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Overzicht van recent verschenen literatuur en
recensies, gesorteerd op auteursnaam.

Door: Erwin Huizenga, Sacha Voogd, Frederiekje de
Jongh (sinds 2010 hebben Sacha Voogd en Frederiekje de Jongh
de boekenrubriek in W-mail overgenomen van Erwin
Huizenga)
Uit: W-mail jaargang 10-12

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S. Adair Frank, ‘Ptolemy’s Geography and Renaissance
Mapmakers. A Catalogue and Guide to the Exhibition at the
Newberry Library’. In: Mapline. A Newletter Published by
the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
at the Newberry Library (2008), nrs. 106-107, p.
1-8.

Ambix. The Journal of the Society for the
History of Alchemy and Chemistry 56 (2009), nr. 1,
Themanummer: Ancient and Medieval Alchemy.
Inhoud:

M. Martelli, ‘“Divine Water” in the
alchemical Writings of Pseudo-Democritus’, p.
5-22;

T.S. Richter, ‘What Kind Of Alchemy is
Attested by Tenth-Century Coptic Manuscripts?, p.
23-35;

G. Ferrario, ‘An Arabic Dictionary of
Technical Alchemical Terms. Ms. Sprenger 1908 of the
Staatsbib-liothek zu Berlin (fols. 3r-6r)’, p.
36-48;

S. Moureau, ‘Some Considerations Concerning
the Alchemy of the De anima in arte alchemiae of
Pseudo-Avicenna’, p. 49-56;

A. Vinciguerra, ‘The Ars alchemie.
The First Latin Text on Practical Alchemy’, p.
57-67;

A. Williams, ‘A Note on Liquid Iron in
Medieval Europe’, p. 68-75;

B.C. Hallum, ‘The Tome of Images. An
Arabic Compilation of Texts by Zosimos of Panopolis and a
Source of the Turba Philosophorum’, p.
76-88.

J.H. Andrews, Maps in those days. Cartographic methods
before 1850. Dublin, 2009.

C.M. Atkinson, The Critical Nexus. Tone-System, Mode,
and Notation in Early Medieval Music. Oxford 2008. AMS
Studies in Music.
Uit Klankbord.
Nieuwsbrief voor antieke en middeleeuwse muziek 5: ‘The
Critical Nexus richt zich op de vraag: waarom moesten
melodieën die goddelijk waren geïnspireerd, worden veranderd
om binnen het toenmalige modale systeem te
passen?’

E. Aubrey, Poets and Singers. On
Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song. Aldershot, 2009.
Music in Medieval Europe.
Uit de omschrijving
van de uitgever: ‘Extant manuscripts are the principal
medieval testimony to the art of monophonic song. Literary
texts and archival materials, a few theoretical works, and
numerous visual representations provide helpful perspective,
but our path to the poets and singers lies through the efforts
of scribes, and the myriad problems in interpreting what they
tell us cast a long shadow over all research on monophonic
song. The essays gathered here represent the principal themes
and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval
monophonic songs over the last half century: their place in
history and society, the role of women as composers and
performers, poetic and musical structures, styles, and genres,
relationships between poems and melodies, written and oral
transmission, and performance practices. Studying how each of
these themes is played out across repertoires, cultures,
decades, and locations offers a rich and variegated panorama
of the practice of song in late medieval Europe.’

Inhoud:
DEEL I, History and
Society:

C. Page, ‘Music and Chivalric Function in
France 1150–1300’, p. 3-30;

R.E. Harvey, ‘Joglars and the
Professional Status of the Early Troubadours’, p.
31-52;

B. Gillingham, ‘Turtles, Helmets, Parasites
and Goliards’, p. 53-80;

DEEL II, Women:

J.T. Grimbert, ‘Diminishing the
Trobairitz, Excluding the Women Trouvères’, p.
95-110;

S. Boynton, ‘Women's Performance of the
Lyric before 1500’, p. 111-136;

Deel III, Poetry and Music:

E. Aubrey, ‘Poetics and Music’, p.
137-156;

C. Page, ‘Johannes de Grocheio on Secular
Music. A Corrected Text and a New Translation’, p.
157-182;

E. Aubrey, ‘Genre as a Determinant of
Melody in the Songs of the Troubadours and the Trouvères’,
p. 183-206;

J. Stevens, ‘“La Grande Chanson Courtoise”.
The Chansons of Adam de la Halle’, p. 207-226;

T. Karp, ‘Interrelationships Between Poetic
and Musical Form in Trouvère Song’, p. 227-252;

M.P. Ferreira, ‘Andalusian Music and the
Cantigas de Santa Maria’, p. 253-266;

M.P. Ferreira, ‘Rondeau and Virelai. The
Music of Andalus and the Cantigas de Santa Maria’, p.
267-282;

Deel IV, Transmission:

T. Karp, ‘The trouvère MS tradition’, p.
283-310;

H. van der Werf, ‘The Trouvère Chansons as
Creations of a Notationless Musical Culture’, p.
311-318;

U. Aarburg, ‘Probleme um die Melodien des
Minnesangs’, p. 319-342;

Deel V, Performance:

C. Page, ‘The 12th Century in the South’,
p. 343-362;

S. Huot, ‘Voices and Instruments in
Medieval French Secular Music. On the Use of Literary Texts
as Evidence for Performance Practice’, p.
363-414;

E. Aubrey, ‘References to Music in Old
Occitan Literature’, p. 415-454;

J.E. Maddrell, ‘Mensura and the Rhythm of
Medieval Monodic Song’, p. 455-460;

H. van der Werf, ‘Concerning The
Measurability of Medieval Music’, p. 461-466; J.E. Maddrell,
‘Grocheo and The Measurability of Medieval Music. A
reply to Hendik van der Werf’, p. 467-468;

H. Tischler, ‘Rhythm, Meter, and Melodic
Organization in Medieval Songs’, p. 469-488;

H. van der Werf, ‘The “Not-So-Precisely
Measured” Music of the Middle Ages’, p.
489-508.

E. Azzopardi, The Coinage of the Crusaders and the World
of Islam. Foto´s en ontwerp door D. Cilia. Santa Venera,
Malta, 2006.
Recensie door J. Todesca in
The Medieval Review 08.09.03.

P. Bakker en C. Di Martino (ed.), L’étude
de l’âme entre physique et métaphysique. Perspectives
grecques, arabes et latines, de l’Antiquité à la
Renaissance. Turnhout, 2008. Textes et Études du Moyen
Âge.

P.J. Boner, ‘Kepler’s Early Astrological
Calendars. Matter, Methodology and Multidisciplinarity’. In:
Centaurus. International Magazine of the History of Science
and Medicine 50 (2008), p. 324-328.
Uit de
samenvatting: ‘From the beginning of his career, Kepler saw
astrology as part of a larger intellectual enterprise that we
might today consider interdisciplinary. In his quest to
recover Adam's prelapsarian knowledge, Kepler pursued
archetypal principles that underlay observable phenomena.
Kepler associated the apprehension of such principles with the
physician's arrival at ‘the inward causes’ of illnesses from
their outward symptoms. In his early astrological calendars,
Kepler interpreted his task of weather forecaster as that of
diagnosing the earth's meteorological responses to the
realisation of archetypal principles in the configurations of
the heavens. I argue that Kepler's novel integration of
medicine and astrometeorology indicated his intention from
early on to restore astrology, along with all other areas of
knowledge, to a superior philosophical
standing.’

A. Borrelli, Aspects of the
Astrolabe. ‘Architectanica ratio’ in tenth and eleventh
century Europe. Stuttgard, 2008. Sudhoffs Archiv,
Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte 57.
Begeleidende tekst van de uitgever: “The astrolabe –
often quoted as “the earliest computer” – is a mechanical
instrument capable of performing astronomical computations.
This study offers a new interpretation of its role in the
Latin culture of the High Middle Ages, highlighting its
epistemological significance. For Latin scholars around the
year 1000, the astrolabe became the earliest, non-verbal
channel to access and assimilate mathematical knowledge from
the Arabic culture, and could be seen as representing a divine
‘architectonical rationality’ which humans could share in the
mathematical experience.
The novel methodology of this work
combines the results of historical and philological analyses
of manuscripts and material sources with the most recent
insights on different kinds of mathematical thinking.
Focussing on drawings and text fragments, with a new, detailed
analysis of ms. Paris BnF 7412 (11th c.), the study
reconstructs the Latin high medieval mathematical experience,
its non-verbal modes of communication and its relationship
with both practice and philosophy.”

G. Bos (ed. en vert.), Maimonides. Medical Aphorisms:
Treatises 6-9. A parallel Arabic-English edition. Provo,
Utah, 2007. The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.
Recensie door T. Visi in The Medieval Review
08.05.11.

K.H. Broekhuijsen, The Masters of
the Dark Eyes. Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in
Holland. Turnhout, 2009.

L. Brubaker en K. Linardou (ed.), Eat, Drink and Be
Merry (Luke 12:19). Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of
the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in
Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer. Aldershot, 2007.
Recensie door W. Mayer in The Medieval Review
08.10.03.

T. Bruggisser-Lanker, Musik und Tod im Mittelalter.
Imaginationsräume der Transzendenz. Göttin-gen, 2010.

E.J. Burns, Sea of Silk. A Textile Geography of Women’s
Work in Medieval French Literature. Philadelphia,
2009.

G. de Callatay en B. van den Abeele (éd.), Une lumière
venue d'ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les
encyclopédies d'Orient et d'Occident au Moyen Age. Actes
du colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve, 19-21 mai 2005. Turnhout,
2009.
Beschrijving van de uitgever:
‘L'encyclopédisme médiéval a fait l’objet de divers colloques
ces dernières années, apportant des éclairages
complémentaires. Le colloque «Une lumière venue d'ailleurs»
s’est donné pour objectif général de mettre en parallèle les
traditions encyclopédiques orientales et occidentales, sur
base d’études philologiques et historiques. Ce volume souhaite
faire mieux comprendre les influences que l'Occident chrétien,
l’Islam et le monde hébraïque exercèrent l’un sur l’autre à
cette époque-charnière de leur histoire.’

E.
Canone en I.D. Rowland (ed.), The Alchemy of Extremes. The
Laboratory of the Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno.
Pisa/Rome, 2007.
Uit de recensie door A.
Saiber in The Medieval Review 08.10.20: ‘[The book] is
a wonderful and welcome addition to recent Bruno studies,
which continue to flourish. […] The Alchemy of Extremes is the
proceedings of a conference dedicated to Bruno's 1585
dialogue, De gli eroici furori [The Heroic Frenzies] held May
9-10, 2003 at the American Academy in Rome and co-hosted by
the Istituto del Lessico Intellettuale Europeo. […] The word
“laboratory” chosen by the editors is an apt term to describe
Bruno's Furori. Reading the text is, in fact, like entering a
busy workshop and seeing before you numerous individuals (the
interlocutors: ten, to be exact) crafting an amalgam of
dialogue, prose, poetry, mottos, and verbally-depicted
emblems. Placed by Bruno as the final dialogue of six that he
wrote while in England, and his last published text in
Italian, the Furori is, arguably, an important text to
investigate in light of his early and mid-production thought.

F. Capaccioni (ed.), Liber avium viventium
de rapina. Turnhout, 2008. Textes vernaculaires du moyen
âge 7.
Betreft een tekst over de
valkenhouderij. Uit de omschrijving van de uitgever: ‘Daté
entre la fin du trei-zième et le début du quatorzième siècle,
attribué à Egidius de Aquino, il s'agit d'un traité de
fauconnerie écrit originalement en latin et traduit ensuite en
italien.’

E. Chayes, L’Éloquence des Pierres
précieuses. De Marbodede Rennes à Alard d’Amsterdam et Rémy
Belleau. Sur quelques lapidaires du xvie siècle. Paris,
2010. Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 78.

M. Connolly, ‘Practical Reading for Body and Soul in Some
Later Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies’. In: Journal of the
Early Book Society For The Study of Manuscript and Printing
History 10 (2007), p. 151-174.

C. Cornelisse,
Energiemarkten en energiehandel in Holland in de late
Middeleeuwen. Hilversum, 2008. Hollandse Studiën
43.
Uit de beschrijving van de uitgever:
‘Holland behoorde met Vlaanderen en Zeeland bij de eerste
economieën die van de rijkdom van een in de bodem opgeslagen
energieschat, zijnde turf, profiteerden en zich daardoor
konden ontwikkelen. Per hoofd gerekend was Holland in de late
Middeleeuwen waarschijnlijk de grootste energieverbruiker van
heel Europa. De behoefte aan energie werd gestimuleerd door de
bevolkingsgroei, de verstedelijking, de exportindustrie, de
verstening van de steden en de behoefte aan hoge en grote
bouwwerken. In deze studie staat de ontwikkeling van handel in
en markten van energie in het laatmiddeleeuwse Holland beneden
het IJ centraal. Charles Cornelisse beschrijft onder andere de
verschillende brandstoffen met hun voor- en nadelen, hun
toepassingen binnen en buiten Holland, het transport, de rol
van de stedelijke overheden, de relatie tussen steden en
platteland, prijzen en accijnzen, kopers en verkopers, export
en import.’

R. Copeland en I. Sluiter (eds.),
Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary
The-ory. Oxford, 2010.

Y. Coutant, Dictionnaire historique et technique du
moulin dans le nord de la France. De Lille à Cambrai du 13e au
18e siècle. Turnhout, 2009. De diversis artibus 84.

Uit de omschrijving van de uitgever: ‘Dankzij
de studie van de oude woordenschat van molenaars, timmerlui en
smeden, die in het noorden van Frankrijk werkzaam waren, is de
auteur erin geslaagd een schat aan woorden te verzamelen, die
des te belangrijker is daar de streek steeds beroemd is
geweest voor haar meel- en olieproductie. Deze woordenschat is
een onmisbare aanvulling bij traditionele woordenboeken, die
zelden technisch vocabularium bevatten: meer dan twintig
procent van de definities of woorden zijn nieuw. De duidelijke
en nauwkeurige definities, de zo gediversifieerd en
gedetailleerd mogelijke voorbeelden, en de talrijke
illustraties zullen niet alleen de molenspecialist boeien,
maar ook de onderzoekers, die geconfronteerd kunnen worden
(bijv. in archieven) met technische gegevens in teksten.
Doorheen de verschillende artikels van dit woordenboek
ontstaat een nieuw beeld van de molen, dat doorheen de eeuwen
evolueert en dat bewondering afdwingt. Eindelijk is nu een
woordenboek voorhanden die handwerklieden aan bod laat komen.
In de loop der eeuwen hebben zij de mensheid bevrijd van
zwaarste arbeid, en zo indirect bijgedragen aan de
ontwikkeling van haar geestelijke
ontplooiing.’

K. Cregan. The Theatre of the
Body. Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern
London. Turnhout, 2009. Late Medieval and Early Modern
Studies.

Ch. Crisciani, L. Repici, en P. B. Rossi
(ed.), Vita longa. Vecchiaia e durata della vita nella
tradizione medica e aristotelica antica e medievale.
Turnhout, 2009. Micrologus' Library.

M.J. Crowe.
Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein. Santa Fe, N.M.,
2007.
Recensie door W.R. Laird in: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
813-814.

P. van Dam, ‘[Recensie van: J.M. Van Winter, Spices and
Comfits. Collected Papers on Medieval Food. Blackatown,
2007]’. In: Millennium. Tijdschrift voor middeleeuwse
studies 22 (2008), nr. 1, p. 97-99.

P. Dendle en A.
Touwaide (ed.), Health and Healing from the Medieval
Garden. Woodbridge, 2008.
Uit de recensie
van Ü. Sillasoo in The Medieval Review 09.03.15: ‘This
book mainly deals with the history of medicine and medical
uses of plants. The contributions deal with plants and
medicine of Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and English in
antiquity, during the Carolingian Renaissance, and in the
Middle Ages. Articles on the sources of and medical uses of
plants give a historical overview of the materia medica in
Europe since Hippocrates, the origin of possible cultural
influences, contacts, and the variety of ideologies on powers
and properties of plants. The topics also include plant names,
cooking in the Middle Ages, Spanish gardens, treatises on
individual plants (rosemary), and modern reconstructions of
medieval gardens.

Inhoud:

A. Touwaide, ‘The Legacy of Classical
Antiquity in Byzantium and the West’;

L.E. Voigts, ‘Plants and Planets. Linking
the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late- Medieval
Texts’;

P. Dendle, ‘Plants in the Early Medieval
Cosmos. Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala
natura’;

T. Scully, ‘A Cook's Therapeutic Use of
Garden Herbs’;

A. Touwaide, ‘The Jujube-Tree in the
Eastern Mediterranean. A Case Study in the Methodology of
Textual Archaobotany’;

M. D’Aronco, ‘Gardens on Vellum. Plants and
Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’;

P. Rusche, ‘The Sources for Plant Names in
Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal
Glossary’;

M. Osborn, ‘Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany.
Women’s Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III’;

P.M. Jones, ‘Herbs and the Medieval
Surgeon’;

G.R. Keiser, ‘Rosemary: Not Just for
Rememberance’;

E.G. Sánchez, ‘Utility and Aesthetics in
the Gardens of al-Andalus. Species with Multiple
Uses’;

D. Larkin, ‘Hortus Redivivus. The Medieval
Garden Recreated’.

L. DeVun, Prophecy, Alchemy and the End of Time. John of
Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York, 2009.

D. Dewolf en H. Wollens, ‘Op zoek naar sporen van Galenus:
een wandeling in Rome’. In: Geschiedenis der
Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 5, p. 260-272.
Rijk geïllustreerd artikel, onderdeel van een serie,
over de sporen die de ook in de Middeleeuwen nog zeer
invloedrijke arts Galenus heeft nagelaten in het hedendaagse
Rome. Zie ook het artikel van Wollens, Dewolf en Van Ree
elders in deze lijst.

P. Dinzelbacher, Lebenswelten des Mittelalters,
1000-1500. Badenweiler, 2010.
Uit de
recensie van D. Nicholas in The Medieval Review
[[email-masked]] 10.11.10: “The author is a dis-tinguished
Austrian historian, founder and editor emeritus of the journal
Mediaevistik, whose previous publi-cations have emphasized the
history of medieval mentalities, theology, gender, and
religion. Dinzelbacher's stated intention (9-10) is to write a
survey that will correct the erroneous impressions that most
beginning students and general readers have of the medieval
period. He does not say explicitly what he means by
Leb-enswelten, but he seems to use "fundamental elements of
medieval forms of life" (10) as a synonym. This is less an
intellectual history than a demonstration of how human
behavior, not only concerning religious prac-tice but also in
relations with other persons and with communities, was
conditioned by traditional and new ideas.
The book has
seven numbered chapters with endnotes and a short
bibliography. Each except Chapters 5 and 6 have subheadings,
which are useful for Chapters 1-4 but become a distraction in
Chapter 7. Each chapter has quotations from original sources,
some of which are separated from the main text by shading,
translated by the author into modern German. Of the 68 shaded
documents, 11 were written in France, 19 in Germany and the
Low Countries, 19 in Britain, fourteen in Italy, four in
Iberia, and one in Scandinavia. A clear secondary theme is
thus to show German readers how their medieval history fits
broader patterns derived from the west.”

L.E. Doggett, Love Cures. Healing and Love Magic in Old
French Romance. Pennsylvania, 2009. Penn State Romance
Studies.
Uit de recensie van M. Rampton in The
Medieval Review [[email-masked]] 10.06.04: “Love
Cures is an analysis of several high medieval romances,
Cliges, the Roman de Silence, Amadas and
Ydoine, and a collection of closely related Tristan and
Iseut narratives. The author is interested in the intersection
of love, healing and love magic in selected romance texts and
argues that representations of love are indebted to, in fact
reflect, actual twelfth- and thirteenth-century empirical
practices and cultural and societal realities, meaning
“observable phenomena that audiences experienced” (4). She
claims that in medieval society of the time women medics were
“often well known and highly respected in their communities”
(4) and argues, “The romances depict empirics in a manner
consistent with the picture sketched by historians of medicine
and magic” (262). A secondary theme of the book concerns the
tension between love and court expectations and how it plays
out in marriage. She argues that the dynamic between love and
“feudal” politics in romance texts gives female protagonists
“choice” in marriage (31).”

P. Duhamel, Polyphonie parisienne et architecture au
temps de l'art gothique (1140-1240). Varia Musicologica
14. Bern, 2010.

B.S. Eastwood, Ordering the Heavens. Roman Astronomy and
Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance. Leiden, 2007.
History of Science and Medicine Library 4; Medieval and Early
Modern Science 8.
Recensie door M. Zuccato in:
Isis. An International Review Devoted to the History of
Science and Its Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
823-824.

N. Edwards (ed.), The Archaeology of the Early Medieval
Celtic Churches. Leeds, 2009.

J. Ehmer en C. Lis (eds.), The Idea of Work in Europe
from Antiquity to Modern Times. Farnham, 2009.
Begeleidende tekst van de uitgever: “This volume takes
a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of
work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and
representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval
and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe,
the contributors approach the subject from a variety of
angles, considering aspects of work as described in
literature, visual culture, and as perceived in economic
theory. As well as external views of workers the volume also
looks at the meaning of work for the self-perception of
various social groups, including labourers, artisans,
merchants, and noblemen, and the effects of this on their
self-esteem and social identity. Taking a broad chronological
approach to the subject provides readers with a cutting-edge
overview of research into the varying attitudes to work and
its place in pre-industrial society.”

M.J. Elsakkers, Reading between the lines. Old Germanic
and early Christian views on abortion. Amsterdam,
2010.

S.A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later
Medieval Europe, 1000-1500. Cambridge, 2009.

E. L’Estrange, Holy motherhood. Gender, dynasty and
visual culture in the later middle ages. Manchester medieval
studies. Manchester en New York, 2008.

D. Fallows, Composers and their Songs,
1400–1521. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot,
2010.

O. Ferm en V. Honemann (ed.), Chess and Allegory in the
Middle Ages. A Collection of Essays. Stockholm, 2005.
Runica et Mediaevalia Scripta minora 12.
Recensie door D.E. O’Sullivan in The Medieval
Review 08.06.11.

R. Gabriel,
‘Boekenlijsten en Material Philology. Methodologische
overwegingen bij de boekenlijst van Michael van der Stoct (ca.
1394)’. In: Queeste 16 (2009), nr. 2, p. 83-111.

M.C. Gadebush Bondio und Thomas Ricklin (ed.), Exempla
medicorum. Die Ärzte und ihre Beispiele (14.-18.
Jahrhundert). Turnhout, 2008. Micrologus' Library
26.
Inhoud:

M. Gadebusch Bondio en Th. Ricklin,
‘Einleitung’;

S. Geisler, ‘Platons Arztvergleich Arzt und
Medizin als Modell für gutes Leben und richtige Politik’;

O. Auge, ‘Leben im mittelalterlichen und
frühneuzeitlichen Hospital als Exemplum’;

K. Bergdolt, ‘Ein frühhumanistisches
Exemplum - Petrarcas Polemik gegen die Medizin’;

Th. Ricklin, ‘Quasi Esculapius alter: Wie
Boccaccio mit Hilfe der Medizinheroen Äskulap, Apoll und
Merkur die Tollheit der antiken Götterfabeln
bewältigt’;

C. Crisciani, ‘Exempla in medicina
epistemologia, ensegnamento, retorica (secoli XIII-XV). Una
proposta di ricerca’;

G. Zuccolin, ‘Il ruolo dell'exemplum nella
produzione medica e religiosa di Michele Savonarola
(1385-1466)’;

M. Gadebusch Bondio, ‘Von der Vielfalt der
Exempla in frühneuzeitlichen medizinischen
Texten’;

R. Poma, ‘Formes de l'exemplarité dans la
médicine des XVIe et XVIIe siècles’;

H.-U. Lammel, ‘“Seuchenspezialist” und
“fliegender Arzt”. Hippokrates-Bilder in der Frühen
Neuzeit’;

I. Zinguer, ‘Les Hermaphrodites, de
l’exemple médical (Jacques Duval) au modèle littéraire
(Thomas Artus)’;

D. Schäfer, ‘Gullivers Greise und Medeas
Mixturen frühneuzeitliche Beispiele für Langlebigkeit im
medizinischen und nichtmedizinischen Kontext’.

V.L. Garver, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the
Carolingian World. New York, 2009.

A. Gautier, ‘[Recensie van: J.M. Van Winter, Spices and
Comfits. Collected Papers on Medieval Food. Blackatown,
2007]’. In: The Medieval Review 08.06.24.

L. van
Gemert (hoofdred.) e.a., Women’s writing from the Low
Countries 1200-1875. A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam,
2010.
In deze tweetalige bloemlezing gaan de
Middelnederlandse teksten vergezeld van een moderne Engelse
ver-taling. In hoofdstuk 6 gaat Orlanda Lie in op Christine de
Pizans Livre de la cité des dames. Vooral interessant
zijn echter de hoofstukken 7 en 8, waarin Orlanda Lie
specifieke artesonderwerpen bespreekt. In hoofdstuk 7 komt het
lepratraktaat van Barbere Sagers aan bod, hoofdstuk 8 gaat
dieper in op de Trotula-traditie.

E. Grant, Science and Religion, 400 b.c. to a.d. 1550.
From Aristotle to Copernicus. Herdruk. Baltimore,
2006.
Recensie door R. Drayton in: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p. 814-816.
Omschrijving: ‘In this book, historian Edward Grant
il-luminates just how much of today's scientific culture
originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.
Rather than being hostile to natural philosophy and the influx
of Greco-Arabic science, medieval theologians embraced it. In
the early centuries of Christianity, Christians studied
science and natural phi-losophy only to the extent that these
subjects proved useful for a better understanding of the
Christian faith - not to acquire knowledge for its own sake.
With the influx of Greco-Arabic science in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries, however, their approach to science
changed dramatically. Despite some tensions in the thirteenth
century, the Church and its followers became favorably
disposed toward science and natural philosophy and used them
extensively in their theological
deliberations.’

G.L. Greco en C.M. Rose
(trans.), The Good Wife’s Guide. Le ménagier de Paris. A
Medieval Household Book. Ithaca, New York en London,
2009.

M.H. Green, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine. The Rise
of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gyneacology. Oxford,
2008.
Begeleidende tekst van de uitgever:
“Making Women’s Medicine Masculine challenges the common
belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never
involved in any aspect of women’s healthcare in Europe. Using
sources ranging from the writings of the famous
twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the
way to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, and
covering both medicine and surgery, this study demonstrates
that men slowly established more and more authority in
diagnosing and prescribing treatments for women’s
gynaecological conditions (especially infertility) and even
certain obstetrical conditions. Even if their ‘hands-on’
knowledge of women’s bodies was limited by contemporary mores,
men were able to establish their increasing authority in this
and all branches of medicine due to their greater access to
literacy and the knowledge contained in books, whether in
Latin or the vernacular. As Monica Green shows, while works
written in French, Dutch, English, and Italian were sometimes
addressed to women, nevertheless even these were often
re-appropriated by men, both by practitioners who treated
women and by laymen interested to learn about the ‘secrets’ of
generation.
While early in the period women were considered
to have authoritative knowledge on women’s conditions (hence
the widespread influence of the alleged authoress ‘Trotula’),
by the end of the period to be a woman was no longer an
automatic qualification for either understanding or treating
the conditions that most commonly afflicted the female sex -
with implications of women’s exclusion from production of
knowledge on their own bodies extending to the present
day.”

C. Griffin, ‘“A Good Reder and a Deuout”. Instruction,
Reading and Devotion in the Wise Book of Philosophy and
Astronomy’. In: Journal of the Early Book Society For The
Study of Manuscript and Printing History 10 (2007), p.
107-128.

L.P. Grijp en F. Willaert (ed.), De fiere
nachtegaal. Het Nederlandse lied in de middeleeuwen.
Amsterdam, 2008.
Bevat bijdragen van
literatuurhistorici en muziekhistorici over context en
praktijk van geestelijke en wereldlijke Nederlandse liederen
tot 1600. Inhoud:

L.P. Grijp en F. Willaert, ‘Inleiding’, p.
11-18;

H. Pleij, ‘Over de interpretatie van het
oude lied’, p. 19-32;

A. Daróczi, ‘Hadewijch: mystiek tussen
oraliteit en schriftelijkheid. Over de verbinding van inhoud
en vorm’, p. 33-54;

B. Schmelzer, ‘De zingende Hadewijch II.
Uitvoeringspraktijk van de liederen en praktische muziek’,
p. 55-74;

H. Tervooren, ‘Een tweede proefvlucht naar
het zwarte gat van de veertiende eeuw. De opvattingen van
een germanist’, p. 75-90;

F. Willaert, ‘Klerikalisering of
verburgerlijking? Enkele beschouwingen over het profiel van
de Gruuthuse-dichter(s)’, p. 91-104;

I. de Loos, De liederen van het
Gruuthuse-handschrift. Notatie, uitvoeringspraktijk en
editieproblemen’, p. 105-128;

H. Brinkman, ‘“Schoon onderworpen
droefheid”. Over opmars, resonantie en interpretatie van het
Egidiuslied’, p. 129-148;

U. Hascher-Burger, ‘Vrouwenlied en
mannenzang. Latijnse geestelijke gezangen in
laatmiddeleeuwse liederenhandschriften uit de Lage Landen’,
p. 149-174;

H. Joldersma, ‘“Jezus als wijnschenker” in
het laatmiddeleeuwse geestelijk lied. Een inventariserende
voorstudie’, p. 175-190;

D. Coigneau, ‘Vrient, ghij moet eens
singen. Het lied in de rederijkersklucht’, p.
191-204;

J. Oosterman, ‘Mocht ik van haar verwerven…
Over verzamelingen en verzamelaars in de Middeleeuwen en de
zestiende eeuw’, p. 205-218;

M. de Bruin, ‘Een profeet uit het Oosten.
Spiritualist Hendrik Niclaes en de Nederlandse liedcultuur’,
p. 219-230;

M. de Bruin, ‘Een nóg ouder geuzenliedboek.
Signalement van de druk (1576-1577) met de oudst bekende
Nederlandse Wilhelmustekst’, p. 231-250;

D. van der Poel, ‘Liefdesliedjes uit
Amsterdam. Het Aemstelredams Amoreus lietboeck (1589)’, p.
251-268;

C. Strijbosch, ‘Vrouw maan, blijf staan.
Wereldlijke liederenverzamelingen van de zestiende eeuw’, p.
269-298;

W.P. Gerritsen, ‘Hoffmann von Fallersleben
en het Antwerps Liedboek’, p. 299-310;

L.P. Grijp,‘Onder de altijdgroene linde.
Over orale principes in Middelnederlandse liederen’, p.
311-330;

I. van Beersum, ‘Onder de altijdgroene
linde II. Persoonlijke inbreng van zangers in de mondelinge
liedcultuur’, p. 331-340;

P. Wackers, ‘Methodologische overwegingen
bij het Repertorium van het Nederlandse lied tot 1600’, p.
341-360.

P.-M. Guihard, Monnaies gauloises et circulation
monétaire dans l'actuelle Normandie. Collection de la
médiathèque municipale de Bayeux (Calvados). Turnhout,
2008. Publications du Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et
Historiques Médiévales.
Uit de beschrijving
van de uitgever: ‘Indispensable aux numismates, ce catalogue
est aussi, par le plaisir visuel que procurent les
photographies couleur de ces monnaies, un moyen original de
découvrir une pé-riode trop mal connue.’

G. Halsall, Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul.
Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009.
Leiden, 2010.
Uit de recensie van B. Young in
The Medieval Review [[email-masked]] 10.10.09: “The
eleven chapters and five commentaries assembled in this volume
offer an intellectual autobiography in mid-career. Since he
studied them “as an equal combination at the University of
York” Guy Halsall has been inspired by the “profound
conviction that a rounded appreciation of the early medieval
period can only come through knowing about history and
archaeology”. The often rocky relationship between the two, in
Britain, is the first of the four general themes treated in
this book, consisting of an essay “Archaeology and
Historiography” (first published in 1997) followed by an
updating commentary “Archaeology and its Discontents.” The
discontents are traced to the impact in England, from about
1970 of the American “New Archaeology” (a.k.a. “processual
archaeology”), aggressively flaunting the banner of a social
science grounded in material culture and anthropology while
declaring emphatic independence of the “biased” written
sources of historians. Despite the more recent development
(notably at Cambridge) of a “post-processual archaeology”,
whose interests overlap with cultural history, Halsall laments
that a “one-sided polemic” persists. British archaeologists
suspect historians of disrespecting them and are woefully
ignorant of historical method; on the other hand “historians
are nowadays well aware that they do not have the skills to
analyse archaeological data”. The way out of this impasse,
Halsall suggests, can come only “when archaeology has
developed a realistic sense of its potentials” and can engage
with coherence and self-confidence in dialogue with
historians. His own embrace of the “post-processual” paradigm,
which emphasizes the role of ritual and material symbols in
creating new identities and competing for power, has grounded
the historian sufficiently in archaeological theory to
dialogue vigorously with them.”

H. Haug, ‘Le passage de la lecture oralisée à la lecture
silencieuse: un mythe?’ In: Le Moyen Francais 65
(2009), p. 1-22.

R. Hebing, ‘(Bij)geloof en bescherming. Een Hemelsbrief als
amulet in een laat-middeleeuws Engels gebedenboek’. In:
Madoc 23 (2009), nr. 4, p. 204-214.

J. Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville.
Truth from Words. Cambridge, 2007.
Uit de
recensie door G.I. Halfond in The Medieval Review
08.05.18: ‘John Henderson has produced a methodical commentary
of Isidore's labyrinthine Etymologies, a work he calls a
“compelling attempt to systematize the conceptual archive of
Roman memory,” and one of the most popular and influential
works over the course of the Middle Ages. […] Henderson's book
is divided into two parts: “Preliminaries” and “Reading the
Etymologiae”. He begins with a brief introduction in which he
presents his thesis that Isidore attempted in his work to
recreate the world through words. […] Henderson uses Part 1 of
his book to examine the organization of Isidore's etymological
encyclopedia. […] Having established his modus operandi,
Henderson moves on to his reading of Isidore in Part 2.
Henderson goes book by book through the Etymologies, glossing
Isidore's text in a clearly erudite, but exceptionally
idiosyncratic manner. Henderson approaches the text like an
educational syllabus whose purpose is to impart worldly (and
otherworldly) knowledge. He observes how Isidore begins his
educational-cum-artistic program with the Seven Liberal Arts
(Books 1-3), beginning with grammar and individual letters.
Isidore’s method, as Henderson explains, assumes that a
student must learn one discipline before he can move on to the
next, i.e. grammar before rhetoric before mathematics. […] For
Isidore, the history of humanity is simultaneously the history
of etymology, and words offer the means to understanding the
fruits of Creation. Isidore’s progress through the Liberal
Arts, in fact, ends in the heavens (i.e. Astronomy). […]
Isidore follows his tour through the Liberal Arts with
post-graduate coursework in Medicine, Law, History, and
Theology (Books 4-7). The Bible, for Isidore, is a book as
well as a library, which “lifts our schooling to a higher
level” (99). Books 8-15 take on the ambitious task of
organizing the universe by language, nation, species, and
environment. The final five books, in Henderson's estimation,
deal with “the evolution of human culture through the
exploitation of resources by the proliferating technologies
pooled and developed in the world accessed by Isidore's words”
(182).’

C.B. Hieatt (ed.) A Gathering of
Medieval English Recipes. Turnhout, 2008. Textes
vernaculaires du moyen âge 5.
Uit de
omschrijving van de uitgever: ‘This book is a collection of
medieval English culinary recipes which have not been edited
before. Some of them come from brief collections which have
not been previously published, or are found in isolation or
very small groups in manuscripts which do not contain such
collections. Others come from collections which have been
used, or viewed, primarily for collation, but which contain
other recipes which had not yet been noted. It was the
author's object to gather together all the recipes which had
not been edited and published, or are not currently being
edited by others, to make the record of English recipes of
this period as complete as possible. The volume concludes with
a supplement to the recently published Concordance of English
Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries, adding all
the “new” recipes to that Concordance, except for a few which
are so fragmentary as not to deserve listing.

D.
Hiley, Gregorian Chant. Cambridge, 2009.

H. Hirai, Cornelius Gemma, Cosmology, Medicine and
Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain. Pisa en Rome,
2008. Bruniana & Campanelliana, Supplementi XXIV.

R. Hofmeister Pich (ed.), New Essays on Metaphysics as
Scientia Transcendens. Proceedings of the Second
International Conference of Medieval Philosophy, held at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS),
Porto Alegre/Brazil, 15-18 August 2006. Turnhout, 2008. Textes
et Etudes du Moyen Âge 43.

A. Houthuys, Middeleeuws kladwerk. De autograaf van de
Brabantsche yeesten, boek VI (vijftiende eeuw). Hilversum,
2009.

H.L. Houtzager, ‘De medische boeken uit de
bibliotheek van de Leidse koopman Daniël van der Meulen’. In:
Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 5, p.
273-277.

M.C. Howell, Commerce before Capitalism in
Europe, 1300 – 1600. Cambridge, 2010.

T. Hunt (ed.), An Old French Herbal (Ms Princeton U.L.
Garrett 131). Turnhout, 2009. Textes vernaculaires du
moyen âge 4.
Uit de omschrijving van de
uitgever: ‘The earliest Old French herbal in verse, here
edited for the first time, is a surprisingly comprehensive
work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin
treatise De viribus herbarum attributed to a certain Macer. It
occupies a significant place in the development of herbals and
is an interesting witness to writing in Western France in the
thirteenth century and to the unusual syntax and concentrated
style of its author. Some one hundred and twenty-five plants
are described together with their medicinal uses, which cover
a remarkable range of ailments. For ease of recognition the
sections of text which do not seem to be based on the received
text of Macer are printed in italics. Quotations from the
principal source and from parallels are given in the notes.
This work will be of great value to all those interested in
Old French, in medieval translation, the vernacular
transmission of learning, and the history of
medicine.’

T. Hunt (ed.), Three Anglo-Norman Treatises on
Falconry. Oxford, 2009.

T. Hunt, ‘The Middle French Alchemical Treatises in MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library DIGBY 164’. In: Medium Aevum
LXXIX (2010), nr. 1, p. 90-115.

S. Jaeger, Magnificence and the Sublime
in Medieval Aesthetics. Art, Architecture, Literature,
Music. Houndmills, 2010.

D. Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs. Étude sur les plus
anciens traités astrologiques Latins d'origine arabe (Xe
siècle). Leiden, 2007. Brill's Studies in Intellectual
History 152; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History
2.
Recensie door W.M. Stevens in: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
825-826.

D. Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de
la Renaissance (1567–1625). Genève, 2007. Cahiers
d’Humanisme et Renaissance 80.

Th.F. Kelly, The
Practice of Medieval Music. Studies in Chant and
Performance. Aldershot, 2010.

H. King, Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of
Gynaecology. The Uses of a Sixteenth Century Compendium.
Aldershot, 2007. Women and Gender in the Early Modern
World.
Recensie door C. Alduy in:
Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008), nr. 2, p.
624-625.

E. Kooper (ed.), The Medieval
Chronicle VI. Amsterdam/New York, 2009.

C. Kosso en A. Scott, The Nature and Function of Water,
Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the
Renaissance. Leiden, 2009.

C. Kostick (ed.), Medieval and Early Modern Women.
Essays in honour of Christine Meek. Dublin, 2010.
Uit de recensie van C. Benes en T.J.H. McCarthy in
The Medieval Review [[email-masked]] 11.02.11: “In
2007 Professor Christine Meek retired from the Department of
Medieval History at Trinity College, Dublin after a
distinguished career of teaching, research and service to the
College. Her studies on the economic and social history of
medieval and Renaissance Lucca are standard works in the
field, while more recently she has turned to the history of
medieval women. The volume under review seeks to acknowledge
both of these interests, and the diverse essays contributed by
Meek's students and colleagues from both sides of the
Atlan-tic coalesce--largely thanks to a well-crafted
introduction by Conor Kostick--into a whole worthy of the
ho-norand, and better than the volume's admittedly awkward
title might suggest. Christine Meek's scholarship is
characterized by meticulous archival research, thorough
linguistic competency, and the self-assuredness to resist
scholarly fads while taking advantage of their occasional
merits. She has left an important legacy as well for her
academic colleagues as for her students, and so it is fitting
that her work should be celebrated with an elegantly produced
Festschrift.”

M. Kowaleski (ed.), Medieval Towns: A Reader.
Peterborough, Ontario, 2006. Readings in Medieval
Civilizations and Cultures.
Recensie door B.R.
McRee in The Medieval Review 09.01.09. Het betreft een
belangrijke verzameling middeleeuwse primaire bronnen op het
gebied van het dagelijks leven in de laatmiddeleeuwse steden,
met veel raakvlakken met de artesliteratuur. Veel teksten over
o.a. onderwijs, de hofkunsten, gezondheidszorg en hygiëne,
bestrijding van pest en honger, krijgskunde, economische
aangelegenheden, kleding, en dieet. De meeste geëditeerde
traktaten hebben betrekking op zaken waarmee de stedelijke
bewoners regelmatig geconfronteerd werden: roddel en
achterklap, huwelijk, erfenissen en testamenten, de opleiding
tot een ambacht bij een gildemeester, marktvoorschriften,
bouwtekeningen van koopmanshuizen, en nog heel veel ander
materiaal van minder traditionele aard. Elk document gaat
vergezeld van een korte inleiding waarin de bredere context
waarbinnen het werk ontstond wordt geschetst, vaak in
combinatie met technische bijzonderheden.

M.M.A.C. Langenhuijsen, ‘Genealogie en
curriculum van een fabeldier: de basilisk’. In: Volkskunde.
Driemaandelijks tijdschrift voor de studie van het
volksleven 110 (2009), nr. 1, p. 49-58.

Y. T.
Langermann (ed.), Avicenna and his Legacy. A Golden Age of
Science and Philosophy. Turnhout, 2009. Cultural
Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 8.
[Verschijnt najaar 2009.]
Beschrijving van de
uitgever: ‘This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna,
his followers and critics, many of whom are just now being
introduced to western scholarship. These essays consider
subjects including Islamic intellectual history, the nature of
divine knowledge, astronomy, cosmology, medicine, ontology,
philosophy, and the exegetical method.’

E.E.
Leach, Sung Birds. Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later
Middle Ages. Ithaca/Londen, 2007.
Uit de
omschrijving van de uitgever: ‘Is birdsong music? The most
frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was
resoundingly “no”. In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces
postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture.
She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for
medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of
music, the significance of comparisons between singers and
birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted
by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If
birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical
depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell
us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of
secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw
the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the
music of Messiaen and others?

Inhoud:

1. Rational Song;
2. Birdsong and Human
Singing;
3. Birds Sung;
4. Silent Birds: The Musical
Chase and Gace de la Buigne’s Le Roman des
Deduis;
5. Feminine Birds and Immoral Song;
6. Bird
Debates Replayed; Appendices: Two Principal Voices in Grammar
and Music; Four Species and Two Principal Voices in Grammar
and Music Superimposed; Aegidius and Pliny on the Nightingale
Compared; The Birdsong Pieces and Their Sources; A Note on the
Music Examples; Love of Birds Using Musical Authorities;
Arnulf’s Borrowings from Alan of Lille, De planctu
Naturae.

P. De Leemans en M. Goyens (ed.),
Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues.
Leuven, 2006. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1, Studia
39.
Uit de recensie van W.H. York in The
Medieval Review 08.09.10: ‘Texts within the genre of
Problemata drew together materials from Aristotle, Plutarch
and Alexander of Aphrodisias, among others, on a wide range of
subjects relating to natural science (including medicine and
natural history). The gathered information was arranged in a
question and answer format aimed at addressing natural
particulars with the aura of an authoritative philosophical
perspective. The text known as the Problemata Aristotelis, or
Aristotle’s Problemata, is one such collection of questions
that circulated widely in manuscripts and printed editions
during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Based on Greek
collections, the Problemata was introduced into Europe in
Latin, but quickly became available in French, German and
English translations.’

Inhoud:

P. de Leemans en M. Goyens,
‘Introduction’;

J. Cadden, ‘Preliminary Observations on the
Place of the Problemata in Medieval Learning’;

R.W. Sharples, ‘Pseudo-Alexander or
Pseudo-Aristotle, Medical Puzzles and Physical
Problems’;

L.S. Filius, ‘The Genre Problemata in
Arabic. Its Motions and Changes’;

G.F. Vescovini, ‘L’Expositio Succinta
Problematum Aristotelis de Pierre d'Abano’;

M. van der Lugt, ‘Aristotle’s Problems in
the West. A Contribution to the Study of Medieval Latin
Tra-dition’;

I. Ventura, ‘“Aristoteles fuit causa
efficiens huius libri”. On the Reception of
Pseudo-Aristotle's Prob-lemata in Late Medieval
Encyclopaedic Culture’;

F. Guichard-Tesson, ‘Evrart de Conty,
poète, traducteur et commentateur’;

C. Boucher, ‘Des problèmes pour exercer
l’entendement des lecteurs. Evrart de Conty, Nicole Oresme
et la recherche de la nouveauté’;

J. Ducos, ‘Lectures et vulgarisation du
savoir aristotélicien. Les gloses d'Evrart de Conty
(sections XXV-XXVI)’;

G. Dumas, ‘Evrart de Conty et Pierre
d'Abano. Commentateurs d'Aristote’;

A. Bloem, ‘A la recherche de la
subjectivité dans les Problèmes d'Evrart de Conty. Un
commentateur juché sur les épaules d’Aristote?’;

J. Monfasani, ‘George of Trebizond’s
Critique of Theodore Gaza’s Translation of the Aristotelian
Pro-blemata’.

I. de Leeuw, ‘De ogen van Cosimo I. Een erfelijke
aandoening van de Medici Popolani?’. In: Geschiedenis der
Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 4, p. 196-201.

P.
Lendinara, L. Lazzari en M.A. D'Aronco (ed.), Form and
Content of Instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the Light of
Contemporary Manuscript Evidence. Papers Presented at the
International Conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006. Turnhout,
2007. Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études
Médiévales, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 39.
Uit de recensie door S.M. Rowley in The Medieval
Review 08.12.01: ‘This collection of nineteen essays
focuses on educational and medical texts, along with the
layout and contents of the manuscripts in which these texts
survive. The “core” of the essays were first presented at the
International Conference on “Form and Content of Instruction
in Anglo-Saxon England in The Light of Contemporary Manuscript
Evidence” at the University of Udine (2006). Both are parts of
the project, “Storehouses of Wholesome Learning”, which is “a
joint project of Italian and Dutch scholars aimed at the study
of the transmission, development and dissemination of
encyclopaedic knowledge from the Mediterranean area to North
Western Europe until 1200”.

C. Leonardi en F.
Santi (ed.), Natura, scienze e società medievali. Studi in
onore di Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Turnhout, 2008.
Micrologus’ Library 28

S. Lightsey, Manmade Marvels
in Medieval Culture and Literature. New York,
2007.
Recensie door A. Pluskowski in The
Medieval Review 08.05.16.

G.M.P. Loots,
‘Gevalsbeschrijvingen uit de zestiende eeuw: op consult bij
Pieter van Foreest’. In: Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde
12 (2008), nr. 6, p. 363-368.

M. Lutz-Bachmann en A. Fidora (Hrsg.), Handlung und
Wissenschaft. Die Epistemologie der praktischen Wissenschaften
im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert / Action and Science. The
Epistemology of the Practical Sciences in the 13th and 14th
Centuries. Berlin, 2008.

J. Máchacek, The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in
East Central Europe. Early Medieval Centers as Social and
Economic Systems. Leiden/Boston, 2010.
Zie
voor een uitgebreide recensie: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/13062.

W.F. MacLehose, “A Tender Age”. Cultural Anxieties over
the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. New
York, 2008.
Is ook in zijn geheel te lezen op
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/maclehose/maw01.html

M. Madero, Tabula Picta. Painting and Writing in
Medieval Law. Philadelphia, 2010. [Translated by Monique
Dscha Inciarte and Roland David Valayre. Foreword by Roger
Chartier.]

Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 24 (2010),
nr. 4. Themanummer: Straffen in de Middeleeu-wen.
Dit themanummer bevat artikelen van Adriaan Gaastra,
Han Nijdam, Guy Geltner, Jan van Herwaarden, Dirk-Jan Horus,
Clara Strijbosch, Peter Paalvast, Jos Koldeweij en Anna
Adamska (column).
Informatie van de uitgever: “In
discussies over misdaad en straf wordt vaak gerefereerd aan de
Middeleeu-wen, waarin volgens de populaire opvatting
gruwelijke lijfstraffen aan de orde van de dag waren en
gevange-nissen nog geen ‘hotels’. De auteurs van dit
themanummer van Madoc streven ernaar dit beeld te nuanceren
door middeleeuwse concepten van straf in diverse regio’s en
periodes vanuit verschillende invalshoeken te belichten.
Hierbij komen vragen aan de orde als: wie werd er door wie
gestraft, op basis van welke autoriteit, en voor welke
(mis)daden? Met welk doel deelde men straf uit en waaruit kon
deze bestaan? Welk beeld had men van (lichamelijk) geweld, en
hoe zag de buitenwereld misdadigers en zondaars? Kunnen
misdaden en straffen in dezelfde categorieën ingedeeld worden?
Hoe en met welk doel werden straf en misdaad verbeeld in kunst
en literatuur?”

T.J. McGee (ed.), Instruments and their Music in the
Middle Ages. Aldershot, 2009.
Uit de
recensie van G. Peters in The Medieval Review
[[email-masked]] 10.10.11: “This book is a compilation of
twenty-eight essays which have been central to the research on
medieval musical instruments over the last fifty years. This
recent contribution to Ashgate's series, Music in Medieval
Europe, offers the reader much needed help in navigating
this complex area of research for which numerous questions and
problems have yet to be resolved.
The essays are organized
into six categories: the classification of musical
instruments, keyboards, plucked strings, bowed strings, winds,
and finally, the repertory. The value of this collection lies
in McGee's selection of complementary essays that not only
offer information on the construction of multiple instruments,
but also on their social context.”

Mediaevalia. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval
Studies Worldwide 29 (2008), nr 1, Themanummer: D. Stewart
(ed.), Science and Literature at the Crossroads: Papers
from the 34th CEMERS Interdisciplinary
Conference.
Inhoud:

D. Stewart, ‘Introduction’, p.
1-6;

M. Nientied, ‘Divine Names and their
Theoretical Implications’, p. 7-26;

F. Harris-Stoertz, ‘Pregnancy and
Childbirth in Chivalric Literature’, p. 27-36;

L. Erussard, ‘At the Intersection of
Religion, Folklore, and Science. Women and Snakes in Old
French Arthurian Romance’, p. 37-50;

S. Kocher, ‘Gay Knights in Medieval French
Fiction. Constructs of Queerness and Non-transgression’, p.
51-66;

J. Singer, ‘“Sa clarté première”. Cataract
Removal as Metaphor in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry’, p.
67-82;

N. McLoughlin, ‘Personal Narrative and the
Systematization of Knowledge in the Thought of Jean Gerson’,
p. 83-108;

C. Eagleton, ‘John Whethamstede, Abbot of
St. Albans, on the Discovery of the Liberal Arts and their
Tools. Or, why were Astronomical Instruments in
Late-Medieval Libraries?’, p. 109-136;

K.E. Smith, ‘The Astrological Subtext and
Other Temporal Patternings in Lydgate's Theban History’, p.
137-156;

M.E. Polhill, ‘Constructions of Gender and
Class in a Late Fifteenth-Century Alemannic Pharmaceutical
Bestiary’, p. 157-178;

J.A. Givens, ‘The Illustrated Tractatus de
Herbis. Images, Information and Communication Design’, p.
179-206;

J.B. Friedman, ‘The Humor and Folly of the
World in Odd Places. A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Herbal’,
p. 207-228.

C. Merchant, ‘“The Violence of Impediments”. Francis Bacon
and the Origins of Experimentation’. In: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p. 731-760.
Samenvatting uitgever: ‘Francis Bacon’s use of
metaphors to characterize his nascent concept of
experi-mentation must be interpreted within the historical
context of his time. His approach to experimentation is one in
which nature is constrained by the “violence of impediments”
and is made new by “art and the hand of man.” His language
about nature should be placed in the context of the history of
the contained, controlled experiment, a concept that emerges
from juridical practice, from the idea of nature in bonds, and
from the tradition of the secrets of nature in settings such
as the courtroom, the anatomy theater, and the
laboratory.’

M. Meyer, An Obscure Portrait.
Imaging Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art. London,
2009.

Micrologus 17 (2009), Themanummer: La madre / The
mother.
Inhoud o.a.:

P. Borgeaud, ‘La Mère des Dieux, l'ici et
l'ailleurs’;

S. Campese, ‘Platone e le madri nel libro V
della Repubblica’;

V. Dasen, ‘Empreintes
maternelles’;

F. Sivo, ‘La metamorfosi dell'animo: da
madri a novercae’;

E. Baumgarten, ‘Jewish Conceptions of
Motherhood in Medieval Christian Europe. Dialogue and
Difference’;

L. Moulinier, ‘Aspects de la maternité
selon Hildegarde de Bingen (1098-1179)’;

Y. Cazal, ‘Nec jam modo Mater. Enquête sur
une dénomination disparue pour désigner “la Mère qui a perdu
son enfant”’;

M. Uhlig, ‘La Mère, auxiliaire ou
adversaire de l'idylle? Les figures maternelles dans deux
récits idyl-liques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles’;

J. Wirth, ‘Le sein féminin au Moyen
Age’;

D. Lett, ‘Les mères demeurent des filles et
des soeurs. Les statuts familiaux des femmes dans les
Marches au début du XIVe siècle’;

C. Klapisch-Zuber, ‘Une filiation
contestée: la lignée maternelle à Florence, XIVe-XVe
siècles’;

O. Niccoli, ‘Corps maternels. Les mystères
de la génération aux débuts de l'époque
moderne’;

C. Schuster Cordone, ‘Maternité et
sénescence. Le corps féminin entre prodige et
transgression’.

S.A. Miller, Medieval Monstrosity and the Female
Body. New York/London, 2010.

M. Montanari, Cheese, Pears, and History in a
Proverb. New York, 2010.

N. Morgan en S. Panayotova (eds.) m.m.v. van M. Meuwese, E.
Neuw, S. Reynolds, H. Vorholt en A. Worm, A catalogue of
Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the
Cambridge College. Part I. The Low Countries. Germany,
Bohemia, Austria, Hungary and London/Turnhout, 2009.

K. Müller, Visuelle Weltaneignung. Astronomische und
kosmologische Diagramme in Handschriften des Mittelalters.
Göttingen, 2008. Historische Semantik 11.

G. de Munck,
‘400 Jaar receptuurkunde te Antwerpen’. In: Geschiedenis
der Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 5, p. 296-304.
Behandelt de Antwerpse receptenboeken vanaf het begin
van de zestiende eeuw.

R.E. Murray Jr., S. Forscher Weiss en C.J. Cyrus, Music
Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Bloomington (IN), 2010.

K. Nieuwenhuisen, ‘Vlees voor wormen.
Afbeeldingen van Vraat- en Drankzucht in de Middeleeuwen
(circa 800-1500)’. In: Madoc 23 (2009), nr. 4, p.
215-224.

H. van Nieuwenhuize, ‘Specialisatie als seizoensgebonden
mogelijkheid. De organisatie van de Zeeuwse zoutvaart op
Engeland (1453-1568)’. In: Tijdschrift voor
zeegeschiedenis 27 (2008), nr. 2, p. 139-151.
Over een belangrijk onderdeel van de laatmiddeleeuwse
koopmansboeken, namelijk de ontwikkeling van de handel in
zout.

B.W. Ogilvie. The Science of Describing.
Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago,
2008.
Recensie door K. Crowther in: Isis.
An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and
Its Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
828-829.

C. Page, The Christian West and its
Singers. The First Thousand Years. New Haven en London,
2010.
Uit de recensie van A.V. Clark in The
Medieval Review [[email-masked]] 10.10.07: “This is an
extraordinary book. Immensely learned and generous with text
and image, its goal is to survey what we can know about
singers in the Latin West up to c. 1100, a particularly
daunting task considering the paucity of documentary sources,
especially for the earlier part of this period, and the
complete absence of musical notation for most of the period
under study. It is necessary therefore to mine material that
is not intended to provide information about musical practice,
such as chronicles, saints’ lives, charters, and epigraphy.
Such a project is necessarily an exercise in reading between
the lines, requiring both excellent scholarship and vivid
imagination. Christopher Page may be the best person to take
on such a difficult task. Scholar of medieval literature and
music and director of the ensemble Gothic Voices, he possesses
both the scholarly rigor and the artistic imagination to take
the hints available and weave them into a compelling story.
This bifocal approach has served both his writing and his
performance well in the past, and it does so here.
He makes
clear at the outset that the book “is not about what singers
actually sang” (5), nor is it about all singers, but only
those who were part of the clerical and monastic communities
and therefore participated in the literate tradition. (Readers
who are interested in secular song traditions should turn to
Page’s earlier books.) Here he provides a vivid portrait of
the world in which these early clerical singers lived. That
means considerable space is given to descriptions and images
relating to doctrinal issues, maritime communication, and
other topics that may not appear to be immediately relevant,
but that makes their lives more real than the limited
information available can do on its own. As Page reminds us,
those who sang in worship during this period were almost never
solely dedicated to that task - they were clerics with broad
responsibilities, participating in the full range of
contemporary issues.”

A. Paravicini Bagliani (ed.), Le monde végétal.
Médecine, Botanique, Symbolique. Turnhout, 2009.
Micrologus' Library.

D. Pastina, J. W. Crayton (eds.),
Tomas Garzoni, The Hospital of Incurable Madness
(1586). Turnhout, 2008. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance 26.
Uit de beschrijving van de
uitgever: ‘In 1586, Tomaso Garzoni, an Augustinian monk and
prolific encyc-lopedist, set out to describe thirty types of
madness he had encountered in both his reading and his home
town of Bagnacavallo, near Ravenna. The result was his
Hospedale de' pazzi incurabili, or, The Hospital of Incurable
Madness, a work that was immensely popular in Europe upon
publication.’

K.V. Pedersen en M.L.B. Nosch
(eds.), The Medieval Broadcloth. Changing Trends in
Fashions, Ma-nufacturing and Consumption. Oxford,
2009.
Uit de recensie van P.M. Carns in The
Medieval Review [[email-masked]] 10.12.01: “The eight
essays in The Medieval Broadcloth: Changing Trends in
Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumption grew out of an
interdisciplinary seminar on the medieval broadcloth held at
the Lüdüse Museum in Sweden in 2006 that brought together
archaeologists and historians. The study of medieval textiles
is a well-established field with scholars falling roughly into
two camps: historians who study the wealth of surviving
archival documents pertaining directly and indirectly to
textile production, consumption and use and archaeologists who
study actual textile remains. A third category of source
material are the many works of art from throughout Europe that
depict the making, wearing and selling of clothes, which both
historians and archaeologist might use in their analysis. A
major contribution of the seminar and resulting essays is the
bringing together of historians and archaeologists to engage
in cross-disciplinary discussion and study of the medieval
broadcloth. The term broadcloth is used in historical research
to describe a general class of woven textiles that were
mass-produced in various European centers, mainly Flanders,
from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries and exported
throughout Europe. Identifying broadcloth in the
archaeological evidence is not easy, "thus making the topic of
medieval broadcloth very suitable as an interdisciplinary area
of study", as quoted in the book's introduction.”

O. Pedersen, The Two Books. Historical Notes on Some
Interactions between Natural Science and Theology. Ed.
G.V. Coyne en T. Sierotowicz. Notre Dame, Ind., 2007.

Recensie door K. van Berkel in: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
817-818.

V. Pinilla (ed.), Markets and
Agricultural Change in Europe from the 13th to the 20th
Century. Turnhout, 2009. Rural History in Europe 2.
[Verschijnt najaar 2009.]

C. Poster en L.C. Mitchell
(ed.), Instruction from Letter-Writing Manuals and
Antiquity to the Present. Historical and Bibliographic
Studies. Columbia, SC, 2007. Studies in
Rhetoric/Communication.
Inhoud van de
relevante artikelen:

C. Poster, ‘Introduction’, p.
1-6;

R.G. Sullivan, ‘Classical Epistolary Theory
and the Letters of Isocrates’, p. 7-20;

C. Poster, ‘A Conversation Halved.
Epistolary Theory in Greco-Roman Antiquity’, p.
21-51;

M. Richardson, ‘The Ars dictaminis, the
Formulary, and Medieval Epistolary Practice’, p.
52-66;

M. Camargo, ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat
Them. Or, When Grammar Met Business Writing (in
Fif-teenth-Century Oxford)’, p. 67-87;

G. Burton, ‘From Ars dictaminis to Ars
conscribendi epistolis. Renaissance Letter-Writing Manuals
in the Context of Humanism’, p. 88-101;

L.D. Green, ‘Dictamen in England,
1500-1700’, p. 102-126;

W. Webster Newbold, ‘Letter Writing and
Vernacular Literacy in Sixteenth-Century England’, p.
127-140.

A. Pritchard, Alchemy. A Bibliography of English
Language Writings. CD-ROM. Tweede ed., versie 2.02.
Januari 2008.
Recensie door D. Kahn in:
Isis. An International Review Devoted to the History of
Science and Its Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
829-830.

J. Puttevils, ‘Klein gewin brengt
rijkdom in. De Zuid-Nederlandse handelaars in de export naar
Italië in de jaren 1540’. In: Tseg. Tijdschrift voor
Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 6 (2009), nr. 1, p.
26-52.

C.J. Rogers, Soldiers’ Lives
Through History. The Middle Ages. Wesport, Conn.,
2009.
Uit de recensie door D.J. Kagay in
The Medieval Review 09.01.12: ‘In light of the
historiographical trend of the last few decades that has led
research away from political and economic studies and toward
the chronicling of marginalized groups and individuals, it is
astounding to note that during this same time frame military
history, once the unfettered preserve of retired campaigners,
has expanded almost as greatly as social history. […] An
expert in the campaigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and the
amazingly varied military arenas of the Hundred Years War,
Rogers in this work shows his wide erudition in all phases of
warfare across all the medieval centuries. Following the
changes in military affairs from the fall of Rome (476) to
that of Constantinope (1453), Rogers in this work peers into
the lives of individual soldiers through the martial
environments in which they lived. By using primary source
material of many eras and locales and tying it together with
the intelligent use of modern secondary works, he follows
ar-mies from their societal basis to their various means of
recruitment and encampment to the various en-gagements they
participated in including sieges, battles, and widespread
raids and devastation and finally to the aftermath of their
military service.’

P.W. Rosemann, ‘Philosophy
and Theology in the Universities’. In: C. Lansing and E.D.
English (eds.), A Companion to the Medieval World.
Chichester, 2009.

V. van Roy, ‘De medicalisering van het vroedvrouwenberoep
te antwerpen in de Nieuwe Tijd’. In: Geschiedenis der
Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 6, p. 345-355.
Beschrijft de formalisering en regulatie van het beroep
van vroedvrouw aan de hand van drie ijkpunten in de tijd,
waarvan het oudste (1494) zich nog in de late Middeleeuwen
bevindt.

E. Rubino (ed.), Aristoteles
Meteorologica Liber quartus. Translatio Henrici Aristippi.
Turnhout, 2010.
Begeleidende tekst van de
uitgever: “Nachdem am Anfang 2009 Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem eine
doppelbändige kritische Ausgabe von Wilhelm von Moerbekes
Translatio nova der Meteorologica des
Aristoteles vorgelegt hat (Aristoteles Latinus X, 2,1/2),
erscheint jetzt die Edition der ersten und ältesten
griechisch-lateinischen Übersetzung der aristotelischen
Meteorologie. Diese Übersetzung beschränkt sich auf
Meteorologica, Buch IV, und wurde um die Mitte des XII.
Jahrhunderts von Henricus Aristippus, Erzdiakon der Kathedrale
von Catania und bedeutender politischer Gestalt am
normannischen Hof Wilhems II. von Sizilien,
angefertigt.
Die Übertragung des Henricus ist der einzige
Teil der sog. Translatio vetus der
Meteorologica, der unmittelbar aus dem Griechischen
übersetzt wurde, während der Rest des Textes auf die
arabisch-lateinische Übersetzung Gerhards von Cremona beruht.
Der kritisch edierte Text wird heute durch 96 Handschriften
überliefert. Sämtliche Handschriften wurden für die
Textkonstitution berücksichtigt. Der Band enthält eine
Einleitung, den lateinischen Text und die Indices
verborum. Mit dieser Publikation wird die Abteilung X,
Meteorologica, des Aristoteles Latinus
abgeschlossen."

A.M.G. Rutten, De Rx code. Van hiërogliefrecept tot
potjeslatijn. Rotterdam, 2006.
Recensie
door A.C. van Loenen in Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde 12
(2008), nr. 5, p. 316.

Y. Schauwecker, Die Diätetik nach dem ‘Secretum
secretorum’ in der Version von Jofroi de Waterford.
Teiledition und lexikalische Untersuchung. Würzburg,
2007.

S. Simon, Si je le veux, il mourra! Maléfices et
sorcellerie dans la campagne genevoise (1497-1530).
Lausanne, 2007. Cahiers Lausannois d’Histoire Médiévale
42.
Recensie door P. Charlier in The
Medieval Review 08.10.11. Inhoud o.a.:

P.H. Choffat, ‘La sorcellerie comme
exutoire. Tensions et conflits locaux: Dommartin
1524-1528’;

M. Ostorero, ‘Folâtrer avec les démons.
Sabbat et chasse aux sorciers à Vevey (1448)’;

E. Maier, ‘Trente ans avec le diable. Une
nouvelle chasse aux sorciers sur la Riviera lémanique
(1477-1484)’;

S. Strobino, ‘Françoise sauvée des flammes?
Une Valaisanne accusée de sorcellerie au XVe
siècle’;

L. Pfister, ‘L’enfer sur terre. Sorcellerie
à Dommartin (1498)’;

G. Modestin, ‘Le diable chez l'évêque.
Chasse aux sorciers dans le diocèse de Lausanne (vers
1460)’;

M. Ostorero, A. Paravicini Bagliani, K. Utz
Tremp en C. Chène, ‘L’imaginaire du sabbat. Édition critique
des textes les plus anciens (1430 c. – 1440
c.)’;

M. Ostorero, K. Utz Tremp en G. Modestin,
‘Inquisition et sorcellerie en Suisse romande. Le registre
Ac 29 des Archives cantonales vaudoises
(1438-1528)’.

S. Swain (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul.
Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval
Islam. M.m.v. G. Boys-Stones, J. Elsner, A. Ghersetti
[e.a.]. Oxford, 2007.

G.E. Szonyi, John Dee's
Occultism. Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs.
Albany, 2005. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions.

Recensie door S. Clucas in: Isis. An
International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its
Cultural Influences 99 (2008), nr. 4, p.
830-831.

R. Vervoort, ‘De zaak
van de gestolen fallussen’. In: Millennium. Tijdschrift
voor middeleeuwse studies 22 (2008), nr. 1, p.
45-67.
Betreft een belangrijk aspect van de
laatmiddeleeuwse hekserij en artes magicae.

F. Wallis (ed.), Medieval Medicine. A
Reader. Toronto, 2010.
Uit de recensie van
M. Kozodoy in The Medieval Review [[email-masked]]
11.04.07: “The most recent volume in the valuable Readings
in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures series (series
editor Paul Edward Dutton) is a rich collection of primary
sources depicting the development between 500 C.E. and 1500
C.E of western European medicine. It covers medical theory and
practice as well as the profession of medicine and its
practitioners, inside and out of the central institutions of
medieval intellectual culture: the monastery, the court, and
the university. Edited by Faith Wallis, the work is a
significant accomplishment, providing not only a coherent
history of its subject but a fascinating series of windows
onto medieval society. The remarkable variety of sources on
display here is a testament to Wallis's expansive
understanding of the role played in that society by medicine
and medical theory, from their inception in scattered
translations of ancient texts and practical handbooks
competing (sometimes unsuccessfully) with the healing powers
of saints, through their development into a full theoretical
system of rationalized care studied, taught, and elaborated
within dedicated faculties in European universities. In brief,
this is a work that will be indispensable to anyone teaching a
course on the history of medicine in western
Europe.”

R. Ward, The World of the Medieval Shipmaster. Law,
Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450. Woodbridge,
2009.
Uit de omschrijving van de uitgever:
‘Despite a background of war, piracy, depopulation, bullion
shortag-es, adverse political decisions, legal uncertainties
and deteriorating weather conditions, between the
mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth centuries the English
merchant shipping industry thrived. New markets were
developed, voyages became longer, ships and cargoes increased
in size and value, and an interest in ship ownership as an
investment spread throughout the community. Using a rich range
of examples drawn from court and parliamentary records,
contemporary literature and the codifications of maritime law,
this book illuminates the evolving management and commercial
practices which developed to regulate the relationships
between shipowners, shipmasters, crews and shipping merchants.
It also brings to life ship performance, navigation,
seamanship, and the frequently harsh conditions on
board.’

I. Warntjes en D.Ó Cróinín (eds.),
Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD
300-1200. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference
on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway,
14-16 July, 2006. Turnhout, 2010.
Begeleidende
tekst van de uitgever: “The scientific knowledge that Irish,
English, and continental European scholars nurtured and
developed during the years c. AD 500 to c. AD 1200 was
assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of
Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute
reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all
involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original
concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation
in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were
anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy.
The first Science of Computus conference in Galway in 2006
highlighted the transmission of Late Antique Mathematical
Knowledge in Ireland & Europe, the development of
astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe and the role
of the Irish in the development of computistical mathematics.
The proceedings of that conference should, therefore, appeal
equally to those interested in the history of science in
Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day
mathematical and astronomical ideas.”

L.M. van der Wijden, Scheve ogen in de Lage Landen. De
functie en betekenis van afgunst en jaloezie in
Middelnederlandse teksten. Santpoort Zuid, 2011.

J.M. van Winter, m.m.v. M. Meuwese, O.S.H. Lie en L.
Jongen, ‘Kluiven in een keldergewelf. Prototype van een
middeleeuwse maaltijd in hedendaags perspectief?’. In:
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de middeleeuwen 22 (2008), nr.
4, p. 241-246. Themanummer: Kijk op de middeleeuwen.

H.
Wollens, D. Dewolf en R. van Hee, ‘Op zoek naar sporen van
Vesalius: een wandeling in Padua’. In: Geschiedenis der
Geneeskunde 12 (2008), nr. 4, p. 232-250.
Geïllustreerd met talrijke afbeeldingen en foto’s wordt
in dit artikel onderzocht waar en hoe Vesalius sporen heeft
nagelaten in het hedendaagse Padua. Zie ook een soortgelijk
artikel over Galenus van Dewolf en Wollens elders in deze
lijst.

G.R.H. Wright, Ancient Building Technology, vol. 3:
Construction. Boston, 2009.
Uit de
recensie van S. Thompson in The Medieval Review
[[email-masked]] 11.03.07: “Wright's latest publication
follows two prior volumes, the first (Ancient Building
Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background) appearing in
2000, and the second (Ancient Building Technology,
Volume 2: Materials) appearing in 2005. This third
volume focuses on practical aspects of construction in the
Neolithic era, the ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, Greece,
and Rome, with occasional descriptions of Sassanian and
Byzantine construction. Wright fulfills his stated goal of
providing a ready reference, as his book compiles existing
information about construction techniques in the ancient world
in a convenient format that makes it easy for the reader to
locate a specific subject of interest. The volume is
relentlessly organized: the table of contents provides a
lengthy summary of the chapters, while each chapter begins
with an outline that corresponds to the headings and
subheadings of the text and ends with a subject-specific
bibliography. Wright begins with a chapter on preparatory
measures, namely drawings, directions, and quantity surveying,
followed by a chapter on setting out. Building site
development is treated in great detail in the third chapter.
The last four chapters each cover construction in a specific
material: wood, stone, brick, and
concrete.”

J.M. Ziolkowski, Nota Bene. Reading Classics and Writing
Melodies in the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout, 2007.
Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 7.