TMR Announcement: Books Available for Review (June, 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. 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 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)
Note that if you have sent us key-words and publications within the past year, you do not need to repeat the information.
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
Bardsley, Sandy. Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
--------Billy, Dominique, Francoise Clements, and Annie Combes, eds. L'Espace Lyrique Mediterraneen au Moyen Age. Interlangues. Presses Universitaires du Mirail/ Universite de Toulouse, 2006.
Contributors: Anna Alberni, Roberto Antonelli, Elizabeth Aubrey, Martin Aurell, Dominique Billy, Mercedes Brea, Francois Clement, Annie Combes, Abdellatif Ghouirgate, Gerard Gouiran, Peter T. Ricketts, Cynthia Robinson, Antoni Rossell, Arie Schippers, and Michelle Szkilnik.
--------Blamires, Alcuin. Chaucer, Ethics and Gender. Oxford University Press, 2006.
--------Bolduc, Michelle. The Medieval Poetics of Contraries. University of Florida Press, 2006.
--------Bracken, Damian and Dagmar O Riain-Raedel. Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal. Four Courts Press, 2006.
Contributors: Damian Bracken, Martin Brett, Maurice F. Hurley, Sean Duffy, Richard Gem, Anthony Candon, Martin Holland, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, Roger Stalleyt, Dagmar O Riain-Raedel, Raghnall O Floinn, Diarmuid Scully, and Tadhg O'Keefe
--------Clanchy, M. T. England and Its Rulers, 1066-1307, 3rd edition. Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
--------Coulter, Dale M. Per Visibilia ad Invisibilia: Theological Method in Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173). Bibliotheca Victorina XIX. Brepols, 2006.
--------Desmond, Marilynn. Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Cornell University Press, 2006.
--------Feiss, Hugh and Ronald Pepin, eds. Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse. Cistercian Studies, 209. Cistercian Publications, 2005.
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Freeland, Jane Patricia, ed. with an introduction by Marsha L. Dutton. Aelred of Rievaulx: The Lives of the Northern Saints. Cistercian Fathers, vol. 71. Cistercian Publications, 2006.
--------Giandrea, Mary Frances. Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Studies, vol. 7. Boydell Press, 2007.
--------Green, Judith A. Henry I: King of England and Duke of Normandy. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
--------Healy, Patrick, ed. Hugh of Flavigny: The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest in the late Eleventh Century. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West. Ashgate, 2006.
--------Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald. Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism. Ashgate, 2006.
Contributors: Adam H. Becker, Averil Cameron, Adrian Hollis, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Aaron P. Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christopher P. Jones, Yannis Papadayannakis, Ruth Webb, and Mary Whitby
--------Kaldellis, Anthony, ed. and trans. Michael Psellos: Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Contributors: David Jenkins and Stratis Papaioannou.
--------Kaspersen, Soren and Erik Thuno, ed. Decorating the Lord's Table: On the Dynamics between Image and Altar in the Middle Ages. University of Copenhagen/ Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006.
Contributors: Ann van Dijk, Annika Elizabeth Fisher, Soren Kaspersen, Lena Liepe, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens, and Erik Thuno
--------Marvin, William Perry. Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature. D.S. Brewer, 2006.
--------Moreno-Riano, Gerson, ed. The World of Marsilius of Padua. Disputatio, vol. 5. Brepols, 2006.
Contributors: Alexander Aichele, Annabel S. Brett, Floriano Jonas Cesar, Joseph Canning, Frank Godthardt, Gabrielle Gonzalez, Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, Bettina Koch, Gerson Moreno-Riano, Cary J. Nederman, Michael J. Sweeney, Vasileios Syros, and Thomas Turley.
--------Nader, Marwan. Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325). Ashgate, 2006.
--------Nass, Klaus, ed. Die Reichschronik des Annalist Saxo. MGH Scriptores, 37. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006.
--------Netzer, Nancy, ed. Secular Sacred 11th-16th Centuries: Works from the Boston Public Library and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. McMullen Museum of Art (distr. by University of Chicago Press), 2006.
Contributors: Pamela Berger, Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, M. J. Connolly, Lisa Fagin Davis, Patricia DeLeeuw, Robin Fleming, Earle A. Havens, Stephanie C. Leone, Nancy Netzer, and Virginia Reinburg.
--------Orme, Nicholas. Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England. Yale University Press, 2006.
--------Postles, Dave and Joel T. Rosenthal, eds. Studies in the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales. Studies in Medieval Culture, vol. 44. Medieval Institute Publication, 2006.
Contributors: Michael Bennett, Stephanie Mooers Christlow, Cecily Clark, Virginia Davis, Peter Franklin, Louis Haas, John Insley, Heather Jones, C. P. Lewis, Philip Niles, Dave Postles, and Joel T. Rosenthal.
--------Raimondi, Francesco Paolo. Giulio Cesare Vavnini: Nell'Europa De Seicento. Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005.
--------Rieder, Paula. On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
--------Rosenwein, Barbara H. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Cornell University Press, 2006.
--------Schabel, Christopher. Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: the thirteenth century. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, vol 1. Brill, 2006.
Contributors: Giovanni Ceccarelli, Girard J. Etzkorn, Jacqueline Hamesse, Hans Kraml, Roberto Lambertini, Elsa Marmursztejn, Giorgio Pini, Sylvain Piron, Pasquale Porro, Jean-Luc Solere, Kevin White, and John F. Wippel.
--------Scholz, Sebastian. Politik-Selbstverstandis-Selbstdarstellung: Die Papste in karolingischer und ottonischer Zeit. Historische Forschungen, vol. 26. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.
--------Stillinger, Thomas C. and F. Regina Psaki. Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism. Annaldi d'Italianistica, Studi E Testi 8. Annali d'Italianistica, Inc., 2006.
Contributors: Guyda Armstrong, Myra Best, Disa Gambera, Eugenio Giusti, Olivia Holmes, Victoria Kirkham, Millicent Marcus, Marilyn Migiel, Ronald L. Martinez, F. Regina Psaki, Janet Levarie Smarr, Thomas C. Stillinger, Gregory B. Stone, Diane Duyos Vacca, and Barbara Zaczek.
--------Sweet, Victoria. Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. Studies in Medieval History and Culture, vol. 19. Routledge, 2006.
--------Thornton, David. Kings, Chronologies, and Genealogies: Studies in the Political History of Early Medieval Ireland and Wales. Prosopographica et Genealogica, vol. 10. Linacre College, Oxford/Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2006.
--------Tyreman, Christopher. God's War: A New History of the Crusades. Harvard University Press, 2006.
--------Watson, Nicholas and Jacqueline Jenkins, eds. The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Women and a Revelation of Love. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 5. Brepols, 2006.
--------Weiler, Bjorn K.U. Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216-1272. Studies in History New Series. Royal Historical Society, Boydell and Brewer, 2006.
--------Wheeler, Bonnie, ed. Mindeful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Contributors: Denise N. Baker, Marie Borroff, Elizabeth J. Bryan, Mary Carruthers, Lawrence M. Clopper, Julie Nelson Couch, Judith Ferster, Cynthia Ho, Norma Kroll, Monica E. McAlpine, Alastair Minnis, Lee Patterson, Liam O Purdon, Elizabeth Robertson, Arnold Sanders, Sarah Stanbury, Robert S. Sturges, and Bonnie Wheeler
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