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.