Medium Aevum articles from September 1999

Medium Aevum archives from September 1999

WORD-PLAY AND POLITICAL SATIRE: SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF THE TEXT OF JEZEBEL.
September 22, 1999... The learning and scrutiny that Jan Ziolkowski's book-length edition, translation, and commentary has lavished on the 141-line Latin poem given the modern title Jezebel, after its main, and only named speaker, display a peculiarly enigmatic...

FOUR MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS WITH MATHEMATICAL GAMES.
September 22, 1999... In the course of our research for the Index of Middle English Prose, we have come across some interesting variants of two types of mathematical game, both representative of a genre of some antiquity and apparently wide distribution. Both types...

CHILDREN AND LITERATURE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
September 22, 1999... Children's literature, both fiction and non-fiction, is a thriving modern industry with its own investors, producers, and consumers. It has classic writers going back to the mid-nineteenth century, and can be traced beyond them to the chapbooks...

GAWAIN'S PRACTICE OF PIETY IN SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.
September 22, 1999... It has become a critical commonplace that an important element in the ingenious symmetry of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the pairing of the pentangle and the girdle, the two tokens or signs that the hero carries on his journey to the...

TWO FRAGMENTS FROM A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT OF WACE'S BRUT.
September 22, 1999... Since Arnold's 1938 edition of Wace's Roman de Brut (1155), when he consulted twenty-two manuscripts and knew of two more fragments, many more have come to light. The current count is nineteen more or less complete ones and fragments of twelve...

`PUR VOSTRE COR SU JO EM PAINE': THE AUGUSTINIAN SUBTEXT OF THOMAS'S TRISTAN.
September 22, 1999... The hopeless love of Tristan and Iseut -- is it glorious or tragically foolish? Critics have long disagreed over whether the narrator of Thomas's Tristan should be viewed as an apologist for the lovers, or as condemnatory of their folly. Some...

DESORDRE DE L'ABJECTION ET ORDRE DE LA COURTOISIE: LE CORPS ABJECT DANS PARIS ET VIENNE DE PIERRE DE LA CEPEDE.
September 22, 1999... L'intitule `roman idyllique'(1) medieval recouvre generalement plusieurs oeuvres romanesques qui eclosent entre le milieu du [XII.sup.e] et la fin du [XIII.sup.e] siecle. `Le premier en date... le prototype du genre' serait Floire et...

Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot: Scolar, 1997). xiii + 324 pp. ISBN 1-85928-079-X. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Unlike a...

Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Kenneth Levy, Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998). x + 271 pp. ISBN 0-691-01733-6. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Kenneth Levy has long been considered a leading authority in chant scholarship....

The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Mary Carruthers, The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 34 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). 399 pp.; 32 black-and-white figures. ISBN 052-1582-326....

Maria zwischen Kathedrale, Kloster und Welt: hagiographische und historiographische Annaherungen an eine hochmittelalterlirche Wunderpredigt.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Gabriela Signori, Maria zwischen Kathedrale, Kloster und Welt: hagiographische und historiographische Annaherungen an eine hochmittelalterlirhe Wunderpredigt (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1995). 336 pp. ISBN 3-7995-0411-7. DM 118.00. Hauptziel...

Les Voix du peuple--Verbum Dei: le bilinguisme latin--langue vulgaire au moyen age.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Yvonne Cazal, Les Voix du peuple-Verbum Dei: le bilinguisme latin-langue vulgaire au moyen age, Publications romanes et francaises CCXXIII (Geneva: Droz, 1998). 336 pp. ISBN 2-600-00274-X. F. Fr. 62.00. This is a valuable, though...

Columbanus: Studies on the Latin Writings.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Columbanus: Studies on the Latin Writings, ed. Michael Lapidge, Studies in Celtic History 17 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997), x + 315 pp. ISBN 0-85115-667-3; ISSN 0261-9865. 49.50 [pounds sterling]. This is an important and impressive...

Petri Blesensis carmina.(Review)
September 22, 1999... C. Wollin, Petri Blesensis carmina, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis 128 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998). 714 pp. ISBN 2-503-03281-8. B. Fr. 9076.00. This large volume provides us with the first critical edition of the complete...

`Beowulf' and Old Germanic Metre.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Geoffrey Russom, `Beowulf' and Old Germanic Metre, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, x998). xii + 235 pp. ISBN 0-521-59340-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Geoffrey Russom here applies his...

Heathen Gods in Old English Literature.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Richard North, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 22 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). xvi + 374 PP. ISBN 0-521-55183-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. In Heathen Gods in Old English...

Chivalry and Exploration 1298-1630.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jennifer R. Goodman, Chivalry and Exploration 1298-1630 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998). 234 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-85115-700-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. A fresh look at the role played by the chivalric romance in moulding the political...

Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Janette Dillon, Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-59334-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. From Mankind to Marlowe (and slightly beyond), Janette Dillon...

The `Cursor mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts.(Review)
September 22, 1999... John J. Thompson, The `Cursor mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts, Medium AEvum Monographs, NS XIX (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1998). xii + 193 pp. ISBN 0-905570-12-7. 11.00 [pounds sterling]. Cursor...

The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Medieval Romance.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Malcom Hebron, The Medieval Siege: Theme and Image in Medieval Romance, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), ix + 191 pp. ISBN 0-19-818620-7. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The siege of city or castle is so normalized a...

The Manuscripts of `Piers Plowman'.(Review)
September 22, 1999... C. David Benson and Lynne S. Blanchfield, The Manuscripts of `Piers Plowman' (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). x + 339 PP. ISBN 0-85991-501-8. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This handsome volume deals with both ordinatio (the scribal layout of...

A New Introduction to Chaucer.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Derek Brewer, A New Introduction to Chaucer, 2nd edn (London: Longman, 1998). xiv + 426 pp. ISBN 0-582-09348-1. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. Despite the extensive expansion and revisions, Derek Brewer's study retains the overall structure of...

Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rosemarie P. McGerr, Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). x + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1572-3. $49.95. With Chaucer's Open Books, Rosemarie McGerr politely but...

The Life and Text of Julian of Norwich: The Poetics of Enclosure.(Review)
September 22, 1999... M. Diane F. Krantz, The Life and Text of Julian of Norwich: The Poetics of Enclosure, Studies in the Humanities 32 (New York: Peter Lang, 1997). 150 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3662-3. 24.00 [pounds sterling]. There is an important book to be written...

Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus and Friar Laurent's Somme le roi, Edited from British Library MSS Harley 6571 and Additional 30944.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus and Friar Laurent's Somme le roi, Edited from British Library MSS Harley 6571 and Additional 30944, ed. F. N. M. Diekstra,...

The Imitation of Christ: The First English Translation of the `Imitatio Christi'.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Imitation of Christ: The First English Translation of the `Imitatio Christi', ed. B. J. H. Biggs, Early English Text Society, OS 309 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), lxxxix + 249 pp.; frontispiece and 3 plates. ISBN 0-19-722312-5....

La Estorie del Evangelie: A Parallel-Text Edition.(Review)
September 22, 1999... La Estorie del Evangelie: A Parallel-Text Edition, ed. Celia Millward, Middle English Texts 30 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1998). 286 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 3-8253-0750-6. DM 118.00 (p/b). These two very different texts, well edited, though according...

The Armburgh Papers: The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Chetham's Manuscript Mun.E.6.10 (E).(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Armburgh Papers: The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Chetham's Manuscript Mun.E.6.10 (E), ed. Christine Carpenter (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998). viii + 214 pp. ISBN 0-85115-624-X. 35.00 [pounds sterling]....

Names of Body Parts in English, 1400-1550.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Juhani Norri, Names of Body Parts in English, 1400-1550, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Humaniora 291 (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998). 471 pp. ISBN 951-41-0832-9 FIM 160.00. This usable and useful lexicon of Middle...

Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997; distributed by Cambridge University Press outside North America). x + 314...

Entre fiction et histoire: Troie et Rome au moyen age.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Entre fiction et histoire: Troie et Rome au moyen age, ed. Emmanuele Baumgartner and Laurence Harf-Lancner (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997). 250 pp. ISBN 2-87854-141-3. F. Fr. 130.00. Is globalization superseding the...

La Legende d'Alexandre le grand dans la litterature du 12e siecle: une reecriture permanente.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Martin Gosman, La Legende d'Alexandre le grand dans la litterature du 12e siecle: une reecriture permanente (Amsterdam: Rodopi, Faux Titre, 1997). 394 pp. ISBN 90-420-0213-1. Nl. G. 200.00. Is globalization superseding the translatio...

Les Romans d'Alexandre: aux frontieres de l'epique et du romanesque.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Les Romans d'Alexandre: aux frontieres de l'epique et du romanesque (Paris: Honore Champion, 1998). 576 pp. ISBN 2-85203-678-9. F. Fr. 480.00. Is globalization superseding the translatio studii? As is often...

Le Jeu de la Passion: le message chretien et le theatre francais (XIII-XVIe s.).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jean-Pierre Bordier, Le Jeu de la Passion: le message chretien et le theatre francais (XIIIe-XVIe s.), Bibliotheque du XVe siecle 58 (Paris: Champion, 1998). 864 pp. ISBN 2-85203-646-0. F. Fr. 750.00. During the last hundred years, critical...

Rhyme in Gace Brule's Lyric: Formal and Semantic Interplay.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Susan E. Becam, Rhyme in Gace Brule's Lyric: Formal and Semantic Interplay (Bern: Peter Lang, 1998). 230 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3700-X. 28.00 [pounds sterling]. In this suggestive study Susan E. Becam proposes `a qualitative and quantitative...

Aimeric de Belenoi; Le poesie.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Aimeric de Belenoi; Le poesie, edizione critica acura di Andrea Poli, prefazione di Maurizio Perugi (Florence: Positivamail Editore, 1997), xxxiv +430 pp. No ISBN given. L. 210,000. This edition is a welcome replacement for that of Maria...

Aucassin et Nicolete: The Poetry of Gender and Growing up in the French Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Roger Pensom, Aucassin et Nicolete: The Poetry of Gender and Growing up in the French Middle Ages (Bern: Peter Lang, 1998), 160 pp. ISBN 3-906761-41. 17.00. In a short, lively preface to this study Roger Pensom offers a nice defence of the...

Gautier de Coinci; Le Miracle de Theophile ou comment Theophile vint a la penitence.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Gautier de Coinci; Le Miracle de Theophile ou comment Theophile vint a la penitence, ed. and trans. Annette Gamier (Paris: Honore Champion, 1998). 240 pp. ISBN 2-85203-817-X. F. Fr. 120.00. This is a worthy addition to a valuable and...

La Poetique du merveilleux dans le Lancelot en prose.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jean-Rene Valette, La Poetique du merveilleux dans le Lancelot en prose (Paris: Honore Champion, 1998). 541 pp. ISBN 2-85203-819-6. F. Fr. 530.00. Jean-Rene Valette takes as his starting point the fact that the merveilleux as present in...

Le Breviari d'amor de Matfre Ermengaud.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Le Breviari d'amor de Matfre Ermengaud, ed. Peter T. Ricketts, with the collaboration of Cyril P. Hershon III (lines 8880T-16783), Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes 5 (London: AIEO, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1998). xiv +...

Christine de Pizan; Le Livre du corps de policie.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Christine de Pizan; Le Livre du corps de policie, ed. Angus J. Kennedy, Etudes christiniennes 1 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1998). xliv + 233 pp. ISBN 2-8203-750-5. F. Fr. 265.00. So much attention has recently been paid to Christine the...

The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan: Le Livre du debat de deux amans, Le Livre des trois jugemens, Le Livre du dit de Poissy.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Barbara K. Altmann, The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan: Le Livre du debat de deux amans, Le Livre des trois jugemens, Le Livre du dit de Poissy (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). 294 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-8130-1578-2....

The Hunting Book of Gaston Phebus: manuscript francais 616, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Hunting Book of Gaston Phebus: manuscrit francais 616, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, introd. Marcel Thomas and Francois Avril, commentary by Wilhelm Schlag, Manuscripts in Miniature 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1998). 276 colour facsimile...

Poesies de Francois Villon.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Poesies de Francois Villon, commentees par Emmanuele Baumgartner, Foliotheque 72 (Paris: Gallimard, 1998). 200 pp. ISBN 2-07-040-126-X. F. Fr. 50.00. This is a selective commentary on Villon's major poetry followed by a useful dossier of...

Spielregeln fur den Untergang: die Welt des `Nibelungenliedes'.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jan-Dirk Muller, Spielregeln fur den Untergang: die Welt des `Nibelungenliedes' (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998). 494 pp. ISBN 3-484-10773-1. DM 96.00. This book is an impressive vindication of the exercise of interpreting the...

Novellistik des Mittelalters: Marendichtung.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Novellistik des Mittelalters: Marendichtung, ed. Klaus Grubmuller, Bibliothek des Mittelalters 23/Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker 138 (Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1996). 1384 pp. ISBN 3-618-66230-0. DM 178.00. Klaus...

`Ich han da inne ungehortu ding gesehen': Die Jenseitsvisionen Mechthilds von Magdeburg in der Tradition der mittelalterlichen Literatur.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Katharina Bochsler, `Ich han da inne ungehortu; ding gesehen': Die Jenseitsvisionen Mechthilds yon Magdeburg in der Tradition der mittelalterlichen Literatur, Deutsche Literatur yon den Anfangen bis 1700 23 (Bern: Peter Lang, 1997). x + 193 pp....

Mittelhochdeutsche Minne- und Aventiureromane: Fiktion, Geschichte und literarische Tradition im spathofischen Roman: `Reinfried von Braunschweig', `Wilhelm von Osterreich', `Friedrich von Schwaben'.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Klaus Ridder, Mittelhochdeutsche Minne- und Aventiureromane: Fiktion, Geschichte und literarische Tradition im spathofischen Roman: `Reinfried von Braunschweig', `Wilhelm von Osterreich', `Friedrich von Schwaben', Quellen und Forschungen 12...

Diogenes der Kyniker. Exempel, Erzahlung Geschichte in Mittelalter und fruher Neuzeit. Mit einem Essay zur Figur des Diogenes zwischen Kynismus, Narrentum und postmoderner Kritik.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Niklas Largier, Diogenes der Kyniker. Exempel, Erzahlung Geschichte in Mittelalter und fruher Neuzeit. Mit einem Essay zur Figur des Diogenes zwischen Kynismus, Narrentum und postmoderner Kritik, Fruhe Neuzeit 36 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag,...

Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Xinru Liu, Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998). x + 235 pp.; 1 map. ISBN 0-19-564452-2. Rs. 205.00. Xinru Liu, at the beginning of this study,...

Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ben Nilson, Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998). x + 276 pp.; 16 plates, 10 tables, 17 graphs. ISBN 0-85115-540-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Of the nineteen cathedrals in medieval England, fourteen...

Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons.(Review)
September 22, 1999... John Howe, Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). xxiii + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3412-X. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. There is a fairly...

Esercizi di paleografia latina: trascrizioni, commenti e tavole.
September 22, 1999... Fernando de Lasala, SI, Esercizi di paleografia latina: trascrizioni, commenti e tavole (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, 1999). 226 pp.; CD-ROM. ISBN 88-7652-810-5. $29.00. This is a volume of thirty plates illustrating Latin...

Corpus catalogorum Belgii: The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries, I: Province of West Flanders.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Corpus catalogorum Belgii: The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries, I: Province of West Flanders, ed. Albert Derolez and Benjamin Victor, 2nd enlarged edn (Brussels: AWLSK, 1997). 213 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 90-6569-662-8. No price...

Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society, ed. Michael Goodich (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). viii + 265 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1654-7. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. This volume is an unusual and extremely...

The Case for Women in Medieval Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Alcuin Blamires, The Case for Women in Medieval Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). 279 pp. ISBN 0-19-818630-4. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback edition of the 1997 original reviewed in MAE, 68 (1999), 106-8. This essay...

Violence against Women in Medieval Texts.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Violence against Women in Medieval Texts, ed. Anna Roberts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). viii + 254 pp.; 12 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-8130-1566-9. $49.95. This essay collection takes as its starting point the...

Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages, ed. Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis, York Studies in Medieval Theology 2 (York: York Medieval Press, 1998). x + 219 pp. ISBN 0-9529734-1-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This interesting, learned, mildly...

New Medieval Literatures 2.(Review)
September 22, 1999... New Medieval Literatures 2, ed. Rita Copeland, David Lawton, and Wendy Scase (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). 282 pp.; 14 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-818476-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The articles are by Rita Copeland, an introduction entitled...

Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Guide to Recent Research.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Guide to Recent Research, ed. Norris J. Lacy (New York: Garland, 1996). xii + 474 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2160-0. $73.00. This useful book focuses on medieval vernacular literature in western Europe and excludes the few...

Arthurian Literature.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Arthurian Literature XVI, ed. James P. Carley and Felicity Riddy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998). 211 pp. ISBN 0-85991-531-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains articles by Christopher Young, `The character of the individual in...

Sharing Story: Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Paul Beekman Taylor, Sharing Story: Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships, AMS Studies in the Middle Ages 25 (New York: AMS Press, 1998). 281 pp. ISBN 0404-64165-2. $67.50. Sharing Story is a collection of Paul Taylor's articles in the...

Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Manfred Gorlach, Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends, Anglistische Forschungen 257 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1998). XT, pp. ISBN 3-8253-0713-1. DM 78.00 (p/b). `The present collection centers... round what can be described as a revised...

Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 1999... David Burnley, Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library (London: Longman, 1998). xiii + 241 pp. ISBN 0-582-29215-8, 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-582-29216-6, 14.99 [pounds...

The Yearbook of Langland Studies II.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Yearbook of Langland Studies II (1997), ed. John A. Alford and Andrew Galloway (Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 1998). 257 pp. ISBN 1-889818-13-5. $35.00. The volume contains essays by C. David Benson, `Piers Plowman and parish wall...

Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, ed. Steve Ellis, Longman Critical Readers (Harlow: Longman, 1998). xiv + 241 pp. ISBN 0-582-24881-7. 13.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The series to which this volume belongs is designed to provide guidance to...

Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the `Canterbury Tales' and `Troilus and Criseyde'.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the `Canterbury Tales' and `Troilus and Criseyde', ed. Peter G. Beidler, Chaucer Studies XXV (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998). xii + 252 pp. ISBN 0-85991-434-8. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In this...

Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy.(Review)
September 22, 1999... David Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), xix + 555 pp. ISBN 08047-3661-8. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback edition of the...

Chaucer Yearbook: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies 5.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Chaucer Yearbook: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies 5 (1998), ed. Michael N. Salda and Jean E. Jost (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999). 222 pp. ISBN 0-85991-537-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains articles by William A. Quinn on `the...

The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens, ed. James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998). ix + 198 pp. ISBN 08599-15271. 45.00 [pounds...

Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra J. McEntire, Garland Medieval Casebooks 21, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2034 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998). xxi + 341 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2529-0. $70.00. Includes: Sandra...

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Love and The Motherhood of God.(includes other reviews, Library of Medieval Women)(Review)
September 22, 1999... Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Love and The Motherhood of God, trans. Frances Beer, Library of Medieval Women (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998). viii + 93 pp. ISBN 085991-4534. 9.95 [pounds sterling]. The Memoirs of Helene Kottaner...

Malory: Texts and Sources.(Review)
September 22, 1999... P. J. C. Field, Malory: Texts and Sources, Arthurian Studies 40 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998). x + 313 pp. ISBN 0-85991-536-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. There is scarcely any area of Malory studies in which P. J. C. Field has not been active,...

Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West, ed. Guy Halsall (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998). ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-85115-713-0. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The essays in this collection examine the form and function of violent behaviour in...

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West.(translation by Cynthia Postan)(Review)
September 22, 1999... Georges Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, trans. Cynthia Postan with a foreword by Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). xix + 600 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1674-1. $24.95 (p/b). First published in...

Medieval Crime and Social Control.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Medieval Crime and Social Control, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, Medieval Cultures 16 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), xvi + 259 pp. ISBN 08-1663-1689, $49.95 (hard covers); ISBN 08-1663-1697, $19.95 (p/b). The...

The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, ed. Edward Peters, 2nd edn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). xiv + 317 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1656-3. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. Reissued to...

The Capture of Constantinople: The `Hystoria Constantinopolitana' of Gunther of Pairis.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Alfred J. Andrea, The Capture of Constantinople: The `Hystoria Constantinopolitana' of Gunther of Pairis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). xiv + 194 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3356-5. $16.50. For the first time, Alfred J. Andrea...

The Elefanthy: The Hungarian Nobleman and his Kindred.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Erik Fugedi, The Elefanthy: The Hungarian Nobleman and his Kindred, ed. Damir Karbi'c, foreword by Janos Bak (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998). ix + 174 pp. ISBN 936-9116-20-3. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. Erik Fugedi, as...

Medieval Housing.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jane Grenville, Medieval Housing (London: Leicester University Press, 1997), ix + 230 pp.; numerous figures. ISBN 0-7185-1478-5. 59.95 [pounds sterling]. This excellent book reviews the current state of knowledge of English housing from the...

'Aziz Nasafi.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Lloyd V. J. Ridgeon, 'Aziz Nasafi, Curzon Sufi Series (Richmond: Curzon, 1998). xiv + 234 pp. ISBN 0-7007-1013-0, 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7007-1014-0, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). `Sufism' is an umbrella term denoting a...

Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World (Richmond: Curzon, 1999), xiii + 188 pp. ISBN 0-7007-1060-4. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. In this exploration of the links between...