Book reviews

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.