KentNavalesi ,
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Loving the commentary on academic publishing at the end of this review (Speculum, April 2018).

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Aside from her wide array of primary sources, the author adduces the requisite secondary literature in English, French, German, and her native Italian. But she has been so poorly served by her translators that one wonders whether she might not have been better off writ- ing in Italian. Malapropisms abound: "< desecrating' for demeaning (138), "extrapolated* for extracted (156), "interlocutors" for intermediaries (294), "incontinence" for infidelity (298). Medieval verses are said to constitute a "limerick (138). Most often one can guess at the meaning, as in " went back on his steps? (68) or "recomposing the schism" (268). But sometimes the meaning is opaque, as "the interaction with pre-existing schemes has no con- strictive value> (333) or " the involution of the heresy" (334). Dogberry only knows what is meant by *deflagrating" (304). The publisher Brill cuts costs by eschewing copyediting avoids sending out review copies unless asked, and yet demands $194 for a monograph of average size, placing it beyond the means of individual purchasers. Jacques Fournier would have known how to deal with them. RoBERT E. LERNER, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
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