Archiv für Februar 2015

Giovanni Boccaccio, Rime , ed. Roberto Leporatti. (Archivio Romanzo 26.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo for La Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2013. Pp. ccxciv, 426. €95. ISBN: 978-88-8450-508-8.

Book Reviews Todd Boli, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 210-213Abstract

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone, eds., Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity . (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 15.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. viii, 348. €100. ISBN: 978-2-503-54131-0.

Book Reviews Marina Bazzani, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 209-210Abstract

Joseph Bédier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseut , trans. Edward J. Gallagher. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2013. Pp. xlix, 159. Paper. $13. ISBN: 978-1-60384-900-5.

Book Reviews Janina P. Traxler, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 207-209Abstract

Michael D. Bailey, Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 295; 2 black-and-white figures and 2 tables. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5144-7.

Book Reviews Robert Bartlett, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 206-207Abstract

Michael Attaleiates, The History , trans. Anthony Kaldellis and Dimitris Krallis. (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 16.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 636. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05799-9.

Book Reviews Peter Frankopan, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 204-206Abstract

Mario Ascheri, The Laws of Late Medieval Italy (1000–1500): Foundations for a European Legal System , trans. Anabel Thomas and Sara Elin Roberts. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. Pp. xvi, 427; 3 black-and-white figures. $180. ISBN: 978-90-04-21186-5.

Book Reviews Katherine L. Jansen, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 202-204Abstract

Ellen F. Arnold, Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes . (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 301; 2 line illustrations. $65. ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2.

Book Reviews Sheila Bonde, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 199-201Abstract

Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds., Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler . Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013. Pp. viii, 274. $55. ISBN: 978-1-58044-177-3.

Book Reviews Joan Tasker Grimbert, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 198-199Abstract

David S. Areford, The Art of Empathy: The Mother of Sorrows in Northern Renaissance Art and Devotion . London, UK, and Jacksonville, FL: GILES for the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 2013. Paper. Pp. 64; 50 color and many black-and-white figures. $17.95. ISBN: 978-1-907804-26-7.

Book Reviews Andrea Pearson, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 196-198Abstract

John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature . New York: Routledge, 2013. Paper. Pp. xvi, 326; 25 black-and-white figures. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-77946-3.

Book Reviews Daniel Lord Smail, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 01, pp 195-196Abstract