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2026: Reviews
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Reviewed by Simon Egan
26.07.11 Etchingham, Colmán. Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-Raiding, Politics and Kingship.
Reviewed by Joel T. Rosenthal
26.07.10 Fletcher, Catherine. The Roads to Rome: A History of Imperial Expansion.
Reviewed by Michael Johnston
26.07.09 Sawyer, Thomas C. The Making and Meaning of a Medieval Manuscript: Interpreting MS Bodley 851.
Reviewed by Katie Menendez
26.07.08 Evans, Robert A. H. God and History in the Early Medieval West: The Theology of Carolingian Historians.
Reviewed by Phyllis Rugg Brown
26.07.07 Babcock, Robert Gary, ed. and trans. The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Robertson
26.07.06 Baechle, Sarah. Father Chaucer and the Apologists: Cecily Chaumpaigne and 700 Years of Rape Culture.
Reviewed by Stephen J. Molvarec, SJ
26.07.05 Posa, Carmel. The “Lost” Dialogue of Gregory the Great: The Life of St. Scholastica.
Reviewed by Dustin S. Aaron
26.07.04 Zorach, Rebecca. Spontaneous Objects: A Natural History of Art and Its Others.
Reviewed by Thomas H. Crofts
26.07.03 Armstrong, Dorsey, and K. S. Whetter, eds. Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in Memory of Fiona Tolhurst: Quondam et Futurus.
Reviewed by Dušan Zupka
26.07.02 Jezierski, Wojtek, Hans Jacob Orning, and Grzegorz Pac, eds. Legitimation of the Elites in High Medieval Poland and Norway: Comparative Studies.
Reviewed by Benjamin Pohl
26.07.01 Grabowski, Antoni. The Craft of History: Turning History into a Discipline in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
Reviewed by Herwig Weigl
26.06.23 Prudlo, Donald S., ed. A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia.
Reviewed by Richard Matthew Pollard
26.06.22 Wander, Steven H. Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Andrés Mesa
26.06.21 Hammond, Matthew, ed. Social Network Analysis and Medieval History.
Reviewed by Laura L. Gathagan
26.06.20 Bell, Jacob, ed. and trans. The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the “Encomium of Queen Emma” and the “Life of King Edward.”
Reviewed by Coral Lumbley
26.06.19 Parsons, Ben. Introducing Medieval Animal Names.
Reviewed by Lucy C. Barnhouse
26.06.18 Lee, Minji. The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body.
Reviewed by Jordi Sánchez-Martí
26.06.17 Craun, Edwin D. Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature.
Reviewed by Riccardo Macchioro
26.06.16 Toma, Paraskevi, and Péter Bara, eds. Latin Translations of Greek Texts from the 11th to the 13th Century.
Reviewed by Jessalynn Bird
26.06.15 Santus, Cesare, Jean-Pascal Gay, and Laurent Tatarenko, eds. The Inquisition and the Christian East, 1350-1850.
Reviewed by Thomas A. Fudge
26.06.14 Cermanová, Pavlína, Martin Pjecha, and Pavel Soukup, eds. Radical Religious Communities: Internal Dynamism and Social Significance (14th-16th centuries).
Reviewed by Tristan B. Taylor
26.06.13 Jordan, Alyce A., and Kay Brainerd Slocum, eds. Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and Beyond: The Uses and Reception of a Celebrity Saint.
Reviewed by Maya Maskarinec
26.06.12 Leleu, Laurence, Charles Mériaux, and Régine Le Jan, eds. Mémoire et communautés dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge (VIe-XIIe siècle).
Reviewed by Oren Falk
26.06.11 Manning, George C. Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders.
Reviewed by Jonathan Wilcox
26.06.10 Bately, Janet, Joseph C. Harris, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and Susan Irvine, eds. and trans. The Old English Chronicle, Volume I: The A-Text to 1001 and Related Poems.
Reviewed by Shaun McGuinness
26.06.09 Stephenson, David. Heirs to the Princes. The Welsh Administrative Elite, from the Edwardian Conquest to the Black Death.
Reviewed by Emma Gabe
26.06.08 Blanc, Aurélie. Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery: The “Elevatio” and “Visitatio sepulchri” of Barking Abbey in Practice.
Reviewed by Juan M. Arias
26.06.07 Stuhmiller, Jacqueline A., ed. Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture.
Reviewed by Constance B. Bouchard
26.06.06 Ferraiuolo, Daniele, and François Bougard, eds. Sacred Places: Devotional Practices and Space Organization in Eary Medieval Monasteries (5th-10th Centuries).
Reviewed by Oliver Creighton
26.06.05 Ropa, Anastasija. The Medieval Horse.
Reviewed by Alderik Blom
26.06.04 Porck, Thijs, Kees Dekker, and László Sándor Chardonnens (eds). Cultural Connections between the Continent and Early Medieval England: Philological Studies in Honour of Rold H. Bremmer Jr.
Reviewed by Brett Roscoe
26.06.03 Sabaté, Flocel, ed. Managing Emotions in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Ronald de Rooij
26.06.02 Baranski, Zygmunt G., and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., eds. American Dantes: Traditions, Translations, Transformations.
Reviewed by Gábor Klaniczay
26.06.01 Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, ed. A Companion to Medieval Canonization Processes. New Contexts, Perspectives and Comparisons.
Reviewed by Florence Tanniou
26.05.32 Gaullier-Bougassas, Catherine, ed. Nouvelles traductions et réceptions indirectes de la Grèce ancienne. T. 1: Histoires des héros grecs et troyens (textes et images, 1300-1560).
Reviewed by Karen Sullivan
26.05.31 Grant, Lindy. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and Legend.
Reviewed by Giacomo Todeschini
26.05.30 Brown, Jason Aaron. St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers.
Reviewed by Roberto Biolzi
26.05.29 Roelofsen, Mathijs. Chevaucher en bonne compagnie: L’organisation militaire de Fribourg au Moyen Âge (1350-1550).
Reviewed by Jesse Keskiaho
26.05.28 Dorofeeva, Anna, and Michael J. Kelly, eds. The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West.
Reviewed by Pamela A. Patton
26.05.27 Walker, Rose. Art and Artifice in Twelfth-Century Iberia.
Reviewed by Sini Kangas
26.05.26 Selart, Anti, and Alan V. Murray, eds. Medieval Livonia. History, Society and Economy of a Territory on the Baltic Frontier.
Reviewed by Benjamin Semple
26.05.25 Moulinier-Brogi, Laurence, and Daniel Le Blévec, eds. Le corps au Moyen Âge.
Reviewed by Albrecht Classen
26.05.24 Benito i Monclús, Pere, Sandro Carocci, and Laurent Feller, eds. Économies de la pauvreté au Moyen Âge.
Reviewed by Ann Killian
26.05.23 Quinn, William A. An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics.
Reviewed by Shami Ghosh
26.05.22 Martin, Jonathan Seelye. By Consent Alone: Marriage Law and German Romance, 1186-1210.
Reviewed by Michael T. Davis
26.05.21 Crow, Jason R. A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
Reviewed by Robert Bartlett
26.05.20 Trivett, Emma. Reproductive Pressure and Royal Couples: Medieval England and Scotland, ca, 1200-1400.
Reviewed by John J. Contreni
26.05.19 Deflou-Leca, Noëlle, and Anne Massoni, eds. Monde canonial, monde monastique: Mutations et conversions de statuts (IXe-XIIe siècle).
Reviewed by Sean Tandy
26.05.18 Doroszewska, Julia, and Mateusz Kusio, eds. Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood: Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity.
Reviewed by Gregory I. Halfond
26.05.17 Sarti, Laury. Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476-756).
Reviewed by Kathy M. Krause
26.05.16 Croizy-Naquet, Catherine, ed and trans. La Fille du comte de Ponthieu. Version du XIIIe siècle. Versions du XVe siècle.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Lapina
26.05.15 Fillion-Braguet, Bénédicte, Nathalie Le Luel, and Clémentine Mathurin, eds. La pierre, la couleur et la restauration. Le portail polychromé de la cathédrale d'Angers (XIIe-XXIe siècle). : Contribution à l'étude des portails médiévaux en France et en Europe.
Reviewed by Holly J. Grieco
26.05.14 Cusato, Michael F., OFM and Dabney G. Park, eds. Poverty, Eschatology and the Medieval Church: Studies in Honor of David Burr.
Reviewed by E. T. Dailey
26.05.13 Synodinos, Chris D., ed. and trans. St. Radegunde of Poitiers’ “Treatise of Consolation to Lepers”: Text, Translation, and Contextual Introduction.
Reviewed by Ruth Evans
26.05.12 Staley, Lynn, ed. and trans. The Book of Margery Kempe. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions.
Reviewed by Caroline D. Eckhardt
26.05.11 Plumb, Oisín, and Alexandra Sanmark, eds. Alternative Facts and Plausible Fictions in the Northern European Past: How Politics and Culture Have Written and Rewritten History.
Reviewed by Jesse W. Izzo
26.05.10 Kedar, Benjamin Z. Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades.
Reviewed by Sarah Harlan-Haughey
26.05.09 Leslie-Jacobsen, Helen F., and Mortan Nolsøe Jacobsen, trans. The Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation.
Reviewed by Shainool Jiwa
26.05.08 Cortese, Delia. The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dynasty.
Reviewed by Sally Hickson
26.05.07 Solberg, Gail E. Taddeo di Bartolo. Siena’s Painter in the Early Quattrocento. 2 vols.
Reviewed by Brian Jeffrey Maxson
26.05.06 Flanigan, Theresa. The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence.
Reviewed by Lori Jones
26.05.05 Hartnell, Jack. Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image.
Reviewed by Lisa M. Ruch
26.05.04 Ash-Irisarri, Kate. Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550.
Reviewed by F. Thomas Luongo
26.05.03 Nocentini, Silvia, ed. Il “Dialogo” di Caterina da Siena. Per una nuova edizione critica: filologia, tradizione, teologia.
Reviewed by Anthony H. Minnema
26.05.02 García Sanjuán, Alejandro, ed. The Taifa Kingdoms: Reconsidering 11th Century Iberia.
Reviewed by Erik Alder
26.05.01 Bower, Robin M. In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints.
Reviewed by Georg Modestin
26.04.18 Dvořáková, Daniela. Elisabeth of Luxembourg (1409-1442). A Hungarian Queen of the 15th Century.
Reviewed by Erik Wade
26.04.17 Holcomb, Melanie, and Nancy Thebaut. Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Chipps Smith
26.04.16 Debaene, Marjann and Hannah De Moor, eds. Borman in Context: Brabantine Sculpture from 1460-1540.
Reviewed by Bénédicte Sère
26.04.15 Noblesse-Rocher, Annie, ed. “Abscondi eloquium tuum in corde meo.” Mélanges en l’honneur de Gilbert Dahan.
Reviewed by Rozanne Versendaal
26.04.14 Leach, Elizabeth Eva, and Jonathan Morton. Performing Desire: Knowledge, Self, and Other in Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amours.
Reviewed by Katherine L. French
26.04.13 Dowling, Abigail P., Nancy Ann McLoughlin, and Tanya Stabler Miller, eds. Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices.
Reviewed by Anastasiya Chevalier-Shmauhanets
26.04.12 Codou, Yann. Architectures du monachisme: Une histoire monumentale de l’île Saint-Honorat des Lérins, Ve-XIIIe siècle.
Reviewed by Steven J. Williams
26.04.11 Brinzei, Monica, Daniel Coman, Ioana Curut, Andrei Marinca, eds. Pseudo-Aristotelian Texts in Medieval Thought.: Acts of the XXII Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Cluj-Napoca, 28-30 September 2016.
Reviewed by Catherine M. Jones
26.04.10 Martin, Jean-Pierre, trans. Garin le Lorrain.
Reviewed by Hugh Bernard Feiss
26.04.09 Vilardo, Elisa, ed. and trans. Ugo di San Vittore, Sull’inanità delle cose mondane e Dialogo sulla creazione del mondo.
Reviewed by Matteo Pace
26.04.08 Bianchi, Luca, and Luigi Campi, eds. Filosofia e medicina in Italia fra medioevo e prima età moderna.
Reviewed by Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ
26.04.06 Quoëx, Franck. Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History.
Reviewed by Sarah Ifft Decker
26.04.05 Pareles, Mo. Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English.
Reviewed by Albert Lloret
26.04.04 Savo, Anita. Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority.
Reviewed by Ryan Denson
26.04.03 Constantinou, Stavroula, and Andria Andreou (eds). Storyworlds in Short Narratives: Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales.
Reviewed by James H. Morey
26.04.02 Staunton, Michael. Thomas Becket and His World.
Reviewed by Emily D. Kelley
26.04.01 Beltrami, Costanza, and Sylvia Alvares-Correa, eds. Art, Travel, and Exchange between Iberia and Global Geographies, c.1400-1550.
Reviewed by Nathan Leidholm
26.03.15 Papagianni, Eleftheria, and Daphne Penna, eds. A Companion to Byzantine Law: From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056).
Reviewed by Lucie Kaempfer
26.03.14 Brookes, Lucy. Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance.
Reviewed by Heather Blurton
26.03.13 Hanska, Jussi. The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100-1350).
Reviewed by Minjie Su
26.03.12 Merkelbach, Rebecca, ed. Storyworlds and Worldbuilding in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature.
Reviewed by Richard Utz
26.03.11 Riley, Scott Corbett. New World Medievalisms. The Middle Ages in the American Cultural Imaginary.
Reviewed by Michele Valerie Ronnick
26.03.10 Ilgner, Rainer M., and Declan A. Lawell, eds. Peter Abelard, Know Yourself (Scito Te Ipsum).
Reviewed by Paolo Squatriti
26.03.09 Jasperse, Jitske, ed., The Social Lives of Medieval Rings.
Reviewed by Katherine Taronas
26.03.08 Della Dora, Veronica, Charalambos Dendrinos, Marc Guscin, and David John Williams, eds. Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond: People, Objects and Relics.
Reviewed by William Sayers
26.03.07 Bertagnolli, Davide, and Alessandro Zironi, eds. Linguistic Fragmentation and Cultural Inclusion in the Middle Ages: Translation, Plurilingualism, Multilingualism.
Reviewed by Martin Camargo
26.03.06 Gervase of Melkley. The Art of Making Verses.
Reviewed by Peter Hoskins
26.03.05 Livingston, Michael. Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War.
Reviewed by Brett Edward Whalen
26.03.04 Jotischky, Andrew, and William J. Purkis, eds. A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage.
Reviewed by James Morton
26.03.03 Kiapidou, Eirene-Sophia. Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th-15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in Byzantium.
Reviewed by Eleni Ponirakis
26.03.02 Jayne, Sears. Plato in Medieval England: Pagan, Scientist, Alchemist, Theologian.
Reviewed by Ralph Hexter
26.03.01 Menmuir, Rebecca. Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.
Reviewed by David Matthews
26.02.08 Green, William, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle Phillips, eds. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard.
Reviewed by Jonathan Hsy
26.02.07 Parker, Leah Pope. Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature.
Reviewed by Katie Menendez
26.02.06 Firth, Matthew, ed. Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England’s Past.
Reviewed by Andrew D. Buck
26.02.05 Allen, S. J., and Emilie Amt, eds. The Crusades: A Reader. Third Edition.
Reviewed by Marco Mostert
26.02.04 Brown, Michelle P. Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts.
Reviewed by Jessalynn Bird
26.02.03 Lapina, Elizabeth. Depicting the Holy War: Crusader Imagery in Medieval French and English Murals.
Reviewed by Jan Bloemendal
26.02.02 Van der Laan, Joanka. Performative Religious Reading in the Low Countries (c. 1470-1550).
Reviewed by Walter Simons
26.02.01 Watson, Carolyn Coker Joslin. The Winter Missal of Arnold of Rummen. Huis van het boek, Ms. 10 A 14.
Reviewed by Tristan Major
26.01.16 Cutino, Michele, ed. The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry.
Reviewed by Basil Arnould Price
26.01.15 Treharne, Elaine. Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250: Rethinking the Humanities Through Premodern Texts.
Reviewed by Harald Müller
26.01.14 Christensen, Emil Lauge. The Reception of Papal Legates in England, 1170-1250. Narrating the Adventus Ceremony.
Reviewed by Katherine Weikert
26.01.13 Buettner, Brigitte. The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture.
Reviewed by Bronach Kane
26.01.12 Ritchey, Sara. Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health.
Reviewed by Michael D. Bailey
26.01.11 Escobar-Vargas, Carolina, and Anne Lawrence-Mathers, eds. Medieval Perceptions of Magic, Science, and the Natural World.
Reviewed by Christopher Tyerman
26.01.10 Lester, Anne E., and Laura K. Morreale, eds. A Crusader’s Death and Life in Acre: The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers.
Reviewed by Kirsten Wolf
26.01.09 Driscoll, Matthew James. Scripta minora: Selected Essays on Icelandic Manuscripts and Texts, 1991-2024.
Reviewed by Christine Rauer
26.01.08 Hall, Thomas N., and Winfried Rudolf, eds. Sermons, Saints, and Sources: Studies in the Homiletic and Hagiographic Literature of Early Medieval England.
Reviewed by Richard North
26.01.07 Dance, Richard, Sara Pons-Sanz, and Brittany Schorn, eds. The Legacy of Medieval Scandinavian Encounters with England and the Insular World.
Reviewed by Rodrigo Furtado
26.01.06 Cazanove Hannecart, Claire de. Du chartrier au codex: La première cartularisation (IXe- début Xe siècle).
Reviewed by Kyle C. Lincoln
26.01.05 Rychterová, Pavlína, and Jan Odstrčilík, eds. Medieval Translations and their Readers.
Reviewed by Lara Frentrop
26.01.04 Tougher, Shaun, ed. Studies in Byzantine History and Culture: A Festschrift for Paul Magdalino.
Reviewed by Sverrir Jakobsson
26.01.03 Salonen, Kirsi, and Kurt Villads Jensen. Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550: Between Two Oceans.
Reviewed by Jirki Thibaut
26.01.02 Hamburger, Jeffrey F., and Eva Schlotheuber, eds. The Ladies on the Hill: The Female Monastic Communities at the Aristocratic Monasteries of Klosterneuburg and St. George’s in Prague.
Reviewed by Antje Elisa Chan
26.01.01 Rice, Nicole R. The Medieval Hospital: Literacy Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550.