Archiv für Februar 2015

Johannes Fontana, “Liber instrumentorum iconographicus”: Ein illustriertes Maschinenbuch , ed. and trans. Horst Kranz. (Boethius 66.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014. Pp. 192; many black-and-white figures. €46. ISBN: 978-3-515-10660-3.

Book Reviews Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 248-249Abstract

Eric Fernie, Romanesque Architecture: The First Style of the European Age . (Pelican History of Art Series.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 300; 100 color and 280 black-and-white figures. $80. ISBN: 978-0-300-20354-7.

Book Reviews Walter Berry, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 246-248Abstract

Claude Evans, ed., L’abbaye cistercienne de Bégard des origines à 1476: Histoire et chartes . (Atelier de recherche sur les textes médiévaux 16.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Paper. Pp. 467; 2 black-and-white figures. €85. ISBN: 978-2-503-54750-3.

Book Reviews Constance H. Berman, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 244-246Abstract

Michael J. Enright, Prophecy and Kingship in Adomnán’s “Life of Saint Columba” . Dublin: Four Courts, 2013. Pp. vi, 202. $70. ISBN: 978-1-84682-382-4.

Book Reviews Lisa Bitel, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 242-244Abstract

Bonnie Effros, Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830–1914 . (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiii, 427; 80 black-and-white figures. $150. ISBN: 978-0-19-969671-0.

Book Reviews Ian Wood, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 240-242Abstract

Eva De Visscher, Reading the Rabbis: Christian Hebraism in the Works of Herbert of Bosham . (Commentaria 5.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. Pp. xv, 222; 3 black-and-white plates. $133. ISBN: 978-90-04-25468-8.

Book Reviews Philippa Byrne, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 239-240Abstract

Olivier Delsaux, Manuscrits et pratiques autographes chez les écrivains français de la fin du Moyen Âge: L’exemple de Christine de Pizan . (Publications Romanes et Françaises 258.) Geneva: Droz, 2013. €74. ISBN: 978-2-600-01702-2.

Book Reviews Deborah McGrady, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 238-239Abstract

Jacques Dalarun, ed. and trans., Vie et miracles de Bérard évêque des Marses (1080–1130) . (Subsidia Hagiographica 93.) Brussels: Société de Bollandistes, 2013. Pp. 278. €65. Paper. ISBN: 978-2-87365-027-8.

Book Reviews Constance B. Bouchard, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 236-237Abstract

Dana Cushing, “De itinere navali”: A German Third Crusader’s Chronicle of His Voyage and the Siege of Almohad Silves, 1189 AD/Muwahid Xelb, 585 AH . N.p.: Antimony Media, 2014. $139. Pp. civ, 478. ISBN: 978-0-989-2853-1-5.

Book Reviews Helen J. Nicholson, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 235-236Abstract

Rosemary Cramp, The Hirsel Excavations . (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 36.) Leeds, UK: Maney Publishing, for The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2014. Pp. 359. £30. ISBN: 978-1-909662-35-3.

Book Reviews Sally M. Foster, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 233-235Abstract