Books Received

Aers, David, Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009; paperback; pp. 304; R.R.P. US$38.00; ISBN 9780268020330.

Arn, Mary Jo, The Poet's Notebook: The Personal Manuscript of Charles d'Orléans (Paris BnF MS fr. 25458) (Texts & Transitions, 3), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. xx, 202; 30 b/w illustrations, 8 b/w tables, CD; R.R.P. €80.00; ISBN 9782503520704.

Arnade, Peter and Michael Rocke, eds, Power, Gender, Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008; paperback; pp. 364; R.R.P. US$37.00; ISBN 9780772720412.

Baggerman, J. A. and R. M. Dekker, Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary (Egodocuments and History Series, 1), trans. Diane Webb, Leiden, Brill, 2009; hardback; pp. xii, 556; R.R.P €99.00, US$158.00; ISBN 9789004172692.

Barthélemy, Dominique, The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian, trans. Graham Robert Edwards, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2009; paperback; pp. 368; R.R.P. US$29.95; ISBN 9780801475603.

Billing, Christian M., Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580-1635, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 248; 17 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754656517.

Bolens, Guillemette, Le style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire (Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé), Alain Berthoz, preface, Lausanne, éditions BHMS, 2008; paperback; pp. 155; 1 colour illustration; R.R.P. €24.50; ISBN 9782970053675.

Boyce, J., Carmelite Liturgy and Spiritual Identity: The Choir Books of Kraków (Medieval Church Studies, 16), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xvi, 524; 18 b/w illustrations, 30 b/w tables, 42 b/w line art; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503517148.

Breuer, Heidi, Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture), New York, Routledge, 2009; hardback; pp. 202; R.R.P. US$95.00; ISBN 9780415977616.

Brown, Jennifer N., Three Women of Liége: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 23), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. viii, 348; R.R.P. €70.00; ISBN 9782503524719.

Bruun, Mette B. and Stephanie Glaser, eds, Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages (Ritus et Artes, 4), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xii, 396; 42 b/w & 5 colour illustrations, 4 b/w tables; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503527949.

Burguière, André, The Annales School: An Intellectual History, trans. Jane Marie Todd, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2009; cloth; pp. 328; R.R.P. US$45.00; ISBN 9780801446658.

Burt, Richard, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; hardback; pp. xiv, 279; 15 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £45.00; ISBN 9780230601253.

Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Peter Sherlock, eds., Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 11), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. viii, 332; 6 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503523361.

Claydon, Tony, Europe and the making of England 1660-1760 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback; pp. 392; 3 illustrations; R.R.P. AU$65.00; ISBN 9780521615204.

Coldiron, Anne E. B., English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. xv, 280; 15 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754656081.

Cregan, Kate, The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern London (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 10); Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xvi, 349; 35 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €70.00; ISBN 9782503520582.

Daston, Lorraine and Michael Stolleis, eds, Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 350; 3 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9780754657613.

Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl, ed., Aspects of Early Music Performance (AMS Studies in Music, 1), New York, AMS Press, 2008; cloth; pp. xl, 218; R.R.P. US$92.50; ISBN 9780404646011.

Dickenson, John, Greene in Conceit: New Raised from His Grave to Write the Tragic History of Fair Valeria of London (1598) (Barnabe Rich Society Publications, 19), Donald Beecher and David Margolies, eds, Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008; paperback; pp. 151; R.R.P US$19.00; ISBN 9780772720436.

Dionne, Craig and Parmita Kapadia, eds, Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 258; 8 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754662969.

Echard, Siân, Printing the Middle Ages (Material Texts), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008; cloth; pp. 344; 83 illustrations; R.R.P. US$65.00, £42.50; ISBN 9780812240917.

Eisenbichler, Konrad, ed., Renaissance Medievalisms (Essays and Studies, 18), Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009; paperback; pp. 360; R.R.P. US$37.00; ISBN 9780772720450.

Ferguson, Gary, Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 386; 13 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9780754663775.

Feros Ruys, Juanita, ed., What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (Disputatio, 15), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. xiv, 530; 3 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503525969.

Flanagan, Sabina, Doubt in an Age of Faith: Uncertainty in the Long Twelfth Century (Disputatio, 17), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xiv, 216; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503527482.

Forman, Valerie, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008; cloth; pp. 296; R.R.P. US$59.95, £39.00; ISBN 9780812240962.

Fotheringham, Richard, Christa Jansohn, and R. S. White, eds, Shakespeare's World/World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane, 2006, Newark, University of Delware Press, 2008; hardback; pp. 436; R.R.P. US$69.50; ISBN 9780874139891.

Gertsman, Elina, ed., Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 366; 41 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9780754664369.

Goodall, Peter, ed., Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: An Annotated Bibliography (Chaucer Bibliographies), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2009; cloth; pp xlviii, 338; R.R.P. US$110.00, £72.00; ISBN 9870802093202.

Groves, Peter and Geoffrey Hiller, English Character-Books of the Renaissance: An Anthology, Asheville, NC, Pegasus Press, 2008; paperback; pp. iv, 240; R.R.P. unknown; ISBN 1889818399.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. and Anna Grotans, eds, Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007; paperback; pp. 184; R.R.P. US$27.00; ISBN 9780268030827.

Hanson, Craig Ashley, The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009; cloth; pp. 344; 12 colour plates, 62 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$50.00; ISBN 9780226315874.

Harvey, Tamara, Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 174; 1 b/w illustration; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780754664529.

Heaney, Seamus, trans., Beowulf, John D. Niles, ed., New York, Norton Press, 2007; paperback; pp. 224; R.R.P. US$24.95; ISBN 9780393330106.

Hewlett, Cecilia, Rural Communities in Renaissance Tuscany: Religious Identities and Local Loyalties (Europa Sacra, 1), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xiv, 234; 13 b/w illustrations & 6 b/w tables; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503523378.

Hingst, Amanda Jane, The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009; paperback; pp. 296; R.R.P. US$40.00; ISBN 9780268030865.

Hobbins, Daniel, Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009; cloth; pp. 352; 23 illustrations; R.R.P. US$49.95, £32.50; ISBN 9780812241556.

Hobby, Elaine, ed., The Birth of Mankind. Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. xxxix, 310; 7 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9780754638186.

Johnston, Andrew James, Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello' (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 15), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. viii, 344; R.R.P. €70.00; ISBN 9782503527550.

Kassler, Jamie C., The Honourable Roger North, 1651-1734: On Life, Morality, Law and Tradition, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 484; 8 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9780754658863.

Knight, Leah, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 182; 12 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780754665861.

Kocher, Suzanne, Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 17), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. x, 218; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503519029.

Laguardia, David P., Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 262; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754662167.

Lansing, Carol, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past), Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2008; hardback; pp. 264; 21 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$45.00; ISBN 9780801440625.

Lipton, Emma, Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007; paperback; pp. 256; R.R.P. US$32.00; ISBN 9780268034054.

Lynch, Andrew and Anne Scott, eds, Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2008; hardback; pp. xii, 353; 18 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £39.99, US$59.99; ISBN 9781847186102.

Mackley, J. S., The Legend of St Brendan: A Comparative Study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman Versions (The Northern World, 39), Leiden, Brill, 2008; hardback; pp. xiv, 354; R.R.P. €99.00, US$147.00; ISBN 9789004166622.

Maddox, D. and S. Sturm-Maddox, eds, Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages' (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 22), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. x, 258; 14 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w tables, 8 b/w line drawings; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503528526.

Mazzola, Elizabeth, Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England: 'Little Legacies' and the Materials of Motherhood (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 138; 14 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780754666639.

Munroe, Jennifer, Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 146; 8 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780754658269.

Nederman, Cary, Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 2009; paperback; pp. xxiv, 375; R.R.P. US$39.95; ISBN 9780813215815.

Nevile, Jennifer, Dance, Spectacle and the Body Politick, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008; paperback; pp. 392; 33 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$24.95; ISBN 9780253219855.

Newstok, Scott L., Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb (Early Modern Literature in History), Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; hardback; pp. 244; R.R.P. £50.00; ISBN 9780230203259.

Platt, Peter G., Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 262; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754665519.

Radulescu, Raluca L. and Edward Donald Kennedy, eds, Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 16), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xiv, 298; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503524856.

Rosewell, Roger, Medieval Wall Painting in English and Welsh Churches, Woodbridge and Rochester, Boydell, 2008; hardback; pp. 380; 6 b/w & 255 colour illustrations; R.R.P. US$80.00, £39.95; ISBN 9781843833680.

Roux, Simone, Paris in the Middle Ages (Middle Ages), trans. Jo Ann McNamara, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009; cloth; pp. 272; R.R.P. US$29.95, £19.50; ISBN 9780812241594.

Sabaté, Flocel, ed., Imago Temporis. Médium Aevum 2, Lleida, Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2009; paperback; pp. 476; R.R.P. €50.00; ISSN 1888-3931.

Scase, Wendy, Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007; hardback; pp. xii, 215; R.R.P. AU$190.00; ISBN 9780199270859.

Spinks, Jennifer, Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World), London, Pickering & Chatto, 2009; hardback; pp. 224; R.R.P. £60.00, US$99.00; ISBN 9781851966301.

Svensson, Eva, The Medieval Household: Daily Life in Castles and Farmsteads Scandinavian Examples in their European Context (The Medieval Countryside, 2), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. xvi, 382; 73 b/w & 17 colour illustrations, 33 b/w line drawings; R.R.P. €55.00; ISBN 9782503525907.

Toivo, Raisa Maria, Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society: Finland and the Wider European Experience (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 242; 4 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754664543.

van Dijkhuizen, J. F. and R. Todd, eds, The Reformation Unsettled: British Literature and the Question of Religious Identity, 1560-1660 (Proteus, 3), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp. x, 246; 4 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503526249.

van Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans and Karl A. E. Enenkel, eds, The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture (Intersections, 12), Leiden, Brill, 2008; hardback; pp. xxiv, 504; 16 illustrations; R.R.P. €99.00, US$148.00; ISBN 9789004172470.

Van Engen, John, Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008; cloth; pp. 416; 19 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$59.95, £39.00; ISBN 9780812241198

Walker, Jonathan, ed., Early Modern Academic Drama (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 222; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754664642.

Walls, Kathryn, ed., William Baspoole The Pilgrime, Tempe, AZ, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008; hardback; pp. xxiv, 558; R.R.P. US$70.00, £43.00; ISBN 9780866983853.

Ward, Haruko Nawata, Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. 422; 12 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9780754664789.

Waters, Claire M., ed., Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteen-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 10), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008; hardback; pp. xii, 494; 2 colour illustrations; R.R.P €90.00; ISBN 9782503514529.

Whetter, K. S., Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 218; 12 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754661429.

Wilkin, Rebecca M., Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008; hardback; pp. 264; 11 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9780754661382.