Books Received

166 Reviews and considers the Itdian influence on the drama of other continentd countries. It dso includes a section on the British medievd theatre up to the close of the playhouses in 1642. N e w materid has been added to the Bibliography and to the Cdendar of Twentieth Century revivds of Medievd English plays. This is useful to the student as it brings the references up to date and takes into account recent trends in scholarship. Margaret Rogerson Department of EngUsh University of Sydney B O O K S RECEIVED Aers, D., Community, gender and individual identity: English writing 13601430 , London, Routledge, 1988. Astill, G. and A. Grant The Countryside of medieval England, Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Aston, T.H., ed., Landlords, peasants and politics in medieval England (Past and Present PubUcations), Cambridge, C U P . , 1987. Beilin, E.V., Redeeming Eve: women writers of the English Renaissance, Princeton, P.U.P., 1987. Braswell, M.F. and J. Bugge, eds., The Arthurian tradition: essays in convergence, Tuscdoosa and London, U. of Alabama P., 1988. Burton, T.L. and J., eds., Lexicographical and linguistic studies. Essays in honour ofG.W. Turner, Cambridge, Brewer, 1988. Campbell, S., The mosaics of Antioch (Subsidia mediaevdia 15), Toronto, Pontificd Institute of Medievd Studies, 1988. Canning, J. The political thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, Cambridge, C U P . , 1987. Clunies Ross, M., Skaldskaparmal: Snorri Sturlson's ars poetica and medieval theories ofgrammar, Odense, Odense UP., 1987. Davies, W . and P. Fouracre, eds., The settlement of disputes in early medieval Europe, Cambridge, C U P , 1986. Davis, R.H.C, A history of medieval Europe from Constantine to St. Louis, 2nd ed., London, Longman, 1980. Reviews 167 Dean, C , Arthur ofEngland: English attitudes to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Toronto, Toronto UP., 1987. DeWindt, E.B., The liber Gersumarum ofRamsey Abbey: a calendar and index ofBL. Harley MS. 445 (Subsidia mediaevdia 7), Toronto, Toronto UP., 1987. Eustathios of Thessdoniki, The capture of Thessaloniki: a translation with introduction and commentary by J.R. Melville Jones (Byzantina AustraUensia 8), Canberra, Aust Assoc, for Byzantine Studies, 1988. Foley, J.M., The theory of oral composition: history and methodology, Bloomington, Indiana UP., 1988. Fossier, R., Peasant life in the medieval West, trans. J. Vde, Oxford, BlackweU, 1988. Fredborg, K.M., The Latin rhetorical commentaries by Thierry of Chartres (Studies and Texts 84), Toronto, Pontificd Institute of Mediaevd Studies, 1988. Ginzburg, C , The enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesco, The Baptism, the Arezzo cycle, The Flagellation, introd. by P. Burke, London, Verso, 1985. Goodman, A., The new monarchy: England 1471-1534 (Historicd Association Studies), Oxford, BlackweU, 1988. Griffin, C , The Crombergers of Seville: the history of a printing and merchant dynasty, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988. Guenee, B., States and rulers in later medieval Europe, trans. J. Vde, Oxford, Blackwell, 1985. Holt R-, The mills ofmedieval England, Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Ianziti, G., Humanistic historiography under the Sforzas: politics and propaganda infifteenth-centuryMilan, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988. Ingram, M., Church courts, sex and marriage in England 1570-1640 (Past and Present PubUcations), Cambridge, C U P . , 1987. James, E., The Franks (The peoples of Europe series), Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Johnson, P.A., Duke Richard of York 1411-1460, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988. Lloyd, S„ English Society and the Crusade 1216-1307, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988. Meisami, J.S., Medieval Persian court poetry, Princeton, P.U.P., 1987. Mertes, K „ The English noble household 1250-1600: good governance and politic rule, Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Minnis, AJ., A.B. Scott and D. Wdlace, Medieval literary theory and criticism c.HOO-c.1375: the commentary tradition, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988. Morgan, D., Medieval Persia 1040-1797, London/N.Y., Longman, 1988. Pistarino, G., / Gin dell'oltremare (Collana storica di fonti e studi), Genoa, Universita di Genova, 1988. Pryor, J.H., Geography, technology and war: studies in the maritime history of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 (Past and Present Publications), Cambridge, CUP., 1988. 168 Reviews Rossiaud, J., Medieval prostitution, trans. L.G. Cochrane, Oxford, Blackwell, 1988. Salmon, J.H.M., Renaissance and Revolt: essays in the intellectual and social history ofearly modern France, Cambridge, C U P . , 1987. Sayous, A.-E., Commerce etfinanceen Miditerrani...