Archiv für Juli 2015

Sue Harrington and Martin Welch, The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450–650: Beneath the Tribal Hidage . Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014. Pp. xiii, 234; 62 black-and-white figures, 49 maps, and 10 color plates. $105. ISBN: 978-1-78297-612-7.

Book Reviews Donald Henson, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 819-820Abstract

D. Thomas Hanks and Janet Jesmok, eds., Malory and Christianity: Essays on Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte Darthur” . (Studies in Medieval Literature 51.) Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013. Paper. Pp. vii, 214. $25. ISBN: 978-1-58044-176-6.

Book Reviews Cory James Rushton, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 818-819Abstract

Robert Grosseteste, The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s “De colore ”, ed. and trans. Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Giles E. M. Gasper, Michael Huxtable, Tom C. B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti, and Hannah Smithson. (Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts 4.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013. Paper. Pp. x, 94; color figures. $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-88844-564-3.

Book Reviews Dennis L. Sepper, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 816-817Abstract

Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay, eds., Manufacturing Middle Ages: Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe . (National Cultivation of Culture 6.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiii, 436; 69 black-and-white figures. $167. ISBN: 978-90-04-24486-3.

Book Reviews Allen J. Frantzen, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 814-816Abstract

Galbert of Bruges, The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders , trans. Jeff Rider. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Paper. Pp. lxxvi, 220; 4 maps and 2 genealogical tables. $30. ISBN: 978-0-300-15230-2.

Book Reviews Scott G. Bruce, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 813-814Abstract

Timothy J. Furry, Allegorizing History: The Venerable Bede, Figural Exegesis, and Historical Theory . (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology.) Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013. Paper. Pp. xi, 162; 1 black-and-white figure. $20. ISBN: 978-1-62032-656-5.

Book Reviews Richard Shaw, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 811-813Abstract

David Freidenreich, Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xvii, 352; 1 black-and-white figure and 10 charts. $63. ISBN: 978-0-5202-5321-6.

Book Reviews Thomas Devaney, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 810-811Abstract

Michael Fox and Manish Sharma, eds., Old English Literature and the Old Testament . (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 10.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 397; tables and 4 black-and-white figures. $80. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9854-2.

Book Reviews James H. Morey, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 808-809Abstract

Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250–1400 . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series 95.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 218; 4 black-and-white figures and 1 map. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-03955-1.

Book Reviews Philip Daileader, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 806-808Abstract

Nigel Everett, The Woods of Ireland: A History, 700–1800 . Dublin: Four Courts, 2014. Pp. 344; color figures. €50. ISBN: 978-1-84682-505-7.

Book Reviews Matthew Jebb, Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 03, pp 804-805Abstract