TMR Announcement: Books Available for Review (April, 2008)

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. While the average length of reviews is about 1500 words, we require that all submissions be between 800 and 2500 words in length.

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please send the following information to us at tmrl@indiana.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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The Editors, TMR

--------Aurell, Martin, ed. Convaincre et persuader: communication et propagande aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles. Actes des colloques de Fontevraud, Oxford, Barcelone, Saintes, Octobre 2004-Novembre 2006. Poitiers: CESCM, 2007.

Contributors: Martin Aurell, Xavier Storelli, Maite Billore, Angeles Garcia de la Borbolla, Beatriz Marcotegui, Catalina Girbea, Martha Ganeva, Catherine Daniel, Isabelle Rousseau-Jacob, Francois Foronda, Francesc Rodriguez Bernal, Egbert Turk, Myriam Soria Audebert, Laurence Moulinier-Brogi, Claudio Galderisi, Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Aude Cirier, Damien Carraz, David Crouch, Gilles, Lecuppre, Thomas Deswarte, Martha Lacomba, Esther Dehoux, Laurent Hablot, Vincent Debiais, Alain Rauwel, Robert Halleux.

--------Beattie, Cordelia. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

--------Blaylock, Stuart, et al. Bowhill: The Archaeological Study of a Building Under Repair in Exeter, Devon, 1977-1995. Swindon: English Heritage, 2004.

Contributors: N.W. Alcock, J.P. Allen, B.M.A. Ellis, C.M. Groves, G. Edwards, J.R. Harrison, A.J. Hopper-Bishop, R.E. Howard, B. Knight, F. P. Kelly, R. McNeilage, N. Shiel.

--------Boro, Joyce, ed. The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berner's Romance. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007.

--------Butterworth, Philip, ed. The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

Contributors: Philip Butterworth, Christine Dymkowski, Peter Happe, Max Harris, Alan Hindley, Mario Longtin, John McKinnell, Peter Meredith, David Mills, Nerida Newbigin, Tom Pettitt, Milla Cozart Riggio, Jolanta Rzegocka, Elsa Streitman.

--------Dougherty, M.V., ed. Pico della Mirandola: New Essays.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contributors: Michael J.B. Allen, Paul Richard Blum, Francesco Borghesi, M.V. Dougherty, Jill Kraye, Sheila J. Rabin, Carl N. Still, Michael Sudduth.

--------Dryburgh, Paul and Beth Hartland, eds. Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III Preserved in the National Archives. 1216-1224. Vol. 1. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2007.

Contributors: David Carpenter, Ariana Ciula, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Harold Short, Paul Spence.

--------Evans, J. Wyn and Jonathan M. Wooding, eds. St. David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2007.

Contribuors: Jonathan M. Wooding, J. Wyn Evans, Heather James, Mark Redknap, Richard Sharpe, John Reuben Davies, Graham Isaac, Jane Cartwright, Bernard Tanguy, Daniel Huws, Owain Tudor Edwards, David R. Howlett, Fred Cowley, Thomas Higham, John Morgan-Guy, Huw Pryce, Julia Barrow, Glanmor Williams, Nigel Yates.

--------Fonte, Moderata. Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance. Edited with an Introduction by Valeria Finucci, translated by Julia Kisacky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

--------Frez, Amancio Isla. Memoria, Culto y Monarquia Hispania entre los Siglos X y XII. Torredonjimeno: Universidad de Jaen, 2007.

--------Fyler, John M. Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

--------Girbea, Catalina. La couronne ou l'aureole. Royaute terrestre et chevalerie celestielle dans la legende arthurienne (XIIe-XIIIe siecles). Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

--------Glosecki, Stephen O., ed. Myth in Early Northwest Europe. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007.

Contributors: Craig R. Davis, Michael Enright, Roberta Frank, Stephen O. Glosecki, Joseph Harris, John M. Hill, Geoffrey Koziol, Christina Lee, Joseph Falaky Nagy, John D. Niles, Marijane Osborn, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Geoffrey Russom, Tom Shippey.

--------Grafton, Anthony and Megan Williams. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

--------Hicks, Leonie V. Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300: Space, Gender, and Social Pressure. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2007.

--------Hollander, Robert and Jean Hollander, trans. Paradiso: A Verse Translation. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

--------Jones, Chris. Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and its Rulers in Late-Medieval France. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

--------Kerr, Julie. Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, c. 1070-1250. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2007.

--------Kors, Mikel. De Bijbel voor Leken: Studies over Petrus Naghel en de Historiebijbel van 1361. Introduction by Geert H. M. Claassens. Leuven: Encyclopedie Benedictine, 2007.

--------Laiou, Angeliki E. and Cecile Morrisson. The Byzantine Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

--------Levitan, William, trans. Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.

--------Lipton, Emma. Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

--------Modestin, Georg. Ketzer in der Stadt: Der Prozess gegen die Strassburger Waldenser von 1400. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007.

--------Otten, Willemien and Karla Pollmann, eds. Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Contributors: A. Arweiler, A.A.R. Bastiaensen, R. Chiappiniello, J. Clarke, J. den Boeft, G. Dinkova Bruun, R.P.H. Green,M. Herren, M. Hoffmann, Ch. O. Tommasi Moreschini, H. Muller, W. Otten, K. Pollman, M.B. Pranger, K. Smolak, M. Vessey, H.J. Westra

--------Parker, John. The Aesthetics of the Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

--------Rogers, Clifford J. Soldiers' Lives through History: The Middle Ages. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.

--------Scott, Kathleen L. Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

--------Shogimen, Takashi. Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

--------Sundell, Michael G. Mosaics in The Eternal City. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2007.

--------Thomas, Hugh M. The Norman Conquest: England after William the Conqueror. Langham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

--------Wawn, Andrew, Graham Johnson and John Walter, eds. Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honor of T.A. Shippey. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

Contributors: Martin Arnold, Keith Battarbee, Paul Battles, Andrew Breeze, Keith Busby, Jonathan Evans, Robert D. Fulk, David Elton Gay, Terry Gunnell, Stefan Thomas Hall, John Hill, Joyce Tally Lianarons, Rory McTurk, Hans Frede Nielsen, Peter Orton, Andrew Wawn.

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