Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Dante Alighieri. Paradiso: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. A Verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum. Drawings by Barry Moser. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. xxi, 307. $29.95. Rosamund Allen, analysis of the textual transmission. King Horn: An Edition Based on Cambridge University Library MS. Gg. 4.27 (2). Garland Medieval Texts; No. 7. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. Pp. xviii, 416. $66.00. Clarissa W. Atkinson. Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. Pp. 241. $8.95 paper. John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt, eds.Aelred ofRievaulx's DeInstitutione Inclusarum. Early English Text Society Original Series 287. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. Ix, 193. $14.95. Susan M. Babbitt. Oresme's Livre de Politiques and the France ofCharles V. Transactions ofthe American Philosophical Society Held at Phila­ delphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Vol. 75, Part 1, 1985. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1985. Pp. vii, 158. $15.00. Derek Baker, ed. Medieval Women. Dedicated and Presented to Professor Rosalind M. T. Hill on the Occasion of her Seventieth Birthday. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1978. Pp. xii, 396. $45.00. Stephen A. Barney. Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocab­ ulary. Second Edition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977, 1985. Pp. xv, 79. $6.95 paper. 273 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Richard Beadle, ed. The York Plays. York Medieval Texts, second series. Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. 537. $98.50. Robert E. Bjork. The Old English Verse Saints' Lives. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. x, 180. N. F. Blake. The Textual Tradition ofthe Canterbury Tales. Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1985. Pp. xiii, 222. $49.50. N. F. Blake. William Caxton: A Bibliographical Guide. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. x, 227. $39.00. Leonard E. Boyle, OP. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 8. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University ofToronto Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 399. $15.00 paper. Ernst Breisach, ed. Classical Rhetoric & Medieval Historiography. Kala­ mazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985. Pp. 237. $10.95 paper. E.Jane Burns. Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. Colum­ bus: Ohio State University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 208. $22.00. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. A Verse Translation with an Introduction and Notes by David Wright. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xxvii, 482. $24.95. J. M. Couper. Canterbury Folk. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press; Beaverton, Oreg.: International Scholarly Book Ser­ vices, Inc., 1984. Pp. ix, 58. $14.25. G. P. Cuttino. English Medieval Diplomacy. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 162. $25.00. Barrie Dobson, ed. The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press; Gloucester: Allan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1984. Pp. 245. $25.00. 274 BOOKS RECEIVED A. S. G. Edwards, introduced by. Manuscript Pepys 2006, A Facsimile, Magdalene College, Cambridge. The Facsimile Series of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume VI. Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1985. Pp. xxxii, 418. $144.00. John Miles Foley. Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography. Garland Folklore Bibliographies Vol. 6. Garland Reference Library ofthe Humanities, Vol. 400. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985., Pp. xvi, 718. $48.00. Jesse M. Gellrich. The Idea ofthe Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 292. $27.50. Margaret Gibson, ed. Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1981. Pp. xxv, 451. $60.00. Penny Schine Gold. The Lady & the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experi­ ence in Twelfth-Century France. Women in Culture and Society A Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xxiv, 182. $20.00. Douglas Gray, ed. The Oxford Book ofLate Medieval Verse and Prose. Oxford andNew York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 586. $24.95. Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler, eds. Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the...