Book reviews

Geschichte der iberischen Halbinsel im Mittelalter, 711–1480. By Ludwig Vones.
The Age of Sutton Hoo : the Seventh Century in North-Western Europe. Edited by M. O. H. Carver.
The Image of Aristocracy in Britain , 1000–1300. By David Crouch
Vie chrétienne et culture dans I'Espagne du VIle au Xe siècles . By Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz.
Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival . By David N. Dumville.
Doppelklöster und andere Formen der Symbiose männlicher und weiblicher Religiosen im Mittelalter . Berliner Historische Studien 18. Ordensstudien 8. Edited by K. Elm and M. Parisse.
Die abendländische Freiheit vom 10. zum 14. Jahrhundert. Der Wirkungszu-sammenhang von Idee und Wirklichkeit im europäischen Vergieich , Vorträge und Forschungen des Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte 39. Edited by Johannes Fried.
The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages . By Margaret Gelling.
Venantius Fortunatus: A Latin Poet in Merovingian Gaul . By Judith W. George.
The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350–1100 . By N. J. Higham.
Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons . By Nicholas Higham.
Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church, sharing a common fate . By Stephanie Hollis
Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant . By Peter Jeffery.
Ottonian Book Illumination: an Historical Study . By Henry Mayr-Harting.
The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel . By G. Ronald Murphy.
The English Church and the Continent in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Cultural, Spiritual, and Artistic Exchanges . By Veronica Ortenberg.
St Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult . Edited by N. Ramsay, M. Sparks, and T. Tatton-Brown.
The City in Late Antiquity . Edited by John Rich
Province and Empire. Brittany and the Carolingians . By Julia M. H. Smith.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Teil II: Laon–Paderborn
Ross Brann, Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain
Constance Brittain Bouchard (ed.), The Cartulary of Monitier-en-Der, 666–1129
Martina Giese (ed.), Die Annales Quedlinburgenses
Helena Hamerow and Arthur MacGregor (eds), Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain. Essays in Honour of Rosemary Cramp
Matthias Hardt, Gold und Herrschaft. Die Schätze europäischer Könige und Fürsten im ersten Jahrtausend
Michael W. Herren and Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century
Susan Irvine (ed.), MS E
Michael Kulikowski, Late Roman Spain and its Cities
Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950–1100
Aliki Pantos and Sarah Semple (eds), Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe
Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England     

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

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.     

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Book Reviewed in this article:
Death in Towns. Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead Edited by Steven Bassett.
Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages. By David N. Dumville.
De Constanitino a Carlomagno. Disidentes, Heterodoxos, Marginados . Edited by F. J. Lomas and F. Devis.
Transmigration and Translation. studien zum Bistumswechsel der Bischöfe von der Spätantike bis zum Hohen Mittelalter.
Handel und Wucher im Spiegel frühmittelalterlicher Rechtsquellen . schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 35. By Harald Siems.     

Book reviews

Carolingian Renewal: Sources and Heritage. By D. A. Bullough.
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe . By Valerie I. J. Flint.
Dark Age Naval Power . By John Haywood.
Goths and Romans 332–489. By P. J. Heather.
The Goths in the Fourth Century . By Peter Heather and John Matthews
The External School in Carolingian Society . By M. M. Hildebrandt.
Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for her Son , by Dhuoda.
Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St æthelwold . Edited by Michael Lapidge and Michael Winterbottom.
The End of Ancient Christianity. By Robert Markus.
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse . By Averil Cameron. Berkeley
The Annals of St-Bertin (Ninth-century Histories, volume I). Translated and annotated by Janet L. Nelson
Ireland and Northern France AD 600–810. Edited by Jean-Michel Picard
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600–900. Edited by L. Webster and J. Backhouse     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
'Observations, Rules and Orders of the House of Commons': An Early Procedural Collection. Edited by W. R. McKay.
Clerks in the House of Commons 1363–1989: A Biographical List. By W. R. McKay.
English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich.
The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272–1461. By A. L. Brown.
Mary Tudor: A Life. By David Loades.
Elizabeth I. By Christopher Haigh.
The Writings of William Walwyn. Edited by Jack R. McMichael and Barbara Taft.
The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661–1667. By Paul Seaward.
Letters of George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1698–1732 . Edited by Daniel Szechi.
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750. By George R. Boyer.
Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860–1919. Edited by Roy MacLeod.
Katharine Atholl 1874–1960: Against the Tide . By S. J. Hetherington.
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. By David Cannadine.     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Origins of the English Gentry. By Peter Coss.
Henry IV. The Establishment of the Regime, 1399–1406. Edited by Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs.
Restoration Scotland, 1660–1690. Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas. By Clare Jackson.
The Restoration. England in the 1660s. By N. H. Keeble.
John Locke. Selected Correspondence. Edited by Mark Goldie
The Duke of Portland. Politics and Party in the Age of George III. By David Wilkinson.
Rethinking the Age of Reform. Britain 1780–1850. Edited by Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes.
Political Tactics. By Jeremy Bentham. Edited by Michael James, Cyprian Blamires and Catherine Pease-Watkin.
The Irish Act of Union, 1800. Bicentennial Essays. Edited by Michael Brown, Patrick M. Geoghegan and James Kelly.
Electoral Reform at Work. Local Politics and National Parties, 1832–1841. By Philip Salmon.
English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. By Duncan Andrew Campbell.
The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between 1878 and 1893. A Selection. Edited by John Vincent.
MacDonald's Party. Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922 1931. By David Howell.
Television Policies of the Labour Party 1951–2001. By Des Freedman.
The Conservatives in Crisis. Edited by Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch.     

Books in Summary

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Jacob J. Climo and Maria G. Cattell
Hegel's History of Philosophy: New Interpretations. Edited by David A. Duquette
Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries. By Heidrun Friese
Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography. By Uta Gerhardt
Rezeption im Zeitalter der Konfrontation: Französische Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichte in Deutschland, 1920–1940. By Steffen Kaudelka
Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. By Jessica Riskin
Geschichte der Deutschen Kulturgeschichtsschreibung. By Hans Schleier
El conocimiento hitórico y el lenguaje. By Daniel E. Zalazar     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Geschichte der Perser und Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden .
The Life of Saladin from the Works of 'Imād ad-Din and Bahā' ad-Dīn . By Sir Hamilton Gibb
The Seljuk Vezirate. A Study of Civil Administration 1055–1194 . By Carla L. Klausner.
Family Laws of Iran . By Sayyid Ali Reza Naqavi.
Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt, An Essay in the Sociology of Religion . By Michael Gilsenan
W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion . By T. O. Beidelman
Kelantan: Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State . Edited by William R. Roff
La Géographie humaine du monde Musulman jusqu'au milieu du 11e siécle: Géographie et géographie humaine dans la littérature arabe des origines à 1050 . By André Miquel
Atlas of the Biblical World . By Denis Baly and A. D. Tushingham.
An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire from Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century . By Donald Edgar Pitcher. Leiden: E. J. Brill
Concise Encyclopedia of the Middle East . Ed. Mehdi Heravi     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Tudor Ireland: Crown, Community and the Conflict of Cultures 1470–1603. By Steven G. Ellis.
The Reign of Elizabeth I . Edited by Christopher Haigh.
The Road to Revolution: Scotland under Charles I, 1625–37. By Maurice Lee, jr.
Dangerous Positions: Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the 'Answer to the XIX Propositions'. By Michael Mendle.
The Jewish Community in British Politics. By Geoffrey Alderman.
The Cross of Saint Patrick: The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland. By John Biggs-Davison and George Chowdharay-Best.
English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Regime. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics). By J. C. D. Clark.
Goodwin Wharton. By J. Kent Clark.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue. By John Robertson.
Lord Grenville 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp.
Henry Brougham: His Public Career 1778–1868. By Robert Stewart.
The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics. By Bruce L. Kinzer.
'Orator Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism. By John Belchem.
Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O'Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy 1820–30. By Fergus O'Ferrall.
Gladstone, Politics and Religion: A Collection of Founder's Day Lectures Delivered at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 1967–83. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone. By Marvin Swartz.
Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics. By David Dutton.
The First Labour Party 1906–14. Edited by K. D. Brown.
Victor Grayson: Labour's Lost Leader. By David Clark.
Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912–1916. By John Grigg.
The Changing Constitution: Edited by Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Lay Taxes in England and Wales 1188–1688. By M. Jurkowski, C. L. Smith and D. Crook.
Images of Rule. Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485–1649. By David Howarth.
Inventing a Republic. The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653. By Sean Kelsey.
Tudor Government. Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century. By David Loades.
The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works. By Francis Bacon. Edited by Brian Vickers.
The English Levellers. Edited by Andrew Sharp.
Peerage Creations 1649–1800. A Chronological List of Creations in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. Compiled by J. C. Sainty.
Officials of the Royal Household, 1660–1837. Part 2: Departments of the Lord Steward and the Master of the Horse. Compiled by J. C. Sainty and R. O. Bucholz.
The Early Parties and Politics in Britain, 1688–1832. By Brian Hill.
Divided Loyalties, The Question of the Oath for Irish Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. By Patrick Fagan.
Maps of the Mediterranean Regions. Published in British Parliamentary Papers 1801–1921. By Susan Gole.
Print Politics. The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By Kevin Gilmartin.
Gladstone. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846–1886. By K. Theodore Hoppen.
Benjamin Disraeli Letters. Volume Six, 1852–1856. Edited by M. G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar and Ann P. Robson.
Irish Home Rule 1867–1921. By Alan O'Day.
Facing Fascism. The Conservative Party and the European Dictators, 1935–1940. By N. J. Crowson.     

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.     

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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.     

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Books reviewed:
Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy and Julio Escalona (ed.), Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies.
Gerd Althoff, Die Macht der Rituale: Symbolik und Herrschaft im Mittelalter.
Gerd Althoff, Translated by Christopher Carroll, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe.
Translated by Prescott N. Dunbar, Graham A. Loud, The History of the Normans by Amatus of Montecassino.
Robert F. Berkhofer III, The Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France.
N.J. Higham and D.H. Hill (eds), Edward the Elder 899–924.
Graham Keevil, The Tower of London Moat. Archaeological Excavations 1995–9.
Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer, Gesta Principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles.
Michael Lapidge (ed.), Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain.
John Naylor, An Archaeology of Trade in Middle Saxon England.
Elizabeth M. Tyler (ed.), Treasure in the Medieval West.
Peter Worm, Karolingische Rekognitionszeichen: Die Kanzlerzeile und ihre graphische Ausgestaltung auf den Herrscherurkunden des achten und neunten Jahrhunderts.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Houses of Parliament. History, Art, Architecture. Edited by Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding.
Kingdoms in Crisis. Ireland in the 1640s. Essays in Honour of Dónal Cregan. Edited by Micheál Ó Siochrú.
Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the Constitution in Church and State. By Philip O'Regan.
Beaufort. The Duke and his Duchess, 1657–1715. By Molly McClain.
England in the 1670s. 'This Masquerading Age'. By John Spurr.
Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Sean J. Connolly.
Studies in Irish Legal History. By W. N. Osborough.
Revolution, Religion, and National Identity. Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745–1795. By Peter M. Doll.
The History of Suffrage, 1760–1867. Edited by Anna Clark and Sarah Richardson.
British Electoral Facts, 1832-–1999. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.
Voting in Britain. A History of the Parliamentary Franchise. By John Hostettler and Brian P. Block.
Liberalism in West Cornwall. The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Edited with an introduction by Edwin Jaggard.
The Labour Party and Taxation. Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Richard Whiting.
Stanley Baldwin. Conservative Leadership and National Values. By Philip Williamson.
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee. The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951. Edited by Stuart Ball.
British Elections and Parties Review. Volume 10. Edited by Philip Cowley, David Denver, Andrew Russell and Lisa Harrison.
Scotland Decides. The Devolution Issue and the Scottish Referendum. By David Denver, James Mitchell, Charles Pattie and Hugh Bochel.
Scottish Government and Politics. An Introduction. By Peter Lynch.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
International Congress for the Study of the Qur'ān , revised ed. Edited by A. H. Johns
Ibn Khaldān: An Essay in Reinterpretation. By Aziz Al-Azmeh
The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. By Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad
Die Vorstellung vom Schicksal und die Darstellung der Wirklichkeit in der zeitgenossischen Literatur islamischer Länder. Edited by J. C. Bürgel and H. Fähndrich
Rings of Burnished Brass. Yūsuf Idrīs
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. By William C. Chittick
The Ahmadiyya doctrine of God. By Henry J. Otten
Issues in the Islamic Movement, 1981–1982 (1401–1402). Edited by Kalim Siddiqui
Mouvements populaires à Bagdad a l'epoque abbasside IX^e-XI^e siècles. By Simha Sabari
Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War. By Malcolm Cameron Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson.
The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries. By Glenn E. Perry
Islam in Tribal Societies From the Atlas to the Indus. By Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam. The Darul Islam in Indonesia. By C. van Dijk
Senegal: An African Nation between Islam and the West. By Sheldon Gellar