New Books across the Disciplines

"New Books across the Disciplines" is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. Unless designated for paperback editions, prices given are for cloth editions. For paperback reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be listed here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries.

The topics for this issue include:

Editions and translations Reference Historians and historiography Studies in breadth Biography Community, ethnicity, and identity Islamic studies Waging war Theater, spectacle, and ritual Households, codes of conduct, and the everyday Nature and landscape The marvelous

1. Editions and translations

Anon. Bevers Saga. Edited by Christopher Sanders. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, 2001. clxxiv, 399 pp. Paper ISK 4,210. [Old Norse text of the prose romance with its source, the Anglo-Norman epic Boeve de Haumtone, on facing pages, and English commentary.]

Anon. The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile[Chronica latina regum Castellae]. Translated and edited by Joseph F. O'Callaghan. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 236. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. xlii, 150 pp.; 3 tables, 3 maps. $24.00.

Anon. Saga Heilagrar Önnu. Edited by Kirsten Wolf. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, 2001. cliv, 166 pp. Paper $29.95. [Old Norse text of the legend of St. Anne with its source, the Low German Sunte Annen legend und all oeres geschlechtes, on facing pages, with English commentary.]

Ava. Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When the Old Law Passed Away"[Dichtungen der Frau Ava]. Translated and edited by James A. Rushung Jr. Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions, vol. 2. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS, 2003. 235 pp.; 20 illus. Paper $12.00. [Poems on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, the Antichrist, and the Last Judgment, by the first known woman to write in the German vernacular. Old High German texts with facing-page translations.]

Della Porta, Giovan Battista. Teatro, Terzo Tomo: Commedie. Edited by Rafaele Sirri. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovan Battista della Porta, vol. 15.3. Napoli: Edizione scientifiche italiane, 2002. viii, 516 pp. Paper EUR 42.00.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals. Edited by Janel Mueller and Leah S. Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxv, 174 pp. $45.00.

Eriugena, John Scottus. Treatise on Divine Predestination [De divina praedestinatione liber]. Translated by Mary Brennan with introduction by Avital Wohlman. Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture, vol. 5. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, (1998) 2002. xxix, 134 pp. Paper $18.00.

Gibson, James M., ed. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Records of Early English Drama. 3 vols. Vol. 1: records of Alkham to Canterbury. Vol. 2: records of Chart Sutton to Wormshill, religious houses, households, county of Kent, province of Canterbury, diocese of Canterbury. Vol. 3: appendixes, translations, endnotes, patrons and traveling companies, glossaries, index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the British Library, 2002. ccxxiv, 1,661 pp.; 3 maps. $500.00.

Godeman. The Benedictional of St. Æthelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art; a Facsimile. Introduction by Andrew Prescott. London: The British Library, 2002. 26 pp., 238 pp. of full-page color illus. $95.00. [Color facsimile reproduction of the famous illuminated Anglo-Saxon service book made by the scribe Godeman for Æthelwold's personal use.]

Gundissalinus, Dominicus. The Procession of the World[De processione mundi]. Translated and edited by John A. Laumakis. Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation, vol. 39...