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558 JOURNALOFECCLESIASTICALHISTORY shows how Knightons story of the Lollard burning of an image of St Katherine reverberates tellingly with issues raised by the popular legend of the saint, while the way in which an image miracle that features in The arrivall of Edward IV enhanced the political epiphany of the kings arrival at Daventry is explored by Wendy Scase. [...]Brian Cummingss review of early sixteenth-century controversy enables us to see how competing claims for image and book were involved in the same semiological dilemma; the violent processes of iconoclasm and bibliophobia interacted as well as collided. E73. 90 04 12557 4; 0081 8607JEH (54) 2003; DOI: 10.1017/S002204690321798X Research into the life and thought of Nicholas of Cusa (140164) philosopher, theologian, canon lawyer, cardinal and reformer has experienced resurgence in the United States, thanks especially to the American Cusanus Society whose conferences have led to the publication of this book and two predecessors, the rst of their kind in English. In examining the changes Hoccleve makes to his source material, particularly the increase in dramatic exchange, Perkins suggests that Hoccleve embeds a dialogic relationship between king and subject in The regiment of princes, and he presents speech, its representation, its interpretation and sometimes its absence, as crucial to his reading of the poem.