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Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca
Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 407p. ISBN 9781442637146. CAN $75.00 (hardback). Students,…
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Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference
Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. x, 222 p. ISBN 9780810132023. US $34.95 (paperback). Europe – that is, its Western…
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Mark Allen and Stephanie Amsel, eds. Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1997-2010
Mark Allen and Stephanie Amsel, eds. Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1997-2010. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016. xx, 806p. ISBN 9780719096099. £75.00 (hardback). In many ways, my review header would seem…
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Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts
Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts. Philadelphia: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. x, 162 p.,…
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Ian Spellerberg. Reading and Writing Accessories: A Study of Paper-Knives, Paper Folders, Letter Openers and Mythical Page Turners
Ian Spellerberg. Reading and Writing Accessories: A Study of Paper-Knives, Paper Folders, Letter Openers and Mythical Page Turners. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 128 p., ill. ISBN 9781584563501.…
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Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91
Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. 296p. ISBN: 9783447105453. € 85.00. A notable feature of this volume is the number of English-language contributions. It would seem highly appropriate…
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Alan Rosen, ed. Literature of the Holocaust.
Alan Rosen, ed. Literature of the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii, 324 p. ISBN 9781107008656. £55 / US $85 (hardback). Books such as Literature of the Holocaust can…