Book reviews

Barlow, Frank, (ed) The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy Bishop of Amiens Benericetti, Ruggero, Il Cristo nei Sermoni di S. Pier Crisologo Blackburn, Mark A.S. and Dumville, David N., (eds.) Kings, Currency and Alliances: History of Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century Bolòs, Jordi and Hurtado, Victor, Atles del Comtat de Besalú (785–988) Bolòs, Jordi and Busqueta, Joan J., (eds) Territori i Societat a l'Edat Mitjana. Història, Arqueologia, Documentació II: Almenar, 1147–1997, 850 anys de la Carta de Poblament Borge, Ignacio Álvarez, Comunidades locales y transformaciones sociales en la Alta Edad Media. Hampshire (Wessex) y el sur de Castilla, un estudio comparativo Borgolte, Michael, Sozialgeschichte des Mittelalters. Eine Bilanz nach der deutschen Einheit Brubaker, Leslie, Vision and Meaning in Ninth‐century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus Carver, Martin, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? Clanchy, M.T., Abelard: a Medieval Life Davis, R.H.C. and Chibnall, Marjorie, (eds) The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers Dodwell, C.R., Anglo‐Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage Everson, Paul, and Stocker, David, Corpus of Anglo‐Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume 5: Lincolnshire Freedman, Paul, Images of the Medieval Peasant Goetz, H.‐W. and Sauerwein, F. (eds) Volkskultur und Elitenkultur im frühen Mittelater: das Beispiel der Heiligenviten Guido, Margaret, The Glass Beads of Anglo‐Saxon England c. AD 400–700 Hawkes, Jane and Mills, Susan,(eds) Northumbria's Golden Age Hill, Joyce and Swan, Mary, (eds) The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe Hooke, Della, Warwickshire Anglo‐Saxon Charter‐Bounds Howe, John, Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Jestice, Phyllis G., Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century McGrail, Seán, Ancient Boats in North‐West Europe. The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500 Magennis, Hugh, Anglo‐Saxon Appetites. Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature Müller‐Wille, Michael, (ed) Rom und Byzanz im Norden. Mission und Glaubenswechsel im Ostseeraum während des 8.–14. Jahrhunderts, Band II, Internationale Fachkonferenz der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Kiel, 18.–25. September 1994 Neville, Jennifer, Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry Pörnbacher, Mechthild, (ed.) Walahfrid Strabo Zwei Legenden Potter, T.W., and King, A.C., Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato Saenger, Paul, Space between Words: the Origins of Silent Reading Schneidmüller, Bernd and Weinfurter, Stefan, (eds.) Otto III. Heinrich II. Eine Wende? Toswell,M.J., and Tyler, E.M., (eds.) Studies in English Language and Literature. ‘Doubt wisely’: Papers iin Honour of E.G. Stanley Van Houts, Elisabeth, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 Van Houts, Elisabeth M.C., (ed) The Gesta Normannorum ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, Volume II, Books V–VIII Wright, Roger, Early Ibero‐Romance     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Miquel Barceló and François Sigaut (eds), The Making of Feudal Agricultures? P.S. Barnwell and Marco Mostert (eds), Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages Giselle de Nie, Word, Image and Experience: Dynamics of Miracle and Self‐Perception in Sixth‐Century Gaul Miriam Gill and Jane Hawkes (eds), Images of Salvation: The Story of the Bible through Medieval Art Sonja Marzinzik, Early Anglo‐Saxon Belt Buckles (Late Fifth to Early Eighth Centuries A.D.): Their Classification and Context     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Cristina La Rocca (ed.), Italy in the Early Middle Ages 476–1000 Mary Dockray‐Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo‐Saxon England Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih (eds), Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe Anthony Goodman, Margery Kempe and her World Bettine Birge, Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China 960–1368 David Kuchta, The Three‐Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550–1850 Harry Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century Wendy Rosslyn (ed.), Women and Gender in 18th‐Century Russia Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760–1850 Shirley Wilson Logan, ‘We Are Coming’: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth‐Century Black Women Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire. Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia 1849–1871 Myra Rutherdale, Women and the White Man's God. Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field Maina Chawla Singh, Gender, Religion and ‘Heathen Lands’: American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s–1940s)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: HORST NOWACKI and MATTEO VALLERIANI (eds), Shipbuilding Practice and Ship Design Methods from the Renaissance to the 18th Century—a Workshop Report MARK W. HOLLEY, The Artificial Islets/Crannogs of the Central Inner Hebrides ALEX G. C. HALE, Scottish Marine Crannogs EUAN W. MACKIE, The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC–AD 500. Architecture and Material Culture. Part 1: The Orkney and Shetland Isles YACOUB YOUSEF AL‐HIJJI, VASSILIOS CHRISTIDES and others (eds), Aspects of Arab Seafaring. An Attempt to Fill in the Gaps of Maritime History DIONISIUS A. AGIUS, In the Wake of the Dhow: the Arabian Gulf and Oman ERIK GILBERT, Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar MADELEINE J. DONACHIE, Household Ceramics at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655–1692 EDWINA BOULT, Christian's Fleet: A Dorset Shipping Tragedy SUSANNE MULLER‐WIERING, Segeltuch und Emballage: Textilien in Mittalterlichen Warentransport auf Nord‐ und Ostsee (English summary and captions) ELENA FLAVIA CASTAGNINO BERLINGHIERI, The Aeolian Islands: Crossroads of Mediterranean Maritime Routes. A Survey of their Maritime Archaeology and Topography from the Prehistoric to the Roman Periods STEFANO BRUNI (ed.), Le Navi Antiche di Pisa: ad un Anno dall’ Inizio delle Ricerche ULRICH SCHAAFF, Münzen der Römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch‐Germanischen Zentralmuseum LAWRENCE W. MOTT, Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Catalan‐Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers OLWYN OWEN, MAGNAR DALLAND, and others, Scar: A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney NICHOLAS TRACY and MARTIN ROBSON (eds), The Age of Sail: The International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship, Vol. 2 HEINRICH CLEMENS KONEN, Classis Germanica: Die Römische Rheinflotte im 1–3 Jahrhundert n. Chr. ANDREW PEARSON, The Construction of the Saxon Shore Forts ANDREW PEARSON, The Roman Shore Forts: Coastal Defences of Southern Britain VARIOUS AUTHORS, Bilan Scientifique du Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous‐Marines 1998, 1999 and 2002 COLIN BREEN and WES FORSYTHE, Boats and Shipwrecks of Ireland UWE SCHNALL, URSULA FELDKAMP, ERIK HOOPS (eds), Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv no. 23 (2000) D. FINAMORE (ed.), Maritime History as World History JOHN D. HARBRON, Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy: the Spanish Experience of Sea Power SCOTT M. FITZPATRICK (ed.), Voyages of Discovery—The Archaeology of Islands LAURENT JACQUES COSTA, Corse Préhistorique: Peuplement d’une Île et Modes de Vie des Sociétes Insulaires BRIAN LAVERY, Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar     

Archaeology,common rights and the origins of Anglo‐Saxon identity

It is generally accepted that rights over land, especially rights of pasture, played a formative role in establishing the identity of early Anglo‐Saxon ‘folk groups’, the predecessors of the middle Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms. This speculative paper sets early medieval and medieval common rights in the context of the archaeological longue durée of the period before 400 ad . It argues that ancient traditions of common governance, integral to Anglo‐Saxon identity, might have offered an attractive legitimacy to middle Anglo‐Saxon kingdom‐builders. While not seeking to establish any answers, the paper hopes to contribute to a wider research agenda.     

Book reviews

Books Reviewed:
Adam S. Cohen, The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh–Century Germany.
Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The Origins of the Christian Era.
W.O. Frazer and A. Tyrrell (eds), Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain.
Timothy Graham (ed), The Recovery of Old English: Anglo–Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Guy Halsall (ed), Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West.
M. Kazanski, A. Nercessian and C. Zuckerman (eds), Les centres proto–urbains russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient.
Conrad Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great.
Maureen C. Miller, The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy.
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.
Guðrún Nordal, Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
I.S. Robinson, Henry IV of Germany, 1056–1106.     

Review article: What’s new in early medieval burial archaeology?

Books reviewed in this article:
John Hines, Karen Høilund Nielsen and Frank Siegmund (eds), The Pace of Change. Studies in Early–Medieval Chronology.
Catherine E. Karkov, Kelley M. Wickham–Crowley and Bailey K. Young (eds), Spaces of the Living and the Dead: An Archaeological Dialogue.
Sam Lucy, The Early Anglo–Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire. An Analysis and Reinterpretation.
Elizabeth O'Brien, Post–Roman Britain to Anglo–Saxon England: Burial Practices Reviewed.
Nick Stoodley, The Spindle and the Spear. A Critical Enquiry into the Construction and Meaning of Gender in the Early Anglo–Saxon Burial Rite.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: John Drane, Introducing the New Testament Alan Kreider (ed.), The Origins of Christendom in the West G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (eds), Interpreting Late Antiquity Essays on the Postclassical World Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity Conrad Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great Yuri Stoyanov, The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy Alain Boureau, The Myth of Pope Joan Euan Cameron, Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser (eds), Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr‐Harting Constant J. Mews (ed.), Listen, Daughter the Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians Brad S. Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modem Europe Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation Peter Lake, The Boxmaker's Revenge: “Orthodoxy,”“Heterodoxy,” and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London Tim Cooper, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth‐Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism D. Bruce Hindmarsh, John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction Alister E. McGrath, The Christian Theology Reader Alister E. McGrath, Christian Literature: An Anthology Mark Noll, American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction Charles Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801–46 Catherine L. Albanese, American Spiritualities: A Reader Leigh Eric Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism Ian Crawford: We Won the Victory. Aborigines and Outsiders on the North‐West Coast of the Kimberley David Jobling, Tina Pippin, and Ronald Schleiffer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader John D. Caputo, On Religion Mikael Rothstein (ed.), New Age Religion and Globalization Slavoj Zizek, On Belief     

BOOK REVIEWS

Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey (eds), Engendering Archaeology W. J. Shells and Diana Wood (eds), Women in the Church Penelope D. Johnson, Equal in Monastic Profession, Religious Women in Medieval France Sally Thompson, Women Religious Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd (eds), Women in Early Modem Ireland 1500–1800 Lawrence Stone, Road to Divorce: England 1530–1987 Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725 Marina Benjamin (ed.), Science and Sensibility, Gender and Scientific Enquiry 1780–1945 Sian Reynolds, Britannica's Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach (eds), The World is III Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leah Leneman, A Guid Cause. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland Angela V. John (ed.), Our Mothers’Land. Chapters in Welsh Women's History 1830–1939 Harold L. Smith (ed.), British Feminism in the Twentieth Century June E. Hahner, Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850–1940 Jane S. Jaquette (ed.), The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl. Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation David Tyack and Elizabeth Hansot, Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era Ileen A. DeVault, Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh Lisa M. Fine, The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870–1930 Stephen H. Norwood, Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923 Nancy F. Cott (ed.), A Woman Making History. Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows. Re-reading Gender Melodrama     

Book reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Athalya Brenner, The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and ‘Sexuality’ in the Hebrew Bible Liz James (ed.), Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (eds), Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology Helen Solterer, The Master, and Minerva: Disputing Women in Medieval French Culture Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600 Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Leora Auslander, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Michèle Riot-Sarcey, La démocratie à l'épreuve des femmes. Trois figures critiques du pouvoir 1830–1848 Gillian Scott, Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present Melinda Chateauvert, Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II Brenda L. Moore, To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II Patricia Ann Palmieri, In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Re-shaping of Personal Life Kathleen Day Hulbert and Diane Tickton Schuster (eds), Women's Lives Through Time: Educated American Women of the Twentieth Century Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes (eds), Migration and Identity (International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories 3) Rosalind Marsh (ed.), Women in Russia and Ukraine Mary Buckley (ed.), Post-Soviet Women: from the Baltic to Central Asia T. Dunbar Moodie with Vivienne Ndatshe, Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration Mari Jo Buhle, Feminism and its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helen Moglen (eds), Female Subjects in Black and White     

‘It’s a man’s world’: Recent Studies of Male Representation of the Female in the Middle Ages

Blamires, Alcuin (ed.) Woman Defamed and Woman Defended. An Anthology of Medieval Texts Baldwin, John W. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200 Kay, Sarah and Rubin, Miri (eds) Framing Medieval Bodies Lomperis, Linda and Stanbury, Sarah (eds) Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature Burns, E. Jane Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature Krueger, Roberta L. Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance Cazelles, Brigitte The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century Meale, Carol M. (ed.) Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 Cherewatuk, Karen and Wiethaus, Ulrike (eds) Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistology Genre     

Book Reviews

Joseph Martos and Pierre Hégy, eds Equal at the Creation: Sexism, Society and Christian Thought Michael D. Coogan, ed. The Oxford History of the Biblical World Jon D. Mikalson Religion in Hellenistic Athens Wendy Dabourne Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16–4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters David C. Sim The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community George A. Kennedy Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times Khaled Anatolios Athanasius: The Coherence of his Thought Joseph W. Trigg Origen. The Early Church Fathers Rebecca Moore Jews and Christians in the Life and Thought of Hugh of St Victor Alan J. Fletcher Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late‐Medieval England Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen, eds Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment H. J. Selderhuis, trans. by John Briend and Lyle D. Bierma Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer John Patrick Donnelly, SJ and Michael W. Maher, SJ, eds Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France, and Spain. Kevin Herlihy, ed. Propagating the Word of Irish Dissent, 1650–1800 Joss Marsh Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth‐Century England David Nash Blasphemy in Modern Britain, 1789 to the Present Kathryn Teresa Long The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening Ruth Frappell, Leighton Frappell, Robert Withycombe and Raymond Nobbs, eds Anglicans in the Antipodes: An Indexed Calendar of the Papers and Correspondence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 1788–1961, Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Mark Hutchinson and Geoff Treloar, eds This Gospel Shall Be Preached: Essays on the Australian Contribution to World Mission Ian Gillman and Hans‐Joachim Klimkeit Christians in Asia Before 1500 Geoffrey Oddie, ed. Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto‐Nationalism: James Long of Bengal, 1814–87     

A Note on the Role of Dogs in Anglo‐Saxon Society: Evidence from East Anglia

This paper examines the roles that dogs played in Anglo‐Saxon (420–1066 CE) society in East Anglia, drawing on data from the Late Roman site of Icklingham and the Anglo‐Saxon sites of West Stow, Brandon and Ipswich in Suffolk, England. The archaeological context of these dog finds is described, along with zooarchaeological data on dog sizes, ages at death and paleopathology. The data indicate that Early and Middle Anglo‐Saxon dogs are less varied than Late Roman dogs. Ageing and paleopathological data indicate that the West Stow dogs, in particular, had hard lives. Early and Middle Saxon dogs from East Anglia were relatively large, with an estimated withers height of about 60 cm. They may have served as guard dogs and herding dogs. The West Stow dogs may also have been involved in hunting and fighting. Late Saxon dogs from Ipswich reveal an increasing morphological diversity, suggesting that they played multiple roles in Late Anglo‐Saxon urban sites. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Douglas C. Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues Julius Wellhausen, The Pharisees and Sadducees: An Examination of Internal Jewish History H. Gregory Snyder, Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World: Philosophers, Jews and Christians Mathew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch. Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo–Joshua the Stylite Michael Whitby, The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen. Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (eds), Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England Bernhard Lohse, Martin Luther's Theology. Its Historical and Systematic Development Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546 Gonther Gassmann with Duane H. Larson and Mark W. Oldenburg, Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism Ashley Null, Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance David M. Luebke (ed.), The Counter–Reformation: The Essential Readings Michael A. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation Ramie Targoff, Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England Maureen Perkins, The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity Charles D. Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home. Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915 D. Densil Morgan, The Span of the Cross: Christian Religion and Society in Wales 1914–2000 Callum C. Brown, The Death of Christian Britain Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth–Century France Robert P. Geraci and Michel Khodarkovsky (eds), Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans James E. Tull, High–Church Baptists in the South: the Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism Betty A. Deberg, Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism John Tonkin, Cathedral and Community. A History of St George's Cathedral, Perth Peter Riddell, Islam and the Malay–Indonesian World Joan Rowlands, Voluntary Exiles: From Tamatave to Peking Barry J. Richardson, Christianity, Evolution and the Environment. Fitting it Together David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond, The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders Ian S. Markham and Tinu Ruparell (eds), Encountering Religion     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Bernard S. Bachrach, Early Carolingian Warfare. Prelude to Empire
Warren Brown, Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
James McKinnon, The Advent Project. The Later–Seventh–Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper
Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Walter Pohl, Die Germanen (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, vol. 57)
Birgit Sawyer, The Viking–Age Rune–Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia
Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg (eds), Literary Appropriations of the Anglo–Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
Seiichi Suzuki, The Quoit Brooch Style and Anglo–Saxon Settlement: A Casting and Recasting of Cultural Identity Symbols
Steven Vanderputten, En heilig volk is geboren. Opkomst en ondergang van een christelijke staatsideologie uit de vroege Middeleeuwen (c. 750–900)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Marcia L. Colish Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400–1400 Adriann H. BrederoBernard of Clairvaux: Between Cult and History John Howe Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Michael T. Clanchy Abelard: A Medieval Life Vicente Castell Maiques, ed. Proceso Sobre la Ordenación de la Iglesia Valentina, 1238–1246, Vols I and II Ma. Milagros Cárcel Ortí and José Vicente Boscá Codina, eds Visitas Pastorales de Valencia: Siglos XIV–XV Vicent Luïs Simó Santonja, ed. Les Corts Valencianes: 1240–1645 Jan Veenstra: Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France Text and Context of Laurens Pignon’s Contre les devineurs (1411) Marilyn Oliva The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England. Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350–1540 Abraham Friesen Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission Mark W. Konnert Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Châlons‐sur‐Marne During the French Wars of Religion, 1560–1594 David Coffey Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford Thomas F. Torrance Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell Geoffrey R. Treloar Lightfoot the Historian: The Nature and Role of History in the Life and Thought of J. B. Lightfoot (1828–1889) as Churchman and Scholar Jonathan Sarna, ed. Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream Michael Glazer and Thomas J. Shelley, eds The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History Bryan F. Le Beau Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism Bret E. Carroll Spiritualism in Antebellum America Joel A. Carpenter Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism James T. Fisher Dr America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau, eds African‐American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture Tracy Elaine K’Meyer Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm Dana L. Robert American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice John Garrett Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II Jamsheed K. Choksy Con?ict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Sub‐alterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society Dennis Hirota No Abode: The Record of Ippen Angelo Zito Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacri?ce as Text/Performance in Eighteenth‐Century China Liz Wilson Charming Cadavers: Horri?c Con?gurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Geoffrey A. Oddie (ed.) Religious Traditions in South Asia: Interaction and Change     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Joel F. Harrington (ed.), A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings in the History of Western Christianity G. W. Trompf, Early Christian Historiography. Narratives of Retributive Justice John Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Isabel Moreira, Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul H. R. Lyon, The English Church 940–1154 Anna Silvas (trans.), Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources Lucy E. C. Wooding, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England Robert M. Kingdon (general ed.), Thomas A. Lambert and Isabella M. Watt (eds.), Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: Volume 1: 1542–1544 T. L. Underwood (ed.), The Acts of the Witnesses. The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and other Early Muggletonian Writings Peter Gaunt (ed.), The English Civil War. The Essential Readings Rosemary Moore, The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666 Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English Society 1655–1725 Horton Davies and Marie–Hélène Davies, French Huguenots in English–Speaking Lands Donal Kerr, Jean–Claude Colin, Marist. A Founder in an Era of Revolution and Restoration: The Early Years 1790–1836 Geraint Tudur, Howell Harris. From Conversion to Separation 1735–50 Linda Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists, 1825–1875 Paul Nicholls, Khaki and the Confessional: A Study of a Religious Issue at the 1900 General Election in England Bernard Joassart, Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme Vol. I–II Robert P. Erickson and Sussannah Heschel (eds.), Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust Eberhard Bethge, Victoria J. Barnett (ed.), Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A Biography Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fiction from Tegel Prison, Vol. 7 Derek H. Davis, Religion and the Continental Congress 1774–1789: Contributions to Original Intent Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, And Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology Kimberly Rae Connor, Imaging Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr, Episcopalians and Race.Civil War to Civil Rights Peter Homans (ed.), Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory At Century’s End Stephen Malley Jr and Xiaoxin Wu (eds.), China and Christianity. Burdened Past, Hopeful Future Sue Hamilton, Early Buddhism: A New Approach