Reviews and Short Notices: Ancient and Medieval

Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church . By Stuart G. Hall. Prudentius on the Martyrs . By Anne‐Marie Palmer. Early Medieval Europe, 300–1000 . By Roger Collins. The Laws of the Salian Franks . Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Fisher Drew. A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales, c.500‐c.1050 . Edited by Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth and D. P. Kirby. Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae . By Richard Sharpe. The Bretons . By Patrick Galliou and Michael Jones. Germany in the Early Middle Ages, c.800–1056 . By Timothy Reuter. Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders . By Heinrich Fichtenau. La Mutacion de l'an mil: Lournand, village mǎconnais de l'antiquitá au fáodalisme . By Guy Bois. From Slavery to Feudalism in South‐western Europe . By Pierre Bonnassie. Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, 700–1100 . By E. Klingelhofer. Facsimiles of Anglo‐Saxon Charters: Anglo‐Saxon Charters, Supplementary series, Volume I . By Simon Keynes. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo‐Saxon England . By Mary Clayton. Anglo‐Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival . By Barbara Raw. Anglo‐Norman Studies, XIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1990 . Edited by Marjorie Chibnall. The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English . By Marjorie Chibnall. Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries after the Norman Conquest . By Sally Thompson. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France . By Penelope D. Johnson. Histoire des femmes en Occident, Volume II: Le Moyen Age . Edited by C. Klapisch‐Zuber; General Editors G. Duby and M. Perrot. Medieval Women in Southern England . Edited by M. Barber. Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages . Edited by Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jane F. O'Barr, Anne Vilen, Sarah Westphahl‐Wihl. English Medieval Industries . Edited by John Blair and Nigel Ramsay. The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095–1270 . By Penny J. Cole. From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy . By Ellen E. Kittell. Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294–1295 . By Jeffrey H. Denton. Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England . Edited by Christopher Harper‐Bill. A Rural Society after the Black Death: Essex, 1350–1525 . By L. R. Poos. Who's Who in Late Medieval England . By Michael Hicks. North‐eastern England during the Wars of the Roses . By A. J. Pollard. Les ‘Vaudois’: Naissance, vie et mort d'une dissidence (xiie‐xvie siècles ). By Gabriel Audisio. Valdesi e valdismi medievali , Volume II: Identità valdesi nella storia e nella storiografia: Studi e discussioni . By Grado G. Merlo. Les Vaudois des origins à leur fin (xiie‐xvie siècles): Colloque international sous la direction de Gabriel Audisio, Aix‐en‐Provence, 8–10 Avril 1988 . Edited by Gabriel Audisio. The Soderini and the Medici: Power and Patronage in Fifteenth‐century Florence . By Paula C. Clarke. Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . By John Onians. The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade . By Mark D. Meyersen.