Nottingham Medieval Studies 61 (2017)

Nottingham Medieval Studies was first issued in 1957 and published its fiftieth volume in 2006. It was and remains an interdisciplinary journal for studies of European history and literature from Late Antiquity through to the Reformation. The journal also features articles in related fields such as archaeology, art history, linguistics, musicology and philosophy. Nottingham Medieval Studies is published as a single annual volume.

Nottingham Medieval Studies est une revue pluridisciplinaire destinée à l’étude de l’histoire et de la littérature européennes de l’Antiquité Tardive à la Reformation. La revue comprend également des articles sur l’archéologie, l’histoire de l’art, la linguistique, la musicologie et la philosophie. La revue est publiée en un seul volume, une fois par l’an. Commençant avec le colume LIV (2010), Nottingham Medieval Studies est publiée par Brepols, avec Julia Barrow comme rédactrice en chef, et comme assistante, Joanna Martin.

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