Books Received

Books Received Allaire, Gloria, Andrea da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry, Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1997; cloth; pp. xiv, 183; 2 maps; R.R.P. US$49.95. [Available in U.K. through Eurospan Press Group] Amundsen, Danel W., Medicine, Society and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996; cloth; pp. xv, 391; R.R.P. US$39.95.* Anderson, Judith H., Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996; cloth; pp. xi, 338; R.R.P. AUS$64.95. [Distributed in Australia by Cambridge University Press] Atkinson, J. Keith, ed., Boeces: De Consolacion (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie 277), Tubingen, Niemeyer, 1996; cloth; pp. viii, 201;R.R.P. SFr76.00.* Barnes, Bernardine, Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response (California Studies in the History of Art, Discovery Series 5), Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, University of California Press, 1998; cloth; pp. xix, 171; 57 b/w illustrations, 8 colour plates; R.R.P. US45.00,£35.00. P A R E R G O N ns 15.2 (January 1998) 298 Books Received Bennett, Judith, M., Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600. (Oxford and N e w York: Oxford University Press, 1996); cloth, pp. xiv, 260; R.R.P. $AUS110.00.* BestuI, Thomas H., Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; cloth; pp. viii, 264; R.R.P. US$39.95.* Brush, Kathryn, The Shaping of Art History: Willhelm Voge, Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xiii, 263; 28 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. A U S $ 105.00. Burnley, David, Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library), London and N e w York, Longman, 1997; paper; pp. xiii, 241; R.R.P. £14.99. Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society, Special Issue, Vols. 5 (1996) and 6 (1997), containing Del Comfortement de Philosofie, ed. Margaret Bolton-Hall, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1998; paper; pp. xiii, 227; 5 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. not known. Carpenter, Christine, The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution England c. 1437-1509 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997; board; pp. xiv, 293; 2 maps, 1 table; R.R.P. AUS$95.00.* Clegg, Cyndia, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997; cloth; pp. 312; R.R.P. £35.00.* Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed., Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 1996; paper; pp. xiii, 315; R.R.P. US$21.95.* Coleman, Joyce, Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 56), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997; cloth; pp. xiv, 250; 11 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. AUS$95.00. Colish, Marcia, Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400-1400 (The Yale Intellectual History of the West), N e w Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997; cloth; pp. xii, 388; 22 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$40.00.* Constable, Giles, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996; cloth; pp. xx, 411; 8 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. AUSI05.00.* Books Received 299 Davis, Craig R., Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England (Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition 17), N e w York and London, Garland, 1996; cloth; pp. xvii, 237; R.R.P. not known.* Diane Watt, ed., Medieval Women in their Communities, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1997; paper; pp. xii, 250; R.R.P. £14.95.* Dronke, Ursula, ed., The Poetic Edda. Volume II: Mythological Poems, with translation and commentary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997; cloth; pp. xiii, 443; 2 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. AUS$275.00.* Dronke, Ursula, Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands (Collected Studies Series 524), Aldershot, Variorum, 1996; cloth; pp. xii, 313. R.R.P.£49.50.* Dyas, Dee, Images of Faith in English Literature 700-1500: An Introduction (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library), London and N e...