Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies

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.)
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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 Medicine4
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 Press3
:John Lydgate, “The Dance of Death”, and Its Model, the French “Danse Macabre”.2
:Gratian the Theologian2
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
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:Thirteenth Century England XVII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 20171
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:Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual1
:Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages1
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 figures1
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 England1
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. xii1
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 Sinbad1
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 pl1
:Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850–c. 11001
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, 1000–15001
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
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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 Identity0
Mary Raschko, The Politics of Middle English Parables: Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. i0
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures0
:Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland: Literary and Artistic Activities of the Monastery at Helgafell in the Fourteenth Century0
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. (Stu0
:A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources0
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 bl0
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 Press0
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’identit0
:Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings0
:The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century0
:Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 20
:“What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture0
:Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination0
:Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds0
:“Parzival” im Manuskript: Profile der Parzival-Überlieferung am Beispiel von fünf Handschriften des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts0
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 Uni0
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, 20180
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 availab0
:Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening before Dante0
:Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”: “Wild” Analysis and the Symptomatic Story Teller0
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 f0
:Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy0
:Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–16000
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.) Turnhout0
:Vom Beneficial- zum Lehnswesen: Eine vergleichende Analyse sächsischer und böhmischer Quellen des 10.–14. Jahrhunderts0
:Chaucer’s Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry0
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; 30
:The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty0
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 Texts0
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; bla0
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 Reviewers0
: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 Italien0
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.) L0
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 figures0
:Caring for the Living Soul: Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean0
:Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England0
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 Re0
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 Texts0
:Crestien’s “Guillaume D’Angleterre” / “William of England”: An Edition and Annotated Translation0
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 figures0
:Beowulf as Children’s Literature0
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: 978-8-8845-0910-90
Introduction: Medieval Studies and Its Institutions0
:The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture0
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: C0
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 Law0
:Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew0
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 p0
What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Color, Race, and Unfreedom in Later Medieval Iberia0
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 Tradition0
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 20230
:The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities0
:Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament0
Brief Notices0
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. (M0
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: 978-3-44710
:The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c.750–8800
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: 9780
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 t0
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. $60
:The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law0
Matthew Driscoll, Silvia Hufnagel, Philip Lavender, and Beeke Stegmann, eds., The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and Reception of the “Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda.” (The Viking Collection: Studi0
:Paradoxes du lettré: Le clerc-poète et son lecteur laïc à l’épreuve des polémiques intellectuelles (XIIIe siècle0
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
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: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 Legendary0
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-an0
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 of0
:Barbara of Cilli (1392–1451): A Hungarian, Holy Roman, and Bohemian Queen0
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-Cher0
:Rome in the Ninth Century: A History in Art0
:Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature0
:After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900–11500
Resonant Charisma: Richard Rolle as Public Contemplative0
:Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law0
:The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400–14200
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 History0
: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-Sp0
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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: B0
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 Europe0
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. ISB0
:(Un)heile Körper im altnordischen Baldermythos: Vergleichende Studien zum magischen Embodiment in Mythos und Kult0
:The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus0
:Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence0
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: Medi0
:Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–15500
Comparative Economy and Martial Corporatism: Toward an Understanding of Florentine City Leagues, 1332–920
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://boyde0
:Généalogie de la raison d’État: L’exception souveraine du Moyen Âge au Baroque0
:No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe0
: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.) Amsterd0
Concluding Roundtable: Crisis and Optimism0
:A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy0
:Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric0
:Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History0
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 Pres0
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 Ages0
:Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath0
:The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse0
Contributors to the Medieval Academy of America0
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America0
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, 1200–15400
:Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100–12500
:Speculum medicine0
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 Visby0
:Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance0
: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 Renewal0
:Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece0
:Geschichte und Weltordnung: Graphische Modelle von Zeit und Raum in Universalchroniken vor 15000
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.) Be0
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. €30
:The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124–1130): Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms0
:A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm0
:A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play0
:Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance0
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; man0
Glossing and Reading in Western Europe and East Asia: A Comparative Case Study0
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 Literature0
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
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: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 Iberia0
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 bla0
:Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the “Adventus Saxonum.”0
:Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe: Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and Prostitution0
Defining “Conversos” in Fifteenth-Century Castile: The Making of a Controversial Category0
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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 uxoria0
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:The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne0
:Sir John Fortescue and the Governance of England0
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 col0
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 13070
:The Register of Richard Praty: Bishop of Chichester 1438–14450
:Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage0
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:Images of Discord: Poetics and Politics of the Sacred Image in Fifteenth-Century Spain0
:Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, c. 400–1000 CE0
:Historical Writing of Early Rus (c. 1000–c. 1400) in a Comparative Perspective0
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 Clergy0
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Julia Haig Gaisser, and James Hankins, eds., Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Annotated Lists and Guide0
:The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England0
:Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258–12720
:Der Tannhäuser: Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition0
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 Saul0
:The Historic Landscape of Catalonia: Landscape History of a Mediterranean Country in the Middle Ages0
:Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages0
:Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History0
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: Cambridg0
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 and0
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, an0
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-wh0
:Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire0
:Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing0
:Writings on Body and Soul0
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 Univers0
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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 Italy0
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 figures0
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 blac0
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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: Arizona0
:Fracta doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome0
:Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers0
: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. ISBN0
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 fig0
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. (Mediterr0
The Provenance, Date, and Patron of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 3080
:King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne0
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 ma0
:Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy: Siena, 1260–13300
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 Book0
:The Meaning of Media: Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia0
:Metaphysics between Experience and Transcendence: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics as a Science0
:Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature0
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; black0
:Christian Identity Formation across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries0
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