Archiv für August 2012

Monique O’Connell, Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice’s Maritime State . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. ix, 253. $57. ISBN: 9780801891458.

Book Reviews Thomas F. Madden, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 588-589Abstract

Tomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2010. Pp. xvi, 392; color frontispiece, 298 b&w and color figs., and 1 table. $100. ISBN: 9780300154443.

Book Reviews Charles B. McClendon, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 586-588Abstract

Andy Merrills and Richard Miles, The Vandals . (The Peoples of Europe.) Chichester, UK, and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv, 351; b&w figs., maps, and plans. $124.95. ISBN: 9781405160681.

Book Reviews Jonathan P. Conant, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 584-585Abstract

Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds., Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The ‘Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages.’ (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 22.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Pp. x, 258; b&w figs. and tables. €70. ISBN: 9782503528526.

Book Reviews Mark Cruse, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 583-584Abstract

Jiří Macháček, The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe: Early Medieval Centres as Social and Economic Systems . (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 10.) Trans. Miloš Bartǒn. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xxii, 562; 139 figs. $246. ISBN: 9789004182080.

Book Reviews Christian Raffensperger, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 581-582Abstract

William Layher, Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe . (Queenship and Power.) New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 237; b&w figs. and map. $84. ISBN: 9780230104655.

Book Reviews Steinar Imsen, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 580-581Abstract

Sergio La Porta, trans., Two Anonymous Sets of Scholia on Dionysius the Areopagite’s “Heavenly Hierarchy.” (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 624; Scriptores Armeniaci 30.) Louvain: Peeters, 2008. Pp. vi, 159. €52. ISBN: 9782877239769. Sergio La Porta, The Armenian Scholia on Dionysius the Areopagite: Studies on Their Literary and Philological Tradition . (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 625; Subsidia 122.) Louvain: Peeters, 2008. Pp. xix, 153; b&w fig. €52. ISBN: 9789042919204.

Book Reviews Michael Harrington, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 578-580Abstract

Benedek Láng, Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 334. $37.95. ISBN: 9780271033778.

Book Reviews Heidi Breuer, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 577-578Abstract

Sofia Kotzabassi, Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, and Don Skemer, Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xxix, 304; 279 color figs. $195. ISBN: 9780691143873.

Book Reviews Leslie Brubaker, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 575-577Abstract

Aviad M. Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints‘ Stories and the Western Imagination . Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 340. $29.95. ISBN: 9780674026476.

Book Reviews Thomas J. Heffernan, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 573-575Abstract