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Al-Azmeh, Aziz. Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2001).
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Armstrong, Guyda and Ian Wood, eds. Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals. International Medieval Research, vol. 7 (Brepols, 2000).
Contributors: Synek, Noonan, van Egmond, Pohl, Graslund, Nilsson, Janson, Fewster, Hunyadi, Bak, Kuznetsova, Veszpremy, Favreau-Lilie, Ravid, Berman Brown, McCartney, Evans, Vones, Yavari, Felicitas Schmieder, Quinn, Mowbray, Roest, O'Brian, Engel, Casey
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Barton, Simon and Richard Fletcher, eds. The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest (Manchester University Press, 2001).
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Bellitto, Christopher. Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformation (The Catholic University of America Press, 2001).
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Biddle, Martin, ed. King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation (Boydell, 2000).
Contributors: Badham, Barefoot, Clayre, Coleman, Davey, Fleming, Haddon-Reece, Heard, Hewett, Jervis, Morris, Otlet, Read, Jones, Tudor-Craig, Wainwright, Walker.
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Cantelmo, Marinella, ed. Il Castello, Il Convento, Il Palazzo: E Altri Scenari dell' Ambientazione Letteraria. Biblioteca dell' Archivum Romanicum, Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia (Leo S. Olschki, 2000).
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Connell, William and Andrea Zorzi, eds. Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributors: Brown, Black, Petrelia, Epstein, Peterson, De Angelis, Cohn, Salvadori, Fabbri, Salvestrini, Muzzi, Black, Milner, Chittolini.
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Coss, Peter, ed. The Moral World of the Law. Past and Present Publications (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributors: Todd, Lewis, Davies, Hyams, Brand, Kuehn, Ingram, Ford, Jeater, Lonsdale, Wickham.
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Dalarun, Jacques. Francois d'Assise ou le Pouvoir en Question. Bibliotheque du Moyen Age, vol. 15 (DeBoeck Universite, 2000).
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Dalrymple, Roger. Language and Piety in the Middle English Romance (Brewer, 2000).
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Doss-Quinby, Eglal, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Wendy Pfeffer, and Elizabeth Aubrey, eds. Songs of the Women Trouveres (Yale University Press, 2001).
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Erkens, Franz-Reiner, ed. Karl der Grosse und das Erbe der Kulturen. Akten des 8. Symposiums des Mediavistenverbandes (Akademie Verlag, 2001).
Contributors: Richter, Tinnefeld, von Padburg, Kasten, Staab, Smolak, Losek, Eggert, Boshof, Bowlus, Eggers, Busse, Romer, Bastert, Megier, Waltz, Schutte, Wiese, Hohmann, Schlusemann, Furbeth.
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Fenton, Paul and Roland Goetschel, eds. Experience et Ecriture Mystiques dans les Religions du Livre. Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval (Brill, 2000).
Contributors: Meslin, Groezinger, des Rochettes, Elior, Mimouni, Dan, Brague, Vannier, Rothschild, del Valle, Mopsik, Escarmant, Meroz, Rubin, Loewenthal.
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Finucci, Valeria and Kevin Brownlee, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (Duke University Press, 2001). Contributors: Clark, Martin, Pomata, Traub, Scordilis, Brownlee, Quilligan, Siraisi, Stallybrass.
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Goodall, John A. A. God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion, and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse (Ashgate Publishing, 2001).
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Harney, Michael. Kinship and Marriage in Medieval Hispanic Chivalric Romance. Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 11 (Brepols, 2001).
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Hasenfratz, Robert, ed. Ancrene Wisse. TEAMS: Middle English Text Series (Medieval Institute Publications, 2001).
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Hen, Yitzhak, ed. De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem: Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy, and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (Brepols, 2001).
Contributors: Albert, Cohen, Friedman, Goodich, Hen, Jacoby, Kedar, Kleinberg, Limor, Roberts, Schein, Toch, Ziegler.
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Hourihane, Colum, ed. From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context. Index of Christian Art Occasional Ppaers IV (Princeton University Press, 2001).
Contributors: Verkerk, Stalley, Bourke, Veelenturf, Harbison, Garton, Williams, McNab, Budny, Whitfield, Youngs, Hawkes, Pirotte, Floinn, Karkov, King.
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Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods (Cornell University Press, 2001).
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Ingham, Patricia Claire. Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britian (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
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Jaritz, Gerhard, ed. Kontraste im Alltag des Mittelalters. Forschungen des Instituts fuer Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Fruehen Neuzeit Diskussionen und Materialien NR. 5 (Verland / Der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2000).
Contributors: Jaritz, Brunner, Simon-Muscheid, Miklautsch, Kuge-Pinsker, Kuhn, Rippmann, Camille, Vavra, Schedl, Bolvig.
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Johnson, David F. and Geert H. M. Claasens, eds. Dutch Romances, Volume II: Ferguut. Arthurian Archives, vol. vii (Brewer, 2001).
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Kim, Keechang. Aliens in Medieval Law: The Origins of Modern Citizenship. Cambridge Studies in English Legal History (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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Kleinschmidt, Harald. Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World (Boydell, 2000).
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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: Dammert, Jelek, Friedl, Gleixner
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Kolzer, Theo, Martina Hartmann and Andrea Stieldorf, eds. Die Urkunden der Merowinger: Nach Vorarbeiten von Carlrichard Bruhl, vol. 1 - 2. Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2001).
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Krueger, Roberta ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. The Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Contributors: Baswell, Brownlee, Bruckner, Fisher, Gaunt, Hahn, Huot, Kay, Krueger, Lacy, Psaki, Rasmussen, Riddy, Rider.
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Lupoi, Maurizio. The Origins of the European Legal Order (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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Magnusdottir, Asdis R. La voix du cor: La relique de Roncevaux et l'origine d'un motif dans la litterature du Moyen Age (XII - XIV siecles). Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 31 (Rodopi, 1998).
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McEvoy, James. Robert Grosseteste. Great Medieval Thinkers (Oxford University Press, 2000).
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Orton, Peter. The Transmission of Old English Poetry. Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Brepols, 2000).
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Pleij, Herman. Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life. Translated by Diane Webb (Columbia University Press, 2001).
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Pope, Rob. How to Study Chaucer. Second edition (Palgrave, 2000).
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Pounds, N. J. G. A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria (Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2000).
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Rossi, Azariah de'. The Light of the Eyes. Translated and annotated by Joanna Weinberg. Yale Judaica Series (Yale University Press, 2001).
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Spade, Paul Vincent, trans. Walter Burley's On the Purity of the Art of Logic: The Shorter and Longer Treatises (Yale University Press, 2001). Baker, Peter, ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition Vol. 8, MS F (Boydell and Brewer, 2000).
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Stanley, Eric Gerald Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury (Brewer, 2000).
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Swan, Mary and Elaine Treharne, eds. Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributors: Wilcox, Teresi, Proud, Rosser, Liuzza, Pulsiano, Collier
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Tracy, James D. ed, City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective. Studies in Comparative Early Modern History (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributors: Connah, Milner, Reyerson, Kagan, Cooper, Bachrach, Bloom, Asher, Pepper, Wolfe, Elbl, Parker, Steinhardt, Farmer, Blair, van Emden, Poolak.
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Tremp, Kathrin Utz, ed. Quellen zur Geschichte der Waldenser von Freiburg im Uchtland (1399-1439). Quellen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, Band 18 (Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2000).
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Vander Meulen, David, ed. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (University Press of Virginia, 1999).
Contributors: Thomas Tanselle, Galloway, Dane, Gillespie, Mosser, Monks, Weiss, Maguire, May, Chandler, Joukovsky, Kyles, Sherbo, Tanselle.
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Varty, Kenneth, ed. Reynard the Fox: Social Engagement and Cultural Metamorphoses in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present. Cultural Diversities and Intersections, vol. 1 (Berghahn Books, 2000).
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Weiss, Judith, Jennifer Fellows and Morgan Dickson, eds. Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation (Brewer, 2000).
Contributors: Djordjevic, Field, Dickson, Archibald, Hopkins, Diamond, Price, Davenport, Snell, Dalrymple, Cooper.
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White, Hugh. Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2001).