Archiv für April 2014

George Corbett, Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment . (Italian Perspectives 25.) Oxford, UK: Legenda, 2013. Pp. xii, 189; 2 black-and-white figures. $89.50. ISBN: 978-1907975790.

Book Reviews John Took, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 466-468Abstract

Samuel K. Cohn, Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 375; 2 maps. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-02780-0.

Book Reviews Maureen Jurkowski, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 464-465Abstract

Pierre-Vincent Claverie, Honorius III et l’Orient (1216–1227): Étude et publication de sources inédites des Archives vaticanes . (The Medieval Mediterranean 97.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv, 502. $228. ISBN: 978-90-04-24559-4.

Book Reviews Jane Sayers, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 463-464Abstract

Albrecht Classen, ed., Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme . (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 3.) Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. viii, 903; black-and-white figures, tables, and musical examples. $149.95. ISBN: 978-3-11-020574-9.

Book Reviews Salvatore Calomino, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 461-463Abstract

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation , trans. Sheila Fisher. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. Paper. Pp. li, 738. $35. ISBN: 978-039-307-9456.

Book Reviews Thomas J. Farrell, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 460-461Abstract

Antonio Chas Aguión, Categorías poéticas minoritarias en el cancionero castellano del siglo XV . (Medioevo ispanico 4.) Alessandria, Italy: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2012. Paper. Pp. iv, 176. €17. ISBN: 978-886-274-3983.

Book Reviews Nancy F. Marino, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 459-460Abstract

László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Carella, eds. Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: Exploring the Vernacular . (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 69.) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012. Pp. xxvi, 246; black-and-white figures. $75.40. ISBN: 978-904-203-5461.

Book Reviews Jonathan Davis-Secord, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 457-459Abstract

Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter, eds., New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations: In Honor of David Berger . (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 33.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. ix, 547; black-and-white figures. $237. ISBN: 978-900-422-1178.

Book Reviews Jonathan M. Elukin, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 454-457Abstract

Caroline Burt, Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272–1307 . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th ser., 85.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 300; 9 black-and-white figures, 9 maps, and 16 tables. $99. ISBN: 978-052-188-9995.

Book Reviews Michael Prestwich, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 453-454Abstract

Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. xxx, 759; 19 black-and-white and color figures and 6 maps. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15290-5.

Book Reviews Michele Renee Salzman, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 02, pp 450-453Abstract