Books Received

Allen, Valerie. On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiii, 239. $69.95.

Ashton, Gail. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. London and New York: Continuum, 2007. Pp. vi, 121. £50.00, $75.00 cloth; £10.99, $14.95 paper.

Baker, Peter S. Introduction to Old English. 2nd ed. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. xv, 388. $39.95 paper.

Barney, Stephen A. The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman. Vol. 5: C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 309. $65.00.

Brantley, Jessica. Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 463. $45.00.

Bryan, Jennifer. Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. x, 270. $49.95.

Carlson, David R., ed. The Deposition of Richard II: "The Record and Process of the Renunciation and Deposition of Richard II" (1399) and Related Writings. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007. Pp. viii, 104. $12.95 paper.

Cawsey, Kathy, and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Pp. 212. £65.00.

Classen, Albrecht. The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $69.95.

Davis, Isabel. Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 222. £48.00; $85.00.

Dempsey, James, trans. The Court Poetry of Chaucer: A Facing-Page Translation in Modern English. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. Pp. ii, 192. $109.95.

Drayson, Elizabeth. The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii, 263. $79.95.

Fulton, Rachel, and Bruce Holsinger, eds. History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 408. $45.00.

Galloway, Andrew. Medieval Literature and Culture. New York: Continuum, 2006. Pp. 154. $90.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.

———. The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman. Vol. 1: C Prologue Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 491. $95.00.

Giancarlo, Matthew. Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 289. £50.00; $95.00.

Glaser, Joseph, ed. and trans. Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. xiii, 234. $39.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Hanna, Ralph, ed. Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse with Related Northern Texts. EETS o.s. 329. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. lxxviii, 233. £65.00; $199.

Hunter, Michael. Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii, 171. $69.95.

Kuskin, William. Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Pp. xxvi, 390. $40.00 paper.

Larrington, Carolyne. King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp. viii, 264. £20.00; $35.00.

Lightsey, Scott. Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xvi, 212. $65.00.

Lindeboom, B. W. Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. Pp. 477. £100; $135.00.

Machan, Tim William, ed. Chaucer's "Boece": A Critical Edition Based on Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.3.21, ff. 9r-180v. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. Pp. xlii, 193. 58.00.

Muir, Lynette R. Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 294. £50.00; $90.00.

Normington, Katie. Modern Mysteries: Contemporary Productions of Medieval English Cycle Dramas. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. xiv, 192. £30.00; $55.00.

Nuttall, Jenni. The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language, and Politics in Late Medieval England. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 187. £50.00; $90.00.

Pearcy, Roy J. Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. viii, 251. £55.00; $90.00.

Sobecki, Sebastian I. The Sea and Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. Pp. xii, 205. £45.00; $90.00.

Stanbury, Sarah. The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 291. $65.00.

Strohm, Paul, ed. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature, vol. 1: Middle English. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 521. £85.00; $160.00.

Wakelin, Daniel. Humanism, Reading, and English Literature, 1430-1530. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. £50.00; $90.00.

Watt, Diane. Medieval Women's Writing: Works by and for Women in England, 1100-1500. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 208. £55.00 cloth; £16.99, $24.95 paper.

Wolfe, Heather, ed. The Literary Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiii, 258. $69.95.

Yeager, R. F., ed. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. Pp. x, 241. $40.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.

Zieman, Katherine. Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 294. $59.95.