Archiv für April 2013

Zussa, Merlin, un mythe médiéval recyclé dans la production culturelle contemporaine . (Travaux des universités suisses 19.) Geneva: Slatkine, 2010. Pp. 488. €76. ISBN: 9782051021517.

Book Reviews Hannah Johnson, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1273-1274Abstract

Whitehead, Renevey, and Mouron, eds., The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary . (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2010. Pp. lxxv, 234. £55. ISBN: 9780859897778. Renevey, Whitehead, eds., A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert: The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts . (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2010. Pp. x, 294. £60. ISBN: 9780859898218.

Book Reviews Jacqueline Jenkins, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1271-1273Abstract

Whalen, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 328; b&w figs. $32.50. ISBN: 9780674036291.

Book Reviews Michael A. Ryan, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1269-1271Abstract

Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1218–1250 . Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. Pp. x, 190; b&w figs. $34.50. ISBN: 9789774163456.

Book Reviews Marlis J. Saleh, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1268-1269Abstract

Warren, The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualties, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350–1700 . (ReFormations, Medieval and Early Modern.) Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. Paper. Pp. xi, 340; 2 b&w figs. $36. ISBN: 9780268044206.

Book Reviews Jennifer Summit, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1266-1267Abstract

Warner, The Lost History of Piers Plowman: The Earliest Transmission of Langland’s Work . (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 117; 3 figs. $49.95. ISBN: 9780812242751.

Book Reviews Rebecca Davis, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1264-1266Abstract

Wallace, Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347–1645 . (Clarendon Lectures in English 2007.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxi, 288; 34 b&w figs. $55. ISBN: 9780199541713.

Book Reviews Barbara Newman, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1262-1264Abstract

Vogt, The Function of Kinship in Medieval Nordic Legislation . (Medieval Law and Its Practice 9.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xix, 281; maps. $168. ISBN: 9789004189225.

Book Reviews Per Andersen, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1261-1262Abstract

van Buren, with Wieck, Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325–1515 . New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2011. Pp. xii, 435; b&w and color figs. $95. ISBN: 9781904832904.

Book Reviews Yassana Croizat-Glazer, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1260-1261Abstract

Troelsgård, Byzantine Neumes: A New Introduction to the Middle Byzantine Musical Notation . (Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae Subsidia 9.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. Pp. 142; many b&w figs., tables, musical examples, and 1 reference card. $84. ISBN: 9780754669173.

Book Reviews Alexander L. Lingas, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1258-1259Abstract