Nottingham Medieval Studies 61 (2017)

Nottingham Medieval Studies at Sixty- MICHAEL JONES 1

Africa and England c. 700: Aldhelm and P. Optatianus Porphyrius - DAVID R. CARLSON 9

Saracen Princesses Who Play the Vielle to Win Love in Thirteenth-Century French Romances - LINDA MARIE ZAERR 39

A Re-Reading of the Gest of Robyn Hode - R. W. HOYLE 67

Medieval French Occasional Verse: Another Fair Field Needing Folk - DIANA B. TYSON 115

Royal Castles and Coastal Defence in the Late Fourteenth Century - DAN SPENCER 147

Sir Richard La Zouche — Another Lollard Knight? - MAUREEN JURKOWSKI 171

The Importance of St Margaret’s Church in The Book of Margery Kempe: A Sacred Place and an Exemplary Parishioner - LAURA VARNAM 197

Reviews

Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland 300–950 (ed. by Paul S. Barnwell) - PATRICIA RUMSEY 245

Barbour’s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland (ed. by Steve Boardman and Susan Foran) - ANDY KING 247

La memoire d’Ambroise de Milan. Usages politiques d’une autorite patristique en Italie (ve–xviiie siecle) (ed. by Patrick Boucheron and Stephane Gioanni) - MICHELE BAITIERI 251

Aleppo: A History (by Ross Burns) - NICHOLAS MORTON 253

Thirteenth Century England XV: Authority and Resistance in the Age of Magna Carta - (ed. by Janet Burton, Phillipp Schofield, and Bjorn Weiler) - NICHOLAS VINCENT 255

The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology (ed. by John Carey, Emma Nic Carthaigh, and Caitriona O Dochartaigh) - JAMES T. PALMER 261

The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks (ed. by Linda Clark) - J. M. GRUSSENMEYER 265

Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c. 1066-c. 1216; Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund King (ed. by Paul Dalton and David Luscombe) - ANJA ROHDE 268

Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127–1181 (by Theodore Evergates) - JAMES DOHERTY 271

The Old French William of Tyre (by Philip D. Handyside) - NICHOLAS MORTON 274

Ecgfrith: King of the Northumbrians, High-King of Britain (by Nicholas J. Higham) - CONOR O’BRIEN 276

Political Society in Later Medieval England: A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter (ed. by Benjamin Thompson and John Watts) - TOBY SALISBURY 279