Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Robert W Ackerman and Roger Dahood, ed. and trans. Ancrene Riwle: Introduction and Part I. vol. 31. Binghamton: Medieval & Renais­ sance Texts & Studies, 1984. Pp. x, 110. $12.00. David Aers. Chaucer. Harvester New Readings. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 121. $17.50. Richard Barber, ed. Arthurian Literature V. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1985. Pp. 151. $33.50. Richard M. Berrong. Rabelais and Bakhtin: Popular Culture in Gargantua and Pantagruel. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 156. $21.50. Giovanni Boccaccio. IIFiJostrato. Italian text ed. by V incenzo Pernicone. Trans. with intro. by Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Seldis. Vol. 53, Series A. Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York and London: Garland, 1986. Pp. lxxxii, 419. $69.00. Laurel Brake, ed. The Years W&rk in English Studies, 1983. Vol. 64. London: John Murray; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1986. Pp. xxxvii, 745. $69.00. Ernst Breisach. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 487. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper. Rachel Bromwich. Aspects ofthe Poetry ofDafydd ap Gwtlym: Collected Papers. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 621. New York and London: Garland, 1986. Pp. xix, 177. $25.00. Phyllis Rugg Brown, Georgia Ronan Crampton, and Fred C. Robinson, eds. Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature: Essays in Honour of Stanley B. Greenfield. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1986. Pp. xxi, 298. $35.00. 273 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Edward Kilian Burger, ed.]oachim a/Fiore: Enchiridion Super Apocalyp­ sim. Studies and Texts, 78. Toronto: Pontifical Institute ofMediaeval Studies, 1986. Pp. ix, 114. $12.00 paper. Jean Chapelot Robert Fossier. The Village & House in the Middle Ages. Trans. Henry Cleere. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. 352. $35.00. Geoffroy Chaucer.Les Contes De Cantorbery. Second Part. ByJuliette De Caluwe-Dor. With the English Text of the ed. ofJohn Hurt Fisher. Louvain-Paris: Peeters, 1986. Pp. xii, 265. $8.00 paper. Patricia W Cummins, Patrick W Conner, and Charles W Connell, eds. Literary and Histon·cal Perspectives ofthe Middle Ages. vol. 1. Pro­ ceedings of the 1981 SEMA Meeting. Morgantown, WVa.: West Virginia University Press, 1982. Pp. vi, 232. $8.00 paper. Richard de Fournival. Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response. Trans. by Jeanette Beer. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: Univer­ sity of California Press, 1986. Pp. xxxi, 83. $25.00. Alan C. Dessen. Shakespeare and the Late Moral Plays. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 196. $19.95. Audrey Douglas and Peter Greenfield, eds. Cumberland, T,/:estmorland, Gloucestershire. Records of Early English Drama. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University ofToronto Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 547. $85.00. Peter Dronke. The MedievalPoet and His World. Roma: Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura, 1984. Pp. 490. L. 60.000 paper. Roger Ellis.Patterns a/ReligiousNarrative in the Canterbury Tales. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1986. Pp. 316. $29.50. G. R. Evans. The Language and Logic ofthe Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages. Cambridge, London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xix, 199. $34.50. 274 BOOKS RECEIVED Stanley B. Greenfield and Daniel G. Calder,eds. A New CriticalHistory of Old English Literature. New York and London: New York University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 370. $30.00. Arthur Groos, ed., with Emerson Brown,Jr., Thomas D. Hill, Giuseppe Mazzota, andJoseph S. Wittig. Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske. New York: Fordham University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 292. $50.00. AlbertE. Hartung,ed. A Manualofthe Writings in Middle English. vol. 7. Hamden, Conn.: T he Shoe String Press, Archon Books, 1986. Pp. 410. $32.50. Sandra L. Hindman. Christine de Pizans "Epistre Othea": Painting and Politics at the Court of Charles VI. Studies and Texts, 77. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1986. Pp. xxii, 229. 98 plates. $35.00 paper. Frede Jensen, ed. and trans. The Poetry ofthe Sicilian School. vol. 22, Series A. Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York and London: Garland, 1986. Pp. lxxxiii, 251. $45.00. Jean E.Jost. Ten Middle English Arthurian Romances: A...