Books Received

Allen, Mark, and John H. Fisher, eds. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale. A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2, parts 5A and 5B. 2 vols. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. 776. $90.00.

Ashton, Gail. Brief Lives: Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Hesperus Press, 2011. Pp. 117. £7.99; $12.95.

Beidler, Peter G. A Student Guide to Chaucer’s Middle English. Seattle: Coffeetown Press, 2011. Pp. x, 55. $9.95 paper.

Besserman, Lawrence. Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature: From Cædmon to Malory. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xvi, 219. $125.00; £80.00.

Binski, Paul, and Patrick Zutshi. Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxvi, 506. £175.00; $275.00.

Bolens, Guillemette, and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship. Tübingen: Narr, 2011. Pp. 323. €49.00; $65.00.

Bose, Mishtooni, and J. Patrick Hornbeck II, eds. Wycliffite Controversies. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. xiv, 359. €90.00; $120.00.

Donavin, Georgiana. Scribit Mater: Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 315. $69.95.

Gillespie, Alexandra, and Daniel Wakelin, eds. The Production of Books in England, 1350–1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 396. £60.00; $95.00.

Glaser, Joseph, trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2011. Pp. liv, 83. $10.95 paper.

Goodman, Lenn E., and Richard McGregor, trans. The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn: A Translation from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 389. £16.99; $29.95 paper.

Higgins, Iain Macleod, ed. and trans. The Book of John Mandeville with Related Texts. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2011. Pp. xxviii, 292. $12.95 paper.

Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Pp. x, 248. €46.00; $69.00.

Jaeger, C. Stephen, ed. Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xii, 274. $84.00.

Karnes, Michelle. Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 268. $45.00.

McAvoy, Liz Herbert, and Diane Watt, eds. The History of British Women’s Writing, 700–1500. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xxvi, 268. $85.00; £55.00.

Newhauser, Richard, trans. Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012. Pp. xxxiv, 271. $35.00 paper.

Niebrzydowski, Sue, ed. Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Brewer, 2011. Pp. xii, 153. £50.00; $90.00.

Richmond, E. B., trans. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Tale. London: Hesperus Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 84. £6.99; $12.50.

Rikhardsdottir, Sif. Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France, and Scandinavia. Cambridge, Brewer, 2012. Pp. xii, 199. £50.00; $90.00.

Rollo, David. Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 250. $35.00.

Rooney, Kenneth. Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. xiv, 304. €100.00; $135.00.

Singer, Julie. Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry. Cambridge: Brewer, 2011. Pp. x, 238. £60.00; $99.00.

Stockton, Will. Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pp. xxvi, 175. $22.50 paper.

Swanton, Michael, ed. and trans. The Lives of Two Offas: Vitae Offarum Duorum. Crediton: The Medieval Press, 2010. Pp. cii, 210. £65.00; $105.00 cloth, £22.99; $40.00 paper.

Waller, Gary. Walsingham and the English Imagination. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xii, 237. £55.00; $85.00.

Winstead, Karen A., trans. John Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Pp. 203. $25.00 paper.