A. Prosperi; translated by J. Carden, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe

Rubin offers a compact review of recent turns in urban history. Yet she makes a strong argument for an engaged history that traces lines and parallels while steering clear of a diluted and delusional uniformity across time, and her casting of women as migrants in both urbs and civitas picks up brilliantly on Christine Klapisch-Zuber ’ s characterization of them as “ passing guests ” in their households. The rich apparatus of notes and bib-liography is almost as long as the book ’ s text, testifying to the scholarly weight of research undergirding it and underscoring the current realities that have drawn a host of scholars to the challenge of understanding medieval and early modern migrations.