Archiv für Mai 2013

David A. King, Astrolabes from Medieval Europe . (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS977.) Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xvi, 404; b&w figs. $190. ISBN: 9781409425939.

Book Reviews Edgar S. Laird, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 319-320Abstract

Samantha Kelly, The Cronaca di Partenope: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples (c.1350). (The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, 89.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. ix, 364. $182. ISBN: 9789004194892.

Book Reviews Thomas Granier, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 318-319Abstract

Ethan Matt Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic: The Authority of Ornament, 1470–1540 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 332; 210 b&w and 80 color figs. $75. ISBN: 9780300167924.

Book Reviews Colum Hourihane, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 316-318Abstract

Juan de Segovia, Iohannis Alphonsi de Segovia : Liber de substancia ecclesie, ed. José Luis Narvaja. (Rarissima Mediaevalia 3.) Münster: Aschendorff, 2012. Pp. 456. €77. ISBN: 9783402104293.

Book Reviews Jesse D. Mann, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 315-316Abstract

Ritva Maria Jacobsson, Fêtes des saints et de la Croix et de la Transfiguration , 2 vols. A: Introduction et commentaires, B: Édition. (Tropes du propre de la messe 5; Corpus Troporum 10.) Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2011. Pp. 1212; b&w figs. and maps. 396.44 kr. ISBN: 9789186071547.

Book Reviews James Borders, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 313-314Abstract

Linda Tarte Holley, Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xvi, 184. $85. ISBN: 9780230105102.

Book Reviews Kathryn L. Lynch, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 312-313Abstract

Nizar F. Hermes, The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture, Ninth–Twelfth Century AD . (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp. xviii, 241. $85. ISBN: 9780230109407.

Book Reviews John Tolan, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 310-312Abstract

Wilhelm Heizmann and Morten Axboe, eds., Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit: Auswertung und Neufunde . (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 40.) Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. Pp. xiv, 1026; 102 plates. $280. ISBN: 9783110224115.

Book Reviews Joseph Harris, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 308-310Abstract

Carol J. Harvey, Medieval French Miracle Plays: Seven Falsely Accused Women . (Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature 4.) Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 167; color figs. $50. ISBN: 9781846822735.

Book Reviews Nancy B. Black, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 307-308Abstract

Jonathan Harris, The End of Byzantium . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xxii, 298; 16 b&w plates, 1 genealogical table, and 3 maps. $40. ISBN: 9780300117868. Marios Philippides and Walter K. Hanak, The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies . Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xxiv, 759; 70 b&w plates, 3 b&w figs., and 4 maps. $220. ISBN: 9781409410645.

Book Reviews Teresa Shawcross, Speculum, Volume 88 Issue 01, pp 305-306Abstract