Search
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/Thomas_0.jpg?itok=GPPXg4iT)
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale, the phrase ‘ignotum per ignocius’ is used in connection with the so-called ‘sliding science’ at which the would-be alchemists of the tale labour so diligently.(1) The phrase means to explain the unknown by the more unknown.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/lapina.jpg?itok=J2kF4qJ6)
The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources makes an important and timely intervention in the field of crusader studies.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/fitzgerald.jpg?itok=En1vGxTk)
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.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/9780691174747_0.jpg?itok=aHzvqGGu)
The Birth of Modern Belief is seriously good. It is erudite, insightful, and cogent; but, above all, it enables us to think hard about the relationship between our past and our present.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/bloxham1.jpg?itok=lnKzzO-d)
The sub-branch of history that is known by the ambiguous (and frightening to undergraduates, cats, and many mainstream academics) name “historiography” seems to be undergoing a Renaissance at the moment.