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When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O'Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomn n of Iona; and the early lives of Thomas Becket. In these three areas she explored the connections between historical texts, artistic images and biblical exegesis.

This volume brings together nine studies of the Insular Gospel Books. One of them, on the iconography St Gall Gospels (Essay 9), was left completed, but unpublished, on the author's death. It appears here for the first time. The remaining studies, published between 1987 and 2013, examine certain themes and motifs that inform the Gospel Books: their implicit Christology, their harmonisation of the four Gospel accounts, the depiction of Christ crucified, and the portrayal of St John the Evangelist. Two of the Books, the Durham Gospels and the Gospels of Mael Brigte, receive particular attention.

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CHOICE Review

Little literature is available on Soviet special education. This uneven collection of articles by seven British educational specialists, all of whom are Russian speakers, provides a view during a time of transition. Under perestroika a considerable revision seems to be in process. The introductory chapter ("Educational Experience of the Soviet Young Person") and the final chapter ("A Profile of Students in Higher Education") are very general and would be of interest to the novice student of Soviet schooling. Other chapters describe schools for the gifted in general, the gifted in sports, handicapped pupils in general, deaf-blind children, and children with learning difficulties. The frame of comparative reference is British and the extensive bibliographies include about three fourths Russian and one fourth British references. Along with consideration of a few specific programs there is presented a general philosophy of, and approach to, special education that emphasizes the environmental basis of special need and prescribes separate schooling and adjusted but not different curricula for the handicapped. Levels: graduate and upper-division undergraduate. -P. Rothman, Antioch College