Books received

Books received Astell, Ann W., Job, Boethius, and epic truth, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1994; cloth; pp. xv, 240; R.R.P. US$36.25. Beadle, Richard, ed., The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994; paper; pp. xxii, 372; 34 iUustrations; R.R.P. AUS$35.00. Boccaccio, Giovanni, The elegy of Madonna Fiammetta sent by her to women in love (Studies in Italian culture. Literature in History, vol. 9), urans. Roberta L. Payne and Alexandra H. Olsen, N.Y. and Bern, Peter Lang, 1992; cloth; pp. 149; R.R.P. SF 64.00. Busby, Keith, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones and Lori Walters, eds, Les manuscrits de Chritien de Troyes: The manuscripts of Chritien de Troyes (Fauxtitre:6tudes de langue et litterature francaises, No.71), 2 vols, Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1993; cloth; pp. xiii, 503 and 553; 28 colour plates, 435 monochrome illustrations; R.R.P. Hfl.lOOO/US$585.00. Busby, Keith, ed., Towards a synthesis? Essays on the New Philology (Faux titre: etudes de langue et litterature francaises, No. 68), Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1993; pp. 137; Hfl.45.00/US$26.00. Carlton, Charles, Going to the wars: the experience of the British civil wars, 1638-1651, London andN.Y., Routledge, 1994; rpt; paper; pp. xti, 428; 22 illustrations; R.R.P. AUS$38.95. Chartier, Roger, The order of books: readers, authors, and libraries in Europe between thefourteenth and eighteenth centuries, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, Oxford and Cambridge, Polity Press, 1994; paper; pp. xi, 126; 8 plates; R.R.P. AUS$34.95 [distributed in Australia by Allen & Unwin]. Cohen, Thomas V. and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome: trials before the Papal magistrates, Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1993; paper; pp. xu, 306; 14 illustrations; R.R.P. CAN$19.95. Coleman, Christopher B., ed. & trans., The treatise ofLorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine (Renaissance society of America reprint texts, 1), Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1993; rpt; paper; pp. 183; R.R.P. CAN$16.95. 186 Books received Comune di Strevi, ed., Atti del Convegno "Strevi nel Millenio" 991-1991, Tipolitografia "Minigrafica", Alice Bel CoUe (Alessandria), Alessandria (Italy), 1992; paper; pp. 166; R.R.P. ? Curley, Michael J . , trans., Saint Patrick's Purgatory: a poem by Marie de France (Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, Vol. 94), Binghamton, Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, 1993; cloth; pp. 178; R.R.P. US$20.00. Dagenais, John, The ethics of reading in manuscript culture: glossing th Libro de buen amor, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994; cloth; pp. xxiii, 278; R.R.P. £30.00/US$39.50. Davis, Lloyd, Guise and disguise: rhetoric and characterization in the English Renaissance, Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1993; cloth; pp. ix, 217; R.R.P. CAN$45.00 Donno, Elizabeth S., ed., Three Renaissance Pastorals: Tasso, Guarini, Daniel (Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, Vol. 102), Binghamton, Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, 1993; cloth; pp. xxxiii, 260; 1 plate; R.R.P. US$20.00. Dotson, John E., trans., Merchant culture in fourteenth-century Venice: th Zibaldone da Canal (Medieval & Renaissancetexts& studies, Vol. 98), Binghamton, Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, 1994; cloth; pp. xii, 228; 2 plates, 2 maps, 22 figures, 1 graph; R.R.P. US$25.00. Dronke, Peter, Verse with prosefrom Petronius to Dante: the art and scope of the mixed form, Cambridge Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1994; cloth; pp. x, 148; R.R.P. US$32.50. Duby, Georges, France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: from Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc, trans. Juliet Vale, Oxford, Blackwell, 1993; rpt; paper; pp. xxviii, 331; 10 maps, 6 genealogical tables, 30 plates; R.R.P. AUS$45.00 [distributed in Australia by Allen & Unwin]. Eamon, William, Science and the secrets of nature: books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994; cloth; pp. xvii; 12 illustrations, 3 tables; R.R.P. US$49.50. Erler, Mary C , ed., Robert Copeland: poems, Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1993; cloth; pp. x, 272; iUustrations (not numbered); R.R.P. CAN$60.00. Evans, G. R., Philosophy and theology in the Middle...