Archiv für September 2013

Talya Fishman, Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures . (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. v, 413; 3 black-and-white figures. $65. ISBN: 9780812243130.

Book Reviews Daniel Boyarin, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 796-798Abstract

Amadeo Feniello, Napoli: Società ed economia (902–1137) . (Nuovi Studi Storici 89.) Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 2011. Pp. 314. €40. ISBN: 9788889190777.

Book Reviews Edward M. Schoolman, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 795-796Abstract

Carlos Estepa Díez, Ignacio Álvarez Borge, and José María Santamarta Luengos, Poder real y sociedad: Estudios sobre el reinado de Alfonso VIII, 1158–1214 . León: Universidad de León, 2011. Paper. Pp. 345; map. €24. ISBN: 9788497735728.

Book Reviews Peter Linehan, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 794-795Abstract

Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 324; 151 color figures. $65. ISBN: 9780300156669.

Book Reviews Pamela A. Patton, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 790-794Abstract

John Eldevik, Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire: Tithes, Lordship, and Community, 950–1150 . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv, 315; 4 maps and 2 black-and-white figures. $99. ISBN: 9780521193467.

Book Reviews Maureen C. Miller, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 788-790Abstract

Ursula Dronke, The Poetic Edda , 3: Mythological Poems, 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. x, 159. $185. ISBN: 9780198111825.

Book Reviews Else Mundal, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 786-788Abstract

, “On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy”: The Thirteenth-Century Paris Textbook Edition , ed. and trans. L. Michael Harrington. (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 12.) Leuven: Peeters, 2011. Paper. Pp. xiv, 296. €45. ISBN: 9789042924819.

Book Reviews Wayne J. Hankey, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 784-786Abstract

Alain Dierkens, Gil Bartholeyns, and Thomas Golsenne, eds., La performance des images . (Problèmes d’Histoire des Religions 19.) Brussels: Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2010. Pp. 260; 46 black-and-white figures. €25. ISBN: 9782800414744.

Book Reviews Pamela Sheingorn, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 782-784Abstract

Hendrik Dey and Elizabeth Fentress, eds., Western Monasticism “ante litteram”: The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages . (Disciplina Monastica 7.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. 387; black-and-white figures, maps, and architectural diagrams. €95. ISBN: 9782503540917.

Book Reviews Carole Straw, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 779-782Abstract

James Davis, Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii, 514; black-and-white figures. $105. ISBN: 9781107003439.

Book Reviews Robert Braid, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 778-779Abstract