Publications: Reviews

  • The Manuscript and Meaning of Malory’s Morte Darthur: Rubrication, Commemoration, Memorialization by K.S. Whetter. Review for Speculum 93.3 (July 2018):  924–25.

  • Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France by Myra D. Orth. Review for the Journal of the Early Book Society 20 (winter 2017): 307-310. 

  • Lydgate’s Fabula Duorum Mercatorum and Guy of Warwick edited by Pamela Farvolden. Review for Arthuriana: The Quarterly for the International Arthurian  Society 28.1 (spring 2018): 76-77.

  • Woodcuts in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries by Ina Kok. Review for the Journal of the Early Book Society (April 2015): 392-394.

  • The Medieval Filmscape: Reflections of Fear and Desire in a Cinematic Mirror by William F. Woods. Speculum 90/4 (October 2015). 

  • Shakespeare and the Medieval World (The Arden Critical Companions) by Helen Cooper. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 67.2 (Summer 2014): 710-712. 

  • How the Page Matters by Bonnie Mak. Review for Speculum 88.02 (April 2013): 550-551.

  • Women in England in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Ward. Review for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (2012): 69-76. 

  • Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern. Edited by Lois Potter and Joshua Calhoun. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008, and  Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology. By Thomas H. Ohlgren. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Review for JEGP (July 2010): 416-420.

  • Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England by Jessica Brantley. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 61.4 (Winter 2008): 1396-1397.

  • Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books, 1473-1557, by Alexandra Gillespie. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 60:3 (Fall 2007): 1021-1023. 

  • Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing, ed. William Kuskin. Review for Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 2007): 299-301.

  • The Mirror of Salvation [Speculum Humanae Salvationis] An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784, trans. and with commentary by Albert C. Labriola & John W. Smeltz. Review for The Catholic Historical Review (January, 2007): 151-153.

  • The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, edited by Siân Echard and Stephen Partridge. Review for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (Winter 2007): 69-76.

  • Bildnisse schreibender Frauen im Mittelalter 9. bis Anfang 13. Jahrhundert, by Katrin Graf. Review for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 80: 2 (April 2005): 577-578. 

  • The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method, by Joseph A. Dane. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 57, no. 4 (Winter 2004), pp. 1447-1449.

  • Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England, by Mary C. Erler. Review for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (forthcoming 2004), pp. 628-629. 

  • Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books, by William W. E. Slights. Review for Renaissance Quarterly, Autumn 2003 (56.3): 933-934.

  • Prestige, Authority and Power in Late-Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, edited by Felicity Riddy. Review article for The Yearbook in English Studies 33 (2003): 336 - 8. 

  • Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman,  by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise L. Despres. Review article with Nicolette Zeeman for Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001)

  • Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, by Jonathan Alexander. Review for Studies in Iconography (Medieval Institute Publications), Summer 1995

  • Cinema Arthuriana: Essays on Arthurian Film, ed Kevin J Harty. Review article in Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature (University of Central Arkansas), Oct 1994

  • The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, by Derek Pearsall. Review article in The Modern Language Review (University of Reading), Fall, 1994

  • A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300-1500, by C. Paul Christianson. Review for Speculum (October 1992)

  • The Pilgrimage of Prayer: The Texts and Iconography of the "Exercitium Super Pater Noster," edited and translated by Barbara H. Jaye. Review for Speculum (Fall 1992)

  • "Images and Literature: Toward a Definition of Context," a review article for Medievalia et Humanistica (Spring 1991)

  • Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, edited by J.J.G. Alexander and P.Binski. Review for Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature  (1989)

  • Religious Art in France. The Late Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Iconography and Its Sources, by Emile Mâle, edited by Harry Bober; The Easter Sepulchre in England, by  Pamela Sheingorn. Book reviews for Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature (Columbia University), April, 1988

  • Manuscripts Sacred and Secular, edited by Judy Oliver; The Printer & the Pardoner, by Paul Needham.  Book reviews for American Book Collector, Oct, Nov 1986

  • Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly, Book and Author, April, 1984

  • 150 reviews in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly writing, Publishers Weekly, 1982-1984

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