Medium Aevum articles from September 2000

Medium Aevum archives from September 2000

The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich 1350-1540.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marilyn Oliva, The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich 1350-1540, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 12 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998). 271 pp. ISBN 0-85115-576-6....

Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), xiii + 266 pp.; 4 maps, 25 illustrations, 16 in colour. ISBN 0-300-07612-6. $30.00. Anti-Semitism was, without any...

God's Peace and King's Peace.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Bruce R. O'Brien, God's Peace and King's Peace (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). xv + 305 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3461-8. 41.00 [pounds sterling]. These two books share many themes. They mark a shift from studies which take...

The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, I: Legislation and its Limits.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, I: Legislation and its Limits (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). xviii + 574 pp. ISBN 0-631-13496-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. These two books share many themes. They...

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). xi + 338 pp. ISBN 0-19-820730-1. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. In this elegant, interpretative essay Richard Kaeuper takes another look at the...

Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts.(Review)
September 22, 2000... W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, rev. R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1999). 287 (partly columns) + xiii + 196 pp. ISBN 1-85124-056-X. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the...

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Lilian M. C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson, and Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, III: Belgium, 1250-1530, parts 1-2 (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press in...

SHORTER NOTICES.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2000... Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. Stephanie Quinn (Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000). xxiii + 451 pp. ISBN 0-86516-435-5, $80.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-86516-418-5, $40.00 (p/b). This substantial collection of...

The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mechtild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). xii + 471 pp. ISBN 0-521-58155-9. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The...

Jean Tinctor; Invectives contre la secte de vauderie.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jean Tinctor; Invectives contre la secte de vauderie, ed. Emile van Balberghe and Frederic Duval (Tournai: Archives du Chapitre Cathedral de Tournai and Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1999). 139 pp. No ISBN or price given. Les...

Cerveri de Girona and his Poetic Traditions.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Miriam Cabre, Cerveri de Girona and his Poetic Traditions (London: Tamesis, 1999). xviii + 206 pp. ISBN 1-85566-042-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Cerveri de Girona, whose poetic production falls between 1259 and 1285, is the most impressive...

Literatura cetrera de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento espanol.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jose Manuel Fradejas Rueda, Literatura cetrera de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento espanol, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 13 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1998). 91 pp. ISBN...

The Heterotextual Body of the `Mora Morilla'.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Louise O. Vasvari, The Heterotextual Body of the `Mora Morilla' (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1999). 115 pp. ISBN 0-904188-42-6. 9.00 [pounds sterling]. The Spanish ballad `Moraima' runs as...

Hybride Helden: Wigalois und Willehalm. Beitrage zum Heldenbild und zur Poetik des Romans im fruhen 13. Jahrhundert.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Stephan Fuchs, Hybride Helden: Wigalois und Willehalm. Beitrage zum Heldenbild und zur Poetik des Romans im fruhen 13. Jahrhundert, Frankfurter Beitrage zur Germanistik 31 (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1997). 425 pp. ISBN 3-8253-0482. DM 88.00. ...

Funf Palastina-Pilgerberichte aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Funf Palastina-Pilgerberichte aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, ed. and introd. Randall Herz, Dietrich Huschenbett, and Frank Szcesny with Nicky Zwijnenburg-Tonnies, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter 33 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998). 356 pp. ISBN...

Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of `Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Hamid Dabashi, Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of `Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani (Richmond: Curzon, 1999), xxi + 671 pp. ISBN 0-7007-1002-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. `Ayn al-Qudat was born in the western Persian town of Hamadan in...

Barlaam and Josaphat: A Transcription of MS Egerton 876 with Notes, Glossary, and Comprehensive Study of the Middle English and Japanese Versions.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Barlaam and Josaphat: A Transcription of MS Egerton 876 with Notes, Glossary, and Comprehensive Study of the Middle English and Japanese Versions, ed. Keiko Ikegami, AMS Studies in the Middle Ages 21 (New York: AMS Press, 1999; distributed in...

Martin le Franc; Le Champion des dames.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Martin le Franc; Le Champion des dames, ed. Robert Deschaux, Classiques francais du moyen age, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). Vol. I, xliii + 173 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0019-9. F. Fr. 95.00. Vol. II, 271 pp. ISBN...

L'Eneas: une traduction au risque de l'invention.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Philippe Logie, L'Eneas: une traduction au risque de l'invention (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). 512 pp. ISBN 1-7453-0030-X. F. Fr. 410.00. Much has already been written about the relationship between Virgil's Aeneid and its...

Lectures d'une oeuvre: le Conte du Graal de Chretien de Troyes: matiere, sen et conjointure.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Catherine Blons-Pierre, Lectures d'une oeuvre: le Conte du Graal de Chretien de Troyes: matiere, sen et conjointure (Paris: Editions du Temps, 1998). 190 pp. ISBN 2-84274-047-5. F. Fr. 90.00. This volume has been prepared principally with...

Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Kathryn Karczewska, Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle, Studies in the Humanities 37 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). xvi + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3852-9. $51.95. This book takes as its starting...

La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: deux poemes du XIIIe siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire.(Review)
September 22, 2000... La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: deux poemes du XIIIe siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire, ed. Nils Olaf Jonsson, Etudes romanes de Lund 56 (Lund: Lund University Press, 1997). 207 pp.; 2...

Wauchier de Denain; La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le benoit confessor.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Wauchier de Denain; La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le benoit confessor, ed. John Jay Thompson (Geneva: Droz, 1999). 272 pp. ISBN 2-600-00333-9. Sw. Fr. 43.00. Dr Thompson has produced an extremely useful edition of a little-known and...

Gautier de Coinci; La Vie de sainte Cristine: edition critique d'apres le manuscrit f. fr. 817 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Gautier de Coinci; La Vie de sainte Cristine: edition critique d'apres le manuscrit f. fr. 817 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France, ed. Olivier Collet, Textes litteraires francais 510 (Geneva: Droz, 1999). xxiv + 183 pp. ISBN 2-600-00342-8....

Jacques de Cessoles; Le Jeu des eschaz moralise: traduction de Jean Ferron (1347).(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jacques de Cessoles; Le Jeu des eschaz moralise: traduction de Jean Ferron (1347), ed. Alain Collet, Classiques francais du moyen age 134 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). 288 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0096-2. F. Fr. 120.00. `A noble home Bertran...

The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation, ed. Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). x + 236 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1579-6. 16.95 [pounds...

Plaire et edifier, les recits hagiographiques composes en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Francoise Laurent, Plaire et edifier, les recits hagiographiques composes en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles, Nouvelle Bibliothique du moyen age 45 (Paris: Champion, 1998). 630 pp. ISBN 2-85203-822-6. F. Fr. 480.00. Francoise...

Chaucer's Legendary Good Women.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Florence Percival, Chaucer's Legendary Good Women, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 38 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). xii + 338 pp. ISBN 0-521-41655-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Legend of Good Women still puzzles...

A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Richard Firth Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), xvi + 496 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-8122-3463-4. $62.50. Richard Firth Green's title even in its full form...

Political Allegory in Late Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ann W. Astell, Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (New York: Cornell University Press, 1999). xi + 218 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3560-9. 25.95 [pounds sterling]. Ann Astell proposes that vernacular texts in late medieval England were...

Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Christopher Abbott, Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85991-548-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The subtitle of Christopher Abbott's book,...

God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Rosalynn Voaden, God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (York: York Medieval Press, 1999). xi + 204 pp. ISBN 0-9529734-21. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In God's Words, Women's...

A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated by Dame Eleanor Hull.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated by Dame Eleanor Hull, ed. Alexandra Barratt, Early English Text Society, OS 307 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), xli + 326 pp. ISBN 0-19-722309-5. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. In her...

Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, ed. Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Chronicles 2 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999). x + 158 pp. ISBN 0-85115-725-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The two Middle English works edited here are...

Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793, ed. T. L. Burton, Early English Text Society, OS 311, 312 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 1999). xcv + 941 pp.; 4...

Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays.(Review)
September 22, 2000... David Mills, Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays, Studies in Early English Drama 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). xii + 281, pp. ISBN 0-8020-4096-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In his wide-ranging...

Wace; Roman de Brut, a History of the British: Text and Translation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Wace; Roman de Brut, a History of the British: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss, Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999), xxix + 385 pp. ISBN 0-85989-591-2. 16.99 [pounds sterling]....

The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Christopher Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). xiii + 435 pp. ISBN 0-521-59274-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/ $69.95. This is a...

ANGLO-NORMAN FABLIAUX AND CHAUCER'S MERCHANT'S TALE.
September 22, 2000... In 1996 I published the text of an Anglo-Norman version of Le Cuvier, a fabliau which also survives in a well-known exemplar in continental French.(1) The story as it appears in AN is brief, banal, and indifferently written. Its intrinsic...

FROM FRENCH `FABLIAU MANUSCRIPTS' AND MS HARLEY 2253 TO THE DECAMERON AND THE CANTERBURY TALES.
September 22, 2000... `Miscellany' and `anthology' Misuse of the label `miscellanies' has blocked scholars from looking carefully at what medieval readers saw when they picked up and read, or dipped into, many of the manuscripts so labelled.(1) The term...

HUMPHREY NEWTON AND BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS LAT. MISC. C.66.
September 22, 2000... So far as I know, there are only two extensive published discussions of Bodleian MS Lat. misc. c.66, one of them historical, In 1950, Rossell Hope Robbins, the most indefatigable searcher for fifteenth-century Chauceriana since Eleanor Prescott...

The Origin of the Romance Languages: Stages in the Development of Latin.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Giuliano Bonfante, The Origin of the Romance Languages: Stages in the Development of Latin, ed. Larissa Bonfante (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1999). xxxiv + 154 pp. ISBN 3-8253-0583-X. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. In 1947,...

Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Dyan Elliott, Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). xii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3460-X (hard covers), 47.50 [pounds sterling]; ISBN...

Salomon und Markolf: ein literarischer Komplex im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Sabine Griese, Salomon und Markolf: ein literarischer Komplex im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit, Hermaea: Germanistische Forschungen, NS 81 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999), x + 381 pp. ISBN 3-484-15081-5 (ISSN 0440-714). DM 104.00. This...

Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage.(Review)
September 22, 2000... C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 28 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xvii + 171 pp.; 99 plates. ISBN 0-521-66188-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. A reader who turns...

Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: `Beowulf' as Metaphor.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Alvin A. Lee, Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: `Beowulf' as Metaphor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). xi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4378-X. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Many themes in this book will be familiar to readers of Alvin A. Lee's...

The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mary Clayton, The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 26 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xi + 355 pp. ISBN 0-521-58168-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. To the average...

The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999), xvi + 506 pp. ISBN 0-0-85989-592-0,...

LE CHASTIEMENT DES CLERS: A DIT CONCERNING THE NATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, EDITED FROM PARIS, BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, MS. F. FR. 837.
September 22, 2000... Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS f. fr. 837 is in many ways a remarkable manuscript. Consisting of 362 folios written by a single scribe in the late thirteenth century,(1) its reputation as the most important extant collection of fabliaux,...

AN IDEAL MARRIAGE: ABRAHAM AND SARAH IN OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE.
September 22, 2000... The complex relationship between Abraham and Sarah, and the individuality of their characters, make them one of the most interesting couples of the Old Testament. Sarah is always Abraham's devoted wife, and at times the humble recipient of...