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Beyond Sustenance: An Exploration Of Food And Drink Culture In Ireland, Grace Neville
Beyond Sustenance: An Exploration Of Food And Drink Culture In Ireland, Grace Neville
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
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"Honest Claret": The Social Meaning Of Georgian Ireland’S Favourite Wine, Tom Jaine
"Honest Claret": The Social Meaning Of Georgian Ireland’S Favourite Wine, Tom Jaine
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
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Cheffes De Cuisine: Women And Work In The Professional French Kitchen, Mary M. Farrell
Cheffes De Cuisine: Women And Work In The Professional French Kitchen, Mary M. Farrell
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
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Memory Of A Racist Past — Yazoo: Integration In A Deep-Southern Town By Willie Morris, Nick J. Sciullo
Memory Of A Racist Past — Yazoo: Integration In A Deep-Southern Town By Willie Morris, Nick J. Sciullo
Nick J. Sciullo
Willie Morris was in many ways larger than life. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he moved with his family to Yazoo City, Mississippi at the age of six months. He attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where his scathing editorials against racism in the South earned him the hatred of university officials. After graduation, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. He would join Harper’s Magazine in 1963, rising to become the youngest editor-in-chief in the magazine’s history. He remained at this post until 1971 when he resigned amid dropping ad sales and a lack of …
Review Essay: Bringing The Middle Ages Into The World History Survey Course: Some Suggestions, Tiffany A. Trimmer
Review Essay: Bringing The Middle Ages Into The World History Survey Course: Some Suggestions, Tiffany A. Trimmer
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Too often World Historians neglect coverage of the European Middle Ages, and medieval history courses tend to lose sight of the ways in which medieval Europe played a part in the wider world to which it belonged. Part of this results from the artificial pre/post 1500 CE split that dominates the organization of the typical world history survey, and part from the reluctance of World Historians to realize the potential of a global history approach to the era before the age of exploration and colonization. The works included in this essay attempt to rectify the absence of earlier European historical …
Review Essay: Michelle P. Brown. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality And The Scribe, Thomas Klein
Review Essay: Michelle P. Brown. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality And The Scribe, Thomas Klein
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Michelle P. Brown. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xvi, 479 pp.
Review Essay: John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives And The Rhetoric Of Gender: Male And Female In Merovingian Hagiography, Isabel Moreira
Review Essay: John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives And The Rhetoric Of Gender: Male And Female In Merovingian Hagiography, Isabel Moreira
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John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 255 pp. ISBN 0195117220.
Review Essay: Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze And Body In Early Modern Philosophy, Shankar Raman
Review Essay: Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze And Body In Early Modern Philosophy, Shankar Raman
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Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Review Essay: James Sharpe. The Bewitching Of Anne Gunter: A Horrible And True Story Of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, And The King Of England, Frances E. Dolan
Review Essay: James Sharpe. The Bewitching Of Anne Gunter: A Horrible And True Story Of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, And The King Of England, Frances E. Dolan
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James Sharpe. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England. New York: Routledge, 2000. 238 pp. + xvi. $26.00.
Review Essay: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Dorothy Kim
Review Essay: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Dorothy Kim
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 286 pp. ISBN 0312219296.
Review Essay: Jean Renart: The Romance Of The Rose Or Of Guillaume De Dole (Roman De La Rose Ou De Guillaume De Dole), Kathy M. Krause
Review Essay: Jean Renart: The Romance Of The Rose Or Of Guillaume De Dole (Roman De La Rose Ou De Guillaume De Dole), Kathy M. Krause
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Jean Renart: The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole (Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole). Ed. and trans. Regina Psaki. Garland Library of Medieval Literature 92A. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. xli + 280 pp.
Review Essay: Jeffrey Powers-Beck. Writing The Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue, Owen Staley
Review Essay: Jeffrey Powers-Beck. Writing The Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue, Owen Staley
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Jeffrey Powers-Beck. Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998. 290 pp. incl. bibliography, 3 appendices, and index. $54.50 cloth. ISBN 0–8207–0283–5.
Review Essay: Arthur Marotti, Ed. Catholicism And Anti-Catholicism In Early Modern English Texts, Eugene R. Cunnar
Review Essay: Arthur Marotti, Ed. Catholicism And Anti-Catholicism In Early Modern English Texts, Eugene R. Cunnar
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Arthur Marotti, ed. Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 266 pp.
Review Essay: R. B. Dobson And J. Taylor. Rymes Of Robyn Hood: An Introduction To The English Outlaw, Julian Wasserman
Review Essay: R. B. Dobson And J. Taylor. Rymes Of Robyn Hood: An Introduction To The English Outlaw, Julian Wasserman
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R. B. Dobson and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1997. 332 pp.
Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. 723 pp.
Review Essay: Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, Nancy Gutierrez
Review Essay: Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, Nancy Gutierrez
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Susanne Woods. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 198 pp.
Review Essay: David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages And Associational Forms In England And Italy, Stanley Benfell
Review Essay: David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages And Associational Forms In England And Italy, Stanley Benfell
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David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix + 555 pp.
Review Essay: Confident Readings: Medieval And Early Modern (Christian) Spirituality And Its Recent Interpreters, Steven F. Kruger
Review Essay: Confident Readings: Medieval And Early Modern (Christian) Spirituality And Its Recent Interpreters, Steven F. Kruger
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Catherine M. Mooney, ed. Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii + 277 pp.
Richard Rambuss. Closet Devotions. Durham and London: Duke Univer- sity Press, 1998. xiii + 193 pp.
Review Essay: Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
Review Essay: Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson
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Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. Ed. John D. Niles and Allen J. Frantzen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Review Essay: Anna Battigelli. Margaret Cavendish And The Exiles Of The Mind, Sylvia Bowerbank
Review Essay: Anna Battigelli. Margaret Cavendish And The Exiles Of The Mind, Sylvia Bowerbank
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Anna Battigelli. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Review Essay: Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions En Chantant: Devotional Songs Of The Trouvères, William Burgwinkle
Review Essay: Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions En Chantant: Devotional Songs Of The Trouvères, William Burgwinkle
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Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Prions en chantant: Devotional Songs of the Trouvères. Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations, II. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997. 240 pp. Paperback $19.95. ISBN 0-802-07826-5. Hardback $50.00. ISBN 0-802-00840-2.
Review Essay: Lyons, John D. The Tragedy Of Origins: Pierre Corneille And Historical Perspective, Sara E. Melzer
Review Essay: Lyons, John D. The Tragedy Of Origins: Pierre Corneille And Historical Perspective, Sara E. Melzer
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Lyons, John D. The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille and Historical Perspective. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. 236 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-804-72616-7.
Review Essay: Mendelson, Sara, And Patricia Crawford. Women In Early Modern England, Jan Stirm
Review Essay: Mendelson, Sara, And Patricia Crawford. Women In Early Modern England, Jan Stirm
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Mendelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. xviii+ 480 pp. Illus. Paperback $19.95. ISBN 0-198-20812-x. Hardback $35. ISBN 0-198-20124-9.
Review Essay: Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" In The Theatre. Studies In Theatre History And Culture Series, Lois Potter
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Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Theatare. Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, ed. Thomas Postlewait, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1997. 340 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-877-45592-9.
Review Essay: Major Women Writers Of Seventeenth-Century England, Theodora A. Jankowski
Review Essay: Major Women Writers Of Seventeenth-Century England, Theodora A. Jankowski
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Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, ed. James Fizmaurice, Josephine A. Roberts, Carol L. Barash, Eugene R. Cunnar, and Nancy A. Gutierrez. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1997. 408 pp. Paperback $29.95. ISBN 0-472-06609-9. Hardback $52.50. ISBN 0-472-09609-5.
Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet
Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet
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Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997- vii + 255 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2982-4. $45.00.
Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner
Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner
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Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xii + 190 pp. $54.95; and Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 247 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62254-9.
Review Essay: Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies And The Body Politic: Discourses Of Social Pathology In Early Modern England, Julian Yates
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Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 197 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-59405-7.
Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban
Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban
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Arthur, Ross G., and Noel L. Corbett, trans. The Knight of the Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. 188 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.
Review Essay: Bjork, Robert E. And John D. Niles, Eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 Pp., Illustrations. $60.00., Joyce Tally Lionarons
Review Essay: Bjork, Robert E. And John D. Niles, Eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 Pp., Illustrations. $60.00., Joyce Tally Lionarons
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Bjork, Robert E., and John D. Niles, eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 pp., illustrations. $60.00.
Review Essay: Ruh, Kurt. Geschichte Der Abendländischen Mystik. Vol. Iii: Die Mystik Des Deutschen Predigerordens Und Ihre Grundlegung Durch Die Hochscholastik, Albrecht Classen
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.