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,
“... A captious person might mutter that The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe is a little ‘hobbitical’: it reminds one of Professor Tolkien’s hobbits, who ‘liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions’. This would be unfair, in that it is a splendid volume, presenting contemporary scholarship to the general reader with care, grace, much thought and many illustrations; filled with things that most general readers won’t know at all, and that many specialist readers won’t have thought of ... ”
