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2024 Reviews

Reviewed by Craig R. Davis
24.12.11 Oppedisano, Fabrizio, ed. Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy: Survivals, Revivals, Ruptures.
Reviewed by Kenneth Stow
24.12.10 Marcus, Ivan G. How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500.
Reviewed by Elizaveta Strakhov
24.12.09 Kaplan, S. C. Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair.
Reviewed by Constance B. Bouchard
24.12.08 Vasselot de Régné, Clément de. Pouvoir et solidarités d'une famille seigneuriale. Le « Parentat » Lusignan entre France, Îles Britanniques et Orient latin (Xe-XIVe siècles).
Reviewed by Virginia Blanton
24.12.07 Andersson, Elin, Ingela Hedström, and Mia Äkestam, eds. Birgittine Circles: People and Saints in the Medieval World.
Reviewed by Charlotte Eubanks
24.12.05 Mazanec, Thomas J. Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China.
Reviewed by Ulrike Wiethaus
24.12.04 Seeberger, Julia. Olfaktorik und Entgrenzung: Die Visionen der Wienerin Agnes Blannbekin.
Reviewed by Emily Hutchison
24.12.03 Giraudet, Luke. Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and his Community, 1400-1450.
Reviewed by Nizar F. Hermes
24.12.02 Carpentieri, Nicola. Writing the Twilight: The Arabic Poetics of Ageing in Medieval Sicily and al-Andalus.
Reviewed by Abigail Agresta
24.12.01 Bolòs, Jordi. The Historic Landscape of Catalonia: Landscape History of a Mediterranean Country in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Oleg Bychkov
24.11.13 Söder, Joachim, ed & trans. Johannes Duns Scotus. Questionen zur Metaphysik des Aristoteles, Buch 1. Lateinisch--Deutsch.
Reviewed by Joëlle Rollo-Koster
24.11.12 Ozawa, Minoru, Thomas W. Smith, and Georg Strack, eds. Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by William S. Monroe
24.11.11 Gillhammer, Cosima Clara, ed. A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World, Volume I: The Text and Volume II: Introduction, Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography.
Reviewed by Erica Weaver
24.11.10 Beechy, Tiffany. Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain: Materiality and the Flesh of the Word.
Reviewed by Rutger Kramer
24.11.09 Santinelli-Foltz, Emmanuelle. Couples et Conjugalité au Haut Moyen Âge (VIe-XIIe Siècles).
Reviewed by Joanna Carraway Vitiello
24.11.08 Nakaya, So. Raising Claims: Justice and Commune in Late Medieval Italy.
Reviewed by Andrea Piras
24.11.07 Greatrex, Geoffrey, ed. Procopius of Caesarea, The Persian Wars: A Historical Commentary.
Reviewed by Joseph Ziegler
24.11.06 De Callataÿ, Godefroid, Mattia Cavagna, and Baudouin Van den Abeele, eds. Speculum Arabicum.
Reviewed by Julia Bolton Holloway
24.11.05 Cordonnier, Rémy. L’iconographie du Bestiaire divin de Guillaume le clerc de Normandie.
Reviewed by Matt Kavaler
24.11.04 Jacobs, Lynn F. The Painted Triptychs of Fifteenth-Century Germany: Case Studies of Blurred Boundaries.
Reviewed by Matthew Scribner
24.11.03 Rosenberg, Samuel N., trans. Tales of a Minstrel of Reims in the Thirteenth Century. : Introduction by William Chester Jordan and Annotated by Randall Todd Pippenger.
Reviewed by Mike Bintley
24.11.02 Videen, Hana. The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary.
Reviewed by Alison Stones
24.11.01 Messerli, Sylviane, ed. André le Moine: La Penitance Adam.
Reviewed by Heather Bamford
24.10.30 Hindley, Katherine Storm. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England.
Reviewed by Annie Doucet
24.10.29 Sobehrad, Lane J., and Susan J. Sobehrad. Medieval History in the Modern Classroom: Using Project-Based Learning to Engage Today’s Learners. Teaching the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Francesco Veronese
24.10.28 Rankin, Susan. Sounding the Word of God: Carolingian Books for Singers.
Reviewed by Charles Hilken
24.10.27 Oldfield, Paul. Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266.
Reviewed by Kyle C. Lincoln
24.10.26 Zenith, Richard, ed. and trans. Cantigas: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems.
Reviewed by Craig R. Davis
24.10.25 Pettit, Edward, ed. and trans. The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition.
Reviewed by Ad Putter
24.10.24 Mairey, Aude. La Fabrique de l’anglais: Genèse socio-culturelle d’une langue à la fin du moyen âge.
Reviewed by Daniel McCann
24.10.23 Star, Sarah. ed. Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing.
Reviewed by Lisa M. Ruch
24.10.22 Taranu, Catalin and Michael J. Kelly, eds. Vera Lex Historiae? Constructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative.
Reviewed by Joel T. Rosenthal
24.10.21 Naismith, Rory. Making Money in the Early Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Jesse D. Mann
24.10.20 Lincoln, Kyle C. A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church during the Reign of Alfonso VIII.
Reviewed by Ruth Mazo Karras
24.10.19 Boudet, Jean-Patrice, Jean-Charles Coulon, Philippe Faure, and Julien Véronèse, eds. Le roi Salomon au Moyen Âge: Savoirs et representations.
Reviewed by Shai Zamir
24.10.18 Coggeshall, Elizabeth. On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy.
Reviewed by Constant Mews
24.10.17 Cook, Brenda M. Astralabe: The Life and Times of the Son of Heloise and Abelard.
Reviewed by Eva-Maria Cersovsky
24.10.16 Jasperse, Jitske. Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters.
Reviewed by Denis Forasacco
24.10.15 Caldwell, Mary Channen. Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song.
Reviewed by David Potter
24.10.14 Sarris, Peter. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint.
Reviewed by Jessica Barr
24.10.13 Counet, Jean-Michel, ed. A Question of Life and Death: Living and Dying in Medieval Philosophy. Acts of the XXIII Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
Reviewed by Francesco Marco Aresu
24.10.12 Cornish, Alison. Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction.
Reviewed by William Sayers
24.10.11 Meylan, Nicolas. The Pagan Earl: Hákon Sigurðarson and the Medieval Construction of Old Norse Religion.
Reviewed by Maeve Callan
24.10.10 Goetz, Hans-Werner, and Ian N. Wood, eds. “Otherness” in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Francesco Veronese
24.10.09 De Temmerman, Koen, Julie Van Pelt, and Klazina Staat, eds. Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography: Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Izbicki
24.10.08 Mazur-Matusevich, Yelena. Le père du siècle: The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era.
Reviewed by Florin Curta
24.10.07 Pohl, Walter, Veronika Wieser, and Francesco Borri, eds. Historiography and Identity V: The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000-1300.
Reviewed by Leah Pope Parker
24.10.06 Price, Basil Arnould, Jane Bonsall, and Meagan Khoury, eds. Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements.
Reviewed by Carol Symes
24.10.05 Jones, Peter J. A. Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century.
Reviewed by Daniel Reeve
24.10.04 Townsend, David. Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy.
Reviewed by Philipp W. Rosemann
24.10.03 Völkl, Tobias. Via Duce - Die Eucharistie in der Theologie des Petrus Lombardus.
Reviewed by Sarah Bassett
24.10.02 Bernardi, Gabriella (Spyros Koulouris and Massimo Bernabò as contributors). Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art: Correspondence, 1920-1957.
Reviewed by Elena Woodacre
24.10.01 Bacci, Michele, and Manuela Studer-Karlen, with Mirko Vagnoni, eds. Meanings and Functions of the Ruler’s Image in the Mediterranean World(11th-15th Centuries).
Reviewed by Marina Montesano
24.09.10 Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I., and Laura Miquel Milian, eds. Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Esther Liberman Cuenca
24.09.09 Lifshitz, Felice. Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies.
Reviewed by Lauren Mancia
24.09.07 Denoël, Charlotte, Larisa Dryansky, Isabelle Marchesin, and Erik Verhagen, eds. L’art médiéval est-il contemporain? Is Medieval Art Contemporary? Reinterpreting The Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo.
Reviewed by Hugh Feiss
24.09.06 Berndt, Rainer, Anette Löffler, and Karin Ganss, eds. Johannis Tolosani, Congregatio Victorina.
Reviewed by Kerry Boeye
24.09.05 Fozi, Shirin. Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200.
Reviewed by Faith Wallis
24.09.04 Bakhouche, Béatrice, Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, and Daniel Le Blévec, eds. Gui de Chauliac et sa Grande Chirurgie.
Reviewed by Josep Torró
24.09.03 Agresta, Abigail. The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia.
Reviewed by Joel T. Rosenthal
24.09.02 Hinton, David A. Archaeology, Economy, and Society: England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century.
Reviewed by Dolly Jørgensen
24.09.01 Wackers, Paul. Introducing the Medieval Fox.
Reviewed by Ronald J. Stansbury
24.08.11 Izbicki, Thomas M. Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church.
Reviewed by Brian A. Catlos
24.08.10 King, Matt. Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily.
Reviewed by Rebecca Merkelbach
24.08.09 Su, Minjie. Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: Between the Monster and the Man.
Reviewed by James D. Sargan
24.08.08 Scase, Wendy. Visible English: Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550.
Reviewed by Melissa Ridley Elmes
24.08.07 Brooks, Francesca. Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones.
Reviewed by Timothy S Miller
24.08.06 Seal, Samantha Katz. Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in The Canterbury Tales.
Reviewed by Joshua S. Easterling
24.08.05 Smirnova, Victoria. Medieval Exempla in Transition: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum and its Readers.
Reviewed by Bernardo S. Hinojosa
24.08.04 Turner, Marion. The Wife of Bath: A Biography.
Reviewed by Simone Sari
24.08.03 Zimmermann, Michel, ed. Le catalán médiéval.
Reviewed by Maria do Rosário Morujão
24.08.02 Linehan, Peter. España Pontificia: Papal Letters to Spain 1198-1303.
Reviewed by Andrew Reeves
24.08.01 Monagle, Clare, and Neslihan Şenocak, eds. Lateran IV: Theology and Care of Souls.
Reviewed by Hugh M. Thomas
24.06.03 Evans, Claude Lucette, and Kenneth Paul Evans, eds. “Cistercians and Regular Canons in Medieval Western Europe.”
Reviewed by Christian Raffensperger
24.06.02 Wiszewski, Przemysław, ed. Legal Norms and Political Action in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c. 1000 to the Present, III.
Reviewed by Sarah Spence
24.06.01 Franzoni, Silverio, Elisa Lonati, and Adriano Russo, eds. Le sens des textes classiques au Moyen Âge: Transmission, exégèse, réécriture.
Reviewed by Abigail J. Hartman
24.05.07 Deane, Jennifer Kolpacoff, and Anne E. Lester, eds. Between Orders and Heresy: Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements.
Reviewed by Kate Franklin
24.05.06 Tyers, Theresa L., and Patricia Skinner, eds. Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Andrea C. Snow
24.05.05 Chatterjee, Paroma. Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture: Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE.
Reviewed by Erika Graham-Goering
24.05.04 Wittig, Claudia. Learning to Be Noble in the Middle Ages: Moral Education in North-Western Europe.
Reviewed by Jason Jacobs
24.05.03 Hadbawnik, David, ed. Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics.
Reviewed by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
24.05.02 Bolle, Pierre. Saint Roch: L’évêque, le chevalier, le pèlerin (VIIe-XVe siècle).
Reviewed by Michael Burger
24.05.01 Perry, Philip. Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste, ed. Jack P. Cunningham.
Reviewed by Núria Silleras-Fernández
24.04.11 Barton, Thomas W., Marie A. Kelleher, and Antonio M. Zaldívar, eds. Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000-1700.
Reviewed by Alison Williams Lewin
24.04.10 Kagay, Donald J. Elionor of Sicily, 1325-1375: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds.
Reviewed by R. James Long
24.04.09 Brumberg-Chaumont, Julie, and Dominique Poirel, eds. Adam of Bockenfield and his Circle on Aristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia.
Reviewed by Nicholas Herman
24.04.08 Sandler, Lucy Freeman. Penned & Painted: The Art and Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
Reviewed by Stephen C. E. Hopkins
24.04.07 Clunies Ross, Margaret, Kari Ellen Gade †, and Tarrin Wills, eds. Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders.
Reviewed by Daniel Beben
24.04.06 Zoolshoev, Muzaffar Zoirshoevich. Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia: Historical Shughnān and Its Lost Capital.
Reviewed by Racha Kirakosian
24.04.05 Shachar, Uri Zvi. A Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Crusading Near East.
Reviewed by Stephen Rippon
24.04.03 Hoffman, Richard C. The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries.
Reviewed by Duncan Hardy
24.04.02 Delle Luche, Jean-Dominique. Des amitiés ciblées: Concours de tir et diplomatie urbaine dans le Saint-Empire, XVe-XVIe siècle.
Reviewed by Helen Lacey
24.04.01 Childs, Wendy, and Phillipp R. Schofield, eds. The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27.
Reviewed by Richard Matthew Pollard
24.03.05 Kreiner, Jamie. The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction.
Reviewed by Jessalynn Bird
24.03.04 Smith, Lesley. Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life.
Reviewed by Matthew Boyd Goldie
24.03.03 Dumasy-Rabineau, Juliette, Camille Serchuk, and Emmanuelle Vagnon, eds. Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance/Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Reviewed by Albrecht Classen
24.03.02 Fafinski, Mateusz, and Jakob Riemenschneider, eds. The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Randy P. Schiff
24.03.01 Petrosillo, Sara. Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture.
Reviewed by Johannes Junge Ruhland
24.02.08 Birge Vitz, Evelyn. Invitations à la performance de récits français médiévaux: Virtuosité, spectacle, érotisme.
Reviewed by Alfred Hiatt
24.02.07 Atherton, Mark, Kazutomo Karasawa, and Francis Leneghan, eds. Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature.
Reviewed by Priscilla Hunt
24.02.06 Milner-Gulland, Robin. Andrey Rublev: The Artist and his World.
Reviewed by Michael Calabrese
24.02.05 Nicolini-Zani, Matteo. The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China.
Reviewed by Craig R. Davis
24.02.04 Rippon, Stephen. Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape: The Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom.
Reviewed by Andrew Galloway
24.02.03 Donavin, Georgiana. John Gower’s Rhetoric: Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions.
Reviewed by Alison Salvesen
24.02.02 Penn, Michael Philip, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, and Charles M. Stang, eds. Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology.
Reviewed by Laurence Terrier Aliferis
24.02.01 Dessì, Rosa Maria, and Didier Méhu, eds. Images, signes et paroles dans l’Occident médiéval.
Reviewed by S. C. Kaplan
24.01.16 Small, Graeme, ed. The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458-c. 1550): Text and Paratext, Codex and Context.
Reviewed by Steven J McMichael, OFM Conv.
24.01.15 O’Mara, Veronica, and Patricia Stoop, eds. Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550).
Reviewed by Jeroen De Gussem
24.01.14 Bain, Jennifer, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen.
Reviewed by Brian A. Catlos
24.01.13 Balbale, Abigail Krasner. The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus.
Reviewed by Marco Stoffella
24.01.12 Kramer, Rutger, Emilie Kurdziel, and Graeme Ward, eds. Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780-840): Categorizing the Church.
Reviewed by Thomas F. X. Noble
24.01.11 Rollo-Koster, Joëlle. The Great Western Schism, 1378-1471: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity
Reviewed by Craig M. Nakashian
24.01.10 Weiler, Björn. Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950-1200.
Reviewed by James G. Schryver
24.01.09 Castrorao Barba, Angelo, Davide Tanasi, and Roberto Miccichè, eds. Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by David S. Spear
24.01.08 Bauduin, Pierre, Simon Lebouteiller, and Luc Bourgeois, eds. Les Transferts Culturels dans les Mondes Normands Médiévaux (VIIIe-XIIe Siècle): Objets, Acteurs et Passeurs.
Reviewed by Peter Scott Brown
24.01.07 Elliott, Gillian B. Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy.
Reviewed by Shane Bobrycki
24.01.06 Booker, Courtney M., Hans Hummer, and Dana M. Polanichka, eds. Visions of Medieval History in North America and Europe: Studies on Cultural Identity and Power.
Reviewed by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck
24.01.05 Hernández Vera, René. Franciscan Books and Their Readers: Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy.
Reviewed by Tristan Major
24.01.04 Stone, Brian James. The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland.
Reviewed by Constant J. Mews
24.01.03 Dolveck, Franz, and Pascale Bourgain, eds. Pierre Abélard. L’Hymnaire du Paraclet: Introduction, texte latin et notes par Franz Dolveck, préface et traduction par Pascale Bourgain.
Reviewed by Caroline Goodson
24.01.02 Ceen, Allan. Roma Traversata: Tracing Historic Pathways through Rome.
Reviewed by Anne A. Latowsky
24.01.01 Irujo, Xabier. Charlemagne’s Defeat in the Pyrenees: The Battle of Rencesvals.