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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: 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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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: Riche, Baarnabe. Farewell To Military Profession, Nancy A. Gutierrez

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Riche, Barabe. Farewell to Military Profession. Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society no 1. Ed Donald Beecher. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Vol 91. Binghamton, N.Y. 1992. 336 pp, bib. $28.00 / $12.00.

Review Essay: Heffernan, Thomas. Art And Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Of Devotion, Thomas Spaulding Willard

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Heffernan, Thomas. Art and Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry of Devotion, Renaissance Monographs no 17. Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo 1991. 123 pp. $38.00 by subscription.

Review Essay: Holt, Mack P., Ed. Society And Institutions In Early Modern France, Raymond A. Mentzer Jr.

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Holt, Mack P., ed. Society and Institutions in Early Modern France. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1991. 242 pp. $35.00 / $15.00.

Review Essay: Rabil, Albert Jr, Ed, Trans. Knowledge, Goodness, And Power: The Debate Over Nobility Among Quattrocento Italian Humanists, De Lamar Jensen

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Rabil, Albert Jr, ed, trans. Knowledge, Goodness, and Power: The Debate over Nobility among Quattrocento Italian Humanists. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, N.Y. 1991. 410 pp. $30.00.

Review Essay: Wayne, Valerie, Ed. The Matter Of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism Of Shakespeare, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Wayne, Valerie, ed. The Matter oof Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. x + 227 pp. $48.95 / $18.95.

Gajowski, Evelyn. The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies. University of Delaware Press, Newark 1992. 153 pp. $32.50.

Review Essay: Devries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology, Albert Winkler

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DeVries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology. Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario 1992. xi + 340 pp. $14.95.

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: Kugel, James L., Ed. Poetry And Prophecy: The Beginnings Of A Literary Tradition, Janine Marie Idziak

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Kugel, James L., ed. Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1990. 251 pp. $13.95.

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: Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape And Writing In The Heptameron Of Marguerite De Navarre, Caroline Mcalister

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Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape and Writing in The Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 301 pp. $34.95.

Review Essay: Maccaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War And Politics, 1588-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1992. 592 pp. $65.00.