\ Announcement: Books Available for Review (March 2012)

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 by e-mail.

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We request that you not ask to be considered as a reviewer for more than TWO titles.

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 TMR Editors

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Astell, Ann W. and Sandor Goodhart, ed., Sacrifice, Scripture, & Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2011). Contributors: Rn Girard, Thomas Ryba, Michael Fishbane, Bruce Chilton, Robert Daly, S.J., Alan F. Segal, Louis H. Feldman, Erich S. Gruen, Stuart D. Robertson, Matthew Pattillo, Steven Stern, Chris Allen Carter, William Morrow, William Martin Aiken, Grard Ross, Christopher S. Morrissey, Poong-In Lee, Anthony W. Bartlett

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Ballweg, Jan, John Kilcullen, Volker Leppin, and John Scott, ed., William of Ockham: Dialogus Part 2, Part 3, Tract 1. Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, William of Ockham Opera Politica (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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Beech, George, Solving Some Enigmas of the Middle Ages: The Historian as Detective. (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011). Contributors: Theodore Evergates

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Bonord, Aude, Les "Hagiographes de la main gauche": Variations de la vie de saints au XXe sicle. Series: tudes de littrature des XXe et XXIe sicles (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011).

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Carr, Annemarie Weyl, ed., Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). Contributors: Josef Helfenstein, Clare Elliott, Bertrand Davezac.

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Clark, David and Kate McClune, ed., Arthurian Literature XXVIII: Blood, Sex, Malory. Essays on the Morte Darthur. Series: Arthurian Literature (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011). Contributors: Christina Francis, Megan Leitch, Helen Phillips, Carolyne Larrington, Lydia Fletcher, Sally Mapstone, Caitlyn Schwartz, Maria Cecire, Anna Caughey, Catherine La Farge.

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Collette, Carolyn P. and Harold Garrett-Goodyear, ed., The Later Middle Ages: A Sourcebook. Series: Palgrave Sourcebooks (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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Cox, Helen, The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York's Final Battle, December 1460. (Layerthorpe: Herstory Writing & Interpretation, 2010).

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Croizy-Naquet, Catherine, Laurence Harf-Lancner and Michelle Szkilnik, ed., Faire Court: l'esthtique de la brivet dans la littrature du Moyen ge. (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2011). Contributors: Pierre-Yves Badel, Monique Goullet, Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Madeleine Jeay, Didier Lechat, Francis Gingras, Nathalie Koble, Mireille Sguy, Christopher Lucken, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Bndicte Milland-Bove, Dominique Demartini, Nelly Labre, Irne Fabry-Tehranchi, Sylvain Durand.

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Dartmann, Christoph, Thomas Scharff, and Christoph Friedrich Weber, ed., Zwischen Pragmatik und Performanz: Dimensionen Mittelalterlicher Schriftkultur. Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, nv., 2011).

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Dawson, Anthony B. and Paul Yachnin, ed., William Shakespeare, Richard II. Series: Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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Drger, Paul, ed., Vita Gangolfi, Das Leben Gangolfs. (Trier: Kliomedia GmbH, 2011).

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Edgar, Swift, ed., The Vulgate Bible, Vol. III: The Poetical Books. Douay-Rheims Translation. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011). Contributors: Angela M. Kinney.

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Fiesoli, Giovanni, ed., Italia Lombardia. Series: Biblioteche e Archivi: Repertorio di Inventari e Cataloghi di Biblioteche Medievale (Florence: SISMEL: edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011).

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Hardwick, Paul, ed., The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning, Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block. Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2011). Contributors: Frdric Billiet, Alan Hindley, Naomi Reed Kline, Christa Grssinger, M.A. Hall, Kristiane Lem-Hbuterne, Sylvie Bethmont-Gallerand, Adrian P. Tudor, S.J.F.S. Phillips, Luuk Houwen, Kenneth Varty.

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Hirsch, Brett D. and Christopher Wortham, ed., 'This Earthly Stage' World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Series: Cursor Mundi (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers NV, 2011). Contributors: Michael Best, Victoria Bladen, Alan Brissenden, Darryl Chalk, Steve Chinna, Heather Dubrow, Heather Kerr, Clayton G. Mackenzie, Mary-Rose Mclaren, Lucy Potter, John Tillotson, Laurence Wright.

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Holbach, Rudolf and Michel Pauly, ed., Stdtische Wirtschaft im Mittelalter: Festschrift fr Franz Irsigler zum 70. Geburtstag. (Cologne: Bhlau, 2011). Contributors: Josef Zemlicka, Jean-Luc Fray, Francesca Bocchi, Rosa Smurra, Roman Czaja, Hans-Jrg Gilomen, Volker Henn, Ferdinand Opll, Martin Uhrmacher, Knut Schulz, Harald Witthft, Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer.

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Holey, Linda Tarte, Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author. Series: The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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Jones, Mike Rodman, Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011).

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Klpste , Jan, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation. Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill nv, 2012).

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McGerr, Rosemarie, A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011).

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Meredith, Hallie G., ed., Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Byzantine World. Series: BAR International Series (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011). Contributors: Crispin Paine, Georgia Frank, Anthony Cutler, Matthew P. Canepa, Ida Toth, Henry Maguire

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Munzi, Luigi, ed., Custos Latini Sermonis: Testi grammaticali latini dell'alto medioevo. Series: Annali dell'universit degli studi di Napoli "l'Orientale" (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011).

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Obrist, Barbara and Irene Caiazzo, ed., Guillaume de Conches: Philosophie et science au XIIe sicle. Series: Micrologus' Library (Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011). Contributors: douard Jeauneau, Charles Burnett, Danielle Jacquart, Helen Rodnite Lemay, Patrick Gautier Dalch, Jean Jolivet, Alexander Fidora, Dominique Poirel, Margareta Fredborg, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Paul Edward Dutton.

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Phillips, Kim M. and Barry Reay, Sex before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Series: Themes in History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011).

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Prudlo, Donald S., ed., The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies. Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011). Contributors: Augustine Thompson, O.P., Anthony John Lappin, Joan Mueller, Holly J. Grieco, Andrew Traver, David Foote, Antonio Rigon, David Burr, Patricia R. Bart, Silvia Nocentini.

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Reynolds, Matthew, The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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Saul, Nigel, Chivalry in Medieval England. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).

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Sela, Shlomo, ed., Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical edition of the Book of Elections (3 versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 versions), and the Book of the Luminaries. Series: tudes sur le Judasme Mdival, Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill nv., 2011).

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van Bekkum, Wout and Naoya Katsumata, ed., Giving a Diamond: Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Series: tudes sur le Judasme Mdival (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011). Contributors: Reimund Leicht, Michael D. Swartz, Ophir Mnz-Manor, Tzvi Novick, Michael Rand, Avi Shmidman, Jonathan P. Decter, Peter Sh. Lehnardt, Paul B. Fenton, Adena Tanenbaum, Elisabeth Hollender, Susan L. Einbinder, Javier Castao, Geoffrey Khan.

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Winterbottom, Michael, Rodney M. Thompson and Sigbjorn Sonnesyn, ed., Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae Willelmus Meldunensis monachus. Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, nv, 2011).