Medium Aevum articles from March 2008

Medium Aevum archives from March 2008

AElfric, St Edmund, and St Edwold of Cerne.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... At the end of his Life of St Edmund, AElfric comments on the number of English men and women venerated as saints: 'England is not deprived of God's holy ones.' (1) AElfric himself wrote few homilies for the feast days of English (or British)...

Abduction, surgery, madness: an account of a little red man in Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The chronicle originating from the Abbey of St Albans in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, generally attributed to Thomas Walsingham, has long been considered the last of traditional monastic historiography developed out of...

Reconsidering Lincoln's inn MS 150.
March 22, 2008... This is an essay about the textual idiosyncrasies of London, Lincoln's Inn MS 150 (L). The scribal interference with the texts transmitted by L provides a fascinating insight into their intended use, as well as their appeal and interest for a...

Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas.(John Lydgate)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Judging by what early chroniclers, poets, and playwrights have written about Katherine of Valois, one would have thought the fortunes of Lancastrian and Tudor England utterly depended on her sexual adventures. The youngest daughter of Isabella...

The taming of the Amazon: Pentesilie in Ulrich von Turheim's Rennewart.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... I According to Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, men and women differ from one another primarily in respect of their physical strength. (1) In book XI, Isidore states that the term 'vir' (man) is derived from 'vis' (force), because man has...

Estreitement bende: Marie de France's Guigemar and the erotics of tight dress.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Clothes need to be more disciplinary. (1) (Pearl, corset designer and tight-lacing enthusiast) The twelfth century witnessed perhaps the most startling change in the history of women's dress: garments that were once expansive and flowing...

Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. Alison I. Beach (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). xiv + 347 PP. ISBN 978-2-503-51-528-1. 60.00 [euro]. This book gives the proceedings of a conference held at the...

Kathy Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature and English Community, 1000-1534.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Kathy Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature and English Community, 1000-1534 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), xiv + 191 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7309-8. $29.95. England, and the British Empire that it...

Marek Thue Kretschmer, Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages: The 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Marek Thue Kretschmer, Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages: The 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist.3, Mittellateinische Studien and Texte 36 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), x + 425 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15710-1....

Beowulf and Lejre.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Beowulf and Lejre, ed. John D. Niles, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 323 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), xiv + 495 PP. ISBN 978-0-86698-368-6. $89.00. The village of Lejre (Zealand)...

Karl Tamburr, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Karl Tamburr, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), xi + 211 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-117-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, Karl Tamburr looks at some of the...

Eamonn O Carragain, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Eamonn O Carragain, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition (London and Toronto: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2005), xlviii + 427 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4875-1. 50.00...

Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 34 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), xi + 263 pp. ISBN-10 0-521-85541-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity (York: York Medieval Press, 2007), viii + 141 pp. ISBN 1-90315321-2; 978-1-903153-21-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Fiona S. Dunlop's The Late...

B. W. Lindeboom, Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio Amantis'.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... B. W. Lindeboom, Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio Amantis', Costerus, NS 267 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). 477 PP. ISBN 9-789042-021501. $130.00. B. W. Lindeboom argues provocatively that Chaucer dramatically...

Carolynn Van Dyke, Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Carolynn Van Dyke, Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative (Madison, Wis.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005). 371 pp. ISBN 0-8386-4083-4. 44.00 [pounds sterling]. Carolynn Van Dyke opens Chaucer's Agents...

Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiv + 281 pp.; 58 plates. ISBN 0-19-926295-0. 55.00 [pounds sterling]....

Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 61 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xii + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-86355-1 and 0-521-86355-4. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Robert...

Peter Happe, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Peter Happe, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), xiv + 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-7083-2048-8. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. The origins of the Towneley Cycle and...

Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), xii + 193 PP. ISBN 0-7083-1910-6 and...

Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007). x + 238 pp. ISBN 0-271-02994-8. $40.00. In this book Susan Phillips examines the role...

Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xvii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3986-5; 978-0-8122-3986-7. 36.00 [pounds...

Marleen Cre, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Marleen Cre, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790, The Medieval Translator 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). 373 pp.; 17 plates. ISBN 978-2-503-52132-9. 65.00 [euro]. Marleen Cre's...

Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Naissance de la fable: L'Isopet de Lyon et l'Isopet I--Avionnet.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Naissance de la fable: L'Isopet de Lyon et l'Isopet I--Avionnet, Essais sur le Moyen Age 33 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2006). 499 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1367-6. 95.00 [euro]. L'auteur se propose de combler une lacune dans la...

The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages IV (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), xii + 637 pp. ISBN...

Deborah McGrady, Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and his Late Medieval Audience.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Deborah McGrady, Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and his Late Medieval Audience (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2006). xii + 310 pp.; 27 plates. ISBN 0-8020-9020-6. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Deborah McGrady's monograph...

Julian Weiss, The 'Mester de clerecia': Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Julian Weiss, The 'Mester de clerecia': Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile, Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias 231 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2006), x + 238 pp. ISBN 1-85566-135-7. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. In this...

Henrike Lahnemann, Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrbundert.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Henrike Lahnemann, Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrbundert, Scrinium Friburgense 20 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006). 499 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-019011-3, 3-11-019011-7. 128.00 [euro]. Judith's is a cracking story...

Annette Gerok-Reiter, Individualitat. Studien zu einem umstrittenen Phanomen mittelhochdeutscher Epik.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Annette Gerok-Reiter, Individualitat. Studien zu einem umstrittenen Phanomen mittelhochdeutscher Epik, Bibliotheca Germanica 51 (Tubingen: Francke, 2006). ix + 350 pp. ISBN 3-7720-8169-X. 78.00 [euro]. Although there has been of late much...

G. Ronald Murphy, SJ, Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... G. Ronald Murphy, SJ, Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 256 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-19530639-2. 17.99 [euro]. In Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival the Grail is identified as a...

Dietlind Gade, Wissen--Glaube--Dichtung: Kosmologie und Astronomie in der meisterlichen Lieddichtung des vierzehnten und funfzehnten Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Dietlind Gade, Wissen--Glaube--Dichtung: Kosmologie und Astronomie in der meisterlichen Lieddichtung des vierzehnten und funfzehnten Jahrhunderts, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 130 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2005), viii + 360 pp. ISBN...

Heather O'Donoghue, Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Heather O'Donoghue, Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3. 56.00 [pounds sterling]. In this very readable study, Heather O'Donoghue deals with one of the...

Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), vii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-86354-6. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$91.00. Recent criticism of the...

William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. I: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thompson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xxxiii + 693 pp....

Livre des miracles de saint Gilles [Liber miraculorum sancti Egidii], la vie d'un sanctuaire de pelerinage au XIIe siecle.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Livre des miracles de saint Gilles [Liber miraculorum sancti Egidii], la vie d'un sanctuaire de pelerinage au XIIe siecle, ed. Marcel Girault and Pierre-Gilles Girault, Medievalia 60 (Orleans: Paradigme, 2007). 368 pp. ISBN 978-2-86878-263-2....

Widows, Heirs, Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The 'Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis'.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Widows, Heirs, Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The 'Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis', ed. and trans. John Walmsley, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 308 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum (De diversis artibus.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum (De diversis artibus, ed. Emmanuel Poulle and Robert Halleux), Texte latin et reception vernaculaire (Actes du colloque international, Munster, 9-11 October 2003), ed. Baudouin Van den Abeele and...

Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis, ed. Marvin L. Colker, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 35 (Leiden and Boston: Brill,...

Le Sanctoral du lectionnaire de l'office dominicain (1254-1256): Edition et etude d'apres le ms. Rome, Sainte-Sabine XIV Li Ecclesiasticum officium secundum ordinem fratrum praedicatorum.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Le Sanctoral du lectionnaire de l'office dominicain (1254-1256): Edition et etude d'apres le ms. Rome, Sainte-Sabine XIV LI Ecclesiasticum officium secundum ordinem fratrum praedicatorum, ed. Anne-Elisabeth Urfels-Capot, preface by Pierre-Marie...

Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica, 1272-1363.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica, 1272-1363, ed. and trans, with an introduction by Andy King, Publications of the Surtees Society 209 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), lxiv + 288 pp. ISBN 0-85444-064-X. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. This...

Joseph F. O'Connor and Christine Smith, Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Joseph F. O'Connor and Christine Smith, Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 317, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 20 (Tempe, Ariz.:...

Alexander Wiltheim (1604-1684): The Life of Yolanda of Vianden. The Life of Margaret of Luxembourg. Genealogy of the Ancient Counts of Vianden, Antwerp 1674.--Das Leben der Yolanda von Vianden. Das Leben der Margarete von Luxemburg. Genealogie der ehemaligen Grafen von Vianden, Antwerpen, 1674.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Alexander Wiltheim 0604-1684): The Life of Yolanda of Vianden. The Life of Margaret of Luxembourg. Genealogy of the Ancient Counts of Vianden, Antwerp 1674.--Das Leben der Yolanda von Vianden. Das Leben der Margarete von Luxemburg. Genealogie...

The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version).(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), ed. Jill Whitelock, Early English Text Society, OS 324 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). lxxx + 182 pp. ISBN o-19-722327-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This is not the first edition of The Seven...

Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College MS R.14.52, its Text, Language and Scribe.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College MS R.14.52, its Text, Language and Scribe, ed. M. Teresa Tavormina, 2 vols, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 292 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and...

Gilte Legende.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gilte Legende, Vol. II, ed. Richard Hamer, with the assistance of Vida Russell, English Text Society, OS 328 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). vii + 537 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-923439-4. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The mid-fifteenth-century Gilte...

Everyman and its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Everyman and its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc, ed. Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos, Middle English Texts Series (TEAMS; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), viii + 104 pp. ISBN 978-1-58044-106-3. $13.00....

The 'Exhortacion' from 'Disce mori': Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The 'Exhortacion' from 'Disce mori': Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39, ed. E. A. Jones, Middle English Texts 36 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2006). xlii + 120 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 3-8253-5204-8. 48.00 [euro]. While the...

The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berners's Romance.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berners's Romance, ed. Joyce Boro, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 336 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007). xii + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-86698-384-6....

History of William Marshal.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... History of William Marshal, ed. A. J. Holden, with English translation by S. Gregory and historical notes by D. Crouch, Vol. I: Text and Translation (ll. 1-10031), Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 4 (London: The...

The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation, ed. Julia Marvin, Medieval Chronicles 4 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006). ix + 442 pp. ISBN 1-84383-274-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose...

Le Chant des Chanz.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Le Chant des Chanz ed. Tony Hunt, Anglo-Norman Text Society LXI-LXII (for 2003-4) (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, London, 2004). 179 pp. ISBN 0-905474-44-9. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume offers a critical...

Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle, ed. Jean Subrenat, co-translated with Andree Subrenat, Collection Ktemata 19 (Louvain and Paris: Peeters, 2007). 803 pp. ISBN 978-90-429-1818-7. 49.00 [euro]. Gaydon was last published in its entirety...

John of Howden: Rossignos.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... John of Howden: Rossignos, ed. Glynn Hesketh, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Anglo Norman Texts 63 (for 2005) (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006), x + 270 pp. ISBN 0-905474-46-5. Not for sale; free to members. This is the first complete...

The Old French Ballette: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dome 308.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Old French Ballette: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dome 308, ed., trans., and introd. Eglal Doss-Quinby and Samuel N. Rosenberg, music editions and commentary by Elizabeth Aubrey, Publications romanes et francaises 239 (Geneva: Droz, 2006)....

Denis Foulechat: Le Policratique de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Denis Foulechat: Le Policratique de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V, edition critique et commentee des textes francais et latin avec traduction moderne par Charles Brucker (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 907 pp. ISBN 2-600-01-72-6. Sw. fr. 152.00....

Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, Vol. IV: Le Nouveau Testament.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, Vol. IV: Le Nouveau Testament, ed. Alan E. Knight, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2007). 608 pp. ISBN 978-2-600-01145-7. Sw. fr. 100.00. With this volume, Alan Knight continues an...

Les Epistres des Dames de Grece: Une version medievale en prose francaise des 'Heroides' d'Ovide.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Les Epistres des Dames de Grece: Une version medievale en prose francaise des 'Heroides' d'Ovide, ed. Luca Barbieri, CFMA 152 (Paris: Champion, 2007), 210 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1525-0. 20.00 [euro]. Auteur d'une monographie importante sur la...

R. Anthony Lodge, Les Compres des consuls de Montferrand (1273-1319).(Book review)
March 22, 2008... R. Anthony Lodge, Les Compres des consuls de Montferrand (1273-1319), Collection etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes 23 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2006), xli + 212 pp. ISBN 2-900791-88-X. 36.00 [euro]. Cet ouvrage comprend 42 pages...

Mocedades de Rodrigo: Estudio y edicion de los tres estados del texto.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mocedades de Rodrigo: Estudio j edicion de los tres estados del texto, ed. Leonardo Furtes with Felipe Tenebaum, Coleccion Tamesis, Serie B: Textos 45 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004). lxxii + 206 pp. ISBN 1-85566-101-2. 50.00 [pounds...

Gonzalo de Berceo: Milagros de Nuestra Senora.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gonzalo de Berceo: Milagros de Nuestra Senora, ed. Juan Carlos Bayo and Ian Michael, Clasicos Castalia 288 (Madrid: Castalia, 2006). 516 pp. ISBN 84-9740-195-6. 13.37 [euro]. Only in the last century have scholars come to appreciate the works...

Neidhart-Lieder. Texte und Melodien samtlicher Handscriften und Drucke, Vol. I: Neidhart-Lieder der Pergament-Handschriften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 2: Neidhart-Lieder der Papier-Handschtiften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 3: Kommentare zur Uberlieferung und Edition der Texte und Melodien in Band 1 und 2, Erlauterungen zur Uberlieferung und Edition, Bibliographien, Diskographie, Verzeichnisse und Konkordanzen.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Neidhart-Lieder. Texte und Melodien samtlicher Handscriften und Drucke, Vol. I: Neidhart-Lieder der Pergament-Handschriften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 2: Neidhart-Lieder der Papier-Handschtiften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol....

German Romance, Vol. II: Gauriel von Muntabel.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... German Romance, Vol. II: Gauriel von Muntabel, ed. Siegfried Christoph, Arthurian Archives XV (Cambridge: Brewer, 2007), viii + 360. ISBN 978-1-84384-0777-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Gauriel von Muntabel by the otherwise unknown South-West...

Sieben weise Meister. Eine bairische und eine elsassische Fassung der 'Historia septem sapientum.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sieben weise Meister. Eine bairische und eine elsassische Fassung der 'Historia septem sapientum', ed. Dedef Roth, Texte des spaten Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit 44 (Bertin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008), xxxviii + 226 pp. ISBN...

The 'Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive, Vol. III: Oxford, Oriel College, MS79 (O).(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The 'Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive, Vol. III: Oxford, Oriel College, MS79 (O), ed. Katherine Heinrichs, Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts Series A6 (Published for The Medieval Academy of America and SEENET by Boydell &...

Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2007). 160 pp.; 118 illustrations. ISBN 978-o-7123-4946-8. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This beautiful volume explores for the general reader the...

Celia Fisher, The Medieval Flower Book.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Celia Fisher, The Medieval Flower Book (London: The British Library, 2007). 129 pp.; 140 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-7123-4945-1. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. Celia Fisher employs the rich collection of the British Library to explore the 'floral...

Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing, ed. Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008). vi + 242 pp. ISBN 978-87-635-05048. Kr 298.00. A collection of fifteen essays based on papers offered at a...

Autorbilder. Zur Medialitat literarischer Kommunikation in Mittelalter und Fruber Neuzeit.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Autorbilder. Zur Medialitat literarischer Kommunikation in Mittelalter und Fruber Neuzeit, ed. Gerald Kapfhammer, Wolf-Dietrich Lohr, and Barbara Nitsche with the assistance of Stephanie Altrock and Susanne Madger, Tholos: Kunsthistorische...

Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, 10 ed. Martha Driver (2007). 296 pp. ISBN 0-944473-84-9. $25.00. Order from Pace University Press, 41 Park Row, Rm. 1510, New York, NY 10038. The Journal of...

L'Inspiration: Le Souffle createur dans les arts, litteratures et mystiques du Moyen Age europeen et procheoriental.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... L'Inspiration: Le Souffle createur dans les arts, litteratures et mystiques du Moyen Age europeen et procheoriental, ed. Claire Kappler and Roger Grozelier, Collection KUBABA, serie Actes VIII (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006). 455 PP. ISBN...

Paroles de murs: peinture murale, litterature et histoire au Moyen Age. Sprechende Wande: Wandmalerei, Literatur und Geschichte im Mittelalter.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Paroles de murs: peinture murale, litterature et histoire au Moyen Age. Sprechende Wande: Wandmalerei, Literatur und Geschichte im Mittelalter, ed. Eckart Conrad Lutz and Dominique Rigaux in collaboration with Stefan Matter, Collection 'Les...

'Moult obscures paroles: Etudes sur la prophetie medievale.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... 'Moult obscures paroles: Etudes sur la prophetie medievale, ed. Richard Trachsler, with Julien Abed and David Expert, Cultures et Civilisations Medievales (Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007). 267 pp. ISBN 9762-84050-480-1....

Faire l'evenement au Moyen Age.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Faire l'evenement au Moyen Age, ed. Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi, Le Temps de l'histoire (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2007). 362 pp. ISBN 978-2-85399-672-3. 32.00 [euro]. The subject of the present...

Le Reve medieval: Etudes litteraires.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Le Reve medieval: Etudes litteraires, ed. Alain Corbellari and Jean-Yves Tilliette, Recherches et rencontres: Publications de la Faculte de Lettres de l'Universite de Geneve 25 (Geneva: Droz, 2007). 258 pp. ISBN 978-2-600-01166-2. 31.00 [euro]....

Richard Newhauser, Sim Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Richard Newhauser, Sim Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). xii + 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-86078-973-4. 60.00 [pounds sterling]/$114.95. This volume reproduces fifteen...

Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages 1200-1500.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages 1200-1500, ed. Istvan P. Bejczy and Cary J. Nederman, Disputatio 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). xii + 316 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-51696-7. 60.00. The focus of this collection of essays is the play of moral virtues...

Arthurian Literature.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Arthurian Literature, XXIV, ed. Keith Busby, Bart Besamusca, and Frank Brandsma (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007). xiv + 177 PP.; 27 plates. ISBN 978-1-84384-116-6. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. The twenty-fourth edition of Arthurian Literature...

Pratiques philologiques en Europe.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Pratiques philologiques en Europe, ed. Frederic Duval, Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes 21 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2006). 173 PP-ISBN 2-900791-85-5. 26.00 [euro]. This volume constitutes the proceedings of a study-day held in the...

Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Anna Grotans (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), viii + 174 pp. ISBN 0-268-03082-7. $27.00 (p/b). This new group of six...

Spices and Comfits: Collected Papers on Medieval Food.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Spices and Comfits: Collected Papers on Medieval Food, ed. Johanna Maria van Winter (Totnes: Prospect Books, 2007). 439 PP. ISBN 1-903018-45-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This substantial volume collects twenty-eight articles and essays in one of...

The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions, ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Clara Strijbosch, The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c.400-1700 AD: Peoples, Economies and Cultures 24 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006). 395 PP. ISBN...

Liudprand of Cremona: The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Liudprand of Cremona: The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona, trans, with an introduction and notes by Paolo Squatriti (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007). xi + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8132-1506-8. $29.95. Liutbrand,...

Jacques Dalarun, Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jacques Dalarun, Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages, trans. Bruce L. Venarde (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006), xxx + 188 pp. ISBN 978-0-8132-1439-9. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. Jacques...

Jan M. Ziolkowski, Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jan M. Ziolkowski, Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal, Medieval Texts in Translation Series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), lii + 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8132-1505-1. $29.95. Everyone knows the 'personal'...