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2016; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 92; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Italiano

10.1086/689951

2040-8072

Renaissance Literature and Culture

Previous articleNext article FreeBrief NoticesPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreGabriella Albanese, Claudio Ciociola, Mariarosa Cortesi, and Claudia Villa, eds., Il Ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo: Studi in memoria di Gianvito Resta. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015. Paper. Pp. xxxii, 699; 31 black-and-white figures. €75. ISBN: 978-88-8450-477-7.Following an introduction (xii–xxxi) by the editors, this volume contains these articles: Gabriella Albanese, “Lo storico Ludovico Saccano e la sua biblioteca: umanesimo meridionale e ritorno dei classici” (3–53); Davide Amendola, “Il ritorno di Senofonte nell’Umanesimo: il Commentarium rerum Graecarum di Leonardo Bruni e le Elleniche” (55–68); Ernesto Berti, “Un codice di Bernardo Bembo e un episodio della trasmissione della versione di Leonardo Bruni del Fedone di Platone” (69–91); Antonio Carlini, “Gli Aurea verba pitagorici e le Definizioni di Speusippo: note sulla fonte greca e sulle diverse redazioni della versione ficiniana” (93–105); Giorgio Chittolini, “Milano ‘città imperiale’? Note su due ambascerie di Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1447, 1449)” (107–28); Claudio Ciociola, “Il volgarizzamento isocrateo di Giovanni Brevio nel manoscritto Mediceo Palatino 67” (129–49); Cristina Cocco, “La traduzione esopica attribuita a Guarino Veronese nel codice Ambrosiano R 21 sup.” (151–77); Mariarosa Cortesi, “Il Plutarco di Gian Pietro da Lucca tra esercizio scolastico ed erudizione: primi aneddoti” (179–93); Valeria Cotza, “Le Allegorie ovidiane di Giovanni del Virgilio tra studia lombardi e corti rinascimentali” (195–209); Alfonso D’Agostino, “Lingua, stile e composizione dell’Istorietta troiana” (211–29); Fulvio Delle Donne, “Gaspare Pellegrino (Gaspar Pelegrí) e la prima storiografia alfonsina” (231–43); Maria Giovanna Fadiga, “L’Historia Bohemica: la genesi di un’idea?” (245–56); Rolando Ferri, “I frammenti lessicografici bilingui di Colonia e Gottinga e la tradizione dei dizionari greco-latini nell’Antichità” (257–78); Silvia Fiaschi, “Scritti ippocratici per un principe ipocondriaco: le traduzioni filelfiane del De flatibus e del De passionibus” (279–98); Bruno Figliuolo, “Antonio Panormita ambasciatore a Venezia, tra politica, cultura e commercio librario (1451)” (299–320); Mario Geymonat, “Virgilio fra Scilla e Cariddi” (321–23); Giovanna M. Gianola, “Il prologo del De gestis Henrici VII Caesaris di Albertino Mussato: proposte per una nuova edizione e un nuovo commento” (325–53); Elisa Guadagnini, “‘Secondo la forma del libro’: note sulla tradizione manoscritta della Rettorica di Brunetto Latini” (355–67); Lucia Gualdo Rosa, “Una lettera inedita di Lapo da Castiglionchio il giovane a Biondo Flavio” (369–77); Cristiano Lorenzi, “Il volgarizzamento della prima Catilinaria attribuito a Brunetto Latini: appunti sulle tecniche di traduzione” (379–92); Cristiano Lorenzi Biondi, “Il copista Gherardo di Tura Pugliesi e la tradizione dei volgarizzamenti” (393–424); Stefano Martinelli Tempesta, “Un nuovo codice con marginalia dello scriba G alias Gian Pietro da Lucca: l’Ambr. M 85 sup. Con una postilla sull’Ambr. A 105 sup. e Costantino Lascaris” (425–48); Rino Modonutti, “‘In quadam antiquissima historia’: l’Historia Augusta nel Mare historiarum di fra Giovanni Colonna” (449–74); Stefano Pittaluga, “Storia, storiografia e personaggi storici nelle Facezie di Poggio Bracciolini” (475–86); Paolo Pontari, “L’inedito opuscolo De origine urbium Italiae et eius primo incolatu attribuito a Riccobaldo da Ferrara e a Leonardo Bruni” (487–512); Luca Carlo Rossi, “Dante in un commento trecentesco alle Epistole di Seneca” (513–30); Pietro B. Rossi, “Roberto de’ Rossi e Giovanni Tortelli traduttori degli Analytica posteriora” (531–51); Luca Sacchi, “Da Mitilene a Parigi: una riscrittura in ottave della Historia Apollonii regis Tyri” (553–75); Giulio Vaccaro, “Per una nuova edizione del Vegezio volgarizzato da Bono Giamboni” (577–88); Claudia Villa and Francesco Lo Monaco, “Il principe fra le Muse e le Arti” (589–620); and Paolo Viti, “Note sulla traduzione di Angelo Poliziano del Manuale di Epitteto” (621–33).John Bergsagel, David Hiley, and Thomas Riis, eds., Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages. (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies 52.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2015. Pp. 335; 8 color figures, 27 musical examples, and 9 tables. $58. ISBN: 978-87-635-4260-9.This volume contains these articles: Eric Christiansen, “The Difficulty of Composing Patriotic History in the Twelfth Century: An Essay on Essays” (11–21); Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, “‘Only through time time is conquered’: Liturgy, History and the Timeless Aspirations of the Temporal” (23–50); Kurt Villads Jensen, “Creating a Crusader Saint: Canute Lavard and Others of that Ilk” (51–72); John Bergsagel, “Kanute, cuius est Dacia? Knud Lavard, dux danorum: Murdered or Martyred?” (73–90); Thomas Riis, “The Significance of 25 June, 1170” (91–102); John H. Lind, “Knes Kanutus: Knud Lavard’s Political Project” (103–28); Nils Holger Petersen, “The Image of St Knud Lavard in his Liturgical Offices and its Historical Impact” (129–58); Roman Hankeln, “Kingship and Sanctity in the Historia in Honour of St Canutus Rex” (159–91); Ann-Marie Nilsson, “Martyr preciose, miles Christi: St Erik in Chant and Legend” (193–222); John Toy, “The Liturgical Commemoration of Thomas of Canterbury in Scandinavia: The First Thirty Years, 1173–1203” (223–50); David Hiley, “Gens laudum titulis concrepet Anglica: The Proper Office for St Oswin, King of Deira” (251–70); John Caldwell, “Life, Legend and Liturgy: The Case of St Mildred” (271–92); and Owain Tudor Edwards, “‘Last Man Standing’: St David of Menevia” (293–319).Matthieu Boyd, ed., Ollam: Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh. (Celtic Publications Series 1.) Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. Pp. xxi, 350. $90. ISBN: 978-1-61147-834-1.Following a foreword by William Gillies (ix–xi) and a preface by the editor (xiii–xvii), this volume contains these articles: Kim McCone, “The Death of Aífe’s Only Son and the Heroic Biography” (3–17); Aled Llion Jones, “Two by Two: The Doubled Chariot-Figure of Táin Bó Cúailnge” (19–34); Matthieu Boyd, “On Not Eating Dog” (35–45); Patricia Kelly, “The Odrán Episode in Esnada Tige Buchet” (47–60); Morgan T. Davies, “Moling and the Bórama” (61–77); Rory McTurk, “Wavering Heroes in the Icelandic Sagas” (79–93); Katharine Simms, “Heroes Humiliated: A Theme in Bardic Eulogies” (95–99); Ruairí Ó hUiginn, “Annals, Histories, and Stories: Some Thirteenth-Century Entries in the Annals of the Four Masters” (101–15); Damian McManus, “Cormac mac Airt in Classical Irish Poetry: Young in Age but Old in Wisdom, and Not Entirely Flawless” (117–39); Barbara Hillers, “‘Bhí an saol aoibhinn ait’: Cormac mac Airt in Oral Folk Tradition” (141–59); Fergus Kelly, “Below Ground: A Study of Early Irish Pits and Souterrains” (163–71); Charlene M. Eska, “Recholl Breth: Why It Is a ‘Shroud of Judgments’” (173–84); Aidan Doyle, “Comparing Like to (Un)like: Parables, Words, and Opinions in Romance and Irish” (185–94); Liam Breatnach, “On the Line-Break in Early Irish Verse, and Some Remarks on the Syntax of the Genitive in Old and Middle Irish” (195–209); Hugh Fogarty, “‘Dubad nach innsci’: Cultivation of Obscurity in Medieval Irish Literature” (211–24); Anders Ahlqvist, “Pangur Bán” (227–36); Joseph Falaky Nagy, “Finn’s Student Days” (237–41); Pádraig A. Breatnach, “A Poem by Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa” (243–56); William Gillies, “The dánta grá and the Book of the Dean of Lismore” (257–69); Sìm Innes, “Fionn and Ailbhe’s Riddles between Ireland and Scotland” (271–85); and Catherine McKenna, “Terms of Art: Theorizing Poetry in the Earliest Welsh Anthology” (287–98).Elisa Brilli, Laura Fenelli, and Gerhard Wolf, eds., Images and Words in Exile: Avignon and Italy during the First Half of the 14th Century. (Millennio Medievale 107; Strumenti e Studi n.s. 40.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015. Pp. xxxiv, 582; 17 color plates and 60 black-and-white figures. €77. ISBN: 978-88-8450-673-3.Following a general introduction by Elisa Brilli and Laura Fenelli (“Introduzione. L’esilio da categoria storiografica a tema-problema della ricerca interdisciplinare,” xiii–xxxiv), this volume is divided into five sections. Following an introduction by Sofia Boesch Gajano (3–7), the first section (“Exclusion and Self-Exclusion from the ‘Civitas’”) contains these articles: Fabrizio Ricciardelli, “Confini e bandi. Azione politica a Firenze in età comunale” (9–21); Matteo Ferrari, “‘Avaro, traditore’. Pittura d’infamia e tradizione figurativa del tradimento politico tra Lombardia e Toscana (1250–1350)” (23–38); Gaetano Curzi, “La ‘condanna’ dei templari. Tracce materiali e memoria negata tra Francia e Italia” (39–55); Irene Bueno, “Come estirpare le cattive piante. L’esclusione degli eretici nell’opera esegetica di Jacques Fournier” (57–71); Fabio Massaccesi, “Da Avignone a Cesena a Ravenna. Immagini e politica” (73–89); Antonio Montefusco, “Repenser les ‘spirituels’. L’identité dissidente entre réclusion, répression et auto-exclusion dans la tradition monastique et franciscaine” (91–105); and Laura Fenelli, “Tre storie bolognesi di Sant’Onofrio. Prime note per la ricostruzione del culto per l’eremita intorno alla metà del Trecento” (107–25). Following an introduction by Anna Fontes Baratto (129–38), the second section (“Displaced Persons”) contains these articles: Giuliano Milani, “An Ambiguous Sentence. Dante Confronting His Banishment” (139–51); Elisa Brilli, “The Interplay Between Political and Prophetic Discourse: a Reflection on Dante’s Authorship in Epistles V–VII” (153–69); Dieter Blume, “Francesco da Barberino. The Experience of Exile and the Allegory of Love” (171–92); Sylvain Piron, “Les exils d’Opicino de Canistris” (193–207); Marina Gagliano, “La polemica antiavignonese di Petrarca e il modello di Dante esule e profeta” (209–21); and Luca Marcozzi, “Petrarca e l’esilio nel tempo” (223–37). The third section (“Avignon: The Making of a Capital”) contains these articles: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, “Avignon, une autre Rome?” (241–57); Joëlle Rollo-Koster, “Avignon’s Capitalization and the Legitimation of Transiency” (259–69); Barbara Bombi, “The ‘Avignon Captivity’ as a Means of Success. The Circle of the Frescobaldi” (271–87); Xavier Barral i Altet, “Manifestare l’esilio all’esterno del palazzo? L’entrata monumentale del Palazzo dei Papi ad Avignone” (289–305); Dominique Vingtain, “Historiographie des peintures murales du Palais des Papes d’Avignon” (307–24); Francesca Manzari, “Le opportunità offerte dall’esilio. Componenti multiculturali e libertà di innovazione nella miniatura avignonese del Trecento” (325–44); and Maria Alessandra Bilotta, “Un inedito manoscritto giuridico miniato dalla bottega del Liber visionis Ezechielis, attiva ad Avignone nella prima metà del XIV secolo: l’Urb. lat. 157” (345–57). Following an introduction by Serena Romano (361–64), the fourth section (“Exchanging Glances”) contains these articles: Étienne Anheim, “Simone Martini à Avignon: une histoire en négatif?” (365–79); Claudia Bolgia, “Images in the City. Presence, Absence and Legitimacy in Rome in the First Half of the 14th Century” (381–400); Theresa Holler, “L’Aldilà della Cappella Strozzi. I domenicani, l’esilio di Dante e il ritorno dell’Inferno” (401–20); Francesco Pasquale, “La costruzione di una capitale. Roberto d’Angiò e la sua corte tra Napoli e Avignone” (421–32); and Vinni Lucherini, “Il ‘testamento’ di Maria d’Ungheria a Napoli: un esempio di acculturazione regale” (433–50). Following an introduction by Michel Laclotte (453–55), the fifth section (“Mapping Avignon’s Space”) contains these articles: Sebastian Zanke, “Imagined Spaces? The Papal Registers in the Pontificate of John XXII (1316–1334)” (457–74); Gottfried Kerscher, “L’ordre de la cour—la hiérarchie—l’aménagement de l’espace du palais des papes d’Avignon” (475–87); Tina Sabater, “Intorno all’influenza della corte di Avignone sull’arte: la pittura maiorchina del XIV secolo” (489–504); Rosa Alcoy, “Avignone e la Catalogna dei Bassa” (505–19); Alessandro Tomei, “Opere e artisti in esilio tra Italia e Provenza (con qualche ritorno). Modelli, stili, iconografie” (521–36); and Gerhard Wolf, “Immagini e parole in esilio. Una postfazione” (537–46).Janet Burton and Karen Stöber, eds., Women in the Medieval Monastic World. (Medieval Monastic Studies 1.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. Pp. viii, 377; 25 black-and-white figures and 4 maps. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-55308-5.Following an introduction by the editors (1–13), this volume contains these articles: Gregoria Cavero Domínguez, “Spanish Female Monasticism: ‘Family’ Monasteries and their Transformation (Eleventh to Twelfth Centuries)” (15–52); Guido Cariboni, “Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy: Variety of Foundations and Construction of an Identity” (53–74); Michèle Gaillard, “Female Monasteries of the Early Middle Ages (Seventh to Ninth Century) in Northern Gaul: Between Monastic Ideals and Aristocratic Powers” (75–96); Brian Golding, “Bishops and Nuns: Forms of the cura monialium in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England” (97–121); Janet Burton, “Medieval Nunneries and Male Authority: Female Monasteries in England and Wales” (123–43); Anna Rapetti, “Women and Monasticism in Venice in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries” (145–66); Brian Patrick McGuire, “Cistercians Nuns in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Denmark and Sweden: Far from the Madding Crowd” (167–84); Núria Jornet-Benito, “Female Mendicant Spirituality in Catalan Territory: The Birth of the First Communities of Poor Clares” (185–209); Carmen Florea, “‘For they wanted us to serve them’: Female Monasticism in Medieval Transylvania” (211–27); Tracy Collins, “An Archaeological Perspective on Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages in Ireland” (229–51); Michael Carter, “Silk Purse or Sow’s Ear? The Art and Architecture of the Cistercian Nunnery of Swine, Yorkshire” (253–78); Erin L. Jordan, “Pro remedio anime sue: Cistercian Nuns and Space in the Low Countries” (279–98); Anne Müller, “Symbolic Meanings of Space in Female Monastic Tradition” (299–325); Matthias Untermann, “The Place of the Choir in Churches of Female Convents in the Medieval German Kingdom” (327–53); and Hedwig Röckelein, “FemMoData: A Database of Medieval Female Monasteries in Europe” (355–64).John Carey, Kevin Murray, and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, eds., Sacred Histories: A Festschrift for Máire Herbert. Dublin: Four Courts, 2015. Pp. xxv, 423. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682-564-4.This volume contains these contributions of interest to medievalists: Seán Hutton, “Duine dár laochra” (1); Alexandra Bergholm, “Keening in the poems of Blathmac” (2–13); Edel Bhreathnach, “Observations on the Book of Durrow memorandum” (14–21); Elizabeth Boyle and Liam Breatnach, “Senchas Gall Átha Clíath: aspects of the cult of St Patrick in the twelfth century” (22–55); Pádraig A. Breatnach, “Comhar na mban” (56–62); Dauvit Broun, “Cethri prímchenéla Dáil Ríata revisited” (63–72); John Carey, “Yonec and Tochmarc Becḟola: two female echtrai” (73–85); T. M. Charles-Edwards, “Táin bó Cúailnge, hagiography and history” (86–102); Clodagh Downey, “Murchadh Ó Cuindlis and Aided Muirchertaig Meic Erca” (125–38); Joseph J. Flahive, “The shield of Fionn: the poem Uchán a sciath mo rígh réigh in Leabhar Ua Maine” (139–60); Margo Griffin-Wilson, “St Patrick and Antaeus: two bardic apologues” (161–74); Fergus Kelly, “An Early Irish category of swindler: the mindach méith” (175–81); Brian Lambkin, “Colum Cille and the lorg bengánach: ritual migration from Derry” (182–98); Máirtín Mac Conmara, “De initiis: Apacrafa, an Bíobla agus léann luath-eaglais na hÉireann” (199–208); Mícheál Mac Craith, “Na taoisigh Ultacha agus an Veronica” (209–24); Gearóid Mac Eoin, “Maol Mhuire agus a shinsear” (225–29); Kay Muhr, “The paruchia of St Lúrach of Uí Thuirtre” (230–46); Kevin Murray, “The dating of Branwen: the ‘Irish question’ revisited” (247–50); Próinséas Ní Chatháin, “The bells of the saints” (251–57); Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, “The Hectors of Ireland and the Western World” (258–68); Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, “On the genealogical preamble to Vita Sancti Declani” (291–300); Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, “A cult of Saint Thecla in early medieval Ireland?” (311–32); Pádraig Ó Macháin, “‘Ceasta Fhíthil’: buaine agus ilghnéitheacht na gaoise i litríocht na Gaeilge” (333–54); Pádraig Ó Riain, “Saint Cataldo of Taranto: the Irish Element in the Life of an Italian saint” (355–63); Lisi Oliver (†) and Andrea Adolph, “Maidenhood, mourning, and Old English meowle” (364–79); Jennifer O’Reilly, “Columba at the Clonmacnoise” (380–90); Katja Ritari, “Librán as monastic archetype” (391–400); Katharine Simms, “O’Friel’s ghost” (401–8); and Patrick Sims-Williams, “Leprechauns and Luperci, Aldhelm and Augustine” (409–18).Francesco Lo Monaco and Luca Carlo Rossi, eds., Il Mondo e la Storia: Studi in onore di Claudia Villa. (Fuori Collana 14.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014. Paper. Pp. xxix, 353; 33 black-and-white figures and 3 tables. €48. IBSN: 978-88-8450-579-8.This volume contains these articles: Gabriella Albanese, “Un nuovo manoscritto della corrispondenza poetica di Dante e Giovanni del Virgilio e i libri danteschi di Fernando Colombo” (3–34); Stefano Asperti, “Rolando non gioca a scacchi” (35–86); Corrado Bologna, “Giotto e i ‘viri illustres’ degli umanisti” (87–103); Veronika von Büren, “La liste de livres dans BAV, Pal. Lat. 210 de Verone à Lorsch” (105–22); Stefano Carrai, “Poliziano e il giovane Bembo collazionano Terenzio in una malnota testimonianza epistolare” (123–28); Monica Centanni, “Cecilia Gonzaga come Diana nella medaglia/impresa di Pisanello (1447)” (129–52); Paolo Chiesa, “‘Opus perfecti magisterii’. Un ‘regimen de iter agentibus’ ricavato da Bernardo di Gordon” (153–78); Claudio Ciociola, “L’impazienza di più lunghi conversari. Dal carteggio di Carlo Dionisotti con Gianfranco Contini” (179–85); Mirella Ferrari, “Libri di pergamena e libri di carta in tribunale a Milano nel 1289: il Liber qui nominatur Datius de antiquitatibus civitatis Mediolani e altri” (187–216); Francesco Lo Monaco, “Margini macrobiani” (217–31); Marina Passalacqua, “‘Scrinia sunt vasa in quibus servantur libri vel thesauri’ (Rab. Maur. De Univ. 22, 8). Appunti per un lessico delle biblioteche al tempo dei Carolingi” (233–46); Michael D. Reeve, “Pliny’s Natural History in the Scholia Vallicelliana on Isidore” (247–54); Mariangela Regoliosi, “Da Camillo a Catilina: l’Antivalla di A. Cortesi” (255–74); Luca Carlo Rossi, “Un problema aperto: ‘lo bello stilo’ virgiliano di Dante” (275–92); and Francesco Stella, “‘Il giardin dell’ impero’: canzoni all’Italia da Petrarca a Ligabue. I. La musica di Lodovico da Rimini per Petrarca Metr. III 24” (293–328).Vicky McAlister and Terry Barry, eds., Space and Settlement in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, 2015. Pp. xv, 237; 40 black-and-white figures and 2 tables. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682-500-2.This volume contains these articles: Benjamin Hudson, “Lothlind” (1–14); Patrick Wadden, “The Normans and the Irish Sea world in the era of the Battle of Clontarf” (15–33); Rebecca Wall Forrestal, “Studying early medieval Irish urbanization: problems and possibilities” (34–47); Mary A. Valante, “Fleets, forts and the geography of Toirdelbach Ua Conchoibair’s bid for the high-kingship” (48–63); Linda Shine, “On the edge of the colony: Overk and the Carlow Corridor” (64–85); Rory Sherlock, “The spatial dynamic of the Irish tower house hall” (86–109); Gillian Eadie, “The tower houses of Co. Down: stylistic similarity, functional difference” (110–29); Vicky McAlister, “The death of the tower house? An examination of the decline of the Irish castle tradition” (130–50); Fiona Beglane, “Deer parks: lost medieval monuments of the Irish countryside” (151–66); James A. Galloway, “The economic hinterland of Drogheda in the later Middle Ages” (167–85); Damian Shiels, “Reconstructing battlefield landscapes” (186–202); and Terry Barry, “Conclusion” (203–6).Pádraic Moran and Immo Warntjes, eds., Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship. A Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae 14.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. Paper. Pp. xxx, 724; 36 black-and-white figures and 18 tables. €150. ISBN: 978-2-503-55313-9.Following an introduction by the editors (xv–xxiii), this volume contains these articles: Daniel P. Mc Carthy, “The chronology of Saint Columba’s life” (3–32); Immo Warntjes, “Victorius vs Dionysus: the Irish Easter controversy of AD 689” (33–97); Eric Graff, “A note on the divisions of time in the Catalogue of the Saints of Ireland” (99–117); Masako Ohashi, “The ‘real’ addressee(s) of Bede’s Letter to Wicthed” (119–35); Colin Ireland, “Some Irish characteristics of the Whitby Life of Gregory the Great” (139–78); Anthony Harvey, “Cambro-Romance? Celtic Britain’s counterpart to Hiberno-Latin” (179–202); Paul Russell, “Beyond Juvencus: an Irish context for some Old Welsh glossings? ” (203–14); Pierre-Yves Lambert, “Pretium benedictionis” (215–23); David Howlett, “Two Irish jokes” (225–64); Pádraig P. Ó Néill, “Anglo-Irish interactions in a liturgical calendar from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Library, 405” (265–98); Donnchadh Ó Corráin, “Áui, Úi, Uí: a palaeographical problem?” (301–9); Hayley Humphrey, “Bathed in mystery: identifying the ‘Bathing of the Christ Child’ scene on an Irish high cross” (311–27); Peter Harbison, “Tuotilo—St Gall’s uomo universale: reconsidering his artistic output” (329–42); Jacopo Bisagni, “Flutes, pipes, or bagpipes? Observations on the terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish” (343–94); Leofranc Holford-Strevens, “The harp that once through Aulus’ halls” (395–404); Thomas O’Loughlin, “The so-called capitula for the Book of the Apocalypse in the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College, 52) and Latin exegesis” (405–23); Jean-Michel Picard, “Vir apostolicus: St Peter and the claim of apostolicity in early medieval Ireland” (425–40); Michael Clarke, “The Leabhar Gabhála and Carolingian origin legends” (441–79); Pádraic Moran, “Greek dialectology and the Irish origin story” (481–512); Michael W. Herren, “Sedulius Scottus and the knowledge of Greek” (515–35); Jean Rittmueller, “Construe marks, a contraction mark, and an embedded Old Irish gloss in a Hiberno-Latin homily on the Octave of Easter” (537–76); Rob Meens, “With one foot in the font: the failed baptism of the Frisian king Radbod and the 8th-century discussion about the fate of unbaptized forefathers” (577–96); David Ganz, “The earliest manuscript of Lathcen’s Eclogae Moralium Gregorii and the dating of Irish cursive minuscule script” (597–624); Mark Stansbury, “The ‘private’ books of the Bobbio catalogue” (625–41); Richard Sharpe, “Séan Ó Cléirigh and his manuscripts” (645–70); Hans Ulrich Schmid, “Old writings are no mystery to me… Skaldenstrophen der Orkneyinga Saga und George Mackay Brown” (671–94); and Nicholas Carolan, “‘Out of the smoke’: A. Martin Freeman’s west Cork song collection of 1913–14” (695–715).Gherardo Ortalli, Oliver Jens Schmitt, and Ermanno Orlando, eds., Il “Commonwealth” veneziano tra 1204 e la fine della Repubblica: Identità e peculiarità / The Venetian “Commonwealth” between 1204 and the End of the Republic: Identity and Specificities (Venezia, 6–9 marzo 2013). Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2015. Paper. Pp. vii, 526. €38. ISBN: 978-88-95996-52-3.This volume contains these articles: Gherardo Ortalli, “The Genesis of a Unique Form of Statehood, between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age” (3–11); Gian Maria Varanini, “I nuovi orizzonti della Terraferma” (13–55); Monique O’Connell, “The Contractual Nature of the Venetian State” (57–72); David Jacoby, “The Expansion of Venetian Government in the Eastern Mediterranean until the Late Thirteenth Century” (73–106); Luciano Pezzolo, “La costituzione fiscale dello Stato veneziano” (109–29); Andrea Zannini, “Una burocrazia repubblicana. Stato e amministrazione a Venezia tra XVI e XVIII secolo” (131–53); Benjamin Arbel, “Una chiave di lettura dello Stato da mar veneziano nell’Età moderna: la situazione coloniale” (155–79); Egidio Ivetic, “Territori di confine (secoli XV–XVIII)” (183–201); Oliver Jens Schmitt, “‘Altre Venezie’ nella Dalmazia tardo-medievale? Un approccio microstorico alle comunità socio-politiche sull’isola di Curzola/Korčula” (203–33); Alessandra Rizzi, “Dominante e dominati: strumenti giuridici nell’esperienza ‘statuale’ veneziana” (235–71); Nicolas Karapidakis, “Dominants et dominés dans le Levant vénitien: les zones d’ombre des identités” (273–301); Guillaume Saint-Guillain, “Protéger ou dominer? Venise et la mer Égée (XIIIe–XVe siècle)” (305–38); Thierry Ganchou, “Sujets grecs crétois de la Sérénissime à Constantinople à la veille de 1453 (Iôannès Tortzélos et Nikolaos Pôlos): une ascension sociale brutalement interrompue” (339–89); Serghei Karpov, “Colonie o capisaldi. Verso Tana, Trebisonda e il Mar Nero, secc. XIV–XV” (391–404); Ermanno Orlando, “Mobilità, migrazioni, intrecci” (405–30); Paolo Preto, “‘Causar la morte di questo tristo’ fa ‘un gran bene alla nostra patria’” (433–53); Eric Dursteler, “‘Portare San Marco nel cuore’. Strategie di integrazione all’interno della nazione veneziana a Istanbul” (455–71); and Piero Del Negro, “L’esercito e le milizie” (473–94).Michel Pastoureau and Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, eds., Des signes dans l’image: Usages et fonctions de l’attribut dans l’iconographie médiévale (du Concile de Nicée au Concile de Trente). Actes du colloque de l’EPHE (Paris, INHA, 23–24 mars 2007). (Les Études du RILMA 3.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Paper. Pp. 268; 120 color and 35 black-and-white figures. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-53673-6.This volume contains these articles: Michel Pastoureau, “Pour une histoire des attributs dans l’image médiévale” (11–34); Charlotte Denoël, “Les attributs des saints à travers l’histoire: des hagiographes aux iconologues” (35–43); Christian Heck, “Entre action et symbole: l’attribut héritage ou substitut de la scène narrative?” (45–66); Claudia Cieri Via, “Morphologie et syntaxe de l’attribut. Contribution au fonctionnement des images dans la deuxième moitié du XVIe siècle” (67–76); Inès Villela-Petit, “Quand le signe surpasse le saint: quelques réflexions sur la naissance de l’attribut dans l’Art chrétien ou Sainte Agnès à la croisée des chemins” (79–89); Frédéric Tixier, “Sainte Claire d’Assise et la monstrance eucharistique: genèse et évolution d’un attribut (mil. XIIIe–fin XVe s.)” (91–104); Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, “De la nef d’Espérance à la voile de Fortune” (105–39); Richard Marks, “SS Eligius and Erasmus: attribute, audience and locus in late medieval England” (143–56); Jean-Luc Chassel, “Le langage des attributs dans les sources sigillaires du Moyen Âge. Emblématique, institutions et société” (157–90); Laurent Hablot, “Le bâton du pouvoir dans l’image médiévale” (191–207); Jannic Durand and Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, “Les ‘attributs’ des saints dans l’art byzantin et l’exemple des saintes femmes” (211–38); and Michele Bacci, “L’attribut en tant que signe d’identification des saints dans l’art du Levant au Moyen Âge tardif” (239–63).Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith, eds., Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750. (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Paper. Pp. x, 408; 13 black-and-white figures. $45. ISBN: 978-0-268-03898-4.Following an introduction by the editors (1–28), this volume contains these articles of interest to medievalists: Euan K. Cameron, “Ways of Knowing in the Pre- and Post-Reformation Worlds” (29–48); and Genelle C. Gertz, “Quaker Mysticism as the Return of the Medieval Repressed: English Women Prophets before and after the Reformation” (177–97).Emer Purcell, Paul MacCotter, Julianne Nyhan, and John Sheehan, eds., Clerics, Kings, and Vikings: Essays on Medieval Ireland in Honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin. Dublin: Four Courts, 2015. Pp. xxviii, 537; 14 color plates and 25 black-and-white figures. €60. ISBN: 978-1-84682-279-7.This volume contains these articles: Michael Herren, “The ‘Papal letters to the Irish’ cited by Bede: how did he get them?” (3–10); Edel Bhreathnach, “Observations on the context and landscape of the West Ossory crosses” (11–20); Charles Doherty, “A road well travelled: the terminology of roads in early Ireland” (21–30); Joseph J. Flahive, “The status of Munster churches” (31–44); Wendy Davies, “Law and the learned in northern Iberia in the early Middle Ages: some comparisons with Ireland” (45–54); Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel and Pádraig Ó Riain, “Irish saints in a Regensburg litany” (55–66); Poul Holm, “The naval power of Norse Dublin” (67–78); Colmán Etchingham, “Skuldelev 2 and Viking-age ships and fleets in Ireland” (79–90); Catherine Swift, “Follow the money: the financial resources of Diarmait Mac Murchada” (91–102); Seán Duffy, “The Welsh conquest of Ireland” (103–14); David N. Dumville, “Did Ireland exist in the twelfth century?” (115–26); Marie Therese Flanagan, “Conquestus and adquisicio: some early Cork charters relating to St Thomas’ Abbey, Dublin” (127–46); Diarmuid Ó Murchadha (†), “Léitheoir sa teach screaptra?” (147–54); Paul MacCotter, “The medieval rural dean and rural deanery in Ireland” (155–68); John Bradley (†), “Pulp facts and core fictions: translating a cathedral from Aghaboe to Kilkenny” (169–84); Kenneth Nicholls, “The ‘named’ son in late medieval Ireland” (185–89); Nollaig Ó Muraíle, “Genealogies of Uí Chearbhaill Éile: building on the work of Dinneen and others” (190–208); Benjamin Hazard, “Flaithrí, Firbisigh and