TMR Announcement: Books Available for Review (January, 2007)

Dear Readers,

The following books have been received and are available to qualified scholars for review (reviewers should have received a doctoral degree or the equivalent). Our general policy is that the review is expected within three months of your receiving the book, and must be submitted either by e-mail or on disk.

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please send the following information to us at TMR-L@wmich.edu:

book you wish to reviewfull namee-mail addressaffiliation or degreepreferred mailing address"key-words" describing your scholarly interestsa few recent publications (if appropriate)

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We request that you not ask to be considered as a reviewer for more than TWO titles. We will respond to you as soon as possible regarding a review.

Please be aware that compiling and sorting through requests may take several weeks; we appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you for your support of the The Medieval Review.

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The Editors, TMR

--------Blakely, Ruth M. The Brus Family in England and Scotland, 1100-1295. Boydell, 2005

-------- Bondio, Maricarla Gadebusch. Blood in History and Blood Histories. Micrologus' Library 13. SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005.

Contributors: Gil Anidjar, Gerhard Baader, Alessandro Barberi, Hartmut Bettin, Dominique de Courcelles, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Alberto Jori, Anja Lauper, Roberto Poma, Thomas Ricklin, Ortrun Riha, Thomas Schauerte, Stefan Schulz, Myriam Sporri, Gotthard Strohmaier, Karin Stuckenbrock and Isabella van Elferen.

--------Bronstein, Judith. The Hospitallers and the Holy Land: Financing the Latin East 1187-1274. Boydell Press, 2005.

--------Caferro, William. John Hawkwood: an English Mercenary in Fourteenth- Century Italy. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006

--------Castelli, Patrizia, and Salvatore Geruzzi, eds. Lo Stato E 'L Valore: I Montefeltro e i Della Rovere, assensi e conflitti nell' Italia tra '400 e '600. Giardini Editori e Stampatori, 2005.

Contributors: Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, Francesco Adorno, Patrizia Castelli, Graziella Frederici Vescovini, Eugene Ryan, Cesare Vasoli, Pasquale Sabbatino, Alessandro Magini, Bruna Niccoli, Marco Collereta, Laura Comparato, and Francesco Mallegni.

--------Denery II, Dallas G. Seeing and Being in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology and Religious Life. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, vol. 63. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

--------Geary, Patrick. Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. Princeton University Press, 2006.

--------Green, Karen and Constant J. Mews. Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Series: Disputatio Volume 7. Brepols Publishers, 2005.

--------Hayes-Healy, Stephanie, ed. Medieval Paradigms, Volume 1: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave, 2005.

Contributors: Bruce C. Brasington, Peter Brown, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Stephanie Hayes-Healy, Howell Chickering, Marcia L. Colish, Christopher K. Gardner, Elizabeth Haluska-Raisch, Penelope D. Johnson, William Chester Jordan, E. Ann Matter, Karl F. Morrison, Alexander Murray, James J. O'Donnell and David Price.

--------Hollender, Elisabeth. Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript. Series: Clavis Commentariorum Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi volume 4. Brill Publishers, 2005.

--------Jager, Eric. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. Broadway/Random House, 2005.

--------Jostmann, Christian. Sibilla Erithea Babilonica: Papsttum und Prophetie im 13. Jahrhundert. Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Shriften 54. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006.

--------Kleinschmidt, Harald. Perception and Action in Medieval Europe. Boydell Press, 2006.

--------Koch, Walter, Maria Glaser and Frans-Albrecht Bornschlegel, eds. Literaturbericht zur Mittelalterlichen und Neuzeitlichen Epigraphik. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hilfsmittel 19. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 2000.

Contributors: C. Dammert, K. Jelek, Ch. Friedl, S. Gleixner.

--------Lacy, Norris J., ed. The Fortunes of King Arthur. Arthurian Studies, vol. 64. D.S. Brewer, 2005.

Contributors: W.R.J. Barron, Sian Echard, Caroline D. Eckhardt, Dennis Green, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Edward Donald Kennedy, Norris J. Lacy, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Alan Lupack, Christopher A. Snyder, Alison Stones, Jane H.M Taylor, and Neil Thomas.

--------Lev, Yaacov. Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam. University of Florida Press, 2005.

--------Lifshitz, Felice. The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia, 627-827. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

--------Lupack, Alan. The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend. Oxford University Press, 2005.

--------Madden, Thomas F. New Concise History of the Crusades: Updated Student Edition. Critical Issues in History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

--------Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B., and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 14. Brepols, 2006.

Contributors: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Kate Cooper, Eva M. Synek, Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, Sarah Rees Jones, Judith Herrin, Birgit Sawyer and Felicity Riddy.

--------Niemeyer, Gerlinde and Ingrid Ehlers-Kisseler. Die Viten Gottfrieds von Cappenberg. MGH Scriptores Rerum Germanicroum in usum schol. vol. 74. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2005.

--------Parisoli, Luca. La Contraddizione Vera: Giovanni Duns Scotus tra le necessita della metafisica e il discorso della filosofio pratica. Series: Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, vol. 72. Istituto Storico Dei Cappuccini, 2005.

--------Petersen, Nils Holger, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jeremy Llewellyn, and Eyolf Ostrem, eds. The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification. Series: Disputatio, vol. 3. Brepols, 2004.

Contributors: Nils Holger Petersen, Donnalee Dox, Wim Verbaal, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Andreas Haug, Jeremy Llewellyn, Eyolf Ostrem, Jens Fleischer, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jorgensen and Kirstin Kennedy.

--------Purdie, Rhiannon, and Nicola Royan, eds. The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend. Series: Arthurian Studies, vol. 61. D.S. Brewer, 2005.

Contributors: Rhiannon Purdie, Nicola Royan, Juliette Wood, Thea Summerfield, Tony Hunt, Elizabeth Archibald, Priscilla Bawcutt, Cory J. Rushton, Andrew King, and Sergi Mainer.

--------Saul, Nigel, ed. St. George's Chapel Windsor in the Fourteenth Century. Boydell and Brewer, 2005.

Contributors: Nigel Saul, W.M. Ormrod, Juliet Vale, D.A.L. Morgan, Clive Burgess, Helen Marsh Jeffries, Pamela Tudor-Craig, John A.A. Goodall, Stephen Brindle, Stephen Priestley and Julian Munby.

--------Shepkaru, Shmuel. Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

--------Stevens, John. The Later Cambridge Songs: An English Song Collection of the Twelfth Century. Oxford University Press, 2005.

--------Watts, Victor, trans. Pearl: A Modernised Version of the Middle English Poem. Enitharmon Press. 2005.

Contributors: Corinne Saunders, David Fuller and Kathleen Raine

--------Zimmermann, Harald, ed. Thomas Ebendorfer: Historia Jerusalemitana. Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores rerum Germ. Nova Series, 21. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006.

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