MEDIUM fEVUM Edited by Elspeth Kennedy Helen Cooper Nigel Palmer VOLUME LXV Published for the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature 1996 CONTENTS OF VOL. LXV ARTICLES Biccs, Freperick M., and Laura L. Howes, Theophany in the Miller’s Tale Bose, MisHTOONI, From exegesis to appropriation: the medieval Solomon CarTLipGE, NEIL, The date of The Owl and the Nightingale Doner, JANET R., Scribal whim and miniature allocation in the illustrated manuscripts of the Continuation-Gauvain EasTING, Rosert, Peter of Bramham’s account of a chaplain’s vision of purgatory (¢. 1343?) HARDMAN, PHILLIPA, Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady: a text in transition Hreatt, ConsTANce B., The Middle English culinary recipes in MS Harley 5401: an edition and commentary Howes, Laura L.: see Biccs, FREDERICK M. KeEtsER, GeorGE R., Reconstructing Robert Thornton’s herbal SHEPHERD, STEPHEN H. A., The Middle English Pseado- Turpin Chronicle Tastoutas, J. A., “The mother’s lament: Walf and Eadwacer reconsidered NoTEs DamiIANn-GRINT, PETER, Redating the Royal Brat fragment Low, Soon At, The mirthless content of Skarphedinn’s grin Rice, A. G., Serlo of Wilton: a biographical note REvIEW ARTICLE BREWER, CHARLOTTE, Editing Piers Plowman REVIEWS Adcock, Fleur, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet (Carolinne White) Akehurst, F. R. P., and Judith M. Davis (eds), A Handbook of the Troubadours (Peter T. Ricketts) Arn, Mary-Jo (ed.), Fortunes Stabilnes: Charles of Orleans’s English Book of Love. .A Critical Edition (Julia Boffey) Baker, Denise Nowakowski, Juéian of Norwich’s Showings: From Vision to Book (Vincent Gillespie) Barney, Stephen A., Studies in ‘Troilus’: Chaucer's Text, Meter and Diction (R. F. Yeager) Barr, Helen, Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Hugh White) Bartlett, Anne Clark, Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature (Brendan Biggs) Baswell, Christopher, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the ‘Aeneid’ from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Charles Burnett) Bennett, Philip E., Anne Elizabeth Cobby and Graham A. Runnalls (eds), Charlemagne in the North: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the Société Rencesvals, Edinburgh, 4th to 11th August 1991 (D. A. Trotter) Bertau, Karl (ed. and trans.), Johannes de Tepla, Civis Zacensis: Epistola cum ‘Libello ackerman’ und ‘Das biichlein ackerman’. Nach der Freiburger Hs. 165 und nach der Stuttgarter Hs. HB X 23 (John L. Flood) Bianciotto, Gabriel (ed.), Le Roman de Troyle (Angus J. Kennedy)... Biller, Peter, and Anne Hudson (eds), Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530 (Rita Copeland) Blacker, Jean, The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum (Peter Damian-Grint) Blanch, RobertJ. , and Julian N. Wasserman, From ‘Pearl’ to ‘Gawain’: Form to Fynisment (John C. Hirsh) Blanchard, Joél (ed.), Antoine de la Sale: ‘Jehan de Saintré’, trans. Michel Quereuil (E. K.) Boitani, Piero, The Shadow of Ulysses: Figures of a Myth, trans. Anita Weston (Richard Jenkyns) Boshof, Egon, and Fritz Peter Knapp (eds), Wolfger von Erla, Bischof von Passau (1191-1204) und Patriarch von Adquileja (1204-1218) als Kirchenfiirst und Literaturmaézen (D. H. Green) Botterill, Steven, Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the ‘Commedia’ (L. Pertile) Brefeld, Josephie, A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages: A Case for Computer-Aided Textual Criticism (Bettina Wagner) Calabrese, Michael A., Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love (Peter Brown) Cawley, A. C.: see Stevens, Martin Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline, a Couleur de la mélancolie: La friquenta- tion des livres au XIV* siécle, 1300-1415 (Jane H. M. Taylor) (ed. and trans.), Guillaume de Machaut: ‘La Fontaine amoureuse’ (Jane H. M. Taylor) Cherchi, Paolo, Andreas and the Ambiguity ofC ourtly Love (Leslie C. Brook) Chibnall, Marjorie: see Watkiss, Leslie Cobby, Anne Elizabeth: see Bennett, Philip E. Constable, Giles, Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought: The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, The Ideal of the Imitation of Christ, The Orders of Society (John C. Hirsh) Cormack, Margaret, The Saints in Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400 (Carolyne Larrington) Davis, Judith M.: see Akehurst, F. R. P. d’Avray, D. L., Death and the Prince: Memorial Preaching before 1350 (Alan J. Fletcher) de Looze, Laurence (ed. and trans.), Jean Froissart: ‘La Prison amoureuse’ (‘The Prison of Love’) (Philip E. Bennett) Desmond, Marilynn, Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality and the Medieval ‘Aeneid’ (Nicola F. McDonald) Dinzelbacher, Peter, Christliche Mystik im Abendland: Ihre Geschichte von den Anfangen bis zum Ende des Mittelalters (Oliver Davies) Doane, A. N. (ed.), Books of Prayer and Healing (Jane Stevenson) .... Doss-Quinby, Eglal, Zhe Lyrics oft he Trouvéres: A Research Guide (1970- 1990) (Peter T. Ricketts) Dotson, John E. (trans.), Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Venice: The ‘Zibaldone da Canal’ (David Wallace) Dubuis, Roger (trans.), Antoine de la Sale: ‘Saintré’ (E. K.) .ssecsesseesesees Earl, James W., Thinking about ‘Beowulf (Carolyne Larrington) Ellis, Steve (trans.), Dante Alghieri: ‘Hell’ (Mark Balfour) Eusebi, Mario (ed.), Antoine de la Sale: ‘Saintré’: Roman du quinziéme siécle, Il (Jane H. M. Taylor) Fiebig, Annegret, and Hans-Jochen Schiewer (eds), Deutsche Literatur und Sprache von 10so—1200: Festschrift fir Ursula Hennig (Brian Murdoch) Gameson, Richard, The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (Barbara C. Raw) Gaunt, Simon, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (M. J. Ailes) Gottschall, Dagmar, and Georg Steer (eds), Der deutsche ‘Lucidarius’, I: Kritischer Text nach den Handschriften (N. F. P.) ..s..ssssssssssesssesseees Grubmiiller, Klaus (ed.), Nérnberger Prosa-Asop (Nigel Harris) Guerin, M. Victoria, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy (H. C.) Harley, Marta Powell (ed.), Zhe Myrour of Recluses: A Middle English Translation of ‘Speculum Inclusorum’ (Bella Millett) Haug, Walter, and Burghart Wachinger (eds), Kéeinstformen der Literatur (Nigel Harris) Hemming, T. D. (ed.), La Vie de St Alexis: Texte du manuscritA (B.N. nouv. acq. fr. 4503) (Stewart Gregory) Hennig, Ursula: see Fiebig, Annegret Hill, John M., The Cultural World in ‘Beowulf (Carolyne Larrington) Holznagel, Franz -Josef, Wege in die Schriftlichkeit: Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Uberlieferung der mittelbochdeutschen Lyrik (D. H. Green) Hudson, Anne: see Biller, Peter Hyatte, Reginald, The Arts of Friendship: The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Peter S. Noble) Jackson, W. H., Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany: The Works of Hartmann von Aue (Frank Shaw) Jager, Erich, The Tempter’s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature (Norm Klassen) Jensen, Frede (ed. and trans.), Tuscan Poetry of the Duecento: An Anthology (Spencer Pearce) Jones, Frederic J., The Structure of Petrarch’s ‘Canzoniere’: A Chronological, Psychological and Stylistic Analysis (Jennifer Petrie) .... Kay, Richard, Dante’s Christian Astrology (Zygmunt G. Barariski) .... Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (ed.), Joannis Saresheriensis Policraticus I-IV (Leofranc Holford-Strevens) Knapp, Fritz Peter: see Boshof, Egon Kooper, Erik (ed.), Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context (Elsa Strietman) Koopmans, Jelle, and Paul Verhuyck (eds), Recueil des repues franches de Maistre Francois Villon et de ses compagnons (Barbara N. Sargent-Baur) Kiihn, Dieter: see Nellmann, Eberhard Lacy, Norris J. (ed.), Lancelot—Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and post-Vulgate in Translation, UII and TV (E. K.) ..sccssessssssseessseesesess Machan, Tim William, Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts (A. S. G. Edwards) McSheffrey, Shannon, Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities 1420-1530 (Anne Hudson) Mazzotta, Giuseppe, The Worlds of Petrarch (F. J. Jones) Meyer, Ruth, Das ‘St. Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch’: Untersuchung, Edition, Kommentar (Jefftey Hamburger) Mitchell, Bruce, An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (jan Cermak) Moure, José Luis: see Orduna, German Muir, Bernard J. (ed.), The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (Carolyne Larrington) Muir, Lynette R., The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe (William Tydeman) Myles, Robert, Chaucerian Realism (Peter Brown) Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544 (C. David Benson) Nellmann, Eberhard (ed.), Wolfram von Eschenbach ‘Parzival’; iibertragen von Dieter Kiithn (David Yeandle) Neumann, Hans (ed.), Mechthild von Magdeburg: ‘Das fliefende Licht der Gottheit’. Nach der Einsiedler Handschrift in kritischem Vergleich mit der gesamten Uberlieferung, ptepated for the press by Gisela Vollmann-Profe (Timothy McFarland) Nix, Matthias, Untersuchungen zur Funktion der politischen Spruchdichtung Walthers von der Vogelweide (Silvia Ranawake) O’Gorman, Richard (ed.), Robert de Boron: ‘Joseph d’Arimathie’. A Critical Edition of the Verse and Prose Versions (E. K.) ..ssssesssesee O’Mahony, Felicity (ed.), The Book of Kells: Proceedings of a Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 6-9 September 1992 (Barbara C. Raw) Orduna, German (ed.), Pero Lopez de Ayala: ‘Crénica del Rey don Enrique, su hermano, hijos del rey don Alfonso Oncieno’, 1; estudio ptelimina de German Orduna y José Luis Moure (D. G. Pattison) Orme, Nicholas, and Margaret Webster, The English Hospital, 1070- 1570 (Miri Rubin) Palmer, R. Barton (ed. and trans.), Guillanme de Machaut: ‘The Fountain of Love’ (‘La fontainne amoureuse’) cnd Two Other Love Vision Poems (Nigel Wilkins) Parker, Deborah, Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Nadia Cannata Salamone) Paroli, Teresa (ed.), La funzione dell’eroe germanico: storicita, metafora, paradigma. Atti del convegno internazionale di studia Roma, 6-8 maggio 1993 (Brian Murdoch) Paxson, James J., Zhe Poetics of Personification (Mark Allen) Petrie, Jennifer, and June Salmons (eds), Dante Alighieri: ‘Vita nuova’ (Peter Armour) Petroff, Elizabeth Avilda, Body and Soul Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism (David Lawton) Polak, Emil J., Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America (Lesley Smith) Prandi, Stefano, J/ ‘diletto legno’: aridita e fioritura mistica nella ‘Commedia’ (Angela Meekins) Pulsiano, Phillip (ed.), Psa/ters I (Jane Stevenson) Putter, Ad, ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and French Arthurian Romance (H. C.) Quereuil, Michel: see Blanchard, Joél Rambo, Elizabeth L., Colonial Ireland in Medieval English Literature (Angela M. 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King) Stevick, Robert D., The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Vitual and Poetic Forms before A.D. 1000 (Barbara C. Raw) Strohm, Reinhard, The Rise of European Music 138-1s00 (John Caldwell) Troyan, Scott D., Textual Decorum: A Rhetoric of Attitudes in Medieval Literature (Alcuin Blamires) van Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon, The Two Versions of Malory’s ‘Morte Darthur’: Multiple Negation and the Editing of the Text (H. C.)......... Verhuyck, Paul: see Koopmans, Jelle Vollmann-Profe, Gisela: see Neumann, Hans Wachinger, Burghart: see Haug, Walter Wasserman, Julian N.: see Blanch, Robert J. Watkiss, Leslie, and Marjorie Chibnall (ed. and trans.), The Waltham Chronicle: An Account of the Discovery of our Holy Cross at Montacute and its Conveyance to Waltham (Rosalind Ransford) Webster, Margaret: see Orme, Nicholas Wenzel, Siegfried, Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late- Medieval England (Alan J. 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