Published July 2000
The Shtetl: Image and Reality
Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov
Studies In Yiddish 2
Published November 2000
Condé in Context: Ideological Change in Seventeenth-Century France
Mark Bannister
Legenda (General Series)
- ‘Bannister does an excellent job of reminding us that changes in relationships of power are the product of more than political developments or individual actions... Anyone interested in the nature of the seventeenth-century state will appreciate how the approach to the subject has just been widened.’ — Alan James, French History 16.2, 2002, 233-4
- Gerrit Walther, Historische Zeitschrift 275, 2002, 195-6
- ‘Compelling... Bannister's account, full of scholarly enthusiasm and fascination with the subject, is exemplary in introducing readers to the crucial relation between political and cultural transformations in a society that both resisted and welcomed them.’ — Henry Phillips, French Studies LVII.1, 2003, 80-1
Italy in Crisis: 1494
Edited by Jane Everson and Diego Zancani
Legenda (General Series)
- ‘The eight chapters are prefaced by a stimulating introduction, and rounded off by a helpful index: in all a splendid collection of original and scholarly essays.’ — Paul Diffley, Italian Studies LVII, 2002, 167-8
- notice, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 62, 2000, 395