Reviews and Short Notices: Ancient and Medieval

Philip II and the Sacred War . By John Buckler. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, 140BC ‐ 70BC . By Keith R. Bradley. Caligula: The Corruption of Power . By Anthony A. Barrett. Claudius . By Barbara Levick. Barbarians and Bishops: Army, Church, and State in the Age of Arcadius and Chrysostom . By J. H. W. G. Leibeschuetz. Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages . By Bernhard Bischoff. Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo‐Saxon England . By Nicholas Howe. Weapons and Warfare in Anglo‐Saxon England . Edited by Sonia Chadwick‐Hawkes. The Early Abbasid Empire . By Al‐Tabari. The Meadows of Gold . By Masudi. The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–797 . By Roger Collins. Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900–1200 . By Alan Harvey. Recherches sur léconomic de la France médiévale: les voies fluviales ‐ la draperie . By Robert‐Henri Bautier The Minority of Henry III . By D. A. Carpenter. The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Fifth Year of the Reign of Henry III, Michaelmas 1221 . Edited by D. A. Crook. Popular Medicine in Thirteenth‐century England: Introduction and Texts . By Tony Hunt. The Grammar Schools of Medieval England: A. F. Leach in Historiographical Perspective . By John N. Miner. Childhood in the Middle Ages . By Shulamith Shahar. Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and his Thirteenth‐century Renaissance . Edited by Robert I. Burns. English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348–1500 . By Maurice Keen. Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England . Edited by Michael A. Hicks. Magic in the Middle Ages . By R. Kieckhefer. Tomaso da Modena . By Robert Gibbs. The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision . By Andrée Hayum. The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury . By P. W. Hammond. James IV . By Norman Macdougall.