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New Books across the Disciplines
Michael Cornett
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
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 authors 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. Thanks go to David Aers and Valeria Finucci for their collegial
editorial contribution.
The topics for this issue include:
1. Editions and translations
2. Reference
3. Historiography, historians, and critical theory
4. Biographical studies
5. Theological and philosophical legacies
6. Boundaries of difference
7. Jewish studies
8. Ritual
9. Courting and romance
10. Narrative structures, lyric effects
11. Experiencing nature and landscape
12. Visual culture
Abelard, Peter, and Hlose. Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other
Writings. Translated by William Levitan. With selected songs and poems
translated by Stanley Lombardo and Barbara Thorburn. Indianapolis:
Hackett Publishing, 2007. xli, 356 pp. $37.95, paper $12.95. [Includes the
Calamaties of Peter Abelard, the letters, Abelards Confession of Faith, introduction to The Questions of Heloise, letters of Heloise to Peter the Venerable,
and songs and poems by Abelard.]
Aelred, of Rievaulx. The Lives of the Northern Saints. Translated by Jane
Patricia Freeland. Edited by Marsha L. Dutton. Cistercian Fathers Series,
vol. 71. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2006. xiv, 144 pp.; 3
tables. Paper $24.95. [Includes the Life of Saint Ninian (Vita sancti Niniani), The Saints of Hexham (De sanctis ecclesiae Hagulstadensis), and A Certain Wonderful Miracle (De quodam miraculum mirabile).]
Anon. The Celestina: A Novel in Dialogue. Translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1955) 2006. xii, 162 pp. Paper
$16.95.
Anon. The Poem of the Cid [Cantar de mo Cid]. Translated by Lesley Byrd
Simpson. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1957) 2006. xix, 139 pp.
Paper $16.95.
Bierma, Lyle D., with Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Karin Y. Maag, and Paul
W. Fields. An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History,
and Theology. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation
Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005. Paper $29.99.
[Essays on historical and bibliographical contexts with translations of
Zacharius Ursinuss Smaller Catechism (Catechesis minor) and Larger Catechism (Catechesis maior).]
Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros [Filli di Sciro]. Edited and translated by Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii, 303 pp.
Paper $25.00. [Parallel Italian text and English verse translation.]
Boothman, Lyn, and Richard Hyde Parker, eds. Savage Fortune: An Aristocratic Family in the Early Seventeenth Century. Suffolk Records Society, vol.
49. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xcvi, 248 pp.; 7 color and 7
black-and-white plates. $65.00. [Eighty-three documents connected with
Sir Thomas Savage and his wife Elizabeth Savage.]
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Boyle, Robert. Boyle on Atheism. Edited by J. J. MacIntosh. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxv, 493 pp.
$95.00. [Collection of Robert Boyles writings concerning atheism, culled
from the Boyle manuscripts in the Royal Society Library in London.]
Christenson, Allen J., trans. Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (2003) 2007. 327 pp.; 80 illus.,
6 maps. Paper $16.95. [English translation based on the original KicheMaya text.]
Christenson, Allen J., trans. Popol Vuh, Volume 2: Literal Poetic Version.
Winchester, U.K.: O Books, 2004. 320 pp. Paper $37.50. [Parallel KicheMaya text and English translation.]
Clark, Willene B., ed. and trans. A Medieval Book of Beasts: The SecondFamily Bestiary; Commentary, Art, Text, and Translation. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp.; 14 color plates, 56 black-and-white
illus. $145.00. [Includes a monographic introduction, critical edition with
translation, and catalogue of manuscripts.]
Clyn, John, OFM. The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn [Annales Hiberniae]. Edited by Bernadette Williams. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
303 pp. $75.00.
Cullington, J. Donald, and Stephen Browd, eds. and trans. Vainglorious
Death: A Funerary Fracas in Renaissance Brescia. Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies, vol. 310. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2006. lxx, 302 pp. $48.00. [Parallel Latin texts of two
pamphlets and English translations.]
Donne, John. John Donnes Marriage Letters in The Folger Shakespeare
Library. Thomas M. Hester, Robert Parker Sorlien, and Dennis Flynn, eds.
Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. 110 pp.; 7 color and
3 black-and-white illus., 41 color plates. Paper $35.00. [Transcriptions of
eighteen letters with color facsimile reproductions.]
Ficino, Marsilio. Gardens of Philosophy: Ficino on Plato. Translated and
edited by Arthur Farndell. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2006. xv, 192 pp.
$34.95. [Ficinos commentaries on twenty-five of Platos Dialogues and on
twelve letters attributed to Plato from Ficinos Latin translation of Platos
works.]
Glaser, Joseph, trans. and ed. Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2007. xiii, 234 pp. $39.95, paper $12.95.
Hobbins, Daniel, trans. and ed. The Trial of Joan of Arc [Procs de condamnation de Jeanne dArc]. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
(2005) 2007. xii, 251 pp.; 1 map. Paper $16.95.
Horner, Patrick J., ed. and trans. A Macaronic Sermon Collection from
Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS Bodley 649. Studies and Texts, vol.
153. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2006. viii, 552 pp.
$94.00.
Hughes, J. B., ed. The Register of Walter Langton: Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, 12961321, Volume 2. The Canterbury and York Society, vol. 97.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press for the Canterbury and York Society,
2007. xi, 378 pp. $47.95.
Institoris, Henricus, OP, and Jacobus Sprenger, OP. Malleus Maleficarum.
Edited and translated by Christopher S. Mackay. 2 vols. Vol. 1 (Latin text
and introduction): x, 720 pp.; 2 maps. Vol. 2 (English translation): v, 615
pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $275.00.
Isidore, of Seville. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Translated and
edited by Stephen A. Barney, W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof,
with the collaboration of Muriel Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006. xii, 475 pp. $150.00.
John, of Avila. Audi, filiaListen, O Daughter. Translated and edited by
Joan Frances Gormley. Foreword by Francisco Javier Martnez Fernndez.
The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 2006. xiv,
329 pp. $27.95.
Lafayette, Madame de. La Princesse de Clves. Edited by Melanie E. Gregg.
Molire and Co. French Classics, vol. 3. Newark, Del.: European Masterpieces, 2006. liv, 197 pp. Paper $12.95.
Lowerre, Sandra, ed. The Cross-Dressing Female Saints in Wynkyn de Wordes
1495 Edition of the Vitas Patrum. European University Studies, Series 14,
Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, vol. 428. cxlii, 213 pp.; 22 illus.
Paper $62.95. [Monographic study with first modern edition of lives of
female cross-dressing saints from the late Middle English Vitas Patrum.]
Marvin, Julia, ed. and trans. The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation. Medieval Chronicles, vol. 4. Woodbridge,
Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. x, 442 pp. $80.00.
Miranda, Carlos, ed. Libro de horas de Juana I de Castilla, Juana La Loca
[London, British Library, Add. MS 35313]. 2 vols. Vol. 1 (facsimile with
facsimile binding): 482 pp.; 75 illuminations (work of Gerard Horenbout
and Alexander Bening). Vol. 2 (commentary): 432 pp. Barcelona: M.
Moleiro Editor, 2005. 987 numbered copies.
Miranda, Carlos, ed. Libro del Golf [London, British Library, Add. MS
24098]. 2 vols. Vol. 1 (facsimile reproduction with facsimile binding):
60 pp.; illuminations throughout (work of Simon Bening). Vol. 2 (commentary): 256 pp. Barcelona: M. Moleiro Editor, 20036. 987 numbered
copies. [Book of Hours from ca. 1500 nicknamed the Golf Book for the
numerous marginal scenes depicting various sports including golf.]
Scott-Stokes, Charity, trans. Womens Books of Hours in Medieval England:
Selected Texts Translated from Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and Middle
English with Introduction and Interpretive Essay. Library of Medieval
Women. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. xi, 187 pp.; 3 illus. $75.00.
Shakespeare, William. The Winters Tale. Edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxviii, 279 pp.; 30 illus. $75.00, paper
$14.99.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene: Books Three and Four. Edited by
Dorothy Stephens. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2006. xxxi, 480 pp.
$37.95, paper $12.95.
Taylor, Craig, ed. and trans. Joan of Arc: La Pucelle. Manchester Medieval
Sources Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. xxi, 370
pp.; 2 maps, genealogy, chronology. Paper $22.00. [Sourcebook of major
documents on Joan of Arcs life.]
Terry, Patricia, and Samuel N. Rosenberg. Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles; or, The Book of Galehaut Retold. Illustrated with wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger. Jaffrey, N.H.: David R. Godine, 2006. xxvii, 226
pp.; 11 illus. $26.95. [Adaptation of story of Lancelot and Galehaut from
the French Prose Vulgate Lancelot.]
2. Reference
Angold, Michael, ed. The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 5: Eastern Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx, 744
pp.; 11 illus., 7 maps. $180.00.
Ashton, Gail, and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer. Teaching the
New English (series). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
xi, 167 pp. Paper $27.95.
Brown, Peter, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture,
c. 1350c. 1500. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, vol. 42.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xvii, 667 pp.; 12 illus. $149.95.
Dillon, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeares Tragedies. Cam
bridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. vi, 169 pp. $65.00, paper $19.99.
Galloway, Andrew. Medieval Literature and Culture. Introductions to British Literature and Culture Series. London: Continuum, 2006. 154 pp.
$90.00, paper $16.95.
Hartzell, K. D. Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to
1200 Containing Music. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press in association
with The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 2006. xxxvii, 741 pp.; 8
plates. $170.00.
Hunter, Michael. Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles
and Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii, 283 pp.; 1 plate.
$69.95.
Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Second edition.
Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. xiv, 317 pp. $85.00, paper $24.99.
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Kibler, William W., and Leslie Zarker Morgan, eds. Approaches to Teaching
the Song of Roland. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York:
Modern Language Association of America, 2006. ix, 317 pp. $37.50, paper
$19.75. [Includes cd Approaches to Teaching The Song of Roland: Readings and Music.]
Newman, Lex, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lockes Essay Concerning
Human Understanding. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 486 pp. $80.00, paper $29.99.
Ruggiero, Guido, ed. A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. Blackwell Companions to European History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, (2002) 2007. xii, 561 pp. Paper $44.95.
Thomson, Peter. The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660
1900. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 324 pp.; 32 illus. $75.00, paper $24.99.
Monfasani, John, ed. Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship. Italica Press Studies in Art and History. New York: Italica Press, 2006.
xviii, 310 pp.; 3 figs. Paper $40.00.
Rouse, Robert Allen. The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English
Romance. Studies in Medieval Romance, vol. 3. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell
and Brewer, 2005. viii, 180 pp. $90.00.
Thompson, Susan D. Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas: A Palaeography. Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, vol. 6. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xiii, 187 pp.; 10 plates. $80.00.
4. Biographical studies
Arnold, Richard. Logic of the Fall: Right Reason and [Im]pure Reason in
Miltons Paradise Lost. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. xii, 115 pp. $59.95.
Bejczy, Istvn P., and Richard G. Newhauser, eds. Virtue and Ethics in the
Twelfth Century. Brills Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 130. Leiden:
Brill, 2005. 393 pp.; 2 tables. $189.00.
Bianchin, Lucia. Dove non arriva la legge: dottrine della censura nella prima
et moderna. Annali dellIstituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Monografie, vol. 41. Bologna: Societ editrice il Mulino, 2005. 389 pp. Paper eur
25.50.
Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of
Isaiah in Late Antiquity. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006. xx, 335 pp. Paper $25.00.
Boros, Gbor, ed. Der Einflu des Hellenismus auf die Philosophie der Frhen
Neuzeit. Wolfenbtteler Forschungen, vol. 108. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag, 2005. 198 pp. eur 59.00.
Bruun, Mette B. Parables: Bernard of Clairvauxs Mapping of Spiritual
Topography. Brills Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 148. Leiden: Brill,
2007. xiv, 344 pp. $129.00.
Candler, Peter M., Jr. Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction; or, Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God. Radical Traditions: Theology in a Postcritical Key. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006. xi,
190 pp. Paper $26.00. [On the relations between medieval versus modern
theological methodologies.]
Casarella, Peter J., ed. Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xxxi, 280 pp.
$74.95.
Degregorio, Scott, ed. Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede. Medieval European Studies, vol 7. Morgantown: West Virginia
University Press, 2006. xii, 299 pp. Paper $45.00.
Dunan-Page, Anne. Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Prog
ress, and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind. Religions and Discourse, vol. 22.
Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. 355 pp. Paper $66.95.
Evans, R. J. W., and Alexander Marr, eds. Curiosity and Wonder from the
Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xiii, 278 pp.; 44 illus. $99.95.
Goldziher, Ignaz. Schools of Koranic Commentators. Translated from the
German and edited by Wolfgang H. Behn. With an introduction on Goldziher and Hadith from Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums by Fuat Sezgin. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2006. xxxviii, 260 pp. eur 84.00.
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Relihan, Joel C. The Prisoners Philosphy: Life and Death in Boethiuss Consolation. With an essay by William E. Heise on the medieval Boethius.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xiv, 222 pp.
Paper $30.00.
Rosemann, Philipp W. The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombards
Sentences. Rethinking the Middle Ages, vol. 2. Peterborough, Ont.: Broad
view Press, 2007. 248 pp.; 14 illus. Paper $29.95.
Santana, Richard W. Language and the Decline of Magic: Epistemological
Shifts in English Literature from Medieval to Modernist. Lewiston, N.Y.:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. xv, 242 pp. $109.95.
Selderhuis, Herman J. Calvins Theology of the Psalms. Texts and Studies in
Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker
Academic, 2007. 304 pp. Paper $29.99.
Sommerfeldt, John R. Aelred of Rielvaulx on Love and Order in the World
and the Church. New York: Newman Press, 2006. xxi, 232 pp. Paper
$24.95.
Szuromi, Szabolcs Anzelm. Anselm of Lucca as a Canonist. Adnotationes in
Ius Canonicum, vol. 34. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. x, 199 pp. Paper $43.95.
Tournu, Christope, and Neil Forsyth, eds. Milton, Rights and Liberties.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. xiv, 547 pp. Paper $81.95.
Vaught, Carl G. Access to God in Augustines Confessions: Books XX III.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xi, 280 pp. Paper
$24.95.
Verlaguet, Waltraud. Lloignance: La thologie de Mechthild de Magdebourg (XIIIe sicle). Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. xviii, 427 pp.; 1 map, 1 fig., 12
charts, 2 tables. Paper $73.95.
Vos, Antonie. The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2006. xii, 666 pp. $110.00.
Williams, Gerhild Scholz. Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany:
Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing,
2006. 251 pp.; 28 figs. $94.95.
6. Boundaries of difference
Breuer, Dieter, and Gbor Tsks, eds. Das Ungarnbild in der deutschen Literatur der frhen Neuzeit. Beihefte zu Simpliciana, vol. 1. Bern: Peter Lang,
2005. 409 pp.; 19 figs. Paper $69.95.
Daileader, Celia R. Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial
Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005. ix, 256 pp.; 6 illus. $70.00, paper $25.99.
Dangler, Jean. Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. viii, 218 pp.; 4
illus. $56.00, paper $27.00.
Epstein, Steven A. Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10001400. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and
Political Science, 124th Series, vol. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006. xiii, 263 pp. $55.00.
Goldenberg, David M. The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
(2003) 2005. xv, 448 pp. Paper $24.95.
Helfers, James P., ed. Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, vol. 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. vii, 182 pp.; 25 figs. $69.00.
Iyengar, Sujata. Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. x, 310
pp.; 5 figs. $55.00.
7. Jewish studies
Bale, Anthony. The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350
1500. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006. xiv, 280 pp.; 7 illus. $85.00.
Bregman, Dvora. The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque. Translated from the Hebrew by Ann Brener. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 304. Tempe: Arizona Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. vii, 298 pp. $45.00.
Brener, Ann. Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada.
Hebrew Language and Literature Series, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill/Styx, 2005. x,
155 pp. $198.00.
Brook, Kevin Alan. The Jews of Khazaria. Second edition. Lanham, Md.:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. xii, xii, 315 pp. $39.95.
Chazan, Robert. The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 10001500.
Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. xv, 342 pp.; 3 maps. $75.00, paper $29.99.
Cohen, Jeremy. Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to
the Big Screen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 313 pp.; 30 illus.
$29.95.
Cohen, Mark R. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval
Egypt. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern
World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii, 288 pp.; 2
figs. $39.50.
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Cox, Catherine S. The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and
Chaucer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. x, 239 pp. $65.00.
Heil, Johannes. GottesfeindeMenschenfeinde: Die Vorstellung von
jdischer Weltverschwrung (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert). Antisemitismus:
Geschichte und Strukturen, vol. 3. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 672 pp. Paper
eur 44.90.
Kruger, Steven F. The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval
Europe. Medieval Cultures, vol. 40. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2006. xxx, 320 pp.; 6 figs. $78.00, paper $26.00.
Kugel, James L., ed. Prayers that Cite Scripture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2006. 119 pp. $27.50. [On the nature of Jewish prayer.]
Martin, John D. Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern
German Literature. Second edition. Studies in German Jewish History, vol.
5. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. 253 pp. Paper $49.95.
Ray, Jonathan. The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish
Community in Medieval Iberia. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the
Medieval Past. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiii, 198 pp.; 1
illus., 2 maps. $35.00.
Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii, 318 pp.; 4 tables. $75.00.
Shepkaru, Shmuel. Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 414 pp. $70.00.
Simms, Norman. Masks in the Mirror: Marranism in Jewish Experience.
New York: Peter Lang, 2006. viii, 144 pp. $55.95.
Wolfson, Elliot R. Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth,
and Death. The Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies, vol. 5. The S. Mark
Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv, 327 pp. $45.00.
Yuval, Israel Jacob. Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and
Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Translated from the
Hebrew by Barbara Harshav and Jonathan Chipman. The S. Mark Taper
Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2006. xxi, 313 pp.; 6 illus. $49.95.
Cornett / New Books across the Discipline 635
8. Ritual
Bueren, Truus van, ed. Care for the Here and the Hereafter: Memoria, Art,
and Ritual in the Middle Ages. With Andrea van Leerdam. Museums at
the Crossroads, vol. 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. 332 pp.; 1 genealogy, 12
charts, 13 tables, 127 figs., 18 color plates. Paper eur 95.00.
Clymer, Lorna, ed. Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern
British and European Cultures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2006. xi, 258
pp. $60.00.
Howe, Nicholas, ed. Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe. Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. vii, 160 pp.; 38 figs.
Paper $25.00.
Lucero, Lisa J. Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xiv, 253 pp.; 31 figs., 12 tables, 1
map. $45.00.
Muir, Edward. Ritual in Early Modern Europe. Second edition. New
Approaches to European History, vol. 33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x, 320 pp.; 9 figs. $70.00, paper $24.99.
strem, Eyolf, et al., eds. Genre and Ritual: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 336 pp.; 33
figs., 9 photographs, 5 diagrams. Paper $50.00.
Penn, Michael Philip. Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late
Ancient Church. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 186 pp. $42.50.
Andrews, Walter G., and Mehmet Kalpakli. The Age of Beloveds: Love and
the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii, 425 pp.; 14 illus. Paper
$24.95.
Burns, E. Jane. Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval
French Culture. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (2002) 2005. 326 pp. Paper $24.95.
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Edwards, Robert R. The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer.
The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xi, 219 pp.
$75.00.
Lafond-Kettlitz, Barbara. De lamour courtois lamour mari: Le roman
allemand (14561555). Collection Contacts Srie III, Etudes et documents,
vol. 61. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. xvi, 275 pp.; 5 figs. Paper $60.95.
Mieszkowski, Gretchen. Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucers Pandarus.
The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. x, 228 pp.;
$69.95.
Monson, Don A. Andreas Capellanus, Scholasticism, and the Courtly Tradition. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. ix,
383 pp. $66.95.
Nelson, Brent. Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 284.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xiii,
306 pp.; 16 figs. $38.00.
Schultz, James A. Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History
of Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii, 242 pp.
$39.00.
Wells, Marion A. The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern
Romance. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. 368 pp. $60.00.
Greene, Thomas M. Poetry, Signs, and Magic. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 327 pp. $57.50.
Grote, Hans. Petrarca lesen. Legenda, vol. 7. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog
Verlag, 2006. 194 pp. Paper eur 39.80.
Hammond, Paul. The Making of Restoration Poetry. Studies in Renaissance
Literature, vol. 16. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. xxiii, 230 pp. $80.00.
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