Medium Aevum back issues from September 1998:
JONAH AND GENRE IN RESIGNATION B.
Sep 22, 1998; ... IN MEMORY OF J. E. CROSS Resignation B is the title generally applied to the second half of a longer text -- Resignation -- found in the tenth-century Exeter Book. The poem is anonymous and undated, and, indeed, was not recognized as a separate piece until fairly recently. Using ...
NOTES ON OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS DIGBY 86, THE NAMES OF A HARE IN ENGLISH.
Sep 22, 1998; ... On fol. [168.sup.r-v] of Bodley, MS Digby 86, appears the only surviving version of a sixty-four-line poem in rhymed couplets entitled Les Nouns de vn leure en engleis. It is written in the main hand of the manuscript. Digby 86, which has been dated to the last quarter of the thirteenth ...
VISION IN A TRANCE: A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY VISION OF PURGATORY.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Vernacular visions of the Otherworld were popular reading matter in the fifteenth century throughout western Europe. In England the visions circulated in a variety of manuscripts and were among the first incunabula.(1) Yet the vast majority of these visions originated in earlier centuries ....
BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS LATIN MISC. C.66, FOLS [21.sup.R]-[23.sup.V]: A VISION IN A TRAUNCE OF IOHAN NEUTON.
Sep 22, 1998 ... Editorial The vision contains many interlineations, alteration, and cancellations. Several were made during the main stage of writing. Others form part of the scribe's second phase of corrections, signalled by his use of a darker brown ink. The purpose of the text below is to ...
`A WOMAN'S REPLY TO HER LOVER' AND FOUR OTHER NEW COURTLY LOVE LYRICS IN CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE MS R.3.19.
Sep 22, 1998; ... In re-examining manuscripts for revision of The Index of Middle English Verse, I have been finding hidden works of Middle English verse where several apparently separate works have been listed under a single item number in The Index of Middle English Verse and its Supplement.(1) These ...
A SCRIBAL TRANSLATION OF PIERS PLOWMAN.
Sep 22, 1998; ... The linguistic interest of a scribal copy of a Middle English literary text often stands in inverse proportion to its literary and textual interest. From the point of view of the literary scholar, the medieval scribe who makes substantial changes to his text tends to be simply a nuisance, ...
THE `GESTE DE BURCH': A MANUSCRIPT.
Sep 22, 1998; ... The history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation by Bishop Ethelwold in 966 until the death of its last Norman abbot is well documented in a series of sources, the most celebrated, though in some ways least specific, of which is the Peterborough continuation of the Anglo-Saxon ...
THE MEANING OF DESTRAL AS `GO-BETWEEN' IN THE CATALAN FACET AND IN OLD OCCITAN.
Sep 22, 1998; ... The Catalan Facet is preserved in a unique manuscript of c. 1400.(1) Although its author and date of composition are unknown, it was probably written in the fourteenth century, by an Eastern Catalan speaker from somewhere near the Pyrenees. Its 1,743 lines of noves rimades constitute a ...
FLORUS AND DIOCLETIAN: A CRUX IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN'S LIVRE DU CORPS DE POLICIE.
Sep 22, 1998; ... The purpose of this note is to confirm a tentative hypothesis regarding one of Christine de Pizan's sources that I first put forward in a recent edition of the Livre du corps de policie(1) and developed more fully in an article published in Miscellanea mediaevalia: melanges offerts a ...
Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, ed. F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996). xiv + 778 pp.; 4 figures. ISBN 0-8132-0841-6, 43.95 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-8132-0842-4, 31.95 [pounds sterling] ...
Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England, ed. Rosalynn Voaden (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996). xiii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85991-425-9. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Contains: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, `Hildegard and the male reader: a study in insular ...
Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Marina Smyth, Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland, Studies in Celtic History 15 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996). Viii + 341 PP. ISBN 0-85115-313-5. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. This study is based on the small collection of Latin texts written by Irishmen in ...
The `Gesta Guillelmi' of William of Poitiers.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... The `Gesta Guillelmi' of William of Poitiers, ed. and trans. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). xlviii + 199 pp.ISBN 0-19-820553-8.40.00 [pounds sterling]. The importance of the Gesta Guillelmi as a historical source is ...
Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach).(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach), ed. and trans. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Irish Texts Society 56 (London: Irish Texts Society, 1993). 219 pp. ISBN 1-870-16656-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The story of Deirdre is one of the best known of ...
Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Pauline E. Head, Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997). xi + 166 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3204-1. $19.95 (p/b). Despite their shared object of study, the methodologies employed by Pauline Head ...
The Composition of Old English Poetry.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... H. Momma, The Composition of Old English Poetry, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 20 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). xiii + 205 pp. ISBN 0-521-55481-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Despite their shared object of study, the methodologies employed by Pauline ...
`Beowulf' and the Medieval Proverb Tradition.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Susan E. Deskis, `Beowulf' and the Medieval Proverb Tradition, Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies 155 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval Studies, Arizona State University, 1996). 178 pp. ISBN 0-88698-195-0. $22.00. Susan E. Deskis offers a study of the sentential passages ...
Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Takami Matsuda, Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997), x + 278 pp.; 7 plates. ISBN 0-85991-507-7. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Based on Takami Matsuda's York D.Phil. thesis, this careful, wide-ranging study traces the effects of the ...
`Cleanness': Structure and Meaning.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Jane K. Lecklider, `Cleanness': Structure and Meaning (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-85991-519-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This impressively researched book is the first thorough study of the theological background of Cleanness. It proposes that the ...
Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Written Work: Langland, Labor, and. Authorship, ed. Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, i997), x + 347 PP.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-8122-3396-4. 42.75. [pounds sterling] The focus of this collection of five essays on ...
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... A. J. Minnis, with V. J. Scattergood and J.J. Smith, Oxford Guides to Chaucer. The Shorter Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). xiv + 578 pp. ISBN 0-19-811193-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. In the third and final volume of the Oxford Guides to Chaucer Alastair Minnis writes on ...
A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales (Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press, 1995). x + 171 pp. ISBN 1-85928-056-0.39.50 [pounds sterling]. In the third and final volume of the Oxford Guides to Chaucer Alastair Minnis ...
A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, II: The Canterbury Tales (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997). x + 270 pp. ISBN 1-85928-057-9. 52.50 [pounds sterling]. This is the second and last volume of Mr Seymour's attempt to describe Chaucer's manuscripts. It is devoted ...
Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum'.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum', ed. L. M. Eldredge (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1996). 350 pp. ISBN 0-8701-365-9. $24.95. Medievalists will ...
Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar, ed. Marged Haycock (Swansea: Barddas, 1994). xxvii + 385 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. This most useful and pleasurable book [`"Barddas" anthology of early religious poetry'] contains the texts of thirty-three poems, with translations ...
Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Wendy Pfeffer, Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1997), x + 155 pp.; 11 illustrations. ISBN 0-8130-1480-8. $49.95. This study aims to demonstrate that such material is important for our understanding of troubadour ...
Chretien de Troyes.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Philippe Walter, Chretien de Troyes, Que sais-je? 3241 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), 128 pp. ISBN 2-13-048388-7. No price given. This slim volume lives up to the tradition of the series in that it is concise and informative. Philippe Walter deals clearly with ...
Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes, ed. Keith Busby, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones, and Lori Walters, Faux Titre 71 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1993). Vol. I: xiii + 503 pp.; 370 figures. Vol. II: 553 pp.; 435 figures, 28 colour plates ....
Marie de France: An Analytical Bibliography, Supplement No. 2.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Glyn S. Burgess, Marie de France: An Analytical Bibliography, Supplement No. 2, Research Bibliographies and Checklists 21.2 (London: Grant & Cutler, 1997). 168 pp. ISBN 0-7293-0393-4. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. The original volume of Glyn Burgess's bibliography of Marie de France ...
Le Somme abregiet de theologie: die altfranzosische Ubersetzung des `Compendium theologicae veritatis' Hugo Ripelins von Stra[Beta]burg.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Le Somme abregiet de theologie: die altfranzasische Ubersetzuag des `Compendium theologicae veritatis' Hugo Ripelins yon Stra[Beta]burg, ed. Christine Michler, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter 25 (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1996). xxii + 410 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 3-88226-882-4. DM ...
Le Roman de Tristan en prose (version du manuscrit fr. 757 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris).(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Le Roman de Tristan en prose (version du manuscrit fr. 757 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris), I, ed. Joel Blanchard and Michel Quereuil, Classiques francais du moyen age 123 (Paris: Champion, 1997). 544 PP. ISBN 2-85203-625-8. F. Fr. 170.00. Joel Blanchard and Michel ...
Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle, ed. Noelle Laborderie, Classiques francais du moyen age 122 (Paris: Champion, 1997). 472 pp. ISBN 2-85203-627-4. F. Fr. 250.00. This lively epic, though the subject of much critical attention and a recent Modern French adaptation, ...
Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Douglas Kelly, Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996). x + 228 pp. ISBN 0299-14780-0, 34.00 [pounds sterling] (hardcovers); 0-299-14784-3, 16.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). In this book, Douglas Kelly ...
Le Bestiaire et le lapidaire du Rosarius.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Le Bestiaire et le lapidaire du Rosarius (B.N. f.fr. 12483), ed. Sven Sandqvist, Etudes Romanes de Lund 55 (Lund: Lund University Press, 1996). 240 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 91-7966-384-2. S. Kr. 330.000. In 1994 Sven Sandqvist, revising and completing the edition of the late Anders ...
Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia, ed. Alan Deyermond, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 2 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1996). 132 pp. ISBN 0-904188-18-3. 8.50 [pounds sterling]. The five papers published in ...
The Lyrics of the `Historia Troyana polimetrica'.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Louise M. Haywood, The Lyrics of the `Historia Troyana polimetrica', Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 3 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1996). 83 PP. ISBN 0-904188-19-1. No price given. This excellent monograph ...
Ritterliche Werte zwischen Tradition und Transformation: Zur veranderten Konzeption von Artusheld und Artushof in Strickers `Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal'.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Regina Pingel, Ritterliche Werte zwischen Tradition und Transformation: Zur veranderten Konzeption von Artusheld und Artushof in Strickers `Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal', Mikrokosmos 40 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1994). 403 pp. ISBN 3-631-46251-4. DM 98.00. Stricker's Daniel, an ...
Rittertum zwischen Minne und Gral; Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot'.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Michele Remakel, Rittertum zwischen Minne und Gral; Untersuchungen zum mittelbochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot', Mikrokosmos 42 (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, and Vienna: Lang, 1995). 239 pp. ISBN 3-63 1482-54-X. No price given. In Rittertum zwischen Minne und ...
Johann II. von Simmern; Die Haymonskinder.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Johann II. von Simmern; Die Haymonskinder, ed. Werner Wunderlich, Fruhe Neuzeit 35 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1997). 585 pp. ISBN 3-484-36535-8. DM 238.00. The main theme of Die Haymonskinder is rebellion by vassals against a legitimate but unjust king. The narrative derives from a ...
Geistliche Prosa im Kloster Tegernsee: Untersuchungen zu Gebrauch und Uberlieferung deutschsprachiger Literatur im 15. Jahrhundert.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Christian Bauer, Geistliche Prosa im Kloster Tegernsee: Untersuchungen zu Gebrauch und Uberlieferung deutschsprachiger Literatur im 15. Jahrhundert, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 107 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1996). viii + 305 pp. ISBN 3-484-89107-6. DM 88.00. In 1425 the ...
Medieval Iberia: Essays on the History and Literature of Medieval Spain.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Medieval Iberia: Essays on the History and Literature of Medieval Spain, ed. Donald J. Kagay and Joseph T. Snow (New York: Peter Lang, 1997). xx + 268 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3651-8. $47-95. The modern trend in academic publishing is for the appearance of an increasing number of ...
The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Charles F. Fraker, The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996). x + 235 pp. ISBN 0-4721-0669-4. $42.50. The modern trend in academic publishing is for the appearance of an increasing number of ...
The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge: The Boydell Press, 1997), xiii + 216 pp; 26 plates. ISBN 0-85115-664-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume collects eleven `classic' studies of the Bayeux Tapestry written between 1821 and 1994, and brackets ...
Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997). xviii + 333 pp.; 82 figures, 11 colour plates. ISBN 0-7509-1406-8. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. There are twelve ...
Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Glyn Burgess, Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn (Cambridge: Brewer, 1996). x + 210 pp. ISBN 0-85991-438-0. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. In wartime people dream of tranquil pastorality, and the opposite seems also the case: the recent decades of peace abroad ...
Old Age in Late Medieval England.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Joel T. Rosenthal, Old Age in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) xv + 260 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3355-7. No price given. This volume begins from the admirable desire to put some detailed flesh on the bones of a subject too often ...
The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture, ed. Peter Jones and Keith Sidwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvii + 399 pp.; 6 maps, numerous black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-521-38421-4, 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-521-38600-4, 15.95 [pounds ...
Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity, with supplementary essays by W. F. Albright and P.-E. Dumont (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xi + 482 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5611-6. $19.95. The continuing classic status of these books, ...
Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... George Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), xii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5610-8. $16.95. The continuing classic status of these books, first published in 1935 and 1948 ...
Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages, ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996). x + 183 pp.; 11 plates. ISBN 085991-488-7. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. The latest volume in this established series publishes the proceedings of ...
The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World, ed. Marie-Francoise Alamichel and Derek Brewer (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), 166 pp. ISBN 0-85991-508-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Deriving from a conference held in 1994 at the Sorbonne, the papers in this volume are ...
Medieval Theology and the Natural Body.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Medieval Theology and the Natural Body, ed. Peter Billet and A. J. Minnis, York Studies in Medieval Theology 1 (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with the Boydell Press, 1997). x + 244 pp.; 3 plates. ISBN 0-9529734-0-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Originating ultimately in a ...
Medieval Women in their Communities.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Medieval Women in their Communities, ed. Diane Watt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), xii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1361-2. 30.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 0-7083-1369-8. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (p/b). All ten essays in this volume were originally presented at the 1995 ...
Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse, ed. Joseph Harris and Karl Reichl (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 436 pp. ISBN 0-85991-475-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays fully lives up to its title promise. After an introduction by the ...
Civic Ritual and Drama.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998; ... Civic Ritual and Drama, ed. Alexandra F. Johnston and Wim Husken, Ludus 2 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 201 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 90-420-0120-8. Hfl. 60.00/$37.50. The seven essays in this volume deal with different examples of civic display and pageantry in various late ...
Between Folk and Liturgy.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Between Folk and Liturgy, ed. Alan J. Fletcher and Wim Husken, Ludus 3 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 183 pp. ISBN 90-420-0395-2. 18.50 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains an introduction by Alan Fletcher, and articles by Jean-Claude Aubailly on the idea of popular ...
The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe, ed. Alan E. Knight (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 216 pp.; 17 figures. ISBN 0-85991-422-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume contains papers deriving from a 1993 conference at Pennsylvania State University, by Alexandra F ....
The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium, ed. Flemming G. Andersen, Thomas Pettitt, and Reinholdt Schroder (Odense: Odense University Press, 1997). 148 pp. ISBN 87-7878-294-7. D. Kr. 150.00. This collection of the proceedings of the 1994 Odense symposium contains ...
New Medieval Literatures I.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... New Medieval Literatures I, ed. Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). 278 pp. ISBN 0-19-818389-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This new annual publication announces its intention as being `to provide a regular venue for innovative essays that deploy ...
Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives, ed. Hugo Keiper, Christoph Bode, and Richard J. Utz, Critical Studies 10 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997). 370 pp. ISBN 90-420-0288-3, 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN 90-420-0278-6, 17.00 [pounds sterling] ...
The Court and Cultural Diversity.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... The Court and Cultural Diversity, ed. Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 426 pp. ISBN 0-85991-517-4. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This selection of papers from the 1995 congress of the International Courtly Literature Society is divided into four sections ....
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Vol. 9, ed. Brian Levy and Paul Wackers (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins, 1996). 218 pp.; 21 plates. ISBN 90-272-4038-8 (Eur.)/1-55619-766-7 (US). Hfl. 120.00/$73.00. This interesting and wide-ranging volume ...
The Arthurian Handbook.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Norris J. Lacey and Geoffrey Ashe, with Debra N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Handbook, second edition, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1920 (New York and London: Garland, 1997), xliii + 409 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2082-5, $60.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-8153-2081-7, $22.95 (p/b). This ...
Arthurian Literature XV.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Arthurian Literature XV, ed. James P. Carley and Felicity Riddy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). 216 pp. ISBN 0-85991-518-2. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The volume includes articles by Sarah Kay on `Who was Chretien de Troyes?'; Nick Corbyn, `Irony and gender performance in Le Chevalier de la ...
Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics.(Review)
Sep 22, 1998 ... Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, 4 (Durham: Department of Linguistics; Newcastle: Centre for Research in Linguistics, 1996). 317 pp. ISSN 1535-5064. No ...