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Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance by Alex Mueller (review)

school education. As a secretary or “chapeleyne” to the Prioress, the Second Nun needed a facility with both Latin and vernacular languages to master the essential matter of the trivium. Her translation of a Latin vita into the vernacular would have been perceived by the rhetorically aware reader or listener as inventio, a means of critiquing the Latin source text through deliberate revision. the Second Nun argues for an imitation of Mary as a means of renewing the powerful current of intellectual asceticism characteristic of the early Church, and subsequently diminished by the religious sentimentalism that the Prioress models. Donavin’s study offers scholars in the fields of religion, literature, gender studies, and history a new narrative of Marian influence. With its focus on a several genres across several centuries, Scribit Mater is necessary reading for scholars of medieval English literature. Denise L. Despres University of Puget Sound