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Review Essay: Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall Of Kings And Princes: Structure And Destruction In Arthurian Tragedy, Gina L. Greco

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Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Figuræ: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995. xi + 336 pp. $39.50.

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: 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.

Review Essay: Tanner, John S. Anxiety In Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading Of Paradise Lost, Robert L. Kindrick

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Tanner, John S. Anxiety in Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost. Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. 224 pp., illustrated. $45.00.

Review Essay: Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions, Cindy Ho

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Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1994. xiii + 224 pp. $35/$16.95.

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: Lange, Wolf-Dieter, Ed. Diesseits- Und Jenseitsreisen Im Mittelalter. Voyages Dans L'Ici-Bas Et Dans L'Au-Delà Au Moyen Âge, Albrecht Classen

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Lange, Wolf-Dieter, ed. Diesseits- und Jenseitreisen im Mittelalter. Voyages dans l'ici-bas et dans l'au-delà au moyen âge. Studium universale, 14. Bonn: Bouvier, 1992. xii + 247 pp. 20 illustrations. DM75.00.

Review Essay: Rüeg, Walter, Ed. Mittelalter. Vol. I Of Geschichte Der Universität In Europa, Ingrid Baumgärtner

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Ruëgg, Walter, ed. Mittelalter. Vol. I of Geschichte der Universität in Europa. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993. 435 pp. 7 maps. DM 148. (DM 128 with subscription to all four volumes.)

Review Essay: Field, P. J. C. The Life And Times Of Sir Thomas Malory, W. R. J. Barron

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Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. Cambridge and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1993. x + 218 pp. £29.50.

Review Essay: Flint, Valerie I. J. The Imaginative Landscape Of Christopher Columbus, Albrecht Classen

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Flint, Valerie I. J. The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xx + 233 pp. Illustrations. $27.50.

Review Essay: Hardison, O. B., Jr., And Leon Golden. Horace For Students Of Literature: The "Ars Poetica" And Its Tradition, Albrecht Classen

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Hardison, O. B., Jr., and Leon Golden. Horace for Students of Literature: The "Ars Poetica" and Its Tradition. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. xviii + 395 pp. $49.95

Review Essay: Bodin, Jean. On The Demon-Mania Of Witches, Hans Sebald

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Bodin, Jean. On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Trans. Randy A. Scott. Intro. Jonathan L. Pearl. Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University, 1995. 218 pp. Paperback. U.S.$ 12.00. Cdn$ 15.00.

Review Essay: Rabasa, José. Inventing America: Spanish Historiography And The Formation Of Eurocentrism, Albrecht Classen

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Rabasa, José. Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism. Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Norman–London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. xiii + 281 pp. 19 illustrations. $16.95.

Review Essay: Kleiner, John. Mismapping The Underworld: Daring And Error In Dante's 'Comedy', Ronnie H. Terpening

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Kleiner, John. Mismapping the Underword: Daring and Error in Dante's 'Comedy." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. 182 pp. $32.50.

Review Essay: Las Casas, Bartolomé De. The Devastation Of The Indies: A Brief Account, Albrecht Classen

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Las Casas, Bartolomé de. The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account. Trans. from Spanish by Herma Briffault. Intro. Bill M. Donovan. Baltimore–London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 138 pp. $11.95.

Review Essay: Schmidt, Gary D. The Iconography Of The Mouth Of Hell: Eighth-Century Britain To The Fifteenth Century, L. A. Doherty

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Schmidt, Gary D. The Iconography of the Mouth of Hell: Eighth-Century Britain to the Fifteenth Century. Cranbury, N.J.: Susquehanna University Press, 1995. 234 pp. $39.50.

Review Essay: Waddington, Raymond B., And Arthur H. Williamson, Eds. The Expulsion Of The Jews: 1492 And After, Paul F. Casey

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Waddington, Raymond B., and Arthur H. Williamson, eds. The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and After. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. 320 pp.

Review Essay: Burke, Peter. The Fortunes Of The Courtier: The European Reception Of Castiglione's Cortegiano, Ronnie H. Terpening

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Burke, Peter. The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cartegiano. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 210 pp. $40.00.

Review Essay: Staten, Henry. Eros In Mourning: Homer To Lacan, Joseph D. Parry

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Staten, Henry. Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvi + 224 pp. Index. $34.95.

Review Essay: Cole, Penny J. The Preaching Of The Crusades To The Holy Land, 1095-1270, David Harry Miller

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Cole, Penny J. The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270. Medieval Academy Books no 98. Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, Mass. 1991. xiv + 281 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi For Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading, Charles R. Smith

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Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 1991. x + 238 pp. $34.95 / $17.95.

Review Essay: Kiser, Lisa J. Truth And Textuality In Chaucer's Poetry, Katharine S. Gittes

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Kiser, Lisa J. Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry. University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1991. 201 pp. $35.00.

Hill, John M. Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1991. 204 pp. $27.50.

Review Essay: Lerer, Seth. Literacy And Power In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Raymond P. Tripp Jr.

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Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1991. xii + 268 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Poly, Jean-Pierre, And Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200, Francis X. Hartigan

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Poly, Jean-Pierre, and Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200. Trans Caroline Higgitt. Holmes and Meier, New York 1991. 404 pp. $42.95.

Review Essay: Duplessis, Robert S. Lille And The Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability In An Era Of Revolution, 1550-1582, Kelly Devries

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DuPlessis, Robert S. Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. xv + 372 pp. $69.95.

Review Essay: Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. St Martin's Press, New York 1992. 1790 pp. $29.95.

Review Essay: Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things And Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, Richard G. Barlow

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Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xv + 142 pp, appendixes, works cited, index. $24.50.

Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's works, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Mcintosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor And Liberty Of Haverings, 1500-1620, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. 489 pp. $74.95.

Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein

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Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 142 pp. $24.95.