Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Allen, M. D. The Medievalism ofLawrence ofArabia. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 220. $28.50. Andrew, Malcolm, ed. Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. x, 229. $18.95 paper. Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. Pp. x, 243. $15.00 paper. Banks, Doris H. Medieval Manuscnpt Bookmaking: A Bibliographic Guide. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 282. $29.50. Barron, W R. J., and S. C. Weinberg, ed. and trans. La;samon's 'Arthur': The Arthurian Section ofLa;samon's Brut (Lines 9229-14297). Aus­ tin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Pp. lviii, 282. $45.00. Beaton, Roderick. The Medieval Greek Romance. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, vol. 6. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 261. $49.50. Benson, C. David, ed. Critical Essays on Chaucer'sTroilus and Criseyde and His Major Early Poems. Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 246. $18.95 paper. Bernardo, Aldo S., and Saul Levin, eds. The Classics in the Middle Ages. Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 69. Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1990. Pp. vi, 425. $25.00. Best, Michael R., and Frank H. Brightman, eds. The Book ofSecrets of Albertus Magnus ofthe Virtues ofHerbs, Stones and Certain Beasts and A Book ofthe Marvels ofthe World. Studies in Tudor and Stuart 223 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xlviii, 128. $7.95 paper. Biggs, Frederick M., Thomas D. Hill, and Paul E. Szarmach, eds. Sources ofAnglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version. Medieval and Re­ naissance Texts and Studies, vol. 74. Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1990. Pp. xiii, 256. $20.00 paper. Binski, Paul. Painters. Medieval Craftsmen Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. 72. $18.95 paper. Blair, Peter Hunter. The WorldofBede. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 342. $49.50. Blanch, Robert]., Miriam Youngerman Miller, andJulian N. Wasserman. Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1991. Pp. xii, 254. $22.50. Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, and Timea Szell, eds. Images ofSainthood in Medieval Europe. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. vi, 315. $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Elegy ofLady Fiammetta. Ed. and trans. Mar­ iangela Causa-Steindler and Thomas Mauch. Intro. Mariangela Causa-Steindler. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xxvi, 182. $9.95 paper. Boffey, Julia, andJanet Cowan, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Po­ etry. Medieval Studies, vol. 5. London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991. Pp. x, 174. £8.75. Boitani, Piero, ed. The European Tragedy of Troz/us. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 316. $72.00. --, and Anna Torti, eds. Religion in the Poetry andDrama ofthe Late Middle Ages in England. J. A. W Bennett Memorial Lectures, Pe224 BOOKS RECEIVED rugia, 1988. Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1990. Pp. viii, 239. $70.00. Bowden, Betsy, ed. Eighteenth-Century Modernizationsfrom the Canter­ bury Tales.Chaucer Studies, vol. 16. Cambridge and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1991.Pp. xx, 263. $90.00. Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke. Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1991.Pp. 216. $34.95. Brewer, Derek, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Writer and His Background. Cambridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1974; paperback ed., 1990.Pp. xiv, 381. $29.95 paper. Bromwich, Rachel, A. 0. H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts, eds. The Arthur ofthe Welsh. Cardiff: University ofWalesPress, 1991.Pp.xiv, 310. $55.00. Brooke, Christopher N. L. The Medieval Idea ofMamage. Oxford and New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1989.Pp. xviii, 325. $37.00. Brown, Peter, Stuart Hutchinson, and Michael Irwin. Written City: A Literary...