Reviews

"Crammed with historical scholarship and the barbarous splendour of a full critical apparatus and English summary. It crackles with the small-arms fire of academic debate...yet it is full too of concrete information about everything from the uniforms of the troops to the precise kind of dagger used by a mad Queen to stab an unofficial rival."--Times Literary Supplement"carey's book can be said to be a valuable contribution to the study of Javanese history in an important period of western expansion, and to the study of Javanese literature in connection with badad-writing."--Boekbesprekingen