Reading in Medieval St. Gall. By Anna Grotans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. P.p. xv + 363; 7 plates. $120.

Anna Grotans has written a remarkable and fascinating book on the teaching methods used in the eleventh-century Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland. The dominant figure of this time was Notker Labeo (a.k.a. Notker the German or Notker the III of St. Gall) who lived from ca. 950–1022 A.D. Notker was a scholar, teacher, and monk and his methods are made apparent to us through his numerous translations and commentaries that are preserved in both Latin and medieval (or Old High) German.