Books received

Abram, Christopher, Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen, London, Continuum, 2011; hardback; pp. 272; 10 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £20.00; ISBN 9781847252470.

Barrie, David G. and Susan Broomhall, eds, A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700–2010, New York, Routledge, 2011; paperback; pp. 303; 4 b/w illustrations, 1 table; R.R.P. £29.99; ISBN 9780415696616.

Bose, Mishtooni and J. Patrick Hornbeck II, eds, Wycliffite Controversies (Medieval Church Studies, 23), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xiv, 359; 1 b/w illustration, 2 b/w tables; R.R.P.€90.00; ISBN 9782503534572.

Broomhall, Susan and Jacqueline Van Gent, eds, Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Farnham, Ashgate, 2011; hardback; pp. 342; 19 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9781409432388.

Brown, Alison, Medicean and Savonarolan Florence: The Interplay of Politics, Humanism, and Religion (Europa Sacra, 5), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010; hardback; pp. x, 389; 29 b/w line art; R.R.P. €70.00; ISBN 9782503528519.

Burke, Peter, A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2012; paperback; pp. 248; 17 b/w figures; R.R.P. £17.99, €20.40; ISBN 9780745650432.

Cawsey, Kathy, Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences, Farnham, Ashgate, 2011; hardback; pp. 198; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781409404781.

Clark, James G., Frank T. Coulson, and Kathryn L. McKinley, eds, Ovid in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011; hardback; pp. 384; 21 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9781107002050.

Cox, Virginia, The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011; ISBN 9781421400327. (Distributed by Footprint Books.)

Crossley, John Newsome, Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age, Farnham, Ashgate, 2011; hardback; pp. 260; 5 tables; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9781409425649.

Crouch, David and Kathleen Thompson, eds, Normandy and its Neighbours, 900–1250: Essays for David Bates (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 14), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. xxiv, 310; 3 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w table, 2 b/w line art; R.R.P. €80.00; ISBN 9782503520629.

Curta, Florin, ed., Neglected Barbarians (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 32), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. xx, 656; 152 b/w, 35 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €135.00; ISBN 9782503531250.

Dartmann, Christoph, Thomas Scharff, and Christoph Friedrich Weber, eds, Zwischen Pragmatik und Performanz: Dimensionen mittelalterlicher Schriftkultur (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 18), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. viii, 489; 18 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w line art; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503541372.

Díaz de Durana, José Ramón, Anonymous Noblemen: The Generalization of Hidalgo Status in the Basque Country (1250–1525) (The Medieval Countryside, 10), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. xiv, 277; 10 b/w tables, 10 b/w line art; R.R.P. €85.00; ISBN 9782503532448.

Dugan, Holly, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011; hardback; ISBN 9781421402345. (Distributed by Footprint Books.)

Garipzanov, Ildar H., ed., Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070–1200) (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 26), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. xiii, 292; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503533674.

Gavitt, Philip, Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011; hardback; pp. 290; 9 tables; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781107002944.

Gillespie, Vincent and Kantik Ghosh, eds, After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England (Medieval Church Studies, 21), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xix, 657; 3 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €135.00; ISBN 9782503534022.

Hardwick, Paul, ed., The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 23), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011; hardback; pp. xiv, 247; 95 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w tables, 1 b/w line art; R.R.P. €85.00; ISBN 9782503528809...