TMR 98.02.03. The Medieval Review Announcement: TMR Books Received (February 1998)
The following books have been received and are available to qualified scholars for review (in most cases a reviewer should have received a doctoral degree or the equivalent). Our general policy is that reviews are 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:
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Britnell, Richard. The Closing of the Middle Ages? England, 1471-1529. Series: A History of Medieval Britain. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. xii, 286 pp. b/w figures, tables, plates.
Britnell, Richard H. The Commercialisation of English Society 1000-1500. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. New York : Manchester University Press, 1996. xvi, 281 pp.
Chretien de Troyes. Lancelot. The Knight of the Cart. Translated by Burton Raffel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. x, 241 pp.
Cox, Catherine S. Gender and Language in Chaucer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. xi, 196 pp.
Eco, Umberto. The Search for the Perfect Language. Series: The Making of Europe. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. xii, 385 pp. First published in Italian in 1993, Spanish, German, and French in 1994.
Given-Wilson, Chris, ed. An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England. New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. xi, 292 pp.
Gunther of Pairis. The Capture of Constantinople: The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis. The Middle Ages Series. Edited and translated by Alfred J. Andrea. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. xiv, 194 pp.
Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. x, 309 pp.
Howes, Laura L. Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. xi, 142 pp.
Hudson, Anne, ed. Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, vol. 38. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xii, 235 pp.
Jolly, Penny Howell. Made in God's Image? Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiii, 142 pp. 33 plates.
Justice, Steven and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds. Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. x, 347 pp.
Karras, Ruth Mazo. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England. Studies in the History of Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii, 221 pp. 5 b/w plates.
Kindrick, Robert L., ed. The Poems of Robert Henryson. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. ix, 313 pp.
Lester, G. A. The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry. Series: The Language of Literature. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. vii, 182 pp.
Levi, Giovanni and Jean-Claude Schmitt, eds. A History of Young People in the West, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 397 pp. b/w plates. First published as Storia dei giovani, 1: Dall'antichita all'eta moderna. Guis. Laterza & Figli Spa, Roma-Bari, 1994.
McMillan, Douglas J. and Kathryn Smith Fladenmuller, eds. Regular Life: Monastic, Canonical, and Mendicant Rules. TEAMS Documents of Practice Series. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. xvi, 80 pp.
Maniates, Maria Rika, ed. Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times: Editing and Translating Texts. Papers given at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems. University of Toronto, 19-20 October 1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. x, 148 pp.
Masschaele, James. Peasants, Merchants, and Markets. Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 275 pp.
Maude, Thomas. Guided by a Stone-Mason: The Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches of Britain Unveiled. New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. 175 pp. b/w illustrations.
Rigby, S. H. Chaucer in Context. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. xii, 205 pp.
Waaijman, Kees and Hein Blommestijn, eds. Studies in Spirituality,vol. 7. Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1997. 300 pp.