Announcement: Books Available for Review (May 2012) Dear Readers,

The following books have been received and are available to qualified scholars for review (reviewers should have received a doctoral degree or the equivalent). Our general policy is that the review is expected within three months of your receiving the book, and must be submitted by e-mail.

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Please be aware that compiling and sorting through requests may take several weeks; we appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you for your support of the The Medieval Review.

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Allen, Mark and John H. Fisher, ed., The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume II, Parts 5A and 5B. Series: The Variorum Edition (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

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Bliujiene, Audrone, Northern Gold: Amber in Lithuania (c.100 to c.1200). Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 18 (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011). _____ Bradley, Helen, ed., The Views of the Hosts of Alien Merchants 1440- 1444. Series: London Record Society Publications, 46 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012).

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Buckley, Ann and Cynthia J. Cyrus, ed., Music, Dance, and Society: Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Memory of Ingrid G. Brainard. (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2011). Contributors: Vincent Corrigan, Clyde Brockett, Joseph Dyer, Barbara R. Walters, Julia W. Shinnick, Alice V. Clark, Richard J. Agee, Cathy Ann Elias, Eleonora M. Beck, Elizabeth Randell Upton, Nona Monahin, Jennifer Nevile, William Peter Mahrt, Greta-Mary Hair, Richard Rastall, Barbara Sparti, G. Yvonne Kendall.

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Cannon, Jon and Beth Williamson, ed., The Medieval Art, Architecture and History of Bristol Cathedral: An Enigma Explored. Series: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011). Contributors: Roger H. Leech, John McNeill, Sarah Jane Boss, Christopher Wison, Paul Crossley, Julian M. Luxford, James G. Clark, Joseph Bettey, Catherine Oakes.

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Canone, Eugenio, L'Argomento degli Eroici Furori di Bruno. Series: Bruniana & Campanelliana, Supplement 31, Book 6 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2012).

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Charruadas, Paulo, Croissance rurale et essor urbain à Bruxelles: Les dynamiques d'une société entre ville et campagnes (1000- 1300). Series: Mémoire de la Classe des Lettres (Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 2011).

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Efthymiadis, Stephanos, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, Volume I: Periods and Places. Series: Ashgate Research Companions (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011).

Contributors: Zissis Aïnalis, André Binggeli, Sebastian P. Brock, S. Peter Cowe, Vincent Déroche, Bernard Flusin, Tomas Hägg, Xavier Lequeux, Ingunn Lunde, Bernadette Martin-Hisard, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Symeon A. Paschalidis, Mario Re, Mark. N. Swanson, Alice-Mary Talbot.

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Frech, Karl Augustin, ed., J.F. Böhmer, Regesta Impirii III, 5. Salisches Haus 1024-1125, Fünfte Abteilung Papstregesten 1024-1058 s. Lieferung: 1046-1058. (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2011).

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Fresco, Karen and Anne D. Hedeman, ed., Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe. Series: Text and Context (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2011).

Contributors: Charlotte Bauer, Peter Ainsworth, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Julia Simms Holderness, Eleonora Stoppino, Marcus Keller, Andrew Taylor, Craig Taylor, Erin K. Donovan, Kathryn A. Duys, Elissa B. Weaver, Paula Mae Carns, Caroly Symes, Tania Van Hemelryck.

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Guglielmetti, Rossana E., ed., L'Apocalisse nel Medioevo. Series: Millennio Medievale, 90 (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011).

Contributors: Manilo Simonetti, Remo Cacitti, Gabriele Pelizzari, Giovanni Battista Bazzana, Emanuela Prinzivalli, Claude Carozzi, Elisabeth Mégier, Isabelle Marchesin, Raffaele Savigni, Peter K. Klein, Edoardo Ferrarini, Marcello Angheben, François Dolbeau, Guy Lobrichon, Peter Dinzelbacher, Julia Eva Wannenmacher, Fulvio Ferrari, Francesco Santi, Luca Bellone, Giuliana Nuvoli, Maria Gabriella Riccobono, Beatrice Barbiellini Amidei, Stefano Simonetta, Guy Lobrichon.

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Hartmann, Wilfried and Kenneth Pennington, ed., The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500. Series: History of Medieval Canon Law (Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012).

Contributors: Susan Wessel, Heinz Ohme, Spyros Troianos, Hubert Kaufhold.

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Hirschmann, Frank G., Die Anfänge des Städtewesens in Mitteleuropa, 1.Band. Series: Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2011).

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Honnacker, Hans, ed., Erasmus Roterodamus. Series: Quaderni di C.A.L.M.A., 1 (Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011).

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Knaeble, Susanne, Silvan Wagner, Viola Wittmann, ed., Gott und Tod: Tod und Sterben in der höfischen Kultur des Mittelalters. Series: Bayreuther forum Transit, 10 (Munster: Lit Verlag, 2011).

Contributors: Gerhard Wolf, Ariane Bauer, Ingrid Bennewitz, Norbert H. Ott, Esther Wipfler, Hubertus Fischer, Claudia Lauer, Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn, Nadine Hufnagel, Sonja Feldman, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Ulrich Berner, Wolfgang Schoberth, Joachim Kügler.

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Levy, Ian Christopher, Gary Macy and Kristen Van Ausdall, ed., A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages. Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2012).

Contributors: Lizette Larson-Miller, Joseph Wawrykow, Elizabeth Saxon, Michael S. Driscoll, Celia Chazelle, Edward Foley, Miri Rubin, Gerhard Lutz, Stephen E. Lahey.

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Lutter, Christina, ed., Funktionsräume, Wahrnehmungsräume, Gefühlsräume: Mittelalterliche Lebensformen zwischen Kloster und Hof. Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für sterreichische Geschichtsforschung, 59 (Vienna and Munich: Böhlau Verlag and Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011).

Contributors: Albrecht Diem, Barbara Schedl, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Eva Cescutti, Karl Brunner, Johann Tomaschek, Frank Brandsma, Matthias Meyer.

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Newhauser, Richard, ed., Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye. Series: Medieval Sources in Translation, 51 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2012).

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Niebrzydowski, Sue, ed., Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages, 7 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011).

Contributors: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Sara Elin Roberts, Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt, Clare A. Lees, Jane Geddes, Carol M. Meale, Raluca L. Radulescu.

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Peraino, Judith A., Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011). _____

Perry, Lucy and Alexander Schwarz, ed., Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books. Series: International Medieval Research 17 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010).

Contributors: Guillemette Bolens, Susanna Niiranen, Cordula Böcking- Politis, Siegrid Schmidt, Peter Glasner, Françoise Le Saux, Rosamund Allen, Stefan Bießenecker, Tanja-Isabel Habicht, Patrizia Mazzadi, Neil Thomas.

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Peters, Greg, Peter of Demascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian. Series: Studies and Texts, 175 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2011).

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Rodrguez de Montalvo, Garci, Le Livre III d'Amadis de Gaule: Traduit par Nicolas Herberay des Essarts. Series: Textes de la Renaissance, Série Romans de chevalerie de la Renaissance (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011).

Contributors: Michel Bideaux, Luce Guillerm, Jean-Pierre Guillerm. Rossi, Luca Carlo, ed., Domizio Calderini, Commentarioli in ibyn ovidii. Series: Il Ritorno dei classici nel'umanesimo, Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, Edizione nazionale de commenti ai testi latini in età umanistica e rinascimentale (Florence: SISMEL Edizione del Galluzzo, 2011).

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Ruggio, Luca, Repertorio Bibliografico del Teatro Umanistico. Series: Teatro Umanistico (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011).

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Sackville, L.J., Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century: The Textual Representations. Series: Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press and Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2011).

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Sakellariou, Eleni, Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: Demographics, Institutional and Economic Change in the Kingdom of Naples, c.1440-c.1530. Series: The Medieval Mediterranean (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2012).

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Schneider, Bernd and Christina Meckelnborg, ed., Odyssea Homeri a Francisco Griffolino Aretino in Latinum translata. Die lateinische Odyssee-Übersetzung des Francesco Griffolini. Series: Mittelateinische Studien und Texte (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011).

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Simpson, James, Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. Series: The Clarendon Lectures in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

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Ulset, Tor, ed., Diplomatarium Norvegicum, Bind XXIII. Series: Oldbreve (Oslo: Riksarkivet, 2011).

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Varkemaa, Jussi, Conrad Summenhart's Theory of Individual Rights. Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2012).

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Verhey, Allen, The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011).