The La Trobe Library Journal, Vol. 13, Nos. 51 & 52 (review)

252 Short notices to expect from his multi-faceted pen. A foretaste of his projected analysis of the city's development is provided in Paper I, a summary of his 1983 College de France lectures. Let us hope that Mango will be able to bring that major and much needed work to fruition. Elizabeth Jeffreys Department of M o d e m Greek University of Sydney Pagliaro, Teresa, ed., The La Trobe Library Journal, Vol. 13, Nos. 51 & 52, Melbourne, The friends of the State Library of Victoria, 1993; paper; pp. 92; R.R.P. AUS$18 + $2.00 postage [available from Brian Hubber, State Library of Victoria]. This is a special issue of the La Trobe Library Journal devoted to the medieval manuscripts of the State Library of Victoria. It contains the following articles: Brian Hubber, ' "Of the numerous opportunities": the origins of the collection of medieval manuscripts at the State Library of Victoria'; Margaret M . Manion, "The Codex Sancti Paschalis"; Judith Oliver, 'Devotional images and pious practices in a psalter from Liege'; Michael Michael and Nigel Morgan, "The Sarum breviary in the BaUlieu and Bodleian libraries'; Joan Naugbton, "Tbe Poissy antiphonary in its royal monastic milieu'; John Stinson, "Tbe Poissy antiphonal: a major source of late medieval chant'; Hilary Maddocks, ' "Me thowhte as I slepte that I was a pilgrime":textand iUustration in DeguilleviUe's Pilgrimages in the State Library of Victoria'; Cecilia O'Brien, 'Lorenzo's book: a medicean manuscript of the Augustan History'; and Vera Vines, ' "The daily round, the common task": three books of hours in the State Library of Victoria'. John H. Pryor Departmentof History University of Sydney Strohm, Paul, Social Chaucer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1994; rpt; paper; pp. xiii, 236; R.R.P. US$15.95. Not only did the old U S S R and its 'evil emphe' fall apart in 1989, but so did many of our prevailing notions about Cold War ideology, stability in history, and coherence in language. Epistemologically, that year is even more of a watershed than 1968, to which we date much that is post-modem, post-structural, and deconstructionist. Hence a book which is reprinted five ...