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Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages: Prophets and their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism / Brian Fitzgerald

Review Date: 
31 May 2018

Brian Fitzgerald begins this timely, useful and extremely interesting book by stating what should be pretty obvious to scholars of medieval prophetic texts; that prophecy in the Middle Ages took a wide variety of forms, right across Europe and beyond.

On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages / Valerie Allen

Review Date: 
28 Feb 2009

When one is sent such an item to review one inevitably speculates why. Is one a known purveyor of hot air? Or just vulgar and unshockable?(1) Is one being set up for Max Reger’s response to a music critic? 'Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe ihre Kritik vor mir.