Announcement: Books Available for Review (October 2019)
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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The TMR Editors
--- Abate, Mark T, ed. Convivencia and Medieval Spain: Essays in Honor of Thomas F. Glick. Series: Mediterranean Perspectives. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Contributors: Mark T. Abate, Helena Kirchner, Enric Guinot Rodríguez, Torki Fahad A. Al-Saud, Kenneth Baxter Wolf, John Tolan, Josep Torró, Doug Kierdorf, William Granara, Mark D. Meyerson, Jessica Coope, Thomas E. Burman, Lydia M. Walker, Jonathan Ray, Julio Samsó, Michael C. Weber, Michael McVaugh, Abdalghafour Ismail Al-Rozi
--- Alfie, Fabian, and Aileen A. Feng, trans. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 2017).
--- Allen, David, ed. The Cartulary and Charters of the Priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Ipswich: Part I: The Cartulary. Series: Suffolk Charters. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018).
--- Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, ed. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019). Contributors: Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Chris Abani, Robert Launay, Ralph A. Austen, Mamadi Dembélé, Ahmed Ettahiri, Youssef Khiara, Yousuf Abdallah Usman, Cynthia Becker, Ronald A. Messier, Abdallah Fili, Sam Nixon, Mamadou Cissé, Detlef Gronenborn, Sarah M. Guérin, Gianluca Pastorelli, Marc Walton, Sam Nixon, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Mauro Nobili, Raymond Silverman, Cynthia Becker, Galya Ben-Arieh
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--- Bork, Robert. Late Gothic Architecture: Its Evolution, Extinction, and Reception. Series: Architectura Medii Aevi. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018).
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--- Bowden, Sarah and Annette Volfing, eds. Punishment and Penitential Practices in Medieval German Writing. Series: Kings College London Medieval Studies. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018). Contributors: Sarah Bowden, Björn Buschbeck, Sebastian Coxon, Racha Kirakosian, Andreas Kraß, Henrike Manuwald, Katharina Mertens-Fleury, Jamie Page, Aimut Suerbaum, Annette Volfing
--- Brazil, Sarah. The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred. Series: Early Drama, Art and Music. (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019).
--- Bueno, Irene, ed. Pope Benedict XII (1334-1342): The Guardian of Orthodoxy. Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2018). Contributors: Irene Bueno, Elizabeth Sherman, Sylvain Piron, Christian Trottmann, Valérie Theis, Claudia Bolgia, Sylvain Parent, Barbara Bombi
--- Camargo, Martin, ed., trans. Tria sunt: An Art of Poetry and Prose. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).
--- Canalis, Rinaldo Fernando, and Massimo Ciavolella, eds. Andreas Vesalius and the 'Fabrica' in the Age of Printing: Art, Anatomy, and Printing in the Italian Renaissance. Series: Cursor Mundi. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). Contributors: Rinaldo Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella, Kenneth Bartlett, Angela Maria Nuovo, Lorenzo Perilli, Andrew Cunningham, Monique Kornell, Raffaele De Caro, Melissa Lo, Helene Cazes, Victoria Steele, Christine Young
--- Caudrey, Philip J. Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War. Series: Warfare in History. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
--- Coley, David K. Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England. Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2019).
--- Damen, Mario, Jelle Haemers, and Alastair J. Mann, eds. Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690). Series: Later Medieval Europe. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018). Contributors: Peter Hoppenbrouwers, María Asenjo-González, Marco Gentile, Coleman A. Dennehy, Tim Neu, Michael Penman, Alastair J. Mann, Mario Damen, Ida Nijenhuis, Robert Stein, Marie Van Eeckenrode, Jan Dumolyn, Graeme Small, David Grummitt, Wim Blockmans
--- Drimmer, Sonja. The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476. Series: Material Texts. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
--- Duffell, Martin J. Chaucer's Verse Art in its European Context. Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 2018).
--- Dzino, Danijel, Ante Milošević, and Trpimir Vedriš, eds. Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire. Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018). Contributors: Mladen Ančic, Ivan Basic, Goran Bilogrivic, Neven Budak, Florin Curta, Danijel Dzino, Kresimir Filipec, Richard Hodges, Nikola Jaksic, Miljenko Jurkovic, Ante Milosevic, Marko Petrak, Peter Stih, Trpimir Vedris
--- Egeler, Matthias, ed. Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe. Series: Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019). Contributors: Matthias Egeler, Terry Gunnell, Reinhard Hennig, Gregory Toner, Grigory Bondarenko, Nina Zhivlova, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Tiziana Soverino, Gregory R. Darwin, Nicolas Meylan, Natalia Petrovskaia, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Edyta Lehmann
--- Even-Ezra, Ayelet. Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2018).
--- Feiss, Hugh, ed. Sermons for the Liturgical Year. Series: Victorine Texts in Translation. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018).
--- Ferrante, Joan M., and Robert W. Hanning, trans. The Romance of Thebes (Roman de Thèbes). Series: The French of England Translation Series. (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 2018).
--- Flannery, Mary C., ed. Emotion and Medieval Textual Media. Series: Early European Research. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). Contributors: Mary C. Flannery, Daniel J. Dicenso, Sarah Baccianti, Amy Brown, Marcel Elias, Kimberley-Joy Knight, Marleen Cré, Sarah Brazil, Diana Denissen, Charlotte Steenbrugge, Seeta Chaganti, Rita Copeland
--- Fouquet, Gerhard, and Sven Rabeler, eds. Ökonomische Glaubensfragen: Strukturen und Praktiken jüdischen und christlichen Kleinkredits im Spätmittelalter. Series: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte. (Stuttgaart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018). Contributors: Gerhard Fouquet, Sven Rabeler, Gabriela Signori, Christian Hagen, David Schnur, Tanja Skambraks
--- Freuler, Gaudenz, with contributions by Georgi Parpulov. The McCarthy Collection Vol I: Italian and Byzantine Miniatures. (London, UK: AD ILLISVM, 2018). Contributors: Gaudenz Freuler, Georgi Parpulov, forward by Robert McCarthy
--- Goldie, Matthew Boyd. Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019).
--- Griffin, Carrie, and Emer Purcell, eds. Text, Transmission, and Transformation in the European Middle Ages, 1000–1500. Series: Cursor Mundi. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). Contributors: Kevin Murray, Tom Birkett, Beth Ann Zamzow, Anthony Lappin, Krista Rascoe, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Nóirín Ní Bheaglaoi, Caoimhe Whelan, Anna Dlabačová, Matt Wranovix, Donnchadh Ó Corráin
--- Hill, Derek. Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century: The Manuals of Bernard Gui and Nicholas Eymerich. Series: Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
--- Hofmeister-Winter, Andrea, ed. Kochbuchforschung interdisziplinär: Beiträge der kulinarhistorischen Fachtagungen in Melk 2015 und Seckau 2016. Series: Grazer mediävistische Schriften: Quellen und Studien.. (Graz, Austria: Unipress Verlag, 2018). Contributors: Helga Penz, Barbara Lawatsch Melton, Martina Rauchenzauner, Gerald Hirtner, Bernard Huber, Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, Andreas Klumpp, Anna Wierzgoń, Ortrun Riha, Ulrike Kruse, Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Jean-Marc Bobillon, Simon Edlmayr, Ivana Lohrey, Bernadette Kalteis, Wolfgang Holanik, Florian Zeilinger, Rolf Caviezel, Fritz Treiber
--- Hornbeck, J. Patrick, II. Remembering Wolsey: A History of Commemorations and Representations. (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019).
--- Hurlock, Kathryn. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500. Series: The New Middle Ages. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
--- Kekewich, Margaret. Sir John Fortescue and the Governance of England. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018).
--- Panaretos, Michael, and Bessarion; Scott Kennedy, ed., trans. Two Works on Trebizond: Michael Panaretos and Bessarion. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).
--- Koch, Bettina, and Cary J. Nederman, eds. Inventing Modernity in Medieval European Thought ca. 1100–ca. 1550. Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018). Contributors: Bettina Koch, Cary J. Nederman, Louis B. Pascoe, Christopher M. Bellitto, Thomas A. Fudge, Thomas Turley, Nancy Struever, Donald F. Duclow, Constant J. Mews, James Muldoon, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Ian Christopher Levy, Francis Oakley, Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki
--- Kriesel, James C. Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature. (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2018).
--- Kurelić, Robert. Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier: Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century. Series: Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600). (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019).
--- Kwakkel, Erik. Books Before Print. Series: Medieval Media Cultures. (Kalamazoo, MI: ARC Humanities Press, 2018).
--- Leader, Anne, ed. Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018). Contributors: Anne Leader, Karen Rose Mathews, Agnieszka Patala, Christian Steer, Ruth Wolf, Ann Adams, Nicola Jennings, Sandra Cardarelli, Meredith Crosbie, Charlotte A. Stanford, Barbara McNulty, Harriette Peel
--- Lethbridge, Emily and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, ed. New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga: The historia mutila of Njála. Series: The Northern Medieval World. (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018). Contributors: Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Emily Lethbridge, Beeke Stegmann, Bjarni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ludger Zeevaert, Alaric Hall, Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Susanne M. Arthur, Þorsteinn Árnason Surmeli
--- Mandry, Julia. Armenfürsorge, Hospitäler und Bettel in Thüringen in Spätmittelalter und Reformation (1300–1600). Series: Quellen und Forschungen zu Thüringen im Zeitalter der Reformation. (Vienna, Austria: Böhlau Verlag, 2018).
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--- Müller, Miriam. Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England: Growing up in the Village. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
--- Naismith, Rory, ed. Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages. Series: Reading Medieval Sources. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018). Contributors: Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli
--- Niles, John D. Old English Literature: A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2016). Contributors: Joyce Hill, M.B. Parkes, Donald K. Fry, Ernst Leisi, J.R. Hall, Hugh Magennis, Lisa M.C. Weston, Edward B Irving Jr., Malcolm Godden, Joshua Byron Smith
--- Oftestad, Eivor Andersen. The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem, with an edition and translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (BAV Reg. Lat. 712). Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
--- Oosterman, Johan, and Jos Koldeweij, eds. Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 1. Series: Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). Contributors: Pieter Roelofs, Jos Koldeweij, André Stufkens, Clemens Verhoeven, Patricia Stirnemann, Inès Villela-Petit, Dieter Röschel, Christine Seidel, Laurent Hablot, Rob Dückers, Rob Camps
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--- Opll, Ferdinand, ed. Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Friedrich I. 1152 (1122)-1190: 5. Lieferung: Einleitung und Nachwort, Nachträge zu den Lieferungen 1–4, Bibliographie, Abkürzungs- und Siglenverzeichnis, Namenregister, Konkordanztafeln. Series: Regesta Imperii. (Vienna, Austria: Böhlau Verlag, 2018). [Electronic review copy] Contributor: Johann Friedrich Böhmer
--- Ostrowski, Donald. Europe, Byzantium, and the “Intellectual Silence” of Rus’ Culture. Series: Beyond Medieval Europe. (Kalamazoo, MI: ARC Humanities Press, 2018).
--- Pearson, Mike Parker, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville, and Helen Smith. Cille Pheadair: a Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist. Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides. (Barnsley, UK: Oxbow Books, 2018). Contributors: Phil Austin, Edward Besly, Julia Best, Jerry Bond, Adrew Chamberlain, Carolyn Chenery, Judy Cartledge, Sue Colledge, Gordon Cook, Lucy Cramp, Barbara Crawford, Irene De Luis, Ian Dennis, David Dungworth, Mark Edmonds, Clare Ellis, Jane Evans, Richard Evershed, Geoff Gaunt, Claire Ingrem, Jen Jones, Harry Manley, Pete Marshall, Janet Montgomery, Caroline Paterson, Liz Pieksma, Adrienne Powell
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--- Porck, Thijs. Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History. Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
--- Pychlau-Ezli, Lisa. Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter: Der alimentäre Code in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik. (Vienna, Austria: Böhlau Verlag, 2018).
--- Reid, Lindsay Ann. Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018).
--- Rindal, Magnus, and Bjørg Dale Spørck, eds. Kong Magnus Håkonsson Lagabøtes landslov: Norrøn tekst med fullstendig variantapparat, del I & II. Series: Norrøne tekster. (Oslo, Norway: Arkivverkets, 2018). Contributor: Foreword by Anette Skogseth Clausen
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--- Schäpers, Maria. Lothar I. (795–855) und das Frankenreich. Series: Rheinisches Archiv. (Vienna, Austria: Böhlau Verlag, 2018).
--- Shagan, Ethan H. The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019).
--- Simpson, James. Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).
--- Stephens, John C. Journeys to the Underworld and Heavenly Realm in Ancient and Medieval Literature. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co Publishers, 2019).
--- Stevens, Wesley M. Rhetoric and Reckoning in the Ninth Century: The 'Vademecum' of Walahfrid Strabo. Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018).
--- Szende, Katalin. Trust, Authority, and the Written Word in the Royal Towns of Medieval Hungary. Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018).
--- Tannous, Jack. The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018).
--- Thomas, Alfred. Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights. Series: The New Middle Ages. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
--- Vilimonovic, Larisa Orlov. Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Emergence of a Personal History. Series: Central European Medieval Studies. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2018).
--- Visser-Fuchs, Livia. History as Pastime: Jean de Wavrin and His Collection of Chronicles of England. (Donington, UK: Shaun Tyas, 2018).
--- Wilson, Gordon, Girard Etzkorn, and Bernd Goehring, eds., and assisted by Linda N. Etzkorn. Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LX-LXII. Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 2: Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia 33. (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2018).
--- Yu, Chun Ling. Bonds and Boundaries among the Early Churches: Community Maintenance in the Letter of James and the Didache. Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018).