Archiv für August 2013

John L. Meloy, Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages . (Chicago Studies on the Middle East 6.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 305. $59.95. ISBN: 9780970819956.

Book Reviews Hassan S. Khalilieh, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 555-556Abstract

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life . (Gender in the Middle Ages 6.) Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2011. Pp. ix, 201. $95. ISBN: 9781843842774.

Book Reviews Lynda L. Coon, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 553-554Abstract

Isabelle Mathieu, Les justices seigneuriales en Anjou et dans le Maine à la fin du Moyen Âge . (Histoire; Justice et déviance.) Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011. Paper. Pp. 394; color and b&w figs. €20. ISBN: 9782753512825.

Book Reviews Aude Musin, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 552-553Abstract

Bonnie Mak, How the Page Matters . (Studies in Print and Book Culture.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 129; 16 color plates. $55. ISBN: 9780802097606.

Book Reviews Martha W. Driver, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 550-551Abstract

R. M. Liuzza, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii . (Anglo-Saxon Texts 8.) Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. Pp. xi, 293. $95. ISBN: 9781843842552.

Book Reviews James H. Morey, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 548-550Abstract

Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiii, 340; b&w and color figs. $59.95. ISBN: 9780271037776.

Book Reviews Donna Sadler, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 547-548Abstract

Ian Christopher Levy, Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages . (Reading the Scriptures.) Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 320. $38. ISBN: 9780268034146.

Book Reviews Alexander Russell, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 545-547Abstract

John Leland, De uiris illustribus: On Famous Men , ed. and trans. James P. Carley with the assistance of Caroline Brett. (British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 1.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2010. Pp. clx, 868; 8 b&w figs. $175. ISBN: 9781851243679.

Book Reviews Nigel Ramsay, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 544-545Abstract

Stéphanie Le Briz and Géraldine Veysseyre, eds., Approches du bilinguisme latin-français au Moyen Âge: Linguistique, codicologie, esthétique . (Collection d’études médiévales de Nice 11.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. Paper. Pp. 522; 14 b&w and 6 color figs., tables €55. ISBN: 9782503535807.

Book Reviews Serge Lusignan, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 542-544Abstract

Anne Leader, The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 325; 205 color figs. $65. ISBN: 9780253355676.

Book Reviews Barnaby Nygren, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 02, pp 541-542Abstract