Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

E.Lalou記念論集
Bouhaik-Girones, Marie / Grelois, Alexis et al. (dir.), Royaute, ecriture et theatre au Moyen Age: melanges en l'honneur d'Elisabeth Lalou. 502 p. 2024:5 (Pr. U. de Rouen et du Havre, FR) <728-1649>
ISBN 979-10-240-1769-3 paper ¥8,153.- (税込) EUR 34.00 *

修道士、修道女、ドミニコ会の儀礼　1256～1516年
Jones, Claire Taylor, Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516. (The Middle Ages Series) 456 pp. 2024:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <728-165>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2568-8 hard ¥15,592.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *

A new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy, from the perspective of women's communities In Fixing the Liturgy, CJ Jones opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering the astounding breadth of knowledge, the deep expertise, and the critical thinking required just to coordinate each day's worship. Focusing on the Dominican order, Jones shows how changes in medieval piety and ritual legislation disrupted the fine-tuned system that Dominicans instituted in the thirteenth century. World-historical events, including the Great Western Schism and the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, had an impact on the practice of liturgy even in individual communities. Through a set of never-before-studied records from Dominican convents, Jones shows how women's communities reacted and adapted to historical change and how their surviving sources inform our understanding of the friars' lives, as well. Tracing the narrative up to the eve of the Protestant Reformation, this study culminates in a multi-media reconstruction of the sounds, sights, and smells of worship in the rightfully famous southern German convent of St. Katherine in Nuremberg. Fixing the Liturgy makes this late medieval world accessible through clear introductions to medieval liturgy and to the Dominican order's governance. Jones illustrates how Dominican friars and sisters reconciled their order's rules with their own concrete circumstances and with the changing world around them. On the way, a new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy unfolds, told from the perspective of women's communities.

J.-M.Matz記念論集
Mathieu, Isabelle / Pecout, Thierry (dir.), Un Moyen Age en partage: hommage a Jean-Michel Matz. (Histoire) 480 p. 2024:5 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <728-1652>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9702-0 paper ¥7,673.- (税込) EUR 32.00

サンチャとフェルナンド1世統治下のレオンとガリシア
Reilly, Bernard F. / Doubleday, Simon R., Leon and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I. (The Middle Ages Series) 256 pp. 2024:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <728-1653>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2462-9 hard ¥13,513.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled the territories of Leon and Galicia between 1038 and 1065-often regarded as a period in which Christian kings and their vassals asserted themselves more successfully in the face of external rivals, both Viking and Muslim. The reality was more complex. The Iberian Peninsula remained a space of multiple, intertwined forms of power and surprisingly nuanced relationships between-and among-the diverse configurations of Christian and Muslim authority. Some of these complexities would be obscured by later generations of medieval chroniclers, whose narratives focused on the singular authority of the king and expressed a more binary view of interreligious relations. Through their account of the key events and turning points of Sancha and Fernando's reign, Reilly and Doubleday propose a revised understanding of its political culture, offering a corrective to accounts that have emphasized a stark opposition between Christian and Muslim powers, a supposedly steady growth and centralization of royal government, and the individual figure of the monarch. Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, underscoring the role of royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, Leon and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions medieval Iberia at a pivotal stage in European history.

Santamaria, Jean-Baptiste, Gouverner au feminin: Marguerite de France, comtesse d'Artois et de Bourgogne (1361-1382). (Histoire et civilisations) 451 p. 2024:5 (Pr. U. du Septentrion, FR) <728-1654>
ISBN 978-2-7574-4133-6 paper ¥7,673.- (税込) EUR 32.00 *

黒死病の世紀におけるベネツィアのCondulmer家の盛衰
Stahl, Alan M., The House of Condulmer: The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death. (The Middle Ages Series) 224 pp. 2024:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <728-1655>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2619-7 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

How a lower patrician Venetian family strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family in the wake of the Black Death, as they strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The Condulmers experienced mixed fortunes in their efforts at social mobility. Exiled after their participation in a failed revolt against the Venetian state, they nevertheless managed to accrue a great deal of wealth in the period before the Black Death. In the aftermath of the plague, which ravaged Venice and wiped out many lines of the family, the fortune of the Condulmers was concentrated in two main branches, whose members are the subject of this book. Through original research drawing on hundreds of unpublished archival sources, Alan M. Stahl traces the careers and changing personal circumstances of five members of the Condulmer family: Jacobello, who used his civic participation and donations to achieve noble status for himself and his descendants but impoverished himself and his family in the process; Vielmo, a moneychanger who paraded around in the trappings of wealth, attempting to imitate the appearance of his noble cousins; Franceschina, who used her power over dowries to get noble husbands for her daughters and stepdaughters; Simoneto, who achieved great wealth through Mediterranean commerce but lost it in the crash of the bank in which he was a partner; and Gabriele, who would eventually become one of the most consequential and reviled popes of the Renaissance, Eugene IV. The House of Condulmer brings readers into the world of intrigue, finance, religion, and plague in medieval Venice, capturing the vicissitudes of life in the one of the wealthiest cities of the world on the eve of the Renaissance.

十字軍の犯罪者－聖地でならず者になった騎士たち
Tibble, Steve, Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land. 384 pp. 2024:7 (Yale U. Pr., US) <728-1656>
ISBN 978-0-300-27607-7 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores the criminal underbelly of the crusades. From gangsters and bandits to muggers and pirates, Tibble presents extraordinary evidence of an illicit underworld. He shows how the real problem in the region stemmed not from religion but from young men. Dislocated, disinhibited, and present in disturbingly large numbers, they were the propellant that stoked two centuries of unceasing warfare and shocking levels of criminality. Crusader Criminals charts the downward spiral of desensitisation that grew out of the horrors of incessant warfare-and in doing so uncovers some of the most surprising stories of the time.

中世中欧の形成－最初の西欧化のための権力と政治的前提条件
Wihoda, Martin, The Making of Medieval Central Europe: Power and Political Prerequisites for the First Westernization, 791-1122. 416 pp. 2024:8 (Lexington Books, US) <728-1658>
ISBN 978-1-4985-6842-5 hard ¥28,066.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Although the distant origins of medieval Central Europe have enjoyed constant interest among historians, only marginal attention has been paid to the power and political prerequisites for the first Westernization, i.e. the gradual adoption of the values, norms and patterns of behavior of the Latin West by the communities (gentes) around the eastern edge of the Carolingian and subsequently Holy Roman Empires. Such a gap in knowledge, long overlooked, is now being filled by The Making of Medieval Central Europe: Power and Political Prerequisites for the First Westernization, 791-1122. While respecting the state of research and based on an original analysis of the sources, this book offers an informed reflection of a complex dialogue that was initiated after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate at the end of the 8th century and that, by the beginning of the 12th century, gave rise to a Central Europe that was Westernized (i.e. turned toward the West) yet in many ways distinctive. Another and no less important added value of this book is the author's conscious effort to overcome the narrow interpretive matrices defined by the national interests of the time.

Kroemer, James G., A Crusade Against the Turks as a Means of Reforming the Church: Two Camaldolese Hermits' Advice for Pope Leo X. 146 pp. 2024:8 (Lexington Books, US) <728-171>
ISBN 978-1-4985-5623-1 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

In 1513 two Camaldolese hermits, Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, presented the newly elected Pope Leo X a Libellus, or small book, offering a variety of suggestions for what they believed were needed reforms in the Roman Catholic Church. Chief among their recommendations was a crusade against the Ottoman Turks and, ultimately, all of Islam. In A Crusade Against the Turks as a Means of Reforming the Church: Two Camaldolese Hermits' Advice for Pope Leo X, James G. Kroemer introduces the pope who received the Libellus, and the hermits who wrote and sent it. Kroemer explains why the hermits believed Islam was a danger to Christendom, and what their strategy was to cleanse the world of this perceived threat. The Augustinian Friar Martin Luther is presented as one who also advocated church reform, but questioned using a crusade against Islam as a means of attaining needed changes. This book delves into the desire held by some devout people of faith who wish to achieve what they may consider religious purity at any cost, even by force if necessary.

Twomey, Lesley, Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets. (Queenship and Power) 449 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-1488>
ISBN 978-3-031-58479-4 hard ¥28,772.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373-1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain. Catherine's mother, Queen of Castile in exile, and father, the powerful military commander John of Gaunt, raised her to take the Castilian throne. This volume connects Catherine's early life, providing insights into those who promoted her cause from birth as Princess of Castile, and her later life as Princess of Asturias, then Queen-consort, and finally Dowager and Co-regent of Castile. Her influence on the Castilian court's poetic circles has not previously been connected to her English heritage. Poetry written about her and influenced by her was compiled into a songbook presented to her son, Juan II. The book brings new understanding of the role an Englishwoman played in Trastamara Castile's turbulent history.

Zimo, Ann E., In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. (The Middle Ages Series) 288 pp. 2024:9 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <728-1063>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2489-6 hard ¥13,513.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the kingdom founded in the wake of the First Crusade. The book examines how Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'a or Druze, fit into society in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, uncovering the daily reality of their experience. Exploring how and to what extent Muslims interacted with the Frankish ruling elite, historian Ann E. Zimo presents a new vantage point from which to reconsider the popularly accepted notion that the crusades, and by extension the crusader states, were a locus of a monolithic clash between West and East or between Christianity and Islam. By untangling the relations between the Muslim communities and their rulers, Zimo offers a more fully realized image of a society too multifaceted to be reasonably reduced to a black-and-white binary opposition. Zimo not only re-reads the well-known Frankish sources, including narrative chronicles, letters, charters, and legal treatises, but combines them with an investigation of the Arabic documentary base, including chronicles, biographies, fatwa literature, pilgrimage guides, and treaties which are not translated and largely inaccessible to most historians of the crusades. She also draws from the enormous and growing body of scholarship generated by archaeologists whose work can often provide insights into the aspects of the past not recorded in the historical record. By casting such a wide evidentiary net, In Plain Sight sheds new light on Frankish society and how Muslims fit into it, offering major revisions to the current conception of population distribution within the kingdom and the nature of the Frankish polity itself.