Medium Aevum back issues from March 2008:
AElfric, St Edmund, and St Edwold of Cerne.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... At the end of his Life of St Edmund, AElfric comments on the number of English men and women venerated as saints: 'England is not deprived of God's holy ones.' (1) AElfric himself wrote few homilies for the feast days of English (or British) saints, however. (2) Cuthbert, ...
Abduction, surgery, madness: an account of a little red man in Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The chronicle originating from the Abbey of St Albans in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, generally attributed to Thomas Walsingham, has long been considered the last of traditional monastic historiography developed out of the St Albans school of history. As Antonia ...
Reconsidering Lincoln's inn MS 150.
Mar 22, 2008; ... This is an essay about the textual idiosyncrasies of London, Lincoln's Inn MS 150 (L). The scribal interference with the texts transmitted by L provides a fascinating insight into their intended use, as well as their appeal and interest for a particular early fifteenth-century readership ....
Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas.(John Lydgate)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Judging by what early chroniclers, poets, and playwrights have written about Katherine of Valois, one would have thought the fortunes of Lancastrian and Tudor England utterly depended on her sexual adventures. The youngest daughter of Isabella and Charles VI of France, Katherine became the ...
The taming of the Amazon: Pentesilie in Ulrich von Turheim's Rennewart.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... I According to Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, men and women differ from one another primarily in respect of their physical strength. (1) In book XI, Isidore states that the term 'vir' (man) is derived from 'vis' (force), because man has greater power than woman and because ...
Estreitement bende: Marie de France's Guigemar and the erotics of tight dress.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Clothes need to be more disciplinary. (1) (Pearl, corset designer and tight-lacing enthusiast) The twelfth century witnessed perhaps the most startling change in the history of women's dress: garments that were once expansive and flowing came to be tightly fitted across the body ...
Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. Alison I. Beach (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007). xiv + 347 PP. ISBN 978-2-503-51-528-1. 60.00 [euro]. This book gives the proceedings of a conference held at the monastery Admont in 2002 to consider ...
Kathy Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature and English Community, 1000-1534.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Kathy Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature and English Community, 1000-1534 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), xiv + 191 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7309-8. $29.95. England, and the British Empire that it begot, has for many centuries occupied a ...
Marek Thue Kretschmer, Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages: The 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Marek Thue Kretschmer, Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages: The 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist.3, Mittellateinische Studien and Texte 36 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), x + 425 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15710-1. $157.00/118.00 [euro]. This revised version ...
Beowulf and Lejre.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Beowulf and Lejre, ed. John D. Niles, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 323 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), xiv + 495 PP. ISBN 978-0-86698-368-6. $89.00. The village of Lejre (Zealand) has long been celebrated as the home of ...
Karl Tamburr, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Karl Tamburr, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), xi + 211 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-117-3. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, Karl Tamburr looks at some of the typological and tropological elements of ...
Eamonn O Carragain, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Eamonn O Carragain, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition (London and Toronto: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2005), xlviii + 427 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4875-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Eamonn O ...
Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 34 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), xi + 263 pp. ISBN-10 0-521-85541-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Mechthild Gretsch's study of AElfric and the ...
Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity (York: York Medieval Press, 2007), viii + 141 pp. ISBN 1-90315321-2; 978-1-903153-21-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Fiona S. Dunlop's The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and ...
B. W. Lindeboom, Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio Amantis'.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... B. W. Lindeboom, Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio Amantis', Costerus, NS 267 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). 477 PP. ISBN 9-789042-021501. $130.00. B. W. Lindeboom argues provocatively that Chaucer dramatically changed his plans for the Canterbury ...
Carolynn Van Dyke, Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Carolynn Van Dyke, Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative (Madison, Wis.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005). 371 pp. ISBN 0-8386-4083-4. 44.00 [pounds sterling]. Carolynn Van Dyke opens Chaucer's Agents with a discussion of The Pardoner's ...
Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiv + 281 pp.; 58 plates. ISBN 0-19-926295-0. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. When Chaucer penned his nervous ...
Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 61 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xii + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-86355-1 and 0-521-86355-4. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Robert J. Meyer-Lee's first book is a useful ...
Peter Happe, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Peter Happe, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), xiv + 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-7083-2048-8. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. The origins of the Towneley Cycle and its possible connection with the Corpus ...
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), xii + 193 PP. ISBN 0-7083-1910-6 and 978-0-70831910-9. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. ...
Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007). x + 238 pp. ISBN 0-271-02994-8. $40.00. In this book Susan Phillips examines the role of gossip, or 'jangling' in Middle ...
Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). xvii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3986-5; 978-0-8122-3986-7. 36.00 [pounds sterling]/$55.00. Catherine Sanok offers a twofold ...
Marleen Cre, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Marleen Cre, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790, The Medieval Translator 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). 373 pp.; 17 plates. ISBN 978-2-503-52132-9. 65.00 [euro]. Marleen Cre's Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse ...
Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Naissance de la fable: L'Isopet de Lyon et l'Isopet I--Avionnet.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Naissance de la fable: L'Isopet de Lyon et l'Isopet I--Avionnet, Essais sur le Moyen Age 33 (Paris: Honore Champion, 2006). 499 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1367-6. 95.00 [euro]. L'auteur se propose de combler une lacune dans la recherche francaise, l'etude de la ...
The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages IV (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), xii + 637 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1964-5. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. ...
Deborah McGrady, Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and his Late Medieval Audience.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Deborah McGrady, Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and his Late Medieval Audience (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2006). xii + 310 pp.; 27 plates. ISBN 0-8020-9020-6. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. Deborah McGrady's monograph is a fascinating and important ...
Julian Weiss, The 'Mester de clerecia': Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Julian Weiss, The 'Mester de clerecia': Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile, Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias 231 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2006), x + 238 pp. ISBN 1-85566-135-7. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. In this book Julian Weiss offers a ...
Henrike Lahnemann, Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrbundert.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Henrike Lahnemann, Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrbundert, Scrinium Friburgense 20 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006). 499 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-019011-3, 3-11-019011-7. 128.00 [euro]. Judith's is a cracking story well worth recalling: as all the world ...
Annette Gerok-Reiter, Individualitat. Studien zu einem umstrittenen Phanomen mittelhochdeutscher Epik.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Annette Gerok-Reiter, Individualitat. Studien zu einem umstrittenen Phanomen mittelhochdeutscher Epik, Bibliotheca Germanica 51 (Tubingen: Francke, 2006). ix + 350 pp. ISBN 3-7720-8169-X. 78.00 [euro]. Although there has been of late much discussion of the concepts 'individual' ...
G. Ronald Murphy, SJ, Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... G. Ronald Murphy, SJ, Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 256 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-19530639-2. 17.99 [euro]. In Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival the Grail is identified as a stone, rather than as a gem-encrusted ...
Dietlind Gade, Wissen--Glaube--Dichtung: Kosmologie und Astronomie in der meisterlichen Lieddichtung des vierzehnten und funfzehnten Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Dietlind Gade, Wissen--Glaube--Dichtung: Kosmologie und Astronomie in der meisterlichen Lieddichtung des vierzehnten und funfzehnten Jahrhunderts, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen 130 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2005), viii + 360 pp. ISBN 3-484-89130-0. 49.40 [euro]. This excellent ...
Heather O'Donoghue, Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Heather O'Donoghue, Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3. 56.00 [pounds sterling]. In this very readable study, Heather O'Donoghue deals with one of the most distinct features of the Old ...
Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), vii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-86354-6. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$91.00. Recent criticism of the representations of the Jew in medieval art, history, ...
William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. I: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thompson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xxxiii + 693 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820770-2. 110.00 [pounds ...
Livre des miracles de saint Gilles [Liber miraculorum sancti Egidii], la vie d'un sanctuaire de pelerinage au XIIe siecle.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Livre des miracles de saint Gilles [Liber miraculorum sancti Egidii], la vie d'un sanctuaire de pelerinage au XIIe siecle, ed. Marcel Girault and Pierre-Gilles Girault, Medievalia 60 (Orleans: Paradigme, 2007). 368 pp. ISBN 978-2-86878-263-2. 28.00 [euro]. In eleventh- and twelfth-century ...
Widows, Heirs, Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The 'Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis'.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Widows, Heirs, Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The 'Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis', ed. and trans. John Walmsley, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 308 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006). xiv + 146pp. ISBN 978-0-86698-353-2 ....
Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum (De diversis artibus.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum (De diversis artibus, ed. Emmanuel Poulle and Robert Halleux), Texte latin et reception vernaculaire (Actes du colloque international, Munster, 9-11 October 2003), ed. Baudouin Van den Abeele and Heinz Meyer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), xii + ...
Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis, ed. Marvin L. Colker, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 35 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), viii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-15707-1. 85.00 ...
Le Sanctoral du lectionnaire de l'office dominicain (1254-1256): Edition et etude d'apres le ms. Rome, Sainte-Sabine XIV Li Ecclesiasticum officium secundum ordinem fratrum praedicatorum.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Le Sanctoral du lectionnaire de l'office dominicain (1254-1256): Edition et etude d'apres le ms. Rome, Sainte-Sabine XIV LI Ecclesiasticum officium secundum ordinem fratrum praedicatorum, ed. Anne-Elisabeth Urfels-Capot, preface by Pierre-Marie Gy, OP, Memoires et Documents de l'Ecole des ...
Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica, 1272-1363.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica, 1272-1363, ed. and trans, with an introduction by Andy King, Publications of the Surtees Society 209 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), lxiv + 288 pp. ISBN 0-85444-064-X. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$90.00. This volume gives the second part of Gray's history, ...
Joseph F. O'Connor and Christine Smith, Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Joseph F. O'Connor and Christine Smith, Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 317, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 20 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance ...
Alexander Wiltheim (1604-1684): The Life of Yolanda of Vianden. The Life of Margaret of Luxembourg. Genealogy of the Ancient Counts of Vianden, Antwerp 1674.--Das Leben der Yolanda von Vianden. Das Leben der Margarete von Luxemburg. Genealogie der ehemaligen Grafen von Vianden, Antwerpen, 1674.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Alexander Wiltheim 0604-1684): The Life of Yolanda of Vianden. The Life of Margaret of Luxembourg. Genealogy of the Ancient Counts of Vianden, Antwerp 1674.--Das Leben der Yolanda von Vianden. Das Leben der Margarete von Luxemburg. Genealogie der ehemaligen Grafen von Vianden, Antwerpen, ...
The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), ed. Jill Whitelock, Early English Text Society, OS 324 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). lxxx + 182 pp. ISBN o-19-722327-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This is not the first edition of The Seven Sages of Rome, a framed story collection ...
Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College MS R.14.52, its Text, Language and Scribe.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College MS R.14.52, its Text, Language and Scribe, ed. M. Teresa Tavormina, 2 vols, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 292 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006). xxvi + 930 pp.; 1 ...
Gilte Legende.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gilte Legende, Vol. II, ed. Richard Hamer, with the assistance of Vida Russell, English Text Society, OS 328 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). vii + 537 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-923439-4. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. The mid-fifteenth-century Gilte Legende is a close English translation of ...
Everyman and its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Everyman and its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc, ed. Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos, Middle English Texts Series (TEAMS; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), viii + 104 pp. ISBN 978-1-58044-106-3. $13.00. This parallel-text edition presents Everyman ...
The 'Exhortacion' from 'Disce mori': Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... The 'Exhortacion' from 'Disce mori': Edited from Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39, ed. E. A. Jones, Middle English Texts 36 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2006). xlii + 120 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 3-8253-5204-8. 48.00 [euro]. While the fifteenth-century Disce mori appears to be an ...
The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berners's Romance.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berners's Romance, ed. Joyce Boro, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 336 (Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007). xii + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-86698-384-6. 29.00 [pounds sterling]/$42.00 [pounds ...
History of William Marshal.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... History of William Marshal, ed. A. J. Holden, with English translation by S. Gregory and historical notes by D. Crouch, Vol. I: Text and Translation (ll. 1-10031), Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 4 (London: The Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, ...
The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation, ed. Julia Marvin, Medieval Chronicles 4 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006). ix + 442 pp. ISBN 1-84383-274-7. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut is one of the foundation texts of the Brut ...
Le Chant des Chanz.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Le Chant des Chanz ed. Tony Hunt, Anglo-Norman Text Society LXI-LXII (for 2003-4) (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, London, 2004). 179 pp. ISBN 0-905474-44-9. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume offers a critical edition of the previously unpublished verse ...
Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle, ed. Jean Subrenat, co-translated with Andree Subrenat, Collection Ktemata 19 (Louvain and Paris: Peeters, 2007). 803 pp. ISBN 978-90-429-1818-7. 49.00 [euro]. Gaydon was last published in its entirety in 1862 (in the 'Anciens poetes de la France' ...
John of Howden: Rossignos.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... John of Howden: Rossignos, ed. Glynn Hesketh, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Anglo Norman Texts 63 (for 2005) (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006), x + 270 pp. ISBN 0-905474-46-5. Not for sale; free to members. This is the first complete edition of the single extant copy (Cambridge, ...
The Old French Ballette: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dome 308.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Old French Ballette: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dome 308, ed., trans., and introd. Eglal Doss-Quinby and Samuel N. Rosenberg, music editions and commentary by Elizabeth Aubrey, Publications romanes et francaises 239 (Geneva: Droz, 2006). clxii + 546 pp. ISBN 2-600-01026-2. Sw. fr ....
Denis Foulechat: Le Policratique de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Denis Foulechat: Le Policratique de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V, edition critique et commentee des textes francais et latin avec traduction moderne par Charles Brucker (Geneva: Droz, 2006). 907 pp. ISBN 2-600-01-72-6. Sw. fr. 152.00. Charles Brucker propose dans cet ouvrage une ...
Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, Vol. IV: Le Nouveau Testament.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, Vol. IV: Le Nouveau Testament, ed. Alan E. Knight, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2007). 608 pp. ISBN 978-2-600-01145-7. Sw. fr. 100.00. With this volume, Alan Knight continues an extraordinary enterprise begun in 2001: the publication, ...
Les Epistres des Dames de Grece: Une version medievale en prose francaise des 'Heroides' d'Ovide.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Les Epistres des Dames de Grece: Une version medievale en prose francaise des 'Heroides' d'Ovide, ed. Luca Barbieri, CFMA 152 (Paris: Champion, 2007), 210 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1525-0. 20.00 [euro]. Auteur d'une monographie importante sur la tradition francaise des Heroides (Tubingen-Basel, ...
R. Anthony Lodge, Les Compres des consuls de Montferrand (1273-1319).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... R. Anthony Lodge, Les Compres des consuls de Montferrand (1273-1319), Collection etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes 23 (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2006), xli + 212 pp. ISBN 2-900791-88-X. 36.00 [euro]. Cet ouvrage comprend 42 pages d'introduction et de presentation des livres de ...
Mocedades de Rodrigo: Estudio y edicion de los tres estados del texto.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Mocedades de Rodrigo: Estudio j edicion de los tres estados del texto, ed. Leonardo Furtes with Felipe Tenebaum, Coleccion Tamesis, Serie B: Textos 45 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004). lxxii + 206 pp. ISBN 1-85566-101-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. The Mocedades de Rodrigo is one of the ...
Gonzalo de Berceo: Milagros de Nuestra Senora.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gonzalo de Berceo: Milagros de Nuestra Senora, ed. Juan Carlos Bayo and Ian Michael, Clasicos Castalia 288 (Madrid: Castalia, 2006). 516 pp. ISBN 84-9740-195-6. 13.37 [euro]. Only in the last century have scholars come to appreciate the works of Gonzalo de Berceo, Spain's first named poet ...
Neidhart-Lieder. Texte und Melodien samtlicher Handscriften und Drucke, Vol. I: Neidhart-Lieder der Pergament-Handschriften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 2: Neidhart-Lieder der Papier-Handschtiften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 3: Kommentare zur Uberlieferung und Edition der Texte und Melodien in Band 1 und 2, Erlauterungen zur Uberlieferung und Edition, Bibliographien, Diskographie, Verzeichnisse und Konkordanzen.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Neidhart-Lieder. Texte und Melodien samtlicher Handscriften und Drucke, Vol. I: Neidhart-Lieder der Pergament-Handschriften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 2: Neidhart-Lieder der Papier-Handschtiften mit ihrer Paralleluberlieferung; Vol. 3: Kommentare zur Uberlieferung und Edition ...
German Romance, Vol. II: Gauriel von Muntabel.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... German Romance, Vol. II: Gauriel von Muntabel, ed. Siegfried Christoph, Arthurian Archives XV (Cambridge: Brewer, 2007), viii + 360. ISBN 978-1-84384-0777-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Gauriel von Muntabel by the otherwise unknown South-West German author Konrad von Stoffeln, dating most ...
Sieben weise Meister. Eine bairische und eine elsassische Fassung der 'Historia septem sapientum.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Sieben weise Meister. Eine bairische und eine elsassische Fassung der 'Historia septem sapientum', ed. Dedef Roth, Texte des spaten Mittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit 44 (Bertin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008), xxxviii + 226 pp. ISBN 978-3-503-09832-3. 49.80 [euro]. There are seven German ...
The 'Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive, Vol. III: Oxford, Oriel College, MS79 (O).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The 'Piers Plowman' Electronic Archive, Vol. III: Oxford, Oriel College, MS79 (O), ed. Katherine Heinrichs, Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts Series A6 (Published for The Medieval Academy of America and SEENET by Boydell & Brewer, c.2004). 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 1-843-84-025-I ....
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2007). 160 pp.; 118 illustrations. ISBN 978-o-7123-4946-8. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. This beautiful volume explores for the general reader the depiction of miracles in medieval manuscripts ...