...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

...Josiah C. Russell Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL BIOGRAPHY By JOSIAH C. RUSSELL Although the study of the problems of medieval biography is a very old subject, it has...

... become a valuable contri- bution to the study of the German mind in the last four decades, leaves his many questions unanswered. ARPADSTEINER Hunter College The Medieval Ft.t.ii~h“Roman d’Alexandre.” By E. C. ARMSTRONG and ALFREDFOULET. Vol...

...EDGAR SCHELL S. Spinrad Phoebe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. xii + 334 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 REVIEWS The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage. By PHOEBES...

...Fiona Somerset Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England . By Catherine Sanok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvii + 256 pp. University of Washington 2009 Fiona Somerset is associate professor of English at Duke...

...Masha Raskolnikov Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions .By Jody Enders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxiii + 285 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

...Mark Miller Abstract The inevitable emerges in this issue as a name for the troubled intersection of agency and structural necessity. The most prominent medieval name for that intersection is sin. Far from grounding the medieval subject in a set of theological norms that give it stable coordinates...

...Virginie Greene In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France . By Peggy McCracken . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . x + 217 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Our relation with animals is mostly lived and thought...

...A. S. G. Edwards Mary J. Carruthers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 10, 1990. xiv + 393 pp. $54.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medimal...

... teach and write about late medieval literature. Moreover, its initial publication in an affordable paperback ensures that Chaucer and the Subject ofHistory itself will become the receptive subject of the articles, conference papers, and seminars that will grapple with its arguments...

.... By Jody Enders. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cor- nell University Press, 1992. xiv + 281 pp. $35.95. In Rheton’c and the Origins of Medieval Drama,Jody Enders offers an alternative to the well-known idea that drama originated in medieval liturgical perfor- mances. Rather than deny the primacy of liturgy...

.... $79.00. It is a rare book that offers equal stimulation to the social historian and the literary theorist. Sandra Billington’s study of rulers and misrulers in late medieval and early modern Britain, however, is such a book. Her achieve- ment conflates the customary dividing line between popular...

... and Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic Martin Bidney s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys opportunities...

... remarks probe to the heart of Germany’s present tragedy. A. CLOSS University of Bristol, England Mysteries’ End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Stage. By HAROLDC. GARDINER, S. J. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1946. Pp...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman [email protected] Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...

...Chelsea Silva [email protected] The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships . By Newman Barbara . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 372 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Barbara Newman’s book begins...

...Haldeen Braddy Mary Edith Thomas. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pp. 184. $3.00. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 REVIEWS Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer. By MARY EDITHTHOMAS. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pp. 184...

...Elaine Tuttle Hansen Warren Ginsberg. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 202 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval...

... and Iconography. By STEPHENG. NICHOLS,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xiv + 248 pp. $23.50. Stephen Nichols’s title promises both more and less than this ambitious study of early medieval narrative delivers. On the one hand, despite the use of thirty-five illustrations...

.... S -1- LTA K-I- <; ~1 R K A N Uniz)ersit?qf Penrisylzmiia Tennyson and Madness. By ANNC. COI,LF.I,.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 176 pp. $20.00. Tennyson’s Camelot: The “Idylls of thP King” and Its Medieval SourcPJ. By DAVIDSTAINVES. Waterloo, Ont., Canada...