Book reviews

Eid und Herrschaft. Untersuchungen zum Herrscherethos Karls des Groβen . Vorträge und Forschungen. Sonderband 39. By Matthias Becher. Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus . Translated with an introduction and commentary by H. W. Bird Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire . By John Blair. Stroud and Dover, The‘chronicle'of Hydatius and the‘Consularia Constantinopolitana ‘. Two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman Empire. Edited with and English translation by R. W. Burgess. Philologische Studien zur Chronik des Hydatius von Chaves (Palingenesia xlvii). By Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann. The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430. By Averil Cameron. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395–600 . By Averil Cameron. L’Économie médiévale . By P. Contamine, M. Bompaire, S. Lebecq and J.-L. Sarrazin. Civitas to Kingdom, British Political Continuity 300–800. By K. R. Dark. Discovery by Design. The Identification of Secular Elite Settlements in Western Britain AD 400–700. By K. R. Dark. Saint Patric's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age . Translations and commentaries by Liam de Paor. Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (III^c-XIII^c siècle): Actes du colloque, Rome 1988, Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, 149. Rome: 1991. 551 pp. 525 F. ISSN 0223 5099; ISBN 2 7283 0228 2. Die Begegnung des Westens mit dem Osten. Kongreβakten des 4. Symposions des Mediävistenverbandes in Köln 1991 aus Anlaβ des 1000. Todesjahres der Kaiserin Theophanu . Edited by Odilo Engels and Peter Schreiner. A History of English Field-Names . By John Field. Manuscrits hagiographiques et travail des hagiographes . Edited by M. Heinzelmann. Animals in Early Medieval Art. By Carola Hicks. The Book of Letters of Saint Parick the Beshop. By D. R. Howlett. Die Stadtkirche St Laurentius in Winterthur: Ergebnisse der Archäologischen und Historischen Forschungen . By Carola Jäggi, H-R. Meier, Renata Windler and Martin Illi. Caesarius of Arles. The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul . By William E. Klingshirn. Fernhandel und Geldwirtschaft: Beiträge zum deutschen Münzwesen in Sächsischer und Salischer Zeit. Ergebnisse des Dannenberg-Kolloquiums 1990. Edited by Bernd Kluge. The Picts and the Scots. By Lloyd and Jenny Laing. Cnut: The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century. By M. K. Lawson. Benedictine Maledictions. Liturgical Cursing in romanesque France. By Lester K. Little. Ship of the Port of London: First of Eleventh centuries AD . By Peter marsden. The Clash of Gods. A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. By Thomas F. Mathews. Thrymsas and sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford. By D. M. Mctcalf. Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science . Translated Texts for Historians, 16. Translated with notes and introduction by N. P. Milner. Eutropius: Breviarium . Translated Texts for Historians 14. Translated with an introduction and commentary by H. W. Bird. Cultural Interplay in the Eight Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of the sciptorium at Echternach . By Nancy Netzer. Römer und Alamannen im Breisgau: Studien zur Besiedlungsgeschichte in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter . Edited by H. Nuber, K. Schmid, H. Steuer and T. Zotz. Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain . By Elisabeth Okasha. Un historien et son Église au X siècle, Flodoard de Reims . By Michel Sot. The Age of Migration Ideas. Early Medieval Art in Northern Britain and Ireland. Edited by R. M. Spearman and J. Higgitt. Rural Aspects of Early Medieval Northwest Europe . By Adrian Verhulst. Études sur le Grand Domaine Carolingien . By Jean-Pierre Devroey. Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayers from the 4th Century to the 14th . By Benedicta Ward. Anglo-Saxon Paganism By David Wilson. The Uley Shrines . By Ann Woodward and Peter Leach. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature. By Charles D. Wright.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles). By Pierre Bauduin. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen. 2004. 462 pp. EUR 30.00. ISBN 2 84133 145 8. Das monastische Experiment: die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens. By Albrecht Diem. Vita Regularis 24. Münster: LIT Verlag. 2005. x + 465 pp. EUR 39.90. ISBN 3 8258 8556 9. Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. By W?adys?aw Duczko. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2004. xii + 290 pp. + 78 ill. (including maps). $184.00. ISBN 90 04 13874 9. Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age. By Paul Edward Dutton. The New Middle Ages. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005. xvi + 279 pp. + 34 b/w ill. £40. ISBN 1 4039 6223 5. Politics and History in the Tenth Century. The Work and World of Richer of Reims. By Jason Glenn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xviii + 330 pp. + 10 plates. £50. ISBN 0 521 83487 2. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims 919–966. Edited and translated by Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [2004]. xxxvi + 120 pp. £8.99. ISBN 1 55111 650 2. Liber Eliensis: The History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth. Translated by Janet Fairweather. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xliv + 575 pp. £30. ISBN 1 84383 015 9. La géographie du pouvoir dans l’Espagne Visigothique. By Céline Martin. La collection Temps, Espace et Société«Histoire et Civilisations». Lille: Press Universitaires du Septentrion. 2003. 408 pp. EUR 23.50. ISBN 2 85939 815 5. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by Gale R. Owen‐Crocker. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2005. xii + 202 pp. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 84383 124 4. Die Inszenierung religiöser Konfrontationen. Theorie und Praxis der Missionspredigt im frühen Mittelalter. By Lutz E. von Padberg. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 51. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2003. xii + 528 pp. EUR 184. ISBN 3 7772 0324 6. Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. By Alexandra Sanmark. Uppsala: Occasional Papers in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 2004. 322 pp. ISBN 91 506 1739 7. Barbarians, Marauders and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare. By Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, and Cumnor Hill, Oxford: Westview. 2004. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0 8133 9153. Herrschaft und Repräsentation: Studien zur Hofkultur König Alfreds des Groβen. By Anton Scharer. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsband 36. Vienna and Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2000. 151 pp. DM 66 paperback. ISBN 3 7029 0445 X. Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas. By Michael P. Speidel. London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xiv + 313 pp. ISBN 0 415 31199 3. Charlemagne: Empire and Society. Edited by J. Story. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xx + 330 pp. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7190 7089 9. The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911–1154. By Nick Webber. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xi + 195 pp. £45. ISBN 1 84383 119 8.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue. Artifice and Design : Art and Technology in Human Experience . by Barry Allen . Between Mass Death and Individual Loss : The Place of the Dead in Twentieth ‐Century Germany . Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann. Reading Primary Sources : The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth‐and Twentieth ‐Century History . Edited by Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann. In the Light of Medieval Spain : Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past . Edited by Simon R. Doubleday and David Coleman. Diasporas . by Stéphane Dufoix . Was Ist Geschichte ? Aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen von Geschichtsphilosophie und Geschichtswissenschaft . Edited by Wolfgang Eichhorn and Wolfgang Küttler. Past in the Making : Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989. Edited by Michal Kope?ek. Time and History : The Variety of Cultures . Edited by Jörn Rüsen.     

Book reviews

Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland: Monuments, Cosmology and the Past. By N. B. Aitchison. Cadbury Castle, Somerset: The Early Medieval Archaeology By Leslie Alcock, with S. J. Stevenson and C. R. Musson. The Medieval Landscape of Wessex . Edited by Michael Aston and Carenza Lewis. Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian . By Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge. The English nobility under Edward the Confessor . By Peter A. Clarke. The Old English Lives of St Margaret . By Mary Clayton and Hugh Magennis. The Martyrs of Cordoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion . By Jessica A. Coope. Scotland in Dark Age Europe . Edited by Barbara E. Crawford. The politics of dreaming in the Carolingian Empire . By Paul Edward Dutton. The Early Medieval Bible . Edited by Richard Gameson. The Viking-Age Gold and Silver of Scotland AD 850–1100 . By James Graham-Campbell. Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature , 800–1300. By D. H. Green. Sidonius Apollinarus and the Fall of Rome , AD 407–485. By Jill Harries. Karl Martell in seiner Zeit . Beihefte der Francia, Band 37. Edited by J. Jarnut, U. Nonn and M. Richter. Manor, Vill and Hundred: The Development of Rural Institutions in Early Medieval Hampshire . By Eric Klingelhofer. Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh century. Decoding Virgi-lius Maro Grammaticus . By Vivien Law. Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin. Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962–81. Series B, Volume 3. By Sean MGrail. Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation . Edited by Rosamond MKitterick. Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France . By Megan MLaughlin. Early Irish Contract Law . By Neil MLeod. Theodoric in Italy . By John Moorhead. Ausgewählte Probleme europäischer Landnahmen des Früh-und Hochmit-telalters. Methodische Grundlagendiskussion im Grenzbereich zwischen Archäologie und Geschichte. The Book of Kells: Proceedings of a Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 6–9 September 1992 . Edited by Felicity O'Mahony. The Poetic Art of Aldhelm . By Andy Orchard. Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Hochmittelalter . Edited by Jürgen Peter-sohn Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianisation of Marriage during the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods . By P. L. Reynolds. The Formation of the Medieval West: Studies in the Oral Culture of the Barbarians . By Michael Richter. Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict . Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies 10. By Norman Roth. The Reign of Cnut, King of England, Denmark and Norway . Edited by Alexander R. Rumble. The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic forms before A. D. 1000. By Robert D. Stevick. Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul. By Raymond Van Dam.     

Book reviews

Amicitiae und Pacta. Bündnis, Einung, Politik und Gebetsgedenken im beginnenden 10. Jahrhundert . By Gerd Althoff. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. Edited by Emilie Amt. Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West. By Bernard S. Bachrach. The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator . Translated with notes and introduction by S. J. Barnish The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis) . Translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecution . Translated with notes and introduction by John Moorhead The Last Christology of the West. Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul 785–820. By John C. Cavadini. Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rurina and San Liberato (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 4). Edited by Neil Christie. San Vincenzo al Volturno 1: The 1980–86 Excavations Part 1 (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 7). Edited by Richard Hodges. Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain . By Roger Collins Early Anglo-Saxon Shields . By Tania Dickinson and Heinrich Harke. Saint Patrick, A. D. 493–1993. By David N. Dumville Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus. Kaiserliche Rompolitik und sach-sische Historiographie . By Knut Görich. The Early State and The Towns: Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy AD 568–774. By Dick Harrison. Norse and Later Settlement and Subsistence in the North Atlantic. Edited by Christopher D. Morris and D. James Rackham. The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic . Edited by Colleen E. Batey, Judith Jesch and Christopher D. Morris. An Anglo-Saxon Watermill at Tamworth. Excavations in the Bolebridge Street area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, in 1971 and 1978. By Philip Rahtz and Robert Meeson. Éducation et culture dans l'occident médiéval . By Pierre Riche. Tintagel, Arthur and Archaeology . By Charles Thomas The Caliphate in the West . By David J. Wasserstein Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry 750–1150 . By Jan M. Ziolkowski.     

Short notices

Bede and his World: The Jarrow Lectures . With a preface by Michael Lapidge. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: the Carolingian and Ottonian Centuries and Communicatiions and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. By Karl Leyser. English Heritage Book of Lindisfarne Holy Island . By Deirdre O'Sullivan and Robert Young. Excavations at Rhuddlan, Clwyd: 1969–73 Mesolithic to Medieval . By Henrietta Quinnell (formerly Miles) and Marion R. Blockley with Peter Berridge. Zur Kontinuität zwischen Antike und Mittelalter am Oberrhein . Edited by Franz Staab. Pre-Viking Lindsey . Edited by Alan Vince.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this article: Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century . Edited by Jaume Aurell and Francisco Crosas An Imaginative Whig : Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke . Edited by Ian Crowe Toward a Global Community of Historians : The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences 1898‐2000. By Karl Dietrich Erdmann; edited by Jürgen Kocka and Wolfgang J. Mommsen in collaboration with Agnes Blänsdorf; translated by Alan Nothnagle Race , Culture and the Intellectuals 1940‐1970. By Richard H. King The American Intellectual Tradition and Multiculturalism . By Hyungdae Lee The Invention of World Religions , Or , How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism . By Tomoko Masuzawa Commonwealth Principles : Republican Writing of the English Revolution . By Jonathan Scott Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History . By Keith C. Sewell     

Reviews

Feldbæk, Ole, Slaget på Reden (The battle of Copenhagen), K0benhavn (1985), 282 pp., ill.

TVÅKAMMARRIKSDAGEN 1867–1970. Ledamöter och valkretsar. På riksdagens uppdrag utarbetad av Andreas Tjerneld. Band 2, Östergötlands, Jönköpings, Kro‐nobergs, Kalmars, Gotlands och Hallands län. (The bicameral parliament 1867–1970). Prepared by Andreas Tjerneld at the request of parliament. Volume 2. The provinces of Östergötland, Jönköping, Kronoberg, Kalmar, Gotland and Halland). Riksdagen och Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm (1985), 438 pp.

Martti Turtola Tornionjoelta Rajajoelle. Suomen ja Ruotsin salainen yhteistoiminta Neuvosto‐liiton hyökkäysen varalle vuosina 1923–1940. Puolustuspoliittinen vaihtoehto. (From the River Tornio to the Border River. The secret collaboration between Sweden and Finland against Soviet attack 1923–1940. A defence policy alternative) (Porvoo, 1948). 259 P#lb

Nissborg, Agnete, Danmark mellan Norden och väst (Denmark between the North and the West). (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Skrifter utgivna av Statsvetenskapliga föreningeni Uppsala, vol. 101, Uppsala 1985.) ISBN 91–554–1676–4. 147 pp. English summary.

The North Sea. A Highway of Economic and Cultural Exchange. Character — History, Edited by Arne Bang‐Andersen, Basil Greenhill, Egil Harald Grude, (Norwegian University Press, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1985). NOK 260, ISBN 82–00–072 67–3.     

New Aspects of the Magdalenian in Central Europe

G. Bosinski and G. Fischer. Die Menschendarstellungen von Gönnersdorf der Ausgrabung von 1968. Gönnersdorf, Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: 1974. 131 pp.

B. Bosinski and J. Hahn. Der Magdalénienfundplatz Andernach (Martinsberg). Rheinische Ausgrabungen, Vol. 11, pp. 81–257. 1972.

R. Feustel, ed. Die Kniegrotte. Eine Magdalénien‐Station in Thüringen. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Ur‐und Frühgeschichte. Thüringens, Vol. 5. Weimar. 1974. 213 pp. 74 DM.

H. Hanitzsch. Groitzsch bei Eilenburg. Schlag‐ und Siedlungsplätze der späten Altsteinzeit. Veröffentlichungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Dresden. Vol. 12. Berlin: 1972. 123 pp. 40 DM.

P. F. Mauser. Die jungpaläolithische Höhlenstation Petersfels im Hegau (Germarkung Bittelbrunn, Ldkrs. Konstanz). Badische Fundberichte, Sonderheft 13, Freiburg: 1970. 127 pp.

F. Poplin. Les grands vertébrés de Gönnersdorf, fouilles 1968. Gönnersdorf, Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: 1976. 212 pp.

D. A. Sturdee. “Some Reindeer Economies in Prehistoric Europe.” In: E. S. Higgs, ed. Palaeoeconomy, pp. 55–95. Cambridge: 1975.     

Die kultreform des ahas (2 kön 16,10–18)

Abstract

In 1 Kön 16,10–18? wird eine Kultreform des Ahas beschrieben. Zum einen hat er den regelmäßigen Brandopferkult in Jerusalem eingeführt und hierfür einen Altar nach Damaszener Vorbild aufstellen lassen (V. 10–16?). Zum anderen ließ er die mit Jahwe verbundenen Bilder des ehernen Meeres und der Kesselwagen beseitigen (V. 17). Außerdem sind auf ihn Baumaßnahmen am Tempelplatz zurückzuführen (V. 18a). Die angebliche Sabbathalle gab es nie; der Text wurde hier versehentlich falsch punktiert.     

The flint daggers of Denmark: Studies in chronology and cultural relations of the South Scandinavian Late Neolithic

A main topic in this issue of Norwegian Archaeological Review is the book Die Flintdolche Dänemarks. Studien über Chronologie und Kulturbeziehungen des südskandinavischen Spätneolithikums by Ebbe Lomborg. The Scandinavian Late Neolithic has not been a subject of discussion for many years, and this publication is an important contribution to the study of this formative period in the prehistory of the Scandinavian countries.

Comments by Niels Bantelmann, Jay J. Butler, Klaus Ebbesen, and Märta Strömberg are followed by a reply from Ebbe Lomborg.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? By Abdallah Laroui The Muslim Mind . By Charis Waddy The Ethics of al-Ghazali: A Composite Ethics in Islam . By Muhammad Abul Quassem Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law . By Uriel Heyd. Edited by V. L. Ménage The Muslim Filipinos. Their History, Society and Contemporary Problems . Edited by Peter G. Gowing and Robert D. McAmis. Tunisie du Sud: Ksars et Villages de Crětes . By André Louis. Preface by H. E. Habib Bourguiba The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia: 1919–1929 . By Gregory J. Massell Zur Soziologie der Dekolonisation in Afrika (On the Sociology of Decolonization in Africa) . Edited by Gerhard Grohs and Bassam Tibi Militär und Sozialismus in der Dritten Welt (Military and Socialism in the Third World) . By Bassam Tibi     

Short Notices

The Transformation of the Year One Thousand: The Village of Lournand from Antiquity to Feudalism . By Guy Bois, translated by Jean Birrell.
The Origins of Somerset . By Michael Costen.
Wessex to AD 1000 . By Barry Cunliffe.
Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders . By Heinrich Fichtenau.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 5. Edited by William Filmer-Sankey and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, James Campbell and David Brown
Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus'Life of Bishop Wilfrid, An Early English Saint's Life . By William Trent Foley.
Legitimation und Funktion des Herrschers: Vom Ägyptischen Pharao zum neuzeitlichen Diktator . Edited by Rolf Gundlach and Hermann Weber.
The High Crosses of Ireland : An Iconographical and Photographic Survey. By Peter Harbison.
England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton Symposium . Edited by Carola Hicks.
The Medieval Church: A Brief History . By Joseph H. Lynch.
Maritime Celts, Frisians and Saxons: Papers presented to a Conference at Oxford in November 1988 . Edited by Sean MGrail.
Rechtsarchäologie Europas . By Witold Maisel. Translated by Ruth Poninska-Maisel.
From Roman Basilica to Medieval Market: Archaeology in Action in the City of London . Edited by Gustav Milne.
English Heritage Book of Roman York . By Patrick Ottaway.
The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century. By Gerd Tellenbach, translated by Timothy Reuter.
The Vikings . By Else Roesdahl, translated by Susan M. Margeson and Kirsten Williams.
The Early Germans . By Malcolm Todd.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Qur'anic Concept of History, by Mazheruddin Siddiqi. Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3. By Kenneth Cragg. Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. (The World of Islam and the Present Time.) Edited by Rudi Paret. A History of Medieval Islam, by J. J. Saunders. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, by Guy LeStrange. The Modern History of Lebanon, by Kamal S. Salibi. Documents from Islamic Chanceries. First Series (Oriental Studies III). Edited by S. M. Stern. The University Looks Abroad: Approaches to World Affairs at Six American Universities, a report from Education and World Affairs. Bread From Stones: Fifty Years of Technical Assistance. Edited by John S. Badeau and Georgians G. Stevens.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Iran Between Two Revolutions , By Ervand Abrahamian Mollā Sadrā Sh?rāz?: Le Livre des pénétrations métaphysiques (Kitāb al-Mashāir). Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Corbin Le livre du licite et de l'illicite (Kitāb al-halāl wa-l-harām , Book XIV of Al-Gazāl?'s Ihyā Ulūm ad-D?n). Introduction, translation and notes by Régis Morelon Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought. By Fuad Baali Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam. Edited by Katherine P. Ewing The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. By Gordon Darnell Newby Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. by Barbara J. Callaway Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society. By Hisham Sharabi The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser Christians and Muslims Together: An Exploration by Presbyterians. Edited by Byron L Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse. by Gudrun Krämer Towards Understanding the Qur⁾ān. Vol. 1, Sura 1–3. English version of Sayyid Abul A⁽la Mawdudi's Tafhim al-Qur⁽ān, translated and edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari Middle East Contemporary Survey. Vol. IX. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. The Sufi Path of Knowledge : Ibn al-⁽Arab?'s Metaphysics of Imagination. By William C. Chittick Colonising Egypt. By Timothy Mitchell Past-Revolutionary Iran. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manouchehr Parvin Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. By M. E. Combs-Schilling Islam: The Straight Path. By John L. Esposito Islam, Politics, and Social Movements. Edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. By Lila Abu-Lughod     

Short notices

Carolingian Civilization: A Reader . Edited by Paul Edward Dutton
Readings in Medieval History, Volume I . Edited by Patrick J. Geary
English Heritage Book of Anglo-Saxon England . By Martin Welch.
The Origins of Norfolk . By Tom Williamson.     

Book reviews

Mayles BayléArchitecture Normande au Moyen Age. Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (28 September–2 October 1994). Regards sur l'art de bâtir and Les étapes de la creation. Matthias Becher Rex, Dux und Gens. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des sächsischen Herzogtums im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert . Edited by John J. Contreni and Pádraig P. Ó Néill. Glossae Divinae Historiae. The Biblical Glosses of John Scottus Eriugena. Christian Coppens, Albert Derolez and Hubert Heymans Codex Eyckensis. An Insular Gospel Book from the Abbey of Aldeneik. A Facsimile with an Introduction. Stephanie CouéHagiographie im Kontext. Schreibanlaß und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus dem 11. und vom Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts. Alice L. Harting-Corrêa Walahfrid Strabo, ‘Libellus de Exordiis et Incrementis Quarandum in Observationibus Ecclesiasticis Rerum.’ A Translation and Liturgical Commentary.. Rijcklof Hofman The Sankt Gall Priscian Commentary. Part 1. Vol. 1. Introduction; Books 1-5. Vol. 2. Translation and Commentary; Indices. Edited by Richard A. Jackson Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages. Vol. I.. Jenny Jochens Old Norse Images of Women.. Mayke de Jong In Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West.. Felice Lifshitz The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria. Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics 684–1090.. Edited by R. McKitterick The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume II, c.700–c.900. Edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault Edward Gibbon and Empire. Inge B. Milfull The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church. A Study and Edition of the ‘Durham Hymnal.’ DáibhíÓ Cróinín Early Medieval Ireland 400–1200. Carol Braun Pasternack The Textuality of Old English Poetry. Edited by Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography. Susan A. Rabe Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier. The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert. Pierre RichéDictionnaire des Francs. Les carolingiens. Jonathan Riley-Smith The First Crusaders, 1095–1131. Edited by Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, with Malcolm Godden Alfred the Wise. Studies in Honour of Janet Bately.. Pauline Stafford Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women’s Power in Eleventh Century England. Kees Veelenturf Dia Brátha. Eschatological Theophanies and Irish High Crosses.     

Abstracts

Steven L. McKenzie, The Trouble with Kings. The Composition of the Book of Kings in the Deuteronomistic History. Leiden‐New York‐København‐Köln: E.J. Brill 1991, XII &; 183 pp. [Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 421 ISSN 0083–5889, ISBN 90 04 09402 4. Price Gld. 98,‐.

Stefari Timm, Moab zwischen den Mächten. Studien zu historischen Denkmälern und Texten. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1989, VII &; 516 pp. [Ägypten und Altes Testament 17]. ISSN 0720–9061, ISBN 3–447–02940–4. Price DM 128,‐.     

Ghost Lights of the West Highlands

THE WITCH FIGURE. Edited by VENETIA NEWALL. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. Pp. 239. £4.50. Reviewed by Richard Cavendish.

DIE NEUE EVA. Der Sündenfall in Volksglaube und Volkserzählung. By P. SCHWARZ. Arbeiten zur Germanistik, Nr. 77. Verlag Alfred Kümmerle, Göppingen, 1973. Pp. (3), 249, (2). 1 distribution map. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

OSTJAKISCHE HELDENLIEDER AUS JÓZSEF PÁPAY'S NACHLASS. Edited by ISTVÁN ERDÉLYI. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1972. Pp. 503. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

SCOTTISH STUDIES. Vol. 16, Pts. I and II. 1972. Pp. 210. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

HIEDELMEK, VARÁZSLATOK, BOSZORKÁNYOK (Beliefs, witchcraft, witches). By ANDRÁS KRUPA. County Council of Békés, Department of Culture. Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1974. Pp. 373. Reviewed by Bela Gunda.

VON NEUJAHR BIS SILVESTER. VOLKSTÜMLICHE TERMINE IN OBERÖSTERREICH (From New Year to New Year's Eve. Popular Dates in Upper Austria). By RUDOLF FOCHLER. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz, 1971. Pp. 252. Reviewed by Béla Gunda

GHOST HUNTING: A Practical Guide. By ANDREW GREEN. Gamstone Press, 1973. Pp. 168. £2.25. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

THE GHOSTS OF BORLEY: Annals of the Haunted Rectory. By PAUL TABORI and PETER UNDERWOOD. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. Pp. 240. Plates. £3.50. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

GHOSTS IN THE SOUTH WEST. By JAMES TURNER. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. Pp. 165. Plates XIV. £2.95. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

COME DAY, GO DAY, GOD SEND SUNDAY. By ROBIN MORTON. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. £2.95. Reviewed by A. C. Percival.