English: M. Carruthers, The craft of thought: meditation, rhetoric and the making of images 400-1200 (Cambridge UP, 1998). J. Morrow, A history of political thought: a thematic introduction (New York UPr, 1998) [a little on the Middle Ages] Dhouda, Handbook for her warrior son, tr. M. Thiebaux (Cambridge UP, 1998). L.L. Fields, Liberty, dominion and the two swords: on the origins of Western political theology (U. of Notre Dame Pr, 1998). P.F. Cuneo, Art and politics in early modern Germany: Jorg Breu the elder and the fashioning of political identity ca. 1475-1536 (Leiden: Brill, 1998). F.A. James, Peter Martyr Vermigli and predestination (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). J. Bossy, Peace in the post-Reformation (Cambridge UP, 1998) [later than my usual coverage, but Bossy usually is of interest]. C. Classen, The color of angels: cosmology, gender and the aesthetic imagination (London: Routledge, 1998) [c. 1 discusses Hildegard]. D.H. Weiss, Art and Crusade in the age of Saint Louis (Cambridge UP, 1998). J.J. Emerick, The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spoleto (University Park: Pennsylvania State UPr, 1998). Augustine, The city of God, tr. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge UP, 1998). A. Kenny, A brief history of Western philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998). M. Camille, Mirror inparchment: the Luttrell Psalter and the making of medieval England (London: Reaktion books, 1998). German: Die Renaissance als erste Aufklarung, ed. E. Rudolph (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998). Italian: Le carte del capitolo della Cattedrale di Verona, vol. 1 (Roma: Viella, 1998). Gli Acts communitatis Tarvisii del sec. 13, ed. A. Miochielin (Roma: Viella, 1998). C. Bonfigli, Niccolo V: papa della Rinascenza (Roma: Anicia, 1997). F. Tocco, Savonarola profeta e ribelle, ed. F. Di Giorgio (Genova: Marietti, 1998). E. De Bellis, Il pensiero logico di Agostino Nifo (Galatina: Congedo, 1997). French: G. Lobrichon, 1099: Jerusalem conquise (Paris: Seuil, 1998). D. Alexandre-Bidon, La mort au Moyen Age XII-XVI siecle (Paris: Hachette, 1998). Spanish: P. Balana i Abadia, Bibliografia comentada de l'Islam (Lerida: Pages, 1998). Enigmas de la Iglesia valenciana, ed. J.C. Martin de la Hoz et al. (Valencia: Diputacion Provincial de Valencia, 1998). J. Freire, El monacato gallego en la Alta Edad Media (La Coruna: Fundacion P. Barrie de la Maza, 1998). tom izbicki %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%