Medium Aevum back issues from September 2000:
The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich 1350-1540.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Marilyn Oliva, The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich 1350-1540, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 12 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998). 271 pp. ISBN 0-85115-576-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This book ...
Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), xiii + 266 pp.; 4 maps, 25 illustrations, 16 in colour. ISBN 0-300-07612-6. $30.00. Anti-Semitism was, without any doubt, the most powerful and persistent form ...
God's Peace and King's Peace.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Bruce R. O'Brien, God's Peace and King's Peace (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). xv + 305 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3461-8. 41.00 [pounds sterling]. These two books share many themes. They mark a shift from studies which take law as only one element within the ...
The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, I: Legislation and its Limits.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, I: Legislation and its Limits (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). xviii + 574 pp. ISBN 0-631-13496-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. These two books share many themes. They mark a shift from studies which take law ...
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). xi + 338 pp. ISBN 0-19-820730-1. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. In this elegant, interpretative essay Richard Kaeuper takes another look at the meaning of chivalry. Eschewing ...
Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, rev. R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1999). 287 (partly columns) + xiii + 196 pp. ISBN 1-85124-056-X. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the second of the Bodleian's reprintings of the ...
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Lilian M. C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson, and Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, III: Belgium, 1250-1530, parts 1-2 (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997) ....
SHORTER NOTICES.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2000 ... Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. Stephanie Quinn (Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000). xxiii + 451 pp. ISBN 0-86516-435-5, $80.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-86516-418-5, $40.00 (p/b). This substantial collection of essays and other works on Virgil and the ...
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Mechtild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). xii + 471 pp. ISBN 0-521-58155-9. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The historiography of the tenth-century ...
Jean Tinctor; Invectives contre la secte de vauderie.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Jean Tinctor; Invectives contre la secte de vauderie, ed. Emile van Balberghe and Frederic Duval (Tournai: Archives du Chapitre Cathedral de Tournai and Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1999). 139 pp. No ISBN or price given. Les Invectives contre la secte de vauderie, ...
Cerveri de Girona and his Poetic Traditions.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Miriam Cabre, Cerveri de Girona and his Poetic Traditions (London: Tamesis, 1999). xviii + 206 pp. ISBN 1-85566-042-3. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Cerveri de Girona, whose poetic production falls between 1259 and 1285, is the most impressive and best documented of the late Catalan ...
Literatura cetrera de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento espanol.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Jose Manuel Fradejas Rueda, Literatura cetrera de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento espanol, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 13 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1998). 91 pp. ISBN 0-904188-44-2. 8.00 [pounds sterling]. ...
The Heterotextual Body of the `Mora Morilla'.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Louise O. Vasvari, The Heterotextual Body of the `Mora Morilla' (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1999). 115 pp. ISBN 0-904188-42-6. 9.00 [pounds sterling]. The Spanish ballad `Moraima' runs as follows: `Yo me era mora Morayma, morilla ...
Hybride Helden: Wigalois und Willehalm. Beitrage zum Heldenbild und zur Poetik des Romans im fruhen 13. Jahrhundert.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Stephan Fuchs, Hybride Helden: Wigalois und Willehalm. Beitrage zum Heldenbild und zur Poetik des Romans im fruhen 13. Jahrhundert, Frankfurter Beitrage zur Germanistik 31 (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1997). 425 pp. ISBN 3-8253-0482. DM 88.00. Stephan Fuchs's Hybride Helden, based on ...
Funf Palastina-Pilgerberichte aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Funf Palastina-Pilgerberichte aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, ed. and introd. Randall Herz, Dietrich Huschenbett, and Frank Szcesny with Nicky Zwijnenburg-Tonnies, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter 33 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998). 356 pp. ISBN 3-89500-089-2. DM 72.00. Recent years have ...
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of `Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Hamid Dabashi, Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of `Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani (Richmond: Curzon, 1999), xxi + 671 pp. ISBN 0-7007-1002-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. `Ayn al-Qudat was born in the western Persian town of Hamadan in 1098, the year -- as Professor Dabashi ...
Barlaam and Josaphat: A Transcription of MS Egerton 876 with Notes, Glossary, and Comprehensive Study of the Middle English and Japanese Versions.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Barlaam and Josaphat: A Transcription of MS Egerton 876 with Notes, Glossary, and Comprehensive Study of the Middle English and Japanese Versions, ed. Keiko Ikegami, AMS Studies in the Middle Ages 21 (New York: AMS Press, 1999; distributed in Britain by Eurospan, London). xvi + 242 pp.; 2 ...
Martin le Franc; Le Champion des dames.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Martin le Franc; Le Champion des dames, ed. Robert Deschaux, Classiques francais du moyen age, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). Vol. I, xliii + 173 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0019-9. F. Fr. 95.00. Vol. II, 271 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0020-2. F. Fr. 120.00. Vol. III, 152 pp. ISBN ...
L'Eneas: une traduction au risque de l'invention.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Philippe Logie, L'Eneas: une traduction au risque de l'invention (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). 512 pp. ISBN 1-7453-0030-X. F. Fr. 410.00. Much has already been written about the relationship between Virgil's Aeneid and its twelfth-century `translation', the anonymous Roman ...
Lectures d'une oeuvre: le Conte du Graal de Chretien de Troyes: matiere, sen et conjointure.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Catherine Blons-Pierre, Lectures d'une oeuvre: le Conte du Graal de Chretien de Troyes: matiere, sen et conjointure (Paris: Editions du Temps, 1998). 190 pp. ISBN 2-84274-047-5. F. Fr. 90.00. This volume has been prepared principally with the needs of agregation students in ...
Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Kathryn Karczewska, Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle, Studies in the Humanities 37 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). xvi + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3852-9. $51.95. This book takes as its starting point that prophecy is the language of ...
La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: deux poemes du XIIIe siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... La Vie de saint Germer et la vie de saint Josse de Pierre de Beauvais: deux poemes du XIIIe siecle, publies avec introduction, notes et glossaire, ed. Nils Olaf Jonsson, Etudes romanes de Lund 56 (Lund: Lund University Press, 1997). 207 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 91-7966-409-1. Sw. Kr. 230.00. ...
Wauchier de Denain; La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le benoit confessor.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Wauchier de Denain; La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le benoit confessor, ed. John Jay Thompson (Geneva: Droz, 1999). 272 pp. ISBN 2-600-00333-9. Sw. Fr. 43.00. Dr Thompson has produced an extremely useful edition of a little-known and very interesting text which contributes to ...
Gautier de Coinci; La Vie de sainte Cristine: edition critique d'apres le manuscrit f. fr. 817 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Gautier de Coinci; La Vie de sainte Cristine: edition critique d'apres le manuscrit f. fr. 817 de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France, ed. Olivier Collet, Textes litteraires francais 510 (Geneva: Droz, 1999). xxiv + 183 pp. ISBN 2-600-00342-8. Sw. Fr. 36.00. This edition may ...
Jacques de Cessoles; Le Jeu des eschaz moralise: traduction de Jean Ferron (1347).(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Jacques de Cessoles; Le Jeu des eschaz moralise: traduction de Jean Ferron (1347), ed. Alain Collet, Classiques francais du moyen age 134 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1999). 288 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0096-2. F. Fr. 120.00. `A noble home Bertran Aubert de Tarascon frere Jehan Ferron de ...
The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation, ed. Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). x + 236 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1579-6. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. Geoffroi de Charny was ...
Plaire et edifier, les recits hagiographiques composes en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Francoise Laurent, Plaire et edifier, les recits hagiographiques composes en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles, Nouvelle Bibliothique du moyen age 45 (Paris: Champion, 1998). 630 pp. ISBN 2-85203-822-6. F. Fr. 480.00. Francoise Laurent's study of Anglo-Norman hagiography, a ...
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Florence Percival, Chaucer's Legendary Good Women, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 38 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). xii + 338 pp. ISBN 0-521-41655-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Legend of Good Women still puzzles readers: why use notoriously bad women ...
A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Richard Firth Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), xvi + 496 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-8122-3463-4. $62.50. Richard Firth Green's title even in its full form hardly indicates the exciting and vast ...
Political Allegory in Late Medieval England.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Ann W. Astell, Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (New York: Cornell University Press, 1999). xi + 218 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3560-9. 25.95 [pounds sterling]. Ann Astell proposes that vernacular texts in late medieval England were written according to Ciceronian and ...
Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Christopher Abbott, Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85991-548-4. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The subtitle of Christopher Abbott's book, Autobiography and Theology, initially ...
God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Rosalynn Voaden, God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (York: York Medieval Press, 1999). xi + 204 pp. ISBN 0-9529734-21. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In God's Words, Women's Voices, Rosalynn Voaden argues that the ...
A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated by Dame Eleanor Hull.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated by Dame Eleanor Hull, ed. Alexandra Barratt, Early English Text Society, OS 307 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), xli + 326 pp. ISBN 0-19-722309-5. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. In her earlier discussion of the life and career ...
Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, ed. Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Chronicles 2 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999). x + 158 pp. ISBN 0-85115-725-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. The two Middle English works edited here are the mid-fifteenth-century Dethe of the ...
Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793, ed. T. L. Burton, Early English Text Society, OS 311, 312 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 1999). xcv + 941 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-19-722315-X and 0-19-722316-8 ....
Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... David Mills, Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays, Studies in Early English Drama 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). xii + 281, pp. ISBN 0-8020-4096-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. In his wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of theatrical ...
Wace; Roman de Brut, a History of the British: Text and Translation.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Wace; Roman de Brut, a History of the British: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss, Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999), xxix + 385 pp. ISBN 0-85989-591-2. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. Having already won her spurs for ...
The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Christopher Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). xiii + 435 pp. ISBN 0-521-59274-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/ $69.95. This is a rigorous analysis of assumptions about ...
ANGLO-NORMAN FABLIAUX AND CHAUCER'S MERCHANT'S TALE.
Sep 22, 2000; ... In 1996 I published the text of an Anglo-Norman version of Le Cuvier, a fabliau which also survives in a well-known exemplar in continental French.(1) The story as it appears in AN is brief, banal, and indifferently written. Its intrinsic interest, even for a fabliau specialist, is ...
FROM FRENCH `FABLIAU MANUSCRIPTS' AND MS HARLEY 2253 TO THE DECAMERON AND THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Sep 22, 2000; ... `Miscellany' and `anthology' Misuse of the label `miscellanies' has blocked scholars from looking carefully at what medieval readers saw when they picked up and read, or dipped into, many of the manuscripts so labelled.(1) The term `miscellany' usually implies a gathering of ...
HUMPHREY NEWTON AND BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS LAT. MISC. C.66.
Sep 22, 2000; ... So far as I know, there are only two extensive published discussions of Bodleian MS Lat. misc. c.66, one of them historical, In 1950, Rossell Hope Robbins, the most indefatigable searcher for fifteenth-century Chauceriana since Eleanor Prescott Hammond, published the love lyrics he had ...
The Origin of the Romance Languages: Stages in the Development of Latin.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Giuliano Bonfante, The Origin of the Romance Languages: Stages in the Development of Latin, ed. Larissa Bonfante (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1999). xxxiv + 154 pp. ISBN 3-8253-0583-X. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. In 1947, Giuliano Bonfante wrote A Chronology of Vulgar ...
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Dyan Elliott, Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). xii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3460-X (hard covers), 47.50 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 0-8122-1665-2 (p/b), 18.95 [pounds sterling]. ...
Salomon und Markolf: ein literarischer Komplex im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Sabine Griese, Salomon und Markolf: ein literarischer Komplex im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit, Hermaea: Germanistische Forschungen, NS 81 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999), x + 381 pp. ISBN 3-484-15081-5 (ISSN 0440-714). DM 104.00. This is an important study of an entire ...
Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 28 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xvii + 171 pp.; 99 plates. ISBN 0-521-66188-9. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. A reader who turns to this book looking to learn about the ...
Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: `Beowulf' as Metaphor.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Alvin A. Lee, Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: `Beowulf' as Metaphor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). xi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4378-X. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Many themes in this book will be familiar to readers of Alvin A. Lee's earlier work, particularly The ...
The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Mary Clayton, The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 26 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xi + 355 pp. ISBN 0-521-58168-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. To the average student of Anglo-Saxon England the Virgin Mary ...
The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999), xvi + 506 pp. ISBN 0-0-85989-592-0, 47.50 [pounds sterling] (hard covers); ISBN ...
LE CHASTIEMENT DES CLERS: A DIT CONCERNING THE NATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, EDITED FROM PARIS, BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, MS. F. FR. 837.
Sep 22, 2000; ... Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS f. fr. 837 is in many ways a remarkable manuscript. Consisting of 362 folios written by a single scribe in the late thirteenth century,(1) its reputation as the most important extant collection of fabliaux, contes, and dits is as well known as it is ...
AN IDEAL MARRIAGE: ABRAHAM AND SARAH IN OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Sep 22, 2000; ... The complex relationship between Abraham and Sarah, and the individuality of their characters, make them one of the most interesting couples of the Old Testament. Sarah is always Abraham's devoted wife, and at times the humble recipient of God's favours, but she also doubts the words of ...