Reviews

Małgorzata Krasnode̜bska-D’Aughton and Anne-Julie Lafaye, eds, Mendicants on the Margins: Geographical, Social and Historiographical Margins in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Mendicant Orders (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024), pp. xiv + 250, 43 figures. €49/£45/$55. ISBN: 9781782056058, reviewed by Neslihan Şenocak

Tony McAleavy, Malmesbury Abbey 670–1539: Patronage, Scholarship and Scandal (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023), pp. 298, 25 b/w illustrations. £60/$85. ISBN: 9781783277148, reviewed by Benjamin Pohl

Bjørn Bandlien, ed, Jerusalem in Viken: Crusading Ideology, Church-Building and Monasticism in South-Eastern Norway in the Twelfth Century (Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2023), pp. 243, colour illustrations. Open Access. ISBN: 9788202798406, reviewed by Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir

Sébastien Bully, Morana Čaušević-Bully, and Stéphane Gioanni, eds, St Peter of Osor (Island of Cres) and Benedictine Monasticism in the Adriatic Area (Rome: École française de Rome, 2024), pp. iv + 272, 123 figures. €35.00. ISBN 978-2-7283-1804-9, reviewed by Elisa Broccoli

Ionuț Holubeanu, Christianity in Roman Scythia: Ecclesiastical Organization and Monasticism (4^thto 7^thCenturies) (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 487, 43 figures. €160. ISBN: 9789004690295, reviewed by Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen

Denva Gallant, Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2024), pp. 168, 35 colour & 39 b/w illustrations. $94.95 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-271-09563-9, reviewed by Lauren Mancia

Jonathan Zecher, Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 400, b/w figures and tables. £102.50. ISBN: 9780198854135, reviewed by Paul Dilley

Edel Bhreathnach, Monasticism in Ireland,ad 900–1250 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024), pp. xx + 450, 32 colour illustrations. €45 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-80151-117-9, reviewed by Westley Follett

Jacques Dalarun, To Govern is to Serve, an Essay on Medieval Democracy Translated by Sean F. Field (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023), pp. xxix + 229, 3 b/w illustrations. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1501768354, reviewed by Constant J. Mews

Mateusz Fafinski and Jakob Riemenschneider, Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 75, £17 (paperback). ISBN: 9781108984485, reviewed by Louise Blanke

Olivia Adankpo-Labadie, Moines, saints et hérétiques dans l’Éthiopie médiévale (École Française de Rome, 2023), pp. 512, 16 b/w illustrations, 35 €. ISBN 978-2-7283-1573-4 (print version), reviewed by Nafisa Valieva

Lauren Mancia, Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling towards God (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2023), pp. xviii + 101, £79 (hardcover or eBook). ISBN: 978-1-64189-312-1, reviewed by Katherine Allen Smith

Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber, The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2024), pp. 199; 38 illustrations, £24.95 (paperback), and Open Access. ISBN: 978-1-80511-266-2, reviewed by Diana Denissen