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HUMANITIES 199 >The First Patriarchate of Gennadios II Scholarios as Reflected in a Pastoral Letter=; Derek C. Carr, >Arabic and Hebrew auctoritates in the Works of Enrique de Villena=; Beryl Rowland, >@Ad restringuendum coytum@: How to Cool Lust=; Derek Brewer, >The Compulsions of Honour=; Douglas Wurtele, >Another Look at an Old AScience@: Chaucer=s Pilgrims and Physiognomy=; J. Kieran Kealy, >Voices of the Tabard: The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales=; A.E. Christa Canitz, >Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer=s Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women=; Murray J. Evans, >Coleridge=s Sublime and Langland=s Subject in the Pardon Scene of Piers Plowman=; Laurel J. Brinton, >@Whilom, as olde stories tellen us@: The Discourse Marker whilom in Middle English=; Paul C. Burns, >The Writings of Hilary of Poitiers in Medieval Britain from c. 700 to c. 1330=; Gernot R. Wieland, >Ge mid wige ge mid wisdome: Alfred=s Double-Edged Sword=; Anne L. Klinck, >The Oldest Folk Poetry? Medieval Woman=s Song as APopular@ Lyric=; John Mills, >The Pageant of the Sins=; Elisabeth Brewer, >John Ruskin=s Medievalism=; Patricia Merivale, >Sub Rosa: Umberto Eco and the Medievalist Mystery Story.= Some of the essays collected here appear to have been lectures or otherwise informal pieces of prose with a few references added later: particularly conspicuous in this respect are the contributions of Brewer, Kealy, and Mills. Happily, many others display the scrupulous scholarship which is the best tribute one can offer to a friend and colleague. Kassis offers useful information on an oft-neglected aspect of the medieval relationship of East and West, illustrating the wide range of perspectives on European culture displayed in medieval Arabic literature. Both Rowland and Wurtele pay tribute to Mahmoud Manzalaoui=s interest in medieval science in their essays: the former draws on the gynecological tradition in order to illustrate attitudes towards sexual temperance and abstinence during the Middle Ages, while the latter uses Manzalaoui=s own work on the Secreta Secretorum in order to explicate the humoural qualities of a variety of characters in Chaucer=s Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is also the focus of Canitz=s complex and thoughtful analysis of how the Legend of Good Women dramatizes the limitations of generic conventions, whether those of romance, hagiography, or myth. Other essays have a more explicitly philological bent, from Brinton=s detailed account of the use of the term whilom in Middle English to the comparative romance philology of Klinck=s survey of medieval love poetry written by (or attributed to) women. Klinck=s inclusion of a wide range of vernacular poetry B Old English, Mozarabic, Occitan, northern French, and Old High German B pays graceful tribute to the variety of languages and literatures addressed in the work of the scholar honoured by this Festschrift. (SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI) John G. Bellamy. The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: 200 LETTERS IN CANADA 2000 Felony before the Courts from Edward I to the Sixteenth Century University of Toronto Press 1998. 208. $50.00 J.G. Bellamy is a distinguished historian of medieval English law. He has written on crime and public order in late medieval and early modern England, on the law of treason in English law, and on the legend of the most famous outlaw in English history, Robin Hood. His latest project is a thorough description of criminal court procedure in England during the later Middle Ages. Its focus is Britain with little attention to the rest of Europe. This insular approach, typical of most English legal historians, leaves some interesting questions unanswered. The felony of Bellamy=s subtitle is a term of continental feudal law. The Latin words felo (felon) and felonia (felony) were coined in the twelfth century and were not unique to English law. At first the word meant a man who betrayed the trust of his lord. A felo was a traitor. The punishment was the loss of his fiefs and the disinheritance of his heirs. In medieval English law, at a very early time, a felonia meant a serious crime, not necessarily treasonous, for which the defendant was threatened with loss of property or body parts. The convicted defendant lost his real property to his lord...

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