Archiv für April 2013

Coon, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West . (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 390; 32 b&w figs. and 8 color plates. $65. ISBN: 9780812242690.

Book Reviews Celia Chazelle, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1174-1176Abstract

Caroldo, Istorii Venețiene . Vol. I: De la originile Cetății la moartea dogelui Giacopo Tiepolo (1249); Vol. II: De la alegerea dogelui Marino Morosini la moartea dogelui Bartolomeo Gradenigo (1249–1342); Vol. III. De la alegerea dogelui Andrea Dandolo la moartea dogelui Giovanni Delfino (1343–1361), ed. Marin. Buchareșt: Arhivele naționale ale României, 2008–2010. Pp. 871 (total). Price unknown. ISBN: 9789738308381; 9789738308398; 9789738308411.

Book Reviews Kiril Petkov, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1171-1173Abstract

Campbell, The Call to Read: Reginald Pecock’s Books and Textual Communities . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. Paper. Pp. xi, 310. $38. ISBN: 9780268023065.

Book Reviews Nicole R. Rice, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1169-1171Abstract

Butler, The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. x, 158. $29.95. ISBN: 9780299248246.

Book Reviews Andrew Taylor, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1168-1169Abstract

Burrows, ed., La Vie de seint Clement , vols. 1–3 (Anglo-Norman Text Society 64–65, 66, 67.) London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2007, 2008, 2009. Pp. 197, 224, and 196. £37.50 each. ISBN: 9780905474496; 9780905474519; 9780905474526.

Book Reviews Laurie Postlewate, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1166-1168Abstract

Burgess and Brook, eds. and trans., The Old French Lays of Ignaure, Oiselet and Amours . (Gallica.) Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. Pp. 286. $99. ISBN: 9781843842538.

Book Reviews Ellen M. Thorington, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1165-1166Abstract

Breen, Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150–1400 . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 79.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 300; 13 b&w figs. $99. ISBN: 9780521199223.

Book Reviews Andrew Cole, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1163-1164Abstract

Booton, Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany . Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xx, 469; 50 b&w figs., 8 tables, and 1 map. $144.95. ISBN: 9780754666233.

Book Reviews Deborah McGrady, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1161-1163Abstract

Birkett, The Saints‘ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 326. $99. ISBN: 9781903153338.

Book Reviews Megan Cassidy-Welch, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1160-1161Abstract

Armstrong and Kay, Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 249; 4 b&w figs. $47.50. ISBN: 9780801449734.

Book Reviews Maureen Boulton, Speculum, Volume 87 Issue 04, pp 1159-1160Abstract