Archiv für April 2014

Frank Klaassen, The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance . (Magic in History.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 280; 1 table. $69.95. ISBN: 978-027-105-6265.

Book Reviews Catherine Rider, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 503-504Abstract

Clare Costley King’oo, “Miserere Mei”: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England . (Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern.) Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2012. Paper. Pp. xxii, 283; 25 black-and-white figures. $38. ISBN: 978-026-803-3248.

Book Reviews Holly Johnson, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 500-502Abstract

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. Paper. Pp. xxxii, 392; 205 color plates. $45. ISBN: 978-080-147-8307.

Book Reviews Andrew Galloway, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 497-499Abstract

Eleanor Johnson, Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 264. $40. ISBN: 978-0-226-01584-2.

Book Reviews Arthur Bahr, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 496-497Abstract

Andrew S. Jacobs, Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference . (Divinations.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 314. $75. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4397-0.

Book Reviews Joshua D. Garroway, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 494-496Abstract

Gunilla Iversen, Laus angelica: Poetry in the Medieval Mass , ed. Jane Flynn, trans. William Flynn. (Medieval Church Studies 5.) Turnhout, Brepols, 2010. Pp. xx, 317; 44 black-and-white figures, 1 black-and-white map, 6 color plates, and 2 tables. $131. ISBN: 978-2-503-53133-5.

Book Reviews Daniel Sheerin, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 493-494Abstract

Instituto Leonés de Cultura , Alfonso VI y su legado: Actas del Congreso Internacional (Sahagún, 29 de octubre al 1 de noviembre de 2009) IX Centenario de Alfonso VI (1109–2009) . León: Instituto Leonés de Cultura, 2012. Pp. 464; black-and-white and color figures, and maps. ISBN: 978-84-89410-22-0.

Book Reviews Janna Bianchini, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 491-492Abstract

Irene Holzer, Die zwei Salzburger Rupertus-Offizien: “Eia laude condigna”, Hodie posito corpore . (Salzburger Stier 6.) Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. Paper. Pp. 206; many tables and musical examples. €29.80. ISBN: 978-3-8260-4856-2.

Book Reviews David Hiley, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 488-491Abstract

N. J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan, eds., Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape . (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 10.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 245; 5 black-and-white plates, 25 black-and-white figures, and 10 tables. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-603-2.

Book Reviews Stefan Jurasinski, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 486-488Abstract

Naomi Grunhaus, The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak’s Biblical Commentaries . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 258. $74. ISBN: 978-019-985-8408.

Book Reviews Nili Shalev, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 484-486Abstract