Medium Aevum articles from September 2007

Medium Aevum archives from September 2007

Taming Rasputin? Braulio and St Aemilian.
September 22, 2007... The first reaction of many readers after finishing Braulio of Zaragoza's Life of St Aemilian, an eremitic saint active in the sixth century in the Bierzo, a lowland area of northern Spain sandwiched between the Cordillera Cantabrica and the...

Who cursed whom, and when? The cursing of the hoard and Beowulf's fate.
September 22, 2007... For over forty years, critics have keenly and at times hotly debated Beowulf's fate. Eric Stanley's view that the poet represents him as damned by the working of the curse laid on the dragon's hoard has been ably and widely supported, perhaps...

The ending, and end, of Piers Plowman B: the C-version origins of the final two passus.
September 22, 2007... Anyone looking for the 1,000-odd lines of Middle English poetry with the greatest impact upon our understandings of English culture c.1380 could do much worse than choose passus XIX and XX of Piers Plowman B. Their sheer power has attracted...

Logic and Lollardy.
September 22, 2007... Ex istis elicitur quod innocens nec arti liberali nec mechanice intendisset. Constat quidem quod ars in quantum huiusmodi dicit quandam erudicionem anxiam preter noticiam theoricam. Ideo stat quod homo sit, quantumlibet magnus philosophus, sine...

Re-fashioning Boethius: prose and poetry in Chartier's Livre de l'Esperance.(Alain Chartier)
September 22, 2007... Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430) is among the most important writers of fifteenth-century France. He is best known today for the Belle Dame sans mercy, a poem that touched off an astonishing flurry of responses, continuations, and imitations in...

Pouvoir et critique de la rhetorique d'Alain Chartier au Sejour d'Honneur d'Octovien de Saint-Gelais.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Conscience et crise de conscience dans la construction de la figure d'auteur Aborder le sujet de la 'Grande Rhetorique' (1) conduit indubitablement a affronter le delicat probleme des relations entre l'ecriture et le pouvoir, relations...

A new manuscript fragment of the Prick of Conscience.(NOTE)
September 22, 2007... The Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame has recently acquired a copy of Sir Thomas More's Supplication of Souls (shelf mark: PR 2321.S87 1529), printed in 1529 (STC 18093) by William Rastell (1508-65). (1) It was one of the first,...

Die Handschriftensammlung der Badischen Landesbibliothek: Bedrohtes Kulturerbe?(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Die Handschriftensammlung der Badischen Landesbibliothek: Bedrohtes Kulturerbe?, ed. Peter Michael Ehrle and Ute Obhof (Gernsbach: Casimir Katz Verlag, 2007). 160 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 978-3-938047-25-5. 19.80 [euro]. The five...

Peter Burkhart with Christine Sauer, Die gotischen Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, II: Vom spaten 13. bis zum fruhen 15. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Peter Burkhart with Christine Sauer, Die gotischen Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, II: Vom spaten 13. bis zum fruhen 15. Jahrhundert, Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek...

Judith Raeber, Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau: Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem fruhen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Judith Raeber, Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau: Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem fruhen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2003). 327 pp. ISBN 3-89500-321-2. 98.00[euro]. Raeber's...

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer, ed. Warren S. Smith (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2005). xiv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-472-11426-3. $70.00. This collection of twelve essays is concerned with satiric...

Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050- 1500.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050-1500 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). xxvi + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-3375-6. 55.00[pounds sterling]. The originally Greek...

Catherine A. M. Clarke, Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Catherine A. M. Clarke, Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). x + 160 pp. ISBN 1-84384-057-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. The debate over the extent of Latinate influence on Anglo-Saxon...

Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xiv + 407 pp. ISBN o-19-926722-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Michael Lapidge's E. A. Lowe Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 2002, are here published with five...

Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). xiv + 282 pp. ISBN 0-268-03310-2. $30.00. Recent decades have witnessed the publication of a series of...

Chris Jones, Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Chris Jones, Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). viii + 266 pp. ISBN 0-19-927832-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Chris Jones's Strange Likeness' is a study of the debts...

A Companion to Ancrene Wisse.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, ed. Yoko Wada (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), xii + 258 pp. ISBN o-85991-762-2. 60.00[pounds sterling]/$110.00. Early scholars of Ancrene Wisse such as E. J. Dobson (to whom...

Francis Ingledew, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Order of the Garter.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Francis Ingledew, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Order of the Garter (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), xii + 308 pp. ISBN 0-268-03176-2. $40.00. It is a pleasure to read a book on a medieval literary text...

Susan Schibanoff, Chaucer's Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Susan Schibanoff, Chaucer's Queer Poetics." Rereading the Dream Trio (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006). x + 365 pp. ISBN 0-8020-9035-4. 48.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a book that, through a pioneering...

Richard F. Johnson, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Richard F. Johnson, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005). xii + 174 pp. ISBN 1-84383-128-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling). The importance and popularity of St Michael the Archangel appears from...

Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), x + 213 pp. ISBN 0-19-920789-5. 50.00. [pounds sterling]. The late Victorian and early...

Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005). x + 218 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0391-1. 45.00. [pounds sterling]. This thought-provoking book presents itself as breaking with current Chaucer...

Karen A. Winstead, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Karen A. Winstead, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xiii + 231 pp. ISBN 13-978-08122-3977-5. 36.00 [pounds sterling]. What does the title mean? Does an individual 'have' a...

Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). 171 pp. ISBN 1-84384-085-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Thomas H. Crofts's monograph proposes a...

Karen Cherewatuk, Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Karen Cherewatuk, Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2006). xxvii + 149 pp. ISBN 1-84384-089-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. At first sight one might think...

Charlotte Clutterbuck, Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Charlotte Clutterbuck, Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). 238 pp. ISBN 0-75 46-5 270-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Charlotte Clutterbuck's book is a discussion of the literary...

Elisabeth Salter, Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Elisabeth Salter, Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). xii + 231 pp. ISBN 1--4039-9179-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Elisabeth Salter uses the term...

Brigitte Cazelles, Soundscape in Early French Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Brigitte Cazelles, Soundscape in Early French Literature (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in collaboration with Brepols, 2005). 186 pp. ISBN 2-503-52361-7. 32.00 [pounds sterling]/$42.00/50.00 [euro]. 'As...

Robert M. Stein, Reality Fictions: Romance, History and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Robert M. Stein, Reality Fictions: Romance, History and Governmental Authority, 102J--1180 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). 294 pp. ISBN 0-268-04120-2. $30.00. This book is an exploration of the relationship between...

Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire, Oxford Monographs in Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xv + 226 pp.; 15 plates. ISBN 0-19-816547-1. 55.00 [pounds sterling]....

Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). x + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3885-9. $60.00/40.00 [pounds sterling]. The significant body of thirteenth-century French lyrics...

Benedicte Milland-Bove, La Demoiselle arthurienne: Ecriture du personnage et art du recit dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siecle.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Benedicte Milland-Bove, La Demoiselle arthurienne: Ecriture du personnage et art du recit dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siecle, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 79 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2006). 676 pp. ISBN 2-7453-1379-7. 100.00 [euro]....

Sylvia Huot, Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest': Cultural Identities and Hybridities.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sylvia Huot, Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest': Cultural Identities and Hybridities, Gallica I (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007). 234 pp. ISBN 1-84384-104-5. 104-5 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Since Jane H. M. Taylor's...

Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger and E Regina Psaki, Annali d'Italianistica: Studi e testi 8 (Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2006), 273 pp. ISBN 0-9657956-7-5. $25.00. Boccaccio's writing is famously...

Nadia Altschul: La literatura, el autor y la critica textual.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Nadia Altschul, La literatura, el autor y la critica textual, Pliegos de Ensayo 186 (Madrid: Pliegos, 2005). 216 pp. ISBN 84-96045-28-5. 17.50 [euro]. The debates that have been vividly illustrated in Italian and French academes on the...

Janina Drostel: des gerte diu edele herzoginne. Moglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen weiblicher Teilhabe am mittelalterlichen Literaturbetrieb unter besonderer Berucksichtigung von Mazenatentum.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Janina Drostel, des gerte diu edele herzoginne. Moglichkeiten und Voraussetwngen weiblicher Telhabe am mittelalterlichen Literaturbetrieb unter besonderer Berucksichtigung yon Mazenatentum, Beitrage zur Mittelalterforschung 13 (Frankfurt: Lang,...

Katharina Mertens Fleury: Leiden lesen. Bedeutungen von compassio um 1200 und die Poetik des Mit-Leidens im 'Parzival' Wolframs von Eschenbach.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Katharina Mertens Fleury, Leiden lesen. Bedeutungen von compassio um 1200 und die Poetik des Mit-Leidens im 'Parzival' Wolframs von Eschenbach, Scrinium Friburgense 21 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006), vii + 167 pp.; 19 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-01915-6....

Tobias A. Kemper: Die Kreuzigung Christi: Motivgeschichtliche Studien zu lateinischen und deutschen Passionstraktaten des Spatmittelalters.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Tobias A. Kemper, Die Kreuzigung Christi: Motivgeschichtliche Studien zu lateinischen und deutschen Passionstraktaten des Spatmittelalters, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 131 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer...

John McKinnell: Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... John McKinnell, Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005), x + 292 pp. ISBN 1-84384-042-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. John McKinnell's new book considers 'stories about encounters with the Other World in which the...

Susan Wood: The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Susan Wood, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiii + 1020 pp. ISBN 0-19-820697-6. 110.00 [pounds sterling]. Susan Wood starts from the position that medieval churches could be property and...

Nick Webber: The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Nick Webber, The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), 195 pp. ISBN 1-84383-119-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. The subject of this monograph has exercised authors and historians since Dudo of...

Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), xxv + 665 pp. ISBN 1-85182-563-0. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a long and densely written book, with a text of 458 pages,...

Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Irate Medieval London (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), viii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3938-5. 36.00 [pounds sterling]/$55.00. Shannon McSheffrey's study of marriage,...

The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary, ed. Jerome Bertram (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). 304 pp. ISBN 0-7546-5251-3. 55.00...

Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana. History of the Journey to Jerusalem.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana. History of the Journey to Jerusalem, ed. and trans. Susan B. Edgington (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), lxi + 949 PP. ISBN 978-0-19-920486-1. 120.00 [pounds sterling]. The Historia Ierosolimitana,...

Anglo-Saxon Bibles and 'The Book of Cerne.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Anglo-Saxon Bibles and 'The Book of Cerne', ed. A. N. Doane, Anglo Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 7, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 187 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), ISBN...

Carolin Schreiber, King Alfred's Old English Translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Regula pastoralis' and its Cultural Context: A Study and Partial Edition According to All Surviving Manuscripts Based on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 12.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Carotin Schreiber, King Alfred's Old English Translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Regula pastoralis' and its Cultural Context: A Study and Partial Edition According to All Surviving Manuscripts Based on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 12...

The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text. Preface and Parts 1-4.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text. Preface and Parts 1-4, ed. Tadao Kubouchi and Keiko Ikegami, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 7 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003), xvi + 560 pp. ISBN 3-631-51599-5. 56.50...

Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts, Vol. 1.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts, Vol. 1, ed. Bella Millett, drawing on the uncompleted edition by E. J. Dobson, with a glossary and additional...

Gilte Legende, Vol. 1.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gilte Legende, Vol. 1, ed. Richard Hamer, with the assistance of Vida Russell, English Text Society Original Series 327 (Oxford: Oxford University' Press, 2006). xvi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-19-920577-9. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The Gilte Legende is a...

A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649, ed. and trans. Patrick J. Homer, Studies and Texts 153 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2006). ISBN 798-0-88844-153-9. $94.95. This is a most...

Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. Richard Beadle and Colin Richmond, EETS, SS 22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). civ + 320 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 0-19-722423-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the third and final...

La Vengeance Fromondin.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... La Vengeance Fromondin, ed. Jean-Charles Herbin, Societe des anciens textes francais (Abbeville: F. Paillart, 2005). 520 pp. ISBN 2-906867-03-9. 40.00 [euro]. Jean-Charles Herbin's is the first complete and reliable edition of this late...

Thomas Maillet (?): Les Proverbez d'Alain.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Thomas Maillet (?): Les Proverbez d'Alain, ed. Tony Hunt, Les Classiques francais du Moyen Age (Paris: Honore Champion, 2007). 133 PP. ISBN 978-2-7453-1459-8. 18.00 [euro]. This excellent little edition makes available a Middle French...

Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, edition critique sous la direction de Philippe Menard, Vol. V, ed. Jean-Claude Delclos and Claude Roussel, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 300 pp.; 24 maps and illustrations. ISBN...

Barthelemy l'Anglais: Le Livre des regions.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Barthelemy l'Anglais: Le Livre des regions, ed. Brent A. Pitts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Plain Texts Series 15 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006). 50 pp. ISBN 0-905474-47-3. Not for sale; free to members. The first addition to this...

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel. Mit der gesamten Paralleluberlieferung des 'Jungeren Titurel'.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel. Mit der gesamten Paralleluberlieferung des 'Jungeren Titurel', ed., trans., and commentary by Joachim Bumke and Joachim Heinzle (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2006), xxvii + 535 PP. ISBN 9783-484-64028-3. 196.00 [euro]....

Jan van Ruusbroec: Opera omnia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Jan van Ruusbroec: Opera omnia, Vol. V: Van den geesteliken tabernakel. In tabernaculum foederis commentaria, introd, and ed. Th. Mertens, trans, into English by H. Rolfson, Latin trans, by L. Surius (1552), Corpus Christianorum Continuatio...

The Exeter DVD: The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry.(ELECTRONIC MEDIA)(E-book review)
September 22, 2007... The Exeter DVD: The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, ed. and comp. Bernard J. Muir, software by Nick Kennedy (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006). ISBN 0-85989-631-5. 275,00 [pounds sterling] incl. VAT/$425.00. (The Exeter DVD...

Femina (Trinity, College, Cambridge MS B.14.40).(Electronic Media--French)(E-book review)
September 22, 2007... Femina (Trinity, College, Cambridge MS B. 14.40), ed. William Rothwell, The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub: Texts and Publications (Aberystwyth: The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, 2005), xii + 118 pp. ISBN 0-9552124-0-5. Not for sale; can be downloaded...

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century, Convents.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century, Convents, trans. Vera Morton with an interpretative essay by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003). x + 203 pp. ISBN...

A Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture c.1350-1500.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture c.1350-1500' ed. Peter Brown, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 47 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). xviii + 668 pp. ISBN 978-0-631-21973-6. 85.00 [pounds sterling]/$149.95. Peter Brown...

Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, ed. John Reeve (London: The British Library, 2007), 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7123-4955-0. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. The catalogue of a recent exhibition held at the British Library. The...

Albert Derolez: The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xxii + 203 pp.; 160 plates. ISBN...

Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, ed. Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ISBN 0-268-02969-5, ix + 318 pp. $42.00. Fourteen essays trace the concept of idealism from Plato, the...

Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 29 July-4 August 2004.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 29 July-4 August 2004, ed. Keith Busby and Christopher Kleinhenz...

Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages, ed. Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 6 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2007), xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 0-415-38383-8. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. A collection of...

Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. Katherine M. Wilson and Nadia Margolis, vols I and II (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004), xxxii and xviii + 999 pp. ISBN 0-313-33016-6 (set). $199.95. An impressive work of reference and...

Gillian Kenny, Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland c. 1170-1540.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gillian Kenny, Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland c. 1170-1540 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 218 pp.; 11 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-85182-984-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This study explores the lives of women in medieval Ireland from...

Victims or Viragos? Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Victims or Viragos? Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4, ed. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless (Dublin: Four Courts; Bodmin MPG Books, zoos), viii + 240 pp.; 4 illustrations. ISBN 1-85182-889-3. 24.95 [pounds sterling]. The fourth...

Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual and Fantastic.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual and Fantastic, The Medieval Imagination Series (London: The British Library; Los Angeles, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), viii + 104 pp. ISBN 978-0-89236-888-4. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. A beautifully...

L'Inspiration: Le Souffle createur dans les arts, litteratures et mystiques du Moyen Age europeen et proche-oriental.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... L'Inspiration: Le Souffle createur dans les arta, litteratures et mystiques du Moyen Age europeen et proche-oriental, ed. Claire Kappler and Roger Grozelier, Collection KUBABA: Serie Actes VIII (Paris; L'Harmattan, 2006). 458 pp. ISBN...

Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ed. Laurie Postlewate and Wim Husken, Ludus Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 8 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). 361 pp.; 31 illustrations. ISBN...

Michelle P. Brown, The World of the Luttrell Psalter.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Michelle P Brown, The World of the Luttrell Psalter (London: The British Library, 2006). 96 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4959-6. 9.95 [pounds sterling]. A slim volume aimed at the general reader, amply illustrated with ninety high quality, colour images,...

Arthurian Literature, vol. XXIII.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Arthurian Literature, vol. XXIII, ed. Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). vii + 176 pp. ISBN 1-84384-097-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. As always, this (twenty-third) volume of Arthurian Literature is a work of...

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-ta'rik, Part I: The Years 491-541/1097-1146: The Coming of the Franks and the Muslim Response.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-ta'rik, Part 1: The Years 491-541/1097-1146: The Chining of the Franks and the Muslim Response, trans. D. S. Richards, Crusade Texts in Translation 13 (Aldershot:...

Quete de soi, quete de verite du Moyen Age a l'epoque moderne.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Quete de sol, quete de verite du Moyen Age a l'epoque moderne, ed. Lucien Faggion and Laure Verdon, Le Temps de l'histoire (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universitd de Provence, 2007), 222 pp. ISBN 9-782853-99661-7. 23.oo [euro]. The focus...

Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University, Press, 2006). x + 182 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3678-2, 57.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 08223-3690-1, 14.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). This is a wonderful book, poetic...

Memory and Medievalism.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Memory and Medievalism, ed. Karl Fugelso, Studies in Medievalism XV (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2007). viii + 201 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-115-5-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. A collection of essays arising from the...

Avalon Revisted: Reworkings of the Arthurian Myth.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Avalon Revisted: Reworkings of the Arthurian Myth, ed. Maria Joss Alvarez-Faedo (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), 270 pp. ISBN 978-3-03911-231-9. 32.90 [pounds sterling]. A collection of essays treating a wide variety of retellings of the Arthurian...

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000, comp. Ann F. Howey and Stephen R. Reimer (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2006). xxx + 774 pp- ISBN 1-84384-068-5. 125.00 [pounds sterling]/$180.00. A...

Egbert Turk, Pierre de Blois: Ambitions et remords sous les Plantagenets.(Shorter Notices--Latin)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Egbert Turk, Pierre de Blois: Ambitions et remords sous les Plantagenets (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). 731 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-51805-3. 65.00 [euro] This is not, as might seem from the title, a monograph about Peter of Blois (c. 1130-c. 1204.), but...

Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works.(Shorter Notices--Latin)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... AElred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works, trans. Jane Patricia Freeland [dagger], ed. and introd. Marsha L. Dutton (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2005). xii + 306 pp. ISBN o-87907-288-1. $21.95. It is surprising that none of the...

Piotr Gorecki, A Local Society in Transition: The 'Henrykow Book' and Related Documents.(Shorter Notices--Latin)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Piotr Gorecki, A Local Society in Transition: The 'Henrykow Book' and Related Documents, Studies and Texts 155 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007). xii + 284 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-155-3. $74-95. The Liber fundationis...