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.     

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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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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.     

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.     

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.     

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The Anatomy of a Little War. A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair (568–586) . By Bernard S. Bachrach. Intinerant Kingship and Roual Monastesries in Early Medieval Germany c. 936–1075. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought). By John W. Bernhardt. Abü Ma‘?’ar, the Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, Together with the Medieval Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath . Edited and translated by Ch. Burnett, K. Yamamoto and M. Yano. Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry . By Peter Clemoes. The Chronicle of Marcellinus, Translation and Commentary . By Brain Croke. Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c. 650-c. 850. By Catherine Cubitt. English Carolin Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A. D. 950–1030 . By David N. Dumville. Studien zum Polyptychon von Saint-German-des-Prés . By Konrad Elmhäuser and Andreas Hedwig. Das Polyptychon von Saint-German-des-Prés: Studienausgabe . By Konrad Elmhäuser and Andreas Hedwig. Viking Age Ringed Pins from Dublin . By Thomas Fanning. Settlement and Social Organization. The Merovingian Region of Metz . By Guy Halsall. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIIe-Xe siècle). Essai d'anthropologie sociale . By Régine Le Jan. Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, AD 481–751 . By Yitzhak Hen. The English conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century. N. J. Higman. Das römische Erbe und das Merowingerreich . By Reinhold Kaiser Die Entstehung des Deutschen Reiches . By Joachim Ehlers Königtum und Königsherrschaft im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert . By Egon Boshof Die Regularis Concordia und ihre altenglische Interlinearversion. Mit Einleitung und Kommentar , edited by Lucia Kornexl. Zur päpstlichen Urkundensprache im frühen Mittelalter: Die päpstlichen Privilegien 896- 1046 . By Hans-Henning Kortüm. Miracles and the Venerable Bede . By W. D. MCready. Both One and Many: Essay on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism . By John MKinnell, Fiefs and Vassals. The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted . S. Reynolds. Danish Medieval History: New Currents . Edited by Niels Skyum-Nielsen and Niels Lund. The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales . By Robin Chapman Stacey. Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint , Edited by Clare Stancliffe and Eric Cambridge. In the Foreground Beowulf . By Eric Gerald Stanley.     

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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     

Short notices

The Cloister and the World: Essays in Medieval History in Honour of Barbara Harvey . Edited by John Blair and Brian Golding.
The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer . By Arno Borst.
Peuples au Moyen Age: Problèmes d'identification . By Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi.
Carausius and Allectus: The British Usurpers . By P. J. Casey.
Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and Political Poems . Translated by Judith George.
Early Medieval Cemeteries: An Introduction to Burial Archaeology in the Post-Roman West . By Guy Halsall.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue: Nation and History : Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War . Edited by Peter Brock, John D. Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel. War of No Pity : The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma . by Christopher Herbert. Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology . Edited by Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen and Kurt Villads Jensen with Janne Malkki and Katja Ritari. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment . by Peter Hanns Reill. History and Nation . Edited by Julia Rudolph. Women's History in Global Perspective , Volumes 1–3. Edited by Bonnie G. Smith. Haunted by Empire : Geographies of Intimacy in North American History . Edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Writing Early Modern History . Edited by Garthine Walker.     

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.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue. Narratives Unbound : Historical Studies in Post ‐Communist Eastern Europe. Edited by Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi, and Péter Apor. Disputed Histories : Imagining New Zealand's Past. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. Creative Pasts : Historical Memory and Identity in Western India , 1700–1960. By Prachi Deshpande. Lost Worlds : The Emergence of French Social History , 1815–1970. By Jonathan Dewald. Memory Against Culture : Arguments and Reminders. By Johannes Fabian. Ethnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive. By Johannes Fabian. Viêt Nam : Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West. Edited by E. M. Tyler and R. Balzaretti. Les songes de Clio: fiction et histoire sous l'ancien régime. Compiled and edited by Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren, and Thierry Belleguic.     

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Western Chou Civilization. By Cho-yun Hsu and Katheryn M. Linduff History/ Writing: The Theory and Practice of History in Antiquity and in Modern Times. By Albert Cook The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece. By Victor Davis Hanson Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographies in the Middle Ages. By Thomas J. Heffeman Buddhism under the Tang, By Stanley Weinstein Medieval Germany 1056-1273. By Alfred Haverkamp. Translated by Helga Braun and Richard Mortimer Genoa's Response to Byzantium, 1155-1204: Commercial Expansionism and Factionalism in a Medieval City. By Gerald W. Day St. Francis ofAssisi and Nature: Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes Toward the Environment. By Roger D. Sorrell Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society. By Roderick Phillips A History of Private Life. Vol. 3, Passions of the Renaissance. Edited by Roger Chartier William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine. By Whitney R. D. Jones Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany. By Anthony J. La Vopa Charles Edward Stuart: A Tragedy in Many Acts. By Frank McLynn The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. By R. S. Pitton The Army of the French Revolution: From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power. By Jean-Paul Bertaud Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. By Simon Schama Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness: An Essay in History and Psychology. By Hugh Ragsdale Napoleon and Hitler; A Comparative Biography. By Desmond Seward Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England. By Olive Anderson Papers for the Millions: The New Journalism, in Britain, 1850s to 1914. Edited by Joel H. Wiener Macaulay. By Owen Dudley Edwards Fascism and the Mafia. By Christopher Duggan Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930. By Janice E. Stockard The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered: Royalism, Boulangism, and the Origins of the Radical Right in France. By William D. Irvine Women Clerks in Wilhelmine Germany: Issues of Class and Gender. By Carole Elizabeth Adams The Revolution of 1905, Russia in Disarray. By Abraham Ascher The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918. Edited by Richard Wall and Jay Winter The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918-1922. By Francesco Benvenuti. Translated by Christopher Woodall Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944. By Paul Jankowski New Directions in American Indian History. Edited by Colin G. Calloway Indian Survival on the California Frontier. By Albert L. Hurtado Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. By Jack P. Greene Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New Eneland. By David D Hall Colonial Chesapeake Society. Edited, with an introduction, by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo Brazil, The Forging of a Nation, 1789-1852. By Roderick J. Barman Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. By Lacy K. Ford The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-61. By Brian C. Mitchell The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era. By Lawrence Frederick Kohl Sports & Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics. By Ronald A. Smith The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. By Edward Hagerman Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life. By David M. Jordan The Rockefeller Century. By John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes. By Ari Hoogenboom America's First Black General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1880-1970. By Marvin E. Fletcher Workers’Health, Workers’Democracy. By Alan Derickson Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898-1917. By David Healy George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century. By Mark A. Stoler The World That FDR Built. By Edward Mortimer The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941. By Jurg Martin Gabriel The CIA and American Democracy. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad since 1950. By Walter LaFeber     

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Nehru: The Making of India. By M. J. Akbar Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans. By Nancy Nichols Barker The University and the City, from Medieval Origins to the Present. Edited by Thomas Bender The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. By John Brewer The Triumph of Liberalism: Zurich in the Golden Age, 1830-1869. By Gordon A. Craig Small Worlds: The Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany. By Wendy Davies Machiavelli in Hell. By Sebastian de Grazia The Family and the English Revolution. By Christopher Durston Spain and Its World, 1500-1700: Selected Essays. By J. H. Elliott The Coming of the First World War. Edited, with a preface, by R. J. W. Evans and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann Romaine Holland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement. By James Fisher Understanding the First World War: Illusions and Realities Challenging de Gaulle: The O.A.S. and the Counterrevolution in Algeria The Victorian Peasant. By Richard Heath, edited by Keith Dockray A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688. By Christopher Hill Scottish Society, 1500-1800. Edited by R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte The Medieval Itnagination. By Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603. By Stanford Lehmberg Nomads and Crusaders a. d. 1000-1368. By Archibald R. Lewis A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918. By William O. McCagg, Jr Sacralizing the Secular: The Renaissance Origins of Modernity. By Stephen A. McKnight Arnold J. Toynbee, A Life. By William H. McNeill Byzantium: The Early Centuries. By John Julius Norwich The Generation of Power: The History of Dneprostroi. By Anne D. Rassweiler The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Alfonso VI, 1065-1109. By Bernard F. Reilly Keepers of the City: The Corregidores of Isabella I of Castile (1474-1504). By Marvin Lunenfeld The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults. By Susan J. Ridyard Rogues and Vagabonds: Vagrant Underworld in Britain, 1815-1985. By Lionel Rose To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Clunks Property, 909-1049. By Barbara H. Rosenwein Robert the Bruce: King of Scots. By Ronald McNair Scott The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667. By Paul Seaward Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II. By Peter Williams and David Wallace Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages. By Charles T. Wood The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century. By Frances A. Yates Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. By Anne J. Bailey Lyndon Johnson's War. By Larry Berman Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. By Kerry W. Buckley The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920. By Peter A. Coclanis The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Edited by Steve Fraser and GaryGerstle The Great Silent Majority: Missouri's Resistance to World War I. By Christopher C. Gibbs Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985. By Steven M. Gillon The Last American Puritan: The Life and Times of Increase Mather, 1639-1723. By Michael G. Hall La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City. By Jonathan Kandell The Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907. By S. J. Kleinberg And Their Children after Them: The Legacy of “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South. By Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson, foreword by Carl Mydans Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. By Neil R. McMillen The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917. By George H. Nash Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for a Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith. By Mark A. Noll New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780-1870. Edited by William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright Dry Diplomacy: The United States, Great Britain, and Prohibition. By Lawrence Spinelli Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy. By Anders Stephanson Historical Atlas of Texas. By A. Ray Stephens and William M. Holmes P. B. Young, Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South, 1910-1962. By Henry Lewis Suggs     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. By Isaiah Berlin. Edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer. Truth in History. By Oscar Handlin. Shrinking History; On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory. By David E. Stannard. Humanity in Warfare. By Geoffrey Best. Martin of Tours: Parish Priest, Mystic, and Exorcist. By Christopher Donaldson. Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Edited by Edward Jones. The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History. By G. W. S. Barrow. A History of Medieval Ireland. By A. J. Otway-Ruthven, with an introduction by Kathleen Hughes. Second edition. Tudor Mercenaries and Auxiliaries, 1485-1547. By Gilbert John Millar. Cromwellian Scotland, 1651-1660. By F. D. Dow. The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion 1640-1660. By B. G. Black wood. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution. Edited by Peter Marshall and Glyn Williams. Paternalism in Early Victorian England. By David Roberts. Lloyd George's Secretariat. By John Turner. Haldane: An Army Reformer. By Edward M Spiers. Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison. By Kenneth and Jane Morgan. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. By Bernard Wasserstein. The Churchill Coalition, 1940-1945. By J.M. Lee. The Early Life of Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1893. By Jack D. Ellis. The Students of Paris and the Revolution of 1848. By John G. Gallaher. Elie Halévy: An Intellectual Biography. By Myrna Chase. Dilemmas of Italian Socialism: The Politics of Filippo Turati. By Spencer DiScala. Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck. Geoff Eley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 387. $30.00.) The Enigma War. By Józef Garliski. The Western Alliance: Eropean-American Relations since 1945. By Alfred Grosser, with translation by Michael Shaw. Revolutions and Revolutionaries. By A. J. P. Taylor. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism. By Andrzej Walicki. The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change, 1917-1923. By Robert Service. Shang Civilization. by Kwang-chih Chang. “Myne Own Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virgmia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. By T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes. Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution. By Alice Hanson Jones. The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives. Edited by William M. Fowler, Jr., and Wallace Coyle. The Press and the American Revolution. Edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. By Pauline Maier. Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800. By John K. Alexander. Rocks and Shoals: Order and Discipline in the Old Navy, 1800-1861. By James E. Valle. The Imperiled Union: Essays in the Background of the Civil War. By Kenneth Stampp. Francis Preston Blair. By Elbert B. Smith. The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776-1918. By Harold and Margaret Sprout. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy. By Paolo E. Coletta. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. Edited by Martin V. Melosi. Small Business in American Life. Edited by Stuart W. Bruchey. Years of Estrangement: American Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941. By Thomas R. Maddux. Dilemma in China: America's Policy Debate, 1945. By Kenneth S. Chern. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. By Frank J. Donner. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1945-1962: Perón to Frondizi. By Robert A. Potash. São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937. By Joseph L. Love.     

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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.