New Books across the Disciplines

"New Books across the Disciplines" is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. Unless designated for paperback editions, prices given are for cloth editions. For paperback reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries.

The topics for this issue include:

1. Editions and translations
2. Reference
3. Historians and historiography
4. Biography
5. Expanding nations and empires
6. Dissent and popular politics
7. Jewish studies
8. Law and transgression
9. Masculinity
10. Authorship
11. Literary receptions and transformations
12. Music

1. Editions and translations

Abbo of Fleury. Abbo of Fleury and Ramsey: Commentary on the "Calculus" of Victorius of Aquitaine. Edited by A. M. Peden. Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, vol. 15. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2003. liii, 159 pp.; tables throughout. $74.00.

Adam of Eynsham. The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham. Edited by Robert Easting. Early English Text Society, o.s. 318. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. c, 277 pp.; 2 plates. $85.00. [Late-fifteenth-century English translation of the late-twelfth-century Visio monachi de Eynsham.]

Allen, S. J., and Emilie Amt, eds. The Crusades: A Reader. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, vol. 8. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003. xix, 430 pp.; 32 figs. Paper $29.95.

Anon. The "Cathach" of Colum Cille: An Introduction. Edited by Michael Herity and Aidan Breen. With accompanying cd-rom. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. viii, 76 pp.; 5 black-and-white and 17 color figs. Paper $40.00. [Introduction to this text of the Vulgate Psalms written by Collum Cille, the earliest extant Irish illuminated manuscript, with digitized facsimile of the manuscript accompanied by a transcription and translation.]

Anon. The Crowning of Louis: A New Metrical Translation of the Old French Verse Epic[Le couronnement de Louis]. Edited and translated by Nirmal Dass. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. vii, 123 pp. Paper $32.00.

Anon. The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English Translation of "Le Miroir du Monde." Edited by Robert Raymo and Elaine E. Whitaker. With the assistance of Ruth E. Sternglantz. Medieval Academy Books, vol. 106. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. x, 644 pp. $85.00. [Edition of the unique copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 283.]

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. On Evil [Quaestiones disputatae de malo]. Translated by Richard Regan. Edited by Brian Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii, 540 pp. $65.00, paper $24.95.

Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus (1545). Edited by Peter E. Medine. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 244. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. xvii, 187 pp. $32.00.

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Augustine's Commentary on Galatians: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes[Expositio epistulae ad Galatas]. Edited and translated by Eric Plumer. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvii, 294 pp. $70.00. [Latin text with facing-page translation.]

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Famous Women[De mulieribus claris]. Translated by Virginia Brown. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, (2001) 2003. xxiii, 282 pp. Paper $15.95.

Bonaventure, Saint. Works of Saint Bonaventure, Volume 8, Part 2: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 9-16. Edited by Robert J. Karris, O.F.M. Saint Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute Publications, Saint Bonaventure University, 2003. lxxi, pp. 791-1620. Paper $50.00.

Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Sonnets. Translated by Elizabeth Jennings, with an introduction by Michael Ayrton. A FyfieldBooks...