Medium Aevum articles from September 2003

Medium Aevum archives from September 2003

Fecamp and vernacular historiography.
September 22, 2003... Peter Damian-Grint's study of Anglo-Norman historiography, with its subtitle 'Inventing vernacular authority', (1) sets out to depict authorial consciousness and self-presentation in a series of pioneering chronicle texts. (2) At the end of his...

Reading the Bible Sawles Warde and Ancrene Wisse.
September 22, 2003... This essay is concerned with the ways in which two Early Middle English texts--Sawles Warde and Ancrene Wisse--deploy biblical citation and imagery, and with the traditions of biblical reading in which those deployments operate. The importance...

In folly ripe, in reason rotten: The Flower and the Leaf and the 'purgatory of cruel beauties'.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Readers of the Middle English The Flower and the Leaf have long been fascinated by the poem's fusion of courtly and moral-didactic elements. The poem's first great enthusiast, John Dryden, found himself 'particularly pleas'd' both with the...

Defamation as political contest during the reign of Richard II.
September 22, 2003... In 1379 and again in 1389 Richard II re-enacted the hundred-year-old scandalum magnatum statute, which Edward I had originally instituted in 1275 to prevent social discord by suppressing slanderous reports about the great men of the realm. (1)...

Dame Eleanor Hull: the translator at work.
September 22, 2003... The fifteenth-century translator Dame Eleanor Hull was until recently virtually unknown. In 1987 I gave a paper on her at the first University of Cardiff conference on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages; (1) in 1995 the...

Two notes on Beowulf (with glances at Vaf[THORN]ru[ETH]nismal, blickling homily 16, and Andreas, lines 839-846).(Notes)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... 'Beowulf line 1118b, 'Gu[eth]rinc astah' Editors and translators mostly take this verse to mean 'the warrior was laid on the pyre'; and as an analogue they cite Vaf[thorn]ru[eth]nismal, stanza 54, 'Hvat maelti O[eth]inn, a[eth]r a bal...

Three notes on swords in Beowulf.(Notes)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... 'Beowulf', line 1459, 'ecg waes iren, atertanum fah' On this description of the sword Hrunting Klaeber comments, 'ater is perhaps used figuratively with regard to the acid employed in the process of (false) damascening. Another possibility...

N.J. Higham, King Arthur: Myth-Making and History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (London: Routledge, 2002). xi + 303 pp. ISBN 0-415-21305-3. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. When new books on Arthur range from improbable biographies to banal fictions, N. J. Higham's scholarly and intelligent study of the early materials...

Loveday Lewes Gee, Women, Art and Patronage from Henry II to Edward III 1216-1377.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002), 232 pp. ISBN 0-85115-861-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. This study is at once too general and too detailed. The author's stated aim is to look at patronage (of all sorts) by women over a 150-year...

Kristine Haney, The St. Albans Psalter: an Anglo-Saxon Song of Faith.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society 60 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002). 704 pp. ISBN 0-8204-57205. $79.95. This book sets out primarily to provide a new interpretation of the unique series of historiated initials...

Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Robert Bartlett, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), lxxi + 230 pp. ISBN 0-19-820606-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Burton Abbey, founded in 1004, originally had no saint's cult of its own, but its monks found one...

Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis/The History of the Church of Abingdon.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Vol. II, ed. and trans. John Hudson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), cvii + 425 pp. ISBN 0-19-820742-5. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. In 1913, Frank Stenton began his Early History of the Abbey of Abingdon by saying that Abingdon's earliest...

Claire L. Sahlin, Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Studies in Medieval Mysticism 3 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001). xvi + 266 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 0-85115-821-8. $90.00/50.00 [pounds sterling]. One of the most powerful visionaries of late medieval Europe, Birgitta of Sweden is only now...

Piero Boitani, The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). xiv + 151 pp. ISBN 0-268-02950-4. $35.00 (hard covers); $18.00 (p/b). Piero Boitani borrows his titular phrase from Dryden's hardly flattering remark in the preface to the Fables...

John Buridan: Summulae de dialectica.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... an annotated translation, with a philosophical introduction by Gyula Klima, Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 200l), lxii + 1032 pp. ISBN 0-30008425-0. 80.00 [pounds sterling]. The precise nature...

Robert Stanton, The Culture of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002), x + 198 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 0-85991-643-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is an immensely impressive book, which tackles an important topic in a methodical, erudite, and very readable manner. Robert Stanton...

'Beowulf and the Critics' by J. R. R. Tolkien.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Michael Drout, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 248 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002). xix + 461 pp. ISBN 0-86698-293-0. 33.00 [pounds sterling]. Scholars agree that J. R. R. Tolkien's 1936...

Andy Orchard, A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003). xix + 396 pp. ISBN 0-85991-776-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. It is unlikely that we will ever learn how widely Beowulf was known in Anglo-Saxon England, or how many of the poet's contemporaries admired the...

M. Bradford Bedingfield, The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002). ix + 246 pp.; 8 plates. ISBN 0-85115-873-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Very few monographs have so far been devoted to Anglo-Saxon liturgy.; a subject which is central to our understanding of the ecclesiastical...

The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt: an Edition of the Old English Text with Modern English Parallel-Text Translation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Hugh Magennis, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002), xii + 260 pp. ISBN 0-85989-672-2. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. The popularity of the legend of St Mary of Egypt in the Middle Ages is attested by...

Kathleen Kamerick, Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave, Scholarly and Reference Division of St Martin's Press, 2002). xii + 292 pp.; 15 plates. ISBN 0-312-29312-7. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The psychological, cultural, and devotional power of religious...

Susan Crane, The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing and Identity during the Hundred Years War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). ix + 269 pp.; 11 figures, 4 plates. ISBN 0-19-811279-3, 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-8122-1806-X, 14.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This stimulating book is a response to the...

Robert R. Edwards, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). xv + 205 pp. ISBN 0333-97008-X. $45.00. Recently interest in Chaucer's relation to Italian literary models has shifted decisively toward Boccaccio. Reconceiving the relation in social, cultural, and...

Dolores L. Cullen, Chaucer's Pilgrims: the Allegory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press, 2000). 423 pp. ISBN 1-56474-554-9. $16.95. Dolores Cullen's central claim, stated in the opening sentence, is that she has been given the answer to a riddle that has remained unsolved (and largely...

Warren Ginsberg, Chaucer's Italian Tradition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002). xiv + 297 pp. ISBN 0-472-11234-1. $55.00. Scholarly work over the last twenty years by the impressive likes of Piero Boitani, Howard Schless, R. A. Shoaf, Karla Taylor, and David Wallace,...

Kantik Ghosh, The Wycliffe Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 45 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). xiv + 296 pp. ISBN 0-521-80720-4. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$64.95. Kantik Ghosh has written a learned and passionate book that takes the risk of...

Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). x + 210 pp. ISBN 0-271-02135-7. $40.00. In this first book-length study of Hoccleve's literary career in over thirty years, Knapp explores the Westminster bureaucracy as a key...

Catherine Batt, Malory's 'Morte Darthur': Remaking Arthurian Tradition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave, 2002). xxiii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-312-22998-4. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The first sentence of this subtle book hinges on a 'but'; the second begins with 'Yet'. That is a tribute to Malory's power of...

The Defective Version of Mandeville's 'Travels'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. M. C. Seymour, EETS 319 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). xxx + 234 pp. ISBN 0-19-722322-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the fifth appearance for Mandeville in the EETS list, following M. C. Seymour's earlier editions of the...

Clifford Davidson, History, Religion, and Violence: Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). xi + 304 pp.; 17 plates. ISBN 0-86078-882-2. 52.50 [pounds sterling]. Clifford Davidson's recent work History, Religion, and Violence is essentially a collection of loosely...

E. Jane Burns, Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Penn Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). 326 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3671-8. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$49.95. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns builds on her previous study of feminine...

'Intavulare', Tavole di canzonieri romanzi (series, co-ord. Anna Ferrari), Vol. I: Canzonieri provenzali 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... 2. Bibliotheque nationale de France I (fr. 854), K (ft. 12473), ed. Walter Meliga (Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2001). xvi + 329 pp.; 49 plates. ISBN 88-7000-348-5. 37.00 [euro]. The first two volumes in this series (reviewed in MAE, 69 (2000),...

Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 246 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1834-5. $15.50. Medieval scholars working in gender studies have put forward powerful arguments over the past few years as to why the study...

Peggy McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender and Medieval Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), xii + 178 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3713-7. $38.95/ 27.50. [pounds sterling] 'Blood', Peggy McCracken observes, 'seems to be everywhere in medieval culture', be it the...

Marie-Noelle Toury, Mort et fin' amor dans la poesie d'oc et d'oil aux [XII.sup.e] et [XIII.sup.e] siecles.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Paris: Honore Champion, 2001). 346 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0421-6. 61.00 [euro]. In part I of this book, Marie-Noelle Toury outlines references to death in an impressive range of troubadour, then trouvere love lyrics. Part II has four chapters:...

Keith Busby, Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Faux Titre 221-2 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), 2 vols. xi + 941 pp. ISBN 90-420-1379-6. 90.00 [euro] and 85.00 [euro]. This very important work has a range of functions. Most urgently, it makes a plea for the proper consideration, in medieval...

Joel Blanchard and Jean-Claude Muhlethaler, Ecriture et pouvoir a l'aube des temps modernes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Perspectives litteraires (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002). 230 pp. ISBN 2-13-052398-6. 19.50 [euro]. This perceptive study of the interaction between lay author and prince in late-medieval and early modern France will be...

Anne Marie de Gendt, L'Art d'eduquer les nobles damoiselles: 'Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Paris: Honore Champion, 2003). 290 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0668-5. 50.00 [euro]. Anne Marie de Gendt has written a welcome critical study of one of the most important medieval French conduct books, the Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry pour...

George Chastelain, Jean Robertet, Jean de Montferrant: Les Douze Dames de Rhetorique.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. David Cowling (Geneva: Droz, 2002). ISBN 2-600-0068-0. 55. Sw. Fr. David Cowling's new edition of the Douze Dames presents the epistolary exchange of 1463 between George Chastelain, historiographer of Philippe le Bon of Burgundy, Jean...

Jean Lemaire de Belges: Epistre du roy a Hector et autres pieces de circonstances (1511-1513); Jean d'Auton: Epistre d'Hector au roy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Adrian Armstrong and Jennifer Britnell (Paris: Societe des Textes Francais Modernes, 2000), lxxxvi + 144 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 2-86503-260-4. 19.05 [euro]. This welcome edition of minor works by Jean Lemaire de Beiges and Jean...

Francois Deserps: the Various Styles of Clothing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... trans. and ed. Sara Shannon, introd. Carol Urness (Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota/University of Minnesota Press, 2001), xv + 185 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4013-0. 21.50 [pounds sterling] Francois Deserps produced his...

Mario Scotti, Il Dante di Ozanam e altri saggi.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Saggi di 'Lettere Italiane' 57 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002). iv + 154 pp. ISBN 88-222-5074-5. 13.00 [euro]. The four essays making up this elegantly written and, as is the way with Olschki, elegantly presented volume reflect faithfully...

Giovanni Boccaccio: Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia (Teseida delle nozze de Emilia).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... trans. Vincenzo Traversa, Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures 116 (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). 608 pp. ISBN 0-8204-61067. Sw. Fr. 129.00. This solid, literal translation of Boccaccio's Teseida fills a gap in the...

Italian Literature I: Tristano Panciatichiano.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. and trans. Gloria Allaire, Arthurian Archives 8 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). 758 pp. ISBN 0-85991-645-6. 55.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. The place of Italy in the diffusion of Arthurian literature has often been overlooked and much...

Text and Manuscript in Medieval Spain: Papers from the King's College Colloquium.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. David Hook, King's College London Hispanic Series 5 (London: KCL Department of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2000), viii + 208 pp. ISBN 0-952-75526-2. 155.00 [pounds sterling]. The annual colloquia organized at King's College...

David A. Flory, Marian Representations in the Miracle Tales of Thirteenth-Century Spain and France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000). 176 pp. ISBN 0-813-20956-0. 41.50 [pounds sterling]. Flory discusses a selection of Marian miracles taken from five authors: from Spain, Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra...

Castigos del rey don Sancho IV.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Hugo Oscar Bizzarri, Medievalia Hispanica 6 (Frankfurt a.M.: Vervuert; Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001). 388 pp. ISBN 84-8489-024-4. 44.00 [euro]. The Castigos del rey don Sancho IV, formerly known erroneously as the Castigos e...

Literatur und Wandmalerei I. Erscheinungsformen hofischer Kultur und ihre Trager im Mittelalter. Freiburger Colloquium 1988.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Eckart Conrad Lutz, Johanna Thali, and Rene Wetzel (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2002), x + 626 pp. ISBN 3-484-10835-5. 82.00 [euro]. This book represents the proceedings of a colloquium held in 1998, followed by a second held in 2001. It...

Anja Russ, Kindheit und Adoleszenz in den deutschen Parzival- und Lancelot-Romanen: Hohes und spates Mittelalter.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Stuttgart: Hirzel, 2000). 405 pp. ISBN 3-7776-1070-4. 73.60 [euro]. This book is a slightly revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Uwe Ruberg in Mainz, on representations of children and youth in five...

Christopher Young, Narrativische Perspektive in Wolframs 'Willehalm'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte 104 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2000), vii + 203 pp. ISBN 3-484-3 2104-0. 38.00 [euro]. In this volume, Christopher Young publishes parts of his dissertation on narrative perspective in Wolfram....

Margreth Egidi, Hofische Liebe: Entwurfe der Sangspruchdichtung. Literarische Verfahrensweisen von Reinmar von Zweter bis Frauenlob.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift Suppl. 17 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2002). 415 pp. ISBN 3-8253-271-2. 50.00 [euro]. In devoting a monograph to the treatment of courtly love within the genre of 'Sangspruchdichtung', the...

Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch, Spatformen mittelalterlicher Buchherstellung. Bilderhandschriften aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers in Hagenau.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2001). a vols. xii + 294 pp.; xii + 155 pp.; 190 black-and-white plates, 32 colour plates. ISBN 3-89500-215-1. 298.00 [euro]. This study provides much more than promised by its title, which defines it as a...

Saga heilagrar Onnu.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Kirsten Wolf, Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a Islandi (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2001). cliii + 166 pp. ISBN 9979-819-78-2. 29.95 [pounds sterling]. Kirsten Wolf has done Iceland's literature an enormous service with this...

Paolo Delogu, An Introduction to Medieval History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... trans. Matthew Moran (London: Duckworth, 2002). 251 pp. ISBN 0-7156-3079-2. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. In university-textbook-speak, to call a book 'An introduction to...' is to make a series of ambitious promises. In Paolo Delogu's...

Alan Harding, Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Oxford: Oxford University, Press, 2002), x + 392 pp. ISBN 0-19-82158-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In this substantial book, Alan Harding traces the prehistory of the idea of the state by examining the use of the words status, etat, and...

N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol. V: Indexes and Addenda.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. I. C. Cunningham and A. G. Watson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). xiv + 501 pp. ISBN 0-19-818277-5. 150.00 [pounds sterling]. The late Neil Ker's Medieval Manuscripts is a classic and scarcely needs introduction. But this compendious...

Gordon Leff, Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the Medieval West.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 745 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), x + 322 pp. ISBN 0-86078-888-1. 57.50 [pounds sterling]. Nineteen essays by Gordon Leff are collected here, including four published for the first time. They divide into four...

Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Liz Herbert McEvoy and Teresa Walters (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002), xii + 257 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 0-7083-1743-X, 30.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); 0-7083-1742-1, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This collection of eighteen...

George D. Economou, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... (Notre Dame, Ind.: University, of Notre Dame Press, 2002). xxiv + 214 pp. ISBN 0-268-02954-7. $35.00. A new edition of this critical study, originally published in 1972. The edition contains a brief new introduction and a supplementary...

New Directions in Arthurian Studies.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Alan Lupack, Arthurian Studies 51 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002). x + 172 pp.; 4 illustrations. ISBN 0-85991-642-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$70.00. This volume of Arthurian Studies aims to bring the...

Wim Husken, Konrad Schoell, and Leif Sondergaard, Farce and Farcical Elements.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 6 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002). 224 pp. ISBN 90-420-1559-4. 55.00 [euro]/$51.50. A collection of twelve essays on the genre and origins of farce in medieval European drama. Husken and Schoell...

Women and Religion in Medieval England.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Diana Wood (Oxford: Oxbow; Oakville, Conn.: David Brown, 2003). xiv + 185 pp. ISBN 1-84217-098-8. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume finds its origins in a conference on 'English women and religion, c. 500-1500', held in Oxford in 2001....

Jennifer Ward, Women in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Longman History of European Women (London: Pearson-Longman, 2002), viii + 322 pp. ISBN 0-582-28827-4. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. This volume in the Longman History of European Women adds another valuable work to the rapidly increasing number of...

Fifteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 28.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick (Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2003). 272 pp. ISBN 1-57113-273-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/ $75.00. This volume contains the usual, interesting, mixture of articles. We start with Edelgard...

The Medieval Chronicle II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Erik Kooper (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), vi + 280 pp. ISBN 90-420-854-2. 255.00 [euro]. This volume comprises twenty-one essays, five in German and four in French, from the i999 conference at Driebergen and Utrecht. They cover a wide range,...

Proceedings of the British Academy 115: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows I.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002), vii + 463 pp. ISBN 0-19-726278-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy have hitherto been published with lectures, and are now published...

Proceedings of the British Academy 117: 2001 Lectures.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Oxford: Oxford University, Press for the British Academy, 2002). xii + 543 pp. ISBN 0-19-726279-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume contains lectures given at the British Academy in 2001, by Jessica Rawson (on Chinese Mountain Painting),...

Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... trans. with introd. and notes by Danuta Shanzer and Ian Wood (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002), xxi + 450 pp. ISBN 0-85323-588-0. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. This copious selection from the letters of Avitus, who was Bishop of Vienne...

Gervase of Tilbury: Otia imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. and trans. S. E. Banks and J. W. Binns (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). xcv + 1013 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 0-19-830288-1. 120.00 [pounds sterling]. As Gervase of Tilbury tells us in his prologue, Recreation for an Emperor was written to take...

Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). x + 212 pp. ISBN 0-19-823847-9). 30.00 [pounds sterling]. Sir Anthony Kenny's distinguished career as a historian of philosophy is well known. In this book he revisits some of the ground he first covered as a...

Michiko Ogura, Verbs of Motion in Medieval English.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), x + 164 pp. ISBN 0-85991-768-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. A comprehensive and detailed study of verbs of motion, using a corpus of Old and Middle English texts. The study...

Aune Osterman, 'Where your treasure is, there is your heart': a Corpus-Based Study of THERE Compounds and THERE/WHERE Subordinators in the History of English.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Memoires de la Societe Neophilologique de Helsinki 59 (Helsinki: Societe Neophilologique, 2001). 288 pp. ISBN 952-10-1169-0. 35.30 [euro]. A detailed and scholarly exploration of language change from the Old English period to the later Middle...

A.J. Aitken, The Older Scots Vowels: a History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Caroline Macafee, Scottish Text Society Fifth Series 1 (Guildford: Biddies, 2002), xxxii + 226 pp. ISBN 1-897976-186. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. This book is a memorial to A.J. Aitken, who died in i998, and stems in large part from his forty...

David Parry, 'Englisc': Old English for Beginners.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Harleston: Edgeways Books/Brynmill Press, 2003). viii + 162 pp. ISBN 0-907839-75-8. 6.00 [pounds sterling]/$9.60. This slim volume aims to offer a reading knowledge of Old English to students who may have little grammatical knowledge. Based on...

Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Elaine Treharne, The English Association, Essays and Studies 2002/55 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), vi + 142 pp. ISBN 0-85991-760-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00. This elegant volume of essays forms a...

Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J.E. Cross.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Thomas N. Hall, Medieval European Studies 1 (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2002). xviii + 450 pp. ISBN 0-937058-58-0. $45.00. A collection of eighteen essays that finds its origins in a 'Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon...

The Poems of MS Junius II: Basic Readings.(Shorter Notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. R. M. Liuzza, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 8 (New York: Routledge, 2002), xxi + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8153-3862-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England series aims to collect previously published or freshly...

Judith Weiss, Wace's 'Roman de Brut': a History of the British.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... rev. edn (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002), xxix + 385 pp. ISBN 0-85989-734-6. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. A new, revised edition of Judith Weiss's edition and translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, first published in i999 and invaluable...

The Abridged English Metrical Brut: Edited from London, British Library, MS Royal 12 c.XII.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Una O'Farrell-Tate, Middle English Texts 32 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2002). 144 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1290-9. $39.00/Sw. Ft. 68.00. A new edition of this short verse history, a version of which was edited in 1935 as An Anonymous...

The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Phillipa Hardman (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2003), xii + 165 pp. ISBN 0-85991-761-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. A collection of essays that finds its origins in the Seventh Biennial Conference on...

Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... 4th edn (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002), vi + 373 pp. ISBN 0-85989-726-5. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. A fourth, revised edition. The editors have made revisions of and corrections to the text, textual notes, explanatory notes, and...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess': a Hypertext Edition.(Shorter Notices)(E-book Review)
September 22, 2003... gen. ed. Murray McGillivray (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press; Calgary: University of Calgary. Press, 1998). Windows or MacOS. 324 MB. ISBN 1-55238--002-5. $25.00, Single-User; for Multiple-User copies contact University of...

Conrad Lindberg, King Henry's Bible MS Bodley 277, the Revised Version of the Wycliffe Bible, III: Proverbs-II Maccabees.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Stockholm Studies in English 98 (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell; Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2002). 550 pp. ISBN 91-22-01950-2. SEK 439.00. This forms the third volume of an edition of MS Bodley 277, once owned by Henry VI, a revised...

A Rime Index to the Poetry of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Some Elizabethan Poets.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. Masayoshi Matsuura and Takako Matsuura (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2002). x + 971 pp. ISBN 4-269-72066-2. [yen] 3,098. This book partly stands as a memorial to Professor Masayoshi Matsuura, who died on 14 September 1999, before the work was complete....