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Ariosto, the ‘Orlando Furioso’ and English Culture ed. by Jane Everson, et al

 Reviews reviewer at least, the lasting value of Warner’s argument comes not in his siing of such minutiae, but rather in the larger model he proposes and forcefully articulates for the production and circulation of vernacular literary texts. He urges us to envision scribes adopting more flexible, less centralized methods of book production than have come to dominate much thinking of late—which he usefully terms the ‘fluidity of these clerks’ associations’ (p. ). In doing so, he persuasively calls for us to return to the central insight of Mooney’s  essay (which Warner rightly labels ‘brilliant’ (p. )), which argued that scribes worked in ad hoc ways throughout all pockets of London: ‘[F]rom the s to the s a wide variety of scribes and clerks in and around London got hold of a disparate body of exemplars of those and other works and, in differing circumstances, produced the literature we today research, study, teach, and love’ (pp. –; see Linne R. Mooney, ‘Locating Scribal Activity in Late Medieval London’, in Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England, ed. by Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press, ), pp. –). e best example of this comes from Chapter , where Warner has undertaken stellar detective work, unearthing a plethora of items copied by the scribe of HM . is chapter yields a remarkably thorough profile of the range of copying work this scribe regularly undertook. e notion that the scribes who le us much Middle English literature were busy copying documents throughout London, and that they worked on literary manuscripts in a set of shiing arrangements, as time allowed, is what I imagine the lasting contribution of this most exciting and provocative book will be. P U M J Ariosto, the ‘Orlando Furioso’ and English Culture. Ed. by J E, A H, and S J. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. . xv+ pp. £. ISBN ––––. is collection emanates from a conference sponsored by the British Academy in , the quincentenary of the first publication of Ariosto’s poem. It attempts to trace the influence of Orlando furioso across the centuries in Great Britain. e essays mostly concern ‘adaptation and audience’ and the ‘English aerlives’ of Ariosto’s poem (p. xvi), and are organized chronologically and topically. e first three chapters are devoted to the early circulation of visual images illustrating episodes of the poem, and are only intermittently concerned with the reception of Orlando furioso in England. An essay by Luca degl’Innocenti, however, does contain interesting material on the illustrations to Sir John Harington’s important  translation, and is one of three extended treatments of Harington in the volume . Sections  and  are arranged chronologically, and are the strongest part of the book: three essays on Ariosto ‘from the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment’ and four on ‘Gothic and Romantic Ariosto’. e final section includes an excellent, wide-ranging essay by Stefano Jossa on ‘modern and postmodern’ appropriations of Ariosto (p. ), as well as a chapter comparing two twentieth-century English MLR, .,   translations. Another useful, informative essay by Mario Dorigatti brings out the significance of Antonio Panizzi’s nineteenth-century edition, the first to combine Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato and its sequel, Ariosto’s poem. Two outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in control of their materials, are Tobias Gregory’s ‘Milton and Ariosto’ and Tim Carter’s discussion of ‘Ariosto on the th-Century Opera Stage’, with particular attention to Handel. Carter’s ‘Lessons in Madness’ shows in consistently interesting detail ‘how the Orlando Furioso was read over three centuries’ as well as illustrating some of the problems of turning a poem into ‘mimetic drama’ (pp. , ). Gregory’s essay is one of the few in the volume that treats its materials analytically, giving a sense of what Ariosto is like as a poet and showing how Milton both resembles and differs from Ariosto in passages indebted to the earlier author. Two other valuable essays, Andrew Hiscock on Ariosto ‘among the Elizabethans’ (p. ) and Susan Oliver on Walter Scott and Orlando furioso, are stimulating and informative, without fully realizing the potential of their materials. Hiscock provides ample evidence to demonstrate how...

Chaucer's Scribes: London Textual Production, 1384-1432 by Lawrence Warner

MLR, .,   e final section of the book, ‘Contexts’, contains five bibliographies, each covering a particular travel topic: trade, politics and war, navigation, practical matters, and pilgrimage. e lists are broadly conceived and generally skewed towards more recent scholarship. is is a welcome anthology as the field turns to a deeper understanding of and interest in the global Middle Ages. Medieval English Travel provides a thoughtful guide for studying the literature of travel in medieval England. Moreover, it entices readers to explore the topic further and gives them the tools to do so. I recommend this book for those teaching a class on medieval travel literature and those wishing to learn about it on their own. U  I M M Chaucer’s Scribes: London Textual Production, –. By L W. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . xiv+ pp. £. ISBN ––––. Over the past fieen years or so, through numerous publications, Simon Horobin, Linne R. Mooney, and Estelle Stubbs have proposed a series of identifications of late medieval scribes, focusing in particular on some of the most high-profile manuscripts of some of the most high-profile Middle English authors. In response to these identifications, a few scholars cautiously advised pumping the brakes a bit. In this monograph Lawrence Warner insists that we slam on the brakes—and pull the handbrake, to boot. Warner works systematically through some of the most important scribal identifications proposed so far, attempting to dismantle them on palaeographical, dialectal, and metrical grounds. In most cases he argues that previous identifications—which he revises in this monograph—were faulty, having relied on petitio principii and having played fast and loose with evidence. As with all that Warner writes, the argument is rendered clearly, and Warner does not pull his punches. Lack of space precludes a detailed discussion of each chapter of the book, but his revisionist narrative can be summarized quite straightforwardly: Chaucer’s lyric to Adam, on which the case for the Adam Pynkhurst identification heavily depends, is only doubtfully canonical (Chapter ); Pynkhurst copied the W manuscript of Piers Plowman but not the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of e Canterbury Tales (Chapters  and ); the scribe of HM  was not named Richard Osbarn, and he worked much more for the Goldsmiths’ Company than the Guildhall (Chapter ); excepting John Carpenter, none of the so-called Guildhall Clerks has a very firm association with the Guildhall (Chapter ); and the purported autograph manuscript of Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes is not an autograph, nor can we assume Hoccleve had any major role in supervising the production of literary manuscripts in post-Chaucerian London (Chapter ). Unlike much work in the Humanities, this book’s arguments are factually right or wrong, and it might thus seem neglectful or even pusillanimous for a reviewer to demur from taking sides. But in truth, I do not think the value of this book lies in whether Warner has rightly corrected previous scribal identifications. To this  Reviews reviewer at least, the lasting value of Warner’s argument comes not in his siing of such minutiae, but rather in the larger model he proposes and forcefully articulates for the production and circulation of vernacular literary texts. He urges us to envision scribes adopting more flexible, less centralized methods of book production than have come to dominate much thinking of late—which he usefully terms the ‘fluidity of these clerks’ associations’ (p. ). In doing so, he persuasively calls for us to return to the central insight of Mooney’s  essay (which Warner rightly labels ‘brilliant’ (p. )), which argued that scribes worked in ad hoc ways throughout all pockets of London: ‘[F]rom the s to the s a wide variety of scribes and clerks in and around London got hold of a disparate body of exemplars of those and other works and, in differing circumstances, produced the literature we today research, study, teach, and love’ (pp. –; see Linne R. Mooney, ‘Locating Scribal Activity in Late Medieval London’, in Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England, ed. by Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press, ), pp. –). e best example of this comes from Chapter...

Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages. Edited by Michele Campopiano and Henry Bainton. York Medieval Press. 2017. xii + 315pp. £60.00.

Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages. Edited by Michele Campopiano and Henry Bainton. York Medieval Press. 2017. xii + 315pp. £60.00.

Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire ed. by Susanna Fein

Reviewed by: Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire ed. by Susanna Fein Daron Burrows susanna fein, ed., Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire. Manuscript Culture in the British Isles Vol. 9. York: York Medieval Press, 2019. Pp. xix, 310. isbn: 9781903153901. £60. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is a commonplace book generally thought, on the basis of manuscript-internal evidence, to have been copied by Richard de Grimhill II in Worcestershire in the years 1281–83. As a voluminous trilingual anthology preserving a heterogeneous mix of prose and verse texts, its importance to our understanding of the Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin literary culture of medieval Britain has long been recognized, and the impetus provided by the EETS printing of a black-and-white facsimile of the manuscript (ed. Tschann and Parkes, 1996) and, more recently, by the full-color publication on Digital Bodleian has inspired this worthy collection of essays seeking to build upon the earlier work on the manuscript by Stengel, Miller, Meier-Ewert, Corrie, and others. [End Page 124] Delbert Russell argues that the copy of Wace's Miracles de seint Nicholas, with its combination of the terrestrial and the celestial, forms a bridge between the unequivocally pious and the sometimes shockingly secular material transmitted in the manuscript; he also offers a stimulating orthographical analysis which contributes significantly to the study of the copyist's scripta. Maureen Boulton relates the opening six items of the manuscript, a variety of pastoralia, to the enthusiastic promotion by English bishops, such as Cantilupe of Worcester, of the canons of Lateran IV, convincingly identifying minor modifications which ensure that the doctrinal material is entirely consonant with the cura animarum in the late thirteenth century, and demonstrating that these concerns are reflected in various of the explicitly religious Anglo-Norman texts which appear later in the manuscript. Sheri Smith discusses the organization and significance of the thirty-one prayers in the manuscript, appearing in six clusters organized in various ways by language and theme; an important conclusion drawn is that Anglo-Norman features as the principal language of prayer, with English a later addition. Marjorie Harrington explains the practical emphasis of the first section of the manuscript, as it moves from pastoralia for the soul to medical recipes for the body, and thence to texts including charms, experimenta, and prognosticatory material. Jennifer Jahner concentrates specifically on the experimenta—a combination of practical tips, chemical experiments, and party tricks—as a possible metaphor for the project of the manuscript itself, an exercise of trial and error as the scribe attempts to craft a new form of book. David Raybin argues that the French version of Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis, as the longest text in the manuscript, occupies a pivotal position in introducing a series of literary texts; separate appendices provide a concordance of the French and Latin narratives, and editions with translations of the tales seen as analogues to The Fox and The Wolf and Dame Sirith. Marilyn Corrie exposes the wealth of misogynistic material present in the manuscript, hypothesizing that the Digby compiler's choices in this regard may have reflected his own predilections. Neil Cartlidge focuses on the numerous texts across the manuscript featuring an antagonistic relationship between men and women, concluding that 'the shared insistence on the inevitability of gendered antagonism is in the service of a determined playfulness, with gendered experiences and gendered perspectives being mined, in effect, as a source of sociability' (p. 161). Susanna Fein summarizes the Middle English content of the manuscript, drawing attention to the patterns of organization and providing an inventory of texts cross-referenced with other manuscript copies, as well as editions with translations of The Fox and The Wolf and Dame Sirith. Jenni Nuttall considers the use of paratextual features to highlight verse structures, with particular attention to the scribe's distinctive use of tie-lines. J.D. Sargan offers a detailed analysis of the numerous forms of colored initial 'A' found in the manuscript, comparing the scribe's experimentation with attested types to a jazz musician improvizing on the basis of learned structures. John Hines and Melissa Julian-Jones...

Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages ed. by Helen Fulton, and Michele Campopiano

Reviewed by: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages ed. by Helen Fulton, and Michele Campopiano Nicholas D. Brodie Fulton, Helen, and Michele Campopiano, eds, Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages, Woodbridge, York Medieval Press, 2018; hardback; pp. 224; 2 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9781903153697. This is a book about 'the variety of ways in which British and Italian cultures spoke to each other' (p. 1). Words thus feature prominently within its constituent essays as signifiers of communication. Margaret Bridges examines the Polychronicon, partly focusing on place names. 'Italian toponyms evoke a distant past and foreign clime' (p. 21) she notes, before going on to unpick an erudite medieval literary gaze focused more on the Roman past than any Italian present. Caroline P. Collette unravels a 'shared bibliophilia' (p. 42) that bridges time and place for Richard de Bury. Threading through issues like the reception of Petrarch, the habits of humanism, and the movement of books and texts, Collette deftly blurs the sometimes too-arbitrary distinction between medieval classicism and early humanism. Similarly focused on text and people and time, Michele Campopiano explores 'some less well known evidence for the reception of Italian legal and political works in the northern English city of York' (p. 52). European volumes with English annotations reveal how jurisprudential ideas developed in Bologna were read in the light of contemporary concerns in York. These are small but telling bits of evidence for wider networks of trade and information transfer, Campopiano [End Page 247] argues, which should encourage further exploration of such connections in ways that expand beyond centre-and-periphery scholarship. Ignazio Del Punta's focus is economic. Pointing out that modern and medieval financial crises are not as cleanly comparable as popularly assumed, Del Punta then explores and exposes structural elements of the medieval monetary system. He concludes that 'efficient international banking companies fostered speculative spirals' (p. 8). What worked well in good times proved unable to cope with the bad. The next chapters move from macroeconomics to societal micro-studies. Bart Lambert provides a survey of the Lucchese community in England by drilling into a case study of the Gigli family. Through a fascinating use of Italian sources he presents 'a surprisingly clear view of the businesses of one of the most important foreign trading groups in late medieval England' (p. 88), revealing where they lived, prayed, and travelled. Complementing this well is Helen Bradley's essay on London's Italian merchants, principally traced through examination of their wills. She focuses on the everyday 'linguistic, economic and social interface between cultures' (p. 103) that such individuals reveal, finding evidence for 'several distinct Italian city-state communities' (p. 108) in medieval England, among other things of interest. Victoria Flood investigates Franciscan prophetic texts and rumour in a study of political Joachism. Following threats from Italy to England, Flood notes how 'political Joachism presented not only a possible overture to good rulers, but a mechanism for the critique of the bad' (p. 136), explaining how 'Franciscan prophecies were part of an oppositional culture' (p. 149). Thus, Italian prophecy helped inform and interpret Franciscan relationships with English monarchs. Similarly showing a broader cultural influence informing English texts, Helen Fulton offers 'a redefinition of what urban history was and what forms it took in medieval Britain' (p. 150) by charting continuities over time, particularly those that link urban centres with political narratives and agendas. From Bede to Camden, Fulton casts a wide net to make a compelling case that British urban history has a long history with clear Italian and classical resonances. While at once broad and particular, as most edited volumes are, this book highlights the diverse range of ways wherein English society was influenced by Italian culture. Revealing links personal, economic, and textual, it is a counterpoint to any view of England that would see it in isolation from Europe generally, or Italy specifically. [End Page 248] Nicholas D. Brodie Hobart, Tasmania Copyright © 2020 Nicholas D. Brodie

Inquisition and its Organization in Italy 1250–1350 by Jill Moore

Reviewed by: Inquisition and its Organization in Italy 1250–1350 by Jill Moore Thomas A. Fudge Moore, Jill, Inquisition and its Organization in Italy 1250–1350, York, York Medieval Press, 2019; cloth; pp. xi, 300; 2 b/w illustrations; £60.00; ISBN 9781903153895. Henry Charles Lea is the standard by which all studies of the inquisition are measured. His epochal work was brilliant, immense, and frequently definitive. In an important essay, Richard Kieckhefer argued there was no such thing as ‘the Medieval Inquisition’. While acknowledging their acumen and contributions, Jill Moore challenges both scholars. Her revisionist monograph is a significant achievement. Where Lea tackled the subject on a European scale and Kieckhefer sought to correct a misapprehension, Moore limited herself to a century of medieval history in Italy. In this way she succeeds in delving deeply into archival materials where she examines the mechanics of inquisitorial activities. Going beyond most historians of heresy, Moore interrogates the development of the Italian inquisition by investigating the lives of individuals who made inquisition possible, Building on the provisions of the thirteenth-century papal bull Ad extirpanda, Moore explores the relationship between inquisitors, local bishops, and immediate civil authorities. She argues the traditional image of the feared and autonomous medieval inquisitor requires nuance. The supporting cast of notaries, messengers, spies, familia, vicars, informers, companions, bankers, jailers, and ‘those who served the sacred office’ in a variety of ways, enabled the inquisitor to function effectively. Moore does not obfuscate the challenges facing the historian of the inquisition. Records are sometimes sloppy, marked by an absence of coherence, exacerbated by uneven local foundations, lacking uniform structures, exhibiting information gaps, frustratingly scanty, aggravatingly jumbled, occasionally presented in scrappy outline, and all in all are far from providing a clear picture. These challenges noted, Moore achieves a readable and convincing narrative that augments and corrects Lea and Kieckhefer and produces an important new and original chapter in the history of the inquisition. Against Lea, she adds enormous and useful specificity and suggests, against Kieckhefer, there was a formal institutionalized inquisitorial office. She achieves these objectives by carefully surveying a broad range of sources: statutes, chronicles, financial accounts, civil records, court dossiers, inquisition handbooks and manuals, matriculation rolls of notarial colleges, records of provincial chapters of the Franciscan and Dominican orders, convent necrologies, tax records, diaries, among other sources. What emerges? The inquisition relied upon cooperation with ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Heresy was not exclusively church business. Inquisitors possessed great power but were also subject to enormous insecurity. Requirements imposed upon the inquisition in terms of accountability were monitored and secret spies kept tabs on the holy office. Inquisitors embedded spies in suspected communities of heresy, placed stool pigeons in prison to secure usable intelligence, and paid informants. Symbiotic relations developed between the inquisition and convents. Existing statutes are not necessarily reliable about what happened in practice. [End Page 233] Inquisitorial staff were not ad hoc appointments. Chapter 4 on notaries is worth the price of the book. The involvement of Dominicans and Franciscans indicate that inquisitorial activity was mainstream for the mendicant life. Importantly, Moore demonstrates the orders had different methods of conducting the work of the inquisition and also shows it was not a hermetic system. Inquisitorial messengers had to wear ‘bright-red ribboned headbands’ or ‘tall caps with four red lilies’. Violators of the dress code might be whipped naked in public. There was opposition. Inquisitors were kidnapped, beaten, stabbed, murdered. Others were simply ignored. Notaries were coerced and sometimes falsified records. Efforts were made to intercept heretics at city gates and heresy hunters were not necessarily of one class or another: distinctions were yet to emerge between episcopal and papal inquisitions. The persecuting society can be detected in inquisitorial operations, though Moore argues a culture of impunity cannot be assigned to its work in this period. Tongues were amputated, hamstringing and blinding occurred, cartloads of heretics were sometimes destroyed, and pranksters who entertained in pubs suggesting bowls of lasagne were the Host attracted inquisitorial scrutiny. Questions remain: what is still buried in Italian archives? How were inquisitorial activities financed after Ad extirpanda? The model suggested by Innocent IV (confiscation of heretics’ property) is a flawed...

Writing History in the Anglo‐Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c. 1066–1250. Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm. York Medieval Press. 2018. xii + 269pp. £60.00.

Writing History in the Anglo‐Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c. 1066–1250. Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm. York Medieval Press. 2018. xii + 269pp. £60.00.

Charles C. Rozier, Writing History in the Community of St. Cuthbert, c. 700-1130. From Bede to Symeon of Durham. Rochester NY: A York Medieval Press Publication in association with The Boydell Press, Woodbridge and of Boydell and Brewer Inc., 2020, 240 S., 7 s/w Abb.

<?page nr="487"?>Charles C. Rozier, <i>Writing History in the Community of St. Cuthbert, c. 700-1130. From Bede to Symeon of Durham</i>. Rochester NY: A York Medieval Press Publication in association with The Boydell Press, Woodbridge and of Boydell and Brewer Inc., 2020, 240 S., 7 s/w Abb.

Dale, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (York Medieval Press, 2019)

Review of Johanna Dale, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2019).

Antonio Sennis, ed., Cathars in Question. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 4.) Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 332. $99. ISBN: 978-1-903153-68-0.Table of contents available online at https://boydellandbrewer.com/cathars-in-question.html

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsAntonio Sennis, ed., Cathars in Question. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 4.) Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 332. $99. ISBN: 978-1-903153-68-0.Table of contents available online at https://boydellandbrewer.com/cathars-in-question.htmlIvan MajnarićIvan MajnarićCatholic University of Croatia Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 94, Number 4October 2019 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/705461 Views: 112Total views on this site Copyright 2019 by the Medieval Academy of America. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The making of medieval history. Edited by Graham Loud and Martial Staub. Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 30 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (for York Medieval Press), 2017. £25 (paper). 978 1 903153 70 3

The making of medieval history. Edited by Graham Loud and Martial Staub. Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 30 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (for York Medieval Press), 2017. £25 (paper). 978 1 903153 70 3

Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities

Book Review| July 01 2019 Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. By Hollie L. S. Morgan. York Medieval Press. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2017. Pp. xii + 254; 19 illustrations. $99. Cathy Hume Cathy Hume University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2019) 118 (3): 425–427. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.118.3.0425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cathy Hume; Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 1 July 2019; 118 (3): 425–427. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.118.3.0425 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Journal of English and Germanic Philology Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Hollie L. S. Morgan, Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. Woodbridge, UK: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell, 2017. Pp. xii, 254; 19 color figures. $99. ISBN: 978-1-903153-71-0.

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsHollie L. S. Morgan, Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. Woodbridge, UK: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell, 2017. Pp. xii, 254; 19 color figures. $99. ISBN: 978-1-903153-71-0.Sarah StanburySarah StanburyCollege of the Holy Cross Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 94, Number 2April 2019 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/702903 Views: 76Total views on this site Copyright 2019 by the Medieval Academy of America. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Antonio Sennis (Ed.), Cathars in Question. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, 4.) Woodbridge, York Medieval Press 2016

Antonio Sennis (Ed.), Cathars in Question. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, 4.) Woodbridge, York Medieval Press 2016

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: “Worldly Cares” at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

Book Review| October 01 2018 The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: “Worldly Cares” at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: “Worldly Cares” at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century. By Sylvia Federico. Writing History in the Middle Ages. York: York Medieval Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 207; 7 illustrations. $99. Amanda Gerber Amanda Gerber University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2018) 117 (4): 563–566. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.117.4.0563 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amanda Gerber; The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: “Worldly Cares” at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 1 October 2018; 117 (4): 563–566. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.117.4.0563 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Journal of English and Germanic Philology Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Dudo of Saint‐Quentin's Historia Normannorum. Tradition, Innovation and Memory. By BenjaminPohl. Woodbridge and Rochester: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press. 2015. xii + 313 pp. 22 b/w, 4 line illustrations. £65. ISBN: 9781903153543.

Early Medieval EuropeVolume 26, Issue 2 p. 250-253 Book review Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum. Tradition, Innovation and Memory. By Benjamin Pohl. Woodbridge and Rochester: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press. 2015. xii + 313 pp. 22 b/w, 4 line illustrations. £65. ISBN: 9781903153543. Max Lieberman, Max Lieberman Historisches Seminar, University of ZurichSearch for more papers by this author Max Lieberman, Max Lieberman Historisches Seminar, University of ZurichSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12274Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume26, Issue2Special Issue: Themed edition: The identification of persons in early medieval EuropeMay 2018Pages 250-253 RelatedInformation

Antonio Sennis, editor. Cathars in Question.

Journal Article Antonio Sennis, editor. Cathars in Question. Get access Antonio Sennis, editor. Cathars in Question. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, no. 4.) York, England: York Medieval Press, distributed by The Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 332. $99.99. The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 1, 1 February 2017, Page 293, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.1.293c Published: 31 January 2017

New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall ed. by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle

Reviewed by: New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall ed. by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle Elon Lang Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 551. $66.00. This volume of twenty-four essays is the latest and also grandest example of commemorative essay collections, deservedly dedicated to Derek Pearsall. The collection builds upon Pearsall's own work establishing the York Manuscripts Conference in the early 1980s. This conference and its successor at Harvard gave birth to some of the most acclaimed contemporary scholarship on medieval manuscripts and literature: including volumes such as Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature (D. S. Brewer, 1987) and New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies (York Medieval Press, 2000)—both edited by Pearsall—and several collections of essays dedicated to Pearsall, such as Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry (D. S. Brewer, 2000) and Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions (York Medieval Press, 2001). The way this book of New Directions is different from the earlier festschrifts and collections, however, is how deeply the feted honoree's presence is felt throughout the volume. Rather than just offering an appreciative and celebratory introduction and a dignified photo facing the title page, the volume's editors help to map out its contents for readers with prefaces to thematic section groupings that all illustrate Pearsall's legacy helping to link medieval literary studies and book history. As a tip-of-the-hat to Pearsall's role in establishing this standard of textuality-awareness, Part 1 of the book is titled "Celebrating Pearsallian [End Page 343] Reading Practices," in which Tony Spearing leads off with an article that builds upon Pearsall's work on Troilus and Criseyde. Spearing does so by examining Chaucer's major contribution to Middle English narrative verse, i.e., overt narrative markers of the author's participation in a tale's retelling, through the lens of narrative theorists such as Gérard Genette and Gary Saul Morson. In this, Spearing further fleshes out his concept of "autography," illustrating how it can be understood as a reaction against earlier forms of retelling existing stories. In her "Derek Pearsall, Secret Shakespearean" Martha Driver offers a metacritical piece that combs back through Pearsall's curriculum vitae. Drawing on metacritism in another vein, Part 2 of the volume is as much a memorial to Pearsall's esteemed colleague at York, Elizabeth Salter, as it is a celebration of Pearsall himself. Essays from Jocelyn Wogan-Browne on affective reading in two meditations on Christ's Passion, Susan Powell on Wynnere and Wastoure's connection to the Wing-field family of mid-fourteenth-century Suffolk, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis on strategies used by the Red-Ink Annotator of The Book of Margery Kempe, and Sarah McNamer on the place of origin and Franciscan affiliation of the author of the Italian Meditations on the Life of Christ all pay homage to the enduring work Salter produced to ground Middle English literature in its international, textual, and historical contexts. To demonstrate further the influence of Pearsall's effort to invigorate the field of literary studies with manuscript studies, Part 3 of the collection is positioned as a celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the 1981 York Manuscripts conference. Carol Meale, for example, shows how her career-spanning interest in the book trade in London is built on the work she developed for that conference on early sixteenth-century bookseller and collector John Colyns. In her new essay, she reads Colyns's network of influence on cultural history even more deeply in an exploration of an important group of printers and book-dealers with whom Colyns gathered at Norwich in 1526. Other contributions in this section include A. S. G. Edwards's study on the cost and trade in Lydgate manuscripts in the twentieth century, A. I. Doyle's study on what can be learned about readers from marginalia in a single...

The Prose ‘Brut’ and Other Late Medieval Chronicles. Books Have Their Histories: Essays in Honour of Lister M. Matheson ed. by Jaclyn Rajsic, Erik Kooper and Dominique Hoche

JACLYN RAJSIC, ERIK KOOPER, and DOMINIQUE HOCHE, eds., The Prose 'Brut'and Other Late Medieval Chronicles. Books Have Their Histories: Essays in Honour of Lister M. Matheson. Manuscript Culture in the British Isles. Woodbridge and Rochester: York Medieval Press, 2016. Pp. xxv, 246. ISBN: 978-1-903153-66-6. $99.The Prose 'Brut' and Other Late Medieval Chronicles is a lovely book. It quietly argues, through its collection of high-quality essays, for the importance of traditions to the understanding of medieval literary history and the development of Medieval Studies as a discipline, from Early Modern antiquarian interests to the present day. The volume honors the great scholar of, among much else, English Brut chronicles, Lister M. Matheson (1948-2012), and its contents evolve from papers delivered in his memory in 2013, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. As its editors underscore in their introduction, 'exploration of ... Matheson's influence as a scholar and a teacher lies at the heart of this collection' (p. 1), and, far from just a subtitle or nominal gesture, this is true from start to finish. Julia Marvin's opening 'memoir' paints a lively and vivid portrait of Matheson as a scholar and colleague who approached everything from Middle English Dictionary entries to high-school outreach with generosity; Edward Donald Kennedy's essay on the early eighteenth-century antiquarian Thomas Hearne's uses of English chronicles includes an afterward that affectionately compares Hearne, who never completed an announced edition of the Brut, to Matheson: 'Whether speaking of a remarkable fragment of an old English chronicle or a newly found curious version of the English Prose Brut, both displayed similar delight in and enthusiasm for discovery, delight and enthusiasm evident too in the plans for projects that both left incomplete at their deaths' (p. 198); A.S.G. Edwards's useful essay at the end of the volume-on twentieth-century sales and acquisitions of Brut manuscripts, including an appendix of all such sold or donated and their current locations-is indebted to Matheson's 'detailed record of surviving copies ... supplemented in a posthumously published article' (p. 219). Beyond this, so much of the volume explicitly responds to (in footnotes) or otherwise depends on Matheson's scholarship, that it is hardly hyperbole to say that his heart beats through it. It is, frankly, quite moving to read the book in this spirit.The memorial aspect, however, is far from the only reason to read this volume. Divided into three sections-'The Uses of History,' 'The Prose Brut,' and 'Receptions and Afterlives of Late Medieval Chronicles'-the collection is comprised of very readable selections by important voices in the field of English and manuscript studies. In addition to those already mentioned, essays appear by Krista A. Murchison, Christine M. Rose, Alexander L. Kaufman, Dan Embree, Erik Kooper, William Marx, Jaclyn Rajsic, Neil Weijer, Heather Pagan, Elizabeth J. Bryan, and Caroline D. …

Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts

Book Review| January 01 2017 Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts. Edited by Susanna Fein and Michael Johnston. Manuscript Culture in the British Isles. Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 310; 27 illustrations. $99. Julia Boffey Julia Boffey Queen Mary University of London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2017) 116 (1): 124–125. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.116.1.0124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julia Boffey; Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 1 January 2017; 116 (1): 124–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.116.1.0124 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Journal of English and Germanic Philology Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.