Archiv für August 2014

Dorothea Klein, ed., Das mittelalterliche Tanzlied (1100–1300): Lieder zum Tanz—Tanz im Lied . (Würzburger Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie 37.) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. Pp. xiii, 265; musical examples. €29.80. ISBN: 978-3-8260-5066-4.

Book Reviews Ann Marie Rasmussen, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 792-793Abstract

Merrill Kaplan, Thou Fearful Guest: Addressing the Past in Four Tales in Flateyjarbók . (Fellows Folklore Communications 301.) Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2011. Pp. 236. €30. ISBN: 978-951-41-1068-9.

Book Reviews Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 790-791Abstract

Anthony Kaldellis, Le discours ethnographique à Byzance: Continuité et rupture . (Séminaires byzantins 2.) Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. Paper. Pp. 247. €45. ISBN: 978-2-251-44454-3. Anthony Kaldellis, Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. x, 275. $75. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4531-8.

Book Reviews Paul Stephenson, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 788-790Abstract

Sylvie Joye, La femme ravie: Le mariage par rapt dans les sociétés occidentales du haut Moyen Âge . (Collection Haut Moyen Âge 12.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. Paper. Pp. 528. €70. ISBN: 978-2-503-52899-1.

Book Reviews Ruth Mazo Karras, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 786-788Abstract

Susan Irvine and Malcolm R. Godden, eds. and trans., The Old English Boethius: With Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred . (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 19.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiv, 451. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05558-2.

Book Reviews Nicole Guenther Discenza, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 785-786Abstract

Anne Hudson, ed., Two Revisions of Rolle’s English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles . Vol. 1. (Early English Text Society Original Series 340.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. ccv, 390; 4 black-and-white figures. $125. ISBN: 978-0-19-966920-2.

Book Reviews Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 782-785Abstract

Colum Hourihane, ed., From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History . (Occasional Papers 14.) Princeton: Index of Christian Art, 2012. Paper. Pp. xxiv, 308; many color and black-and-white figures. $35. ISBN: 978-0-9837537-1-1.

Book Reviews Silvia Armando, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 780-782Abstract

John M. Hill, ed., On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems . (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 6.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. vi, 299; black-and-white figures. $68. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9944-0.

Book Reviews Stephen J. Harris, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 779-780Abstract

Benoît Grévin, Le parchemin des cieux: Essai sur le Moyen Âge du langage . (L’univers historique.) Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2012. Paper. Pp. 416. €25. ISBN: 978-2-02-087894-4.

Book Reviews Mark Amsler, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 777-779Abstract

Michael Greenhalgh, Constantinople to Córdoba: Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xvi, 511; 91 black-and-white figures. $242. ISBN: 978-90-04-21246-6.

Book Reviews Glaire D. Anderson, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 776-777Abstract