Archiv für April 2015

Antoine Calvet, Les oeuvres alchimiques attribuées à Arnaud de Villeneuve: Grand oeuvre, médecine et prophétie au Moyen-Âge . (Textes et Travaux de Chrysopœia 11.) Paris: S.E.H.A. and Milan: Archè, 2011. Paper. Pp. vii, 728. €57. ISBN: 978-88-72-52318-6.

Book Reviews William R. Newman, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 520-521Abstract

William Calin, The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. x, 415. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4665-0.

Book Reviews Lee Manion, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 518-519Abstract

Emanuel Buttigieg and Simon Phillips, eds., Islands and the Military Orders, c. 1291–c. 1798 . Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xxi, 276; 4 color plates, 26 black-and-white figures, and 6 tables. $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-0990-4.

Book Reviews Judith Bronstein, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 516-518Abstract

Stefan Burkhardt and Thomas Foerster, eds., Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage: Exchange of Cultures in the “Norman” Peripheries of Medieval Europe . Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. vi, 305. $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6330-6. Keith J. Stringer and Andrew Jotischky, eds., Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities, and Contrasts . Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiv, 261; 10 black-and-white figures. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4838-9.

Book Reviews Hugh M. Thomas, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 514-516Abstract

Đorđe Bubalo, Pragmatic Literacy in Medieval Serbia . (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 29.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Pp. xxvi, 428; 38 black-and-white figures and 2 maps. €100. ISBN: 978-2-503-54961-3.

Book Reviews Simon Franklin, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 512-514Abstract

Michelle P. Brown, The Book and the Transformation of Britain c. 550–1050: A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality . (The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, 2009.) London: British Library, 2011. Pp. 184; 12 color and 75 black-and-white figures. £45. ISBN: 978-0-7123-5828-6.

Book Reviews Andrew Taylor, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 511-512Abstract

Richard Britnell, ed., Durham Priory Manorial Accounts, 1277–1310 . (Publications of the Surtees Society 218.) Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press for the Surtees Society, 2014. Pp. lxxiv, 379; 15 tables and 1 map. $90. ISBN: 978-0-85444-073-3.

Book Reviews Mark Bailey, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 509-511Abstract

Monique Bourin, John Drendel, and François Menant, eds., Les disettes dans la conjoncture de 1300 en Méditerranée occidentale . (Collection de l’École française de Rome 450.) Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. Pp. 438. €70. ISBN: 978-2-7283-0903-0.

Book Reviews Sharon Farmer, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 508-509Abstract

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, eds., A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry . Cambridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2013. Pp. x, 244. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84384-353-5.

Book Reviews J. M. Moreau, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 507-508Abstract

M. C. Bodden, Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xvi, 257. $85. ISBN: 978-0-230-61876-3.

Book Reviews Vickie Larsen, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 02, pp 505-507Abstract