ACMRS

The castell of love; a critical edition of Lord Berners's romance.

Diego de San Pedro had a hit on his hands. His popular romance was printed in over two dozen editions in seventeenth century Spain and translated into Catalan, Italian, French, English and German in the following 150 years. As a sentimental and lyric novel, epistolary fiction and treatise the Castell served its readers well, and in this first modern edition readers will get a very good sense of its as an artifact of literary heritage. Boro (English literature, U. de Montréal) provides a thorough introduction as well as annotation and a very fine glossary. She provides the text as Lord Berner wrote it, giving fascinating insights into how the English understood the novel's themes and intentions, and Boro also provides full linguistic notes. ACMRS is the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Diaz de Luco's Guide for bishops; Spanish reform and the Lazarillo.

Bishops should encourage priests to get to know their parishioners well and thereby deliver them and their secrets up to be punished. Bishops should love where they are and not seek higher or more lucrative office. They should not hire anyone who is greedy but always defend pastoral immunity. When de Luco wrote his guide to bishops he already had a distinguished career as a reformer and denouncer of social and ecclesiastic corruption. In this first publication since the sixteenth century, de Luca details the growing disillusion he and others felt when contemplating the next generation to run the Church. In this publication sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Colahan (Spanish, Whitmore College) and Masferrer translate de Luca's text and compare it to the Picaresque novel of a generation later. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Mosaics in the Eternal City.

Mosaics surviving in a handful of churches document the evolution of Rome over nearly a millennium from the seat of a great secular empire into the heart and symbol of the Christian dispensation, says Sundell (emeritus humanities, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art). He samples the transformation in the sixth, the ninth, and the twelfth centuries. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)