Archiv für September 2013

David Crouch, The English Aristocracy, 1070–1272: A Social Transformation . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 348; black-and-white figures. $65. ISBN: 9780300114553.

Book Reviews Paul Latimer, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 776-778Abstract

Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds., The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World . Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 386; black-and-white figures. $115. ISBN: 9780859898430.

Book Reviews Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 775-776Abstract

Peter D. Clarke and Anne J. Duggan, eds., Pope Alexander III (1159–81): The Art of Survival . (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xxi, 427; color frontispiece and 1 map. $134.95. ISBN: 9780754662884.

Book Reviews Jane Sayers, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 773-775Abstract

Nicola Clarke, The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives . (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.) New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. 254. $125. ISBN: 9780415673204.

Book Reviews Leyla Rouhi, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 772-773Abstract

Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Jack Soultanian, Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters . New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 368; 41 black-and-white figures and 287 color figures. $75. ISBN: 9780300148985.

Book Reviews Louis I. Hamilton, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 770-772Abstract

Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon, Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c.680–850: A History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv, 918; 71 black-and-white figures and 7 maps. $177. ISBN: 9780521430937.

Book Reviews Elena N. Boeck, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 767-770Abstract

Warren C. Brown, Violence in Medieval Europe . (The Medieval World.) Harlow, UK: Longman, 2011. Paper. Pp. xv, 328; 6 black-and-white plates and 8 maps. $45.80. ISBN: 9781405811644.

Book Reviews Jehangir Yezdi Malegam, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 766-767Abstract

Louise Bourdua and Robert Gibbs, eds., A Wider Trecento: Studies in 13th- and 14th-Century European Art Presented to Julian Gardner . (Visualizing the Middle Ages 5.) Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxxii, 213; 74 black-and-white figures. $166. ISBN: 9789004210769.

Book Reviews Martina Bagnoli, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 765-766Abstract

Federico Botana, The Works of Mercy in Italian Medieval Art (c. 1050–c. 1400) . (Medieval Church Studies 20.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. xl, 256; 110 black-and-white and 12 color figures. €110. ISBN: 9782503536231.

Book Reviews William R. Levin, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 762-765Abstract

Myra Miranda Born, Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades . (New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xxi, 230; black-and-white figures, maps. $80. ISBN: 9780230114135.

Book Reviews Helen J. Nicholson, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 03, pp 761-762Abstract