TMR Announcement: Books Available for Review (June, 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
--------Bejczy, Istvan and Cary J. Nederman, eds. Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages, 1200-1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Contributors: Istvan Bejczy, Cary J. Nederman, Manuel Alejandro Rodriuez de la Pena, Michiel Verweij, Marco Toste, Frank Tang, Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Pamela Klaning, Eric Kuchle, Michael Hohlstein, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Gabriella Zuccolin, Georg A. Strack.
--------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.
--------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.
--------Bolton, Brenda and Christine Meek, eds. Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
Contributors: Jean Dunbabin, Chris Dennis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Claudia Blogia, Marie Therese Champagne, Bethany Aram, Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues, Patricia Dark, Walter Ysebaert, Jeremy Goldberg, Rebecca Rist, Jayne Carroll, Alice Jorgensen, Anne J. Duggan, Swen Holger Brunsch, R.C. Finucane, Barbara Bombi, Joanna Huntington.
--------Brisbane, Mark and Jon Hather, eds. Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007.
Contributors: V.L. Yanin, A.S. Khoroshev, M.A. Brisbane, J.G. Hather, A.N. Sorokin, N.N. Faradjeva, O.A. Tarabardina, E.A. Rybina, E.K. Kublo, M.G. Comey, R.K. Kovalev, G.E. Dubrovin, L.N. Gritsenko, J.G. Hather, L.I. Smirnova, V.I. Povetkin, E.Y. Pukhnachova, L.V. Pokrovskaya, P.G. Gaidukov. Katharine Judelson.
--------Busch, Jorg W. Vom Amstswalten zum Konigsdienst: Beobachtungen zur 'Staatssprache' des Fruhemittelalters am Beispiel des Wortes administratio. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007.
--------Caputo, Nina. Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, and Messianism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
--------Cartlidge, Neil, ed. Boundaries in Medieval Romance. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2008
Contributors: Marianne Ailes, Laura Ashe, Elizabeth Berlings, Neil Cartlidge, Helen Cooper, Arlyn Diamond, Ivana Djordjevic, Rosalind Field, Phillipa Hardman, Simon Meecham-Jones, Robert Rouse, Corinne Saunders, Judith Weiss, Elizabeth Williams.
--------Cuffel, Alexandra. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
--------Dalton, Paul and Graeme J. White, eds. King Stephen's Reign, 1135-1154. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2008.
Contributors: Marjorie Chibnall, Judith A. Green, Graeme J. White, David Crouch, Edmund King, Paul Dalton, Janet Burton, Stephen Marritt, Hugh M. Thomas, T.N. Bisson, Bruce R. O'Brien.
--------Davis, Carmel Bendon. Mysticism and Space: Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard Rolle, "The Cloud of Unknowing" Author, and Julian of Norwich. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
--------Fix, Hans, ed. Beitrage zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007.
Contributors: Andrea de Leeuw van Weenan, Klaus Dietz, Norbert Endres, Rainer Fecht, Hans Fix, Hans Gotzsche, Riho Grunthal, Frank Heidermanns, Thomas Klein, Lucia Kornexl, Steffen Krogh, Johanna Laasko, Dieter Mohn, Marko Pantermoller, Arend Quak, Jochen D. Range, Andreas Schabalin, Ingrid Schroder, Dominika Skrzypek.
--------Gully, Adrian. The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
--------Hochner, Nicole. Louis XII: Les dereglements de l'image royale (1498-155). Seyssel: Champ Vallons, 2006.
--------Hollander, Robert and Jean Hollander, trans. Paradiso: A Verse Translation. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
--------Kannowski, Bernd. Die Umgestaltung des Sachsenspiegelrechts durch die Buch'sche Glosse. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007.
--------Kuskin, William. Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
--------Levy-Navarro, Elena. The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton. New York: Palgrave, 2008.
--------MacEvitt, Christopher. The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
--------Maiolo, Francesco. Medieval Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua and Bartolus of Saxoferrato. Delft: Eburon, 2007.
--------Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds. Purgatorio: A Canto- by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Contributors: Ezio Raimondi, Robert Hollander, Robin Kirkpatrick, Enzo Quaglio, Aldo Scaglione, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Marizio Perugi, Ricardo J. Quinones, Charles Ross, Hermann, Gmelin, Anthony Oldcorn, Janos Kelemen, Albert Wingell, Massimo Verdicchio, Arielle Saiber, John Scott, Jo Ann Cavallo, Marilyn Migiel, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Vincent Moleta, Janet Levarie Smarr, Christopher Kleinhenz, Rinalda Russel, Lino Pertile, Ronald Martinez, Prue Shaw, Glauco Cambon, Victoria Kirkham, Peter Armour, Rachel Jacoff, Emilio Pasquini, H. Wayne Storey, Dino S. Cervigni.
--------Manekin, Charles, ed. and trans. Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
--------McGinnis, Jon and David C. Reisman trans. Classical Arabic Philosophy. An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007.
--------McMullan, Gordon and David Matthews, eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Contributors: Patricia Badir, Sarah Beckwith, Anke Bernau, Berhard Klein, David Matthews, Gordon McMullan, Larry Scanlon, Cathy Shrank, James Simpson, Jennifer Summit, Stephanie Trigg, David Wallace, Deanne Williams.
--------Méhu, Didier, ed. Mises en scène et mèmoires de la consécration de l'église dans l'Occident médiéval. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
Contributors: Y. Coudou, M. De Souza, L Durnecker, M-J. Gasse-Grandjean, C. Gauthier, L. Hamilton, D. Iogna-Prat, M. Lauwers, P.-A. Mariaux, D. Méhu, M. Roch, D. Russo, C. Treffort.
--------Nam, Jong-Kuk. Le commerce du coton en Mediterranee a la fin du Moyen Age. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
--------O'Mara, Veronica and Suzanne Paul, eds. A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons (Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching). 4 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
--------Ostrem, Eyolf and Nils Holger Petersen. Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
--------Reeve, Matthew M. Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy, and Reform. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2008.
--------Rosewell, Roger. Medieval Wall Paintings in English and Welsh Churches. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2008.
--------Sela, Shlomo, ed./trans. Abraham Ibn Ezra: The Book of Reasons. A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
--------Sarah Semple, ed. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14. Oxford: Oxford School of Archaeology, 2007.
Contributors: Howard Williams, Heinrich Harke, Susanne E. Hakenbeck, Rik Hoggett, Zoe Devlin, Martin Rundqvist, Rebecca Gowland, Chris Fern, Susan Harrington, Jo Buckberry, Anna Christina Cherryson, Stuart Brooks, Nick Stoodly, David Petts, Stephen H. Harrison, Eva Thate, Dawn Hadley, Philippa Patrick, Charles French, Christine Osborne, Catriona Gibson.
--------Simon, Sophie. "Si je le veux, il mourra!": Malefices et sorcellerie dans la campagne genevoise (1497-1530). Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, 2007.
--------Squatriti, Paolo, trans. The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona. Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press, 2007.
--------Thomas, Hugh M. The Norman Conquest: England After William the Conqueror. Langham, MD: Rowman 8 Littlefield, 2007.
--------Thurlkill, Mary F. Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi 'ite Islam. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
--------Townsend, David, ed. An Epitome of Biblical History: Glosses on Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis 4.176-274. Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 2008.
--------Van Dam, Raymond. The Roman Revolution of Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
--------van Ruymbeke, Christine. Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia: The Botany of Nizami's "Khamsa." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
--------Yeager, R.F., ed. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
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