Little does it quake as it lies on the plate
Tom Shippey, 27 October 1988
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
edited by George Holmes.
Oxford, 398 pp., £17.50, March 1988,0 19 820073 0 Show More
edited by George Holmes.
Oxford, 398 pp., £17.50, March 1988,
A History of 12th-century Western Philosophy
edited by Peter Dronke.
Cambridge, 495 pp., £37.50, April 1988,0 521 25896 0 Show More
edited by Peter Dronke.
Cambridge, 495 pp., £37.50, April 1988,
The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450
edited by J.H. Burns.
Cambridge, 808 pp., £60, May 1988,0 521 24324 6 Show More
edited by J.H. Burns.
Cambridge, 808 pp., £60, May 1988,
Medieval Popular Culture: Problem of Belief and Perception
by Aron Gurevich, translated by Janos Bak and Paul Hollingsworth.
Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, May 1988,0 521 30369 9 Show More
by Aron Gurevich, translated by Janos Bak and Paul Hollingsworth.
Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, May 1988,
A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World
edited by George Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 650 pp., £24.95, April 1988,0 674 39976 5 Show More
edited by George Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 650 pp., £24.95, April 1988,
“... to get through the evidence to the minds that produced it comes from the volume edited by Georges Duby, whose contributors are determined to read the historical sources sideways. They read romances and ask why King Arthur had to be bled in public. They read sermons on lust and ask what these imply about dormitory arrangements. The drive of their collective ... ”
