Medium Aevum articles from September 2004

Medium Aevum archives from September 2004

The erosion of oath-based relationships: a cultural context for Athelston.
September 22, 2004... Scholars seeking to relate the Middle English Athelston to its historical contexts have worked primarily to identify historical prototypes for the tale's major characters, especially its rash, violent, and easily led king. Unfortunately, such a...

'Intolerable love': Tristrams saga and the Carlisle Tristan fragment.
September 22, 2004... Her skrifaz sagan af Tristram ok Isond drottningu, i hverri talat ver[??]r um obaeriliga ast, er [??]au hof[??]u sin a milli. Var [??]a li[??]it fra hingatbur[??]i Christi 1226 ar, er [??]essi saga var a norraenu skrifu[??] eptir befalningu ok...

Rereading Gawain's five wits.
September 22, 2004... The significance of the pentangle emblazoned on Gawain's shield has often been a matter of dispute. Some readers, A. D. Horgan suggests, 'are inclined to regard it as a learned irrelevancy or as bearing, at best, only remotely on the central...

The ghost(s) of the author(s) past, present, and future: a literary-reflexive perspective on authorship in the poems of Jean de Meun and Martin le Franc.
September 22, 2004... In a recent article addressing the semiotic analysis of theatrical performance, Marvin Carlson advances a dynamic notion of 'performance intertextuality' by which an audience's appreciation of an actor's 'stage figure' is influenced by their...

The occasion, author, and readers of Knyghthode and Bataile.
September 22, 2004... In England early in 1460, a poet who supported the imperilled government of Henry VI wrote a brilliant verse translation of Vegetius' Epitoma rei militaris, a fourth-century military treatise. Yet unlike previous, more circumspect translations...

Self-determination in the post-vulgate Suite du Merlin and Malory's Le Morte, Darthur.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Eugene Vinaver's three-volume edition of the Winchester manuscript version of Malory's Le Morte Darthur includes much valuable comparison of Malory's text with its sources. (1) The subject has been taken further, for example in the series of...

Knights of Venus.
September 22, 2004... In one of those diatribes against courts, courtiers, and courtliness that were something of a stock-in-trade of medieval chroniclers, the St Albans monk Thomas of Walsingham commented memorably of the members of Richard II's circle that 'more...

'Manly cowardyse': Thomas Hoccleve's peace strategy.
September 22, 2004... Critics have often noted the unsure boundaries of political discourse in Hoccleve's work. Charles Blyth says of The Regiment of Princes: 'the Prologue is just as didactic as the Regiment proper, and the latter just as subjective', so that 'the...

Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003). ix + 209 pp. ISBN 0-85991-776-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The book is based on Brian Murdoch's Speaker's Lectures,...

Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003). xi + 171 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1798-7, 35.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7083-1797-9, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b)....

Jeffery J. Cohen, Medieval Identity Machines.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jeffery J. Cohen, Medieval Identity Machines, Medieval Cultures 35 (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2003). xxix + 336 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4003-3. $22.95. In this provocative and illuminating study, Jeffery Jerome Cohen brings to bear...

Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 101 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). xix + 400 pp. ISBN 0-521-57317-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. Alliteration and Sound Change in...

Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xii + 462 pp. ISBN 0-19-925 123-1. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Hugh Thomas's meticulously researched...

Tim William Machan, English in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Tim William Machan, English in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). x + 205 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-19-926268-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Although its title hints at comprehensiveness, Tim William Machan's new book in fact...

Christiania Whitehead, Castles of the Mind: a Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Christiania Whitehead, Castles of the Mind: A Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003). xi + 324 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1794-4. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Anne B. Thompson, Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Anne B. Thompson, Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003). xii + 224 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-7546-3293-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. As Anne Thompson's appendix reminds us, the original...

Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002). ix + 238 pp. ISBN 0-80143924-8. 30.50 [pounds sterling]. As the study of medieval women has become mainstream...

Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: the Human Figure in Early English Writing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character. The Human Figure in Early English Writing (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003). xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4116-1. $45.00/27.50 [pounds sterling]. Elizabeth Fowler's Literary Character. The Human...

L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, Sacrifice your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, Sacrifice your Love." Psychoanalysis, Historism, Chaucer (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002). 327 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3646-X. 16.50 [pounds sterling]. I will highly recommend L. O. Aranye Fradenburg's...

Diane Watt, Amoral Gower. Language, Sex, and Politics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Diane Watt, Amoral Gower. Language, Sex, and Politics, Medieval Cultures 38 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). xviii + 206 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4028-9. $21.95. Diane Watt's ground-breaking analysis of Confessio Amantis boldly...

Raluca L. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Raluca L. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur', Arthurian Studies 55 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003). viii + 165 pp. ISBN 0-85991-785-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Raluca L. Radulescu...

Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: a Mythic Biography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), xxi + 229 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3885-3. $25.00. In Piers Plowman B, XIX.246-7, Grace, a messenger of God, lists, among the talents and abilities granted...

Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel." Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture, Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1550-1700 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). 238 pp.; 3 figures. ISBN 1-40396-130-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Michael L. Hays, Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', 'Othello; and 'King Lear'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Michael L. Hays, Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', 'Othello; and 'King Lear', Studies in Renaissance Literature 12 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), x + 225 pp. ISBN 0-85991-788-6. 45.00 [pounds...

Frederic Godefroid: Actes du Xe colloque international sur le moyen francais.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Frederic Godefroid: Actes du Xe colloque international sur le moyen francais, Textes reunis et presentes par Frederic Duval, Memoires et documents de l'Ecole des Chartes 71 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2003). 455 PP. ISBN 2-900791-63-4. 30.00...

Constance Brittain Bouchard, 'Every Valley Shall Be Exalted': the Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Constance Brittain Bouchard, 'Every Valley Shall Be Exalted': The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003). 171 pp. ISBN 0-8014--4058-0. $29.95. Opposition has recently attracted a...

Finn E. Sinclair, Milk and Blood: Gender and Genealogy in the 'Chanson de Geste'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Finn E. Sinclair, Milk and Blood: Gender and Genealogy in the 'Chanson de Geste' (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), 292 pp. ISBN 3-90676-9. 34.00 [pounds sterling]. For Finn E. Sinclair 'theory' provides a new and fruitful point of contact with a...

Douglas Kelly, Chretien de Troyes: Supplement I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Douglas Kelly, Chretien de Troyes: Supplement I, Research Bibliographies and Checklists, NS 3 (Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2002). 582 pp. ISBN 1-85566-083-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Chretien studies have exploded since 1976 when...

Richard Trachsler, Merlin l'enchanteur: etude sur le Merlin de Robert de Boron.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Richard Trachsler, Merlin l'enchanteur: etude sur le Merlin de Robert de Boron (Paris: SEDES, 2000). 158 pp. ISBN 2-7181-9331-X. 21.50 [euro]. This useful book, designed for Agregation candidates, provides an admirable introduction to a...

Sylvia Huot, Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sylvia Huot, Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 224 pp. ISBN 0-19-925212-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. In the early 1900s it seemed that all that could be said about...

Virginie Greene, Le Sujet et la mort dans 'La Mort Artu'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Virginie Greene, Le Sujet et la mort dans 'La Mort Artu' (Saint-Genouph: Nizet, 2002). 418 pp. ISBN 2-7078-1274-9. 38.00 [euro]. In this perceptive and detailed study of the Mort Artu Virginie Greene has provided us with an extremely useful...

Nancy B. Black, Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Nancy B. Black, Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003), xviii + 261 pp.; 42 black-and-white plates. ISBN 0-8130-2640-7. $59.95. This study of medieval tales of persecuted queens covers an...

Michelle Szkilnik, Jean de Saintre: une carriere chevaleresque au XVe siecle.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Michelle Szkilnik, Jean de Saintre: une carriere chevaleresque au XVe siecle, Publications romanes et francaises 232 (Geneva: Droz, 2003), 168 pp. ISBN 2-600-00841-1. Sw. Fr. 35.00. Dans son ouvrage somme toute assez bref, Michelle Szkilnik...

Robert Luff, Wissensvermittlung im europaischen Mittelalter. 'Imago-mundi'-Werke und ihre Prologe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Robert Luff, Wissensvermittlung im europaischen Mittelalter. 'Imago-mundi'-Werke und ihre Prologe, Texte und Textgeschichte 47 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1999). xi + 586 pp.; 10 illustrations. ISBN 3-484-36047-X. 149.00 [euro]. The structure...

Mio Cid Studies: 'Some Problems of Diplomatic' Fifty Years On.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mio Cid Studies: 'Some Problems of Diplomatic' Fifty Years On, ed. Alan Deyermond, David G. Pattison, and Eric Southworth, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 42 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of...

Fernan Perez de Guzman: Pen Portraits of Illustrious Castilians.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fernan Perez de Guzman: Pen Portraits of Illustrious Castilians, trans, with introd. and notes by Marie Gillette and Loretta Zehngut, Medieval Texts in Translation Series (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003). xxxii +...

Richard Vernier, The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Richard Vernier, The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), 237 pp. ISBN 184383-006-X. 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00. Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French...

A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius II.(Audiobook Review)
September 22, 2004... A Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius II (CD-ROM), ed. Bernard J. Muir, software by Nick Kennedy, Bodleian Digital Texts I (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2004). ISBN 1-85124-084-5. 49.95 [pounds sterling]. The first in the...

St. Galler Nibelungenhandschrift (Cod. Sang. 857).
September 22, 2004... St. Galler Nibelungenhandschrift (Cod. Sang. 857) (CD-Rom for Windows and Mac), ed. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Basler Parzival-Projekt, introd. Michael Stolz, software by Rafael Schwemmer, Codices Electronici Sangallenses I (St. Gall:...

Aldhelm of Malmesbury: Prosa de virginitate cum glosa Latina atque Anglosaxonica.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Aldhelm of Malmesbury: Prosa de virginitate cure glosa Latina atque Anglosaxonica, ed. Scott Gwara, augmenting earlier work by Rudolf Ehwald, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis CXXIV, CXXIVA (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001). 2 vols. 399 * +...

William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives. Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives. Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract, ed. M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). xxxviii + 396 pp. ISBN 0-19-8207093. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. William of...

Liber usuum fratrum monasterii Vadstenensis: the Customary of the Vadstena Brothers. A Critical Edition with an Introduction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Liber usuum fratrum monasterii Vadstenensis: The Customary of the Vadstena Brothers. A Critical Edition with an Introduction, ed. Sara Risberg, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Studia Latina Stockholmiensia 50 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell...

The Mirroure of the Worlde: a Middle English Translation of the Miroir du monde.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English Translation of the Miroir du monde, ed. Robert R. Raymo and Elaine E. Whitaker (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), x + 644 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3613-9. $85.00/55.00 [pounds sterling]. Not to be...

La Chanson de Roland.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... La Chanson de Roland, edition critique par Cesare Segre, nouvelle edition refondue, traduite de l'italien par Madeleine Tyssens. Introduction, texte critique, variantes de O. Index des noms propres. Glossaire etabli par Bernard Guidot (Geneva:...

Le Jongleur par lui-meme: choix de dits et de fabliaux.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Le Jongleur par lui-meme: choix de dits et de fabliaux, ed. and trans. Willem Noomen, Ktemata 17 (Louvain: Peeters, 2003). vi + 367 pp. ISBN 90-429-1342-8. 35.00 [euro]. The fifteen texts in this collection, all previously edited, have been...

Les Trois fils de rois.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Les Trois ills de rois, ed. Giovanni Palumbo, Classiques francais du Moyen Age 139 (Paris: Champion, 2002). 640 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0485-2, 10.00 [euro]. Les Trois fils de rois is an enigmatic text. It exists in at least seven principal manuscript...

Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie, ed. and trans. Jean-Luc Leclanche, Champion Classiques: Moyen Age 3 (Paris: Champion, 2003). xxii + 281 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0735-5. 9.00 [euro]. This volume, the first of an unspecified number,...

Rene d'Anjou: Le Livre du coeur d'amour epris.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rend d'Anjou: Le Livre du coeur d'amour epris, ed. Florence Bouchet, Lettres gothiques (Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 2003). 532 pp.; 16 colour plates. ISBN 2-53-06680-X. 13.00 [euro]. This most recent edition of Rend d'Anjou's Livre is an...

Antoine de la Sale: Il paradiso della regina Sibilla.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Antoine de la Sale: Il paradiso della regina Sibilla, a cura di Patrizia Romagnoh, Collana 'di monte in monte' 15 (Verbania: Tarara Edizioni, 2001), ix + 211 pp.; 6 black-and-white illustrations, 16 colour plates. ISBN 88-86593-29-5. 15.06...

Dietrichs Flucht. Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dietrichs Flucht. Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe, ed. Elisabeth Lienert and Gertrud Beck, Texte und Studien zur mittelalterlichen Heldenepik I (Tiibingen: Niemeyer, 2003). xxx + 352 pp. ISBN 3-484-64501-6. 56.00 [euro]. This volume is the first of...

Malcolm Barber, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Malcolm Barber, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2004), xvi + 540 pp.; 60 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-17415-5. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A thoroughly revised edition of this important reference book...

Jacques Paul, Du monde et des hommes: essais sur la perception medievale.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jacques Paul, Du monde et des hommes: essais sur la perception medievale, Collection Le Temps de l'histoire (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2003), 285 pp. ISBN 2-85399-523-2. 26.00 [euro]. This volume, which consists...

Hanneke Wilson, Wine and Words in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hanneke Wilson, Wine and Words in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages (London: Duckworth, 2003), 243 pp. ISBN 07156-3223-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This pleasant book is concerned with the central role played by wine in the literature,...

A Companion to the Fairy Tale.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Companion to the Fairy Tale, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), vii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-85991-784-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. This volume aims to offer a...

The Monstrous Middle Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Monstrous Middle Ages, ed. Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), xiv + 236 pp.; 19 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1821-5. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. A collection of ten essays originating from a symposium...

Conversion in Late Antiquity, and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Conversion in Late Antiquity, and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing, ed. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, Studies in Comparative History, Essays from the Helby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Rochester, NY: University of...

King Arthur in Music.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... King Arthur in Music, ed. Richard Barber, Arthurian Studies 52 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), viii + 190 pp. ISBN 0-85991-767-3- 45.00 [pounds sterling]/ $75.00. This innovative collection adds a new dimension to...

Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), 287 pp.; 440 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1801-0. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. A beautifully produced...

Katja Lenz and Ruth Mohlig, Of Dyuersitie and Chaunge of Langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Gorlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Katja Lenz and Ruth Mohlig, Of Dyuersitie and Chaunge of Langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Gorlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Anglistische Forschungen 308 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2002). XXX + 390 pp. ISBN...

'And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche': Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... 'And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche': Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday, ed. Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002). xiv + 270 pp. ISBN 4-87571-577-3. [yen]...

Kenneth Haynes, English Literature and Ancient Languages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kenneth Haynes, English Literature and Ancient Languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). xiv + 210 pp. ISBN 0-19-926190-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Haynes offers a succinct study of the literary uses of language contact, that is, of...

Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr., ed. Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003). x + 359 PP. ISBN 0-8020-4822-6. $75.00. This collection of literary...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. W. S. Merwin (Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2003), xxvi + 171 pp. ISBN 1-85224-634-0. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. This volume offers the Middle English text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside a new verse...

The Book of Margery Kempe: an Abridged Translation Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Book of Margery Kempe: An Abridged Translation Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay, trans. Liz Herbert McAvoy, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell &...

L'Offrande du coeur: Medieval and Early Modern Studies in Honour of Glynnis Cropp.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... L'Offrande du coeur. Medieval and Early Modern Studies in Honour of Glynnis Cropp, ed. Margaret Burrell and Judith Grant (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press in association with Massey University, 2004), xv + 160 pp. ISBN 1-877257-12-5....

The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: the Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath, trans, with introd., notes, and appendices by W. A. Sibly and M. D. Sibly (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003). xxxvi + 162 pp. ISBN 0-85115-925-7. 45.00 [pounds...

Modelle der Mannlichkeit in der Literatur des 13. Jahrhunderts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Modelle der Mannlichkeit in der Literatur des 13. Jahrhunderts, ed. Martin Baisch, Hendrijke Haufe, Michael Mecklenburg, Matthias Meyer, and Andrea Sieber, Aventiuren 1 (Gottingen: V&R Unipress, 2005). 289 pp. ISBN 3-89971-130-0. 32.90 [euro]....

Judith Jesch, The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century: an Ethnographic Perspective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Judith Jesch, The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 5 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2002), vi + 374 pp.; 2...

Catherine Marie O'Sullivan, Hospitality in Medieval Ireland 900-1500.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Catherine Marie O'Sullivan, Hospitality in Medieval Ireland 900-1500 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004). 272 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 1-85182-745-5. 55.00[euro]/$55.00. This study treats the social institution of hospitality in terms of both its...

From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essay in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths, ed. R. R. Davies and Geraint H. Jenkins (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), xiv + 294 pp.; 9 illustrations. ISBN 0-7083-1881-9. 35.00...

The Gwent County History, I: Gwent in Prehistory and Early History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Gwent County History, I: Gwent in Prehistory and Early History, ed. Miranda Aldhouse-Green and Ray Howell (Cardiff: University of Wales Press on behalf of Gwent County History Association; Trowbridge: Cromwell Press, 2004), xviii + 371 pp.;...

Property and Piety in Early Miedieval Winchester: Documents Relating to the Topography of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman City and its Minsters.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Property and Piety in Early Miedieval Winchester: Documents Relating to the Topography of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman City and its Minsters, ed. Alexander R. Rumble, Winchester Studies 4.iii (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). xxiv + 252 pp. ISBN...

Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder, The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith: Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Practice and Practitioners.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder, The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith: Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Practice and Practitioners, Anglo-Saxon Studies 2 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002). xvi + 293 pp. ISBN 8-85115-883-8....

Bernard S. Bachrach, Kelly DeVries, and Clifford J. Rogers, The Journal of Medieval Military History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Bernard S. Bachrach, Kelly DeVries, and Clifford J. Rogers, The Journal of Medieval Military History, Vol. II, The Journal of Medieval Military History (Woodbridge: Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004). vi + 166 pp. ISBN...

Joan of Arc: a Saint for All Seasons. Studies in Myth and Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Joan of Arc: A Saint for All Seasons. Studies in Myth and Politics, ed. Dominique Goy-Blanquet (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), 192 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3330-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume is a translation of the same editor's Jeanne d'Arc en...