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Short Notices 285 Parergon 20.1 (2003) Books Received Bardell, Matthew, ed., La Cort d’Amour: A Critical Edition (Research Monographs in French Studies,11), Oxford, European Humanities Research Centre, Legenda, 2002; paper; pp. x, 169; RRP £14.50; ISBN 1900755661. Barratt, Alexandra, ed., The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing: A Middle English Version of Material Derived from the Trotula and Other Sources (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 4), Turnhout, Brepols, 2001; hardback; pp. 169; RRP EUR55.00; ISBN 2503517036. Barron, W. R. J. and Glyn S. Burgess, eds, The Voyage of St Brendan: Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2002; cloth; pp. 377; RRP £45.00; ISBN 0859896560. Berman, Constance M., Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002; paper; pp. xi, 143; ISBN 1580440363. Brown, Peter, ed., Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002; hardback; pp. x, 194; RRP £ 45.00; ISBN 0198183631. Burin, Elizabeth, Manuscript Illumination in Lyon, 1473-1530 (Ars Nova III), Turnhout, Brepols, 2001; cloth; pp. x, 470; 187 b/w illustrations, 25 colour illustrations; R.R.P. EUR125.00; ISBN 2503512321. Burns, E. Jane, Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002; cloth; pp. 326; ISBN 0812236718. Carruthers, Mary and Jan M. Ziolkowsi, eds, The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Material Texts), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002; cloth; pp. 312; ISBN 0812236769. Collett, Barry, ed., Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England with an Edition of Richard Fox’s Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517 (The Early Modern Englishwoman 1500-1750), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002; cloth; pp. 190; 4 b/w illustrations; RRP £40.00; ISBN 184016095. Connell, William J., ed., Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002; cloth; pp. xii, 454; ISBN 0520232542. 286 Books Received Parergon 20.1 (2003) Croft, Pauline, King James, Houndsmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; paper; pp. viii, 214; RRP £14.99; ISBN 0333613961. Declercq, Georges, Anno Domini: The Origins of the Christian Era, Turnhout, Brepols, 2000; paper; pp. 207; RRP EUR20; ISBN 2503510507. Debby, Nirit B.-A., Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers: Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (13801444 ) (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 4), Turnhout, Brepols, 2001; hardback; pp. xiv, 344; RRP EUR65; ISBN 2503511635. Dyas, Dee, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500, Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 2001; cloth; pp. vii, 288; RRP £50.00; ISBN 0859916235. Effros, Bonnie, Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002; cloth; pp. xiii, 255; 11 b/w illustrations, 4 maps; RRP US$45.00; ISBN 0271021969. Forhan, Kate Langdon, The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, cloth; pp. 208; 10 b/w illustrations; RRP £45.00; ISBN 0754601730. Fubini, Riccardo, Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla, Durham, Duke University Press, 2003;cloth; pp. viii, 306; RRP US$64.95; ISBN 0822330024. Green, Monica H., The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001; cloth; pp. xvii, 301; ISBN 0812235894. Grossinger, Christa, Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe, 1430-1540 (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 35), London, Harvey Miller, 2002; cloth; pp. xiv, 227, 216 b/w illustrations; RRP EUR80.00; ISBN 1872501095. Harbus, Antonina, The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry (Costerus New Series 143), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2002; paper; pp. ix, 220; RRP EUR45; ISBN 9042008148. Harbus, Antonina, Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend, Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 2002; cloth; pp. viii, 215; RRP £45.00; ISBN 0859916251. Howe, John and Michael Wolfe, eds., Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe, Gainsville, Florida, University Press of Florida, 2002; cloth; pp. 237; 22 b/w plates, 13 b/w illustrations; RRP US$59.95; ISBN 081302479X. Hyland, Peter, An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poems, Houndsmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; paper; pp. viii...

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