Archiv für August 2014

Luigi Andrea Berto, The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon’s “Istoria Veneticorum” , trans. Antony Shugaar. (Cursor Mundi 12.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. xvi, 264. €70. ISBN: 978-2-503-53159-5.

Book Reviews Thomas F. Madden, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 743-744Abstract

Alfons Becker, Papst Urban II. (1088–1099), Teil 3: Ideen, Institutionen und Praxis eines päpstlichen regimen universale . (Monumenta Germaniae Historica 63.) Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2012. Pp. lxxxviii, 750. €95. ISBN: 978-3-7752-2200-6.

Book Reviews Ernst-Dieter Hehl, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 741-743Abstract

Mark C. Bartusis, Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xliv, 697; 7 black-and-white figures, 22 tables, and 7 maps. $170. ISBN: 978-1-107-00962-2.

Book Reviews Kostis Smyrlis, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 739-741Abstract

Michel Balard, ed., La Papauté et les croisades: Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East / The Papacy and the Crusades: Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East . (Crusades: Subsidia 3.) Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xii, 301. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3007-0.

Book Reviews Thomas F. Madden, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 737-739Abstract

Merridee L. Bailey, Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c.1400–1600 . Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 269. $90. ISBN: 978-1-903153-42-0.

Book Reviews Annemarieke Willemsen, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 736-737Abstract

Barbara Baert, Caput Johannis in Disco: Essay on a Man’s Head . (Visualising the Middle Ages 8.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxiii, 264; 121 color and black-and-white figures. $182. ISBN: 978-90-04-22411-7.

Book Reviews Elina Gertsman, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 734-736Abstract

Jaume Aurell, Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 315; 2 maps and 1 table. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-03232-0.

Book Reviews Montserrat Piera, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 732-734Abstract

Daniel Anlezark, ed., Myths, Legends, and Heroes: Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature in Honour of John McKinnell . (Toronto Old Norse–Icelandic Studies 5.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. vi, 272; 8 black-and-white figures. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9947-1.

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Heather O’Donoghue,
Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 731-732

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Glaire D. Anderson, The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba . Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 258; 82 black-and-white and 16 color figures. $109.95. ISBN: 978-14094-4943-0.

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María Elena Díez Jorge,
Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 729-731

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Kirk Ambrose, The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe . (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 187; 40 black-and-white figures. $90. ISBN: 978-1-84383-831-9.

Book Reviews Colum Hourihane, Speculum, Volume 89 Issue 03, pp 727-729Abstract