Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Aers, David, and Lynn Staley. The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. 310. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Andersson, Theodore M., and Stephen A. Barney, eds. Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer. Selected Studies of Larry D. Benson. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 322. $84.95. Astell, Ann W. Chaucer and the Universe of Learning. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 254. $35.00. Barratt, Alexandra, ed. The Seven Psalms: A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated from French into English by Dame Eleanor Hull. Early English Text Society, vol. 307. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xl, 326. $65.00. Batt, Catherine, ed. Essays on Thomas Hoccleve. Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies, vol. 10. London: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University ofLondon; Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. Pp. ix, 130. N.p. Besserman, Lawrence, ed. The Challenge ofPeriodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. Garland ReferenceLibrary ofthe Humanities, vol. 1938. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. xxiv, 244. $46.00. Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King, eds. London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages. Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies, vol. 9. London: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1995. Pp. vi, 258. N.p. Brewer, Derek, ed. Medieval Comic Tales. 2d ed. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. Pp. xxxiv, 190. £35.00. 345 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Burrow, J. A., and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Pp. xii, 373. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 325. $42.50. Chance, Jane, ed. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp. xv, 342. $59.95. Coleman, Joyce. Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, vol. 26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 250. $59.95. Cooper, Helen. The Canterbury Tales. Oxford Guides to Chaucer. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 439. $22.00 paper. Copeland, Rita, ed. Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 332. $59.95. Cowgill, Kent. The Cranberry Trail: Misfits, Dreamers and Drifters on the Heartland Road. Rochester, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, 1995. Pp. 208. $11.95 paper. Dante Alighieri. De Vulgari Eloquentia. Ed. and trans. Steven Botterill. Cambridge Medieval Classics, vol. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxix, 105. $59.95. ---. Inferno: The Divine Comedy, vol. 1. Ed. and trans. Robert M. Durling. Intro. and notes by Ronald L. Martinez and Robert Durling. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 654. $39.95. ---. Monarchia. Ed. and trans. Prue Shaw. Cambridge Medieval Classics, vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xlvi, 186. $54.95. 346 Davis, Craig R. Beowulf and the Demise ofGermanic Legend in England. Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, vol. 17. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. xvii, 237. $36.00. Dean,James M.,ed. Medieval English Political Writings. TEAMS: Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publi­ cations, 1996. Pp. xxv, 270. $14.00 paper. Earp, Lawrence. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research. Garland Composer Resource Manuals Series. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995. Pp. xix, 669. $95.00. Eckhardt, Caroline D., ed. Castleford's Chronicle or The Boke of Brut. 2 vols. Early English Text Society, vol. 305. Oxford: Oxford Uni­ versity Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 1065. $125.00. Edwards, Huw M. Dafydd ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 300. $70.00. Farrell, Thomas J., ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 240. $49.95. Ferster,Judith. Fictions ofAdvice: The Literature and Politics ofCounsel in Late Medieval England. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 216. $32.95. Findlen...