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2015 entries

I. COLLECTIONS

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II. TEXTS

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III. STUDIES

ADLER, Gillian. ‘Ʒit þat traytour alls tite teris lete he fall’: Arthur, Mordred, and Tragedy in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.” Arthuriana 25.3 (2015): 3-21.

The Alliterative Morte Arthure differs from the Brut tradition by depicting King Arthur’s demise and that of the Round Table as the inevitable result of Arthur’s adherence to the standard of hyper-masculinized violence. (SH)

Keywords: Laᵹamon’s Brut, Roman de Brut, Wace, Mordred, Guenevere, Gawain, Cador, Giant of St. Michel, Emperor Lucius, Rome, Caliburn, masculinity, kinship, treachery, revenge, sterility.

ARCHER, Jayne Elisabeth, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas. “‘Soper at Oure Aller Cost’: The Politics of Food Supply in Canterbury Tales.” ChauR 50.1&2 (2015): 1-29.

The Plowman’s Tale and the Reeve’s Tale engage contemporary concerns about the politics of food production. (MH)

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BESSERMAN, Lawrence. “Biblical Figura in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, ll, 1380-1386: ‘As don thise rokkes or thise milnestones.’” ChauR 49.3 (2015): 344-351.

Falling rocks and millstones in the poem allude to a “web” of imagery of death and destruction in Matthew, Apocalypse, and Judges, etc. (MH)

BLURTON, Heather and Hannah Johnson. “Reading the Prioress’s Tale in the Fifteenth Century: Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Marian Devotion.” ChauR 50.1 & 2 (2015): 134-158.

In miracle tales that respond to the Prioress’s Tale, Hoccleve and Lydgate engage with Chaucer’s reputation as a Marian devotional poet. (MH)

BRUSO, Steven P.W. “The Sword and the Scepter: Mordred, Arthur, and the Dual Roles of Kingship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.” Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 44-66.

By departing from tradition and casting Mordred in a more positive light, the poet of the Alliterative Morte Arthure creates a contrast between the kingship of Mordred and that of King Arthur, which results in a subtle critique of Arthur as ideal prince. While Mordred focuses on effective government at home, King Arthur aspires to build empires abroad, a costly endeavor that has negative repercussions on human and material resources. (SH)

Keywords: king-as-warrior, king-as-governor, England, royal power, sovereignty, governance.

CAPPAS-TORO, Pamela, and Javier IRIGOYEN-GARCÍA. “‘¿Vaos bien con la compañía?’: Violación colectiva y fantasía política en el romance Después que el rey don Rodrigo.” Hispanófila 173 (January 2015): 3-19.

The article examines the fifteenth-century romance Después que el rey don Rodrigo as a burlesque political allegory. According to legend, the Visigoth King Don Rodrigo raped Count Don Julián’s daughter; Don Julián, in revenge, facilitated the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. The romance, based on Pedro de Corral’s Crónaca sarracina, deals the last episode of the legend, when Don Rodrigo is fleeing from the Muslims. The semiotics of sexual aggression in the romance points to a fantasy of the collective rape and regicide of Don Rodrigo, whose crime was considered the prime cause of the eventual “loss of (Christian) Spain”. The implicit sodomitical relationships among the characters of the romance, as well as Don Rodrigo’s grotesque punishment, symbolize the violent “insertion” of marginalized classes into the social order and the subversion of the feudal hierarchy. (CDS)

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CHAPMAN, Juliana. “Melodye and Noyse: An Aesthetic of Musica in The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale.” SP 112.4 (Fall 2015): 633-655.

Analyzing them in terms of their use of music as a “literary aesthetic” reveals a deeper “discursive interaction” between The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale. (MH)

CIRILLA, Anthony. “Ghostly Consolation: Awntys off Arthure as Boethius Memorial.” Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 19 (2015): 68-103.

CLARK, David Eugene. “Constructing Spiritual Hierarchy Through Mass Attendance in the Morte Darthur.” Arthuriana 25.1 (2015): 128-153.

Studies the relationship between attending mass and achieving temporal success and spiritual salvation. (SH)

Keywords: piety, spiritual hierarchy, communion, devotion, penance, confession, Lancelot, Gawain, Gareth, Bors, Galahad, Perceval, Grail, sin, Christian faith, worship.

CRITTEN, Rory G. “Imagining Author in Late Medieval England and France: The Transmission and Reception of Christine de Pizan’s Epistre au dieu d’Amours and Thomas Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid.” SP 112.4 (Fall 2015): 680-697.

Considering Hoccleve’s translation of Christine’s Epistre au dieu d’Amours reveals differences in “modes of authorship” open to Middle French and Middle English poets. (MH)

DEL CAMPO-TEJEDOR, Alberto. “Ciegos repentistas en Andalucía. De Al-Majzumi al ciego de los Corrales.” Hispanófila 174 (June 2015): 131-151.

The article focuses on the art of improvisation performed by blind poets, jongleurs, and minstrels in Andalucía from the Middle Ages to today. In twelfth-century al-Andalus the blind poet Al-Majzumi was famous for his prodigious capacity to improvise compositions in verse (often irreverent and obscene). By the thirteenth century the blind jongleur had become a stock character in Castilian chronicles. It is common in Golden Age plays, usually as a cunning rogue associated with the world of vagrancy, living hand to mouth. The blind poets were generally ridiculed by the literate classes, but appreciated by foreign travelers for their “picturesque” quality. Their profession lasted until the first half of the twentieth century, with Juan Rivas Santiago (“el ciego de los Corrales”) achieving popular fame throughout Spain. (CDS)

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FLOOD, Victoria. “Arthur’s Return from Avalon: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Development of the Legend.” Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 84-110.

With Geoffrey of Monmouth as a focal point, the article examines the myth of King Arthur’s return from Avalon in relation to Welsh prophetic traditions and Breton legends. The author further traces the reception of the myth by French, English, and Welsh authors and its impact on court culture. (SH)

Keywords: Historia Regum Britanniae, Prophetiae Merlini, Vita Merlini, Roman de Brut, Speculum Ecclesiae, Gerald of Wales, Wace, Morgan, Merlin, Thelgesin, Glastonbury.

GARRISON, Jennifer. “Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Danger of Masculine Interiority.” ChauR 49.3 (2015): 320-343.

The poem critiques an interiority that allows men to ignore the political consequences of their private desires. (MH)

HARDAWAY, Reid. “A Fallen Language and the Consolation of Art in the Book of the Duchess.” ChauR 50.1 & 2 (2015): 158-177.

Modeling Ovid, in the Book of the Duchess, Chaucer uses language to transform traumatic memories into a therapeutic experience. (MH)

HAUGHT, Leah. “In Pursuit of “Trewth”: Ambiguity and Meaning in Amis and Amiloun.” JEGP 114.2 (2015): 240-260.

HUBER, Emily Rebekah. “Redeeming the Dog: Sir Gowther.” ChauR 50.3 & 4 (2015): 284-314.

Considering three medieval cultural representations of dogs—the demonic hellhound, the revered hunting hound, and the holy greyhound—suggests a contemporary canine discourse for understanding Gowther’s animality and redemption. (MH)

JEFFERIS, Sibylle. “The Influence of the Trojan War Story on the Nibelungenlied: Motifs, Figures, Situations.” In: Festschrift Albrecht Classen. Ed. Werner HEINZ. Mediaevistik 28 (2015): 87-98. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

This study endeavors to show the influence of the German Trojan War Story by Herbort von Fritzlar (after 1190), based on the Roman de Troie by Bernoit de Sainte-Maure, on the Nibelungenlied (1200/1205). A number of parallels can be discerned in its heroic structure, personnel, and situations. (SJ)

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LERER, Seth. “‘The Tongue’: Chaucer, Lydgate, Charles d’Orléans, and the Making of a Late Medieval Lyric.” ChauR 49.4 (2015): 474-498.

The Findern scribe shapes his source material into a coherent poem that resonates with the manuscript’s broad concerns. (MH)

LINDSAY, Sarah. “The Courteous Monster: Chivalry, Violence, and Social Control in The Carl of Carlisle.” JEGP 114.3 (2015): 401-418.

MAHIQUES-CLIMENT, Joan, and Helena ROVIRA-i-CERDÀ. “El Romance de Guiomar y del emperador Carlos. Estudio y asentamiento de la edición de Perugia.” Hispanófila 174 (June 2015): 117-130.

The authors publish a Spanish sixteenth-century edition of the Romance de Guiomar y del emperador Carlos found in the Biblioteca Comunale Augusta in Perugia, Italy (volume IL 1402). Until now, the romance was only known from a copy of a different Spanish sixteenth-century edition found at the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague (volume 9.H.231). While the Prague variant has an unstable rhyme, the Perugia variant shows a regular assonant rhyme which is obained with the use of the paragogic -e. The study is not a critical edition of the romance, but the authors’ comparison of the meter and of other linguistic elements leads them to maintain that the paragogic -e of the Perugia variant must have been a characteristic of the archetypal text from which both variants derive. (CDS)

MARSHALL, Adam Bryant. “Sir Lancelot at the Chapel Perelus: Malory’s Adaptation of the Perlesvaus.” Arthuriana 25.3 (2015): 33-48.

A comparison between Malory’s account of Lancelot’s adventure at the Chapel Perelus and that of its source text, the anonymous Perlesvaus, reveals how Malory accentuates Lancelot’s bravery and enhances suspense by augmenting the terrifying, otherworldly elements of the episode. (SH)

Keywords: Le Morte Darthur, gothic, terror, Hallewes, black dog, chase scene, tomb.

MARSHALL, Camille. “Figuring the Dangers of the ‘Greet Forneys’: Chaucer and Gower’s Timely (Mis)Porting.” Comitatus 46 (2015): 75-97.

Focusing on Chaucer’s Miller in the Canterbury Tales and on Gower’s Vox Clamantis, Book I, in comparison with chroniclers of the 1381 Peasant’s Uprising, Marshall analyzes the poetic voicing of the rebellious. Whereas Gower aims to condemn the revolts, Chaucer somewhat subverts the threat of the dissenters through a comedic Miller. In both literatures, the image of fire conveys the destruction of civic order, but the disrepute of Chaucer’s Miller elicits a response other than fear so as to highlight the significance of teller and audience in framing disorder. (NC)

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MELICK, Elizabeth. “Saracens, Graves, and the Formation of National Identity in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.” Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 19 (2015): 50-67.

That Malory denies Saracens “the opportunity to record their national identity” on grave markers is theologically symbolic of their status as “not Christian.” (MH)

MORTON, Jonathan. “Ingenious Genius: Invention, Creation, Reproduction in the High Middle Ages.” ECr 55.2 (Summer 2015): 4-19.

Morton examines allegorical figures of Genius in Bernard Sylvester’s Cosmographia, Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturae, and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la rose. He uncovers the tensions inherent in the figures, demonstrating that in the Middle Ages, Genius is paradoxical and perverse. (KLB)

Keywords: Augustine, Isidore of Seville, Nature.

MURCHISON, Krista A. “The Meaning of Middle English Gent and Smal.” ChauR 49.3 (2015): 371-375.

Typical glosses for the phrase overlook the way it fuses nobility of character with slender build. (MH)

MURTON, Megan. “Praying with Boethius in Troilus and Criseyde.” ChauR 49.3 (2015): 294-319.

Reading Troilus’s hymn and redemption speech in the context of Boece reveals Troilus as a “Boethian hero,” his religious devotion illumined by philosophy. (MH)

PARK, Hwanhee. “‘To Ben Holden Digne of Reverence’: the tale-telling tactics of Chaucer’s Prioress.” Comitatus 46 (2015): 99-116.

In the “General Prologue,” Chaucer depicts the Prioress with courtly affectations. According to Park, however, the Prioress fashions her story-telling self as a “meta-Clergeon” (99), replete with Biblical quotations to establish her authority. This strategy enables her identification with her protagonist, an innocent boy devoted to the Virgin Mary, so that she occupies the same miraculous center stage as the boy and achieves a tale worthy of reverence. (NC)

QUINTANAR, Abraham. “The Serrana Undressed: Reframing the Reading of the Archpriest’s Fourth Mountain Encounter in the Libro de buen amor. Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 19 (2015): 119-146.

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RAMEY, Lynn T. Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2014. Rev. by Tison PUGH. SoAR 80.3-4 (2015): 277-279.

Keywords: racism, racialized bodies, nineteenth century, Bible, cartographers, explorers, films, marriage, Pliny, Augustine, Chaucer, Jean de Bodel, Parzival, Fille du comte de Pontieu, Beauve de Hantone, King of Tars, Guillaume d’Orange, Peter the Venerable, John of Plano Carpini, Song of Songs, Washington Irving, Viollet-le-Duc, hybridity.

SCHULMAN, Jana D., and Paul SZARMACH, eds. Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance. Studies in Medieval Culture 50. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2012. Rev. by Michael AAIJ. SoAR 80.1-2 (2015): 191-194.

Keywords: Seamus Heaney, reviews, DVD, Bagby, Medieval Congress, Daniel Donoghue, Roy Liuzza, Tom Shippey, Nicholas Howe, S.A.J. Bradley, John Miles Foley, E.G. Stanley, irony, reception theory, adaptation, Klaeber.

SHUURMAN, Anne. “Pity and Poetics in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.” PMLA 130.5 (2015): 1302-1317.

Whereas most scholarship pointedly circumvents the emotions Chaucer’s Legend prompts, Shuurman argues for the response of pity as covalent with that of writing poetry. Each involves genuine sincerity. Private emotional responses effectively result from social construction, partly learned from and perpetrated by literature such as the Legend. (NC)

SEVERE, Richard. “Galahad, Percival, and Bors: Grail Knights and the Quest for Spiritual Friendship.” Arthuriana 25.3 (2015): 49-65.

SOBECKI, Sebastian. “Lydgate’s Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode.” ChauR 49.3 (2015): 265-293.

Rather than performing a rejection of his secular career, in the Testament Lydgate attempts to bring coherence to his life’s work and “assign a place” to his “laureate past,” his kneeling pose at once “pious and secular.” (MH)

STAMPONE, Christopher. “Choreographing Fin’amor and the Game of Love in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.” ChauR 50.3 & 4 (2015): 393-419.

Understanding that the rhetorical “daunce” (a term that appears nowhere in Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato and in every book of Troilus and Creseyde) is the 308“predominant” mode of fin’amor in the poem brings light to problematic exchanges between main characters. (MH)

STONE, Gregory B. “Animals are from Venus, Human Beings from Mars: Averroës’s Aristotle and the Rationality of Emotion in Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Donna me prega.’” PMLA 130.5 (2015): 1269-1284.

Stone’s interpretation of this Renaissance lyric may foster a re-evaluation of medieval courtly love. He revises the usual reading of Cavalcanti’s lyric by reading Averroës’s Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima to argue for the emotion of love as belonging to human rationality due to the images the emotion elicits. Sense perception issues in cogitation so that the third stanza of Calvalcanti’s lyric privileges practical reasoning and elevates love as the perfection of the human, earth-bound soul (NC)

TAI, Wanchen. “‘Al we wilni[thorn] to ben old. wy is eld ihatid’: Aging and Ageism in Le Bone Florence of Rome.” SP 112.4 (Fall 2015): 656-679.

Considering the centenarian Garcy’s body in Le Bone Florence of Rome within medieval medical discourses exposes the ageism in “the framework of romance.” (MH)

IV. REVIEWS

ALLAIRE, Gloria, and F. Regina PSAKI, eds. The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014. Rev. by Joan Tasker GRIMBERT. Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 143-145.

Keywords: France, Chrétien de Troyes, Rustichello da Pisa, Arthurian Compilation, Guiron le Courtois, French Prose Tristan, Tristano Riccardiano, Tristano Panciatichiano, Tristano Veneto, Tristano Corsiniano, Tavola Ritonda, Arthurian cantari, canterini, matter of Britain, manuscripts, Arthurian art.

ANDREW, Malcolm and Ronald WALDRON. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Rev. by Susan BROOKS. Comitatus 46 (2015): 282-284.

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ARCHIBALD, Elizabeth, and David F. JOHNSON, eds. Arthurian Literature XXX. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. Rev. by Susan ARONSTEIN. Arthuriana 25.1 (2015): 167-168.

Keywords: Culhwch and Olwen, Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Perceforest, Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha, Tale of the Sankgreal, Burgundian prose Erec, Ysaie le Triste, Le Conte du Papegau, Melyador, Froissart, Geoffrey of Monmouth, reception.

ARMSTRONG, Dorsey, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering. Magistra Doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler. Rev. by Leah HAUGHT. JEGP 114.3 (2015): 435-438.

BARNES, Geraldine. The Bookish Riddarasögur: Writing and Romance in Late Medieval Iceland. Rev. by Marianne KALINKE. JEGP 114.3 (2015): 419-420.

BORGMAN, Nils. Matière de France oder Matière des Francs? Die germanische Heldenepik und die Anfänge der Chanson de Geste. Rev. by Anatoly LIBERMAN. JEGP 114.2 (2015): 312-313.

BROWN, Katherine. Boccaccio’s Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal. Florida: University of Florida Press, 2014. Rev. by Leslie S. JACOBY. Comitatus 46 (2015): 215-217.

CROCKER, Holly A., and D. Vance SMITH, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debate. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Rev. by Meg ROLAND. Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 146-147.

FALETRA Michael A. Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. Rev. by Lindy BRADY. Arthuriana 25.4 (2015): 108-109.

Keywords: Geoffrey of Monmouth, John of Salisbury, Walter Map, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Gerald of Wales.

GILL, Amyrose McCue and Sarah Rolfe PRODAN, eds. Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2014. Rev. by Alexandra VERINI. Comitatus 46 (2015): 236-238.

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GLAUSER, Jürg and Susanne KRAMARZ-BEIN. Rittersagas: Übersetzung, Überlieferung, Transmission. Rev. by Marianne E. KALINKE. JEGP 114.3 (2015): 427-430.

INNES, Paul. Epic. The New Critical Idiom. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Rev. by Anthony ADAMS. Arthuriana 25.4 (2015): 114-116.

JAEGER, C. Stephen. Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Rev. by Raymond CORMIER. Encomia 34-35 (2015): 29-31.

JENNINGS, Lauren McGuire. The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song. Rev. by Elena ABRAMOV-VAN RIJK. MusL 96.3 (August 2015): 449-450.

KALINKE, Marianne, gen. ed. Norse Romance, 3 vols. I: The Tristan Legend; II: The Knights of the Round Table; III: Haerra Ivan. (Arthurian Archives III-V.) Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. Rev. by Keith BUSBY. Encomia 34-35 (2015): 31-32.

KAY, Sarah. Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Rev. by Rebecca HILL. Comitatus 46 (2015): 253-256.

KERBY-FULTON, Kathryn, John J. THOMPSON, and Sarah BAECHLE, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Rev. by Lawrence WARNER. Arthuriana 25.4 (2015): 116-117.

KRAGL, Florian, Elisabeth Martschini, Katharina Büsel and Alexander Hödlmoser. Nibelungenlied und Nibelungensage: Kommentierte Bibliographie 1945-2010. Rev. by Jeffrey TURCO. JEGP 114.1 (2015): 127-129.

LE GOFF, Jacques. In Search of Sacred Time: Jacques de Voragine and ‘The Golden Legend.’ Trans. Lydia G. COCHRANE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Rev. by Kristina MARKMAN. Comitatus 46 (2015): 260-262.

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MURRIN, Michael. Trade and Romance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Rev. by Maia FARRAR. Comitatus 46 (2015): 268-270.

NASTI, Paolo and Claudi ROSSIGNOLI, eds. Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2013. Rev. by Monica KEANE. Comitatus 46 (2015): 245-247.

NEWTH, Michael, trans. Heroines of the French Epic: A Second Selection of Chansons de Geste. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. Rev. by Irit Ruth KLEIMAN. Arthuriana 25.3 (2015): 120-121.

Keywords: The Capture of Orange, The Song of Floovant, Aye of Avignon (I and II), The Song of Blancheflor, and Bertha Broad-Foot, woman, helpmeet, lover, victim, spiritual model.

OSTER, Carolin. Die Farben höfischer Körper: Farbattribuierung und höfische Identität in mittelhochdeutschen Artus- und Tristanromanen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2004. Rev. by: Albrecht CLASSEN. GQ 88 (2015): 586-588.

PÉREZ, Kristina. The Myth of Morgan la Fey. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Rev. by Randy P. SCHIFF. Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 155-156.

Keywords: Lady of the Lake, Morgause, Loathly Lady, Melanie Klein, Oresteian mother, sovereignty goddess.

PLUMLEY, Yolanda. The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusin in the Age of Machaut. Rev. by Catherine A. BRADLEY. MusL 96.1 (February 2015): 112-115.

QUESADA, Miguel Ángel Ladero. Isabel I de Castilla: siete ensayos sobre la reina, su entorno y sus empresas. Madrid: Dykinson S. L. Madrid, 2012. Rev. by James Nelson NOVOA. Comitatus 46 (2015): 287-289.

RADULESCU, Raluca L. Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. Rev. by Andrea DENNY-BROWN. Arthuriana 25.1 (2015): 177-178.

Keywords: reception, suffering king, genealogical anxiety, Roberd of Cisely, Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Estoire del Saint Graal, Le Morte Darthur, Henry Lovelich, Malory, Lancelot, Winchester manuscript.

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ROVANG, Paul R. Malory’s Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the ‘Morte Darthur.’ Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. Rev. by Fiona TOLHURST. Arthuriana 25.4 (2015): 119-121.

Keywords: Arthur, Mark, Gawain, Lancelot, Tristram, Galahad, Perceval, Gareth, Kay, Dinadan, Mordred, Palomides, Guenevere, Isolde, Morgan la Fay, Lady of the Lake.

SHEEHAN, Sarah, and Ann DOOLEY, eds. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Rev. by Charlene M. ESKA. Arthuriana 25.1 (2015): 178-180.

SPONSLER, Claire. The Queen’s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Rev. by Sheila COURSEY. Comitatus 46 (2015): 303-305.

STARKEY, Kathryn. A Courtier’s Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere’s “Welscher Gast.” Rev. by Jakub ŠIMEK. JEGP 114.3 (2015): 430-433. Also Rev. by James A. SCHULTZ. GerSR 38.1 (2015): 151-152.

SUBRAHMANYAM, Sanjay. Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Rev. by Raymond CORMIER. Encomia 34-35 (2015): 32-34.

TOMLINSON, Brian, ed. Developing Materials for Language Teaching. 2d ed. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Rev. by Diane W. BIRCKBICHLER. Modern Language Journal 99.1 (2015): 198-199.

This book of essays may be helpful to those teaching courtly literature in its original as it provides classroom tools.

WALTER, Philippe. Dictionnaire de mythologie arthurienne. Paris : Imago, 2014. Rev. by Norris J. LACY. Arthuriana 25.3 (2015): 123-124.

WEBER, Loren J. Law, ed. Rulership, and Rhetoric: Selected Essays of Robert L. Benson. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Rev. by Josh TIMMERMANN. Comitatus 46 (2015): 258-260.

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WHALEN, Logan E., ed. A Companion to Marie de France. (Brill’s Companions to the Christian tradition 27). Leiden: Brill, 2011. Rev. by Richard TRACHSLER. Encomia 34-35 (2015): 34-39.

WRIGHT, Monica L., Norris J. LACY, and Rupert T. PICKENS, eds. “Moult a sans et vallour”: Studies in Medieval French Literature in Honor of William W. Kibler. Rev. by Christopher CALLAHAN. FR 88.3 (March 2015): 233-234.