Publications: Reviews

  • The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) From the Archives of St John’s College, Cambridge, ed. by Susan Powell. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2022. Review for JEBS 26 (winter 2024): 273-276.

  • Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England, Megan Heffernan. Review for Renaissance Quarterly. Spring 2023 issue (76.1): pp. 345 – 346.

  • The Manuscript and Meaning of Malory’s Morte Darthur: Rubrication, Commemoration, Memorialization by K.S. Whetter. Review for Speculum 93.3 (July 2018):  924–25.

  • Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France by Myra D. Orth. Review for the Journal of the Early Book Society 20 (winter 2017): 307-310. 

  • Lydgate’s Fabula Duorum Mercatorum and Guy of Warwick edited by Pamela Farvolden. Review for Arthuriana: The Quarterly for the International Arthurian  Society 28.1 (spring 2018): 76-77.

  • Woodcuts in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries by Ina Kok. Review for the Journal of the Early Book Society (April 2015): 392-394.

  • The Medieval Filmscape: Reflections of Fear and Desire in a Cinematic Mirror by William F. Woods. Speculum 90/4 (October 2015). 

  • Shakespeare and the Medieval World (The Arden Critical Companions) by Helen Cooper. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 67.2 (Summer 2014): 710-712. 

  • How the Page Matters by Bonnie Mak. Review for Speculum 88.02 (April 2013): 550-551.

  • Women in England in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Ward. Review for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (2012): 69-76. 

  • Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern. Edited by Lois Potter and Joshua Calhoun. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008, and  Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology. By Thomas H. Ohlgren. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Review for JEGP (July 2010): 416-420.

  • Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England by Jessica Brantley. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 61.4 (Winter 2008): 1396-1397.

  • Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books, 1473-1557, by Alexandra Gillespie. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 60:3 (Fall 2007): 1021-1023. 

  • Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing, ed. William Kuskin. Review for Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 2007): 299-301.

  • The Mirror of Salvation [Speculum Humanae Salvationis] An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784, trans. and with commentary by Albert C. Labriola & John W. Smeltz. Review for The Catholic Historical Review (January, 2007): 151-153.

  • The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, edited by Siân Echard and Stephen Partridge. Review for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (Winter 2007): 69-76.

  • Bildnisse schreibender Frauen im Mittelalter 9. bis Anfang 13. Jahrhundert, by Katrin Graf. Review for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 80: 2 (April 2005): 577-578. 

  • The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method, by Joseph A. Dane. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 57, no. 4 (Winter 2004), pp. 1447-1449.

  • Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England, by Mary C. Erler. Review for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (forthcoming 2004), pp. 628-629. 

  • Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books, by William W. E. Slights. Review for Renaissance Quarterly, Autumn 2003 (56.3): 933-934.

  • Prestige, Authority and Power in Late-Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, edited by Felicity Riddy. Review article for The Yearbook in English Studies 33 (2003): 336 - 8. 

  • Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman,  by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise L. Despres. Review article with Nicolette Zeeman for Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001)

  • Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, by Jonathan Alexander. Review for Studies in Iconography (Medieval Institute Publications), Summer 1995

  • Cinema Arthuriana: Essays on Arthurian Film, ed Kevin J Harty. Review article in Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature (University of Central Arkansas), Oct 1994

  • The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, by Derek Pearsall. Review article in The Modern Language Review (University of Reading), Fall, 1994

  • A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300-1500, by C. Paul Christianson. Review for Speculum (October 1992)

  • The Pilgrimage of Prayer: The Texts and Iconography of the "Exercitium Super Pater Noster," edited and translated by Barbara H. Jaye. Review for Speculum (Fall 1992)

  • "Images and Literature: Toward a Definition of Context," a review article for Medievalia et Humanistica (Spring 1991)

  • Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, edited by J.J.G. Alexander and P.Binski. Review for Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature  (1989)

  • Religious Art in France. The Late Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Iconography and Its Sources, by Emile Mâle, edited by Harry Bober; The Easter Sepulchre in England, by  Pamela Sheingorn. Book reviews for Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature (Columbia University), April, 1988

  • Manuscripts Sacred and Secular, edited by Judy Oliver; The Printer & the Pardoner, by Paul Needham.  Book reviews for American Book Collector, Oct, Nov 1986

  • Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly, Book and Author, April, 1984

  • 150 reviews in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly writing, Publishers Weekly, 1982-1984

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