Recently added articles from Medium Aevum:
The transmission of Boethius' de consolatione Philosophiae in the Carolingian age.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Papahagi, Adrian ... The question of the transmission of Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae (c.524) has given rise to more than one fascinating--but not always irrefutable--theory. There is nonetheless something of a consensus among Boethian scholars, who regard Alcuin (735-804) as the providential figure ...
The creation grove in the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Kauntze, Mark ... The twelfth-century Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris is an allegorical treatise on the formation of the cosmos and man by a family of goddess figures, whose creative activities are narrated across alternating chapters of verse and prose. The form and content of the work are primarily ...
Rhetoric, narrative, and conceptions of history in the French prose Brut.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; MacColl, Alan ... Scholars writing about the Prose Brut used to be concerned mainly with the value of its various continuations as a primary source for later medieval English history. (1) 'Even historians of historical literature', remarks John Gillingham, 'have tended to study the Brut primarily as ...
Disputations, literary and inquisitorial: the conversion of the heretic Sicart of Figueiras.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Sullivan, Karen ... One of the most striking aspects of the medieval Inquisition is how few Catholic voices spoke out against it. Around 1048, before the creation of the Inquisition, Wazo, the Bishop of Liege, had urged his fellow ecclesiastics to show forbearance with heretics, reminding them that God 'non ...
Mixing languages on the manor.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Ingham, Richard ... Multilingualism in medieval England Medieval multilingualism in England has become a significant subject of study in recent years. (1) Much more is now known about the linguistic multi-competence displayed by language users in England, depending on textual type and function, in ...
William Dunbar and Andro Kennedy: a dental challenge.(NOTE)(The Testament of Maister Andro Kennedy)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; MacDonald, A.A. ... The poem of William Dunbar that is generally known as The Testament of Maister Andro Kennedy presents many difficulties of interpretation. (1) In the main, these derive from the following factors: (1) the use of Latin in every other line of each of the poem's fourteen stanzas; (2) (2) the ...
Andrea Worm, Das Pariser Perikopenbuch und die Anfange der romanischen Buchmalerei an Rhein und Weser.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Gameson, Richard ... Andrea Worm, Das Pariser Perikopenbuch und die Anfange der romanischen Buchmalerei an Rhein und Weser (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 2008). 272 pp.; 31 colour plates and 164 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 9783-87157-220-3. 89.00 [euro]. The Gospel ...
Jane Cartwright, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Salih, Sarah ... Jane Cartwright, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008), xviii + 301 pp.; 25 plates. ISBN 978-0-7083-1999-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. Jane Cartwright's book is thorough, detailed, ...
Ursula Rautenberg, 'Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Buchtitelblatts in der Inkunabelzeit in Deutschland, den Niederlanden und Venedig: Quantitative und qualitative Studien,' Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Flood, John L. ... Ursula Rautenberg, 'Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Buchtitelblatts in der Inkunabelzeit in Deutschland, den Niederlanden und Venedig: Quantitative und qualitative Studien', Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens, 62 (2008), 1-105. In The Title-Page (London, 2000), Margaret M ....
Diane Watt, Medieval Women's Writing.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Varnam, Laura ... Diane Watt, Medieval Women's Writing (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007). vii + 208 pp. ISBN 0-7456-3256-8. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. Diane Watt's Medieval Women's Writing is essential reading for student and academic alike. Watt provides a fresh and engaging overview of major ...
Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Forster, Regula ... Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain, ed. Charles Burnett (London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2008). 176 pp.; 28 plates. ISBN 978-0-19-954306-9. 85.00 [pounds sterling]. ...
Tony Davenport, Medieval Narrative: An Introduction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Bradbury, Nancy Mason ... Tony Davenport, Medieval Narrative: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), viii + 305 pp. ISBN 1-19-925839-2. 23.00 [pounds sterling]. According to its preface, this book is intended for readers with some knowledge of its subject--a general familiarity with the ...
K. S. Whetter, Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Field, Rosalind ... K. S. Whetter, Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). xxii + 205 pp.; 12 plates. ISBN 978-0-7546-6142-9. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. The definition of Middle English romance is a Holy Grail of romances scholarship and this book sets out to achieve it ....
Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Evershed, Elizabeth ... Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 64 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xiii + 289 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87539-4. 53.00 [pounds sterling]/$95.00. In this monograph study Matthew Giancarlo ...
Gerald Morgan, The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde'.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Jacobs, Nicolas ... Gerald Morgan, The Tragic Argument of 'Troilus and Criseyde' (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). 2 vols, xx + 700 pp. ISBN 0-7734-5934-0, 0-7734-5936-7. 74.95 [pounds sterling]. In this wide-ranging study of the most ambitious of Chaucer's finished poems, Gerald Morgan ...
Lynette R. Muir, Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and their Legacy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Parsons, Ben ... Lynette R. Muir, Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and their Legacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xv + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0521-82756-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama is the companion piece to The Biblical Drama of ...
Elliot Kendall, Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Yeager, R.F. ... Elliot Kendall, Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household (Oxford: Clarendon, 2008). xii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-954264-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household, Elliot Kendall ...
William Kuskin, Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Edwards, A.S.G. ... William Kuskin, Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008), xxvi + 390 pp. ISBN 978-0-268-03317-0. $40.00. The professed aim of this book is to examine Caxton's activities as printer and publisher 'in symbolic ...
Joanna Martin, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Parkinson, David J. ... Joanna Martin, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). xii + 200 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6273-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. The prospect of generations of clerkly poets expatiating on princely waywardness has its own capacity to amuse and instruct ....
Katherine Zieman, Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Hirsh, John C. ... Katherine Zieman, Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). 312 pp. ISBN 978-08122-4051-1; 0-8122-4051-0. $59.95/39.00 [pounds sterling]. In recent years out knowledge ...
