Medium Aevum articles from September 2001

Medium Aevum archives from September 2001

The text of Sir Perceval of Galles.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I The Middle English romance Sir Perceval of Galles (henceforth Perceval) was composed sometime in the fourteenth century, (1) and survives in a unique copy in the Thornton manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91), copied by the Yorkshire...

Experience and the judgement of poetry: a reconsideration of the Franklin's tale.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe. (Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, chapter 28) I In the interpretation of a...

Malory's own marginalia.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Northrop Frye has memorably characterized the modern view of literature as `a secular scripture'. (1) One of the consequences of the possession of a scripture is that the priests and Levites who are its custodians will take an interest in even...

`The ballad of St Stephen and Herod': biblical history and medieval popular religious culture.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... One immediate problem concerning medieval popular religious culture is how to define it. There has been extensive discussion of popular medieval religious culture; and to paraphrase Douglas Gray, most medievalists who are concerned with it are...

The `stanzas of the months': maxims from late medieval Wales.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... The late medieval Welsh text known as Englynion y Misoedd (`The stanzas of the months') comprises twelve stanzas, one for each month of the year, the name of each month forming the first two words of its stanza. The subject matter, like that of...

The empress Eudoxia and the troubadours.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... It is certain [wrote Jaume I of Aragon] that my grandfather, King Alfonso, discussed a marriage alliance with the Emperor of Constantinople, who should give him his daughter as a wife. And while treaties and agreements were being discussed...

Filling the blanks: a Middle Dutch Dionysius quotation and the origins of the Rothschild Canticles.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Rothschild Canticles, MS 404 in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, New Haven, which takes its name from an illustrious twentieth-century owner, is a collection of Latin prayers and prose texts dating from about 1300 and...

Die Handschriften der Universitatsbibliothek Munchen. Vol. V: Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften aus der Quartreihe. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Martin Reuter, Die Handschriften der Universitatsbibliothek Munchen. Vol. V: Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften aus der Quartreihe (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), xxxvi + 453 pp. ISBN 3-447-04096-3. DM 151.00. The medieval...

Medieval Welsh Manuscripts. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press; Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2000), xvi + 352 pp.; 36 plates. ISBN 0-7083-1602-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. During his long career in the Department of...

King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation, ed. Martin Biddle (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). xxxvi + 534 pp. ISBN 0-85115-626-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. This book is the product of twenty-five years of investigation...

Der Weltkaiser der Endzeit: Entstehung, Wandel und Wirkung einer tausendjahrigen Weissagung. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Hannes Mohring, Der Weltkaiser der Endzeit: Entstehung Wandel und Wirkung einer tausendjahrigen Weissagung, Mittelalter-Forschungen 3 (Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2000). 526 pp. ISBN 3-7995-4254-X. DM 68.00. This is a massive and encyclopaedic...

The Book of the Heart. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). xxii + 248 pp. ISBN 0-226-07585-0. $32.00/20.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-226-39117-5, 9.50 [pounds sterling] (p/b). Eric Jager's premiss is that,...

Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol. II: The Curse on Self Murder. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Alexander Murray, Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol. II: The Curse on Self-Murder (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), xxiv + 620 pp. ISBN 0-19-820731-X. 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00. Volume I of Alexander Murray's already monumental...

The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought.
September 22, 2001... M. S. Kempshall, The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), viii + 401 pp. ISBN 0-19-820716-6. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This is an important book that should be required reading not only for...

The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1162-1170.
September 22, 2001... The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1162-1170, ed. and trans. Anne J. Duggan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000). 2 vols. clxxxii + 1490 pp. (continuously numbered). ISBN 0-19-820982-8. 150.00 [pounds sterling]. These...

The Carmina burana: Four Essays.
September 22, 2001... The Carmina burana: Four Essays, ed. Martin H. Jones, King's College London Medieval Studies XVIII (London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, 2000), x + 109 pp. ISBN 0-9539838-0-3. 15.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume unites four...

The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine.
September 22, 2001... The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), xvii + 301 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3589-4. $55.00/33.50 [pounds sterling]. ...

The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature.
September 22, 2001... Dorothy Yamamoto, The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), xii + 257 pp. ISBN 0-19-818674-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Dorothy Yamamoto begins by relating her book to recent work in...

The Transmission of Old English Poetry.
September 22, 2001... Peter Orton, The Transmission of Old English Poetry, Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000). xviii + 223 pp. ISBN 2-503-51072-8. Eur. 50.00. Peter Orton examines Old English poems which...

Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues.
September 22, 2001... Christine Rauer, Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), x + 230 pp. ISBN 0-85991-592-1. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. While some may disagree with her definitions of key terms, Christine Rauer offers...

Fiktionale Nonnenwelten: Angelsachsische Frauenbriefe des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts.
September 22, 2001... Janina Cunnen, Fiktionale Nonnenwelten: Angelsachsische Frauenbriefe des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts, Anglistische Forschungen 287 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2000), xii + 364 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1069-8. DM 98.00. Janina Cunnen sets...

The Old English Poem `Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of `De die iudicii' and the Hatton 113 Homily `Be domes daege'.
September 22, 2001... The Old English Poem `Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of `De die iudicii' and the Hatton 113 Homily `Be domes daege', ed. Graham D. Caie, Anglo-Saxon Texts 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xvi + 161 pp. ISBN 0-85991-5700....

The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature.
September 22, 2001... John M. Hill, The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), x + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1769-6. $55.00. In this book, John M. Hill sets out to reassess the...

From Chaos to Enemy: Encounters with Monsters in Early Irish Texts. An Investigation Related to the Process of Christianization and the Concept of Evil.
September 22, 2001... Jacqueline Borsje, From Chaos to Enemy: Encounters with Monsters in Early Irish Texts. An Investigation Related to the Process of Christianization and the Concept of Evil, Instrumenta Patristica 29 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996). x + 430 pp. ISBN...

Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century.
September 22, 2001... Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, ed. Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 30 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). x + 213 pp. ISBN 0-521-62372-3. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is...

Concordances to the Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34) and the Wooing Group (MSS Nero A XIV and Titus D XVIII).
September 22, 2001... Lorna Stevenson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, with the assistance of Bob Douglas, Concordances to the Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34) and the Wooing Group (MSS Nero A XIV and Titus D XVIII) (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), xxii + 1192 pp. ISBN...

Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253.
September 22, 2001... Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253, ed. Susanna Fein (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000), xvi + 515 pp. ISBN 1-58044-060-6....

The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays.
September 22, 2001... The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, ed. Pamela M. King and Clifford Davidson, Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph Series 27 (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000). xii + 326 pp.; 7 illustrations over 5...

Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Alan J. Fletcher, Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland (Cork: University of Toronto Press Incorporated and Cork University Press, 2000). xv + 520 pp.; 20 illustrations. ISBN 1-85918-245-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. It...

An Introduction to the `Canterbury Tales': Reading Fiction, Context. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Helen Phillips, An Introduction to the `Canterbury Tales': Reading Fiction, Context (Basingstoke: Macmillan (Palgrave) Press; New York: St Martin's Press, 2000), vi + 254 pp. ISBN 0-333-63680-5 (Macmillan); 0-312-22739-6 (St Martin's Press)....

Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Lillian M. Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World (Basingstoke: Macmillan (Palgrave) Press, 2000). x + 294 pp. ISBN 0-333-80036-2. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. The title of Lillian M. Bisson's book suggests, misleadingly, that it will be...

Chaucer and War. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... John H. Pratt, Chaucer and War (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000), xvi + 259 pp. ISBN 0-7618-1588-0. $42.50. The title of Lillian M. Bisson's book suggests, misleadingly, that it will be addressing Chaucer's works as a whole....

Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and his Followers. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Edward Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and his Followers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000). ix + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1745-9. $55.00. According to the structure of the classical fable the story should...

Marie de France; Lais. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Marie de France; Lais, ed. (and trans.) Philippe Walter (Paris: Gallimard, 2000). 484 pp. ISBN 2-07-040543-5. F. Fr. 40.00. This edition, published in the Folio Classique series, is clearly aimed at the student or general reader. The...

Fathers and Daughters in Gower's `Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Fathers and Daughters in Gomer's `Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing, Publications of the John Gower Society V (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). viii + 241 pp. ISBN 0-85991-578-6. 50.00 [pounds...

`The Faerie Queene' and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Andrew King, `The Faerie Queene' and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), xiv + 246 pp. ISBN 0-19-818722-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. At the beginning of Andrew King's new book, `The Faerie...

Lexica latina medii aevi: nouveau recueil des lexiques latins-francais du moyen age. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Lexica latina medii aevi: nouveau recueil des lexiques latins-francais du moyen age, ed. Brian Merrilees and Jacques Monfrin, CCCM, series in-quarto, Vol. II (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998). 271 pp.; 3 plates. ISBN 2-503-50784-0. Eur. 125.00/B. Fr....

Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Ruth J. Dean with the collaboration of Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: M Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), xviii + 553 pp. ISBN...

The Tournament and Literature: Literary Representations of the Medieval Tournament in Old French Works, 1150-1226. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Mary Arlene Santina, The Tournament and Literature: Literary Representations of the Medieval Tournament in Old French Works, 1150-1226 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). vi + 197 pp. ISBN 0-8204-4280-1. $48.95. L'auteur constate que la plupart...

Le Martinet d'Orthez (textes medievaux inedits): violence, pactes et pouvoir judiciaire en Bearn a la fin du moyen age. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Jean-Pierre Barraque, Le Martinet d'Orthez (textes medievaux inedits): violence, pactes et pouvoir judiciaire en Bearn a la fin du moyen age (Biarritz: Atlantica, 1999). 309 pp. ISBN 2-84394-149-0. F. Fr. 20.00. The Martinet is the...

Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Rosalind Brown-Grant, Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xiv + 224 pp. ISBN 0-521-64194-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$64.95. This is a lucidly argued,...

L'Histoire d'Erec en prose: roman du XVe siecle. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... L'Histoire d'Erec en prose: roman du XVe siecle, ed. Maria Colombo Timelli, Textes litteraires francais 524 (Geneva: Droz, 2000). 349 pp. ISBN 2-600-00408. Sw. Fr. 55.20. Recent years have seen a significant and welcome quickening of...

Passion catalane-occitane. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Passion catalane-occitane, ed. and trans. Aileen Ann MacDonald, Textes litteraires francais 518 (Geneva: Droz, 1999). 368 pp. ISBN 2-600-00378-9. Sw. Fr. 40.00. This edition of one of the fourteenth-century mysteries written in Occitan was...

Alfonso de Palencia; Gesta Hispaniensia ex annalibus suorum dierum collecta. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Alfonso de Palencia; Gesta Hispaniensia ex annalibus suorum dierum collecta. Vol. I, books 1-V; vol. II, books VI-X, ed. Brian Tate and Jeremy Lawrance (Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1998, 1999). lxxvii + 1-223 pp, 2 plates, 3 figures;...

Geistliches in weltlicher und Weltliches in geistlicher Literatur des Mittelalters. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Geistliches in weltlicher und Weltliches in geistlicher Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Christoph Huber, Burghart Wachinger, and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2000), vi + 348 pp. ISBN 3-484-64015-4. DM 156.00. The theme of...

Die `Epistola presbyteri Johannis' lateinisch und deutsch: Uberlieferung, Textgeschichte, Rezeption und Ubertragungen im Mittelalter. Mit bisher unedierten Texten. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Bettina Wagner, Die `Epistola presbyteri Johannis' lateinisch und deutsch: Uberlieferung, Textgeschichte, Rezeption und Ubertragungen im Mittelalter. Mit bisher unedierten Texten, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des...

Die weltlichen Lieder des Monchs von Salzburg: Texte und Melodien. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Die weltlichen Lieder des Monchs von Salzburg: Texte und Melodien, ed. Christoph Marz (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999). 571 pp. ISBN 3-484-89114-9. DM 164.00/Eur. 82.00. For the last century research into the secular songs of the so-called Monk...

`Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Patricia E. Grieve, `Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-521-43162-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The focal text in Patricia Grieve's study of the story of...

The Origins of the European Legal Order. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Maurizio Lupoi, The Origins of the European Legal Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xiii + 64; pp. ISBN 0-521-62107-0. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. Cambridge University Press are to be congratulated on publishing a...

Vision and Image in Early Christian England. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... George Henderson, Vision and Image in Early Christian England (Cambridge University Press, 1999). xviii + 292 pp.; viii + 94 plates. ISBN 0-521-55130-7. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This important study deals with the period AD 600-800, the two...

Domesday: The Inquest and the Book. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). xix + 282 pp. ISBN 0-19-820847-2. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. Domesday Book is the most celebrated source in English medieval history not only because it...

History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Michelle R. Warren, History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), xiv + 302 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3491-2. 24.50 [pounds sterling]. There is obvious good sense in applying...

The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Orri Vesteinsson, The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), xvi + 318 pp. ISBN 0-19-8207999. 48.00 [pounds sterling]. Orri Vesteinsson's book, based on his London...

Le Precieux Sang de Fecamp: origine et developpement d'un mythe chretien. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Jean-Guy Gouttebroze, Le Precieux Sang de Fecamp: origine et developpement d'un mythe chretien (Paris: Editions Honore Champion, 2000), 111 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0282-5. F. Fr. 160.00. In c.990 Duke Richard I of Normandy refounded the abbey of...

Medieval Women and the Law. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Noel James Menuge, Medieval Women and the Law (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). xiii + 169 pp. ISBN 0-85115-775-0. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. A collection of essays by mostly young female scholars, looking at women's legal rights and...

The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Anita Obermeier, The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages, Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 32 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999). 314 pp. ISBN 90-420-0405-3. Hfl....

Eros au moyen age: amour, desir et delectation morose. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Charles Baladier, Eros au moyen age: amour, desir et delectation morose (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1999). 221 pp. ISBN 2-204-06106-9. F. Fr. 190.00. The scholastic term `delectation morose' (formed from moror/ari) is defined in the Dictionnaire...

Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe, ed. Sarah Rees Jones, Richard Marks and A. J. Minnis (York: York Medieval Press, 2000). xi + 226 pp.; 27 illustrations. ISBN 0-9529734-7-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains essays by Stuart...

Treasure in the Medieval West. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Treasure in the Medieval West, ed. Elizabeth M. Tyler (Woodbridge: Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2000). xi + 174 pp. ISBN 0-9529734-8-0. 45.00 [pounds...

Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition, ed. James P. Carley, Arthurian Studies 44 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001). xii + 646 pp.; 11 illustrations. ISBN 0-85991-572-7. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. This useful collection of reprints brings...

Medievalia et humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 27: Literacy and the Lay Reader. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Medievalia et humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 27: Literacy and the Lay Reader, ed. Paul Maurice Clogan (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). 158 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9449-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains...

Animals in the Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. Nona C. Flores (New York: Routledge, 2000), xvii + 203 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 0-415-92893-1. 13.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A reprint of the volume first published by Garland in 1996, containing essays...

The Mark of the Beast. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... The Mark of the Beast, ed. Debra Hassig (New York: Routledge, 2000), xxi + 219 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 0-415-92894-X. 13.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A reprint of the volume first published by Garland in 1999, this readable collection...

Images of Faith in English Literature 700-1500: An Introduction. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Dee Dyas, Images of Faith in English Literature 700-1500: An Introduction, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library (London: Longman, 1997), xii + 332 pp. ISBN 0-582-30192-0, 38.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-582-30191-2, 19-99 [pounds...

Studies in Bibliography. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Studies in Bibliography 52, 1999, ed. David L. Vandler Meulen (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2000). 252 pp. ISBN 0-8139-2010-8. $50.00. This issue contains four...

Dialoguing on Genres: Essays in Honour of Andrew K. Kennedy on his 70th Birthday. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Dialoguing on Genres: Essays in Honour of Andrew K. Kennedy on his 70th Birthday, ed. Ulf Lie and Anne Holden Ronning (Oslo: Novus Press, 2001. 269 pp. ISBN 88-7099-326-3. Eur. 35.40. The volume contains seventeen essays on generic issues in...

The Outlaws of Medieval Legend. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Maurice Keen, The Outlaws of Medieval Legend (London: Routledge, 2000), xxxi + 244 pp. ISBN 0-415-23900-1. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). The continuing popularity of this book -- first published in 1961, and now revised for the third time --...

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (New York: Routledge, 2001). xv + 401 pp. ISBN 0-8153-0100-6. 15.99 [pound sterling] (p/b). This paperback reprint of a 1994 volume contains three essays written for the collection...

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose, trans. Leslie A. Donovan, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), 142 pp. ISBN 0-85991-568-9. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This volume contains annotated translations into Modern...

Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Ljnne Grundy, ed. Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, King's College London Medieval Studies 17 (London: King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2000). xviii + 590...

The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches, ed. Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000), xv + 358 pp.; 31 figures. ISBN 1-58044024-X, $40.00 (hard covers);...

The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. Timothy Graham (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000), xvi + 422 pp.; 22 figures. ISBN 1-58044013-4,...

Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. Donald G. Scragg and Carole Weinberg, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 29 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xii + 242 pp. ISBN...

Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Louise Sylvester and Jane Roberts, Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 322 pp. ISBN 0-85991-606-5. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The title of this volume promises far more than is actually delivered....

Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England. (Shorter Notices).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England, ed. William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). xi + 260 pp. ISBN 0-85991-516-6. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume emphasizes both the distinctiveness of the...

The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle: The `Vernon' Text. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle: The `Vernon' Text, ed. Arne Zettersten and Bernhard Diensberg with an introduction by H. L. Spencer, Early English Text Society 310 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Society, 2000). xxx + 130 pp....

Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation, ed. Judith Weiss, Jennifer Fellows, and Morgan Dickson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xi + 196 pp.; 3 plates. ISBN 0-85991-597-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. These papers from the 1998...

The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... John Scattergood, The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), 253 pp. ISBN 1-85182-565-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Five of the essays in this collection are previously unpublished: `The...

The World of Chaucer. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Derek Brewer, The World of Chaucer (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), 224 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 0-85991-607-3. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This lavishly illustrated paperback edition of Derek Brewer's book on Chaucer's life and...

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 1995. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 1995, ed. Marilyn Sutton, The Chaucer Bibliographies (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2000), lii + 445 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4744-0. $95.00. The bibliography aims to be...

The Book of Margery Kempe. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... The Book of Margery Kempe, trans, and ed. Lynn Staley, Norton Critical Editions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), xxii + 301 pp.; map. ISBN 0-393-97639-4. 7.95 [pounds sterling] (p/ b). This is in fact a modern-spelling edition more than a...

Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England, ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000). xi + 270 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1642-5, 30.00 [pounds sterling] (hard...

Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Diane Watt, Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001). 198 pp. ISBN 0-85991-614-6. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A paperback edition of the widely applauded book first...

Congregation of the Elect: Patterns of Self-Fashioning in English Lollard Writings. (Shorter Notices).
September 22, 2001... Matti Peikola, Congregation of the Elect: Patterns of Self-Fashioning in English Lollard Writings, Anglicana Turkuensia 21 (Turku: University of Turku, 2000). x + 362 pp. ISBN 951-29-1720-3. Fi. M. 120.00. Matti Peikola's dissertation submitted...