14. The Eadwine Psalter. Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury. Ed. by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff. 1992. xviii + 278 pp., 122 illustrations (incl. 8 in colour). (Published in conjunction with the Pennsylvania State University Press.)

ISBN 0947623469. Buy online here.

 15. Europa Triumphans. Court & Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe. Ed. by J.R. Mulryne, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, and Margaret Shewring. 2 vols, 2004. 602 + 433 pp., 22 pls.
(Published in conjunction with Ashgate.)

ISBN 0754638731. N.B. This volume is now out of print.

A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books.

Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival. These festivals are considered not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of the festival and of the iconography, spectacle, music, dance, voice and gesture in which they were expressed.

To demonstrate the geographic spread and political significance of festivals, and to illustrate the range of aesthetic languages they deploy, the festivals included in these two volumes are grouped in the following sections: Henri III; Genoa; Poland-Lithuania; The Netherlands; The Protestant Union; La Rochelle; Scandinavia; and The New World. These texts provide many valuable insights into the variety of political systems and historical circumstances that formed them.

Beautifully produced with 148 black-and-white and 23 colour illustrations, Europa Triumphans represents an invaluable reference source for the study of early modern Europe. It presents texts both in transcription and translated into English, and is supplemented with introductory essays and commentaries.

Europa Triumphans is co-published by Ashgate and the Modern Humanities Research Association, in conjunction with the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK.

16. Historicist Essays on Hispano-Medieval Narrative in Memory of Roger M. Walker. Ed. by Barry Taylor and Geoffrey West. 2005. xii + 418 pp.

ISBN 1 904350 31 3. Buy online here.

In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative –– epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor –– and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walker’s memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.

17. An Anglo-Norman Dictionary. Second Edition. A-E. Gen. Ed. William Rothwell. Ed. by Stewart Gregory, William Rothwell & David Trotter, with the assistance of Michael Beddow, Virginie Derrien, Geert de Wilde, Lisa Jefferson & Andrew Rothwell. 2005. 2 vols in consecutive pagination: xlix + 624, iv + 625-1107 pp.

ISBN 1 904350 39 9. Buy online here.


The Anglo-Norman Dictionary in its first edition (AND1, 1977-1992) was the only dictionary which attempted to provide coverage of medieval French as used in Britain. Perhaps inevitably, during the course of publication the Dictionary changed, but in the case of AND1, the modification towards the middle of the alphabet was radical, with the inclusion of material drawn from Elsie Shanks's very substantial Dictionary of Law French, and the fichier assembled by J.P. Collas. Taken together, these two sources, which extensively explored the non-literary register of administrative and legal Anglo-Norman, dramatically changed the range and scale of AND1, so that the second half of the first edition is strikingly different from the first.

In the late 1980s, the decision was taken to revise the entire dictionary for what, in the event, is proving to be a massively altered second edition. Not only is the Shanks and Collas material now being incorporated into earlier letters; the new dictionary (‘AND2’) also draws on substantial quantities of hitherto unpublished documents which have appeared since the early 1970s. Lexical coverage has been enormously expanded in the fields of administration, law, science, botany, and medicine.

The revised edition draws extensively on concordanced and digitized texts, and it offers a well-developed coverage of locutions. It features, too, a substantially revised layout. The articles are broken down and made much more usable by including a summary of the main senses at the head of each article, numbered in a way that takes a reader directly to the relevant portion of the entry body. As well as speeding up the location of a particular sense, this layout offers a clear overview of the principal semantic pattern of a particular word.