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Speculum, Volume 96, Number 2 (April 2021)
Articles
Magical Charaktêres in the Carolingian World: A Ninth-Century Charm in MS Vat. lat. 5359 and Its Broader Cultural Context
Ildar Garipzanov
Inventing Apostolic Impression Relics in Medieval Rome
Erik Inglis
Tales of the Living Dead: Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Law
Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Eve, Mary, and Martha: Paintings for the Humiliati Nuns at Viboldone
Julia I. Miller
Book Reviews
This issue of Speculum features more than 70 book reviews, including:
Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
Reviewed by Michael Bintley
Jessica Barr, Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae
Reviewed by Barbara Newman
G. W. Bowersock, The Crucible of Islam
Reviewed by Suleyman Dost
Richard K. Emmerson, Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts
Reviewed by Jacqueline E. Jung
Ian Forrest, Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church
Reviewed by Fiona Somerset
Moses Maimonides, “On the Regimen of Health”: A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos, with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos and Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh; and Moses Maimonides, “On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them” (Formerly Known as “On the Causes of Symptoms”): A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos
Reviewed by Maud Kozodoy
John V. Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
Reviewed by Nabil Matar
Jesús R. Velasco, Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages
Reviewed by Teofilo F. Ruiz
Eliza Zingesser, Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
Reviewed by Wendy Pfeffer
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