Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Alford, John A. Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction. Piers Plowman Studies, vol. 5. Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988. Pp. xxxi, 170. $45.00. --, ed. A Companion to Piers Plowman. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 286. $32.50. Astill, Grenville, and Annie Grant, eds. The Countryside of Medieval England. Illus. Brian Williams. Oxford and New York: Basil Black­ well, 1988. Pp. xi, 282. $60.00. Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Hildegard Schnuttgen. A Bibliography of Chaucer, 1974-1985. Hamden: Archon Books, 1988. Pp. lxxv, 344. $39.50. Baswell, Christopher, and William Sharpe, eds. The Passing ofArthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 78. New York and London: Garland, 1988. Pp. xix, 316. $37.00. Benson, Larry D., ed. King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure. Exter Medieval English Texts and Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter; Atlantic Highlands, NJ.: Humanities Press, 1988. Pp. xxxvi, 257. $18.50. Bestul, T homas H., ed. A Durham Book of Devotions: Edited from London, Society ofAntiquaries, MS 7. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, vol. 18. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987. Pp. 101. $4.75 paper. Braswell, Mary Flowers, and John Bugge, eds. The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Ala­ bama Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 258. $23.95. 297 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Brewer, Derek, ed. Studies in Medieval English Romances: Some New Approaches. Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988. Pp. vii, 197. $45.00. Campbell, Mary B. The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600. Ithaca, N.Y, and London: Cornell Univer­ sity Press, 1988. Pp. x, 285. $29.95. Camporesi, Piero. The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mor­ tification in Religion and Folklore. Trans. Tania Croft-Murray, Latin Texts trans. Helen Elsom. CambridgeStudies in Oral and Literate Culture, vol. 17. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 286. $44.50. Carley, James P.Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head ofthe Moors Adventurous. New York:St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. xxv, 189. $24.95. Clark, P.H., and Cheryl Taylor, eds. "Wtlter Hz/ton'sLatin Writings. 2 vols. Salzburg: Institut for Anglistik und Amerikanistik, UniversitatSalz­ burg; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Longwood Publishing Group, 1987. Pp. vi, 479. $50.00. Clarke, D.S. Principles ofSemiotic. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp. x, 164. $35.00 cloth, $13.95 paper. Coletti, Theresa. Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs and Modern Theory. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 212. $19.95. Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature. ENVOI: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature. PaulSpillenger, editor-in-chief. Vol. 1, no. 1. New York: AM S Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 265. $55.00. Courtenay, William J. Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 435. $48.00. 298 BOOKS RECEIVED Dahlberg, Charles. The Literature of Unlikeness. Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England, 1988., Pp. xiv, 207. $30.00. Davenport, W A. Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative. ChaucerStudies, vol. 14. Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988. Pp. 232. $53.00, .,£29.50. Day, Mildred Leake, ed. and trans. TheStory o/Meriadoc, King ofCambria (Historia Meriadoci, Regis Cambrie). Garland Library of Medieval Literature, vol. 50, series A. New York and London: Garland, 1988. Pp. lvi, 215. $37.00. Ebin, Lois A. 11/uminator, Makar, Uites: Visions ofPoetry in the Fifteenth Century. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 253. $25.00. Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Before Columbus: Exploration and Coloniza­ tionfrom the Mediterranean to theAtlantic, 1229-1492. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Pp. x, 283. $37.50. Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 506. $67.50. Gregorius, Master. The Marvels ofRome. Trans.John Osborne. Mediaeval Sources in Translation, vol. 31. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medi­ aevalStudies, 1987. Pp. viii, 114. $7.50 paper. Gumilev, L. N. Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The...