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Martin Camargo’s edition and translation of the Tria sunt (a late fourteenth-century rhetorical treatise written in Latin) will be a staple for specialists in medieval rhetoric as well as for those early in their study. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series as a whole is excellent, and this volume is no exception. A functional edition and translation would have sufficed, since no full edition as yet existed, but what impressed me most about the volume is its balance: the textual apparatus is

In the ten years since its launch, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) has proved itself a stalwart, unhoped-for champion of quality print editions accessible to all. If anyone still thinks of the Old English texts in the series as classroom adaptations rather than leading editions, these three volumes may well change their minds. They constitute both the first complete edition and the first complete translation of the Lives of Saints in 120 years, and the editors show themselves cognizant

What is the value of the humanities in a time of crisis? The question weighs in one way or another on a lot of minds these days. But it’s by no means a new one, as the recent publication of On Morals, or Concerning Education by Theodore Metochites (Harvard University Press, 2020) amply demonstrates. Sophia Xenophontos’s translation for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library makes this work, composed just over seven hundred years ago, available to English-speaking readers for the first time at

With Martin Camargo’s excellent edition and translation of the text known as the Tria sunt, medievalists, and anyone interested in the history of language study, can now appreciate the scope of this late fourteenth-century manual of composition. It is a comprehensive and ambitious writing course, compiling teaching from the twelfth- and thirteenth-century manuals by Matthew of Vendôme, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Gervase of Melkley, John of Garland, and others, while also adding further materials. In sixteen chapters of uneven length it covers how

L’édition du traité de composition latine Tria sunt par Martin Camargo, probablement le meilleur spécialiste actuel de l’enseignement de la rhétorique latine dans l’Angleterre du bas Moyen Âge (et l’un des grands spécialistes de la rhétorique médiéval en général), représente un important pas en avant dans notre connaissance de ce domaine. Comme Martin Camargo l’explique dans la courte introduction à ce volume, Tria sunt appartient à une branche particulière des manuels d’enseignement de la rhétorique du bas Moyen Âge, branche que l’on a souvent

The Life of Saint Neilos was written shortly after the saint’s death by a monastic companion and eyewitness. The text is admired for historical accuracy about persons and events, and for the valuable picture it gives, not only of monastic practices and discipline, but of daily life and local customs in Calabria. The present edition of the work is satisfying in every way. It contains an historical introduction to Nilus [Neilos, in Greek] and his times and to the text and translations; a