Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Aers, David, ed. Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing. Detroit: Wayne State Univer­ sity Press, 1992. Pp. 213. $29.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Allen, Peter L. The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovzd to the Romance ofthe Rose. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 178. $25.95. Atkinson, Clarissa W The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Mzddle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 274. $24.95. Baltzer, Rebecca A.; Thomas Cable; andJames I.Wimsatt, eds. The Union a/Words and Music in MedievalPoetry. (With audiocassette ofmusic by Sequentia.) Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 157. $40.00. Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Womens Writing in Middle English. Longman Annotated Texts. London and New York: Longman, 1992. Pp. xv, 328. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Beal, Peter, andJeremy Griffiths, eds. English Manuscript Studies, 11001700 . Vol. 3. London and Toronto: British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. 306. $90.00. Beer, Frances. Women and MysticalExperience in the Mzddle Ages. Wood­ bridge: Boydell Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 174. $59.95. Bland, Cynthia Renee. The Teaching of Grammar in Late Medieval En­ gland: An Edition, with Commentary, ofOxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 130. Medieval Texts and Studies, vol. 6. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 235. $32.00. Boitani, Piero, and Anna Toni, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in MedievalEnglish Literature. J. A. W Bennett Memorial Lectures, 7th 301 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER ser. Perugia, 1990. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Pp. viii, 207. $70.00. Bowers, Fredson, and David L. Vander Meulen. Studies in Bibliography. Vol. 45. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. Pp. 338. $35.00. Bowers,John M., ed. The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continua­ tions and Additions. Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. Pp. viii, 200. $7.95 paper. Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Huot, eds. Rethinking the Romance of the Rose: Text, Image, Reception. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. x, 386. $44.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Buffoni, Franco. I Racconti di Canterbury: Un' Opera Unitaria. I saggi di testo afronte,vol. 2. Milan: Angelo Guerini, 1991. Pp. 214. L 32,000 paper. Cherry, John. Goldsmiths. Medieval Craftsmen Series. Toronto and Buf­ falo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. 72. $18.95 paper. Davidson, Clifford, andJohn H. Stroupe, eds. Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays: Second Series. AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, no. 18. New York: AMS Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 389. $47.50. Dean, James M., and Christian K. Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer andMedieval Culture in Honor of DonaldR. Howard. Newark: University ofDelaware Press, 1992. Pp. 354. $49.50. de Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators. Medieval Craftsmen Series. Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University ofToronto Press, 1992. Pp. 72. $18.95 paper. Diller, Hans-Jurgen. The Middle English Mystery Play: A Study in Dra­ matic Speech and Form. Trans. Frances Wessels. European Studies in 302 BOOKS RECEIVED English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, Pp. xvi, 336. $69.95. Doane, A. N., and Carol Braun Pasternack, eds. vvx intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 289. $45.00 cloth, $23.50 paper. Eames, Elizabeth. English Tilers. Medieval Craftsmen Series. Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. 72. $18.95 paper. Easting, Robert, ed. St. Patrick's Purgatory. Early English Text Society, o.s., vol. 298. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xciii, 338. $60.00. Echard, Sian, and Claire Fanger. The Latin �rses in the Confessio Aman­ tis: An Annotated Translation. Medieval Texts and Studies, vol. 7. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. lviii, 95. $32.00. Eldredge, L. M. The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist IX: A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Ashmole Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992. Pp. xxviii, 164. $79.00. Emmerson, Richard K., and Ronald B. Herzman. The Apocalyptic Imag­ ination in Medieval Literature. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...