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REVIEWS 273 These small points aside, Mack, his former research assistants, and the CMA are to be commended for a crisply written and beautifully illustrated catalogue of scholarly value that attains its stated goal of sharing with a broad audience the CMA’s European art collection, including its portion of the Kress legacy. ALISON LOCKE PERCHUK, Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College Marta Madero, Tabula Picta. Painting and Writing in Medieval Law, trans. Monique Dascha Inciarte and Roland David Valayre, foreword by Roger Chartier (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press) 176 pp. This volume is an excellent English translation of La peinture et l’écriture dans le droit médiéval by Marta Madero, a brilliant description and analysis of the concept of Tabula picta of great interest to historians of Middle Ages, to cultural historians, and to specialists in the history of law and legal studies. This compact volume, presented in eleven brief chapters, is the result of a series of studies begun during a seminar on labor in Roman law at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where Madero had heard the French historian of law Yan Thomas speak briefly of the tabula picta and found what he had said fascinating. Madero summarizes these studies, defines a history of the ownership of artistic productions and a history of the concept of material objects (13– 14), and provides a detailed list of lawyers (e.g. Gaius, Azo, Alciat, Speluncanus ) who tackled the subject in ancient times. The question of who owns an image, namely, the artist or the person who owns the panel upon which it is painted, is formulated in early Roman law in terms of ownership by accessio or accession. Madero’s book contextualizes the problem and provides numerous examples and sources. In particular she analyzes texts and sources from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. In general, this book throws new light on the history of the legal and artistic concept of ownership and copyright and on a specific period of art, the Middle Ages. This volume provides an opportunity to consider or reconsider concepts which seem in recent years to have been on the sidelines of art history. A minor fault can be found in the absence of images throughout the book, except for the beautiful cover image, a miniature from a fifteenth century. Also, some of the more difficult legal concepts could have been explained and explored a bit further. The book is nonetheless an inspiring and well-structured piece of work. GIULIA SAVIO, University of Genoa Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England, ed. Maryanne Kowalesky and P. J. P. Goldberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008) xiv + 317 pp., ill., maps. As an increasing number of scholars in recent years have turned to issues of everyday life in the Middle Ages, the number of articles and books dedicated to the various facets of this topic has risen. Recent investigations of the home and its inhabitants led to some new, and more personalized insights into the daily lives and dealings of medieval people across Europe and the Mediterranean world. Aspects of daily life can provide interesting evidence for the late medieval period as a whole, for the regulations of its body politic, as well as for the mechanisms of both public and intimate relationships. Kowalesky and Gold- ...

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