Medium Aevum articles from March 2007

Medium Aevum archives from March 2007

Did King Alfred write anything?(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... There is a consensus going back to the tenth century that King Alfred personally translated a number of substantial texts from Latin into English. Though views have changed from time to time about the exact list, especially in the last fifty...

'Heaven and earth in little space': the foetal existence of Christ in medieval literature and thought.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Christ in his humanity, God made Man, was, without doubt, the central focus of artistic endeavour in the later Middle Ages. Images of the holy infant, beatific in his vulnerability, or of Christ's Passion, are ubiquitous, and testimony to the...

Chamberlain danger: the social meaning of love allegory in the Confessio Amantis.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... The substance of the lover's climactic petition to the powers of love at the end of the Confessio Amantis is the expulsion from retinue of his lady's chief servant: So that Danger, which stant of retenue With my ladi, his place mai...

An autonomous and unpublished version of the J.B. Treatise in Exeter Cathedral MS 3533.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In my recent edition of the J.B. Treatise--a heterogeneous fifteenth-century manual of instruction in the lexicons of hawking, hunting, and other topics of. interest to a gentleman--I remarked that it was impossible to devise a single, coherent...

Wisdom from the dead: the Ljodatal section of Havamal.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... 1. The structure of 'Havamal' In this article I want to look at the mythical situation underlying what have traditionally been regarded as the last two sections of Havamal. As long ago as 1891, Karl Mullenhoff suggested that Havamal should...

Scientia in margine: Etudes sur les marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Age a la Renaissance.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Scientia in margine: Etudes sur les marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Age a la Renaissance, ed. Danielle Jacquart and Charles Burnett, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences historiques et philologiques: Hautes etudes...

Veronika Sattler, Zwischen Andachtsbuch und aventiure: Der Neufville- Vitasse-Psalter, New York, PML, Ms M.730.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Veronika Sattler, Zwischen Andachtsbuch und aventiure: Der Neufville-Vitasse-Psalter, New York, PML, Ms M.730, Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte 12 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2006), 2 vols and CD-ROM; 978 pp. ISBN 3-8300-2025-2. 188.00 [euro]. ...

Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth (London: The British Library, 2006). 398 pp.; 21 colour plates and 185 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-712-348778-8. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Judging by the many...

Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (London: Reaktion Books, 2005). 248 pp. ISBN 1-86189-260-8. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. Robert Mills's new book is concerned with the zone between life and...

Stephen F. Kruger, The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Stephen F. Kruger, The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, Medieval Cultures 40 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). xxx + 320 pp.; 6 half-tone plates. ISBN 0-8166-4061-0, $77.95 (hard covers); ISBN...

Christopher Cannon, The Grounds of English Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Christopher Cannon, The Grounds of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xi + 237 pp. ISBN 0-19-927082-1. 41.00 [pounds sterling]. Throughout this complex and provocative book, play is made with the idea of 'grounds'...

Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), xxi + 350 pp. ISBN 0-521-84835-0. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. After some personal recollections of cotton processing in east Texas and reflections on its...

J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 48 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), xi + 200 pp. ISBN 0-521-81564-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. When the Troilus narrator raises...

A. C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A. C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 273 pp. ISBN 0-19-818724-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In this refreshing and important book, A. C....

Nicolette Zeeman, 'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nicolette Zeeman, 'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 59 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), x + 314 pp. ISBN 0-521-85610-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In this excellent...

Catherine S. Cox, The Judaic Other in Dante, the 'Gawain' Poet, and Chaucer.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Catherine S. Cox, The Judaic Other in Dante, the 'Gawain' Poet, and Chaucer (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005). x + 240 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2855-8. 48.95 [pounds sterling]/$65.00. This is a compact, lively, and original study,...

Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, and Juliette Dor, Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, and Juliette Dor, Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery (London: Methuen, 2003). ix + 408 pp. ISBN 0-413-75910-5. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. One way to take this book is as a joke, a...

Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales', Vol. II, ed. Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel, Chaucer Studies 35 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), xvi + 824 pp. ISBN 1-84384-048-0. $150.00/75.00 [pounds...

Glenn Burger, Chaucer's Queer Nation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Glenn Burger, Chaucer's Queer Nation, Medieval Cultures 34 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). xxv + 264 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3805-5. $68.95. Chaucer's Queer Nation is a key intervention in contemporary Chaucer criticism....

Thomas A. Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Thomas A. Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), vii + 180 pp. ISBN 0-418-96679-5. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. The main idea of this book is that the history of Chaucer reception is...

Alcuin Blamires, Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Alcuin Blamires, Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xv + 263 pp. ISBN 0-19-924867-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. It is perhaps unsurprising that, with this book, Alcuin Blamires should have made such a...

William Perry Marvin, Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... William Perry Marvin, Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2006), x + 198 pp. ISBN 1-84384-082-0. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The unpopularity of the forest laws...

Denis Renevey, Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Denis Renevey, Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), xii + 228 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1696-4. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Denis...

Peter Nicholson, Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Peter Nicholson, Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), viii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-472-11512-X. 46.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. Peter Nicholson's Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio...

Ruth Niesse, Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ruth Niesse, Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), x + 226 pp. ISBN 0-268-03602-0. $23.00. As an investigation into the politics of...

Jane Griffiths, John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Establishing the Liberty to Speak.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jane Griffiths, John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Establishing the Liberty to Speak, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), xi + 213 pp. ISBN 0-19-927360-X. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The first book-length study of...

The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, ed. Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). lxiv + 713 PP. ISBN 0-521-36209-1. 200.00 [pounds sterling]/$300.00. A. E. Housman once observed that a reviewer's most useful...

Anglo-Norman Dictionary: Second Edition.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Anglo-Norman Dictionary: Second Edition, Vol. I: A-C, Vol. II: D-E, general editor William Rothwell; ed. Stewart Gregory, William Rothwell, and David Trotter, with the assistance of Michael Beddow, Virginie Derrien, Geert de Wilde, Lisa...

Zrinka Stahuljak, Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Zrinka Stahuljak, Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005), 242 pp; 4 illustrations. ISBN 0-8130-2862-0. $65.00. The otherness inherent in any...

L'Espace lyrique mediterraneen au Moyen Age: Nouvelles approaches.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... L'Espace lyrique mediterraneen au Moyen Age: Nouvelles approches, ed. Dominique Billy, Francois Clement, and Annie Combes, Interlangues: Litteratures (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2006). 301 pp. ISBN 2-85816-811-3. 18.00 [euro]....

Simon Gaunt, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Simon Gaunt, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). vii + 235 pp. ISBN 0-19-927207-7. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This book is a triumph. Gathering together...

Alain Corbellari, La Voix des clercs: Litterature el savoir universitaire autour des dits du XIIIe siecle.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Alain Corbellari, La Voix des clercs: Litterature el savoir universitaire autour des dits du XIIIe siecle, Publications romanes et francaises 236 (Geneva: Droz, 2005). 341 pp. ISBN 2-600-009988-1. Sw. fr. 52.00. This book was initially...

Elaine Graham-Leigh, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Elaine Graham-Leigh, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005). 187 pp. ISBN 1-84383-129-5. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. This important book poses a penetrating question. Why were the...

Ecritures de l'histoire (XIVe-XVIe siecle): Acres du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ecritures de l'histoire (XIVe-XVIe siecle): Acres du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux, 19-21 septembre 2002, ed. Daniele Bohler and Catherine Magnien Simonin, Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance 406 (Geneva: Droz, 2005). 565 pp. ISBN...

'Intavulare': Tavole di canzonieri romanzi.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... 'Intavulare': Tavole di canzonieri romanzi (series editor Anna Ferrari), Vol. I. Canzonieti provenzali: 3. Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, V (Str. App 11 = 278), ed. Ilaria Zamuner (Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2003). xiv + 189 pp.; 9 plates....

Manuele Gragnolati, Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Manuele Gragnolati, Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), xvii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-268-02965-2....

Maurizio Fiorilla, Marginalia figurati nei codici di Petrarca.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Maurizio Fiorilla, Marginalia figurati nei codici di Petrarca, Biblioteca di 'lettere italiane': Studi e testi LXV (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005). 96 pp. ISBN 88-222-5426-0. 19.00 [euro]. Fiorilla reassesses markings and drawings in the...

Manuela Niesner, 'Wer mit juden well disputiren'. Deutschsprachige Adversus-Judaeos-Literatur des 14. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Manuela Niesner, 'Wer mit juden well disputiren'. Deutschsprachige Adversus-Judaeos-Literatur des 14. Jahrhunderts, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 128 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2005), x + 650 pp. ISBN 3-484-89128-9. 86.00 [euro]. ...

Aratoris subdiaconi Historia apostolica.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Aratoris subdiaconi Historia apostolica, ed. A. P. Orban, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 130, 130A (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 2 vols, 584 pp., 695 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-01301-5, 978-2-503-01303-9. 225.00 [euro], 300.00 [euro]. On 6 April 544...

Latin Arthurian Literature.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Latin Arthurian Literature, ed. and trans. Mildred Leake Day, Arthurian Archives II (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005), vii + 284 pp. ISBN 1-84384-064-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This extremely useful and valuable edition, which deserves to be in every...

Vita Griffini filii Conani: The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffyd ap Cynan.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Vita Griffini filii Conani: The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffyd ap Cynan, ed. and trans. Paul Russell (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), xiv + 221 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1893-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The Life of the twelfth-century Welsh...

The Letters of Adam Marsh.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Letters of Adam Marsh, Volume I, ed. and trans. C. H. Lawrence, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006). 1 + 290 pp. ISBN 0-19-928179-3. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. 'About the condition of the University of Oxford, the help of...

M. Maruli Delmatae Davidias.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... M. Maruli Delmatae Davidias, ed. M. Marcovich, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 33 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006). xxii + 256 pp. ISBN 90-04-14963-5. 125.00 [euro]. This beautifully produced book represents the critical edition of the...

Dives and Pauper.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Dives and Pauper, Vol. II, ed. Priscilla Heath Barnum, EETS, Os 323 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). lxxxiii + 451 pp. ISBN 0-19-722326-5. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The publication of one volume of an edition with the promise of another...

Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, ed. Michael G. Sargent (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005). 163 + 433 PP. ISBN 0-85989-740-0. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Current interest in medieval English vernacular...

The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay, Volume II: The Buke of the Law of Armys.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay, Volume II: The Buke of the Law of Armys, ed. Jonathan A. Glenn, The Scottish Text Society, 5th series, no. 3 (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2005), xii + 401 pp. ISBN 1-897976-21-6. 30.00 [pounds...

Vangeli occitani dell'infanzia di Gesu: Edizione critica delle versioni I et II.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Vangeli occitani dell'infanzia di Gesu: Edizione critica delle versioni I et II, introduction, notes, and glossary by Gabriele Giannini, ed. Marianne Gasperoni, Biblioteca di Filologia romanza della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia...

Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The 'Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bouvet'.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The 'Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bouvet', ed. and trans. Michael Hardy, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 283 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

Le liriche del trovalore Guilhem de la Tor.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Le liriche del trovalore Guilhem de la Tor, ed. Antonella Negri (Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro): Rubbettino Editore Srl, 2006). 240 pp. ISBN 88-498-1597-2. 16.00 [euro]. The previous major edition of the poems of this troubadour goes back to 1934...

Le Livre de Bocce de Consolacion.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Le Livre de Bocce de Consolacion, ed. Glynnis M. Cropp, Textes litteraires francais 580 (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 480 pp. ISBN 2-600-01028-9. Sw. fr. 72.00. La Consolatio Philosophiae de BoCce connut une fortune ininterrompue du IXe au XVe siecle...

Descente aux enfers, avec Guillaume de Digulleville: Edition et traduction commentees d'un extrait du 'Pelerinage de l'ame'.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Descente aux enfers, avec Guillaume de Digulleville: Edition et traduction commentees d'un extrait du 'Pelerinage de l'ame', ed. Frederic Duval (Saint-Lo: Archives departementales de la Manche, 2006), 175 pp. ISBN 2-86050-021-9. 20.00 [euro]....

Italian Literature II: Tristano Riccardiano.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Italian Literature II: Tristano Riccardiano, ed. F. Regina Psaki, Arthurian Archives 12 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), xx + 400 pp. ISBN 1-84384-0677. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. As Regina Psaki notes in her introduction, Italian texts of...

Pseudo-Engelhart yon Ebrach. Das Buch der Vollkommenheit.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Pseudo-Engelhart yon Ebrach. Das Buch der Vollkommenheit, ed. Karin Schneider, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters 86 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006). lxviii + 149 pp. ISBN 3-05-004236-2. 49.80 [euro]. The Buch der Vollkommenheit is a...

Einarr Skulason's 'Geisli': A Critical Edition.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Einarr Skulason's 'Geisli': A Critical Edition, ed. Martin Chase, Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic Studies I (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2005). vii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3826-3, 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard...

Translation--Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Translation--Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader, ed. Daniel Weissbort and Astradur Eysteinssonn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xiv + 649 pp. ISBN 0-19-871199-9, 65.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-19-871200-6, 25.00 [pounds...

Buchkultur im Mittelalter. Schrift--Bild--Komunikation.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Buchkultur im Mittelalter. Schrift--Bild--Komunikation, ed. Michael Stolz and Adrian Mettauer, in collaboration with Yvonne Dellsperger and Andre Schnyder, redaction Hendrik Kuschel (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2005), viii + 374 pp.; 42...

The Fortunes of King Arthur.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Fortunes of King Arthur, ed. Norris J. Lacy, Arthurian Studies 64 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), xvi + 231 pp. ISBN 1-84384-061-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays, the introduction tells...

A History of Arthurian Scholarship.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A History of Arthurian Scholarship, ed. Norris J. Lacy, Arthurian Studies 65 (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 1-84384-069-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Norris J. Lacy has here edited a most useful anthology of essays...

Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight, ed. Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton, and David Matthews (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), xii + a86 pp. ISBN-10 0-7083-1958-0; ISBN 13 978-0-7083-1958-1. 55.00 [pounds sterling]....

Medieval Obscenities.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Medieval Obscenities, ed. Nicola McDonald (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press; The Boydell Press, 2006), 224 pp. ISBN 1-903153-18-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Obscenity must surely lie in the heart of the beholder. Is the phallus tree on the front...

Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages, ed. Kathryn Starkey and Horst Wenzel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), xii + 290 pp. ISBN 1-4039-6444-0. $75.00. This collection of essays, a number of them translated from newly written studies in...

Marina Vidas, The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and the Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Marina Vidas, The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and the Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006). 154 pp.; 21 black-and-white plates; 20 colour plates. ISBN...

Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland, ed. Rachel Moss, Colman O'Clabaigh, OSB, and Salvador Ryan (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), xxii + 234 pp.; 64 illustrations + 13 colour plates. ISBN 1-85182-987-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This...

Images of Salvation: The Story of the Bible through Medieval Art.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Images of Salvation: The Story of the Bible through Medieval Art, Interactive CD-ROM, Christianity and Culture (York: University of York, 2004). Minimum requirements: Pentium 75Mhz, 64MB RAM, 4 x CD-ROM, Windows 98, Mac OS X or higher, Internet...

Marina Mucha, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Part IV: English, Irish and Scottish Coins, 1066-1485.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Marina Mucha, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Part IV: English, Irish and Scottish Coins, 1066-1485, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 55 (Oxford: Oxford University Press and Spink and Son Ltd, 2005). viii + 87 pp.; 23 plates. ISBN...

Helen M. Jewell, Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Helen M. Jewell, Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550, European Culture and Society Series (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), viii + 171 pp. ISBN 0-333-91257-8. $29.95. This is a distinctly useful little book, just the...

Fifteenth-Century Studies.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Fifteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 31, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2006), 230 pp. ISBN 1-57113-333-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. In addition to the annual review of scholarship on late medieval...

Byzantine Christianity.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Byzantine Christianity, ed. Derek Krueger, A People's History of Christianity 3 (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2006), xx + 252 pp. ISBN 0-8006-3413-6. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. Volumes 3-5 of the People's History of Christianity, general...

Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism, ed. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2006), xii + 215 PP. ISBN 0-7546-5683-7. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This interesting volume--the result of...

Nicolas Oikonomides, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nicolas Oikonomides, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), xii + 356 pp. ISBN 0-86078-937-3. 62.50 [pounds sterling]. This is the fourth and last Variorum reprint volume of the...

Nation, Ethnicity, and Identity in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nation, Ethnicity, and Identity in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. Philip M. Soergel, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser. 3 (New York: AMS Press, 2006). 326 pp. ISBN 0-404-64553-3. $110.00. A collection of nine papers, of...

C. S. Lewis: Come un fulmine a ciel sereno: Saggi, letterari e recensioni.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... C. S. Lewis: Come un fulmine a ciel sereno: Saggi, letterari e recensioni, ed. Edoardo Rialti (Genoa and Milan: Marietti 1820, 2005), xvi + 222 pp. ISBN 88-211-6561-2. 28.00 [euro]. Contains translations into Italian of a series of Lewis's...

The Mabinogi: Legend and Landscape of Wales.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Mabinogi: Legend and Landscape of Wales, trans. John K. Bollard, photography by Anthony Griffiths (Llandysul, Ceredigion: Gomer Press, 2006), 128 pp. ISBN 1-84323-348-7. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. This is an attractively produced new...

Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio, Medieval European Studies VII (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006), xii + 288 pp. ISBN 1-933202-09-2. $45.00. The subtitle of the introduction...

Andreas aulae regiae capellanus/koniglicher Hofkaplan, De amore/Von der Liebe, Libri tres/Drei Bucher. Text nach der Ausgabe von E. Trojel. Ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen und einem Nachwort versehen yon Fritz Peter Knapp.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Andreas aulae regiae capellanus/koniglicher Hofkaplan, De amore/Von der Liebe, Libri tres/Drei Bucher. Text nach der Ausgabe von E. Trojel. Ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen und einem Nachwort versehen yon Fritz Peter Knapp (Berlin: de Gruyter,...

Marcia L. Colish, Studies in Scholasticism.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Marcia L. Colish, Studies in Scholasticism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). xii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-86078-982-9. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume in the Variorum Collected Studies Series contains reprints of eighteen papers on early scholasticism...

The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, I: Liber caelestis, Books I-III.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, I: Liber caelestis, Books I-III, trans. Denis Searby with an introduction and notes by Bridget Morris (Oxford: Oxford University, Press, 2006). xxvii + 341 PP. ISBN 0-19-516644-2. 38.99 [pounds...

Phyllis Portnoy, The Remnant: Essays on a Theme in Old English Verse.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Phyllis Portnoy, The Remnant: Essays on a Theme in Old English Verse (London: Runetree Press, 2005), viii + 254 pp.; 13 illustrations. ISBN 1-898577-10-2. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This intriguing and idiosyncratic collection of essays by...

Constance B. Hieatt and Terry Nutter, with Johnna H. Holloway, Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Constance B. Hieatt and Terry Nutter, with Johnna H. Holloway, Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 312 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Bernard O'Donoghue, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 2006), xxviii + 94 pp. ISBN 0-140-42453-9). 8.99 [pounds sterling]. This new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is marketed as an...

Chaucer and the City.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Chaucer and the City, ed. Ardis Butterfield, Chaucer Studies XXXVII (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2006), xiv + 231 pp. ISBN 1-84384-073-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. This volume focuses on Chaucer as London...

John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). vi + 314 pp. ISBN 0-268-04115-6, $65.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-268-04116-4, $30.00 (p/b). This...

Grant Risee? The Medieval Comic Presence/La Presence comique medievale: Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Grant Risee? The Medieval Comic Presence/La Presence comique medievale: Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy, ed. Adrian P. Tudor and Alan Hindley, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), xvi + 559 pp.; 29...

Chretien de Troyes: Perceval: The Story of the Grail.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Chretien de Troyes: Perceval: The Story of the Grail, trans. Nigel Bryant (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). 534 pp. ISBN 1-84384-102 9. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. This excellent translation is not Nigel Bryant's first attempt at tackling Grail...