse form occur at some point in the text. The Auchinleck text of Guy of Warwick offers the best-known and...

Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: a proposal.
March 22, 2005... The poem is imperfectly extant in three manuscripts in Oxford (Bodleian Library, MSS Fairfax 16, c.1450 and its affiliate Bodley 638 after 1475, and Tanner 346 c.1440) and in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works of 1532. The distance between the...

Nourishing lineage in the earliest French versions of the Roman de Melusine.
March 22, 2005... The two earliest versions of the tale of Melusine are genealogical romances that have had enduring appeal up to the present period, through reinterpretations in the light of modern interests in the emblematic nature of Melusine's monstrosity,...

God so loves the soul: intellections of immortality in Dante.
March 22, 2005... 'Et vitam venturi saeculi': 'And the life everlasting'. It seems appropriate to begin with the closing words of the Nicene Creed, which all Christians profess to believe. And for Dante, of course, the life everlasting is a sine qua non for his...

Thorpe's testament: a conjectural emendation.(NOTES; The Testament of William Thorpe)
March 22, 2005... The Testament of William Thorpe, the Lollard preacher, was published as an appendix to his longer Examination in an edition which appeared clandestinely at Antwerp around 1530. (1) The editor, according to Thomas More writing in 1532., was...

Lady Meed and the power of money.(Piers Plowman)
March 22, 2005... When Langland first describes Lady Meed, in Passus II of Piers Plowman, he portrays her as a modern version of the Scarlet Woman, set in opposition to Holy Church, that other lady from the Book of Revelation. Clearly, no good is to be expected...

Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). xxi + 203 pp.; 160 plates. ISBN 0-52 1-80315-2. 70.00 [pounds sterling)/$110.00. ...

Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2001), xliv + 210 pp.; colour frontispiece and 47 black-and white plates. ISBN 1-85124-059-4. 20.00 [pounds...

P. R. Robinson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1600 in London Libraries.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... P. R. Robinson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1600 in London Libraries (London: The British Library, 2003), 2 vols. xiii + 118 pp.; 306 black-and-white plates. ISBN 0-7123-4838-7. 95.00 [pounds sterling]. This, Pamela...

La Collaboration dans la production de l'ecrit medieval: Acres du XIIIe Colloque du Comite Internationale de Paleographie Latine.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... La Collaboration dans la production de l'ecrit medieval: Acres du XIIIe Colloque du Comite Internationale de Paleographie Latine, ed. Herrad Spilling, Materiaux pour l'histoire, publies par l'Ecole des Chartes, 4 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes,...

D. H. Green, The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150-1120.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... D. H. Green, The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150-1120 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). xiii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-52181299-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Fact and fiction, res gestae and res fictae, offer a neat...

Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, ed. Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. Lees (New York: Palgrave, 2002). 304 pp. ISBN 0-312-23244-6. $69.95. In this illuminating and transdisciplinary collection of essays, Thelma...

Giles E. M. Gasper, Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Giles E. M. Gasper, Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), xv + 228 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3911-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The schism of 1054 took place in Anselm's lifetime, though it is likely that he...

Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life, documents translated and annotated by Bruce L. Venarde (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2003), xiv + 155 pp. ISBN 0-8132-1354--1. $21.95. The twelfth century has its...

Editing Robert Grosseteste.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Editing Robert Grosseteste, ed. Evelyn A. Mackie and Joseph Goering (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2003). xv + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8841-4. $39.95/25.00 [pounds sterling]. This book is a report of a...

Helen Cooper: The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death Shakespeare.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Helen Cooper: The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). xv + 542 pp. ISBN 0-19-924886-9. 68.00 [pounds sterling]. This engaging, informative...

Richard J. Moll, Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Richard J. Moll, Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), ix + 368 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3722-4. $60.00. Richard J. Moll's book gives prominence to a number of texts that remain...

Annette Kern-Stahler, A Room of one's Own: Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Annette Kern-Stahler, A Room of one's Own: Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England, Tradition--Reform--Innovation: Studien zur Modernitat des Mittelalters 3 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,...

Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings.(Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings, ed. Sheila Delany, The Multicultural Middle Ages (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), xi + 258 pp. ISBN 0-415-93882-1. $99.95. Lisa Lampert, Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to...

Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse Manuscripts: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino (California), MSS HM 111 and 744; University Library, Durham (England), MS Cosin V.III.9.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse Manuscripts: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino (California), MSS HM 111 and 744; University Library, Durham (England), MS Cosin V.III.9, introd. J. A. Burrow and A. I. Doyle, Early...

Jacques Monfrin, Etudes de philologie romane.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Jacques Monfrin, Etudes de philologie romane, Publications romanes et francaises CCXXX (Geneva: Droz, 2001). 1035 pp. ISBN 2-600-00470-X. Sw. Fr. 150.00. Jacques Monfrin died in 1998 after a lifetime of distinguished scholarship in French...

John Haines, Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Haines, Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xii + 347 PP.; (26) plates. ISBN 0-521--82672-1. $85.00/50.00 [pounds sterling]. This is one...

Karen Pratt, La Mort le roi Artu.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Karen Pratt, La Mort le roi Artu, Critical Guides to French Texts 137 (London: Grant & Cutler, 2004), 112 pp. ISBN 0-7293-0444-2. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. Karen Pratt's study of the Mort Artu is another excellent addition to this library of...

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Daniel Heller-Roazen, Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency, Parallax: Revisions of Culture and Society (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). 206 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7191-3. $45.00. ...

Elizabeth Gonzalez, Un Prince en son hotel: Les Serviteurs des ducs d'Orleans au XVe siecle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Elizabeth Gonzalez, Un Prince en son hotel: Les Serviteurs des ducs d'Orleans au XVe siecle, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Histoire ancienne et medievale 74 (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004). 392 pp.; CD-ROM. ISBN 285944-495-5....

Christine de Pizan: A Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, ed. Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady, Routledge Medieval Casebooks (New York and London: Routledge, 2003). xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-415-93909-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The fifteen essays in this...

Angus J. Kennedy, Christine de Pizan: Supplement 2.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Angus J. Kennedy, Christine de Pizan: Supplement 2, Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series 5 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004), xv + 285 pp. ISBN 1-85 56-6102-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$70.00. For more than two decades, Angus J....

Raphael Zehnder, Les Modeles latins des 'Cent nouvelles nouvelles': Des textes de Poggio Bracciolini, Nicolas de Clamanges, Albrecht von Eyb et Francesco Petrarca et leur adaptation en langue vernaculaire francaise.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Raphael Zehnder, Les Modeles latins des 'Cent nouvelles nouvelles': Des textes de Poggio Bracciolini, Nicolas de Clamanges, Albrecht von Eyb et Francesco Petrarca et leur adaptation en langue vernaculaire francaise (Bern etc.: Peter Lang,...

Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter, trans. with introd., notes, and interpretative essay by Sharon L. Jansen, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). xiii + 105 pp. ISBN 1-84384-016-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$60.00. ...

Gary P. Cestaro, Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Gary P. Cestaro, Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), xii + 305 pp. ISBN 0-268-02554-3. $65.00. Dante and the Grammar...

Carlo Dona, Per le vie dell' altro mondo: L'animale guida e il mito del viaggio.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Carlo Dona, Per le vie dell' altro mondo: L'animale guida e il mito del viaggio, Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale, Studi 13 (Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino, 2003). 624 pp. ISBN 88-498-0416-4. 40.00 [euro]. The scope of this work is vast,...

Dante: Current Trends in Dante Studies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Dante: Current Trends in Dante Studies, ed. Claire E. Honess, Special Issue, Reading Medieval Studies, 27 (2002). 250 pp. ISSN 0-0950-3129; ISBN 0-7049-1215-5. No price given. This special edition of Reading Medieval Studies contains six...

Rita Marnoto, A 'Vita nova' de Dante Alighieri: Deus, o amor e a palavra.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Rita Marnoto, A ' Vita nova' de Dante Alighieri: Deus, o amor e a palavra, Estudos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra 36 (Lisbon: Edicoes Colibri, 200l). 248 pp. ISBN 972-772-2105. 13.20 [euro]. The account of the vast...

Stephen D. Kolsky, The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Stephen D. Kolsky, The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, Studies in the Humanities: Literature--Politics--Society 62 (New York etc.: Peter Lang, 2003), 254 pp. ISBN 08-204-6183 0. $65.9543.00 [pounds sterling]....

Marilyn Migiel, A Rhetoric of the Decameron.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Marilyn Migiel, A Rhetoric of the Decameron (Toronto etc.: University of Toronto Press, 2003), xi + 219 pp. ISBN 08-020-8819-8, $50.00/32.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 08-020-8594-6, $24.95/15.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). In this...

John Gornall, The 'Invenciones' of the British Library 'Cancionero'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Gornall, The 'Invenciones' of the British Library 'Cancionero', ed. Jane Whetnall, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 41 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003), iii + 88 pp. ISBN...

David A. Wells, The 'Central Franconian Rhyming Bible' ('Mittelfrankische Reimbibel'): An Early-Twelfth-Century German Verse Homiliary. A Thematic and Exegetical Commentary with the Text and a Translation into English.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... David A. Wells, The 'Central Franconian Rhyming Bible' ('Mittelfrankische Reimbibel'): An Early-Twelfth-Century German Verse Homiliary. A Thematic and Exegetical Commentary with the Text and a Translation into English, Amsterdamer Publikationen...

Sebastian Coxon, The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Sebastian Coxon, The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Narrative Literature 1220-1290 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200l). x + 254 pp.; 9 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-816017-8. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Authorship is a topic...

Nikola von Merveldt, Translatio und Memoria. Zur Poetik der Memoria des 'Prosa Lancelot'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Nikola von Merveldt, Translatio und Memoria. Zur Poetik der Memoria des 'Prosa Lancelot', Mikrokosmos: Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung 72 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004). 376 pp. ISBN 3-631-51899-4. 37.00...

Falk Eisermann, 'Stimulus amoris'. Inhalt, lateinische Uberlieferung deutsche Ubersetzungen, Rezeption.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Falk Eisermann, 'Stimulus amoris'. Inhalt, lateinische Uberlieferung deutsche Ubersetzungen, Rezeption, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 118 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2001), x + 649 pp. ISBN 3-484-89118-1. 72.00 [euro]. The Stimulus...

Wybren Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries: The 'Modern Devotion', the Canonesses of Windesheim, and their Writings.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Wybren Scheepsma, Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries: The 'Modern Devotion', the Canonesses of Windesheim, and their Writings, trans. David F. Johnson (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2004). xii + 280 pp. ISBN 1-84383-048-5. 55.00...

Alfred Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documentation in Fifteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Alfred Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documentation in Fifteenth-Century England (London: The British Library, 2004), xiv + 226 pp.; 24 black-and-white, 8 colour illustrations. ISBN 0-7123-4815-8. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Littere baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne.(The Cartulary of Montier-en-Der, 666-1129)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Littere baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne, ed. Theodore Evergates, Medieval Academy Books 107 (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press for the Medieval Academy of America, 2003). 210 pp.; 2...

Hazel Pierce, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Hazel Pierce, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), x + 273 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1783-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Hazel Pierce's biography falls into two...

Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors.(Audiovisual Review)
March 22, 2005... Electronic media Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors (CD-ROM Version 1.1), developed bv David Miles in collaboration with Rohini Jayatilaka and Malcolm Godden (Oxford: Fontes Anglo-Saxonici...

The Hengwrt Chaucer: Standard Edition on CD-ROM, Golygiad Safonal Chaucer Hengwrt ar CD.(Audiovisual Review)
March 22, 2005... The Hengwrt Chaucer: Standard Edition on CD-ROM, Golygiad Safonal Chaucer Hengwrt ar CD, ed. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, The Canterbury Tales Project (Leicester: National Library of Wales, Scholarly Digital Editions, 2003). individual licence: ISBN...

The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica Maiora' of Thomas Walsingham.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Editions of texts The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica maiora' of Thomas Walsingham, I: 1376-1394, ed. and trans. John Taylor, Wendy R. Childs, and Leslie Watkiss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), cxvii + 1030 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN...

The Middle English 'Mirror': An Edition Based on Bodleian Library.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Middle English 'Mirror': An Edition Based on Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc. 40, ed. Kathleen Marie Blumreich, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 182; Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 9 (Tempe, Ariz.:...

An English Chronicle, 1377-1461: A New Edition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... An English Chronicle, 1377-1461: A New Edition. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21608, and Oxford Bodleian Library MS Lyell 34, ed. William Marx, Medieval Chronicles III (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), cv + 199 pp. ISBN...

John Trevisa's Translation of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, Book VI.(John Trevisa's Translation of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, Book VI: An Edition Based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D.vii )(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Trevisa's Translation of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, Book VI. An Edition Based on British Library MS Cotton Tiberius D.vii, ed. Ronald Waldron (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2004), lix + 302 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1587-8....

Raoul de Houdenc: La Vengeance Raguidel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Raoul de Houdenc: La Vengeance Raguidel, ed. Gilles Roussineau, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2004). 491 pp. ISBN 2-600-00883-7. Sw. Fr. 42.00. Mathias Friedwagner produced the first modern edition of La Vengeance Raguidel in 1909,...

The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's 'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The History of the Holy War. Ambroise's 'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte', ed. Marianne Ailes and Malcolm Barber, 2 vols (Woodbridge: Bovdell Press, 2003). Vol. I: Text; xv + 211 pp.; vol. II: Translation; xvi + 214 pp.; 3 maps. ISBN 1-84383-001-9....

Robert de Clari: La Conquete de Constantinople.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Robert de Clari: La Conquete de Constantinople, edition bilingue, ed. and trans. Jean Dufournet, Champion Classiques: Moyen Age 14 (Paris: Champion, 2004). 336 pp. ISBN 2-7453-1135-2. 10.00 [euro]. If never as famous as Villehardouin's Conquete...

Guibert d'Andrenas.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Guibert d'Andrenas, ed. Muriel Ott, CFMA 147 (Paris: Champion, 2004). 459 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0922-6. 23.00 [euro]. This thorough and competent edition of Guibert d'Andrenas is a welcome replacement for the somewhat inadequate and out-of-date...

Le Conte du papegau.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Le Conte du papegau, ed. and trans. Helene Charpentier and Patricia Victorin, Champion Classiques: Moyen Age II (Paris: Honore Champion, 2004). 302 pp. ISBN 2-7453-1026-7. 10.00 [euro]. This is a most welcome edition of a little text which has...

The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp, ed., trans., and introd. Sean Field, Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). x + 106 pp....

Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, edition critique publiee sous la direction de Philippe Menard, vol. II, ed. Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Laurence Harf-Lancner, and Laurence Mathey-Maille, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2003). lv + 125...

Williram von Ebersberg: Expositio in Cantica Canticorum und das 'Commentarium in Cantica Canticorum' Haimos von Auxerre.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Williram von Ebersberg: Expositio in Cantica Canticorum und das 'Commentarium in Cantica Canticorum' Haimos von Auxerre, ed. with a German translation by Henrike Lahnemann and Michael Rupp (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2004), xxxv + 290 pp....

Ernst Haberkern, Richard yon St. Viktor: 'Benjamin minor', deutsch. Ein neu aufgefundenes Handschriftenfragment.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ernst Haberkern, Richard yon St. Viktor: 'Benjamin minor', deutsch. Ein neu aufgefundenes Handschriftenfragment. Edition und Untersuchung, Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 685 (Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 2000). 131 pp. ISBN 3-874-52932-0....

Pratiques de traduction au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de Copenhague.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Pratiques de traduction au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de Copenhague, 25-26 octobre 2002, ed. Peter Andersen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2004), 235 pp. ISBN...

Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, ed. P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004). xvi + 227 pp.; 15 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1894-0. 45.00 [pounds...

Nigel Bryant, The Legend of the Grail.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Nigel Bryant, The Legend of the Grail, Arthurian Studies 58 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), 258 pp. ISBN 1-84384-006-5. 25.00 [pounds sterling]/$39.95. To amalgamate all the medieval Grail stories into one coherent story, with no anomalies or...

Michael Dames, Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Michael Dames, Merlin & Wales: A Magician's Landscape (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002). 192 pp.; 173 illustrations (22 in colour). ISBN 0--500-28496-2. 9.95 [pounds sterling]. Michael Dames's copiously illustrated book is an evocative attempt to...

Fifteenth-Century Studies 29.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Fifteenth-Century Studies 29, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2004), 237 pp. ISBN 1-57113-2961. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Together with editor Edelgard E. DuBruck's annual review of scholarship on...

Felix Thurlemann, Robert Campin: A Monographic Study with Critical Catalogue.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Felix Thurlemann, Robert Campin: A Monographic Study with Critical Catalogue (Munich: Prestel, 2002). 385 pp.; 87 colour, 218 black-and white illustrations. ISBN 3-7913-2778-X. 85.00 [pounds sterling]. By detailed study of all the extant...

Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, ed. Alison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson, Jewish Culture and Contexts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). x + 316 pp. ISBN...

Azzan Yadin, Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and Origins of Midrash.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Azzan Yadin, Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and Origins of Midrash, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). xiv + 231 pp. ISBN 0--8122-379 1-9. 36.00 [pounds sterling]/$ 55.00....

Andrew Dalby, Flavours of Byzantium: Cuisine of a Legendary Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Andrew Dalby, Flavours of Byzantium: Cuisine of a Legendary Empire (Totnes: Prospect Books, 2003). 268 pp. ISBN 1-903018-14-5. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This study aims to present the food habits of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, a...

Angela Jane Weisl, The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Angela Jane Weisl, The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), ix + 277 pp. ISBN 0-3 312-23968-8. $59.95. In this book, Angela Jane Weisl examines the persistence of...

Rome and the North: The Early Reception of Gregory the Great in Germanic Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Rome and the North: The Early Reception of Gregory the Great in Germanic Europe, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, Kees Dekker, and David Johnson, Mediaevalia Groningana, NS 4 (Paris, Leuven, and Stifling, Va: Peeters, 2001). vi + 308 pp. ISBN...

Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg, ed. Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). xxii + 219 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8743-4. 32.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00....

Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman, ed. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser (London: Routledge, 2005), xvi + 266 pp.; 8 colour plates. ISBN 0-415-30859-3. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays at once makes a...

Anglo-Saxon England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). x + 406 pp. ISBN 0-521-813,44-1. 51.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume of Anglo-Saxon England maintains the high standards and diversity of previous issues. Fulk questions...

The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England: Approaches to Current Scholarship and Teaching.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England: Approaches to Current Scholarship and Teaching, ed. Paul Cavill, Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), xviii + 207 pp. ISBN 0-85991-841-6....

Middle English Literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Middle English Literature, ed. Roger Dalrymple, Blackwell Guides to Criticism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), xviii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-631-23290-7. $69-95/60.00 [pounds sterling]. This addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series offers a...

Manfred Gorlach, Text Types and the History of English.(Text Types and the History of English, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Manfred Gorlach, Text Types and the History of English, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 139 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), xviii + 331 pp.; 53 illustrations. ISBN 3-11-017372-7. $113.40. This volume collects together a series...

Lazamon: Contexts, Language and Interpretation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lazamon: Contexts, Language and Interpretation, ed. Rosamund Allen, Lucy Perry, and Jane Roberts, King's College London Medieval Studies XIX (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2002). xii + 438 pp.; 6...

The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII, ed. E. A. Jones (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004). xiv + 212 pp. ISBN 1-84384-007-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. This collection...

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English, ed. Irma Taavitsainen and Paivi Pahta, Studies in English Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xviii + 284 pp.; 39 illustrations. ISBN 0-521-83133-4. 45.00 [pounds...

Diane Watt, The Paston Women: Selected Letters. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Diane Watt, The Paston Women: Selected Letters. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2004), x + 178 pp. ISBN 1-84384-024-3....

Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522, ed. and trans. Shannon McSheffrey and Norman Tanner, Camden Fifth Series 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003). x + 361 pp. ISBN 0-521-87083-4. 45.00 [pounds...