Medium Aevum back issues from September 2007:
Taming Rasputin? Braulio and St Aemilian.
Sep 22, 2007; ... The first reaction of many readers after finishing Braulio of Zaragoza's Life of St Aemilian, an eremitic saint active in the sixth century in the Bierzo, a lowland area of northern Spain sandwiched between the Cordillera Cantabrica and the Montes de Leon, is likely to be one of ...
Who cursed whom, and when? The cursing of the hoard and Beowulf's fate.
Sep 22, 2007; ... For over forty years, critics have keenly and at times hotly debated Beowulf's fate. Eric Stanley's view that the poet represents him as damned by the working of the curse laid on the dragon's hoard has been ably and widely supported, perhaps most effectively by A.J. Bliss's arguments from ...
The ending, and end, of Piers Plowman B: the C-version origins of the final two passus.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Anyone looking for the 1,000-odd lines of Middle English poetry with the greatest impact upon our understandings of English culture c.1380 could do much worse than choose passus XIX and XX of Piers Plowman B. Their sheer power has attracted much of the attention: Robert Frank heard ...
Logic and Lollardy.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Ex istis elicitur quod innocens nec arti liberali nec mechanice intendisset. Constat quidem quod ars in quantum huiusmodi dicit quandam erudicionem anxiam preter noticiam theoricam. Ideo stat quod homo sit, quantumlibet magnus philosophus, sine arte ... Ex istis colligitur quod grammatica ...
Re-fashioning Boethius: prose and poetry in Chartier's Livre de l'Esperance.(Alain Chartier)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430) is among the most important writers of fifteenth-century France. He is best known today for the Belle Dame sans mercy, a poem that touched off an astonishing flurry of responses, continuations, and imitations in the decades that followed. (1) In addition to ...
Pouvoir et critique de la rhetorique d'Alain Chartier au Sejour d'Honneur d'Octovien de Saint-Gelais.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Conscience et crise de conscience dans la construction de la figure d'auteur Aborder le sujet de la 'Grande Rhetorique' (1) conduit indubitablement a affronter le delicat probleme des relations entre l'ecriture et le pouvoir, relations complexes et ambigues qui ont pu nuire a ...
A new manuscript fragment of the Prick of Conscience.(NOTE)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame has recently acquired a copy of Sir Thomas More's Supplication of Souls (shelf mark: PR 2321.S87 1529), printed in 1529 (STC 18093) by William Rastell (1508-65). (1) It was one of the first, if not the first work to emerge from his ...
Die Handschriftensammlung der Badischen Landesbibliothek: Bedrohtes Kulturerbe?(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Die Handschriftensammlung der Badischen Landesbibliothek: Bedrohtes Kulturerbe?, ed. Peter Michael Ehrle and Ute Obhof (Gernsbach: Casimir Katz Verlag, 2007). 160 pp.; numerous illustrations. ISBN 978-3-938047-25-5. 19.80 [euro]. The five essays in this book document a sorry ...
Peter Burkhart with Christine Sauer, Die gotischen Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, II: Vom spaten 13. bis zum fruhen 15. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Peter Burkhart with Christine Sauer, Die gotischen Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, II: Vom spaten 13. bis zum fruhen 15. Jahrhundert, Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Wurttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart 3: Die gotischen Handschriften ...
Judith Raeber, Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau: Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem fruhen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Judith Raeber, Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau: Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem fruhen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2003). 327 pp. ISBN 3-89500-321-2. 98.00[euro]. Raeber's book, handsomely published by Reichert, ...
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer, ed. Warren S. Smith (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2005). xiv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-472-11426-3. $70.00. This collection of twelve essays is concerned with satiric attitudes towards women and marriage in ...
Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050- 1500.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050-1500 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). xxvi + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-3375-6. 55.00[pounds sterling]. The originally Greek prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl (anonymous, ad ...
Catherine A. M. Clarke, Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Catherine A. M. Clarke, Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). x + 160 pp. ISBN 1-84384-057-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00. The debate over the extent of Latinate influence on Anglo-Saxon literary culture is one that continues ...
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xiv + 407 pp. ISBN o-19-926722-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. Michael Lapidge's E. A. Lowe Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 2002, are here published with five appendices and a catalogue, as well as an ...
Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). xiv + 282 pp. ISBN 0-268-03310-2. $30.00. Recent decades have witnessed the publication of a series of book-length studies focused on the place ...
Chris Jones, Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Chris Jones, Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). viii + 266 pp. ISBN 0-19-927832-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Chris Jones's Strange Likeness' is a study of the debts to Old English language and literature ...
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, ed. Yoko Wada (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), xii + 258 pp. ISBN o-85991-762-2. 60.00[pounds sterling]/$110.00. Early scholars of Ancrene Wisse such as E. J. Dobson (to whom this volume is dedicated) tended to look ...
Francis Ingledew, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Order of the Garter.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Francis Ingledew, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Order of the Garter (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), xii + 308 pp. ISBN 0-268-03176-2. $40.00. It is a pleasure to read a book on a medieval literary text which takes history seriously from ...
Susan Schibanoff, Chaucer's Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Susan Schibanoff, Chaucer's Queer Poetics." Rereading the Dream Trio (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006). x + 365 pp. ISBN 0-8020-9035-4. 48.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a book that, through a pioneering reading of the dream trio, endeavours to ...
Richard F. Johnson, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Richard F. Johnson, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005). xii + 174 pp. ISBN 1-84383-128-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling). The importance and popularity of St Michael the Archangel appears from the many villages, churches, ...
Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), x + 213 pp. ISBN 0-19-920789-5. 50.00. [pounds sterling]. The late Victorian and early modern image of Chaucer as portly and ...
Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005). x + 218 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0391-1. 45.00. [pounds sterling]. This thought-provoking book presents itself as breaking with current Chaucer studies by looking 'northwestward' rather ...
Karen A. Winstead, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Karen A. Winstead, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xiii + 231 pp. ISBN 13-978-08122-3977-5. 36.00 [pounds sterling]. What does the title mean? Does an individual 'have' a century? Or does it signify the possible ...
Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). 171 pp. ISBN 1-84384-085-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Thomas H. Crofts's monograph proposes a reassessment of Malory's known first readership, ...
Karen Cherewatuk, Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Karen Cherewatuk, Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2006). xxvii + 149 pp. ISBN 1-84384-089-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. At first sight one might think that Malory has little to say about ...
Charlotte Clutterbuck, Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Charlotte Clutterbuck, Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). 238 pp. ISBN 0-75 46-5 270-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Charlotte Clutterbuck's book is a discussion of the literary depiction of encounters with God in four ...
Elisabeth Salter, Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Elisabeth Salter, Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). xii + 231 pp. ISBN 1--4039-9179-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Elisabeth Salter uses the term 'cultural creativity' to describe the ...
Brigitte Cazelles, Soundscape in Early French Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Brigitte Cazelles, Soundscape in Early French Literature (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in collaboration with Brepols, 2005). 186 pp. ISBN 2-503-52361-7. 32.00 [pounds sterling]/$42.00/50.00 [euro]. 'As I propose to show in the course of this ...
Robert M. Stein, Reality Fictions: Romance, History and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Robert M. Stein, Reality Fictions: Romance, History and Governmental Authority, 102J--1180 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). 294 pp. ISBN 0-268-04120-2. $30.00. This book is an exploration of the relationship between literary innovation and changing ...
Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire, Oxford Monographs in Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xv + 226 pp.; 15 plates. ISBN 0-19-816547-1. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. There are now several introductions ...
Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). x + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3885-9. $60.00/40.00 [pounds sterling]. The significant body of thirteenth-century French lyrics devoted to the Virgin Mary has received ...
Benedicte Milland-Bove, La Demoiselle arthurienne: Ecriture du personnage et art du recit dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siecle.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Benedicte Milland-Bove, La Demoiselle arthurienne: Ecriture du personnage et art du recit dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siecle, Nouvelle Bibliotheque du Moyen Age 79 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2006). 676 pp. ISBN 2-7453-1379-7. 100.00 [euro]. The motivation behind this book ...
Sylvia Huot, Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest': Cultural Identities and Hybridities.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Sylvia Huot, Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest': Cultural Identities and Hybridities, Gallica I (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007). 234 pp. ISBN 1-84384-104-5. 104-5 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Since Jane H. M. Taylor's ground-breaking articles and Gilles ...
Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger and E Regina Psaki, Annali d'Italianistica: Studi e testi 8 (Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2006), 273 pp. ISBN 0-9657956-7-5. $25.00. Boccaccio's writing is famously ambiguous regarding its treatment of ...
Nadia Altschul: La literatura, el autor y la critica textual.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Nadia Altschul, La literatura, el autor y la critica textual, Pliegos de Ensayo 186 (Madrid: Pliegos, 2005). 216 pp. ISBN 84-96045-28-5. 17.50 [euro]. The debates that have been vividly illustrated in Italian and French academes on the nature and purpose of textual edition have ...
Janina Drostel: des gerte diu edele herzoginne. Moglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen weiblicher Teilhabe am mittelalterlichen Literaturbetrieb unter besonderer Berucksichtigung von Mazenatentum.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Janina Drostel, des gerte diu edele herzoginne. Moglichkeiten und Voraussetwngen weiblicher Telhabe am mittelalterlichen Literaturbetrieb unter besonderer Berucksichtigung yon Mazenatentum, Beitrage zur Mittelalterforschung 13 (Frankfurt: Lang, 2006). 576 pp. ISBN 3-631-55127-4. 56.30 ...
Katharina Mertens Fleury: Leiden lesen. Bedeutungen von compassio um 1200 und die Poetik des Mit-Leidens im 'Parzival' Wolframs von Eschenbach.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Katharina Mertens Fleury, Leiden lesen. Bedeutungen von compassio um 1200 und die Poetik des Mit-Leidens im 'Parzival' Wolframs von Eschenbach, Scrinium Friburgense 21 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006), vii + 167 pp.; 19 plates. ISBN 978-3-11-01915-6. 98.00 [euro]. Long ago ...
Tobias A. Kemper: Die Kreuzigung Christi: Motivgeschichtliche Studien zu lateinischen und deutschen Passionstraktaten des Spatmittelalters.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Tobias A. Kemper, Die Kreuzigung Christi: Motivgeschichtliche Studien zu lateinischen und deutschen Passionstraktaten des Spatmittelalters, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 131 (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2006), xi + 653 pp. ISBN ...
John McKinnell: Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... John McKinnell, Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005), x + 292 pp. ISBN 1-84384-042-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. John McKinnell's new book considers 'stories about encounters with the Other World in which the figure who represents the "Other" is of ...
Susan Wood: The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Susan Wood, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiii + 1020 pp. ISBN 0-19-820697-6. 110.00 [pounds sterling]. Susan Wood starts from the position that medieval churches could be property and were treated as such: 'This book is ...
Nick Webber: The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Nick Webber, The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911-1154 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), 195 pp. ISBN 1-84383-119-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. The subject of this monograph has exercised authors and historians since Dudo of Saint-Quentin in the early eleventh ...
Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), xxv + 665 pp. ISBN 1-85182-563-0. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a long and densely written book, with a text of 458 pages, appendices amounting to 136 pages, and closely ...
Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Irate Medieval London (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), viii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3938-5. 36.00 [pounds sterling]/$55.00. Shannon McSheffrey's study of marriage, sex, and society in London during the ...
The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary, ed. Jerome Bertram (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). 304 pp. ISBN 0-7546-5251-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. Periodically throughout the ...
Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana. History of the Journey to Jerusalem.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana. History of the Journey to Jerusalem, ed. and trans. Susan B. Edgington (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), lxi + 949 PP. ISBN 978-0-19-920486-1. 120.00 [pounds sterling]. The Historia Ierosolimitana, written by a canon of the Marienstift in Aachen in ...
Anglo-Saxon Bibles and 'The Book of Cerne.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Anglo-Saxon Bibles and 'The Book of Cerne', ed. A. N. Doane, Anglo Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 7, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 187 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), ISBN 86698-229-9. $100.00. The Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts ...
Carolin Schreiber, King Alfred's Old English Translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Regula pastoralis' and its Cultural Context: A Study and Partial Edition According to All Surviving Manuscripts Based on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 12.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Carotin Schreiber, King Alfred's Old English Translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Regula pastoralis' and its Cultural Context: A Study and Partial Edition According to All Surviving Manuscripts Based on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 12 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2003). xiii + 674 ...
The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text. Preface and Parts 1-4.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text. Preface and Parts 1-4, ed. Tadao Kubouchi and Keiko Ikegami, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 7 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003), xvi + 560 pp. ISBN 3-631-51599-5. 56.50 [euro]. In 1996 the Tokyo Medieval Manuscript ...
Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts, Vol. 1.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts, Vol. 1, ed. Bella Millett, drawing on the uncompleted edition by E. J. Dobson, with a glossary and additional notes by Richard Dance, English Text Society, OS ...
Gilte Legende, Vol. 1.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Gilte Legende, Vol. 1, ed. Richard Hamer, with the assistance of Vida Russell, English Text Society Original Series 327 (Oxford: Oxford University' Press, 2006). xvi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-19-920577-9. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The Gilte Legende is a mid-fifteenth century English translation of ...
A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649, ed. and trans. Patrick J. Homer, Studies and Texts 153 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2006). ISBN 798-0-88844-153-9. $94.95. This is a most interesting and valuable edition and translation ...
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. Richard Beadle and Colin Richmond, EETS, SS 22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). civ + 320 pp.; 6 plates. ISBN 0-19-722423-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the third and final volume of the EETS edition of the Paston ...
La Vengeance Fromondin.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... La Vengeance Fromondin, ed. Jean-Charles Herbin, Societe des anciens textes francais (Abbeville: F. Paillart, 2005). 520 pp. ISBN 2-906867-03-9. 40.00 [euro]. Jean-Charles Herbin's is the first complete and reliable edition of this late continuation of the Lorraine cycle. As Herbin points ...
Thomas Maillet (?): Les Proverbez d'Alain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Thomas Maillet (?): Les Proverbez d'Alain, ed. Tony Hunt, Les Classiques francais du Moyen Age (Paris: Honore Champion, 2007). 133 PP. ISBN 978-2-7453-1459-8. 18.00 [euro]. This excellent little edition makes available a Middle French translation of Alain de Lille's Parabolae; the text, ...
Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Marco Polo: Le Devisement du monde, edition critique sous la direction de Philippe Menard, Vol. V, ed. Jean-Claude Delclos and Claude Roussel, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 300 pp.; 24 maps and illustrations. ISBN 2-600-01059-9. Sw. fr. 42.00. This magnificent ...
Barthelemy l'Anglais: Le Livre des regions.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Barthelemy l'Anglais: Le Livre des regions, ed. Brent A. Pitts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Plain Texts Series 15 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006). 50 pp. ISBN 0-905474-47-3. Not for sale; free to members. The first addition to this series in six years is most welcome: a ...
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel. Mit der gesamten Paralleluberlieferung des 'Jungeren Titurel'.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel. Mit der gesamten Paralleluberlieferung des 'Jungeren Titurel', ed., trans., and commentary by Joachim Bumke and Joachim Heinzle (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2006), xxvii + 535 PP. ISBN 9783-484-64028-3. 196.00 [euro]. In Titurel Wolfram provides us with a glimpse ...
Jan van Ruusbroec: Opera omnia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Jan van Ruusbroec: Opera omnia, Vol. V: Van den geesteliken tabernakel. In tabernaculum foederis commentaria, introd, and ed. Th. Mertens, trans, into English by H. Rolfson, Latin trans, by L. Surius (1552), Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 105 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). 668 + ...
The Exeter DVD: The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry.(ELECTRONIC MEDIA)(E-book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Exeter DVD: The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, ed. and comp. Bernard J. Muir, software by Nick Kennedy (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006). ISBN 0-85989-631-5. 275,00 [pounds sterling] incl. VAT/$425.00. (The Exeter DVD complete with two-volume set of The Exeter ...
Femina (Trinity, College, Cambridge MS B.14.40).(Electronic Media--French)(E-book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Femina (Trinity, College, Cambridge MS B. 14.40), ed. William Rothwell, The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub: Texts and Publications (Aberystwyth: The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, 2005), xii + 118 pp. ISBN 0-9552124-0-5. Not for sale; can be downloaded free at http://anglo-norman.net/texts. The ...
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century, Convents.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century, Convents, trans. Vera Morton with an interpretative essay by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Library of Medieval Women (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003). x + 203 pp. ISBN 0-85991-825-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$70.00. The Library ...
A Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture c.1350-1500.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... A Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture c.1350-1500' ed. Peter Brown, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 47 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). xviii + 668 pp. ISBN 978-0-631-21973-6. 85.00 [pounds sterling]/$149.95. Peter Brown follows his seminal Companion to Chaucer with ...
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, ed. John Reeve (London: The British Library, 2007), 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7123-4955-0. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. The catalogue of a recent exhibition held at the British Library. The exhibition emphasized the shared belief of ...
Albert Derolez: The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xxii + 203 ...
Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition.(Shorter Notices--General Studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, ed. Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ISBN 0-268-02969-5, ix + 318 pp. $42.00. Fourteen essays trace the concept of idealism from Plato, the Roman Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine through ...