European History Notes

Anthony Grafton,"In a Fantastic, Lost World," NYRB, 13 May, reviews"The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy" and"The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry," exhibitions at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Full access to the review is subscriber only.

Ken Johnson,"Medieval Remnants of the Jews in Spain," NYT, 29 April, reviews"Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain," an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Biblical Art.

Geoffrey Wall,"Before They Were Famous," Literary Review, May, reviews Anthony Sattin's A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt.

Holland Cotter,"All the Picassos in the Cupboard," NYT, 29 April, reviews"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum.

Paul Hockenos,"Past Forward," Boston Review, March/April, reviews Tom Gallagher's Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong, Michael Meyer's The Year That Changed the World, and Peter Siani-Davies's The Romanian Revolution of December 1989.

Joseph Joffe,"The Worst of the West," NYT, 26 April, and John Gray,"'To Hastening Ills a Prey...'," Literary Review, May, review Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents.

Andrew Blick,"Cabinet Office quest for written constitution should worry historians," History & Policy, 23 April, sees peril in the quest to reify a British constitution.

Finally, farewell to Angus Maddison, a distinguished European economic historian.