Reviews 555 the implication of the epigraph adapted from Horace (Serm. 2.6.28: ". . . facienda iniuria tardis"), "Facienda iniuria multis," with which the "Bibliographischer Anhang" begins. The bibliography opens with a listing of various corpora and collections and continues with items grouped under author or topic, keyed to the pages of the volume in which they are discussed. The absence from the bibliography of some tried-and-true secondary materials may be explained and condoned by the exigencies of space, but the omission of some recent and not at all recent editions is a pity. Professor Brunholzl esteems the materials he describes and the authors who pro- duced them, unlike many ex professo medievalists who cannot forgive the earlier Middle Ages for not being Classical Antiquity or the twelfth century. One is dis- turbed somewhat by the author's description of a vast tract of time with its estimable literary productions as an Ubergangszeit, and his predictable exaltation of the Carolin- gian achievement. The author is, by and large, judicious and sympathetic in the evaluation of works and is candid about his literary-critical orientation. Speaking of Arator's versification of the Acts, he observes: "Aber was dem heutigen Leser am Arator fehlt, hat die Zeitgenossen und das Mittelalter nicht gestort. Man erwartet vom Dichter, zumal vom Autor geistlicher Dichtung, weder neue Gedanken noch eine originelle Betrachtungsweise, auch nicht, was wir Poesie nennen" (p. 47, emphasis supplied). One might quarrel with such an attitude, but it rarely detracts from the author's generous approach to the works he surveys. The volume will not satisfy the simple, basic requirements of the beginner, nor will it ease the work of the scholar who seeks a handy repository of exhaustive informa- tion. On the other hand, a real literary history of medieval Latin is a worthy contribution. Professor Brunholzl is to be congratulated on his efforts so far, and to be wished the continuing health and energy to complete his subsequent volumes. DANIEL J. SHEERIN University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MADELINE HARRISON CAVINESS, The Early Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, circa 1175-1220. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xix, 190; 4 color plates, 218 black-and-white plates, 3 text figures, 22 appendix figures. $35. PROFESSOR CAVINESS'S many articles and papers on the stained glass of Canterbury have established her as the authority and have whetted the appetite for her full study. The present monograph is the main entree but the feast will only be complete with the appearance of her volume in the Corpus Vitrearum, now in press. 1 It is generally true to state that this book treats the glazing as it was and the Corpus volume will treat it as it is. When we have both Professor Caviness will unquestionably have realized her goal of restoring Canterbury to "its place as a great monument of English medieval art" (p. 12). The present study begins with an Introduction in which Caviness (a) explains in a 1 A set of 36 color slides of the Canterbury Cathedral windows, taken by Professor Caviness, is available from Scala EPA, 342 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10017. $25 in the United States and Canada ($20 in Europe).