Medium Aevum articles from September 2005

Medium Aevum archives from September 2005

Six cruces in the Finnsburg Fragment and Episode.(essay)("Beowulf")(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... The texts of the Old English Fight at Finnsburg and Beowulf lines 1063-1159a, known respectively as the Finnsburg Fragment and Episode, present an exceptionally large number of editorial problems. As a consequence, although they have been...

Legalizing the fall of man.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... The Early Middle Irish Adam and Eve story in the tenth- or eleventh-century biblical poem Saltair na Rann includes an exchange between the devil and the snake in paradise. The devil seeks to persuade the snake to corporeal cohabitation in order...

The distribution of infinitives in -e and -en in some Middle English alliterative poems.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Introduction The question of final -e in Middle English verse is of serious importance to metrists, historical linguists, and editors. In the study of metre, the status of final -e is a determining factor in the syllable count: there are...

'In London and opelond': the dialect and circulation of the C version of Piers Plowman.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Introduction In an article on Langland's dialect M. L. Samuels identified the majority of the manuscripts of the C version as belonging to a regionally coherent group whose production and dissemination were focused on the south-west...

Richard Beauchamp and the uses of romance.(essay)(Earl of Warwick, 1401)(Biography)
September 22, 2005... When Thomas Beauchamp II, Earl of Warwick, was condemned and exiled for treason in 1397, the forfeiture of his property generated some detailed and informative paperwork. A list of his possessions in Warwick that year includes 'a bed of white...

Rhetoric, narrative, and conceptions of history in the French Prose Brut.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Scholars writing about the Prose Brut (1) used to be concerned mainly with the value of its various continuations as a primary source for later medieval English history. 'Even historians of historical literature', remarks John Gillingham, 'have...

The manuscript reception of Jean Molinet's Trosne d'Honneur.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... There is nothing radical about the claim that late medieval poetry in France, as elsewhere in western Europe, is closely bound up with knowledge. It is, after all, evident that a great deal of the vernacular verse composed between, say, 1220...

Henry of Huntingdon as poet: the De herbis rediscovered.(NOTE)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... A major poetical work by Henry of Huntingdon, the De herbis, has been identified recently in two manuscripts: British Library, Sloane MS 3468, fols [31.sup.r]-[105.sup.v1] and Prague, Knihovna metropolitni kapituly M. VI (cat. 1359), fols...

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), x + 354pp. ISBN 0-8020-3605-8. 42.00 [pounds sterling]/$65.00. In the dilating study of visual motifs in the...

The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature across the Disciplines. Selected Papers from the Ninth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of British Columbia, 25-31 July 1998.(Periodical Review)
September 22, 2005... The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature across the Disciplines. Selected Papers from the Ninth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of British Columbia, 25-31 July 1998, ed. Barbara K. Altmann and...

Dyan Elliott, Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Dyan Elliott, Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), xiii + 350 pp. ISBN 0-691-11860-4. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. Dyan Elliott's new book,...

Ann W. Astell, Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ann W. Astell, Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). 283 pp. ISBN 0-268-03259-9, $55.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-268-03260-2. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). Worshippers of the Maid, be...

William E. Burgwinkle, Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... William E. Burgwinkle, Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xii + 298 pp. ISBN 0-521-83968-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. William E....

Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Parrot Culture: Our 2,500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Parrot Culture: Our 2,500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), xi + 203 pp.; 43 figures. ISBN 0-8122-3793-5. 18.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Seiichi Suzuki, The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Seiichi Suzuki, The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), xix + 505 pp. ISBN 1-84384-014-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry is a detailed study of Old Saxon...

Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004). 264 pp. ISBN 1-85182-725-0. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Anne M. Scott challenges those critics who argue that in Piers Plowman Langland abandons wrestling with the...

David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), xiii + 281 pp. ISBN 0-268-02021-3, $55.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-208-02022-1, $25.00 (p/b). This...

The Oxford Companion to Chaucer.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Oxford Companion to Chaucer, ed. Douglas Gray (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). xxviii + 526 pp.; 4 maps and 15 black-and-white plates, 0-19-811765-5. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. 'The Oxford Companion to Chauce', Douglas Gray...

Joanna Summers, Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Joanna Summers, Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), viii + 229 pp. ISBN 0-19-927129-1. 47.00 [pounds sterling] The prison writings brought together in...

Sian Echard, A Companion to Gower.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Sian Echard, A Companion to Gower (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), 286 pp. ISBN 1-84384-000-6. 60.00. [pounds sterling] John Gower's writing--of, at least, the Confessio Amantis--has now returned to critical vogue. We are now as likely to...

Peter Happe, Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: A Comparative Study of the English Biblical Cycles and their Continental and Iconographic Counterparts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Peter Happy, Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: A Comparative Study of the English Biblical Cycles and their Continental and Iconographic Counterparts, Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 7 (Amsterdam and New York:...

Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). xiii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3800-01. $59-95. ...

Anna Chryssafis, La Creation de mots savants dans le francais medieval: Etude sur un choix de textes de la fin du [XIII.sup.e] et du debut du [XIV.sup.e] siecles, notamment le 'Roman de la Rose' et la 'Consolation de Philosophie' par Jean de Meun.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Anna Chryssafis, La Creation de mots savants dans le francais medieval: Etude sur un choix de textes de la fin du [XIII.sup.e] et du debut du [XIV.sup.e] siecles, notamment le 'Roman de la Rose' et la 'Consolation de Philosophie' par Jean de...

Simon Gaunt, Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Simon Gaunt, Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature (London: Duckworth, 2001), 160 pp. ISBN 0-71 56-2925-5. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. This book does not set out to be a conventional literary history or work of...

Catherine Hanley, War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Catherine Hanley, War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003). x + 261 pp. ISBN 0-85991-781-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. In this book Catherine Hanley examines the depiction of...

Kathryn Starkey, Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Willehalm.'.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Kathryn Starkey, Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Willehalm', Poetics of Orality and Literacy (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), xvi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-268-04108-3, $50.00...

Antje Willing, Literatur und Ordensreform im 15. Jahrhundert. Deutsche Abendmahlsschriften im Nurnberger Katharinenkloster.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Antje Willing, Literatur und Ordensreform im 15. Jahrhundert. Deutsche Abendmahlsschriften im Nurnberger Katharinenkloster, Studien und Texte zum Mittelalter und zur fruhen Neuzeit 4 (Munster, New York, Munich, and Berlin: Waxmann Verlag,...

Nancy Bisaha, Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Nancy Bisaha, Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 309 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3806-0. $59.95/39.00 [pounds sterling]. In the last couple of decades, western...

The Later Cambridge Songs: An English Song Collection of the Twelfth Century.(Editions of texts)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Later Cambridge Songs: An English Song Collection of the Twelfth Century, ed. and introd. John Stevens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), xi + 196 pp. ISBN 0-19-816725-3. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. The 'Later Cambridge Songs',...

The Ancestry of Jesus: Excerpts from 'Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David Abraham.'.(Editions of texts)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Ancestry of Jesus: Excerpts from 'Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David Abraham' (Matthew 1: 1-17), ed. Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 28 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2005). viii + 136 pp....

The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text, ed. Tadao Kubochi and Keiko Ikegami, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature II (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005). xx + 360 pp. ISBN 3-631-53575-9. Sw fr. 82.00. This edition...

Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Barry Windeatt, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 2003). lxx + 561 pp. ISBN 0-140-424210. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. To see Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde printed as a Penguin Classic is pleasing not...

The Book of Margery Kempe.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Barry Windeatt (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). xviii + 474 pp. ISBN 1-84384-010-3. 17.00 [pounds sterling]/$29.95. A very welcome reprint of Barry Windeatt's recent annotated Longman edition of The Book of...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology, ed. Julia Boffey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). x + 284 pp. ISBN 0-19-926397-3. 45.oo [pounds sterling]. This elegant anthology presents new editions of five fifteenth-century...

Amadis de Gaule, Translated by Anthony Munday.(Editions of texts)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Amadis de Gaule, Translated by Anthony Munday, ed. Helen Moore, Non-Canonical Early Modern Popular Texts (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), xxviii + 1033 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0727-5. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. An early form of the romance of Amadis was first...

Raoul de Houdenc: Meraugis de Portlesguez.(Editions of texts)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Raoul de Houdenc: Meraugis de Portlesguez, roman arthurien du XIIIe siecle, publie d'apres le manuscrit de la Bibliotheque du Vatican; edition bilingue, publication, traduction, presentation et notes par Michelle Szkilnik, Champion Classiques:...

Le Roman de Gliglois: Recit arthurien du XIIIe siecle.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Le Roman de Gliglois: Recit arthurien du XIIIe siecle, ed. Jacques Charles Lemaire (Liege: Editions de l'Universite de Liege, 2005). 231 pp. ISBN 2-930322-96-9. 23.00 [euro]. This new, nicely produced edition of the Roman de Gliglois usefully...

Recueil general des isopets, IV: Les 'Fables' d'Eude de Cheriton.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Recueil general des isopets, IV: Les 'Fables' d'Eude de Cheriton, ed. Pierre Ruelle, Societe des anciens textes francais (Paris: A. et J. Picard, 1999), xxx + 92 pp. No ISBN given. No price given. The remarkable enterprise which is the Recueil...

Philippe de Remi: Jehan et Blonde: Poems and Songs.(Editions of texts)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Philippe de Remi: Jehan et Blonde: Poems and Songs, ed. from Paris, BNF fr. 1588, Paris BNF fr. 24006, and Paris BNF fr. 837 and trans. Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, Faux Titre 201 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. ii + 568 pp. ISBN 90-420-1504-7. Hfl....

Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, vol. III: De Salomon aux Maccabees.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, vol. III: De Salomon aux Maccabees, ed. Alan Knight, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2004). 638 pp. ISBN 2-600-00954-X. Sw. fr. 100.00. This third volume of the Lilie plays completes the series...

Das Nurnberger Marienbuch. Untersuchungen und Edition.(Editions of texts)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Das Nurnberger Marienbuch. Untersuchungen und Edition, ed. and introd. Bettina Jung, Texte und Textgeschichte 55 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004). viii + 207 pp. ISBN 3-484-36055-0. 98.00 [euro]. The Nurnberger Marienbuch is a prose...

James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Variorum Collected Studies Series CS827 (Aldershot; Burlington, Va: Ashgate, 2005). x + 346 pp. ISBN 0-86078-972-1. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Jerry Murphy's most...

Alison I. Beach, Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Alison I. Beach, Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 10 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xiv + 198 pp. ISBN 0-521-79243-6. 45.00...

Maistresse of my Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars.(Further short notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Maistresse of my Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars, ed. Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys, Making the Middle Ages 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004). x + 384 pp. ISBN 2-503-51165-1. 75.00 [euro]. The twelve essays in this collection engage...

The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector. Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 2004), xx + 530 pp.;...

Le 'Slipping' dans les langues medievales.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Le 'Slipping' dans les langues medievales, ed. Jurg Rainer Schwyter, Erich Poppe, and Sandrine Onillon, Cahiers de L'ILSL 18 (Lausanne: Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, Universite de Lausanne, 2005). 183 pp. ISBN...

Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Writing War. Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare, ed. Corinne Saunders, Francoise Le Saux, and Neil Thomas (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), ix + 235 pp. ISBN 0-85991-843-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume collects a variety of essays on...

New Approaches to European Theater of the Middle Ages: An Ontology.(Further short notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... New Approaches to European Theater of the Middle Ages: An Ontology, ed. Barbara I. Gusick and Edelgard DuBruck (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), xv + 298 pp. ISBN 0-8204-6226-8. Sw. fr. 95.00. Despite its ungrammatical and affected subtitle, this...

Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Nicola F. McDonald and W. M. Ormrod (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2004), vii + 176 pp. ISBN 1-903153-15-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. An interesting and informative...

The Low Countries: A Crossroads in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Low Countries: A Crossroads in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Yoko Wada, Kansai University Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies: International Collaborative Studies Series 5 (Osaka: Kansai University Press, 2004), ix + 97...

The Fifteenth Century IV: Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Fifteenth Century IV: Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain, ed. Linda Clark and Christine Carpenter (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004). 202 pp. ISBN 1-84383-106-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. The introduction to this essay...

Images of the Mother God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Images of the Mother God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium, ed. Maria Vassilaki (Aldershot; Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005), xxxii + 384 pp.; 168 illustrations, 24 colour plates. ISBN 0-7546-3603-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This...

Tim Ayers, The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Tim Ayers, The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral, 2 vols, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2004), cxii + 676 pp.; 270 black-and-white illustrations, 40 colour...

The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author, trans. with introd. and notes by James M. Powell (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004). xlv + 286 pp. ISBN 0-8132-1362-2. $59.95. This translation of the Gesta...

Pope Innocent III: Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Pope Innocent III: Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office, trans. Corinne J. Vause and Frank C. Gardiner (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004). xxx + 131 pp. ISBN 0-8132-1365-7. $19.95. Taking its title...

The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation, ed. W. R.J. Barron and Glyn S. Burgess (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005), x + 403 pp. ISBN 0-85989-755-9. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. A paperback...

Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank, ed. Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). xii + 298 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8011-1. 48.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume contains essays...

Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout, ed. Jonathan Wilcox, Old English Newsletter Subsidia, 32 (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, 2004), 120 pp. ISSN 0759-8549. $ 10.00. This...

Emilia Di Rocco, Letteratura e legge nel trecento inglese: Chaucer, Gower e Langland.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Emilia Di Rocco, Letteralura e legge nel trecento inglese: Chaucer, Gower e Langland, Studi e Ricerche 68 (Rome: Bulzoni, 2003). 318 pp. ISBN 88-8319-829-8. No price given. This study of literature and law in the thirteenth century treats the...

New Perspectives on Criseyde.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... New Perspectives on Criseyde, ed. Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec (Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004). vi + 336 pp. ISBN 1-889818-37-2. $19.95. The editors of this volume aim to present a comprehensive review of twentieth-century...

The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend, ed. Rhiannon Purdie and Nicola Royan, Arthurian Studies LXI (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), x + 156 pp. ISBN 1-84384-036-7. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. 'Tartan...

Re-Viewing 'Le Morte Darthur': Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Re-Viewing 'Le Morte Darthur': Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes, ed. K. S. Whetter and Raluca L. Radulescu, Arthurian Studies LX (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), xii + 165 pp. ISBN 1-84384-035-9. 40.00...

A Companion to 'The Book of Margery Kempe'.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Companion to 'The Book of Margery Kempe', ed. John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), xxiv + 246 pp. ISBN 1-84384-030-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. This Companion makes a...

Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval.(Further short notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval, ed. Helen Phillips (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2005). 197 pp. ISBN 1-85182-931-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/55.00 [euro]. This wideranging collection of twelve essays on the Robin Hood...

Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel.(Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture (Woodbridge; Rochester, NY: Camden House-Boydell and Brewer, 2004), x + 152 pp. ISBN 1-57113-299-6....

From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays, trans. John DuVal, introd, and notes by Raymond Eichmann (Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004), xiv + 205 pp. ISBN 1889818-40-2. $16.95. Consists of translations of Le Jeu d'Adam, Jean Bodel's Jeu de...

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince, trans, and ed. Peter Bonadella, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). lii + 133 pp. ISBN 0-19-280426-X. 3.99 [pounds sterling]/$5.95. A new translation based on the Italian edition by...

German Literature of the Early Middle Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... German Literature of the Early Middle Ages, ed. Brian Murdoch, Camden House History of German Literature 2 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004). xii + 283 pp. ISBN 157113-240-6. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the second volume of a ten-volume...

William E. Jackson, Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... William E. Jackson, Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2003). x + 146 pp. ISBN 0-7618-2550-9. $28.00. Professor Jackson builds on his previous...

Antonio Santosuosso, Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Antonio Santosuosso, Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2004). xiv + 344 pp.; 49 maps. ISBN 0-81339153-9. 20.99 [pounds sterling]. This narrative of conflict in the Middle Ages...

Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe, ed. Aliki Pantos and Sarah Semple (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004). 251 pp.; 55 illustrations. ISBN 1-85182-665-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/65.00 [euro]. This collection of eleven essays by...

David Foote, Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1000-1250.(Further short notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... David Foote, Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1000-1250 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), xiii + 254 pp.; 2 maps. ISBN 0-268-02872-9. $50.00. In this...

Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Wulfstan, Archbishop of York." The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, ed. Matthew Townend, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 10 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), xiv + 553 pp. ISBN 2-50352-224-6, 85.00 [euro]. This monumental volume makes a...

King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Gale R. Owen Crocker, Publications for the Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 3 (Cambridge: Boydell Press, 2005), xii + 202 pp. ISBN 1-84383-124-4. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This handsomely illustrated...

Emilia Jamroziak, Rievaulx Abbey and Its Social Context, 1132-1300: Memory, Locality and Networks.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Emilia Jamroziak, Rievaulx Abbey and its Social Context, 1132-1300: Memory, Locality and Networks (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), xii + 252 pp. ISBN 2-503-52177-0. 60.00 [pound sterling]. In this, the first monograph dedicated to the Cistercian...

Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120-1283.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120-1283, ed. Huw Pryce with the assistance of Charles Insley (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), Ivi + 902 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1897-5. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a comprehensive edition of the 444 charters...

H. E. J. Cowdrey, Lanfranc: Scholar, Monk and Archbishop.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... H. E. J. Cowdrey, Lanfranc: Scholar, Monk and Archbishop (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xi + 252 pp. ISBN 0-19-925960-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. A biography and study of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury 1070-89, which builds on the...

J. O. Prestwich, The Place of War in English History.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... J. O. Prestwich, The Place of War in English History, ed. Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004). xxiv + 138 pp. ISBN 1-84383-098-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Like K. B. McFarlene, J. O....

Adrian R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Adrian R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century, Warfare in History (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2004). xvi + 246 pp. ISBN 1-84383-103-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Adrian Bell's...

J. S. Bothwell, Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility and Political Control in Fourteenth-Century England.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... J. S. Bothwell, Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility and Political Control in Fourteenth-Century England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004). x + 232 pp. ISBN 184383-047-7....

John Langdon, Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300-1540.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... John Langdon, Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300-1540 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xx + 369 pp.; 84 illustrations. ISBN 0-19-926558-5. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. John Langdon presents a comprehensive study of the late...

Elizabeth Hyde, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Elizabeth Hyde, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV, Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). xxiii + 330 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3826-5. $49.95. This rather...

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Thomas M. Kavanagh, Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture, Critical Authors and Issues (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), viii + 251 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3860-5. $45.00. This is a pleasant, interesting...