Books Received

Andriolo, Azzurra Elena, and Suzanne Reynolds, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Five: Volume One: Books Printed in Italy before 1501 (Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula in Cambridge, 5.1), London, Harvey Miller, 2017; hardback; pp. 288; 330 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €175.00; ISBN 9781909400856.

Balard, Michel, ed., The Sea in History: The Medieval World, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2017; hardback; pp. 1086; 48 b/w, 33 line illustrations; R.R.P. £125.00; ISBN 9781783271597.

Barret, Sébastien, Dominique Stutzmann, and Georg Vogeler, eds, Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages: Formal Aspects of Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 35), Turnhout, Brepols, 2016; hardback; pp. viii, 545; 18 colour, 100 b/w illustrations, 36 b/w tables; R.R.P. €125.00; ISBN 9782503567433.

Baumgarten, Elisheva, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler, eds, Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century (Jewish Culture and Contexts), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; cloth; pp. 368; 25 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$69.95, £60.00; ISBN 9780812248685.

Bishop, Chris, Medievalist Comics and the American Century, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2016; hardback; pp. 224; R.R.P. US$65.00; ISBN 9781496808509.

Buchet, Christian, and Gérard Le Bouëdec, eds, The Sea in History: The Early Modern World, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2017; hardback; pp. 1072; 22 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £125.00; ISBN 9781783271580.

Burgess, Glyn S., and Leslie C. Brook, trans., Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe), Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2016; paperback; pp. 288; R.R.P. £25.00; ISBN 9781781383377.

Burke, Ersie C., The Greeks of Venice, 1498–1600: Immigration, Settlement, and Integration (Cursor Mundi, 24), Turnhout, Brepols, 2016; hardback; pp. xxvi, 242; 4 colour, 13 b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 9 b/w tables; R.R.P. €80.00; ISBN 9782503559261.

Cervone, Cristina Maria, and D. Vance Smith, eds, Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing, Cambridge, Brewer, 2016; hardback; pp. 285; 6 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9781843844464.

Dalton, Heather, Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500–1560, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016; cloth; pp. 256; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780199672059.

Dzon, Mary, The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; cloth; pp. 424; 24 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$65.00, £56.00; ISBN 9780812248845.

Edwards, Suzanne M., The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature (New Middle Ages), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; hardback; pp. xvii, 193; R.R.P.; ISBN 9781137364814.

Elliott, Andrew B. R., Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century (Medievalism), Cambridge, Brewer, 2017; hardback; pp. 235; 7 colour illustrations; R.R.P. £30.00; ISBN 9781843844631.

Enders, Jody, ed. and trans., ‘Holy Deadlock’ and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; cloth; pp. 552; 12 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$65.00, £56.00; ISBN 9780812248746.

Escobedo, Andrew, Volition’s Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern), Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2017; paperback; pp. 340; R.R.P. US$40.00; ISBN 9780268101664.

Farmer, Sharon, The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; cloth; pp. 368; 28 illustrations; R.R.P. US$69.95, £60.00; ISBN 9780812248487.

Flechner, Roy, and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, eds, The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World: Converting the Isles I (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 19), Turnhout, Brepols, 2016; hardback; pp. xx, 510; 9 b/w illustrations, 2 maps; R.R.P. €120.00; ISBN 9782503554624.

Flood, Victoria, Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas of Erceldoune, Cambridge, Brewer, 2016; hardback; pp. 252; 1 line, 4 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9781843844471...