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 reprint 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

3. Biography

4. Historians and historiography

5. Identity formations

6. Jewish studies

7. Crusades

8. Waging war, making peace

9. Gender and the works of women

10. The natural world, science, and medicine

11. The biblical imagination

12. Music

13. Architecture, painting, and the visual

14. Essay collections

1. Editions and translations

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Bacon, Francis. The New Organon. Edited by Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxxv, 252 pp. $59.95, paper $21.95.

Boniface, Saint. The Letters of Saint Boniface. Translated by Ephraim Emerton, with an introduction and bibliography by Thomas F. X. Noble. Records of Western Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xxxv, 181 pp. $45.00, paper $16.50.

Boyer, Régis, ed. and trans. Livre de la Colonisation de L'Islande selon la version de Sturla Pordarson (Sturlubók). Miroir du Moyen Âge. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. 382 pp. Paper EUR 36,85. [Translation into French of the Landnámabók.]

Bray, Gerald, ed. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament VII; 1-2 Corinthians. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, for the Institute of Classical Christian Studies, 1999. xxiii, 348 pp. $60.00.

Bray, Gerald, ed. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament VIII; Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, for the Institute of Classical Christian Studies, 1999. xxv, 322 pp. $60.00.

Caie, Graham D., ed. The Old English Poem "Judgement Day II." Anglo-Saxon Texts 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. xvi, 161 pp. $72.00.

Calvin, John. La famine spirituelle: Sermon inédit sur Esaïe 55, 1-2 (Eglise française de Londres, Ms. VIII.f.2, fols. 538r-543v). Edited by Max Engammare, translated into English by Francis Higman, with a preface by Daniel Levesque. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2000. 75 pp.; 1 illus. Paper £7.00.

Chance, Jane, ed. The Assembly of Gods: Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999. vii, 155 pp. Paper $14.00.

Crowley, Tony. The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1366-1922: A Sourcebook. The Politics of Language (series). London: Routledge, 2000. xvi, 236 pp. $85.00, paper $25.99.

Davidson, Clifford, and Peter Happé, eds. The Worlde and the Chylde. With an appendix on the dialect by Paul A. Johnston Jr. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 26. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999. ix, 130 pp.; 17 illus. $30.00, paper $15.00.

Davis, Lisa Fagin. The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv, 315 pp.; 25 figs., 4 tables, 31 facsimiles. $85.00.

De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi: Selected Revelations. Translated by Armando Maggi, with a preface by E. Ann Matter. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. ix, 368 pp. $39.95, paper $24.95.

Degl'Innocenti, Antonella, ed. Un Leggendario Fiorentino del XIV Secolo. Millennio Medievale 12, Testi 5. Florence: Sismel, 1999. xli, 120 pp. EUR 25, 82. [Edition of a Latin legendary in Florence, Biblioteca...