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Editorial NoteArticles for Future VolumesPrefaceThe Oldest Manuscript Witness of the First Life of Blessed Francis of AssisiJacques DalarunForm and Effect / Affect in the Vie de saint Alexis: Ironic Patterning and Numerical CompositionLisa Bansen-HarpBoccacciös Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie deorum gentiliumDavid LummusDante¿s Justinian, Cino's Corpus: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and LawLorenzo ValterzaDante¿s Appropriate of Lucan¿s CatoPaul M. CloganREVIEW NOTICESAlberico di Montecassino, Brevarium de dictamine.Ronald WittAnlezark, Daniel, ed. and trans. The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and SaturnRobert BoenigAverroes (Ibn Rushd) of Cordoba, Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle.Translated with an introduction and notes by Richard C. Taylor, with Thérèse-Anne Druart, sub-editor. Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy.Philip Neri Reese, O. P.Bailey, Lisa K. Christianity¿s Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique GaulCharles WitkeBeechy, Tiffany, The Poetics of Old EnglishValeria di ClementeCollins, David J., Reforming Saints: Saints¿ Lives and Their Authors in Germany1470-1530.Albrecht ClassenEbbesen, Sten, Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th Centuries: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen, Volume 2.Justin Marie Brophy, O. P.Fossier, Robert. The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages, Trans. Lydia G. CochraneTeofilo RuizHoward, Deborah and Moretti, Laura, Sound and Space in Renaissance Architecture, Music, AcousticsSeth J. ColuzziMagennis, Hugh and Swan, Mary, eds. A Companion to Ælfric.Robert BoenigOswald, Dana M., Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature, Gender in the Middle Ages 5Maik GothRasmussen, Ann Marie and Sarah Westphal-Wihl. Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Source-book in Courtly Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval GermanyAlbrecht ClassenSilver, Larry and Wyckoff, Elizabeth, eds. Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in theAge of Dürer and Titian.Jenny SpinksBooks Received