Books received

Aberth, John, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature, London, Routledge, 2012; paperback; pp. 344; 25 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £24.99; ISBN 9780415779463.

Bailey, Mark and Stephen Rigby, eds, Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher (The Medieval Countryside, 12), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xxxviii, 473; 58 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €110.00; ISBN 9782503535173.

Barnwell, P. S. and Brian K. Roberts, eds, Britons, Saxons, and Scandinavians: The Historical Geography of Glanville R. J. Jones (The Medieval Countryside, 7), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xix, 477; 42 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w line art; R.R.P. €115.00; ISBN 9782503532073.

Betteridge, Thomas and Greg Walker, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (Oxford Handbooks of Literature), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012; hardback; pp. 720; 2 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £95.00; ISBN 9780199566471.

Black, Jeremy, War and the Cultural Turn, Cambridge, Polity, 2011; paperback; pp. 192; R.R.P. £16.99; ISBN 9780745648347.

Bolton, J. L., Money in the Medieval English Economy 973-1489 (Manchester Medieval Studies), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012; paperback; pp. 352; R.R.P. £19.99; ISBN 9780719050404 (supplied by Footprint Books).

Botana, Federico, The Works of Mercy in Italian Medieval Art (c. 1050-c. 1400) (Medieval Church Studies, 20), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xl, 256; 110 b/w, 12 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €110.00; ISBN 9782503536231.

Brackmann, Rebecca, The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England:Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English (Studies in Renaissance Literature), Woodbridge, D. S. Brewer, 2012; hardback; pp. 256; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781843843184.

Brown, Michelle P., The 'Lindisfarne Gospels' and the Early Medieval World, London, British Library Publishing, 2011; hardback; pp. 160; 100 colour illustrations; R.R.P. £25.00; ISBN 9780712358019.

Burton, Janet and Karen Stöber, eds, The Regular Canons in the Medieval British Isles (Medieval Church Studies, 19), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012; hardback; pp. xviii, 514; 48 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w tables, 6 b/w line art; R.R.P. €130.00; ISBN 9782503532486.

Canning, Joseph, Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011; hardback; pp. 232; R.R.P. £60.00; AU$125.00; ISBN 9781107011410.

Capp, Bernard, England's Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649-1660, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012; hardback; pp. 288; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9780199641789.

Carlson, David R., John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England (Publications of the John Gower Society), Woodbridge, D. S. Brewer, 2012; hardback; pp. 254; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781843843153.

Chen, Sanping, Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages (Encounters with Asia), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012; cloth; pp. 320; R.R.P. US$79.95, £52.00; ISBN 9780812243703.

Condren, Conal, Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy, London, Pickering & Chatto, 2011; hardback, pp. 240; R.R.P. £60.00, US$99.00; ISBN 9781848932234.

D'Arcens, Louise, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian literature 1840-1910, Crawley, UWA Publishing, 2012; paperback; pp. 220; 15 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. AU$34.95; ISBN 9781742582542.

Darby, Peter, Bede and the End of Time (Studies in Early Medieval Britain), Farnham, Ashgate, 2012; hardback; pp. 276; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9781409430483.

Dempsey, Charles, The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance), Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2012; hardback; pp. 398; 45 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. $39.95, £29.95, €36.00; ISBN 9780674049529.

Dillon, Emma, The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330 (New Cultural History of Music), New York, Oxford University Press, 2012; hardback; pp. 400; 64 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £45.00; ISBN 9780199732951.

Dyer, Christopher, A Country Merchant, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012; hardback; pp. 272; R.R.P £65.00; ISBN 9780199214242.

Erskine, Caroline and Roger A. Mason, eds, George Buchanan: Political Thought...