Medium Aevum back issues from September 1997:
Chaucer and the Universe of Learning.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Ann W. Astell, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996). xvi + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3269-3. 27-50 [pounds sterling].Ann Astell makes three arguments in this book on the basis that Chaucer is a philosophical poet. She makes a solid case for the significance of the layout ...
'Estoire' as word and genre: meaning and literary usage in the twelfth century.
Sep 22, 1997; ... The so-called `lexical fluidity' of medieval semantics (much of it no more than a combination of missing or fragmentary manuscript record and the failings of modern scholarship)(1) must surely be one of the most misused of all scholarly concepts. When Howard Bloch proclaims that `there was, ...
'Li anemis meismes': Satan and synagogue in 'La Queste del Saint Graal.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... The identification of the Jewish people with 'serpens antiquus qui vocatur Diabolus et Satans'(1) is a cherished theme of medieval polemicists, and a close examination of the Queste del Saint Graal (c. 1220) reveals evidence of such an association on the part of the author. Reference is ...
The compilation of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is one of the most famous manuscripts of the period of `early Middle English', and it is undoubtedly one of the most important. Traditionally thought to have been compiled sometime between 1271 and 1283,(1) the manuscript contains over eighty texts in ...
The composition and social context of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29(II) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ix.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Oxford, Jesus College, NIS 29(II) (J) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ix (C) are two closely related manuscripts dating from the second half of the thirteenth century, each of which contains a number of poetic works in both English and Anglo-Norman.(1) They now have nine ...
Pre-texts: tables of contents and the reading of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... The forty-nine surviving English manuscripts(1) of John Gower's Confessio Amantis are noteworthy for their remarkably high quality and consistency, features which have shaped much of the investigation of the manuscripts since. In his 1900 edition, G. C. Macaulay detected in the early history ...
Fate, faith and paradox: medieval unlucky days as a context for 'Wytte Hath Wondyr.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... One of the more difficult issues to document in the popular devout literature of late medieval Britain is the easy and accepted contradiction between what experience and reason seemed to demand, and what religious faith revealed. Since the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, attention to the ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol 10, The Abingdon Chronicle.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. David Dumville. 1995. 23 pp. + facsimile. ISBN 0-85991-125-x. 75.00[pounds sterling].After a long gestation, the Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in a prospectus issued in 1981. Originally no fewer than twenty-three volumes were planned ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 6, MS D.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. G. P. Cubbin. 1996. clxi + 123 pp. ISBN 0-85991-467-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling].After a long gestation, the Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in a prospectus issued in 1981. Originally no fewer than twenty-three volumes were planned for the ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 1, MS F: A Facsimile Edition.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Patrick W. Conner. 1996. xc + 46 pp. ISBN 0-85991-466-6. 35.00 [pounds sterling].After a long gestation, the Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in a prospectus issued in 1981. Originally no fewer than twenty-three volumes were planned for ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Sep 22, 1997; ... trans. and ed. M. J. Swanton (London: Dent, 1996). xxxvi + 363 pp. ISBN 0-460-87737-2. 20.00 [pounds sterling].After a long gestation, the Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in a prospectus issued in 1981. Originally no fewer than twenty-three ...
Medievalism and the Modernist Temper.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Ed. R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). vii + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5086-x. 49.50 [pounds sterling].These essays look at representations of the Middle Ages from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, but focus on the ...
Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Theresa Tinkle, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996; distributed in the UK by Cambridge University Press). 294 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2525-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling].This book ranges over some leading mythographers from the fifth to the fifteenth century, rightly ...
The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality.
Sep 22, 1997; ... John C. Hirsh, Studies in the History of Christian Thought 67 (Leiden, New York and Cologne: Brill, 1996). xii + 189 pp. ISBN 90-04-10428-3. D.fl. 150.In this book John C. Hirsh makes a brave attempt to demonstrate that spirituality (or spiritualities, since the book considers ...
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Jaroslav Pelikan, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996). x + z69 pp.; 20 black-and-white and 18 colour plates. ISBN 0-300-06951-0. $25.00.It is now more than ten years since Jaroslav Pelikan's Jesus through the Centuries showed that even the most serious scholarship ...
The Power of Women: A 'Topos' in Medieval Art and Literature.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Susan L. Smith, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). XV + 294 pp.; 48 plates. ISBN 0-8122-279-8. 42.50 [pounds sterling].This study grew out of a 1978 doctoral thesis, and happily supplements depth of research with an effective (and judicious) use of recent ...
New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Richard Beadle and A. J. Piper (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995). xi + 455 pp.; 69 plates. ISBN 1-85928-003-x. 65.00 [pounds sterling].That this should be the second festschrift in honour of Ian Doyle is an indication of the esteem and affection in which he is so widely held. For ...
Mitteleuropaische Schulen, I: ca. 1250-1350.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Andreas Fingernagel and Martin Roland, Mitteleuropaische Schulen, I: ca. 1250-1350, Die illuluminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, set. 1, 10 (= Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 245) (Vienna: Verlag der ...
Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding, Manchester Medieval Sources (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996). xi + 397 PP. ISBN 0-7190-4790-0. 4790-0 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7190-4791-9, 17-99 [pounds sterling] (p/b).Without the surviving ...
A Thesaurus of Old English, 2 vols.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Jane Roberts and Christian Kay, with Lynne Grundy, King's College London Medieval Studies II (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1995). z vols. xxxv + 1555 pp. ISBN 00-9522119-0-4. 55.00 [pounds sterling].With approximately 48,000 ...
Old English Poetic Metre.
Sep 22, 1997; ... B.R. Hutcheson,(Cambridge: D.S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 1995). xvi + 351 pp. ISBN 0-85991-435-6. 49.50 [pounds sterling].B.R. Hutcheson has scanned 13,044 lines of Old English verse using a computerized database and his own methodology (which is an adaptation of ...
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Peter Clemoes, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 12 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). xvii + 523 pp. ISBN 0-521-3071 1-2. 45-00 [pounds sterling].The year 1995 was an exceptional one for Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. five books were published, of ...
The Textuality of Old English Poetry.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Carol Braun Pasternack, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 13 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). xii + 219 pp. ISBN 0-521-46149-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling].The year 1995 was an exceptional one for Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. five books were published, ...
Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the 'Beowulf'-Manuscript.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Andy Orchard, (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 1995). viii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-85991-456-9. 39.50 [pounds sterling].Long ago, in 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien taught readers of Beowulf that the monsters in the poem were its central concern. In 1913 Kenneth Sisam ...
'Beowulf' and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Craig R. Davis, Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition 17 (New York and London: Garland, 1996). xvii + 237 PP. ISBN 0-8153-2354-9. $36.00.Craig R. Davis's perspective in writing on Beowulf and the demise of Germanic legend in England is that of historical anthropology, and ...
Le Conventum (vers 1030): Un precurseur aquitain des premieres epopees.
Sep 22, 1997; ... George Beech, Yves Chauvin and Georges Pon, Publications romanes et francaises 212 (Geneva: Droz, 1995). 190 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 2-600-00056-9. 28.00 [pounds sterling].The Conventum of the tide is a Latin text Of 342 lines written in Aquitaine at the beginning of the eleventh ...
Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon: 'Hisotria Anglorum' ('History of the English People').
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. and trans. Diana Greenway, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). clxxii + 899 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-19-822224-6. 95.00 [pounds sterling].Scholars have waited for over a century for a full and critical edition of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Axglorum, to ...
Fortuna, Money and the Sublunar World: Twelfth-Century Ethical Poetics and the Satirical Poetry of the 'Carmina Burana.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... Thomas M. S. Lehtonen, (Saarijavi: Publisher, 1995). 188 pp. ISBN 9-51710-027-2. F. Mk. 120.This book sets out to place some of the satirical poems of the Carmina Burana (CB) in a firm sociocultural context. The introduction (pp. 9-36) sketches the project: in this period poetry, ...
Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Bacon's 'Perspectiva' with Introduction and Notes.
Sep 22, 1997; ... David C. Lindberg, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). cxi + 411 pp.; 64 figures. ISBN 0-19-823992-0. 60.00 [pounds sterling].One can do little more thin stand in respectful awe of David C. Lindberg's achievement in making intelligible to modem readers through his many publications ...
The Loving Subject: Desire, Eloquence and Power in Romanesque France.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Gerald A. Bond, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). 276 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3322-0. 36.95 [pounds sterling].Gerald A. Bond's latest book is another addition to the Middle Ages series produced by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Bond sees this book as ...
From Phoenix to Chauntecleer: Medieval English Animal Poetry.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Thomas Honegger, Swiss Studies in English 120 (Tubingen and Basle: Francke, 1996). xii + 288 pp. ISBN 3-7720-2432-7. DM 86.Although this book advertises itself as a `study of the use and function of animals in medieval English vernacular literature', it actually his a much narrower ...
The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... Piotr Sadowski, (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1996). 289 pp. ISBN 0-087413-580-X. 29.50 [pounds sterling].This book on the symbolic meanings of Gawain is an offshoot of two critical traditions: first, myth criticism, and, secondly, ...
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Joyce Coleman, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 26 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). xiv + 250 pp.; 10 plates. ISBN 0-521-55391-1. 37.50 [pounds sterling].This is a book with a clear thesis: `public reading was a common practice among the upper-middle and ...
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the 'Decameron' and the 'Canterbury Tales.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... N. S. Thompson, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). x + 354 PP. ISBN 0-19-812378-7. 40.00 [pounds sterling].`Did Chaucer know the Decameron?' With that century-old question Nigel S. Thompson opens the introduction to a book-length attempt to show, sort of, that Chaucer probably, most ...
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue. (CD-ROM)(Evaluation)
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Peter Robinson, with contributions from Norman Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, Stephen Partridge and Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). CD-ROM (PC/Mac) with handbook. 80 pp. 150.00 [pounds sterling].The first production of the Canterbury Tales Project ...
English Wycliffite Sermons, vol. 4.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Ed. Pamela Gradon and Anne Hudson, vol. IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). xv + 333 PP.; 5 plates. ISBN 0-19-812775-8. 60.00 [pounds sterling] Vol. V (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). xiii + 443 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-19-813005-8. 70.00 [pounds sterling].The final volumes of Anne ...
William Dunbar: Selected Poems.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Priscilla Bawcutt, Longman Annotated Texts (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman; New York. Longman, 1996). xii + 45 1 pp. ISBN 0-582-06188-1, 50.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-582-06187-3, 19.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b).This is the first substantial student-centred ...
La Legende de Troie en France au moyen age: Analyse des versions francaises et bibliographie raisonnee des manuscrits.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Marc-Rene Jung, Romanica Helvetica 114 (Basle and Tubingen: Francke, 1996). 662 pp.; 28 plates. ISBN 3-7720-2050-X. DM 128.This well-produced volume is destined to become an essential instrument de travail for anyone interested in the intricate development of the Troy legend in ...
Clotures du cycle arthurien: Etude et textes.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Richard Trachsler, Publications romanes et francaises 215 (Geneva: Droz, 1996) 576 pp. ISBN 2-600-00154-9. Sw. Fr. 83.65.A number of important articles by distinguished scholars have been written on the different ways in which the ending of Arthur's reign might be presented ...
Tristan et Iseut: Genese d'un mythe litteraire.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Jacques Chocheyras, Nouvelle bibliotheque du moyen age 36 (Paris: Champion, 1996). 272 pp.; 15 figures. ISBN 2-85203-551-0. F. Fr. 250.This is the kind of book one normally approaches with trepidation. The chances of there being a desirable unity to Jacques Chocheyras's work seem ...
Saggi di linguistica trovadorica: saggi su 'Girart de Roussillon,' Marcabruno, Bernart de Ventadorn, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, Arnaut Daniel e sull'uso letterario di oc e oil nel Trecento italiano.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Maurizio Perugi, Romanica et comparatistica: sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Studien 21 (Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1995). 197 PP. ISBN 3-923721-71-4. DM 58.This is a collection of individual studies, detailed in the title. The first looks at gazil / -el in Girart de ...
Manieres de langage (1396, 1399, 1415).
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Andres M. Kristol, Anglo-Norman Text Society 53 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 199 5). i + 118 pp. ISBN 0-90547433-3. 15.00 [pounds sterling].This publication is to be welcomed as bringing together for the first time three texts which show the efforts made around the close ...
Le Present de Marie.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Milena Mikhailova, (Paris, New York and Amsterdam: Diderot, 1996). 298 pp. ISBN 2-84134-060-0. F. Fr. 125.It may not be immediately apparent to many readers that the reference in the title of this volume is to a fine in the Prologue of Marie de France's Lais, in which she offers ...
Pierre d'Abernon of Fetcham: La Vie de seint Richard evesque de Cycestre.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Ed. D. W. Russell, Anglo-Norman Text Society 51 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1995). xiii + 175 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-905474-31-7. 15.00 [pounds sterling].This complete edition supersedes A. T. Baker's edition of 1910 (RLR, 53, 245-396). Baker published only the first pan of ...
La Belle Helene de Constantinople.
Sep 22, 1997; ... edition critique par Claude Roussel, Textes litteraires francais 454 (Geneva: Droz, 1995). 942 pp. ISBN 2-600-00077-2. Sw. Fr. 161.20.La Belle Hiline de Constantinople is a 15,538-line chanson d'aventures extant in three fifteenth-century manuscripts and one fragment, hitherto ...
The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Gregory B. Stone, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). 229 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3214-3. 29.95 [pounds sterling].This ambitious book, as its tide indicates, yokes together two arguments. The first concerns the issue of subjectivity as it is played out in the relations ...
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Peter Brand and Lino Pertile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). xxxiv + 701 pp. ISBN 0-521-43492-0. 70.00 [pounds sterling].In these days of theory it is a pleasure to report a book, written in jargon-free English, which so well asserts the validity of the ...
"Sole nuovo, luce nuova": saggi sul rinnovamento culturale in Dante.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Zygmunt Baranski, (Turin: Scriptorium, 1996). 319 pp. ISBN 88-86231-28. L 35,000.Zygmunt Baranski's book of essays on cultural renewal in Dante draws together a number of papers which, though at times a little reluctant to settle down together from the point of view of method and ...
Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Ed. Theodore J. Cachey Jr, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies I (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995). xxi + 283 pp. ISBN 0-268-00875-2. 19-95. [pounds sterling].Dante Now is the first publication in a series which aims `to illuminate ...
The Story of a Story Across Cultures: The Case of the 'Doncella Teodor.'
Sep 22, 1997; ... Margaret R. Parker, Coleccion Tamesis A 161 (London: Tamesis, 1996; distributed by Boydell & Brewer). x + 15 3 pp. ISBN 1-85566-038-5. 29.50 [pounds sterling].The story of the slave girl Tawaddud, who confounds a hostile panel of wise men with her wise and witty answers, passed ...
Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature, 800-1300.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Dennis H. Green, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 512 pp. ISBN 0-521-44493-4. 55.00 [pounds sterling].In his latest book Dennis H. Green concentrates on medieval German evidence of `listening and reading' on the receivers' and `orality and writing' on the senders' ...
Ywain auf Schloss Rodenegg: Eine Bildergeschichte nach dem 'Iwein' Hartmanns von Aue.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Volker Schupp and Hans Szklenar, (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1996). 120 pp. ISBN 3-7995-4248-3. DM 29.In 1904 Otto Piper noted in his book on Austrian castles that in Rodenegg, near Brixen in South Tyrol, there was an old chapel whose walls bore traces of figurative paintings. It was ...
Marquard vom Stein: 'Der Ritter von Turn,' Kommentar.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Peter Ganz, Nigel Palmer, Lothar Schmitt and Christopher Wells, Texte des spaten Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit 37 (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1996). 207 PP. ISBN 3-503-03721-7. DM 68.Der Rifter vom Turn is a translation of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry pour ...
Old Norse Images of Women.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Jenny Jochens, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). 326 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3358-1. 37.50 [pounds sterling].A companion volume to the 1995 Women in Old Norse Society, Old Norse Images of Women analyses the representations of women found in Old Norse mythological ...
St. Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain: The Makers of England 2 (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1996). xvii + 365 pp.; 12 plates; 22 figures. ISBN 0-7185-0003-2. 49.95 [pounds sterling].St Oswald, bishop of Worcester from ...
Die Welfen un ihr Braunschweiger Hof.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Bernd Schneidmuller, Wolfenbutteler Mittelalter-Studien 7 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995). vi + 579 pp. DM 148.Alongside recent general treatments of the medieval court (e.g. by J. Bumke and J. Fleckenstein) we have also been given of late a number of monographs or articles on ...
City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe.
Sep 22, 1997; ... ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 6 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994). xx + 331 pp. ISBN 0-8166-2359-7, $49-95 (hard covers); ISBN 0-8116-23 60-0, $15.95 (p/b).Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson's stimulating ...
Medieval Towns.
Sep 22, 1997; ... John Schofield and Alan Vince, (London: Leicester University Press, 1994). xii + z43 pp.; numerous figures. ISBN 0-7185-1294-4, 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7185-1971-X, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b).Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson's stimulating ...