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History of William Marshal, ed. A. J. Holden, with English translation by S. Gregory and historical notes by D. Crouch, Vol. I: Text and Translation (IL r-iooji), Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 4 (London: The Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, London, 2002). 509 pp. ISBN 0-905474-42-2. £55.00. Vol. II: Text and Translation (IL 10032-end), Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 5 (London: The Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, 2004). 500 pp. ISBN 0-905474-45-7. Vol. Ill: Introduction, Notes, Indices, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series 6 (London: The Anglo-Norman Text Society from Birkbeck College, 2006). 237 pp. ISBN 0-905474-48-1. No price given. £49.00 for non-members. This edition is a monumental achievement, presenting in a clear, accessible form one of the most intriguing and significant cultural records of the Angevin realm. The three hefty volumes of painstaking scholarship are the result of years of work on the part of two of the country's most experienced editors of medieval French texts and a historian with expert knowledge of the documentary sources for the subject of this remarkable biography. The project was coordinated by Ian Short. It is a badly needed replacement for Paul Meyer's edition (L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal (Paris, 1891-1901)), which is now over a century old, so difficult to track down and - significantly - accessible only to those with a pretty good command of the original language. A figure who now has his own website (www. williammarshall.com)...