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… Children of the Middle Ages Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. Yale University Press. … the argument suspect. In different ways, and from different points of view, by pointing out the misuse of the sources, … is a traditional insular history, without any effort to compare it with developments on the continent. Even so, the …

… finds it persistently necessary to argue for the variety, complexity, and ambition of works which have been … conceptual apparatus could never be made to square with medieval literature, but most English departments have … interesting energies and contradictions are revealed at the points of slippage. But it would be wrong to grant the …

… its rich illustrations of streets, is the more to be welcomed. Though well informed, it is proud to be naïve … All great cities are absurd, and should be. They have ladies in improbable costumes, preferably with lapdogs, old … from across its lake; others, like London, have few vantage-points, though the top of Hampstead Heath or Greenwich Park …

… any other people, Americans have produced a vast corpus of commentary that ranges back and forth over the turf of “What … rather boring and dull, and certainly destined to become a standard textbook in architectural history courses. … is an intelligent man with impeccable scholarly credentials, and there is a certain truth, though overstated, in …

… Harper’s magazine, “represents an enormous academic accomplishment” [Oxford $9.95 paper]. Oxford has also issued a … that has the timeless tone of legend [Library of the Indies series $19.00]. Pantheon is offering a paperback … include K. K. Ruthven’s A Guide to Ezra Pound’s Personae (1926; [$7.95], Thomas G. Rosenmeyer’s The Art of Aeschylus …