Reviews and Short Notices: Ancient and Medieval

Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy . By D. Kagan. The Romanization of Britain: An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation . By Martin Millett. The ‘Small Towns’ of Roman Britain . By Barry C. Burnham and John Wacher. Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to AD 600 . Edited by Ian Hazlett. Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland . By Lisa M. Bitel. The Earliest English Kings . By David Kirby. Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo‐Saxon England . By Barbara Yorke. Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800 . By Patrick Sims‐Williams. The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe . Edited by Rosamond McKitterick. Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance . By David Ganz. The Monks of Redon: Gesta Sanctorum Rotonensium and Vita Conuuoionis . Edited and translated by Caroline Brett. Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons . By Jaroslav Pelikan. Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict: From Late Antiquity to the Reformation . Edited by Jeremy Cohen. Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe . By Steven A. Epstein. Medieval Fortifications . By John R. Kenyon. The Royal Forests of England . By Raymond Black. Thirteenth‐century England III: Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1989 . Edited by P.R. Coss and S.D. Lloyd. The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1988 . Edited by Christopher Harper‐Billl and Ruth Harvey. State and Society in Medieval Europe: Gwynedd and Languedoc under Outside Rule . By James Given. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke . Translated and edited by P. Jackson and D. Morgan. The Atlas of the Crusades . Edited by Jonathan Riley‐Smith. The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374 , By Peter W. Edbury. Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274–1314 . By Sylvia Schein. The Hundred Years War , Volume 1: Trial by Battle . By Jonathan Sumption. The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250–1340 . By Malcolm Vale. The Lancastrian Affinity, 1361–1399 . By Simon Walker. Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture . By Miri Rubin. Papst und Konzil im Grossen Schisma (1378–1431): Studien und Quellen . By Walter Brandmüller. Land, Liberties and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside: Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw . By Richard C. Hoffmann. Crisis or Change: The Concept of Crisis in the Light of Agrarian Structural Reorganization in Late Medieval England . By Nils Hybel. Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law . By Norman Doe. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase . By Colin Richmond. Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire . By S.J. Payling. The Administration of the County Palatine of Chester, 1442–1485 . By Dorothy J. Clayton. James II . By Christine McGladdery. City and Countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Essays Presented to Philip Jones . Edited by Trevor Dean and Chris Wickham.