New Books across the Disciplines

"New Books across the Disciplines" is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary 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, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be listed here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries.

The topics for this issue include:

1. Editions and translations

2. Reference

3. Surveys

4. Biography

5. Historians and historiography

6. Theological and philosophical legacies

7. Religious, saints, popes, priests

8. Formations of empire, nation, and state

9. The city and urban culture

10. Law and transgression

11. The Americas

12. Essay collections

1. Editions and translations

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Ælfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary. Edited by Malcolm Godden. Early English Text Society s.s. 18. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. lxii, 794 pp. $85.00.

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon. Las Siete Partidas. Edited by Robert I. Burns, S.J., and translated by Samuel Parsons Scott. 5 vols. Vol. 1, The Medieval Church: The World of Clerics and Laymen (Partida I); vol. 2, Medieval Government: The World of Kings and Warriors (Partida II); vol. 3, Medieval Law: Lawyers and Their Work (Partida III); vol. 4, Family, Commerce, and the Sea: The Worlds of Women and Merchants (Partidas IV and V); vol. 5, Underworlds: The Dead, the Criminal, and the Marginalized (Partidas VI and VII). The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. lxix, 1,492 pp. Paper $135.00.

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. An Exposition of the "On the Hebdomads" of Boethius [Expositio libri Boetii De ebdomadibus]. Translated by Janice L. Schultz and Edward A. Synan. Thomas Aquinas in Translation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2001. lxvii, 65 pp. $29.95, paper $19.95.

Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art. Preface by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Italian Literature and Thought Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. lxiv, 350 pp.; 2 maps, 18 illus. Paper $18.00. [A compilation of writings about the city by Florentine citizens and visitors of the period.]

Barton, Simon, and Richard Fletcher, trans. The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester Medieval Sources Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. xi, 281 pp.; 2 figs. $74.95, paper $29.95.

Burley, Walter. On the Purity of the Art of Logic: The Shorter and the Longer Treatises. Translated from the Latin by Paul Vincent Spade. Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. xxv, 323 pp. $60.00.

Curry, Anne, ed. The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations. Warfare in History. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2000. xv, 474 pp.; 8 figs., 1 table. $75.00. [Translations of English and French accounts and literary works with commentary.]

Dean, Trevor, trans. The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 252 pp.; 1 map. $74.95, paper $29.95.

Doss-Quinby, Eglal, et al., eds. and trans. Songs of the Women Trouvères. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xviii, 281 pp.; 7 figs., 2 maps, 71 musical examples. $40.00, paper $18.00.

Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish. Subordination and Authorship in Early Modern England: The Case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and Her "Loose Papers."Edited with an introductory monograph by Betty S. Travitsky. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 208. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xii, 290 pp.; 35 illus. $30.00.

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