Reviews

Haude Morvan,ed, Spaces for Friars and Nuns: Mendicant Choirs and Church Interiors in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Rome: École française de Rome, 2022), pp. 392, €32. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1533-8. Available in Open Access: https://books.openedition.org/efr/21290, reviewed by Robert Cerone

Scott G. Bruce and Stephen Vanderputten,eds, A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages, Brill’s Companions to European History, 27 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 393 + xv, €204.58. ISBN 978-90-04-47031-2, reviewed by James G. Clark

Tracy Collins, Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology (Cork: Cork University Press, 2021), pp. 672, €39. ISBN: 9781782054566, reviewed by Roberta Gilchrist

James G. Clark, The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), pp. x + 689, £25. ISBN: 9780300269956 (paperback), reviewed by Michael Hicks

Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin,eds, The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xxiv + 1217, £258.17. ISBN: ‎978-1107042117. Volume 1: Origins to the Eleventh Century, pp. 645, ISBN: 9781107042094, reviewed by Marilyn Dunn

Volume 2:The High and Late Middle Ages, pp. xv + 568. ISBN: 978-1107042100, reviewed by Karen Stöber

G. A. Loud, The Social World of the Abbey of Cava c. 1020–1300, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 51 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2021), pp. 417; 7 maps, 8 genealogical charts, 1 appendix, £80, reviewed by Silvina Martin

Eduardo Carrero Santamaría,ed, Aragonia Cisterciensis. Espacio, arquitectura, música y función en los monasterios de la Orden del Císter en la Corona de Aragón (Somonte-Cenero, Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2020), pp. 280, €25. ISBN: 978-8418105371, reviewed by Haude Morvan

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. xxv + 301, 150 colour ill, €95.00, ISBN 978-0-88844-225-3, reviewed by Benjamin Pohl

David Austin,Gaenor Parry, and Carys Aldous-Hughes, Saint Mary’s Church, Strata Florida: A History and Guide, Strata Florida, Books, Volume 1 (Strata Florida: Ystrad Fflur, 2022), pp. 64, £7 (Welsh and English bilingual). ISBN: 9781916873506. David Austin, Strata Florida: The History and Landscape of a Welsh Monastery, Strata Florida Books, Volume 2 (Strata Florida: Ystrad Fflur, 2022), pp. 96, £15 (versions in English and Welsh). ISBN: 9781916873513, reviewed by Stephen Rippon

Patrick Bouvart, Les prieurés de Fontevraud dans le diocèse de Poitiers: Conditions d’implantation, topographie monastique et évolution, Archéologie & Culture (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021), pp. 220, €35. ISBN 978-2-7535-8325-2, reviewed by Bruce L. Venarde

Mercedes Pérez Vidal,ed, Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World. Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca 1200–1700 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022), pp. 212, € 114. ISBN: 9781641892988, reviewed by Valeria Danesi