606 Brief Notices

THOMAS FORREST KELLY, ed., Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony. (Cambridge Studies in
Performance Practice, 2.) Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi,
241; 9 black-and-white illustrations, many musical examples, many figures.
After an introduction by the editor this volume contains the following articles: John
Caldwell, "Plainsong and Polyphony, 1250-1550" (pp. 6-31); Michel Huglo, "Notated
Performance Practices in Parisian Chant Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century" (pp.
32-44); Rebecca A. Baltzer, "The Geography of the Liturgy at Notre-Dame of Paris"
(pp. 45-64); Margot Fassler, "The Feast of Fools and Danielis ludus: popular tradition
in a medieval cathedral play" (pp. 65-99); Anne Walters Robertson, "The Mass of Guil-
laume de Machaut in the Cathedral of Reims" (pp. 100-139); M. Jennifer Bloxam,
"Sacred Polyphony and Local Traditions of Liturgy and Plainsong: Reflections on Music
by Jacob Obrecht" (pp. 140-77); Richard Sherr, "The Performance of Chant in the
Renaissance and Its Interactions with Polyphony" (pp. 178-208); and Iain Fenlon, "Pa-
tronage, Music, and Liturgy in Renaissance Mantua" (pp. 209-35).

CLARE REGAN KINNEY, Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot. Cam-
bridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 261. $54.95.
This book contains the following chapters: "Introduction: Some Strategies of Poetic
Narrative" (pp. 1-30); "Dilation, Design and Didacticism in Troilus and Criseyde" (pp.
31-69); "The End of Questing, the Quest for an Ending: Circumscribed Vision in The
Faerie Queene Book VI" (pp. 70-121); "Inspired Duplicity: The Multiple Designs of
Paradise Lost" (pp. 122-64); and "The Ends of Poetic Narrative" (pp. 165-93).

MICHAEL KORHAMMER, ed., with KARL REICHL and HANS SAUER, Words, Texts and Manu-
scripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of His
Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer,
1992. Pp. xiv, 498; black-and-white frontispiece, 8 black-and-white plates, 2 figures.
$79.
This festschrift contains the following essays: A. I. Doyle, "A Fragment of an Eighth-
Century Northumbrian Office Book" (pp. 11-27); Paul E. Szarmach, "Cotton Tiberius
A. iii, Arts. 26 and 27" (pp. 29-42); Franz Wenisch, "Nu bidde we eow for Godes lufon: A
Hitherto Unpublished Old English Homiletic Text in CCCC 162" (pp. 43-52); Simon
Keynes, "The Fonthill Letter" (pp. 53-97); Michael Lapidge, "Abbot Germanus, Winch-
combe, Ramsey and the Cambridge Psalter" (pp. 99-129); Mechthild Gretsch, "The
Benedictine Rule in Old English: A Document of Bishop vEthelwold's Reform Politics"
(pp. 131-58); Milton McC. Gatch, "Piety and Liturgy in the Old English Vision ofLeofric"
(pp. 159-79); D. G. Scragg, "An Old English Homilist of Archbishop Dunstan's Day"
(pp. 181-92); Gernot Wieland, "England in the German Legends of Anglo-Saxon Saints"
(pp. 193-212); Peter Clemoes, "King Alfred's Debt to Vernacular Poetry: The Evidence
of ellen and crceft" (pp. 213-38); Alfred Bammesberger, "Five Beowulf Notes" (239-55);
Fred C. Robinson, "Why Is Grendel's Not Greeting the Gifstol a Wrac Micel?" (pp. 257-
62); E. G. Stanley, "Initial Clusters of Unstressed Syllables in Half-Lines of Beowulf"
(pp. 263-84); Rene Derolez, "Language Problems in Anglo-Saxon England: barbara lo-
quella and barbarismus" (pp. 285-92); Roberta Frank, "Old English tercet—'too much' or
'too soon'?" (pp. 293-303); Michael Korhammer, "Old English bolca and Mcegtia land—
Two Problems, One Solved" (pp. 305-24); Walter Hofstetter, "The Old English Adjec-
tival Suffix -cund" (pp. 325-47); Karl Reichl, "The Old English giedd, Middle English
yedding as Genre Terms" (pp. 349-70); Michael W. Herren, "Hiberno-Latin Lexical
Sources of Harley 3376, a Latin-Old English Glossary" (pp. 371-79); Hans Sauer,
"Towards a Linguistic Description and Classification of the Old English Plant Names"
(pp. 381-408); Elmar Seebold, "Kentish—and Old English Texts from Kent" (pp. 409-
34); Janet Bately, "John Joscelyn and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxon Kings" (pp. 435-