Medium Aevum articles from September 2008

Medium Aevum archives from September 2008

The tortoise and the snail: a lexical shellgame.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In his second fable, the poet Avianus (c. AD 400) tells the story of a tortoise (testudo) which tired of its slowness and asked an eagle to carry it into the air in return for some precious sea-shells: (1) Pennatis avibus quondam...

Sight and sound in St Erkenwald: On theodicy and the senses.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... ... yea, this is now believed, afterward it shall be seen. (Augustine, The City of God, XVII.17) Bur such a vision is not of the present life. (Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, 31.2) For we walk by faith, and not by...

Poverty, dignity, and lay spirituality in Pore Caitif and Jacob's Well.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... This essay will demonstrate that Jacob's Well, the early fifteenth-century sermon cycle, derived the doctrinal material within its exposition of the Creed and Ten Commandments from the late fourteenth-century collection of treatises known as...

'I shalle send word in writing': lexical choices and legal acumen in the letters of Margaret Paston.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Margaret Paston's letters have been said to contain 'many obvious echoes of legal phraseology', (2) and both their tone and their content have led historians to surmise that she had a certain familiarity with the law, bur the extent of her...

An unpublished fifteenth-century Carol Collection: Oxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 141.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Medium Aevum Essay Prize 2008 The fifteenth century is the first period from which substantial numbers of vernacular English songs survive, in both notated and un-notated manuscripts, together testifying to a vigorous written tradition....

Christine de Pizan's crown of twelve stars.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In the twelfth chapter of her Epistre de la prison de vie humaine, (1) a consolatory epistle completed on 20 January 1417 OS (1418 NS) and designed to comfort all the grieving princesses of the realm and other noble ladies affected by the...

Purposes and methods of a modern catalogue of ancient manuscripts: observations on the recent Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford.(A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Mark L. Sosower, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford, with descriptions of bindings by Jane Eagan (Oxford: St John's College Research Centre, 2007). 118 pp. ISBN 978-0-9544975-3-8. 25.00 [pounds sterling]...

The structure of Piers Plowman B XV-XX: evidence from the rubrics.(NOTES)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... All but two of the seventeen copies of the B text of Piers Plowman make some reference in their rubrics to the so-called Three Lives, Dowel, Dobet, and Dobest. Although the frequency, distribution, and form of these rubrics differ considerably...

Simon Sudbury and Helenus in John Gower's Vox clamantis.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In the aftermath of the Great Rising of 1381, chroniclers and poets tried to come to terms with the violence and social upheaval that had ruptured English society. John Gower, for instance, added an extra book (now known as the Visio) to the...

Thomas Hoccleve's seal.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Ina fascinating article, 'Some new light on Thomas Hoccleve', Linne Mooney has added enormously to our knowledge of Hoccleve's bureaucratic career by identifying a large number of autograph documents that were copied by him in his capacity as a...

Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts. Supplement One.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts. Supplement One (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008). 220 pp.; 29 colour plates. ISBN 978-1-84682--095-3. 55.00[pounds...

Patrick Andrist, Les Manuscrits grecs conserves a la Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Patrick Andrist, Les Manuscrits grecs conserves a la Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2007). 349 PP.; 77 illustrations; CD-ROM. ISBN...

James France, Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... James France, Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian Publications 210 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2007). 430 pp. ISBN 978-0-87907-310-7. $49.95. This is one of those books that performs yeoman service by...

Olive Sayce, Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Olive Sayce, Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), xiv + 408 pp. ISBN 978-18438-0-992. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. Only the title of this excellent book is slightly problematic, though it would have been...

Frauen--Kloster--Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Beitrage zum Internationalen Kolloquium voto 13. bis 16. Mai 2005 anlasslich der Ausstellung 'Krone und Schleier'.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Frauen--Kloster--Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Beitrage zum Internationalen Kolloquium voto 13. bis 16. Mal 2005 anlasslich der Ausstellung 'Krone und Schleier', ed. Jeffrey H. Hamburger, Carola Jaggi, Susan...

Elizabeth Eva Leach, Sung Birds." Music Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Elizabeth Eva Leach, Sung Birds: music Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007). xiii + 345 PP. ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3. $55.00/29.50 [pounds sterling]. Leach begins her multifaceted...

Sue Niebrzydowski, Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sue Niebrzydowski, Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval Literature (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), 239 pp. ISBN 978-3-03910-727-8. Sw. fr. 69.00. Sue Niebrzydowski's title phrase 'bonoure and buxom', referring to the vow a...

Isabel Davis, Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Isabel Davis, Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xiii + 222 pp. ISBN 0-521-86637-5. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$85 .00 Isabel Davis's book seeks to 'explore... intersections between...

Sebastian I. Sobecki, The Sea and Medieval English Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sebastian I. Sobecki, The Sea and Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2008). xii + 205 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 978-1-84384-137-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This book addresses the literary...

Fabienne L. Michelet, Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Fabienne L. Michelet, Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xvi + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-928671-3. 64.00 [pounds sterling]. This...

Nicole Guenther Discenza, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius'.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Nicole Guenther Discenza, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius' (New York: State University of New York Press, 2005), viii + 224 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6447-4. $60.00. Nicole Guenther Discenza's study of the...

John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of Texts.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of Texts, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 13 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), xvi + 330 pp. ISBN 2-503-51530-4. 60.00 [euro]. John Niles has written a study of Old English enigmatic...

Richard North, The Origins of Beowulf: From Beowulf to Wiglaf.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Richard North, The Origins of Beowulf: From Beowulf to Wiglaf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xviii + 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-920661-2. 68.00 [pounds sterling]. Richard North's assertion in this fascinating and wide-ranging...

Kenneth J. Tiller, Lazamon's 'Brut' and the Anglo-Norman Vision of History.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Kenneth J. Tiller, Lazamon's 'Brut' and the Anglo-Norman Vision of History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), x + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7083-1902-4. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Kenneth J. Tiller's book usefully summarizes recent critical...

Madeleine Kasten, In Search of 'Kynde Knowynge': 'Piers Plowman' and the Origin of Allegory.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Madeleine Kasten, In Search of 'Kynde Knowynge': 'Piers Plowman' anal the Origin of Allegory (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). 257 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-2173-0. 52.00 [euro]. This book combines a reading of Piers Plowman through Walter...

John M. Fyler, Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... John M. Fyler, Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 63 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xii + 306 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87215-7. 50.00 [pounds...

Alexandra Cuffel, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Alexandra Cuffel, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), xviii + 430 pp.; 10 black-and-white images. ISBN 0-268-02367-0/978-0-268-02367-6. $45.00. Fame, gossip, rumour, and...

Jennifer Bryan, Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jennifer Bryan, Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). ix + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4048-1/0-8122-4048-0. $49.95. ...

Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading and English Literature 1430-1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), xii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921588-1. 53.00 [pounds sterling]. The title of Daniel Wakelin's study promises the smooth ride of a...

Rebecca L. Schoff, Reformations: Three Medieval Authors in Manuscripts and Movable Type.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Rebecca L. Schoff, Reformations: Three Medieval Authors in Manuscripts and Movable Type, Texts and Transitions 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). xv + 231 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-523-52316-3. 60.00 [euro]. This, the fourth volume in Brepols's Texts...

John Parker, The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... John Parker, The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2007). xviii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-814-4519-4. $39.95. While this rich, densely argued, and highly...

Madeleine Jeay, Le Commerce des mots: L'Usage des listes dans la litterature medievale (XIIe-XVe siecles).(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Madeleine Jeay, Le Commerce des mots: L'Usage des listes dans la litterature medievale (XIIe-XVe siecles), Publications romanes et francaises 241 (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 552 pp. ISBN 2-600-01065-3. 75.90 [euro]. This study analyses the...

Florence Plet-Nicolas, La Creation du monde: Les Noms propres dans le roman de Tristan en prose.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Florence Plet-Nicolas, La Creation du monde: Les Noms propres dans le roman de Tristan en prose, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 84 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2007). 511 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1569-4. 80.00 [euro]. Any reader of the Tristan...

Sarah Kay, The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sarah Kay, The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xi + 236 pp. ISBN 0-8122-4007-3. 39.00 [pounds sterling]/$59.95. The Place of...

Alban Georges, 'Tristan de Nanteuil': Ecriture et imaginaire epiques au XIVe siecle.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Alban Georges, 'Tristan de Nanteuil': Ecriture et imaginaire epiques au XIVe siecle, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 80 (Paris: Champion, 2006). 750 pp. ISBN 978-z-745 3-1415 5-4. 125.00 [euro]. In his comprehensive study of the...

Emma Cayley, Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Emma Cayley, Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006). 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-929026-0. 56.00 [pounds sterling]. Emma Cayley has written an excellent book that helps us understand more...

Catherine M. Jones, Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Catherine M. Jones, Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation, Gallica 9 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), viii + 151 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-158-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Philippe de Vigneulles is one of those late...

Wybren Scheepsma, The Limburg Sermons: Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century.(De Limburge sermoenen (ca. 1300): De oudste preken in bet Nederlands)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Wybren Scheepsma, The Limburg Sermons: Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century, trans. David F. Johnson, Brill's Series in Church History 34 (Leiden: Brill, 2008). 480 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-16969-2. 99.00...

George Garnett, Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... George Garnett, Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), xviii + 401 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820793-1. 68.00 [pounds sterling]. George Garnett's book has been more than twenty years in...

Conor McCarthy, Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Conor McCarthy, Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004). 185 pp. ISBN 1-84383-102-3, 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. Conor McCarthy's short book is an ambitious attempt to provide an account...

Klaeber's 'Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg'.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Klaeber's 'Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg', ed. R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles, 4th edn, Toronto Old English Series (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). cxc + 497 PP.; 9 figures, 2 maps. ISBN 978-0-8020-9843-6,...

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, 5th edn (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007), x + 373 PP.; CD-ROM....

Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, ed. Edward E. Foster, Middle English Texts Series, 2nd edn (Kalamazoo, Mich.: TEAMS, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007). viii + 130 pp. ISBN 978-1-58044-125-4. $12.00 (p/b). A second...

Aymeri de Narbonne.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Aymeri de Narbonne, ed. Helene Galle, Classiques francais du Moyen Age 155 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2007). 767 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1535-9. 47.00 [euro]. Aymeri de Narbonne--one of the chansons de geste in the Guillaume d'Orange cycle and which,...

French Arthurian Literature IV: Eleven Old French Narrative Lays.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... French Arthurian Literature IV: Eleven Old French Narrative Lays, ed. and trans. Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook, with Amanda Hopkins for Melion (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007). 529 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-1 18-0. 55.00 [pounds...

Ovide du remede d'amours.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ovide du remede d'amours, ed. Tony Hunt, MHRA Critical Texts 15 (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2008). 131 pp. IBSN 978-0-947623-78-4. 12.99 [pounds sterling]/$24.99/19.99 [euro]. This incomplete version of the Remedia amoris...

Gregoire le Grand: Le Pastoralet: Traduction medievale francaise de la 'Regula pastoralis'. Edition critique du manuscrit 868 de la Bibliotheque municipale de Lyon. Edition en vis-a-vis du manuscrit Cotton Vitellius F VII de la British Library de Londres.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Gregoire le Grand: Le Pastoralet: Traduction medievale francaise de la 'Regula pastoralis'. Edition critique du manuserit 368 de la Bibliotheque munidpale de Lyon. Edition en vis-a-vis du manuscrit Cotton Vitellius F VII de la British Library...

Chartes de Champagne en francais, conservees aux Archives de l'Aube, 1270-1300.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Chartes de Champagne en francais, conservees aux Archives de l'Aube, 1270-1300, ed. Pieter van Reemen, with Margot van Mulken and Evert Wattel (Orleans: Paradigme, 2007). xvi + 283 pp. ISBN 978-2-86878-257-I. 28.00 [euro]. A principal...

Hugo von Montfort: Das poetische Werk.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hugo von Montfort: Das poetische Werk, ed. Wernfried Hofmeister (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2005), xl + 238 pp. ISBN 3-1-017604-1. 29.95 [euro]. The poems of Hugo von Montfort (1357-1423), which were the subject of much early editorial...

Lambeth Palace Library, and its Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Exhibition Mounted for the Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 3rd August 2007.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Lambeth Palace Library, and its Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Exhibition Mounted for the Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 3rd August 2007, ed. David Ganz and Jane Roberts with Richard Palmer (London: Taderon...

Proceedings of the Twelfth Colloquium.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Proceedings of the Twelfth Colloquium, ed. Alan Deyermond and Jane Whetnall, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 35 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003).127 pp. ISBN 0-904188-84-1. 10.00...

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Colloquium.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Proceedings of the Thirteenth Colloquium, ed. Jane Whetnall and Alan Deyermond, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 51 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006). 160 pp. ISBN 0--9022 38-26-4....

Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: The British Library, 2007). 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-7123-4922-2. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. Although this book is not intended for a scholarly...

Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr, Mediaevalia Groningana NS 10 (Paris: Peeters, 2007), viii + 319 pp. ISBN 978-90-429-1980-8. 62.00 [euro] (p/b). This volume,...

Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano, ed. A. N. Doane and Kirsten Wolf, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 319 (Tempe, Ariz.: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

F.E. Peters, The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... F. E. Peters, The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims (London: The British Library, 2007). 292 pp.; 16 colour plates. ISBN 978-0-7123-4943-7. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. This book discusses the...

The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain, ed. Amand a Hopkins and Cory James Rushton (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007). viii + 182 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-1197. 45,00 [pounds sterling]. This volume includes studies of Latin, French, English,...

Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Lisa J. Kiser (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). viii + 256 pp.; 21 black-and-white plates. ISBN...

Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain, ed. and trans. Michael A. Faletra (Ontario: Broadview Editions, 2008). 307 pp. ISBN 978-1-55111-639-6. 8.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A welcome new volume--approachable, affordable, and...

A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, ed. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 2008). xviii + 529 pp.; I map. ISBN 978-1-4051-7609-5. 24.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A...

Companion Tales to 'The Mabinogi': Legend and Landscape of Wales.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Companion Tales to 'The Mabinogi': Legend and Landscape of Wales, trans. John K. Bollard, photography by Anthony Griffiths (Llandysul, Ceredigion: Gomer Press, 2007). 144 pp.; fully illustrated, 3 figures. ISBN 978-1-84323-825-0. 19.99 [pounds...

The First Poems in English.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The First Poems in English, ed. Michael Alexander, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin Books, 2008). xxxvi + 140 pp. ISBN 978-0-140-43378-4. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. A welcome new edition of this popular volume of translations by Michael...

Jeremy J. Smith, Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle and Early Modern English.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jeremy J. Smith, Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle and Early Modern English, 2nd edn (London and New York: Routledge, 2005). xiv + 248 pp. ISBN 0-415-34258-7 (p/b). 18.99 [pounds sterling]. This handy book is designed,...

Key Concepts in Medieval Literature.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, ed. Elizabeth Solopova and Stuart D. Lee, Palgrave Key Concepts (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). xiv + 338 pp. ISBN 978-1-4039-9723-4. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. A valuable addition to the Palgrave key...

Medieval Texts in Context.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Medieval Texts in Context, ed. Denis Renevey and Graham D. Caie, Context and Genre in English Literature (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). xii + 257 pp. ISBN 0-415-36025-0. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of eleven essays arises...

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerante of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerante of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), Iii + 562 pp. ISBN 978-0-268-03312-5. $50.00. In this enormous tome,...

Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts, ed. Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007). 9 + 197 PP. ISBN 978-1-85182-990-3. 37.27 [pounds sterling]/49.50 [euro]. This collection of essays by...

Mary Clemente Davlin, OP, A Journey into Love: Meditating with 'Piers Plowman'.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Mary Clemente Davlin, OP, A Journey into Love: Meditating with 'Piers Plowman', The Robert B. Lawton SJ Studies in Faith, Culture, and the Arts (Los Angeles, Calif.: Marymount Institute Press, Tsehai Publishers, 2008). x + 170 pp.; 16 plates....

Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Men and Masculinilies in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde', ed. Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, Chaucer Studies 38 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), x + 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-160-9. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This new volume explores...

Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality, ed. Peter Happe and Wim Husken, Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 9 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). 380 pp. ISBN 978-90-42-2303-1....

Frances McCormack, Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent: The Lollard Context and Subtext of the 'Parson's Tale'.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Frances McCormack, Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent: The Lollard Context and Subtext of the 'Parson's Tale' (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007). 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-84682-049-6. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The title of the book explains its central...

Fatemah Chehregosha Azinfar, Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World: The Influence of Persian and Arabic Ideas of Doubt and Scepticism on Medieval European Literary Thought.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Fatemah Chehregosha Azinfar, Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World: The Influence of Persian and Arabic Ideas of Doubt and Scepticism on Medieval European Literary Thought (Bethesda, Md: Ibex Publishers, 2008), 271 pp. ISBN...

Guy P. Raffa, Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Inferno.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Guy P. Raffa, Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Inferno (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 144 PP.; 1 map, 1 line drawing. ISBN 0-226-70267-7, $35.00/22.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-226-70268-5, $14.00/9.00...

Dante: The Divine Comedy 2: Purgatorio.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Dante: The Divine Comedy 2: Purgatorio, trans, and ed. Robert Kirkpatrick, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin Books, 2007). lxiv + 512 pp.; 2 maps. ISBN 978-0-140-44896-2. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. Robin Kirkpatrick's new translation of Dante's...

Dante and the Human Body: Eight Essays.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Dante and the Human Body: Eight Essays, ed. J. C. Barnes and J. Petrie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007). 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-84682-090-8. 51.99 [pound sterling]. An apparent paradox of Dante's account of his journey in the afterlife is the...

P. Boitani, Dante's Poetry of the Donati.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... P. Boitani, Dante's Poetry of the Donati, ed. J. Lindon, The Barlow Lecture on Dante delivered at University College London, 17-18 March zoo 5, Society for Italian Studies, Occasional Papers 7 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2007), v + 55 PP. ISBN...

Viktoria Hedvig Deak, OP, Arpad-hazi Szent Margit es a domonkos hagiografia. Garinus legendaja nyomaban.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Viktoria Hedvig Deak, OP, Arpad-hazi Szent Margit es a domonkos hagiografia. Garinus legendaja nyomaban (Budapest: Kairosz, 2005). 486 pp. ISBN 963-7510-64-8. HUF 3,800. Together with Elisabeth of Thuringen, Mar gareta of Hungary is one of the...

Medievalism in Technology Old and New.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Medievalism in Technology Old and New, ed. Karl Fugelso with Carol L. Robinson, Studies in Medievalism 16 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008). xiv + 207 pp.; 11 plates, 3 figures, 1 table. ISBN 978-1-84384-156-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This...

Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, ed. Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). xiv + 271 pp.; 1 plate, 5 figures. ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume pays...

R. Andrew McDonald, Manx Kingship in its Irish Sea Setting, 1187-1229: King Rognvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... R. Andrew McDonald, Manx Kingship in its Irish Sea Setting, 1187-1229: King Rognvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-84682-047-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Despite the scarcity of surviving evidence...

Patrice Beck, Archeologie d'un document d'archives: Approche codicologique et diplomatique des cherches des feux bourguignonnes (1285-1543).(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Patrice Beck, Archeologie d'un document d'archives: Approche codicologique et diplomatique des cherches des feux bourguignonnes (1285-1543), etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes 20 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2006), 245 pp. ISBN...

Gentry Culture in Late Medieval England.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Gentry Culture in Late Medieval England, ed. Raluca Radulescu and Alison Truelove, Manchester Medieval Studies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008), xii + 220 pp. ISBN 0-7190-6825-8. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. A welcome...

The Late Medieval English College and its Context.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Late Medieval English College and its Context, ed. Clive Burgess and Martin Hale (York: York Medieval Press, University of York-Boydell Press, 2008), xviii + 20 pp.; 6 black-and-white plates; 2 figures. ISBN 978-1-90315-322-2, 45.00 [pounds...

David H. Williams, Images of Welsh History: Seals of the National Library of Wales.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... David H. Williams, Images of Welsh History: Seals of the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2007), vi + 46 pp.; 127 black-and-white plates. ISBN 978-1-86225-06-8. 4.50 [pounds sterling]. A very brief paperback...