Archiv für August 2012

Michael A. Vargas, Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents . (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 42.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. viii, 350; illustrations and maps. $176. ISBN: 9789004203150. [Editor’s Note: Portions of this book were published in brief in an article in Speculum 86.3 (July 2011): 688–714.—RGM]

Book Reviews Jill R. Webster, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 621-622Abstract

Bas van Bavel, Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500–1600 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 492; maps. $140. ISBN: 9780199278664.

Book Reviews Sherri Olson, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 619-621Abstract

Kathrin Utz Tremp, Von der Häresie zur Hexerei: “Wirkliche” und imaginäre Sekten im Spätmittelalter . (MGH, Schriften 59.) Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2008. Pp. xxix, 703; 1 color plate and tables. €75. ISBN: 9783775257596.

Book Reviews Laura Stokes, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 617-619Abstract

Beatrice Trînca, “Parrieren” und “undersnîden”: Wolframs Poetik des Heterogenen . (Frankfurter Beiträge zur Germanistik 46.) Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. Pp. 251. €36. ISBN: 9783825354374.

Book Reviews Martin H. Jones, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 616-617Abstract

Fabrizio Titone, Governments of the “Universitates:” Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . (Studies in European Urban History 1100–1800, 21.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Pp. x, 320. €67. ISBN: 9782503527574.

Book Reviews William J. Connell, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 614-615Abstract

Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War . Volume III: Divided Houses. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 1006; b&w maps, plans, and tables. $65. ISBN: 9780812242232.

Book Reviews Michael Prestwich, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 613-614Abstract

Norman A. Stillman, Phillip Isaac Ackerman-Lieberman, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. 5 vols.; illustrations, maps. $1,099. ISBN: 9789004176782.

Book Reviews J.W. Meri, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 612-613Abstract

Julie Singer, Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2011. Pp. x, 238; illustrations. $99. ISBN: 9781843842729.

Book Reviews Heather Webb, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 610-611Abstract

Irfan Shahîd, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century , Volume II, Part 2: Economic, Social and Cultural History. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009. Pp. xxiii, 391; color frontispiece. $50. ISBN: 9780884023470.

Book Reviews Noel Lenski, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 608-610Abstract

Ian Rumbold and Peter Wright, Hermann Pötzlinger’s Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts . (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 8.) Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2009. xviii, 348; b&w figs. £60. ISBN: 9781843834632.

Book Reviews Andrew Kirkman, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 607-608Abstract