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Sympathy For The Monastery: Monks And Their Stereotypes In The Canterbury Tales, Shiela Pardee

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The two monks that appear in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim Daun Piers and Daun John in the Shipman's Tale, seem to be everything one would expect from medieval estates satire. They are attractive outdoorsmen with sophisticated appetites, fine clothing, and healthy complexions; in spite of their vows of poverty, they are the very image oof medieval prosperity. Although Chaucer conforms to the image of the worldly monk familiar to his audience, his intentions are more complex than simply to replicate and confirm the stereotype. In addition, he calls attention to the effects of the stereotype on the clerics …

Divergent Journeys: Devils, Readers, And The Narrator's Art In 'Þe Deuelis Perlament', Gary D. Schmidt

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In 1509, Wynkyn de Worde published a five-hundred-line poem that he, in defiance of the poet's own suggestion that the piece be called 'þe Deuelis Perlament' (1 490), entitled 'The Parliment of Fyendys'. It would remain known by that title — if it can be said to have been known at all — for the next three centuries, when the Roxburghe Club reprinted de Worde's text about 1820 for private distribution. A wider audience would wait almost another half-century for Furnivall's EETS edition in 1868. But still another century would pass before 'þe Deuelis Perlament' began to be taken seriously …

Review Essay: Sommerville, John C. The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England, Daniel W. O'Bryan

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Sommerville, John C. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1992. 211 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Ashley, Kathleen, And Pamela Sheingorn, Edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne In Late Medieval Society, Susan Stakel

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Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1990. 243 pp. $30.00 / $15.00.

Blumenfeld-Kozinski, Renate, ed. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. 315 pp. $41.50 / $15.95.

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.

Two Towns Where There Was Once One: The Aldea In Medieval Aragon, Donald J. Kagay

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No medieval era was more significant for the creation of royal, clerical, and urban institutions than the thirteenth century as sovereign and pope alike began to form the political structures of western European society in a way that closed many avenues of power to the trustees of societal authority of an earlier period, the nobility. Baronial resistance to the monarchical 'innovations' of the era would eventually direct the course of such state — building towards a fuller partnership between sovereign and subject. Though the best-known examples of such conflicts between custom and law occurred in England with the royal issuance …

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: Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor Di Virtù: Commedia In Cinque Atti, 1548, Robert M. Johnston

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Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù: Commedia in cinque atti, 1548. Ed Elissa Weaver. Longo Editore, Ravenna 1990. 286 pp.

Review Essay: Robert Levine, Trans., France Before Charlemagne: A Translation From The Grandes Chroniques, Harry Rosenberg

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Robert Levine, trans., France before Charlemagne: A Translation from the Grandes Chroniques, Studies in French Civilization 3, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 287 pp., $89.95.

Review Essay: R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline In The Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750, J. B. Owens

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R. Po-chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750, Routledge, 1989, 218 pp., biblio., index, $44.00.

Review Essay: J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion Of Europe, De Lamar Jensen

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J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion of Europe, Oxford University Press, 1988, 320 pp., maps, biblio., $15.95.

Review Essay: A. L. Brown, The Governance Of Late Medieval England 1272-1461, Kenneth G. Madison

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A. L. Brown, The Governance of Late Medieval England 1272-1462, Governance of England 3, Stanford University Press, 1989, viii, 248 pp., index, $32.50.

Review Essay: Michael A. Hicks, Ed., Profit, Piety And The Professions In Later Medieval England, Stephanie Christelow

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Michael A. Hicks, ed., Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xxii, 170 pp., biblio., index, $30.00

Review Essay: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Trans., The Writings Of Margaret Of Oingt: Medieval Prioress And Mystic (D. 1310), Joan M. West

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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, trans., The Writings of Margaret of Oingt: Medieval Priooress and Mystic (D. 1310), Focus Library of Medieval Women 2, Focus Information Group, 1990, 86 pp., $8.95.

Review Essay: Judith Berg Sobre, Behind The Altar Table: The Development Of The Painted Retable In Span, 1350-1500, John F. Moffitt

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Judith Berg Sobre, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350-1500, University of Missouri Preess, 1989, 384 pp., ill., biblio., index, $55.00.

Review Essay: John C. Briggs, Francis Bacon And The Rhetoric Of Nature, Thomas Willard

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John C. Briggs, Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature, Harvard University PRess, 1989, xii, 285 pp., $35.00.

Review Essay: William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet Of The Early Roman Baroque, Frede Jensen

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William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet of the Early Roman Baroque, Studies in Renaissance Literature 3, Edwin Mellen Preess, 1990, iv, 379 pp., ill., $109.95 (library binding).

Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith

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Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology, University of South Florida Press, 1990, xviii, 376 pp., ill., biblio., index, $36.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paperback).

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

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Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620, Indiana University Press, 1990, ix, 242 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography Of Modern Criticism And Scholarship, De Lamar Jensen

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Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship, Greenwood Press, 1990, 824 pp., $89.50.

Review Essay: Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study Of "The Pilgrimage Of The Life Of Man" As A Medieval Treatise On Seeing And Remembering, Glenn W. Olsen

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Susan K. Hagen, Allegorical Remembrance: A Study of "The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man" as a Medieval Treatise on Seeing and Remembering, University of Georgia Press, 1990, xii, 268 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: John B. Gleason, John Colet, Norman L. Jones

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John B. Gleason, John Colet, University of California Press, 1989, 416 pp., $50.00.

Review Essay: Timothy Verdon And John Henderson, Eds., Christianity And Renaissance: Image And Religious Imagination In The Quattrocento, Edward J. Olszewski

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Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, eds., Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xix, 611 pp., ill., $55.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Edward Ii And The Tactics Of Kingship, Carolyn P. Schriber

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Edward II (1307-1327) succeeded to the throne of England at a crucial time. In 1307 England was at war with Scotland and faced threats of further trouble in Wales and Gascony. In addition his father had left him a debt-ridden country in which the barons were beginning to recognize their potential for governmental control through financial blackmail. The country's finances were overextended, but the baronage and clergy had been resisting royal demands for increased taxation. If Edward II were to continue his father's policies and pursue the war in Scotland, as the barons wished, he would be forced to give …

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Richard M. Wunderli

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Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Clarendon Press, 1989, xvii, 425 pp., ill., fig., tables, app., biblio., index, $84.00.

Review Essay: Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise On Lovesickness, William Klein

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Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise on Lovesickness, trans. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xvi, 709 pp., biblio., index, $49.95.

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Review Essay: John Taylor And Wendy Childs, Eds., Politics And Crisis In Fourteenth-Century England, Kenneth G. Madison

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John Taylor and Wendy Childs, eds., Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xvi, 157 pp., index, $30.00.