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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: 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.

The Trinity Gild Of Coventry And The Royal Affinity, 1392-1413, Douglas Biggs

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Perhaps the principal difficulty that all late-medieval monarchs faced centered on the process by which royal wishes and needs were transformed into governmental reality in local communities throughout the kingdom. This process, long ignored by historians, has in the past forty years received increasing attention. Most of this attention, following K. B. McFarlane's "Bastard Feudal" construct, has focused on personal relationships between the king or a magnate and local gentry.

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.

The Rest After The Desert: Ending Confessions, George S. Tate

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Augustine, it seems, ends the Confessions twice: the first time neatly at the conclusion of Book 9; the second, problematically, at the end of Book 13. The first ending is an autobiographical ending, but what of the second? The structural and generic unity of the Confessions is a vexed issue, even though its coherence of theme is increasingly recognized. If the work is unified, is it unified as autobiography? If (as I argue) Augustine had come to find the conversion paradigm of his first ending to be unsatisfactory and had exploded it by adopting a new and dangerous strategy in …

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: 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.

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"Withoute Words": The Medieval Lady Dreams In The Assembly Of Ladies, Colleen Donnelly

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Two poems, The Assembly of Ladies and The Floure and the Leafe, are unique among Middle English dream visions due to the gender of their narrators; both are narrated by women. In his edition of these two poems, Derek Pearsall argues that whether they were told by women or not is really of little importance. There are many examples of men, such as Lydgate and Deschamps, writing as women. However, while men may speak for women in other types of poems, a woman narrator of Middle English dream vision survives only in these two poems. Moreover, as Alexandra Barratt …

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Guinevere's Kidneys, Or The Lancelot–Grail Cycle And The Rise Of Realism, Norris J. Lacy

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One of the most remarkable monuments of medieval literature in any language is the thirteenth-century French Lancelot–Grail Cycle (also called the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian Romance, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle—the last because the texts identify the author as Walter Map, who complicated matters, however, by dying well before the cycle was written). Before turning to the subject indicated in my title, I'll situate the cycle and offer a few details about its phenomenal importance.

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: 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.

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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: 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: 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.

Boethius Among The Navajo, Donald F. Duclow

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The title "Boethius among the Navajo" may require some explaining. This essay comes from my teaching of "The Healing Journey," a cross-disciplinary course on suffering and healing. Taking a page from Viktor Frankl, the course centers on the role of meaning in responding to illness and grief and in promoting recovery. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy has represented the classical tradition in the course, and the social science readings included, among others, an essay entitled "Navaho Medicine" by Donald Sandner, a Jungian analyst. In addition, Sandner's book, Navaho Symbols of Healing, provides a detailed, careful study of Navajo medicine men …

"Make Your Proof": Interpretation And Twelfth Night'S Conclusion, Chris Roark

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That it should all depend on there being an indistinguishable twin brother always troubles me when I think about it, though never when I watch the play. Can it be that we enjoy the play so much simply because it is a wish fulfillment so skillfully presented that we do not notice that our hearts are duping our heads?

Review Essay: Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler And Janice Liedl. Love And Death In The Renaissance, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

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Adelmen, 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 words, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest is reviewed on pp 172-3.

Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler and Janice Liedl. Love and Death in the Renaissance.

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: Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie Eines Inquistioonsprozesses, Albrecht Classen

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Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie eines Inquistioonsprozesses. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 1992. 115 pp.

Review Essay: Moore, R. I. The Formation Of A Persecuting Society, Donald Sullivan

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Moore, R. I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1990. viii + 168 pp. $42.95 / $21.95.