Guia do Estudante de História Medieval Portuguesa by A. H. de Oliveira MarquesReview by: Harold B. Johnson, Jr.The American Historical Review, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Jan., 1966), p. 532Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1846370 .

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dramatic interview at Chiavenna in I176. Was Henry bound as duke to supply forces at the Emperor's petition? 'Were these forces to serve outside Germany? Were they to be furnished by Henry without thought of reward, or might he properly request a quid pro quo from the Emperor in the form of the restoration of Goslar and its valuable silver mines? But these omissions do not seriously im- pair the great value of the present work, which deserves the respectful attention of all students of the period.

McGill University C. C. BAYLEY

GUIA DO ESTUDANTE DE HISTORIA MEDIEVAL PORTUGUESA. By A. H. de Oliveira Marques. (LisboIn: Edi06es Cosmos. i964. PP. 285. 30.ooE.)

DEDICATED to his students at the University of Lisbon, this emninently competent guide is yet another in Marques' series of generous contribuitions to the histori- ography of medieval Portugal. It may well prove the most influential, for it at once converts a field that was labyrinthine confusion inlto a mapped, though largely unexplored, area of investigation. The way is now open into a most fascinating arnd neglected region of medieval history.

Explicitly modeled after Halphen's Initatioln atux btudes d'Histoire du Moyen Age, Marques' guide provides a critical introduction to the bibliographies, the at- lases and dictionaries, the books and articles of synthesis, and rnost of the printed sources available to the student of Portuguese medieval history. The pages devoted to social and economic history are especially valuable since much of the best work is scattered throughout often obscure journals. A second section affords the best concise suImmary of the relevant materials in the Arquivo Naciona1 da Torre do Tombo, that mysterious and tangled repository whichn has resisted all attempts at organization and classification, but whose administra tive wcaknesses have recently been made painfully clear in Natailia Nunes' maliicious romarn a clef, Assen2bleia de Mulheres. There are also short accounts of what may be found in the other ar- chives of Lisbon and in the provinces. His remarks on the organization of the Biblioteca Nacional are richly deserved and speak for his independence of mind in a land where such strictures are definitely unappreciated.

There are a few errors and omissions, owing largely to the antiquated archival indexes that Marques had to use to prepare his wvork. But, as he states in the pref- ace, corrections from his readers are welcome, for the work is in a sense a collabo- rative effort. It is and will be the necessary beginning for every researchler, novice or experienced.

Yale University HAROLD B. JOHNSON, JR.

TRA I NORMANNI NELL'ITALIA MERIDIONALE. By Ernes!o Pontieri. (2d rev. ed.; Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. I964. PP. ix, 54I. L. 6,ooo.)

THIS volume contains most of the scholarly work of the distinguished Italian medievalist Ernesto Pontieri. The articles collected here, many of which go back to the 1920's and I930's, were revised for the edition of I948 and then again for the present edition. The author brought the earlier essays up to date by compre- hensive bibliographies appended to the second and third articles and throughout

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