From Colleen.McDonald@mackie.com Wed Nov 6 15:49:35 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with SMTP id gA6NnUdr051980 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:49:31 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Nov 06 15:49:29 2002 -0800 Received: from mail.mackie.com (mail1.mackie.com [12.144.237.151]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA6NnTg3007678 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:49:29 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Books/websites of interest Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:49:27 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Colleen McDonald" To: Greetings all, Here are a few more websites and lots of books that I hope will be of = interest. Happy researching! In service, I remain Lady Cainder nic Sheanlaoich, GdS Research junkie The third annual Known World Costuming Symposium will be held in Denver, = Colorado, October 17 - 19, 2003. Two local Laurels (Marquesa Laurellen = and Baroness Anastasia) are on the schedule to teach. More information = can be found at www.caerthe.org/kwcs. A Hypertext Book of Hours - http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/religion/hagiography/hours/hrstoc.htm Just one graphic of an illuminated page, but this site neatly shows "the structure of a generic Book of Hours, while the texts = themselves=20 are drawn primarily from the Latin/English Primer of 1599," with the = Latin=20 and English texts in side-by-side columns. (courtesy of Jadwiga and LIIWeek) The following are courtesy of Aetheria of Dragon's Mist: Medieval Europe: A Short Sourcebook edited by C. Warren Hollister McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-241738-2 $44.64 Preface Introduction Part 1: The Early Middle Ages 1. The Transformation of the Roman World 2. The Heirs of Classical Civilization 3. Carolingian Europe 4. Ordeal and Survival Part 2: The High Middle Ages 5. New Frontiers: Cities and Crusades 6. A Visual Portfolio 7. New Paths to God: Monks and Philosophers 8. Worlds in Collision: Papacy and Empire 9. New States: England and France Part 3: The Late Middle Ages 10. Constitutional Europe 11. An Age of Contradictions Web Resources Acknowledgments Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih Routledge ISBN 0-415-25821-9 $95.00 The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione W.W. Norton ISBN 0-393-97606-8 $11.00 The Book of the Courtier (1528) is a series of fictional conversations = by courtiers of the Duke of Urbino that take place in 1507, when Baldesar Castiglione was himself attache to the Duke. Today, the Book of the Courtier remains the most illuminating account of court life and its culture in the Renaissance and of what it took to be the "Perfect Courtier" and "Court Lady." The text of this Norton Critical Edition is Charles Singleton's translation, the most acclaimed and accurate English translation available. It is accompanied by the detailed annotations of both translator and editor. Following the text are ten seminal assessments of The Book of the Courtier, representing the best interpretations from the United States, England, and Italy. Contributors include Amedeo Quondam, Harry Berger Jr., Virginia Cox, Eduardo Saccone, Joan Kelly-Gadol, David Quint, Wayne Rebhorn, James Hankins, Peter Burke, and Daniel Javitch. A Selected Bibliography, Chronology, and Index of Persons and Items are also included. The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St. Alban's, 1290-1349 by Michelle Still Ashgate ISBN 0-7546-0521-3 $79.95 Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan edited by Michael Cooper Hakluyt Society/Ashgate ISBN 0-904180-73-5 $89.95 Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou Clarendon Press ISBN 0-19-924613-0 $55.00 Culture and Society in Habsburg Spain: studies presented to R.W. Truman = by his pupiles and colleagues on the occasion of his retirement edited by Nigel Griffin, et. al. Tamesis ISBN 1-85566-080-6 $60.00 Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages edited by Carolyn Muessig Brill ISBN 90-04-11416-5 $127.00 Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality = and the Visual Image edited by Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, Nicolette Zeeman Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-818759-9 $70.00 Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence by Thomas Kuhn University of Michigan Press ISBN 0-472-11244-9 $60.00 Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State by Alan Harding Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-821958-X $65.00 Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices edited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend Ashgate ISBN 0-7546-0522-1 $84.95 ---------------- The Great Rising of 1381: the Peasants' Revolt and England's Failed Revolution by Alastair Dunn Tempus Publishing ISBN 0-7524-2323-1 (pbk.) The Great Rising is a re-interpretation of the revolt, the rebels and their often colourful leaders, and is the first new history for nearly = one hundred years. Alastair Dunn charts the causes of the Great Rising, and examines how the burgeoning economic expectations of the generation succeeding the Black Death were frustrated by the landlords' determined defense of serfdom, and the growing burden imposed upon the people by = the crown, culminating in the hated Poll Taxes. He asks whether the Great Rising had a coherent set of aims linking its participants in different parts of England, follows the dramatic story of the rebels in London, = and highlights the largely forgotten, but equally exciting story of = rebellion in other parts of England. ---------------- Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum by Ian Eaves Boydell ISBN 0-85115-857-9 The collection of arms and armour in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, = is one of the finest in England, and ranks immediately behind the royal and national collections in terms of the range and quality of its material. The majority of the items come from the bequest of J. S. Henderson, a collector who bought extensively in the 1920s; he owned a group of = pieces from the armoury of the Princes Radziwell at Niescwiecz in Poland, and other items from this source have subsequently been given to the museum. The strength of the exhibits is therefore in German and North Italian armours of the sixteenth century, mostly for field use but with some tournament and parade armours. Full descriptions for each piece, = together with provenance (where known) and physical details, are given, as well = as comparisons with pieces in other collections. ---------------- Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation 3rd edition by Malcolm Lambert Blackwell Publishing ISBN 0-631-22275-8 (hbk.) ISBN 0-631-22276-6 (pbk.) The third edition retains the shape and time-scale of the previous editions, but assesses a new mood of scepticism among historians about = the accuracy of accusations of heresy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It gives fresh insight into the inquisitional process, and the rise and fall of Catharism, and offers a new account of the moving dialogue = between Bishop Fournier and the Waldensian deacon, Raymond de Sainte Foy, and of research on urban Waldensianism. In addition the author surveys the continuing flow of work on English Lollardy. These revisions enable both those who are familiar with the book and new readers to stay in touch = with the most recent research on heretical movements. ---------------- A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion & Culture edited by Pheroza J. Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree Mapin International ISBN 1-890206-22-9 $250.00 [available on Amazon for $175.00] This illustrated volume attempts to span a vast period of time gives a glimpse of the life and times of the Zoroastrian people in Iran and = India as manifested in their art, religion and culture. [Does not focus exclusively on medieval Zoroastrians but contains some chapters dealing with Zoroastrian life, art, and religion during SCA periods.] ---------------- Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages by Colette Sirat; edited and translated by Nicholas de Lange Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-77079-3 ---------------- Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: with an edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517 edited by Barry Collett Ashgate ISBN 1-84014-609-5 $69.95 ---------------- Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages by Valentin Groebner; translated by Pamela E. Selwyn University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0-8122-3650-5 $49.95 Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts addresses the notions and practices of = gift giving in late medieval and early modern Europe between 1400 and 1550. Focusing on the prosperous cities of the upper Rhine, it explores the = uses of gifts in political ritual and the different functions of those donations. Contemporaries spoke of these gifts -- sometimes wine, sometimes coins or other precious metals -- as liquid; indeed, the same German word was used for giving a present and for pouring a fluid. These gifts were an integral part of an economy of information, marking = complex differences and dependencies in the social hierarchy. The gifts were meticulously recorded and governed by strict codes, yet the terminology and traditions of gift exchange in this period betray deep-seated ambivalence and anxieties about the practice. ---------------- Usury, Interest, and the Reformation by Eric Kerridge Ashgate ISBN 0-7546-0688-0 $79.95 ---------------- The Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt: An Edition of the Old English Text with Modern English Parallel-text Translation by Hugh Magennis University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-672-2 (pbk.) $22.95 The story of Mary has been unduly negelected by students of Old English, but in today's literary-critical context, its gripping and intense narrative raises exciting issues in the study of medieval literature and culture. The text is presented here in an uncluttered manner, with an on-page apparatus and facing modern English translation, followed by a concise commentary and a full glossary. A text of the Latin source used = by the Old English writer, with facing translation, is also given. The Introduction discusses the origin and transmission of the legend and the distinctive features of the Old English version, paying attention to cultural and political dimensions. .