New Books across the Disciplines

"New Books across the Disciplines" is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. Unless designated for paperback editions, prices given are for cloth editions. For paperback editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, the books appeared within the past two years. Many will be listed here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries.

The topics for this issue are:

1. Editions and translations

2. Reference works

3. Biography

4. Historians and historiography

5. Political orders

6. The play of theater

7. Textual formations and reformations

8. Sacred image, space, and place

9. Religious, saints, popes

10. Schools and learning

11. Libraries and books

12. Heresy

1. Editions and translations

Albertus Magnus. On Animals: A Medieval Summa Zoologica [De animalibus]. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols. Foundations of Natural History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xlii and xxii, 1827 pp.; 31 figs. $150.00.

Alva, Bartolomé de. A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634. Edited by Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 174 pp.; 1 illus. $40.00.

Barnes, Barnabe. The Devil's Charter: A Tragedy Containing the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixth. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. Globe Quartos. New York: Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 1999. viii, 128; 1 illus. Paper $15.00.

Bartlett, Anne Clark, and Thomas H. Bestul, eds. Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 256 pp. Paper $16.95.

Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave. Edited by Catherine Gallagher with Simon Stern. Bedford Cultural Editions. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000. xviii, 473 pp.; 25 illus. $39.95.

Bertrand de Bar-Sur-Aube. The Song of Girart of Vienne: A Twelfth- Century Chanson de Geste. Translated by Michael A. Newth. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 196. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xxiii, 200 pp.; 1 map. $24.00.

Bracegirdle, John. John Bracegirdle's "Psychopharmacon": A Translation of Boethius' "De Consolatione Philosophiae" (MS BL Additional 11401). Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Jason Edward Streed. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 200. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. 172 pp. $26.00.

Cavendish, Margaret. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays. Edited by Anne Shaver. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 280 pp. $47.50, paper $15.95.

Christine de Pizan. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry. Translated by Sumner Willard. Edited by Charity Cannon Willard. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 223 pp. $55.00, paper $18.95.

Dekker, Thomas. The Honest Whore: Parts One and Two. (Part One written with Thomas Middleton.) Edited by Nick de Somogyi. Globe Quartos. New York: Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 1998. x, 231 pp.; 1 illus. Paper $27.00.

della Casa, Giovanni. Giovanni della Casa's Poem Book: "Ioannis Casae Carminum Liber," Florence 1564. Edited and translated into verse by John B. Van Sickle. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 194. Neo-Latin Texts and Translations, vol. 1. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xi, 156 pp. $20.00.

Dobozy, Maria, trans. The Saxon Mirror: A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xi, 263 pp.; 2 maps, 5 plates. $55.00.

Fletcher, John, and Philip Massinger. The Custom of the Country. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. Globe Quartos. New York: Theatre Arts Books/ Routledge, 1999. viii, 126 pp.; 1 illus. Paper $15.00.

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