New acquisitions -

Here are a few of the books that have recently arrived in the slow days of August...

French

Bériou, Nicole, and Jacques Chiffoleau. Economie et religion: l'expérience des ordres mendiants (XIIIe-XVe siècle). Collection d'histoire et d'archéologie médiévales. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2009.

Gautier Dalché, Patrick. La géographie de Ptolémée en Occident (IVe-XVIe siècle). Terrarum Orbis. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009

Némirovsky, Irène, and Olivier Philipponnat. Les vierges et autres nouvelles. [Paris]: Denoël, 2009.

Bizarre: anthologie, 1953-1968. Paris: Berg international, 2009.

Glass, Charles. Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944. London: HarperPress, 2009.

Lethuillier, Jean-Pierre, and Daniel Roche. Les costumes régionaux: entre mémoire et histoire. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.

Seifert, Lewis Carl. Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 339p. $85.00.

Toubert, Pierre and Michel Zink, dirs. Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance au Collège de France. Paris: Fayard, 2009. 665p.

Italian

Cammarosano, Paolo. Siena. Il Medioevo nelle città italiane, 1. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2009. This looks to be the first in a series of guides with useful bibliographical and research notes.

Kirkham, Victoria, and Armando Maggi. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Lupo, Salvatore. History of the Mafia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Ray, Meredith K. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Patti, Emanuela. La nuova gioventù?: l'eredità intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Transference. Novi Ligure (AL) [i.e. Alessandria, Italy]: Joker, 2009.

Saviano, Roberto. La bellezza e l'inferno: scritti 2004-2009. Strade blu. Milano: Mondadori, 2009.