Medium Aevum articles from March 22 2006

Medium Aevum archives from March 22 2006

'Ut sexu sic animo': the resolution of sex and gender in the Planctus of Abelard.
March 22, 2006... Introduction Perhaps the most remarkable literary achievement of the twelfth-century philosopher, theologian, and dialectician Peter Abelard are the six planctus, or laments, on Old Testament themes that he wrote for his former wife...

In the silence of a midwinter night: a re-evaluation of the Visio Philiberti.
March 22, 2006... The medieval Latin debate between a Body and its Soul most commonly beginning 'Noctis sub silentio tempore brumale' ('In the silence of a midwinter night') (1) and often referred to as the Visio Philiberti (2) was certainly one of the most...

Accent and metre in later Old French verse: the case of the polyphonic rondel.
March 22, 2006... The nature of metre in Old French verse is a matter of long-standing and ongoing controversy. One of the contributory factors is the irregular placement of word accents in corresponding lines of the verse forms. Jean Beck famously claimed to...

St Patrick's Purgatory: fragments of a second copy of the Middle English stanzaic Owayne Miles.
March 22, 2006... Ralph Hanna III recently made more widely known the survival in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. d.208 (hereafter E) of fragments of three Middle English poems. (1) They are on paper leaves which formerly 'were part of the boards of a...

Personal politics and Thomas Gascoigne's account of Chaucer's death.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... The story of Chaucer's deathbed repentance for his literary sins, reported in Thomas Gascoigne's Dictionarium theologicum (or Liber de veritatibus, compiled from c. 1434 to 1458), has claimed an important place in accounts of Chaucer's death...

A newly discovered lyric from Exeter College, Oxford on the theme of 'know thyself'.
March 22, 2006... The object of this short article is to present a previously unnoticed macaronic lyric. The lyric--an aphoristic, moralizing piece of verse--has not been recorded hitherto in the Index of Middle English Verse, nor is it listed in Ringler's...

Karl Bertau, Schrift--Macht--Heiligkeit in den Literaturen des judisch-christlich-muslimischen Mittelalters.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Karl Bertau, Schrift--Macht--Heiligkeit in den Literaturen des judisch-christlich-muslimischen Mittelalters (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005). 678 pp. ISBN 3-11-01 7468-5. 98.00 [euro]. The importance of the medium of writing in western cultural...

Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom: Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom: Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Nigel Morgan, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, NS XII (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2004). xii + 403 pp.; 91 black-and-white plates. ISBN 1-90028-968-7. 49.50...

Performing Medieval Narrative.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Performing Medieval Narrative, ed. Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005). xvi + 261 pp. ISBN 1-84340-39-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Here readers will find essays under four heads:...

Katrinette Bodarwe, Sanctimoniales litteratae: Schriftlichkeit und Bildung in den ottonischen Frauenkommunitaten Gandersheim, Essen und Quedlinburg.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Katrinette Bodarwe, Sanctimoniales litteratae: Schriftlichkeit und Bildung in den ottonischen Frauenkommunitaten Gandersheim, Essen und Quedlinburg, Quellen und Studien 10 (Munster: Aschendorff, 2004). x + 558 pp. ISBN 3-402-06249-6. 71.00...

Arthurian Literature XXI: Celtic Arthurian Material.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Arthurian Literature XXI: Celtic Arthurian Material, ed. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). vii + 136 pp. ISBN 1-84384-028-6. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$70.00. In this volume six scholars present their current research in...

Kay Brainerd Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kay Brainerd Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), xii + 379 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 0-8020-3650-3. 42.00 [pounds sterling]. The use of liturgical texts as historical sources for the period...

Gerhard Schmidt, Malerei der Gotik: Fixpunkte und Ausblicke, vol. I: Malerei der Gotik in Mitteleuropa, vol. II: Malerei der Gotik in Sud- und Westeuropa.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gerhard Schmidt, Malerei der Gotik: Fixpunkte und Ausblicke, vol. I: Malerei der Gotik in Mitteleuropa, vol. II: Malerei der Gotik in Sud- und Westeuropa, Studien zum Herrscherportrat, ed. Martin Roland (Graz: Akademische Druck- u....

Robin S. Oggins, The Kings and their Hawks.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Robin S. Oggins, The Kings and their Hawks (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004), xvi + 251 pp. ISBN 0-300-10058-2. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. As Robin Oggins rightly observes, the distinction between hawking and falconry in the...

Du Yorkshire a l'Inde: Une 'geographie' urbaine et maritime de la fin du xiie siecle (Roger de Howden?).(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Du Yorkshire a l'Inde: Une 'geographie' urbaine et maritime de la fin du xii' siecle (Roger de Howden?), ed. Patrick Gautier Dalche, Hautes Etudes Medievales et Modernes 89 (Geneva: Droz, 2005). 301 pp. ISBN 2-600-01036-X. 65.88 [euro]. La...

'Turn it Again': Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 'Turn it again': Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory, ed. Sheila Delany (Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004), 234 pp. ISBN 1-889818-36-4. $18.98. This slim but stimulating volume of essays is a revised version of a special issue of...

Thomas C. Moser Jr., A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Thomas C. Moser Jr., A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), xi + 485 pp. ISBN 0-472-11379-8. $75.00. The title A Cosmos of Desire encapsulates the subject...

Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Boydell Press, 2004). x + 236 pp. ISBN 1-84383-070-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Victoria Thompson's monograph presents a cultural study (not of the theoretical...

Mark C. Amodio, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Mark C. Amodio, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). xviii + 298 pp. ISBN 0-268-02024-8. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. Mark C. Amodio's study...

Andrew P. Scheil, Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Andrew P. Scheil, Footsteps of Israel." Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-472-11408-5. 40.50 [pounds sterling]/$65.00. Whilst the Jews' medieval sojourn in...

Arthurian Studies in Honour of P. J. C. Field.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Arthurian Studies in Honour of P. J. C. Field, ed. Bonnie Wheeler, Arthurian Studies LVII (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). xiv + 333 PP. ISBN 1-84384-013-8. 60.00 [pounds sterling]/$110.00. This volume honours Professor Field with...

Lynn Staley, Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Lynn Staley, Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), xiv + 394 pp. ISBN 0-271-02518-2. $45.00. Lynn Staley's dense and provocative book explores the language of courtly...

Robert Allen Rouse, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Robert Allen Rouse, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance, Studies in Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), viii + 160 pp. ISBN 1-84384-041-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Awareness of the Anglo-Saxon past...

C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture (University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 2003), xix + 283 pp. ISBN 0-271-02315-5. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. David Benson has two plausible...

J. Allan Mitchell, Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... J. Allan Mitchell, Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower, Chaucer Studies XXXIII (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). viii + 157 pp. ISBN 1-84384-019-7. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This thoughtful and interesting book, which began...

Katie Normington, Gender and Medieval Drama.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Katie Normington, Gender and Medieval Drama, Gender in the Middle Ages I (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). 158 pp. ISBN 1-84384-027-8. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In Gender and Medieval Drama, Katie Normington offers us a considered overview...

'De sens rassis': Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 'De sens rassis': Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot, and Logan E. Whalen, Faux Titre 259 (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2005), xxviii + 753 PP. ISBN 90-420-1755-4. $160.00. This handsomely produced...

A Companion to Chretien de Troyes.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A Companion to Chretien de Troyes, ed. Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert, Arthurian Studies 63 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 1-84384-050-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. Norris Lacy and Joan Grimbert do not...

Claudio Galderisi, Diegesis: Etudes sur la poetique des motifs narratifs au Moyen Age (de la 'Vie des Peres' aux lettres modernes).(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Claudio Galderisi, Diegesis: Etudes sur la poetique des motifs narratifs au Moyen Age (de la 'Vie des Peres' aux lettres modernes), Culture et societe medievales 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005). 230 pp. ISBN 2-503-51848-6. 39.00 [euro]. This...

Lydie Louison, De Jean Renart a Jean Maillart: Les Romans de style gothique.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Lydie Louison, De Jean Renart a Jean Maillart." Les Romans de style gothique, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 69 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2004). 1007 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0962-5. 145.00 [euro]. Lydie Louison's study examines in detail a...

Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Euslache Deschamps: Selected Poems, ed. Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, trans. David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin, Routledge Medieval Texts (New York: Routledge, 2003). 253 pp. ISBN 0-415-94243-8. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. There...

Kathleen Loysen, Conversation and Storytelling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French Nouvelles.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Kathleen Loysen, Conversation and Storytelling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French Nouvelles, Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures i29 (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), 190 pp. ISBN 0-8204-68185. 35.00 [pounds sterling]....

John A. Scott, Understanding Dante.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... John A. Scott, Understanding Dante, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 6 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). xxxi + 466 pp. ISBN 0-268-04450-3, $75.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-268-04451-1, $35.00 (p/b)....

Jo Ann Cavallo, The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Jo Ann Cavallo, The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 294 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8915-1. $70.00/42.00 [pounds sterling]. In this book, Jo Ann Cavallo...

L. Peter Johnson, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfangen bis zum Beginn der Neuzeit, vol. 2: Vom hohen zum spaten Mittelalter, part I: Die hofische Literatur der Blutezeit 1160/70-1220/30.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... L. Peter Johnson, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfangen bis zum Beginn der Neuzeit, vol. II: Vom hohen zum spaten Mittelalter, part I: Die hofische Literatur der Blutezeit 1160/70-1220/30 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999). xii + 465 pp.;...

Dialoge: Sprachliche Kommunikation in und zwischen Texten im deutschen Mittelalter. Hamburger Colloquium 1999.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Dialoge: Sprachliche Kommunikation in und zwischen Texten im deutschen Mittelalter. Hamburger Colloquium 1999, ed. Nikolaus Henkel, Martin H. Jones, and Nigel F. Palmer, with Christine Putzo (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003), x + 391 pp.; 11...

Abigail Wheatley, The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Abigail Wheatley, The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2004). viii + 176 pp.; 17 colour plates. ISBN 1-903153-14-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. What might have seemed a topic of limited interest outside...

Charlotte Denoel, Saint Andre: Culte et iconographie en France (Ve-XVe siecles).(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Charlotte Denoel, Saint Andre: Culte et iconographie en France (Ve-XVe siecles), Memoires et Documents de l'Ecole des Chartes (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2004). 302 pp.; 61 illustrations. ISBN 2-900791-73-1. 52.25 [euro]. Disciple de...

Elizabeth Makowski, 'A Pernicious Sort of Woman': Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Elizabeth Makowski, 'A Pernicious Sort of Woman': Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 6 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005), xxxiii + 170 pp....

Robert F. Berkhofer III, Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Robert F. Berkhofer III, Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 270 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3796-X. $49.95 The accountability of Robert F....

James G. Clark, A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c.1350-1440.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... James G. Clark, A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c.1350-1440, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004). xii + 316 pp.; 18 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-927595-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Thomas of Marlborough: History of the Abbey of Evesham.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Thomas of Marlborough: History of the Abbey of Evesham, ed. and trans. Jane Sayers and Leslie Watkiss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). lxxxix + 597 pp. ISBN 0-19-820480-9. 95.00[pounds sterling]. At the turn of the thirteenth century,...

Richard J. Kelly, The Blickling Homilies: Edition and Translation.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard J. Kelly, The Blickling Homilies: Edition and Translation (London: Continuum, 2003). lx + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8264-6785-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The shortcomings of Morris's nineteenth-century edition of the Blickling homilies have long...

The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham, ed. Robert Easting, EETS, OS 318 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), c + 277 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 0-19-722321-4. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham the narrator gives a...

Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems, ed. Ruth Kennedy, EETS, OS 321 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). cx + 120 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-19-722324-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. When editing minor pieces, such...

Les Paraboles Maistre Alain en francoys.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Les Paraboles Maistre Alain en francoys, ed. Tony Hunt, MHRA Critical Texts 2 (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2005). 178 pp. ISBN 0-947623-64-7. 12.99 [pounds sterling]/ $24.00. Le Liber parabolarum d'Alain de Lille (XIIe...

Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, vol. 4.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, edition critique sous la direction de Philippe Menard, vol. IV, ed. Joel Blanchard and Michel Quereuil, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2005), 257 pp. ISBN 2-600-00920-5. Sw. fr. 42.00. This...

Le Roman d'Eustache le Moine.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Le Roman d'Eustache le Moine, nouvelle edition, traduction, presentation et notes, ed. A.J. Holden and J. Monfrint, KTEMATA 18 (Louvain: Peeters, 2005). 171 pp. ISBN 90-429-1607-9. 35.00 [euro]. It is a pleasure to see a new edition of this...

Hartmann von Aue: Erec.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Hartmann von Aue: Erec, ed. M. G. Scholz, trans. S. Held, Bibliothek des Mittelalters 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2004), 1069 pp. ISBN 3-618-66050-2. 76.00 [euro]. Hartmann von Aue: Gregorius, Der arme Heinrich, Iwein, ed....

Tolkien the Medievalist.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 3 (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). xv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-415-28944-0. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. A collection of sixteen essays in four sections...

Medieval Religion: New Approaches.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Medieval Religion: New Approaches, ed. Constance Hoffman Berman, Rewriting Histories (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2005). xxiv + 422 pp.; 19 figures. ISBN 0-415-31687-1. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. A collection of essays representing 'the...

Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. Albrecht Classen, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 278 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004). 374 pp. ISBN...

'A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 'A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence, ed. Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), viii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8774-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In expressing the phrase...

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.(Other shorter notices)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. Philip M. Soergel, Third Series, II (New York: AMS Press, 2005), xvi + 286 pp. ISBN 0-404-64552-6. $89.50. This new volume in the...

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages, ed. Liz McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), xiv + 226 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1863-0....

Fifteenth-Century Studies, vol. 30.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Fifteenth-Century Studies, vol. 30, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2005). 218 pp. ISBN 1-57113-309-7. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Annual essay collection, which this year has a particular emphasis on...

'Tous vos gens a latin': Le Latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles).(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 'Tous vos gens a latin': Le Latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles), ed. Emmanuel Bury, Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance CDV (Geneva: Droz, 2005). 463 pp. ISBN 2-600-00975-2. Sw. ft. x 132.00. This volume contains the...

Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, ed. Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 280 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,...

The Autobiography of Gerald of Wales.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Autobiography of Gerald of Wales, ed. and trans. H. E. Butler, introd. C. H. Williams, and a guide to further reading by John Gillingham (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005). 373 pp. ISBN 1-84383-148-1. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a...

From Orosius to the 'Historia Silense': Four Essays on Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... From Orosius to the 'Historia Silense': Four Essays on Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula, ed. David Hook (Bristol: University, of Bristol, 2005), viii + 147 pp. ISBN 0-86292-557-6. 26.00 [pounds sterling]....

Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honour of Robert W. Hanning.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honour of Robert W. Hanning, ed. Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). xii + 505 pp. ISBN 0-268-04111-3. $37.50. The breadth and variety of this...

Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Seattergood, ed. Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005). 416 pp. ISBN 1-85182-929-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This grand volume offers a fitting...

A Companion to the Middle English Lyric.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A Companion to the Middle English Lyric, ed. Thomas G. Duncan (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2005). xxv + 302 pp. ISBN 1-84384-065-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This Companion to the Middle English Lyric, suitably...

Chaucer: An Oxford Guide.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Chaucer:. An Oxford Guide, ed. Steve Ellis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). xxiv + 644 pp. ISBN 0-19-925912-7. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. Long in the making, distinguished in its contributors and its variety of subject matter, this volume...

New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry, ed. Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, Chaucer Studies XXXI (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2003). viii + 200 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 0-85991-778-9. 30.00 [pounds...

Patricia Demers, Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Patricia Demers, Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England, Women's Writing in English Series (Toronto: University, of Toronto Press, 2005). xii + 363 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8710-8. 21.50 [pounds sterling]. An introduction to the writing of...

Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchinson, Medieval Church Studies 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, zoos), xxii + 448 pp. ISBN 2-503-52209-2. 90.00 [euro]. 'Pro tantis laboribus...

Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol, ed. Iestyn Daniel, Marged Haycock, Dafydd Johnston, and Jenny Rowland (Cardiff: University. of Wales Press, 2003), xx + 396 pp.; 13 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1827-4. 45.00...

Old Norse-Iceland Literature: A Critical Guide.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Old Norse-Iceland Literature: A Critical Guide, ed. Carol J. Clover and John Lindow, with a new preface by Theodore M. Andersson, Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 42 (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press in...

Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380, ed. Michael Jones (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), liii + 415 PP. ISBN 1-84383-088-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. In many ways, this volume can be read as the companion piece to...

The Medieval Chronicle III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle Doorn/Utrecht 12-17 July 2002.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Medieval Chronicle III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle Doorn/Utrecht 12-17 July 2002, ed. Erik Kooper (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004), x + 218 pp.; 3 figures. ISBN 90-420-1834-8. 46.00...

Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Anthony Musson (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005), x + 196 pp.; 12 illustrations. ISBN 0-7546-5090-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This...

Women's Space: Patronage, Place and Gender in the Medieval Church.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Women's Space." Patronage, Place and Gender in the Medieval Church, ed. Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury, SUNY Series in Medieval Studies (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005). x + 261 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6365-6. $85.00....

David Stone, Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... David Stone, Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). xviii + 303 pp.; 49 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-924776-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. David Stone's study aims to reconstruct the mental world of medieval...

Le Pouvoir au Moyen Age: Ideologies, pratiques, representations.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Le Pouvoir au Moyen Age: Ideologies, pratiques, representations, ed. Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi, Collection Le Temps de l'Histoire (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2005). 314 pp. ISBN 2-85399-601-8....

Les Relations culturelles entre chretiens et musulmans au Moyen Age: Quelles lecons en tirer de nos jours? Actes du Colloque organise a la Fondation Singeer-Polignac (Paris) le mercredi 20 octobre 2004.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Les Relations culturelles entre chretiens et musulmans au Moyen Age: Quelles lecons en tirer de nos jours? Actes du Colloque organise a la Fondation Singeer-Polignac (Paris) le mereredi 20 octobre 2004, ed. Max Lejbowicz, Rencontres medievales...