Book Reviews

After Empire: Towards an Ethnology of Europe's Barbarians. Edited by G. Ausenda. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 1995. 317 pp. £39.50. ISBN 0 85115 634 7. Byrhtferth's Enchiridion. Early English Text Society S.S. 15 Edited by Peter S. Baker and Michael Lapidge. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Early English Text Society. 1995. cxxxiv + 480 pp. £45. ISBN 0 19 722416 4. Authority and the Sacred. Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World. By Peter Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 91. £27.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 49557 1; £9.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 521 49904 6. Scotland in Dark Age Britain. St John's House Papers No. 6. Edited by Barbara E. Crawford. Aberdeen: Scottish Cultural Press. 1996. xii + 160 pp. £9.00. ISBN 1 898218 61 7. The Late Roman Army. By Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon. London: Batsford 1996. xviii + 206 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 7134 7047 X. Warfare in Roman Europe AD 350—425. By Hugh Elton. Oxford Classical Monographs. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1996. 312 pp. £40. ISBN 0 19 815007 5. Frontiers of the Roman Empire. By Hugh Elton. London: Batsford. 1996. x + 150 pp. £25.00. ISBN 0 7134 7320 7. Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640—720. By Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Geberding. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1996. x + 397 pp. £45.00 hardback/£17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 7190 4790 0/0 7190 4791 9. The Role of Art in the late Anglo‐Saxon Church (Oxford Historical Monographs). By Richard Gameson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xiv + 312 pages. 52 black and white plates. £40, ISBN 0 19 8205414 4. The Viking Art of War. By Paddy Griffith. London: Greenhill. 1995. 224 pp. £25. ISBN 1 85367 208 4. The Celtic Latin Tradition of Biblical Style. By D.R. Howlett, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1995. x + 400 pp. £35. ISBN 1 851282 143 0. Studien zu den Quellen der frühmittelalterlichen Bussbücher. By Ludger Körntgen. (Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittel‐alter 7). Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke. 1993. xxiii + 292 pp. DM 98.00. ISBN 3 7995 6088 2. The Harley Psalter. By William Noel (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xvii + 231 pp., with 83 illustrations. £40. ISBN 0 521 46495 1. Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo‐Saxon and Viking Runes. By R.I. Page. Edited by David Parsons, with a Bibliography by Carl T. Berkhout. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 1995. xiii + 346 pp. £49.50. ISBN 0 85115 387 9. The Germanic Warrior Clubs, An Inquiry into the Dynamics of the Era of Migrations and into the Antecedents of Medieval Society. By Arnold H. Price. Tübingen: Lück and Mauch. 1994. 98 pp. ISBN 3 924898 13 8. Corpus of Anglo‐Saxon Stone Sculpture IV: South‐East England. By Dominic Tweddle, Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye‐Biddle. Oxford: The British Academy and Oxford University Press. 1995. 575 pp. £95.00. 722 plates. ISBN 0 19 726129 9. Mission and Christianisierung. Formen und Folgen bei Angelsachsen und Franken im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert. By Lutz von Padberg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1995. 419 pp. DM 136. ISBN 3 515 06737 X. Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Roger Wright. Pennsylvania: Penn State Press. 1996. ix + 262 pp. £15.50. ISBN 0 271 01569 1. Land and Power: Studies in Italian and European Social History, 400—1200. By Chris Wickham. London: British School at Rome. 1994. vi + 326 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0 904152 25 1. Making History: The Normans and their historians in eleventh‐century Italy. By Kenneth Baxter Wolf. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. xiii + 192 pp. £28.50. ISBN 0 8122 3298 4.