Medium Aevum articles from September 1998

Medium Aevum archives from September 1998

JONAH AND GENRE IN RESIGNATION B.
September 22, 1998... IN MEMORY OF J. E. CROSS Resignation B is the title generally applied to the second half of a longer text -- Resignation -- found in the tenth-century Exeter Book. The poem is anonymous and undated, and, indeed, was not recognized as a...

NOTES ON OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS DIGBY 86, THE NAMES OF A HARE IN ENGLISH.
September 22, 1998... On fol. [168.sup.r-v] of Bodley, MS Digby 86, appears the only surviving version of a sixty-four-line poem in rhymed couplets entitled Les Nouns de vn leure en engleis. It is written in the main hand of the manuscript. Digby 86, which has been...

VISION IN A TRANCE: A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY VISION OF PURGATORY.
September 22, 1998... Vernacular visions of the Otherworld were popular reading matter in the fifteenth century throughout western Europe. In England the visions circulated in a variety of manuscripts and were among the first incunabula.(1) Yet the vast majority of...

BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS LATIN MISC. C.66, FOLS [21.sup.R]-[23.sup.V]: A VISION IN A TRAUNCE OF IOHAN NEUTON.
September 22, 1998... Editorial The vision contains many interlineations, alteration, and cancellations. Several were made during the main stage of writing. Others form part of the scribe's second phase of corrections, signalled by his use of a darker brown...

`A WOMAN'S REPLY TO HER LOVER' AND FOUR OTHER NEW COURTLY LOVE LYRICS IN CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE MS R.3.19.
September 22, 1998... In re-examining manuscripts for revision of The Index of Middle English Verse, I have been finding hidden works of Middle English verse where several apparently separate works have been listed under a single item number in The Index of Middle...

A SCRIBAL TRANSLATION OF PIERS PLOWMAN.
September 22, 1998... The linguistic interest of a scribal copy of a Middle English literary text often stands in inverse proportion to its literary and textual interest. From the point of view of the literary scholar, the medieval scribe who makes substantial...

THE `GESTE DE BURCH': A MANUSCRIPT.
September 22, 1998... The history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation by Bishop Ethelwold in 966 until the death of its last Norman abbot is well documented in a series of sources, the most celebrated, though in some ways least specific, of which is the...

THE MEANING OF DESTRAL AS `GO-BETWEEN' IN THE CATALAN FACET AND IN OLD OCCITAN.
September 22, 1998... The Catalan Facet is preserved in a unique manuscript of c. 1400.(1) Although its author and date of composition are unknown, it was probably written in the fourteenth century, by an Eastern Catalan speaker from somewhere near the Pyrenees. Its...

FLORUS AND DIOCLETIAN: A CRUX IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN'S LIVRE DU CORPS DE POLICIE.
September 22, 1998... The purpose of this note is to confirm a tentative hypothesis regarding one of Christine de Pizan's sources that I first put forward in a recent edition of the Livre du corps de policie(1) and developed more fully in an article published in...

Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, ed. F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996). xiv + 778 pp.; 4 figures. ISBN 0-8132-0841-6, 43.95 [pounds sterling] (hard covers);...

Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England, ed. Rosalynn Voaden (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996). xiii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85991-425-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Contains: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, `Hildegard...

Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Marina Smyth, Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland, Studies in Celtic History 15 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996). Viii + 341 PP. ISBN 0-85115-313-5. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This study is based on the small collection...

The `Gesta Guillelmi' of William of Poitiers.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The `Gesta Guillelmi' of William of Poitiers, ed. and trans. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). xlviii + 199 pp.ISBN 0-19-820553-8.40.00 [pounds sterling]. The importance of the...

Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach).(Review)
September 22, 1998... Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach), ed. and trans. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Irish Texts Society 56 (London: Irish Texts Society, 1993). 219 pp. ISBN 1-870-16656-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The...

Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Pauline E. Head, Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997). xi + 166 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3204-1. $19.95 (p/b). Despite their shared object of study, the...

The Composition of Old English Poetry.(Review)
September 22, 1998... H. Momma, The Composition of Old English Poetry, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 20 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). xiii + 205 pp. ISBN 0-521-55481-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Despite their shared object of study,...

`Beowulf' and the Medieval Proverb Tradition.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Susan E. Deskis, `Beowulf' and the Medieval Proverb Tradition, Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies 155 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval Studies, Arizona State University, 1996). 178 pp. ISBN 0-88698-195-0. $22.00. Susan E. Deskis...

Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Takami Matsuda, Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997), x + 278 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 0-85991-507-7. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Based on Takami Matsuda's York D.Phil. thesis, this careful,...

`Cleanness': Structure and Meaning.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jane K. Lecklider, `Cleanness': Structure and Meaning (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-85991-519-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This impressively researched book is the first thorough study of the theological background of...

Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Written Work: Langland, Labor, and. Authorship, ed. Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, i997), x + 347 PP.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-8122-3396-4. 42.75. [pounds sterling] The focus...

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems.(Review)
September 22, 1998... A. J. Minnis, with V. J. Scattergood and J.J. Smith, Oxford Guides to Chaucer. The Shorter Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). xiv + 578 pp. ISBN 0-19-811193-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. In the third and final volume of the Oxford Guides...

A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales.(Review)
September 22, 1998... M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales (Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press, 1995). x + 171 pp. ISBN 1-85928-056-0.39.50 [pounds sterling]. In the third and final volume of the...

A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales.(Review)
September 22, 1998... M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997). x + 270 pp. ISBN 1-85928-057-9. 52.50 [pounds sterling]. This is the second and last volume of Mr Seymour's attempt to describe...

Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum'.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum', ed. L. M. Eldredge (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1996). 350 pp. ISBN...

Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar, ed. Marged Haycock (Swansea: Barddas, 1994). xxvii + 385 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. This most useful and pleasurable book [`"Barddas" anthology of early religious poetry'] contains the texts of...

Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Wendy Pfeffer, Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1997), x + 155 pp.; 11 illustrations. ISBN 0-8130-1480-8. $49.95. This study aims to demonstrate that such material is important for...

Chretien de Troyes.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Philippe Walter, Chretien de Troyes, Que sais-je? 3241 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), 128 pp. ISBN 2-13-048388-7. No price given. This slim volume lives up to the tradition of the series in that it is concise and...

Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes, ed. Keith Busby, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones, and Lori Walters, Faux Titre 71 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1993). Vol. I: xiii + 503 pp.; 370 figures. Vol....

Marie de France: An Analytical Bibliography, Supplement No. 2.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Glyn S. Burgess, Marie de France: An Analytical Bibliography, Supplement No. 2, Research Bibliographies and Checklists 21.2 (London: Grant & Cutler, 1997). 168 pp. ISBN 0-7293-0393-4. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. The original volume of Glyn...

Le Somme abregiet de theologie: die altfranzosische Ubersetzung des `Compendium theologicae veritatis' Hugo Ripelins von Stra[Beta]burg.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Le Somme abregiet de theologie: die altfranzasische Ubersetzuag des `Compendium theologicae veritatis' Hugo Ripelins yon Stra[Beta]burg, ed. Christine Michler, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter 25 (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1996). xxii +...

Le Roman de Tristan en prose (version du manuscrit fr. 757 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris).(Review)
September 22, 1998... Le Roman de Tristan en prose (version du manuscrit fr. 757 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris), I, ed. Joel Blanchard and Michel Quereuil, Classiques francais du moyen age 123 (Paris: Champion, 1997). 544 PP. ISBN 2-85203-625-8. F. Fr....

Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle, ed. Noelle Laborderie, Classiques francais du moyen age 122 (Paris: Champion, 1997). 472 pp. ISBN 2-85203-627-4. F. Fr. 250.00. This lively epic, though the subject of much critical attention...

Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Douglas Kelly, Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996). x + 228 pp. ISBN 0299-14780-0, 34.00 [pounds sterling] (hardcovers); 0-299-14784-3, 16.00 [pounds sterling]...

Le Bestiaire et le lapidaire du Rosarius.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Le Bestiaire et le lapidaire du Rosarius (B.N. f.fr. 12483), ed. Sven Sandqvist, Etudes Romanes de Lund 55 (Lund: Lund University Press, 1996). 240 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 91-7966-384-2. S. Kr. 330.000. In 1994 Sven Sandqvist, revising and...

Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia, ed. Alan Deyermond, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 2 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1996). 132 pp. ISBN 0-904188-18-3. 8.50 [pounds...

The Lyrics of the `Historia Troyana polimetrica'.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Louise M. Haywood, The Lyrics of the `Historia Troyana polimetrica', Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 3 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1996). 83 PP. ISBN 0-904188-19-1. No price given....

Ritterliche Werte zwischen Tradition und Transformation: Zur veranderten Konzeption von Artusheld und Artushof in Strickers `Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal'.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Regina Pingel, Ritterliche Werte zwischen Tradition und Transformation: Zur veranderten Konzeption von Artusheld und Artushof in Strickers `Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal', Mikrokosmos 40 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1994). 403 pp. ISBN...

Rittertum zwischen Minne und Gral; Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot'.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Michele Remakel, Rittertum zwischen Minne und Gral; Untersuchungen zum mittelbochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot', Mikrokosmos 42 (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, and Vienna: Lang, 1995). 239 pp. ISBN 3-63 1482-54-X. No price given....

Johann II. von Simmern; Die Haymonskinder.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Johann II. von Simmern; Die Haymonskinder, ed. Werner Wunderlich, Fruhe Neuzeit 35 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1997). 585 pp. ISBN 3-484-36535-8. DM 238.00. The main theme of Die Haymonskinder is rebellion by vassals against a legitimate but...

Geistliche Prosa im Kloster Tegernsee: Untersuchungen zu Gebrauch und Uberlieferung deutschsprachiger Literatur im 15. Jahrhundert.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Christian Bauer, Geistliche Prosa im Kloster Tegernsee: Untersuchungen zu Gebrauch und Uberlieferung deutschsprachiger Literatur im 15. Jahrhundert, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 107 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1996). viii + 305 pp. ISBN...

Medieval Iberia: Essays on the History and Literature of Medieval Spain.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Medieval Iberia: Essays on the History and Literature of Medieval Spain, ed. Donald J. Kagay and Joseph T. Snow (New York: Peter Lang, 1997). xx + 268 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3651-8. $47-95. The modern trend in academic publishing is for the...

The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Charles F. Fraker, The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996). x + 235 pp. ISBN 0-4721-0669-4. $42.50. The modern trend in academic publishing is for the...

The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge: The Boydell Press, 1997), xiii + 216 pp; 26 plates. ISBN 0-85115-664-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume collects eleven `classic' studies of the Bayeux Tapestry written...

Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997). xviii + 333 pp.; 82 figures, 11 colour plates. ISBN 0-7509-1406-8. 30.00 [pounds...

Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Glyn Burgess, Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn (Cambridge: Brewer, 1996). x + 210 pp. ISBN 0-85991-438-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. In wartime people dream of tranquil pastorality, and the opposite seems also the...

Old Age in Late Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Joel T. Rosenthal, Old Age in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) xv + 260 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3355-7. No price given. This volume begins from the admirable desire to put some detailed...

The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture, ed. Peter Jones and Keith Sidwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvii + 399 pp.; 6 maps, numerous black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-521-38421-4, 45.00 [pounds sterling]...

Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity, with supplementary essays by W. F. Albright and P.-E. Dumont (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xi + 482 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5611-6. $19.95....

Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1998... George Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5610-8. $16.95. The continuing classic status of these books, first published in 1935 and 1948...

Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages, ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996). x + 183 pp.; 11 plates. ISBN 085991-488-7. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. The latest volume in this...

The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World, ed. Marie-Francoise Alamichel and Derek Brewer (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), 166 pp. ISBN 0-85991-508-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Deriving from a conference held in 1994 at...

Medieval Theology and the Natural Body.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Medieval Theology and the Natural Body, ed. Peter Billet and A. J. Minnis, York Studies in Medieval Theology 1 (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with the Boydell Press, 1997). x + 244 pp.; 3 plates. ISBN 0-9529734-0-5. 45.00...

Medieval Women in their Communities.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Medieval Women in their Communities, ed. Diane Watt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), xii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1361-2. 30.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7083-1369-8. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). All ten essays in this...

Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse, ed. Joseph Harris and Karl Reichl (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 436 pp. ISBN 0-85991-475-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays fully lives up to its...

Civic Ritual and Drama.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Civic Ritual and Drama, ed. Alexandra F. Johnston and Wim Husken, Ludus 2 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 201 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 90-420-0120-8. Hfl. 60.00/$37.50. The seven essays in this volume deal with different examples of...

Between Folk and Liturgy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Between Folk and Liturgy, ed. Alan J. Fletcher and Wim Husken, Ludus 3 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 183 pp. ISBN 90-420-0395-2. 18.50 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains an introduction by Alan Fletcher, and articles by...

The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe, ed. Alan E. Knight (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 216 pp.; 17 figures. ISBN 0-85991-422-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains papers deriving from a 1993 conference at...

The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium, ed. Flemming G. Andersen, Thomas Pettitt, and Reinholdt Schroder (Odense: Odense University Press, 1997). 148 pp. ISBN 87-7878-294-7. D. Kr. 150.00. This collection of the...

New Medieval Literatures I.(Review)
September 22, 1998... New Medieval Literatures I, ed. Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 278 pp. ISBN 0-19-818389-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This new annual publication announces its intention as being `to provide a...

Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives, ed. Hugo Keiper, Christoph Bode, and Richard J. Utz, Critical Studies 10 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 370 pp. ISBN 90-420-0288-3, 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers);...

The Court and Cultural Diversity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Court and Cultural Diversity, ed. Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 426 pp. ISBN 0-85991-517-4. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This selection of papers from the 1995 congress of the International Courtly...

Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Vol. 9, ed. Brian Levy and Paul Wackers (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins, 1996). 218 pp.; 21 plates. ISBN 90-272-4038-8 (Eur.)/1-55619-766-7 (US). Hfl....

The Arthurian Handbook.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Norris J. Lacey and Geoffrey Ashe, with Debra N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Handbook, second edition, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1920 (New York and London: Garland, 1997), xliii + 409 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2082-5, $60.00 (hard covers);...

Arthurian Literature XV.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Arthurian Literature XV, ed. James P. Carley and Felicity Riddy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 216 pp. ISBN 0-85991-518-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume includes articles by Sarah Kay on `Who was Chretien de Troyes?'; Nick Corbyn,...

Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, 4 (Durham: Department of Linguistics; Newcastle: Centre for Research in Linguistics, 1996). 317 pp. ISSN 1535-5064. No price given. The volume contains fourteen articles on phonology,...

The True Story of Max and Moritz: Ancient and Medieval Texts before W. Busch.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The True Story of Max and Moritz: Ancient and Medieval Texts before W. Busch, ed. Manfred Gorlach (Cologne: Universitatsdruckerei for the Wilhelm Busch Exhibition, 1997). 232 pp. DM 19.00. Ever since his discovery more than twenty years ago of...

Medieval Insular Literature between the Oral and the Written II: Continuity of Transmission.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Medieval Insular Literature between the Oral and the Written II: Continuity of Transmission, ed. Hildegard L. C. Tristram, ScriptOralia 97 (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1997). 258 pp. ISBN 3-8233-5407-8. No price given. The volume contains...

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity, ed. Allen J. Frantzen and John D. Niles (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1997). 242 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1532-4. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. Between an introduction and a...

A Beowulf Handbook.(Review)
September 22, 1998... A Beowulf Handbook, ed. Robert E. Bjork and John N. Niles (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997). 466 pp. ISBN 0-85989-543-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Eighteen chapters of this handbook, each written by a different Beowulf scholar, map...

Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately, ed. Jane Roberts, Janet Nelson, and Malcolm Godden (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). xxii + 275 pp. ISBN 0-85991-515-8. 49.50 [pounds sterling]. Contains a bibliography of Bately's writings to...

The Linguistic History of English: An Introduction.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Manfred Gorlach, The Linguistic History of English: An Introduction (London: Macmillan, 1997). xxii + 241 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 0-333-68457-5. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. Designed as an introductory textbook for students of linguistics and the...

Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book.(Review)
September 22, 1998... K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and David E. Thornton, Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1997). xi + 529 pp. ISBN 0-85115-429-8. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. The authors of this volume...

King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings.(Review)
September 22, 1998... John Carey, King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998). 304 pp. ISBN 1-85182-340-9. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. This anthology of translations, each with a short introduction and commentary, is divided into...

Investigations on Courtly Words and Others.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Fumiko Oka, Investigations on Courtly Words and Others (Tokyo: Kokubunsha, 1997). 304 pp. ISBN 4-7720-0448-3. [yen] 5,000. The courtly words investigated in this series of studies are drut and drudaria in Provencal; drut, druery, lemman, love,...

Back to the Manuscripts: Papers from the Symposium `The Integrated Approach to Manuscript Studies: A New Horizon' Held at the Eighth General Meeting of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Tokyo, December 1992.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Back to the Manuscripts: Papers from the Symposium `The Integrated Approach to Manuscript Studies: A New Horizon' Held at the Eighth General Meeting of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Tokyo, December 1992, ed. Shuji Sato,...

Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck, ed. Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 359 PP. ISBN 0-85991-477-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. After paying proper homage to the career of its honorand, the volume...

Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, ed. O. S. Pickering (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-85991-424-0. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. With a shared and avowed desire to eschew `theoretical, socio-historical and...

Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Norman Klassen, Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995). xi + 225 pp. ISBN 0-85991-464-X. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. In this book Norman Klassen uses a range of literary critical techniques to explore the language...

Chaucer Yearbook.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Chaucer Yearbook, 4, ed. Michael N. Salda and Jean E. Jost (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 217 pp. ISBN 0-85991-514-X. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains the following articles: `Chaucer's strategies of translation' (Paul Beekman...

Essays on English Literature and Language in Honour of Shun'ichi Noguchi.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Essays on English Literature and Language in Honour of Shun'ichi Noguchi, ed. Masahiko Kanno, Masahiko Agari, and Gregory K. Jember (Tokyo: Eihosha Ltd., 1997). xii + 142 pp. No ISBN or price given. Five of the ten essays in this Festschrift...

John Lydgate (1371-1449): A Bio-bibliography.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Derek Pearsall, John Lydgate 037-1449): A Bio-bibliography, English Literary Studies Monograph Series No. 71 (Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria, 1997). 96 pp. ISBN 0-920604-49-8. $9.50. Pearsall's volume, in format like the...

Selections from the Dafydd ap Gwilym Apocrypha.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Helen Fulton, Selections from the Dafydd ap Gwilym Apocrypha (Landysul: Gomer Press, 1996). xxxix + 267 pp. ISBN 1-85902-310-X. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. Not all the texts that appeared in Thomas Parry's major 1952 edition of Dafydd ap Gwilym's...

Dafydd ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Huw M. Edwards, Dafydd ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues, Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). xiii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-19-815901-3. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Huw Edwards has produced a book of a type...

The Color of Melancholy: The Use of Books in the Fourteenth.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, The Color of Melancholy The Use of Books in the Fourteenth Century, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, foreword by Roger Chartier (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xxi + 186 pp. ISBN...