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. Manuscript, print, and cultures of reading

5. Church, reform, and devotion

6. Households, codes of conduct, and the everyday

7. Birth, marriage, and death

8. Sexuality and erotic desire

9. Romance, chivalry, and the nobility

10. Theater and spectacle

1. Editions and translations

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Alfonso X, King of Castille and Leon. Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, The Wise: A Translation of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria." Translated by Kathleen Kulp-Hill. Introduction by Connie L. Scarborough. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 173. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000. lxxxii, 542 pp.; 22 figs. $55.00.

Armstrong, Adrian, and Jennifer Britnell, eds. Épistre du roy à Hector: et autres pièces de circonstances (1511-1513) [by Jean Lemaire de Belges]; Épistre d'Hector au roy [by Jean d'Auton]. Paris: Société des Textes Français Modernes, 2000. lxxxvi, 139 pp.; 5 illus. Cloth.

Atwan, Robert, and Laurance Wieder, eds. Chapters into Verse: A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxiii, 480 pp. Paper $21.95.

Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. Edited by Michael Kiernan. The Oxford Francis Bacon, vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. lxxxv, 420 pp.; 8 plates. $155.00.

Bacon, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. Edited by Michael Kiernan. The Oxford Francis Bacon, vol. 15. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. cxviii, 399 pp.; 2 illus., 1 table. $110.00.

Bacon, Francis. The "Instauratio magna": Last Writings. Edited with translation by Graham Rees. The Oxford Francis Bacon, vol. 13. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. xcvi, 363 pp. $135.00.

Baker, Peter S., ed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, Volume 8; MS F. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. cxii, 158 pp. $75.00. [Edition of the F-text of the Chronicle, London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A.viii.]

Boenig, Robert, trans. Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings. Preface by Richard K. Emmerson. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. xviii, 330 pp. $37.95, paper $24.95.

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus. The Consolation of Philosophy. Oxford World's Classics. Translated and edited by P. G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. lvii, 171 pp. Paper $12.95.

Bray, Gerald, ed. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament XI; James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. xxx, 288 pp. $40.00.

Brown, Sylvia, ed. Women's Writing in Stuart England: The Mothers' Legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. xii, 260 pp.; 6 illus. Paper $27.95.

Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White, eds. and trans. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York: Garland, (1995) 2000. lxxxi, 199 pp.; 1 map. Paper $24.95. [Old French with verse translations.]

Bruni, Leonardo. Laudatio Florentine Urbis. Millennio Medievale 16. Edited by Stefano U. Baldassarri. Florence: Sismel, 2000. c, 48 pp.; 2 illus. L 55,000.

Bull, Marcus. The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. xi, 223 pp. $75.00. [Translation from Latin of a collection of 126 miracle stories compiled in...