Archiv für August 2013

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muḥammad . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. xix, 307. $75. ISBN: 9780253354877.

Book Reviews Geert Jan van Gelder, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 587-589Abstract

Justin K. Stearns, Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xx, 279. $60. ISBN: 9780801898730.

Book Reviews Ryan Szpiech, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 584-587Abstract

Joanna A. Skórzewska, Constructing a Cult: The Life and Veneration of Guðmundr Arason (1161–1237) in the Icelandic Written Sources . (The Northern World 51.) Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. vii, 311; 2 genealogical tables, 1 map. $179. ISBN: 9789004194960.

Book Reviews Kirsten Wolf, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 583-584Abstract

Gwen Seabourne, Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170–1509 . Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiv, 219; figs. and 3 tables. £65. ISBN: 9781409417880.

Book Reviews Marie Kelleher, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 581-582Abstract

Lydia Schumacher, Divine Illumination: The History and Future of Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge . (Challenges in Contemporary Theology.) Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. xiii, 250. $119.95. ISBN: 9780470657423.

Book Reviews Antonio Calcagno, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 579-581Abstract

Anne Schulz, Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter (1000–1300): Literarische, kunsthistorische und archäologische Quellen . (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 74.) Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. Pp. xviii, 810; 110 color and b&w figs. $238. ISBN: 9783110255157.

Book Reviews Robert G. Sullivan, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 578-579Abstract

Connie L. Scarborough, A Holy Alliance: Alfonso X’s Political Use of Marian Poetry . (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, Series: Estudios de Literatura Medieval “John E. Keller” 6.) Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2009. Pp. 206. $22.95. ISBN: 9781588711489.

Book Reviews Martha E. Schaffer, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 576-578Abstract

David Rollo, Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. vii, 240; 1 b&w fig. $35. ISBN: 9780226724614.

Book Reviews Winthrop Wetherbee, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 575-576Abstract

Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco, Order and Chivalry: Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile , trans. Eunice Rodríguez Ferguson. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 292. $65. ISBN: 9780812242126.

Book Reviews Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 573-575Abstract

Susan Powell, ed., John Mirk’s Festial Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II, Volume I. (Early English Text Society 334.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. cxlv, 188; 6 b&w plates. $130. ISBN: 9780199578498. Susan Powell, ed., John Mirk’s Festial Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II, Volume II. (Early English Text Society 335.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. vi, 690; 1 b&w fig. $135. ISBN: 9780199590377.

Book Reviews Kirsty Campbell, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 572-573Abstract