Collected Studies Series Research Articles

Kenneth Stow, Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages: Confrontation and Response. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 876.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xii, 336, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white facsimiles, tables, and 1 map. $124.95.

Kenneth Stow, Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages: Confrontation and Response. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 876.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xii, 336, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white facsimiles, tables, and 1 map. $124.95.

Robert S. Nelson, Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 853.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xiv, 414, numbered nonconsecutively; many black-and-white figures and tables. $144.95.

Robert S. Nelson, Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 853.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xiv, 414, numbered nonconsecutively; many black-and-white figures and tables. $144.95.

Donald J. Kagay, War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 861.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. x, 328, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and tables. $124.95.

Donald J. Kagay, War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 861.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. x, 328, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and tables. $124.95.

Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century. By STANLEY BOORMAN. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 815.) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. xii + 362 pp. 57.50. ISBN 0 86078 970 5.

Journal Article Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century. By Stanley Boorman. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 815.) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. xii + 362 pp. £57.50. isbn 0 86078 970 5. Get access Peter J. D. Scott Peter J. D. Scott Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 203–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/8.2.203 Published: 01 June 2007

Hugh Kennedy, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 860.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x, 276, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and maps. $109.95.

Hugh Kennedy, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 860.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x, 276, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and maps. $109.95.

Syriac Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic RuleReininkG. J. Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Rule Variorum Collected Studies Series CS831Ashgate PressAldershot / Burlington VT, 2005, xii, 338, £60.00ISBN 0860789756

Syriac Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic RuleReininkG. J. <i>Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Rule</i> Variorum Collected Studies Series CS831Ashgate PressAldershot / Burlington VT, 2005, xii, 338, £60.00ISBN 0860789756

Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century (review)

SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Studies in the and of Music in the 16th Century. By Stanley Boorman. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. [xii, 362 p. ISBN 0-86078-970-5. $109.95.] Music examples, illustrations, plates, indexes. This collection of essays, all published between 1977 and 1995, demonstrates the astounding variety and the remarkable depth of Stanley Boorman's research. volume forms a handy reference work for the reader, since each of the eleven essays appeared in a different source (a few of these rather obscure); they may also be seen as preliminary studies for the author's magisterial, recently published Ottaviano Petrucci: Catalogue Raisonne (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Boorman effectively groups the articles into three distinct areas of his interests, as indicated by the title: 1) Printing treats printing-house procedures as revealed in the books themselves; 2) Publishing deals with that end of the process; and 3) Performance moves beyond printed sources to manuscripts and implications for composition and performance practice. first section-Printing-opens with The 'First' Edition of the Odhecaton A. Here Boorman determines what bibliographers would refer to as the sophisticated nature of first publication (Venice, 1501) in the exemplar now at the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale in Bologna. That is, through an analysis of changes in paper, staff patterns, text incipits, signature patterns, and the deterioration of capital letters, the book appears to exhibit sheets from four different settings of type and two distinct editions. author concludes by noting variants among chansons from the Odhecaton and northern Italian manuscript sources. second article, Petrucci's Type-Setters and the Process of Stemmatics, posits that two typesetters consistently employed distinct habits in Motetti de la Corona I (Fossombrone, 1514), particularly in their spelling of Latin, the use of minor color, proportion signs, and ligatures. Boorman contends that printed books went through most of the processes that were also involved in preparing a manuscript, and he concludes that the first typesetter had rigorous training in traditional notation, and the second more familiarity with current trends, much as a scholar would analyze a manuscript copied by two scribes. next essay, A Case of Work and Turn: Half-Sheet Imposition in the Sixteenth Century, highlights Boorman's interest in descriptive bibliography. He confirms first simultaneous printing in 1503 of text and staves, thus replacing the labor-intensive multiple-impression process with double-impression. In the same year, with further issues of the Odhecaton along with the Misse Brumel and Misse Ghiselin, Petrucci began to use half sheets prepared separately and imposed for work and turn press work. In the wide-ranging Printed Music Books of the Italian Renaissance from the Point of View of Manuscript Study, Boorman explores the technical evidence apparent in publications from Venice (and elsewhere), including Frottole libro sexto (Petrucci, 1506), Corfini's Motetti a 5-12 (Alessandro Gardano, 1581), Metallo's Magnificat a 4 & a 5 (Melchiorre Scotto, 1603), and Massaino's Opus 31 motets (Angelo Gardano, 1606). printing anomalies observed here resolve questions as to the content of a musical edition, its provenance or authenticity, or the homogeneity or inconsistencies of its readings. fifth essay, The Salzburg Liturgy and Single-Impression Music Printing, provides intriguing evidence from missals with chant printed from the single-impression process around 1500 that foreshadows the widespread adoption of that process in printing polyphonic music from the 1520s onward. second section-Publishingbegins with Early Music Printing: Working for a Specialized Market. Boorman states that sixteenth-century plainchant and music for the reformed churches raises several ecclesiastical, but few musical, questions, and the intended audience was known. …

RICHARD M. FRANK: Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. 1. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 392 pp. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £62.50. 00 86078 977 2.

RICHARD M. FRANK: <i>Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. 1</i>. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 392 pp. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £62.50. 00 86078 977 2.

Pauline Stafford, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 850.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii, 338, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white figures, black-and-white plates, and genealogical tables. $114.95.

Pauline Stafford, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 850.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii, 338, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white figures, black-and-white plates, and genealogical tables. $114.95.

Stephen D. White, Re-thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 823.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xviii, 258, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait. $109.95.

Stephen D. White, Re-thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 823.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xviii, 258, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait. $109.95.

Baltic Commerce and Urban Society, 1500-1700: Gdansk/Danzig and Its Polish Context by Maria s&gt; Bogucka (review)

REVIEWS 759 between text and illustrationis not always clear, or that the necessaryreference to the illustrationis buried in the text. A classicinstance occurs on page 28 which is headed by two titles, the first the title to an illustrationof the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo which is in fact overleaf, and the second the title to the Shubert map of Tsarskoe Selo which appears opposite. Here and elsewherepossible confusion is compounded by the failureto provide an English translation to many of the titles. In fact, to be sure of one's way through this book one needs some command of several European languages, including Russian. It is obviously not a book meant for the masses. That said, the editor and his team should be congratulatedon the superb qualityof many of the printswhich both bring the city to life and successfully convey something of its unique atmosphere.For that reason alone this book is well worth adding to one's personal library. School of Geography, EarthandEnvironmental Sciences DENIS J. B. SHAW University ofBirmingham Bogucka, Maria.Baltic Commerce andUrban Society, I500-I700: Gdansk/Danzig and its Polish Context. Variorum Collected Studies Series: Studies in EastCentral Europe. Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington,VT, 2003. x + 3I2 pp. Tables. Notes. Index. C57.50? THE work of Maria Bogucka, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw,has influencedsocial and economic historiansof the Balticsfor many decades, especially before the fall of Communism, when she was one of the few historiansin her native Poland, who could not only travel (withinlimits) but was also translated and published in West European languages. This volume makes her scholarlylegacy availablein a neat package, as it contains severalof her articlesalreadypublishedin translationbetween I973 and I999. This quartercenturyof historicalresearchreflectsnot only the transformation of Bogucka's own interests,but wider changes in the political and historiographical currents of Poland, from an intense focus on economic history to social history and finally to issues of culture, gender and communication. Earlyarticles,which combine 'hard-core'economic researchon trade figures with an ideological concern about 'luxuryconsumption' among the nobility, mirrorthe approachto earlymodern Polishsocietymore or less prescribedby Poland'sofficialpolitical orientationduringthe I970s.For a readershiptoday, while ignoringsuch politicalglosses,it can stillbe usefulto be remindedof the basics of the shipping trade between Danzig, Stockholm, the Netherlands and the rest of Europe, as Bogucka always unearths interestingfigures and comparative dimensions. Several articlesof the late I970S and early I98os reflect the effort Bogucka made, despite political limitations,to connect with Western historiographical trends, when she stressesthe similaritiesand differencesof the urban Reformation in Poland and Western Europe. Much of the superiorityshe finds in Protestantmodels of development in contrastto the failureof the Reformation in Poland sounds odd in the light of a more recent historiographyof 760 SEER, 84, 4, 2006 the Reformation, which attributes reformist thinking to both confessional camps. Quite a few of her results on the development of Polish towns have been revised (e.g. the negative evaluation of the guild system, the scarcityof 'productiveinvestment', etc.) both by Polish urban historiansand in a wider European comparative context. Neither did West European nobilities less despise or look down on their town-dwellersthan did the Polish nobility, nor would Polish burghersembrace noble culture more eagerly than their counterparts in the West. As recent studies of the role of self-confident urban communitiesin the Swedish and Muscovite Deluge have shown, Polish towndwellers did not represent quite so passive and oppressed a citizenry as Bogucka then seemed to think. It is tricky, therefore, to argue about pieces of research twenty or more years old, considerablylimited by the political agenda and a restrictedability to visit archives abroad. Despite some in-depth studies, particularlyon the cities of Royal Prussia, and specifically Danzig, on which Bogucka excels, some articles consciously generalize and remain very much on the surface, such as 'The towns of East-CentralEurope from the fourteenthto the seventeenth century' of I985. It is not clear what benefit readerscould draw from these today, unless they wanted to study the development of Polish historiographyon the subject.More interestingare Bogucka'sattemptsto incorporate culturalaspects into urban history.The comparisonof Cracow, Warsawand Danzig and their functions as 'metropoles', published in I996 in German, might have gained from translationinto Englishfor the benefit of...

David M. Palliser, Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 830.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x, 268, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white figures and tables. $109.95.

David M. Palliser, Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 830.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x, 268, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white figures and tables. $109.95.

St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City by Victor Giroud (review)

758 SEER, 84, 4, 2006 authors'recent research. In all cases they point the way to furtherstudy. By the end even beginners should be able to deconstructthe I95I poster on the cover, composed of a map above indicating the expansion of electrification grids across the Azov and Caspian regions, below it the multi-million-strong population of the USSR stretchingto the horizon, foregroundedby representativesof gender and nationality,directingtheir gaze upwardsto a tower-like Stalin. This fruitfulcollection reveals spatialgames that we can all play. School of Slavonic andEastEuropean Studies LINDSEY HUGHES University College London Giroud, Victor. StPetersburg: A Portrait ofa Great Ci. The BeineckeRare Book and ManuscriptLibrary,Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 200 . I44 PP. Illustrations.Selected bibliography.Indexes. f2I.50 (paperback). THIs book is a catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition with the same title held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, between October 2003 and January 2004. The purpose of the exhibition was to commemorate the tercentenaryof the city of St Petersburg with a display of materials drawn mainly from the library'sand university's collectionswhich illustratethe historyof the city. The book consistsessentially of a wide selection of illustrations,ranging from views of the city, drawings, photographs, postcards, maps, portraits,letters, plans, and theatre programmes to the title pages of books having some connection with St Petersburg. There is also an accompanying explanatorytext. Given the rather random character of the materials which have been acquiredby the libraryover the years,those selectedfor inclusionin thisbook are somewhat disparate. The book is divided into three sections. The first serves to illustrate the city's history during its first century. The second, entitled 'Visitsto St Petersburgduringthe Romantic Period',containsillustrations relating to the city's foreign visitors, beginning with the memoirs of August von Kotzebue who served under Catherine the Great and was sent brieflyto Siberiaat the beginning of the nineteenth century,and ending with letters sent by Giuseppe Verdi during his visit to St Petersburgin I86I-62. The brief third section relates to the city's history during the twentieth century , including materialfrom Belyi's novel Peterburg, from Anna Akhmatova's poem Poemabezgeroia,and, perhaps rather oddly in view of their association with TsarskoeSelo ratherthan the city itself,photographsfrom the Romanov familyalbums.The latterwere originallyin the possessionof Anna Vyrubova, lady-in-waitingand companion to EmpressAlexandra Feodorovna. The text which accompanies the illustrations is generally informative despite the occasional factual error (suchas the statement on page 8 that the city was officially declared capital in I717, incidentally contradicting the statement on page 5 that it was 'decreed' capital ten years after its foundation in 1703). An annoying and confusing problem is the failure to provide proper captions to many of the illustrations, meaning that the exact relationship REVIEWS 759 between text and illustrationis not always clear, or that the necessaryreference to the illustrationis buried in the text. A classicinstance occurs on page 28 which is headed by two titles, the first the title to an illustrationof the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo which is in fact overleaf, and the second the title to the Shubert map of Tsarskoe Selo which appears opposite. Here and elsewherepossible confusion is compounded by the failureto provide an English translation to many of the titles. In fact, to be sure of one's way through this book one needs some command of several European languages, including Russian. It is obviously not a book meant for the masses. That said, the editor and his team should be congratulatedon the superb qualityof many of the printswhich both bring the city to life and successfully convey something of its unique atmosphere.For that reason alone this book is well worth adding to one's personal library. School of Geography, EarthandEnvironmental Sciences DENIS J. B. SHAW University ofBirmingham Bogucka, Maria.Baltic Commerce andUrban Society, I500-I700: Gdansk/Danzig and its Polish Context. Variorum Collected Studies Series: Studies in EastCentral Europe. Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington,VT, 2003. x + 3I2 pp. Tables. Notes. Index. C57.50? THE work of Maria Bogucka, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw,has influencedsocial and economic historiansof the Balticsfor many decades, especially before the fall of Communism, when she was...

Patricia Crone, From Kavād to al-Ghazālī: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600–c.1100. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 819.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. viii, 356, numbered nonconsecutively. $114.95.

Patricia Crone, From Kavād to al-Ghazālī: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600–c.1100. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 819.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. viii, 356, numbered nonconsecutively. $114.95.

Gad Freudenthal, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 803.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx, 350, numbered nonconsecutively. $119.95.

Gad Freudenthal, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 803.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx, 350, numbered nonconsecutively. $119.95.

Thomas W. Blomquist, Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 828.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvi, 278, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white figures, tables, and graphs. $99.95.

Thomas W. Blomquist, Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 828.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvi, 278, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white figures, tables, and graphs. $99.95.

Stephen D. White, Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 817.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xii, 306, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and 1 map. $114.95.

Stephen D. White, Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 817.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xii, 306, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and 1 map. $114.95.

Michael Lecker, People, Tribes and Society in Arabia around the Time of Mu ammad. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 812.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x, 348, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, 1 genealogical table, and maps. $114.95.

Michael Lecker, People, Tribes and Society in Arabia around the Time of Mu ammad. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 812.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x, 348, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, 1 genealogical table, and maps. $114.95.

Moshe Gil, Related Worlds: Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 790.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. x, 340, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white figures, and tables. $111.95.

Moshe Gil, Related Worlds: Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 790.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. x, 340, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait, black-and-white figures, and tables. $111.95.

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 806.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv, 378, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and black-and-white figures. $137.95.

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 806.) Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv, 378, numbered nonconsecutively; black-and-white frontispiece portrait and black-and-white figures. $137.95.