Friday, May 15, 2009

New Reviews of Medieval Books

The following is a list of book reviews that have come out in the last month:

Thomas N. Bisson. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009

Nicola di Cosmo (ed.). Military Culture in Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009

Jonathan Shepard, (ed.). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500-1492. (Cambridge University Press), 2009

Edward I. Condren. Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008

David C. Lindberg. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007

Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Carol L. Neuman de Vegvar, eds. Roma Felix: Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West Series. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007

Rosamond McKitterick. Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

David Pratt. The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great. Cambridge University Press, 2007

Robert N. Swanson. Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2006

Steven Gunn, David Grummitt, Hans Cools. War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007

Scott-Stokes, Charity and Chris Given-Wilson (eds. and trans.). Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis: The Chronicle of Anonymous of Canterbury, 1346-1365. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008

Lewis, C.P., ed. Anglo-Norman Studies XXX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2007. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2008

Carey, John. Ireland and the Grail. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2007

Jose Sanchez. Medieval Knights: The Age of Chivalry. Drexel Hill, PA: Andrea Press [Casemate Publishing], 2008