Archiv für April 2015

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe , trans. Haim Watzman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 275. $49.99. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3931-2.

Book Reviews Ivan G. Marcus, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 584-586Abstract

Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm, eds. and trans., The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought . (International Medieval Research 20.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Paper. Pp. xvi, 255; 4 color plates and many black-and-white figures. €125. ISBN: 978-2-503-54839-5.

Book Reviews Danielle B. Joyner, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 583-584Abstract

Virginia Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400–1600 . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 297; 39 black-and-white figures and 2 tables. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-00721-5.

Book Reviews Roger S. Wieck, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 581-583Abstract

Catherine R. Puglisi and William L. Barcham, eds., New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows . (Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations.) Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013. Pp. vi, 348; 9 color plates and many black-and-white figures. $65. ISBN: 978-1-58044-193-3.

Book Reviews Andrew R. Casper, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 579-581Abstract

Joseph Pucci, Augustine’s Virgilian Retreat: Reading the “auctores” at Cassiciacum . (Studies and Texts 187.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014. Pp. xvi, 192. $80. ISBN: 978-0-88844-187-4.

Book Reviews M. J. Edwards, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 578-579Abstract

Kim M. Phillips, Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245–1510 . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 314; 6 black-and-white figures. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4548-6.

Book Reviews Jorge Flores, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 576-577Abstract

James T. Palmer, The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Paper. Pp. xiv, 254; 6 black-and-white figures and 2 maps. $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-44909-1.

Book Reviews Richard K. Emmerson, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 574-576Abstract

Joseph F. O’Callaghan, The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada . (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 364; 4 genealogical tables and 2 maps. $75. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4587-5.

Book Reviews Brian Catlos, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 572-574Abstract

Barbara Obrist and Irene Caiazzo, eds., Guillaume de Conches: Philosophie et science au XIIe siècle . (Micrologus’ Library, 42.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galuzzo, 2011. Pp. xxv, 522; 2 color plates, 21 black-and-white plates. €72, ISBN: 978-88-8450-413-5.

Book Reviews Robert Ziomkowski, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 570-572Abstract

Cynthia J. Neville and Grant G. Simpson, eds., Regesta regum Scottorum , vol. 4, part 1: The Acts of Alexander III 1249–1286. (Regesta Regum Scottorum.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012, reprinted with corrections, 2013. Pp. xii, 276; 1 map. $192. ISBN: 978-0-7486-2732-5.

Book Reviews Alice Taylor, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 569-570Abstract