Book Reviews

2022

Mary Gibson, Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861-1914 (paperback edition, 2021). Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews [Online here]

2020

Marc Conesa and Nicolas Poirier (eds.), Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l'Occident médiéval et moderne (2019). Francia-Recensio (2020) [Online here]

Pamela O. Long, Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome (2018), Renaissance Quarterly 73 (2020), 279-81 [Online here]

Ben Parsons, Punishment and Medieval Education (2018), Speculum 95 (2020), 608-10 [PDF]


2019

Jaime-Chaim Shulman, A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water-Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century (2017), Renaissance Quarterly 72: 1471-72 [Online here]

Terry R. Slater and Sandra M.G. Pinto (eds.), Building Regulations and Urban Form, 1200-1900 (2018), Renaissance Quarterly 72: 639-40 [Online here]


2018

Élisabeth Lusset, Crime, châtiment et grâce dans les monastères au moyen-âge (XIIe-Xve s.) (2017), Crime, History & Societies 22, 135-37 [Online here]

Maarten Müller, Misdaad en straf in een Hollandse stad: Haarlem, 1245-1615 (2017), Low Countries Historical Review 133, review 78 [Online here]

Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans (eds.), Roadworks. Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads (2016), Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131: 357-59 [PDF]

Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya (2017), Medieval Feminist Forum 53: 132-34 [PDF]

Daniel Lord Smail, Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe (2016), Speculum 93: 578-79 [PDF]

Hannelore Zug Tucci, Prigionia di Guerra nel Medioevo. Un'altura in mezzo alla pianura: l'Italia dell'"incivilimento” (2016), English Historical Review 133: 137-39 [Online here]

Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age (2016), Speculum 93: 186-87 [PDF]

 

2016                      

Nükhet Varlik, Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (2015), Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 129: 308-9 [PDF]

Tamara Graziotti, Giustizia penale a San Gimignano (1300-1350) (2015), The Medieval Review [Online here]

Dennis Romano, Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy c. 1100 to c. 1440 (2015), H-Italy Reviews [Online here]

 

2015                      

Steven Vanderputten, Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100 (2013). Medieval Low Countries 1: 235-37 [PDF]

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (2013). H-Italy Reviews [Online here]

 

2014                       

Hannah Skoda, Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330 (2013). Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 127: 326-28 [PDF]

Carole Rawcliffe, Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities (2013). The Medieval Review [Online here]

Adam J. Kosto, Hostages in the Middle Ages (2012). English Historical Review 129 [PDF]

 

2013                        

Jerry B. Pierce, Poverty, Heresy and the Apocalypse: The Order of Apostles and Social Change in Medieval Italy, 1260-1307 (2012). English Historical Review 128: 1538-39 [PDF]

Massimo Vallerani, Medieval Public Justice (2012). Law and History Review 31: 627-28 [PDF]

 

2012                        

Michael A. Vargas, Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (2011). The Medieval Review [Online here]

Karen Sullivan, The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (2011). The Journal of Religion 92: 287-89 [PDF]

 

2011                        

Gerhard Jaritz and Ana Marinkocvić (eds.), Violence and the Medieval Clergy (2011). The Medieval Review [Online here]

Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (2010). Speculum 86: 1050-51 [PDF]

 

2010                        

Michael Robson and Jens Röhrkasten (eds.), Franciscan Organisation in the Mendicant Context. Formal and Informal Structures of the Friars’ Lives and Ministry in the Middle Ages (2010). The Medieval Review [Online here]

Sharon Dale, Alison Williams Lewin, and Duane J. Osheim (eds.), Chronicling History: Chroniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2007). English Historical Review 125: 398-99 [PDF]