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 294 SHORT NOTICES April und Altertumsvereine, 1921, contains little that is new ; many of his con- clusions the author has already published in a series of monographs dealing with this period, viz. Die staufischen Kaiser und die Auffassung ihrer allgemeinen Politik (Neue Heidelberger Jahrbiicher, xiii, 1904) ; Heinrich VI, Leipzig, 1914 ; Philipp August und der Zusammeribruch des angevinischen Reiches, read before the International Historical Congress in London, 1913. However the present article is not without its value. It attempts to explain and connect together the intricate diplomatic history of the period. During the reigns of Conrad III and Frederick I the danger which threatened the empire came from the Normans of Sicily ; and the menace which alliances with the eastern empire, with France, and with England were unable to dispel was only finally overcome by the marriage of the heir to the empire with the heiress of the Norman kingdom. The principal feature which marks the later part of the period with which Dr. Cartellieri deals was the alliance of Hohenstaufen and Capetian on the one side, of Welf and Angevin on the other. Much research has been done in recent years on various aspects of Hohenstaufen policy. The notes at the end of the article contain a useful and critical though very brief review of the results of work done by German scholars during and since the war which is still not easily accessible to English readers. A. L. P. Lady Goodenough has rendered a service to students of the middle ages and to lovers of a romantic narrative by giving them in two volumes the first English translation of The Chronicle of Muntaner (London : Hakluyt Society, 1920-1). Buchon considered his edition of 1827 so unsatisfactory that he revised it in his second edition of 1841, and nearly eighty years have elapsed since the Italian translation of Moise and the German version of Lanz. Since then the researches of Hopf and Don Antonio Rubio y Lluch have illuminated that part of the Chronicle which refers to Muntaner's experiences in Greece. Here the translator does not seem to be quite abreast with modern scholarship. For example, there is no mystery now (ii. 629, n. 1) about the ' son of the count of Aria '. Hopf l showed from the Angevin records that the person meant was Isnard de Sabran. son of Ermengaud, Count of Ariano in Apulia. The duke of Athens (ii. 568) whom Muntaner ' found ill ' at Thebes was not Guillaume but Guy II, and of the other persons mentioned in that connexion ' En Juan Teri ' or ' Tari ' was Giovanni Quirini, ' Miyot ' was Minotto, and ' Juan de Misi ' or ' de Amici ' Jean de Maisy. The famous cross of the Zaccaria (ii. 561) is now at Genoa. As the Latin kingdom of Salonika lasted only till 1223 and was never contemporary with the Greek empire at Constantinople, it should scarcely figure on the map at the end of volume ii. Muntaner's Chronicle, as the translator says in her excellent introduction, is ' a very human document ', whose author com- mands our sympathies, and English readers are fortunate in at last having a translation which reads like an original piece of good English. There are three maps, a table of contemporary rulers, and a copious index. W. M. 1 ApuA Ersch und Gruber, Allgemeine Encyklopadie, Ixxrv. 344.