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Papers

(The median citation count of Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Carolyn Heighway and Richard Bryant, The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019. Paper. Pp. 128; many color and black-and-white figures. £24.99.	4
“It Will Help Him Wonderfully”: Placebo and Meaning Responses in Early Medieval English Medicine	4
Ibn Qutaybah, The Excellence of the Arabs, eds. James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb, trans. Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb. (Library of Arabic Literature.) New York: New York University Press	3
:John Lydgate, “The Dance of Death”, and Its Model, the French “Danse Macabre”.	2
:Gratian the Theologian	2
Laura Saetveit Miles, The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England. Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 313; 17 color figures. $99.	2
Back Matter	2
:Thirteenth Century England XVII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017	1
Inside Front Cover	1
Front Cover	1
:Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual	1
:Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages	1
Andrew M. Beresford, Sacred Skin: The Legend of St. Bartholomew in Spanish Art and Literature. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 72.) Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxv, 352; color figures	1
Gregory D. Bell, Logistics of the First Crusade: Acquiring Supplies amid Chaos. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. xxiii, 200; 3 maps. $95. ISBN: 978-1-4985-8640-5.	1
:Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England	1
Mariana Goina, The Use of Pragmatic Documents in Medieval Wallachia and Moldavia (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries). (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 47.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. xii	1
Danijel Džino, Ante Milošević, and Trpimir Vedriš, eds., Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the	1
:The Byzantine Sinbad	1
Nathalie Kálnoky, The Szekler Nation and Medieval Hungary: Politics, Law and Identity on the Frontier, trans. Farkas Kálnoky. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 264; 5 figures,	1
Outi Merisalo, Miika Kuha, and Susanna Niiranen, eds., Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Bibliologia 53.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. Paper. Pp. 239; color pl	1
:Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850–c. 1100	1
Charles C. Rozier, Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c. 700–1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham. (Writing History in the Middle Ages 7.) York: York Medieval Press, 2020, Pp. xi,	1
:Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500	1
Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl, eds., After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and Its Rulers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. viii, 327; 2 maps. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-1088-4077-4.	1
Front Matter	1

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, ed., Intricate Interfaith Networks in the Middle Ages: Quotidian Jewish-Christian Contacts. (Studies in the History of Daily Life [800–1600] 5.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2016.	1
:Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750–1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity	0
Mary Raschko, The Politics of Middle English Parables: Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. i	0
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures	0
:Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland: Literary and Artistic Activities of the Monastery at Helgafell in the Fourteenth Century	0
Joanna Tucker, Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies: Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and Their Patterns of Growth. A Study of the Earliest Cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. (Stu	0
:A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources	0
Eugenio Refini, The Vernacular Aristotle: Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. (Classics After Antiquity.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xx, 275; 19 bl	0
Brett Edward Whalen, The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press	0
Johannes Bartuschat, Elisa Brilli, and Delphine Carron, eds., The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th–14th Centuries) / I domenicani e la costruzione dell’identit	0
:Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings	0
:The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century	0
:Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 2	0
:“What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture	0
:Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination	0
:Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds	0
:“Parzival” im Manuskript: Profile der Parzival-Überlieferung am Beispiel von fünf Handschriften des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts	0
Where Is Medieval Art in One Hundred Years?	0
:Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)	0
Robert L. J. Shaw, The Celestine Monks of France, c. 1350–1450: Observant Reform in an Age of Schism, Council and War. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam Uni	0
Zofia A. Brzozowska and Mirosław J. Leszka, Maria Lekapene, Empress of the Bulgarians: Neither a Saint nor a Malefactress. (Byzantina Lodziensia 36.) Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2018	0
Susanna E. Fischer, Erzählte Bewegung: Narrationsstrategien und Funktionsweisen lateinischer Pilgertexte (4.–15. Jahrhundert). (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 52.) Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp.	0
Samantha Kelly, ed., A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxv, 580; color and black-and-white figures. $264. ISBN: 978-9-0044-1943-8. Table of contents availab	0
:Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening before Dante	0
:Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”: “Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Story Teller	0
Peter Gorzolla, Magie, Politik und Religion: Theologische Magiekritik als politisches Handeln im Frankreich Karls VI. (Geschichte 166). Münster: LIT, 2019. Paper. Pp. vi, 499; black-and-white f	0
:Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy	0
:Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–1600	0
Xavier Hermand, Jean-François Nieus, and Étienne Renard, eds., Le scribe d’archives dans l’Occident médiéval: Formations, carrières, réseaux. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 43.) Turnhout	0
:Vom Beneficial- zum Lehnswesen: Eine vergleichende Analyse sächsischer und böhmischer Quellen des 10.–14. Jahrhunderts	0
:Chaucer’s Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry	0
Cassiodorus, The “Variae”: The Complete Translation, trans. M. Shane Bjornlie. (The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature.) Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 519; 3	0
:The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty	0
Volodymyr Koloda and Serhiy Gorbanenko, Agriculture in the Forest-Steppe Region of Khazaria, trans. Maryna Sergeyeva. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 66.) Leiden:	0
:“History of the Venetian Dukes” (1102–1229) with an Appendix of Brief Venetian Historical Texts	0
Marco Papasidero, Translatio Sanctitatis: I furti di reliquie nell’Italia medievale. (Premio Istituto Sangalli per la Storia Religiosa 8.) Florence: Firenze University Press, 2019. Pp. 195; bla	0
Heymericus de Campo, Centheologicon, ed. Giovanna Bagnasco. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 292.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. lxvii, 333; color plate and black-and-white figure.	0
Nicolas Drocourt and Élisabeth Malamut, eds., La diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve–XVe s.). (The Medieval Mediterranean 123.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.	0
Recognition of Our Peer Reviewers	0
:Les déserts de l’Occident: Genèse des lieux monastiques dans le sud-est de la Gaule (fin IVe–milieu VIe siècle)	0
:Confraternities in Southern Italy: Art, Politics, and Religion (1000–1800)	0
:Theoderich der Große und das gotische Königreich in Italien	0
Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260–1321). (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 64.) L	0
Adam J. Davis, The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 317; 5 black-and-white figures	0
:Caring for the Living Soul: Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean	0
:Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England	0
Christine Smith and Joseph F. O’Connor, Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s: A Study of Maffeo Vegio’s “Remembering the Ancient History of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome,” with Translation and a Digital Re	0
Katherine Allen Smith, The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century. (Crusading in Context.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xi, 294. $99. ISBN: 978-1-7832-7523-6.	0
Glyn S. Burgess and Douglas Kelly, trans., The “Roman de Thèbes” and The “Roman d’Eneas.” (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe 19.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xv, 422. £110.	0
:Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts	0

:Crestien’s “Guillaume D’Angleterre” / “William of England”: An Edition and Annotated Translation	0
Christoph Brachmann, ed., Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. Paper. Pp. 264; many color and 7 black-and-white figures	0
:Beowulf as Children’s Literature	0
David I. Shyovitz, A Remembrance of his Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz. (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 336;	0
Davide Checchi, Libro della natura degli animali: Bestiaro toscano del secolo XIII. (Archivio Romanzo 36.) Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2020. Pp. x, 503. €82. ISBN: 978-8-8845-0910-9	0
Introduction: Medieval Studies and Its Institutions	0
:The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture	0
Lars Kjær, The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition: Ideals and Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100–1300. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 114.) Cambridge: C	0
Beth C. Spacey, The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative. (Crusading in Context.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xvi, 198. $99. ISBN: 978-1-7832-7518-2.	0
:Secular Canons in Medieval Europe: Diversity under Common Canon Law	0
:Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew	0
John Carey, Magic, Metallurgy and Imagination in Medieval Ireland: Three Studies. (Celtic Studies Publications 21.) Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2019. Paper. Pp. xi, 107; 2 color p	0
What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Color, Race, and Unfreedom in Later Medieval Iberia	0
Bernd Schneidmüller and Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, Das Evangeliar Heinrichs des Löwen und Mathildes von England. Darmstad: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2018. Pp. 253; color plates	0
:Piers Plowman” and Its Manuscript Tradition	0
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2023	0
:The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities	0
:Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament	0
Brief Notices	0
Fabio Acerbi and Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem, La transmission du savoir grec en Occident: Guillaume de Moerbeke, le Laur. Plut. 87.25 (Thémistius, “in De an.”) et la bibliothèque de Boniface VIII. (M	0
Klaus Nass, ed., Codex Udalrici, 2 vols. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 10.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. Pp. cxxvi, 747; 2 tables. €198. ISBN: 978-3-4471	0
:The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c.750–880	0
David Marsh, Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. x, 309. $49.95. ISBN: 978	0
Cynthia Johnston, ed., A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R. E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. London: University of London Press, 2021. Paper. Pp.	0
:Divisio regni: The Territorial Divisions, Power Struggles, and Dynastic Historiography of the Árpáds of 11th- and Early 12th-Century Hungary, with Comparative Studies of the Piasts of Poland and t	0
Elizabeth Gemmill, ed., The Register of John Salmon, Bishop of Norwich, 1299–1325. (Canterbury and York Society 109.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2019. Pp. xiii, 409; 2 black-and-white figures. $6	0
:The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law	0
Matthew Driscoll, Silvia Hufnagel, Philip Lavender, and Beeke Stegmann, eds., The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and Reception of the “Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda.” (The Viking Collection: Studi	0
:Paradoxes du lettré: Le clerc-poète et son lecteur laïc à l’épreuve des polémiques intellectuelles (XIIIe siècle	0
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde, ed. and trans. and with an introduction by William T. Whobrey. Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 2020. Paper. Pp. xxxiii, 321. $18. ISBN: 978-1-6246-6906-4.	0
Annual Table of Contents	0
:Los potenciales polifónicos: La nobleza cortesana del “Cantar de Mio Cid.”	0
:Pious Fictions and Pseudo-Saints in the Late Middle Ages: Selected Legends from an Icelandic Legendary	0
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Catalan Maps and Jewish Books: The Intellectual Profile of Elisha Ben Abraham Cresques (1325–1387). (Terrarum Orbis 15.) Turnout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 357; color and black-an	0
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross. (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series.) Chicago: University of	0
:Barbara of Cilli (1392–1451): A Hungarian, Holy Roman, and Bohemian Queen	0
Hans-Rudolf Meier, Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann, Marco Bernasconi, Stefan Hess, Carola Jäggi, Anne Nagel, and Ferdinand Pajor, Das Basler Münster. (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel-Stadt 10;	0
:The Politics of Sanctity: Figurative Sculpture at Selles-sur-Cher	0
:Rome in the Ninth Century: A History in Art	0
:Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature	0
:After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900–1150	0
Resonant Charisma: Richard Rolle as Public Contemplative	0
:Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law	0
:The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400–1420	0
Philippe de Thaon, Bestiaire, ed. Ian Short. (Plain Text Series 20.) Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2018. Pp. 102. £37.50. ISBN: 978-0-9054-7465-1.	0
:Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History	0
:Die Steinkemenate zu Karlburg im Dorf gelegen: Der Lauthersche Hof in Karlburg: Ein befestigter Adelssitz des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit im Hochstift Würzburg, Gde. Karlburg, Lkr. Main-Sp	0
Brief Notices	0
Oisín Plumb, Picts and Britons in the Early Medieval Irish Church: Travels West over the Storm-Swelled Sea. (The North Atlantic World: Land and Sea as Cultural Space AD 400–1900 2.) Turnhout: B	0
Alessandro Palazzo and Anna Rodolfi, eds., Prophecy and Prophets in the Middle Ages. (Micrologus Library 103.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2020. Pp. xiv, 298. €54. ISBN: 978-8-8929-	0
:The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe	0
Mary C. Flannery, Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 213. £80. ISB	0
:(Un)heile Körper im altnordischen Baldermythos: Vergleichende Studien zum magischen Embodiment in Mythos und Kult	0
:The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus	0
:Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence	0
Thomas Meacham, The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler. (Early Drama, Art, and Music.) Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter and Kalamazoo, MI: Medi	0
:Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550	0
Comparative Economy and Martial Corporatism: Toward an Understanding of Florentine City Leagues, 1332–92	0
Andy King and Andrew M. Spencer, eds., Edward I: New Interpretations. York: York Medieval Press, 2020. Pp. 203. $99. ISBN: 978-1-9031-5372-7. Table of contents available online at https://boyde	0
:Généalogie de la raison d’État: L’exception souveraine du Moyen Âge au Baroque	0
:No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe	0
:La “señal” del pedrero: Obra y fábrica del claustro de la catedral de Toledo (1383–1485)	0
Alexander D. Mirrington, Transformations of Identity and Society in Anglo-Saxon Essex: A Case Study of an Early Medieval North Atlantic Community. (The Early Medieval North Atlantic 4.) Amsterd	0
Concluding Roundtable: Crisis and Optimism	0
:A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy	0
:Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric	0
:Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History	0
Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds., Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World. (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Pres	0
Simon Horobin, ed., Osbern Bokenham: “Lives of Saints.” (Early English Text Society Original Series 356.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 502. $85. ISBN: 978-0-1988-6797-5.	0
:Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages	0
:Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath	0
:The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse	0
Contributors to the Medieval Academy of America	0
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America	0
Frédérique Le Nan, Poétesses et escrivaines en Occitanie médiévale: La trace, la voix, le genre. (Interférences.) Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Pp. 272. €25. ISBN: 978-2-7535-	0
:Peasants Making History: Living in an English Region, 1200–1540	0
:Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100–1250	0
:Speculum medicine	0
Guido Ruggiero, Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A “Decameron” Renaissance. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 292. $49.95.	0
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Laura Kalas, Margery Kempe’s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 268; black-and-white figures. $99. ISBN: 978-1-8438-4554-	0
:The Death of Tidericus the Organist: Plague and Conspiracy Theory in Hanseatic Visby	0
:Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance	0
:Animism, Materiality, and Museums: How Do Byzantine Things Feel?	0
Peter Glasner, Sebastian Winkelsträter, and Birgit Zacke, eds., Abecedarium: Erzählte Dinge im Mittelalter. Basel: Schwabe, 2019. Pp. 316; color figures. CHF 46. ISBN: 978-3-7574-0020-0. Table	0
:Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal	0
:Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece	0
:Geschichte und Weltordnung: Graphische Modelle von Zeit und Raum in Universalchroniken vor 1500	0
Gottfried Liedl, Granada: Ein europäisches Emirat an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit. (Die Levante—frühe Ansätze der Globalisierung Vom 5. Jahrhundert bis zur Neuzeit 3; Islamische Renaissancen 2.) Be	0
Giuseppe Seche, Un mare di mercanti: Il Mediterraneo tra Sardegna e Corona d’Aragona nel tardo Medioevo. (I libri di Viella 340.) Rome: Viella, 2020. Paper. Pp. 306; black-and-white figures. €3	0
:The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124–1130): Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms	0
:A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm	0
:A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play	0
:Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance	0
Xavier Barral i Altet, Pál Lővei, Vinni Lucherini, and Imre Takács, eds., The Art of Medieval Hungary. (Bibliotheca Academiae Hungariae, Roma: Studia 7.) Rome: Viella, 2018. Paper. Pp. 553; man	0
Glossing and Reading in Western Europe and East Asia: A Comparative Case Study	0
Anna Sara Lahr, Diversität als Potential: Eine Neuperspektivierung des frühesten Minnesangs. (Studien zur historischen Poetik 32.) Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. Pp. 460; 1 table.	0
:Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature	0
Nicholas J. Higham, King Arthur: The Making of the Legend. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 380; color figures. $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-3002-1092-7.	0
Brief Notices	0
:Caxton’s “Golden Legend,”	0
Mikko Posti, Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250–1350. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 128.) Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. viii, 295. $116. ISBN: 978-9-0044-2787-7.	0
:The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia	0
Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg, Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture 21.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.	0
Benjamin A. Saltzman, Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 339; 12 bla	0
:Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the “Adventus Saxonum.”	0
:Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe: Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and Prostitution	0
Defining “Conversos” in Fifteenth-Century Castile: The Making of a Controversial Category	0
Books Received	0
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Peter Coss, The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000–1250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 528; black-and-white figures. $105. ISBN: 978-0-1988-4696-3.	0
:De re uxoria	0
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:The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne	0
:Sir John Fortescue and the Governance of England	0
Anna Benvenuti, Sante donne di Toscana: Il Medioevo, with collaboration on images by Raffaele Argenziano. (Toscana Sacra 1.) Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018. Pp. xix, 207; many col	0
Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Notre-Dame: Geschichte einer Kathedrale. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2020. Paper. Pp. 127; color and black-and-white figures. €9.95. ISBN: 978-3-4067-5048-9.	0
Alain Demurger, Le peuple templier, 1307–1312: Catalogue prosopographique des templiers présents ou (et) cités dans les procès-verbaux des interrogatoires faits dans le royaume de France entre 1307	0
:The Register of Richard Praty: Bishop of Chichester 1438–1445	0
:Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage	0
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:Images of Discord: Poetics and Politics of the Sacred Image in Fifteenth-Century Spain	0
:Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, c. 400–1000 CE	0
:Historical Writing of Early Rus (c. 1000–c. 1400) in a Comparative Perspective	0
David A. Traill, ed. and trans., Carmina Burana. Vols. 1–2. (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 48–49.) Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix, 567; 794. $35/e. ISBN:	0
:The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy	0
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Julia Haig Gaisser, and James Hankins, eds., Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Annotated Lists and Guide	0
:The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England	0
:Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258–1272	0
:Der Tannhäuser: Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition	0
Mayke de Jong and Justin Lake, trans., Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius Radbertus’ Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie. (Manchester Medieval Sources Series.) Manchester:	0
:Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul	0
:The Historic Landscape of Catalonia: Landscape History of a Mediterranean Country in the Middle Ages	0
:Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages	0
:Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History	0
Cullen J. Chandler, Carolingian Catalonia: Politics, Culture, and Identity in an Imperial Province, 778–987. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series.) Cambridge: Cambridg	0
Lynn Staley, Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. viii, 232; color figures. $75. ISBN: 978-0-4721-3187-7.	0
Dimiter Angelov, The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx, 441; color plates and	0
Rose Broadley, The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650–1100. London and Havertown, PA: Oxbow Books, 2020. Paper. Pp. iv, 167; many color and black-and-white figures, maps, charts, an	0
Nicolino Applauso, Dante’s “Comedy” and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy: Humor and Evil. (Studies in Medieval Literature.) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xi, 337; black-and-wh	0
:Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire	0
:Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing	0
:Writings on Body and Soul	0
Danica Summerlin, The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179: Their Origins and Reception. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 116.) Cambridge: Cambridge Univers	0
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Thomas N. Bisson, ed. and trans., The Chronography of Robert of Torigni. Vol. 1, The Chronicle, A.D. 1100–1186. Vol. 2, Related Historical Texts. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Oxford:	0
:Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy	0
Pamela Berger, Hebrew Psalms and the Utrecht Psalter: Veiled Origins. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 208; many color plates and black-and-white figures	0
Catherine E. Karkov, Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia. (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. 282; 5 color and 6 blac	0
:Frisians of the Early Middle Ages	0
Fergus Kelly, ed., The MacEgan Legal Treatise: An Early Modern Irish Law-Text by Giolla Na Noamh Mac Aodhagáin (1309). (Early Irish Law Series 8.) Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,	0
Paul Merkley, Music and Patronage in the Court of René d’Anjou: Sacred and Secular Music in the Literary Program and Ceremonial. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 498.) Tempe: Arizona	0
:Fracta doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome	0
:Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers	0
:Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330)	0
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Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, Stefan Esders, and Laury Sarti, eds., Early Medieval Militarisation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. Pp. 367; black-and white figures. $140. ISBN	0
Orietta Da Rold, Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 112.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xix, 270; black-and-white fig	0
A. M. Juster, ed. and trans., The Elegies of Maximianus, with an introduction by Michael Roberts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 223. $65. ISBN 978-0-8122-4979-8.	0
Patrizia Mainoni and Nicola Lorenzo Barile, eds., Comparing Two Italies: Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily. (Mediterr	0
The Provenance, Date, and Patron of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308	0
:King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne	0
Carrie E. Beneš, ed., A Companion to Medieval Genoa. (Brill’s Companions to European History 15.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. xvii, 560; many color and black-and-white figures, and 8 ma	0
:Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy: Siena, 1260–1330	0
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti, eds., Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp.	0
Ken Mondschein, On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping, with a foreword by Neal Stephenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Paper. Pp. 256; black-and-white figures. $29.95.	0
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Maribel Fierro and Alejandro García Sanjuán, eds., Hispania, al-Ándalus y España: Identidad y nacionalismo en la historia peninsular. (Estudios/Medieval.) Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2020. Paper. Pp.	0
:Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book	0
:The Meaning of Media: Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia	0
:Metaphysics between Experience and Transcendence: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics as a Science	0
:Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature	0
Maile S. Hutterer, Framing the Church: The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 207; black	0
:Christian Identity Formation across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	0
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