Archiv für August 2012

Julian Gardner, Giotto and His Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage . (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 240; color figs. $35. ISBN: 9780674050808.

Book Reviews Peter Bokody, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 556-558Abstract

Kari Ellen Gade, ed., Poetry from the Kings‘ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300 . (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Pp. xi, 914. €140. ISBN: 9782503518978.

Book Reviews Joseph Harris, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 554-556Abstract

Jerold C. Frakes, Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany . (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2011. Pp. xvi, 233. $85. ISBN: 9780230110878.

Book Reviews Peter von Sivers, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 553-554Abstract

Christopher Fletcher, Richard II: Manhood, Youth, and Politics, 1377–99 . (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 316; b&w figs. and tables. $125. ISBN: 9780199546916.

Book Reviews Charles Beem, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 551-553Abstract

Ferdinand Feldbrugge, Law in Medieval Russia . (Law in Eastern Europe 59.) Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. Pp. xxv, 334. $225. ISBN: 9789004169852.

Book Reviews Mari Isoaho, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 550-551Abstract

Christopher Fee, Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might . Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011. Pp. xxxii, 281. $44.95. ISBN: 9780275984069.

Book Reviews A.R. Bossert, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 548-550Abstract

Margot E. Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 612; 16 color plates, b&w frontispiece, many b&w figs., tables, and musical examples. $55. ISBN: 9780300110883.

Book Reviews Mary E. Wolinski, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 547-548Abstract

Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, Courtly Seductions, Modern Subjections: Troubadour Literature and the Medieval Construction of the Modern Subject . Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. Pp. x, 267. $55. ISBN: 9780866984249.

Book Reviews Alexandre Leupin, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 545-547Abstract

Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 267; 2 b&w figs. $59.95. ISBN: 9780812241150.

Book Reviews Marcia Kupfer, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 543-545Abstract

Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. xvii, 352; 13 b&w figs. and 13 tables. $60. ISBN: 9780520254398.

Book Reviews Ramsay MacMullen, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 02, pp 542-543Abstract