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Review Essay: De Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide To Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, And Mythological Names In The Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigmund Eisner

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de Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 709. Garland Publishing. New York, 1996. xxi + 451 pp. $24.95.

Review Essay: Frantzen, Allen J. And John D. Niles, Eds. Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson

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Frantzen, Allen J., and John D. Niles, eds. Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1997. 242 pp., illustrations. $49.95.

Review Essay: Kaeuper, Richard W., And Elspeth Kennedy, Eds. The Book Of Chivalry Of Geoffroi De Charny: Text, Context, And Translation, Glyn S. Burgess

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Kaeuper, Richard W., and Elspeth Kennedy, eds. The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1996. ix + 236 pp. $34.95/$17.95.

Review Essay: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Beggar And The Professor: A Sixteeth-Century Family Saga, Amy Nelson Burnett

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Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. viii + 407 pp., 26 half-tones, 5 maps, 1 table. $29.95/$15.00.

Review Essay: Ruh, Kurt. Geschichte Der Abendländischen Mystik. Vol. Iii: Die Mystik Des Deutschen Predigerordens Und Ihre Grundlegung Durch Die Hochscholastik, Albrecht Classen

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Ruh, Kurt. Geschichte der abendländischen Mystik. Vol. III: Die Mystik des deutschen Predigorerdens und ihre Grundlegung durch die Hochscholastik. Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich, 1996. 534 pp. DM 118.

Review Essay: Sheehan, Michael M. Csb. Marriage, Family, And Law In Medieval Europe. Collected Studies, Albrecht Classen

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Sheehan, Michael M. CSB. Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe. Collected Studies. Ed. James K. Farge. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996. xxxi + 330 pp. $45.00.

Review Essay: Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare And The Play Of Language, Frederick Kiefer

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Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1997. xix + 237 pp. $37.50.

Review Essay: Busby, Keith, Ed. Word And Image In Arthurian Literature, James A. Rushing Jr.

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Busby, Keith, ed. Word and Image in Arthurian Literature. Garland, New York, 1996. x + 380 pp. $75.00.

Review Essay: The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe, Albrecht Classen

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Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Trans. and ed. Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996. xxxii + 109 pp. $33.00.

Cereta, Laura. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. Transcribed, trans. and ed. Diana Robin. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. xxvii + 216 pp. $45.00/$19.95.

Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Worth of Women. Wherein is Clearly Revealed their Nobility and their Superiority to Men. Trans. and ed. Virginia Cox. The Other Voice in …

Review Essay: Baum, Wilhelm. Rudolf Iv. Der Stifter. Seine Welt Und Seine Zeit, Albrecht Classen

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Baum, Wilhelm. Rudolf IV. der Stifter. Seine Welt und seine Zeit. Styria, Graz-Cologne-Vienna, 1996. 399 pp., 58 illustrations. DM 58.

Review Essay: Dinzelbacher, Peter, And James Lester Hogg, Eds. Kulturgeschichte Der Christlichen Orden In Einzeldarstellungen, Albrecht Classen

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Dinzelbacher, Peter, and James Lester Hogg, eds. Kulturgeschichte der christlichen Orden in Einzeldarstellungen, ed. Kröners Taschenausgabe, 450. Kröner, Stuttgart, 1997. xii + 419 pp., 6 illustrations. DM 42.

Review Essay: Lacy, Norris, J. Ed. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Peter Dinzelbacher

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Lacy, Norris, J., ed. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 931. Garland Publishing, New York, 1996. xxxviii + 615 pp., 92 black and white illustrations. $29.95.

Review Essay: Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. The Legend Of Guy Of Warwick, Raymond Cormier

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Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. The Legend of Guy of Warwick. Garland Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 14. Garland, New York, 1996. 632 pp., illustrated, index. $95.00.

Review Essay: Schröder, Werner. Variable Verschriftlichung Eines Märe. Ein History Von Eim Edelman Vnd Sinem Knechte Heinrich, Albrecht Classen

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Schröder, Werner. Variable Verschriftlichung eines Märe. Ein History von eim Edelman vnd sinem Knecht Heinrich. Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., XXXIV, 3. Steiner, Stuttgart, 1996. 180 pp. DM 64.

Review Essay: Sigal, Gale. Erotic Dawn-Songs Of The Middle Ages: Voicing The Lyric Lady, Peter Dinzelbacher

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Sigal, Gale. Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. xii + 241 pp. $49.95.

Review Essay: Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Queen And Legend, Jacqueline Eccles

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Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, first paperback edition, 1996. 224 pp., 262 pp. paperback, illustrations. $54.95/$21.95.

Review Essay: Jolly, Karen Louise. Popular Religion In Late Saxon England: Elf Charms In Context, John E. Damon

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Jolly, Karen Louise. Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1996. x + 251 pp. $39.95/$16.95.

Review Essay: Acheson, Katherine, O., Ed. The Diary Of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition, Retha M. Warnicke

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Acheson, Katherine O., ed. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Garland, New York, 1995. 225 pp. $67.00.

Review Essay: Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse And Armada In Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Robin B. Barnes

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Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse and Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies, 29. Sixteenth-Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, Mo., 1995. xvi + 187 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Baswell, Christopher. Virgil In Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid From The Twelfth Century To Chaucer, Anita Obermeier

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Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. xviii + 438 pp. 6 black-and-white facsimile plates. $64.95.

Review Essay: Crockett, Bryan. The Play Of Paradox: Stage And Sermon In Renaissance England, Frederick Kiefer

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Crockett, Bryan. The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1995. xi + 213 pp. $32.95.

Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum

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Dante Alighieri. Monarchia. Trans. and ed. Prue Shaw. Cambridge University Preess, Cambridge, 1995. 186 pp. $54.95.

Review Essay: De' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography Of Lorenzo De' Medici The Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets, Joseph Rosenblum

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de' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent: A Commentary on My Sonnets. Trans. James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 129. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 289 pp. $28.

Review Essay: Earl, James W. Thinking About Beowulf, Joyce Tally Lionarons

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Earl, James W. Thinking about Beowulf. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xiv + 204 pp. $42.50.

Review Essay: Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation By James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 151, Joseph Rosenblum

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Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation by James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 151. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 445 pp. $30.00

Review Essay: Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Albrecht Classen

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Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990. xi + 256 pp., illustrated. $29.95/$11.95.

Review Essay: Classen, Albrecht, Ed. Eroticism And Love In The Middle Ages, Anita Obermeier

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Classen, Albrecht, ed. Eroticism and Love in the Middle Ages. Revised and expanded 3d edition. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, New York, 1995. 500 pp.

Review Essay: Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts Of Authority: The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Nancy A. Guttierez

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Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xvi + 198 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Farrell, Thomas J., Ed. Bakhtin And Medieval Voices, Joseph D. Parry

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Farrell, Thomas J., ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. University of Florida Press, Gainseville, 1995. 240 pp., 9 black & white photographs, 1 figure, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.

Review Essay: Groos, Arthur. Romancing The Grail: Genre, Science, And Quest In Wolfram's Parzival, Albrecht Classen

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Groos, Arthur. Romancing the Grail: Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's Parzival. Cornell University Press, Ithica, N.Y. 1995. xvi + 270 pp. $37.50.