Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED Allaire, Gloria. Andrea da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. xi, 183. $49.95. Allen, Valerie, and Ares Axiotis, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Critical Essays. New CasebooksSeries. New York:St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 268. $39.95. Bestul, Thomas H. Texts of the Passion: Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society. Middle AgesSeries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 264. $39.95. Biller, Peter, and A. J. Minnis, eds. Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. York Studies in Medieval Theology, vol. 1. York: York Medieval Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $81.00. Blamires, Alcuin. The Case for Women in Medieval Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 279. $75.00. Boitani, Fiero, and Anna Torti, eds. Medievalitas: Reading the Middle Ages. The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, 9thSer., Perugia, 1995. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1996. Pp. x, 183. $71.00. Brewer, Charlotte. Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text. CambridgeStudies in Medieval Literature, vol. 28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 459. $64.95. Brewer, Derek and Jonathan Gibson, eds. A Companion to the Gawain­ Poet. ArthurianStudies, vol. 38. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xi, 442. $89.00. Burton, T. L. and Rosemary Greentree, eds. Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 1992. The Chaucer Bibliographies, vol. 5. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 287. $75.00. 347 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Carruthers, Leo. L'Anglais Medieval. L'Atelier du Medieviste Series, vol. 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. Pp. 256. 1100 BF. Consoli, Joseph P., ed. and trans. The Novellino or One Hundred Ancient Tales: An Edition and Translation Based on the 1525 Gualteruzzi, editio princeps. Garland Library ofMedieval Literature, vol. 105A. New York and London: Garland Pub­ lishing, 1997. Pp. xxviii, 188. $49.00. Cooper, Helen, and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 362. $85.00. Cox, Catherine S. Gender and Language in Chaucer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. x, 196. $49.95. Craun, Edwin D. Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, vol. 31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 255. $59.95. Dean, James M. The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature. Medieval Academy Books, no. 101. Cambridge: The Medieval Academy of America, 1997. Pp. xi, 379. $50.00. Durling, Nancy Vine, ed.Jean Renart and the Art of Romance: Essays on Guillaume de Dole. Gainesville: University Press ofFlorida, 1997. Pp. vii, 240. $49.95. Eckhardt, Caroline D., ed. Castleford's Chronicle or The Boke of Brut. 2 vols. Early English Text Society, vols. 305-6. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 1065. $125.00. Eldredge, L. M., ed. The Wonderful Art of the Eye. A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation ofDe Probatissima Arte Oculorum by Benvenutus Grassus. Medieval Texts and Studies, vol. 19. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 120. $24.95. 348 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ferrante, Joan M. To the Glory ofHer Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts. Women of Letters Series. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 295. $19.95 paper. Foster, Edward E., ed. Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace. Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. Pp. vi, 153. N.p. Fowler, David C., Charles F. Briggs, and Paul G. Remley, eds. The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the De Regimine Principum of Aegidius Romanus. Garland Medieval Texts, vol. 19. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1977. Pp. xxix, 439. N.p. Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, eds. Premodern Sexualities. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xxiv, 276. $19.95 paper. Geary, Patrick J., gen. ed. Authors of the Middle Ages: Historical and Religious Writers ofthe Latin West. Vol. 4, nos. 12-13. Gregory the Great and Fredegar. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1996. Pp. vi, 138. $55.95. Gillespie, James L., ed. The Age of Richard II. New York:St. Martin...