From Colleen.McDonald@mackie.com Fri May 2 08:25:59 2003 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h42FPx1M047948 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 08:25:59 -0700 Received: from mail.mackie.com (mail1.mackie.com [12.144.237.151]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h42FPvYT012435 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 08:25:57 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Sources of interest (long) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 08:25:56 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Colleen McDonald" To: X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report="SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_MIMEOLE" Greetings all, Here are more sources that I thought might be of interest. Quite a = variety of items this time. Happy researching! In service, I remain Lady Cainder nic Sheanlaoich, GdS The Baronial Annotated Bibliography is located at = http://www.ratite.org/biblio/. Owen is working to get it updated (it = was offline for a while) and the posts for 2003 are not on line yet. For those interested in things Anglo-Saxon and for scribes, these two = items might be of interest: Kelly, S.E., ed. Charters of Abingdon Abbey. 2 vols. Anglo-Saxon Charters 7=968. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000=962001. Pp. ccxxxi, 206; xxxiv, 207=96650. ISBN: 0-19-726217-1 (vol. 1); 0-19-726221-X (vol. 2). [Part 2 was not submitted for review but is included in the discussion below] Miller, Sean, ed. Charters of the New Minster, Westminster. Anglo-Saxon Charters 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2001. Pp. lxvii, 244. ISBN: 0-19-726223-6. ***************************************************************** For those who are interested in the New World: Enterline, James Robert. Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 342. $45 (hb). ISBN: 0-801-86660-X. ******************************************************************* McDonald, R. Andrew, ed. History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 234. ISBN: 0-8020-3601-5. Tulinius, Torfi. The Matter of the North: The Rise of Literary Fiction in Thirteenth-Century Iceland. Translated by Randi C. Eldevik. The Viking Collection, 13. Odense: Odense University Press, 2002. Pp. 340. $24.50 (pb). ISBN: 87-7838-537-7. Steiner, Emily and Candace Barrington, edd. The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. 304. $45 (hb). ISBN: 0-801-43975-2. Page, Sophie. Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. 64. $13.98 (pb). ISBN: 0-802-08511-3. Breay, Claire. Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths. London: The British Library, 2002. Pp. 56. $12.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-7123-4743-7. Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. Guido Cavalcanti. The Other Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. 231. ISBN 0-8020-3591-4. Guido Cavalcanti was a late 13th century Italian poet. Taylor, Jane H.M. The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 234. $64.95 (hb). ISBN: 0-521-79270-3. Bovey, Alixe Monsters & Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. 64. $13.98 (pb). ISBN: 0-8020-8512-1. Roth, Norman, ed. Medieval Jewish Civilization. An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxi, 701. $150 (hb). ISBN: 0-415-93712-4. Erler, Mary C. Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 226. $60 (hb). ISBN: 0-521-81221-6. *************************************************************************= **** The following are courtesy of Aetheria of Dragon's Mist: The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire by Timothy S. Miller The Catholic University of America Press ISBN 0-8132-1313-4 $44.95 In The Orphans of Byzantium, Miller provides a study of the evolution of orphanages in the Byzantine Empire. Contrary to popular belief and even expert opinion, medieval child-welfare systems were sophisticated, especially in the Byzantine world. Combining ancient roman legal institutions with Christian concepts of charity, the Byzantine Empire evolved a child-welfare system that tried either to select foster = parents for homeless children or to place them in group homes that could provide food, shelter, and education. Miller discusses how successive Byzantine emperors tried to improve Roman regulations to provide greater security for orphans, and notes that they achieved their greatest success when = they widened the pool of potential guardians by allowing women relatives to accept the duties of guardianship. After a thorough discussion of each element of the Byzantine child care system, the book closes by showing how Byzantine orphanages provided models for later Western group homes, especially in Italy. From these Renaissance orphan asylums evolved the systems of modern European and American religious orphanages until the foster care movement emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Miller's study of these systems can provide useful models for reforming the troubled child-welfare = system today. --------------------- Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia by Raymond Van Dam University of Philadelphia Press ISBN 0-8122-3712-9 $45.00 Basil of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend = Gregory of Nazianzus were prominent churchmen in Roman Cappadocia during the = later fourth century. Because of their reputations as distinguished = theologians, they are now known as the Cappadocian Fathers. Recent research on Roman families and friendships has been revitalized through the use of comparative demography. Roman law and gender studies, and the extensive writings of the Cappadocian Fathers offer a rare opportunity for a close investigation of two provincial families side by side. By examining = their relationships as sons, brothers, uncles, and mutual friends, Families = and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia combines patristic studies and ecclesiastical history with cultural studies and the history of the family. --------------------- A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the `Stone Mountain medical case histories' by Joanna Grant RoutledgeCurzon ISBN 0-415-29758-3 $95.00 A Chinese Physician is the portrait of Wang Ji [1463-1539], a sixteenth-century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Three methodologies - loosely termed socioeconomic/biographic, textual = analysis, and gender analysis - and a variety of sources, from hagiographical biographies to medical case histories, are used to tell three very different but complementary stories about what it was to practise = medicine in sixteenth-century China. Woven together, these stories combine to create a multi-dimensional portrayal that brings to life the very human experiences, frustrations = and aspirations of a well-respected and influential physician who yet struggled to win respect from fellow practitioners and loyalty from patients. In so doing, the author creates a vibrant and colorful picture of contemporary medical practice that at the same time deepens our understanding of the interrelationship between gender culture and medicine. --------------------- Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif by Stephen E. Lahey Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-63346-X John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century English thinker responsible for = the first English Bible, and for the Lollard movement which was persecuted widely for its attempts to reform the church through empowerment of the laity. His political thought was framed in terms of dominium, a term = which had developed theological papalist connotations, yet which in Wyclif's Summa Theologie involved a decidedly anti-papal programme for the = English church in which the king's responsibility to God entailed divestment of ecclesiastical secular authority. Many twentieth-century scholars argue that Wyclif had appropriated his dominium discourse to advance further his reformative programme, = assuming that the philosophical treatises produced by Wyclif during his Oxford years have no causal bearing upon the dominium treatises of the Summa Theologie. This book argues that Wyclif's dominium relies upon his = realist metaphysics, and that his programme of reform follows upon his relation = of the universal divine dominium to all instances of just-created dominium. This offers a new approach to Wyclif's career, in which his turn from theoretical to practical issues coheres with the philosophically rich theological vision of his earlier works, including the major treatises = of the Summa de Ente. --------------------- English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama by Mary Floyd-Wilson Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-81056-6 $55.00 Working with both popular and elite sources from the period's drama to medical texts to historiography Mary Floyd-Wilson intervenes in the current literary scholarship on race to disembed and recover the complex basis of "geohumoralism." The importance of English and Ethnicity an = dRace in Early Modern Drama lies in its recognition that the English were affected in the sixteenth century by a profoundly unstable sense of identity derived from the British Isles' northern, marginalized status = in a set of classical texts that were revered and considered authoritative. Simply put, humoralism, for the early modern English, was ethnology. Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that the English were not only driven to rearrange, discursively, this inherited knowledge in an effort to = revalue those traits conventionally identified as "northern," but they also = aimed to alter or remedy their northern natures through the manipulation of their environment whether that meant the air, temperature, diet, and terrain, or the effects of travel, education, rhetoric, impersonation, = or fashion. To follow Floyd-Wilson's application of contemporary gehumoral theory to a succession of major canonical texts is exhilarating, surprising, and unsettling, as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and others emerge as unwittingly complicit in ways of thinking about English = selfhood that enabled the growth of the Atlantic slave trade and British imperialism. --------------------- Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe by William N. West Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-80914-2 $60.00 In early modern Europe, before a "theatre" was a playhouse, it was an encyclopedia. In this book William N. West explores what "theatre" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, and places Renaissance drama, for the first time, within the powerfully influential context of the encyclopedic writings which were being produced at the time. Recent criticism has recognized that the culture of early modern Europe was a theatre culture, fascinated by performance of all kinds, but it was also an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with collecting an dosrting knowledge. Early encyclopedias presented themselves as textual theatres, in which everything knowable could be represented in concrete, visible form. Medieval and Renaissance plays, similarly, took encyclopedic themes as their topics: the mysteries of nature, universal history, the world of learning. But instead of transmitting authorized knowledge quickly and unambiguously, as it was supposed to, the theatre created a situation in which ordinary experience could become a communicable source of = authority. By the mid seventeenth century, the theatre had become the model for the reformation of the encyclopedia and the encyclopedia for the theatre, as knowledge itself came to be seen as a kind of performance. West covers a wide range of works, from the canonical encyclopedic texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Jonson's The = Alchemist, and Bacon's Novum Organum, and provides a fascinating picture of the cultural and intellectual life of the period. --------------------- Women of the Gilte Legende: A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay by Larissa Tracy D.S. Brewer ISBN 0-85991-771-1 $60.00 --------------------- Language and History in Viking Age England: Linguistic Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English by Matthew Townend Brepols ISBN 2-503-51292-5 $66.00 Acknowledgements Abbreviations Bibliographical Abbreviations Terminology and Conventions Chapter 1. Introduction: Anglo-Norse Language Contact Chapter 2. The Languages: Viking Age Norse and English Chapter 3. The Scandinavianisation of Old English Place-Names Chapter 4. Anglo-Norse Contact in Anglo-Saxon Sources Chapter 5. Literary Accounts and Anecdotal Evidence Chapter 6. Old Norse in England: Towards a Linguistic History Bibliography Index --------------------- Byzantium in the Year 1000 Edited by Paul Magdalino Brill ISBN 90-04-12097-1 $91.00 Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Marriages towards the Millenium Political Elites in the Reign of Basil II Basil II and Asia Minor The Balkan Frontier in the Year 1000 Between Two Empires: Southern Italy in the Reign of Basil II Turning Sisinnios against the Sisinnians: Eustathios Romaios on a = Disputed Marriage Byzantine History Writing at the End of the First Millenium Byzantine Poetry and the Paradox of Basil II's Reign Hagiography under the Macedonians: the Two Recensions of the = Metaphrastic Menologion The Year 1000 in Byzantium Index One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the = empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose = name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor, the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium. --------------------- Regna and Gentes: The Relationship between Late Antique and Early = Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World edited by Hans-Werner Goetz, Jorg Jarnut and Walter Pohl with the collaboration of Soren Kaschke Brill ISBN 90-04-12524-8 $166.00 List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction The Empire, the gentes and the regna The Leges Barbarorum: law and ethnicity in the post-Roman West Gens into regnum: the Vandals Gens and regnum among the Ostrogoths The enigmatic fifth century in Hispania: some historical problems Pro patriae gentisqve Gothorvm statv The transformation of Hispania after 711 Gentes, kings and kingdoms -- the emergence of states. The kingdom of = the Gibichungs The relationship between Frankish gens and regnum: a proposal based on = the archaeological evidence Gens, kings and kingdoms: the Franks The Britons: from Romans to barbarians Anglo-Saxon gentes and regna Gens, rex and regnum of the Lombards The Bavarians Avars and Avar archaeology: An introduction A Non-Roman Empire in Central Europe: the Avars Conclusion Bibliography Index of Peoples Index of Persons Index of Places Index of Subjects In the research on "The transformation of the Roman world" relatively little attention has been paid to the transformation of early medieval peoples and the development of their communities into kingdoms, and we lack a comparative study on this subject. The aim of this volume is, therefore, to examine the relationship between gens and regnum by systematically comparing the "Germanic" and non-Germanic successor = states of the Roman Empire, a question that leads to important results about = the role of ethnic processes and of political developments in the formation = of the new kingdoms. By trying to answer leading questions, 16 authors (historians, archaeologists and linguists) deal with ten important kingdoms of this period and with their political and legal context (role of the Empire and law-codes). An introduction to the subject and its inherent problems and a comparative conclusion summarizing the results completes the volume. The Crowning of Louis: A New Metrical Translation of the Old French = Verse Epic edited and translated by Nirmal Dass McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-1560-6 $32.00 Le Couronnement de Louis, an anonymous work dating from about 1130 to 1140, is the earliest heroic epic of the William Orange cycle and therefore lays the foundation for the entire chanson-de-geste genre. It tells the story of William's defense of Louis, son of Charlemagne, = during his childhood, and William's heroic deeds as he battles Saracens and = other villains. This line-by-line translation closely follows the original Old French, capturing the stylistic features that clearly mark the poem as oral literature. A discussion of the poem's background and themes, the = William of Orange cycle, and the chanson-de-geste genre precedes the = translation. ------------------- Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire by Paul D. Buell The Scarecrow Press ISBN 0-8108-4571-7 $80.00 Editor's Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Reader's Notes A-To-Z List of Dictionary Entries Maps Dates of Chinese Dynasties and States Chronology Introduction Essay 1. Mongolia before Empire (to 1206) Essay 2. Mongol Empire (1206-1260) Essay 3. Qanate China (1260-1368) Essay 4. Golden Horde (1235-1502) Essay 5. Chagatay Qanate and Qaydu (1260-1338) Essay 6. Ilqanate (1260-1356) The Dictionary Appendix A. Mongolian Scripts Appendix B. Glossary of Mongolian Words Appendix C. Eating at the Qan's Table, Selected Recipes from the Yinshan Zhengyao Bibliography About the Author ------------------- Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary by D. Vance Smith University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-3950-7 (hbk., $63.95) ISBN 0-8166-3951-5 (pbk., $22.95) Acknowledgments On the Threshold 1. Inescapable Economy 2. The Repeating House: Surplus and Dead Time 3. The Visible Investments of Winning and Wasting 4. Merchants in the Margin: Writing and the National Domestic of Piers Plowman 5. "How fer schall al thys good?": Sir Launfal and the Sumptuary World 6. Exchanging, Changing, Corrupting: The Arthurian House of Death Notes Bibliography Index ------------------- "High and Mighty Queens" of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations co-edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 1-4039-6088-7 $49.95 Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Transformation of Continuity? Sixteenth-Century Education and the Legacy of Catherine of Aragon, Mary I, and Juan Luis Vives 2. Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England 3. Unmasquing the Connections between Jacobean Politics and Policy: The Circle of Anna of Denmark and the Beginning of the English Empire, = 1614-18 4. Negotiating Exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the = Court of Charles I 5. "And a Queen of England, Too": The `Englishing' of Catherine of = Aragon in Sixteenth-Century English Literary and Chronicle History 6. Whore Queens: The Sexualized Female Body and the State 7. "Honoured Hippolyta, Most Dreaded Amazonian": The Amazon Queen in the Works of Shakespeare and Fletcher 8. "No head eminent above the rest": Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest 9. "There's magic in thy majesty": Queenship and Witch-Speak in Jacobean Shakespeare 10. The Taming of the Queen: Foxe's Katherine and Shakespeare's Kate 11. Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary = Stuart and William Wordsworth 12. Re-imagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon among the Victorians 13. The Woman in Black: The Image of Catherine de Medici from Marlowe to Queen Margot 14. Anne Boleyn in History, Drama, and Film Notes on Contributors Index ------------------- Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 by Joanna Story Ashgate ISBN 0-7546-0124-2 $84.95 List of Maps and Figures Abbreviations Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: Evidence and Interpretation 2. Pippin, England and the Merovingian Legacy 3. Bishop George and the Legates' Mission to England 4. Chronicled Connections: Frankish Annals and the Historia regum 5. Exiles and the Emperor 6. Francia and the Mercian Supremacy 7. Francia and the Rise of Wessex 8. Conclusion Appendix: Evidence of Anointing in Eighth-Century England Bibliography Index In this book Dr. Story offers a contribution to the subject of medieval cultural exchanges, focusing on the degree to which Frankish ideas and concepts were adopted by Anglo-Saxon rulers. Furthermore, by = concentrating on the secular context and concepts of secular government as opposed to the more familiar ecclesiastical and missionary focus of [Wilhelm] Levinson's work, this book offers a counterweight to the prevailing scholarship, providing a much more balanced overview of the subject. Through this reassessment, based on a close analysis of contemporary manuscripts -- particularly the Northumbrian sources -- Dr. Story offers = a fresh insight into the world of early medieval Europe. ------------------- Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England by Helen E. Maurer The Boydell Press ISBN 0-85115-927-3 $50.00 Margaret's exercise of power was always fraught with difficulty: as a woman, her effective power was dependent upon her invocation of the authority of her husband or her son. Her enemies lost no opportunity to charge her with misconduct of all kinds. Whether, however, she deserved the epithet that Shakespeare bestowed upon her is another matter; but = more than five hundred years after Margaret's death this examination of her life and career allows a more balanced and detached view. ------------------- The Three Edwards: War and State in England, 1272-1377 (2nd edition) by Michael Prestwich Routledge ISBN 0-415-30308-7 (hbk., $80.00) ISBN 0-415-30309-5 (pbk., 24.95) List of Maps Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Chronological Table Introduction 1. The Leopard of the Lion: Edward I 2. The Proving Ground: The War against the Scots 3. Edward II: The Incompetent King 4. Counsel and Consent: The Development of Parliament 5. The Nobility 6. `Our Just Quarrel': The Hundred Years War 7. War, Profits and Chivalry 8. Crisis and Stability: The Domestic Policies of Edward III to 1360 9. Plauge, Famine and War: The Fourteenth-Century Economy 10. The Years of Decline, 1360-77 Geneological Tables, I: The House of Plantagenet and its Branches II. The Succession to the Scottish Throne III. The House of Valois Glossary References to Quotations Further Reading Index ------------------- Conciliar Church Policy during the Reign of Fernando IV, King of Castile-Leon, 1295-1312 by Paulette L. Pepin The Edwin Mellen Press ISBN 0-7734-6858-7 $99.95 Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Church-State relations in the Kingdom of Castile-Leon in the Thirteenth Century Chapter 2. In defense of the Castilian and Leonese Churches' libertas ecclesiastica (1295-1302) Chapter 3. Safeguarding the Rights of the Castilian and Leonese Churches Chapter 4. Preserving libertas ecclesiastica: The church councils of 1310-1311 Chapter 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index ------------------- Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age by Ronald G. Musto University of California Press ISBN 0-520-23396-4 $60.00 On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto's biography of this charismatic leader -- whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers, and dramatists, as well as historians -- peels away centuries of interpretation to reveal the realities of fourteenth-century Italy and = to offer a comprehensive account of Cola's rise and fall. In his exploration, Musto examines every known document pertaining to Cola's life, including papal, private, and diplomatic correspondence rarely used by earlier historians. With Musto's intimate knowledge of historical Rome -- its streets and ruins, its churches and palaces, from the busy Tiber riverfront to the lost splendor of the Capitoline -- he brings a cinematic flair to this historical narrative. ------------------- Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskirt Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of = Bharavi by Indira Viswanathan Peterson State University of New York Press ISBN 0-7914-5613-7 (hbk., $71.50) ISBN 0-7914-5614-5 (pbk., $23.95) Indira Viswanathan Peterson provides an introduction to the Sanskirt = court epic (mahakavya), an important genre in classical Indian poetry, and the first study of a celebrated sixth-century poem, the Kiratarjuniya = (Arjuna and the Hunter) of Bharavi. Through a close analysis of the structural strategies of Bharavi's poem, the author illuminates the aesthetic of = the mahakavya genre. Peterson demonstrates that the classical poet uses figurative language, rhetorical devices, and structural design as the primary instruments for advancing his argument, the reconciliation of heroic action, ascentic self-control, social duty, and devotion to God. her discussion of the Kiratarjuniya in relation to its historical = setting and to renderings of this epic episode in literary texts and temple sculpture of later periods reveals the existence of complex transactions in Indian civilization between the discourses of heroic epic and court poetry, political ideologies and devotional religion, Sanskrit and the regional languages, and classical and folk traditions. Selections from = the Kiratarjuniya are presented in poetic translation. .