Renaissance Quarterly Books Received April–June 2014

Acres, Alfred. Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy . Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 310 pp. €100. ISBN: 978-1-905375-71-4.

Adams, Jonathan. A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe . Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013. xiii + 250 pp. £29.95. ISBN: 978-1- 84217-297-1.

Albertson, David. Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres . Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 484 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-998973-7.

Anderson, Michael Alan. St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 346 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-05624-4.

Baert, Barbara. Nymph: Motif, Phantom, Affect: A Contribution to the Study of Aby Warburg (1866–1929) . Studies in Iconology 1. Leuven: Peeters, 2014. 134 pp. €34. ISBN: 978-90-429- 3065-0.

Balizet, Ariane M. Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage . Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 25. New York: Routledge, 2014. xii + 198 pp. $125. ISBN: 978-0-415-72065-6.

Balserak, Jon. John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 208 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-19-870325-9.

Banker, James R. Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi + 276 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-960931-4.

Barrie, David. Sextant: A Young Man’s Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans . New York: William Morrow, 2014. xx + 340 pp. $25.99. ISBN: 978-0-06- 227934-7.

Battioni, Gianluca, ed. Carteggi degli oratori sforzeschi alla corte pontificia I: Niccolò V (27 febbraio 1447–30 aprile 1452) . 2 vols. RR inedita 58. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2013. 912 pp. €140. ISBN: 88-85913-82-0.

Bayman, Anna. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. vii + 160 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6173-3.

Belsey, Catherine. Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing . The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. xii + 174 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-7175-2.

Bennett, Lawrence. The Italian Cantata in Vienna: Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism . Publications of the Early Music Institute. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xvi + 368 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-253-01018-6.

Berger, Harry, Jr. A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare’s Venice . New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. x + 230 pp. $24. ISBN: 978-0-8232-4195-8.

Bod, Rens. A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 384 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0- 19-966521-1.

Boiardo, Matteo Maria. La pedìa de Cyro (da Senofonte) . Ed. Valentina Gritti. Opere di Matteo Maria Boiardo 5. Novara: Centro studi Matteo Maria Boiardo; Interlinea, 2014. 540 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-88-8212-932-3.

Boone, Rebecca Ard. Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire . Empires in Perspective 23. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. x + 178 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-453- 5.

Borys, Ann Marie. Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture . Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xix + 214 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5580-6.

Du Bosc, Jacques. L’Honne tê Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women . Eds. Sharon Diane Nell and Aurora Wolfgang. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 31. Toronto: Iter/CRRS, 2014. xviii + 332 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2160-0.

Boyle, Margaret E. Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain . Toronto Iberic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. viii + 172 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4615-5.

Brome, Richard. A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars . Ed. Tiffany Stern. Arden Early Modern Drama. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xvi + 310 pp. $18. ISBN: 978-1-904271-77-2.

Browne, Thomas. Thomas Browne . Ed. Kevin Killeen. 21st-Century Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xlv + 996 pp. $160. ISBN: 978-0-19-964043-0.

Buck, Lawrence P. The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation Polemics . Early Modern Studies 13. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2014. xiii + 258 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-612481-06-7.

Burnell, Henry. Landgartha: A Tragie-Comedy . Ed. Deana Rankin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 164 pp. €29.95. ISBN: 978-1-84682-339-8.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La semilla y la cizaña. Ed. Davinia Rodríguez. Autos Sacramentales Completos 86; Teatro del siglo de oro 193. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2014. 266 pp. €58. ISBN: 978-3-944244-20-4.

Campagnol, Isabella. Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents . Costume Society of America Series. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2014. xv + 228 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-89672-829-5.

Camporeale, Salvatore I. Christianity, Latinity, and Culture: Two Studies on Lorenzo Valla . Eds. Patrick Baker and Christopher S. Celenza. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 172. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xv + 336 pp. $180. ISBN: 978-90-04-26196-9.

Candido, Igor. Boccaccio umanista: Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio . Memoria del Tempo 40. Ravenna: Longo editore, 2014. 162 pp. €20. ISBN: 978-88-8063-775-2.

Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, and Anne J. Cruz. The Life and Writings of Luisa De Carvajal y Mendoza . The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 29. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xiv + 370 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0- 7727-2156-3.

Chaudhuri, Pramit. The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi + 386 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-999338-3.

Clayton, Martin, and Ronald Philo. Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist . Exh. Cat. The Queen’s Gallery, London 4 May 2012–7 October 2012. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2014. 256 pp. £18.95. ISBN: 978-1-909741-03-4.

Cohen, Simona. Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art . Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 228; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 6. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xx + 356 pp. + 16 color pls. $180. ISBN: 978-90-04-26785-5.

Conti, Brooke. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ix + 226 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4575-2.

Coroleu, Alejandro. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470–ca. 1540) . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. viii + 220 pp. £44.99. ISBN: 978-1-4438-5894-6.

Crawford, Michael J. The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598 . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xi + 240 pp. $64.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06289-1.

Cressy, David. Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 238 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-969575-1.

Croce, Giovanni. First Book of Motets for Eight Voices and Organ. Ed. Richard Charteris. With the assistance of Michael Proctert. Hillsdale: Pendragon, 2014. lxxvi + 256 pp. $64. ISBN: 978- 1-57647-244-6.

Crowl, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Relationship Between Text and Film . Screen Adaptations; The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xviii + 154 pp. $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-408129-55-5.

Dandelet, Thomas James. The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ix + 306 pp. $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-74732-5.

Daussy, Hugues. Le parti Huguenot: Chronique d’une désillusion (1557–1572) . Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 527. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 882 pp. $99.12. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01721-3.

Davis, Nick. Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. viii + 236 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-1-4411-6682-1.

Dechaud, Jean-Marc. Bibliographie critique des ouvrages et traductions de Gabriel Chappuys . Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 114. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 578 pp. $99.12. ISBN: 978-2-600-01649-0.

Dixon, Leif. Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640 . St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. viii + 380 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6386-3.

Dolan, Frances E. Twelfth Night : Language and Writing . The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xv + 172 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-7174-5.

Donoghue, William. Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 186 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4801-2.

Dow, Douglas N. Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform . Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 220 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4054-3.

Dry, Sarah. The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xi + 238 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-995104-8.

Van Duzer, Chet. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps . London: British Library, 2013. 144 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-7123-5890-3.

Emiralio ğlu, Pinar. Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire . Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xx + 184 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1533-2.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Erasmi Opera Omnia vi-10: Annotationes in Novvm Testamentvm (Pars Sexta) . Ed. M. L. Van Poll-Van De Lisdonk. Leiden: Brill, 2014. liv + 664 pp. $221. ISBN: 978- 90-04-26156-3.

Van Es, Bart. Shakespeare in Company . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv + 354 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-19-956931-1.

Findlay, Alison. Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary . Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xv + 546 pp. £25.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2047-0.

Forclaz, Bertrand. Catholiques au défi de la Réforme: La coexistence confessionnelle à Utrecht au XVIIe siècle . Vie des Huguenots 67. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2014. 430 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-2-7453-2593-8.

Ford, Philip, Jan Bloemendal, and Charles Fantazzi, eds. Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World: Macropedia and Micropedia . Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies 3. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xliii + 1246 pp. $495. ISBN: 978-90-04-26572-1.

Friedrich, Reinhold, Berndt Hamm, and Wolfgang Simon, eds. Martin Bucer: Briefwechsel/Correspondance, Band 9 (September 1532–Juni 1533) . Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions 179. Leiden: Brill, 2013. cxv + 410 pp. np. ISBN: 978-90-04-26526-4.

Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron Ilika, eds. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. x + 140 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4608-7.

García López, Jorge, Eugenia Fosalba, and Gonzalo Pontón. La conquista del clasicismo 1500– 1598 . Historia de la literatura española 2. Madrid: Crítica, 2013. xvii + 804 pp. + 12 color pls. €35. ISBN: 978-84-9892-621-7.

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta, and Larry Silver. Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 298 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6233-0.

Gibson, Marion, and Jo Ann Esra. Shakespeare’s Demonology: A Dictionary . Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. ix + 238 pp. $172. ISBN: 978-0- 8264-9834-2.

Glover, Jeffrey. Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664 . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ix + 312 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122- 4596-7.

Goodrich, Jaime. Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England . Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. xi + 244 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8101-2938-2.

Grant, Stephen H. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xvi + 244 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1187-3.

Green, Jonathan. The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess: The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe . Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xi + 208 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-472-11921-9.

Grisone, Federico. The Rules of Riding: An Edited Translation of the First Renaissance Treatise on Classical Horsemanship . Ed. Elizabeth MacKenzie Tobey. Trans. Elizabeth MacKenzie Tobey and Federica Brunori Deigan. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 454. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xxii + 628 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0- 86698-505-5.

Grogan, Jane. The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549–1622 . Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 2014. x + 256 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-230- 34326-9.

Grunes, Dorothy T., and Jerome M. Grunes. What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis: A Local Habitation and a Name . London: Karnac Books, 2014. xvi + 192 pp. €23.99. ISBN: 978-1-7822013-6-6.

Guidetti, Lorenzo di Francesco. Ricordanze . Ed. Lorenz Böninger. Libri, carte, immagini 8. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014. lxxi + 208 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-88-6372-548-3.

Guidi Bruscoli, Francesco. Bartolomeo Marchionni “Homem de grossa fazend” (ca. 1450– 1530): Un mercante fiorentino a Lisbona e l’Impero portoghese . Biblioteca Storica Toscana 73. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. xxvi + 272 pp. €32. ISBN: 978-88-222-6300-1.

Hanlon, Gregory. The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 242 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-968724-4.

Harrison, Regina. Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650 . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-292- 72848-6.

Herrick, Robert. The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick . Eds. Ruth Connolly and Tom Cain. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. lxxxv + 504 pp. $135. ISBN: 978-0-19-921284-2.

Hertel, Ralf. Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play Performing National Identity . Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. ix + 272 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2049-7.

Hiller, Diana. Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490 . Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 232 pp. £109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6206-4.

Hirschfeld, Heather. The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. xii + 240 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5274-1.

Hobgood, Allison P. Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 236 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-04128-8.

Iyengar, Sujata. Shakespeare’s Medical Language: A Dictionary . Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xvi + 416 pp. £25.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2040-1.

James, Thomas. The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James: A Critical Edition . Ed. Colleen M. Franklin. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. cxxvi + 244 pp. $100CAD. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4192-4.

Johnson, Kimberly. Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 238 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4588- 2.

Johnson, Sarah E. Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England . Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 186 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1122-8.

Kainulainen, Jaska. Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State . Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions 180. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ix + 292 pp. $148. ISBN: 978-90-04-26114-3.

Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision . Fourth Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xi + 490 pp. $25. ISBN: 978-0-300-18051-0.

Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xxi + 336 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6571-7.

Knecht, Robert J. Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574–89 . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiii + 356 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-2724-2930-8.

Knight, Leah. Reading Green in Early Modern England . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. ix + 166 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4664-4.

Kuijken, Barthold. The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xii + 124 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-0- 253-01060-5.

Kurihara, Ken. Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany . Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 13. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xi + 212 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893- 444-3.

Lane-Spollen, Eugene. Under the Guise of Spring: The Message Hidden in Botticelli’s Primavera. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2014. xii + 208 pp. £25. ISBN: 978-0-85683-296-3.

Linke, Alexander. Typologie in der Frühen Neuzeit: Genese und Semantik heilsgeschichtlicher Bildprogramme von der Cappella Sistina (1480) bis San Giovanni in Laterano (1650) . Bild+Bild 3. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2014. 410 pp. €79. ISBN: 978-3-496-01474-4.

Loewenstein, David. Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 498 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0- 19-920339-0.

Maguire, Laurie E. Othello : Language and Writing . The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xviii + 208 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-5659-9.

Manley, Lawrence, and Sally-Beth MacLean. Lord Strange’s Men and Their Plays . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xi + 476 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-300-19199-8.

Marino, Salvatore. Ospedali e città nel regno di Napoli: Le annunziate: Istituzioni, archivi e fonti (secc. XIV–XIX) . Biblioteca Dell’Archivio Storico Italiano 35. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. xvi + 152 pp. €23. ISBN: 978-88-222-6306-3.

Martínez Góngora, Mar. Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería. Tiempo Emulado: Historia de América y España 28. Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, 2013. 272 pp. €29.80. ISBN: 978-84-8489-722-4.

Meiss-Even, Marjorie. Les Guise et leur paraître . Renaissance. Tours; Rennes: Presses universitaires François Rabelais de Tours ; Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013. 346 pp. + 16 color pls. €35. ISBN: 978-2-86906-308-2.

Mellyn, Elizabeth W. Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ix + 290 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4612-4.

Menini, Romain. Rabelais altérateur: “Graeciser en François”. Les mondes de Rabelais 2. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 1144 pp. €49. ISBN: 978-2-8124-1380-3.

Mentzer, Raymond A., ed. Les registres des consistoires des Églises reformées de France — XVIe-XVIIe siecles: Un inventaire . Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 526; Archives des églises réformées de France 4. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 170 pp. $71.82. ISBN: 978-2-600- 01786-2.

Minonzio, Franco, ed. L’altro Medici: Come il Medeghino s’insignor del Lario . Rinascimento: Le Imprese 4. Lecco: Polyhistor Edizioni, 2013. 124 pp. €19. ISBN: 978-88-488-1567-3.

Mitchell, J. Allan. Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxx + 250 pp. + 8 color pls. $25. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8997-2.

Modesti, Paola. Le delizie ritrovate: Poggioreale e la villa del rinascimiento nella Napoli aragonese . Biblioteca dell’”Archivum Romanicum” Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 423. Rome: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. viii + 270 pp. €34. ISBN: 978-88-222-6274-5.

Modigliani, Anna. Congiurare all’antica: Stefano Porcari, Niccolò V, Roma 1453: Con l’edizione delle fonti . RR inedita saggi 57. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2013. 242 pp. €32. ISBN: 978-88-85913-81-3.

Moulton, Ian Frederick. Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance . Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xi + 250 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-39267-1.

Nanni, Romano. Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae . Milan: Skira Editore, 2014. 320 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-88-7624-574-9.

Nelson, Jonathan K., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xviii + 234 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16194-5.

Di Nepi, Serena. Sopravvivere al ghetto: Rer una storia sociale della comunità ebraica nella Roma del Cinquecento . I libri di Viella 161. Rome: Viella, 2013. 262 pp. €27. ISBN: 978-88- 6728-161-9.

Nichols, John. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources . Eds. Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, and Jayne Elisabeth Archer. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 4064 pp. + 20 color pls. $990. ISBN: 978-0-19-920506-6.

Nicoud, Marilyn. Le prince et le médecins: Pensée et pratiques médicales à Milan (1402–1476) . Collection de l’École française de Rome 488. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2014. xi + 804 pp. €59. ISBN: 978-2-7283-0955-9.

O’Neill, Stephen. Shakespeare and Youtube: New Media Forms of the Bard . The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xii + 330 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-1-4411-2092-2.

Olszewski, Edward J. Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck: A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 269. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2014. xviii + 382 pp. + 8 color pls. $50. ISBN: 978-0-87169-269-6.

Ossola, Carlo. Autunno del Rinascimento: “Idea del Tempio” dell’arte nell’ultimo Cinquecento . Biblioteca di “Lettere Italiane” 72. Plorence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. x + 426 pp. €44. ISBN: 978- 88-222-6214-1.

Pattenden, Miles. Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter- Reformation Rome . Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. viii + 154 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-967062-8.

Perreiah, Alan R. Renaissance Truths: Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. x + 210 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4724-1152-5.

Perry, Nandra. Imitatio Christi: The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. viii + 280 pp. $32. ISBN: 978-0-268-03841-0.

Del Pesco, Daniela, and Andrew Hopkins. La città del Seicento . Storia della città 10. Rome: Editori Laterza, 2014. 192 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-88-581-1020-1.

Petkov, Kiril. The Anxieties of a Citizen Class the Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370–1480 . The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 99. Leiden: Brill, 2014. vii + 290 pp. $162. ISBN: 978-90-04-25915-7.

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. On Married Love; Eridanus . Ed. Luke Roman. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxvii + 386 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72866-0.

Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and the Unfortunate Florinda . The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 32. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xiii + 420 pp. $45.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2164-8.

Quiring, Bjo rn.̈ Shakespeare’s Curse: The Aphorias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama . Trans. Michael Winkler and Bjo rn̈ Quiring. Discourses of Law. New York: Routledge, 2014. ix + 268 pp. $135. ISBN: 978-0-415-51756-0.

Randall, Catharine. The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. ix+ 178 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-0- 268-04035-2.

Reece, Henry. The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649–1660 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi + 268 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-0-19-820063-5.

Reeves, Eileen. Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe . Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 308 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4574-5.

Robertson, Barry. Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 224 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5747-3.

Ross, Elizabeth. Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book: Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xv + 236 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06122-1.

Le Roy, Loys. De la vicissitude ou variété des choses en l’univers: La traduzione italiana di Ercole Cato . Trans. Ercole Cato. Textes de la Renaissance 182; Studiolo humaniste 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 664 pp. €49. ISBN: 978-2-8124-0869-4.

Russo, Alessandra. The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain . Trans. Susan Emanuel. Joe R. Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xiv + 358 pp. + 16 color pls. $60. ISBN: 978- 0-292-75413-3.

Rust, Jennifer R. The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England . Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. xx + 250 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8101-2931-3.

Ryrie, Alec. Being Protestant in Reformation Britain . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi + 498 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-19-956572-6.

Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly, Angélique de. Description de l’Époux: Explications sur le Cantique des cantiques. Ed. Simon Icard. With the collaboration of Bernard Koch. Collection Atopia. Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 2011. 128 pp. €17. ISBN: 978-2-84137-272-0.

Sánchez, Reuben. Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton: Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiii + 276 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137- 39779-9.

Sanders, Julie. The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1572–1642 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 262 pp. $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-01356-8.

Schraven, Minou. Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration . Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvii + 320 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6524-3.

Sgarbi, Marco. The Italian Mind: Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540–1551) . Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 12. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ix + 246 pp. $142. ISBN: 978-90- 04-264090-0.

Shakespeare, William. Pene d’amor perdute . Ed. Loretta Innocenti. “Faville” 55. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2014. 262 pp. €15.90. ISBN: 978-88-8402-903-4.

Smith, Charlotte Colding. Images of Islam, 1453–1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe . Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 16. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xv + 276 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-406-1.

Soranzo, Matteo. Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. viii + 170 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1355-0.

Soyer, Francois. Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and Its Empire: Francisco De Torrejoncillo and the Centinela Contra Judios (1674) . The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 54. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xxv + 320 pp. $135. ISBN: 978-90-04-25047-5.

Spence, Sarah, and Andrew Lemons. The Battle of Lepanto . Ed. Elizabeth R. Wright. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 61. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xxiv + 528 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72542-3.

Sponsler, Claire. The Queen’s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. vii + 308 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4595-0.

Stein, Gabriele. Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. viii + 440 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-19-968319-2.

Stow, Kenneth. Il ghetto di Roma nel Cinquecento: Storia di un’acculturazione . La corte dei papi 25. Rome: Viella, 2014. 268 pp. €25. ISBN: 978-88-8334-942-3.

Strietman, Elsa, and Peter Happé. For Pleasure and Profit: Six Dutch Rhetoricians Plays, with Facing-Page Translation . Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 430; The Early European Drama Translation Series 2. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xi + 204 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-86698-478-2.

Sweetnam, Mark S. John Donne and Religious Authority in a Reformed Church . Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 204 pp. €65. ISBN: 978-1-84682-394-7.

Targoff, Ramie. Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii + 244 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-226-78959-0.

Thomas, Vivian, and Nicki Faircloth. Shakespeare’s Plants, Gardens and Landscapes: A Dictionary . Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014. xvii + 414 pp. £99. ISBN: 978-1-4411-4370-9.

Tinguely, Frédéric. Le voyageur aux mille tours: Les ruses de l’écriture du monde à la Renaissance . L’Atelier des voyages 10. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2014. 244 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-2-7453-2645-4.

Tomasik, Timothy J., and Ken Albala, eds. and trans. The Most Excellent Book of Cookery / Livre fort excellent de Cuysine (1555) . Totnes: Prospect Books, 2014. £18. ISBN: 978-1-903018- 96-5.

Touber, Jetze. Law, Medicine, and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Hagiographical Works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556–1605 . Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 178. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiii + 340 pp. $159. ISBN: 978-90-04-26513-4.

Tyard, Pontus de. Œuvres complètes, 3: Mantice, ou Discours de la verité de Divination par Astrologie . Ed. Jean Céard. Textes de la Renaissance 191. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 232 pp. €38. ISBN: 978-2-8124-2569-1.

Valla, Lorenzo. Correspondence . Ed. Brendan Cook. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 60. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xxii + 416 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674- 72467-9.

Verstegen, Ian. Cognitive Iconology: When and How Psychology Explains Images . Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts 37. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. 194 pp. $59. ISBN: 978- 90-420-3824-0.

Watt, Isabella M., and Jeffrey R. Watt, eds. Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin: Tome VIII (25 mars 1553–1er février 1554) . Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 528. Geneva: Droz, 2014. xxxviii + 290 pp. $129.60. ISBN: 978-2-600-01778-7.

Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi . Ed. Brian Gibbons. New Mermaids. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xxix + 156 pp. $13.95. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2065-4.

Weijers, Olga. In Search of the Truth: A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times . Studies in the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 342 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-2-503-55051-0.

Wheeler, Katherine. Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture . Studies in Art Historiography. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xii + 194 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978- 1-4724-1882-1.

Williams, Gerhild Scholz. Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel: Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647–1690 . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xv + 248 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-0-472-11924-0.

Wilson, Christopher R., and Michela Calore. Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary . Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xiv + 508 pp. £25.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725- 2031-9.

Winn, James Anderson. Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi + 792 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-937219-5.

Wright, Christopher. The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World, 1355–1462 . The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 100. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xvii + 470 pp. $218. ISBN: 978-90-04-26469-4.

Wycherley, William. The Country Wife . Ed. James Ogden. New Mermaids. London: Methuen Drama, 2014. xxxii + 152 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-7989-5.

Zabarella, Jacopo. On Methods, Volume 1: Books I–II . Ed. John P. McCaskey. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 58. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xxvi + 324 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72479-2.

Zabarella, Jacopo. On Methods, Volume 2: Books III–IV; On Regressus . Ed. John P. McCaskey. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 59. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 470 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72480-8.

Zchomelidse, Nino M. Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xix + 288 pp. $84.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-05973- 0.

EDITED COLLECTIONS :

Angeleri, Mario, ed. Leone X: Aspetti di un pontificato controverso . Rinascimento: Le Imprese 3. Lecco: Polyhistor Edizioni, 2013. 118 pp. €19. ISBN: 978-88-488-1569-7.

Includes : Nicoletta Baldini, “Per l’educazione di Giovanni de’ Medici: Il giardino delle sculture di Lorenzo il Magnifico”; Noemi Rubello, “L’elezione al pontificato di Giovanni de’ Medici, domatore della Fortuna”; Franco Minonzio, “Per la stratigrafia della Storia d’Italia : Come Guicciardini lavorava sulla Vita Leonis di Paolo Giovio (Firenze, Archivio Guicciardini, XVII, 23, 259r–267r)”; and P. Filippo Lovison, “Il Libellus ad Leonem X : Spunti e riflessioni per una riforma della Chiesa.”

Di Bacco, Giuliano, and Yolanda Plumley. Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance . Vol. 2: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. x + 260 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-85989-861-4.

Includes : Ardis Butterfield, “Introduction”; R. Barton Palmer, “The Rhetoric of Allusion in Machaut’s Fonteinne amoureuse ”; Jenny Benham, “Constructing Memories of Peacemaking”; Lina Bolzoni, “The Impassioned Memory in Dante’s Divina commedia ”; Anna Maria Busse Berger, “Quotation in Medieval Polyphony”; Emma Cayley, “Citation as Transvestism in Fifteenth Century French Poetry”; Helen Deeming, “Music, Memory and Mobility: Citation and Contrafactum in Thirteenth-Century Sequence Repertories”; Sonja Drimmer, “Allusive Images: Intervisuality in Late Middle English Manuscripts?”; Naomi Howell, “Sensory Sepulchres: Citations of Christ’s Tomb in Twelfth-Century Romance”; Marguerite Keane, “Memory and Royal Identity in the Chapel of Blanche of Navarre at Saint Denis”; Tamsyn Rose-Steel, “‘An Unjust and Treacherous Word’: the Use of Citational Practices and Language in a Fauvel Motet”; Sjoerd Levelt, “Citation and Misappropriation in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie and the Latin Galfridian Tradition”; and Jennifer Saltzstein, “Refrain Citation and Vernacular Authority in the Music of Adam de la Halle.”

Benson, Robert L. Law, Rulership, and Rhetoric: Selected Essays of Robert L. Benson . Eds. Loren J. Weber, Giles Constable, and Richard H. Rouse. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. xxiii + 382 pp. $68. ISBN: 978-0-268-02234-1.

Includes : Horst Fuhrmann, “Foreword: In Memory of Robert L. Benson (1925–1996)”; Robert L. Benson, “Urbs et orbis: An Ancient Roman Topos in Medieval Political Language”; “Bishop, Metropolitan, and Primate: A Study on the Conceptions of Office and Hierarchy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”; “Self-Knowledge and Consciousness of Self: Aspects of Spirituality in the Meditations of Guigo I of the Charterhouse”; “The Strange Affair of the Abbess Margaret, or What a Medieval Historian Does”; “Miserrimi miserorum : Boncompagno on the Evils of Old Age Appendix: Boncompagno, De malo senectutis et senii ”; “The Politics of Symmetry: Sacerdotium and Regnum in the Mirror of Medieval Art (800–1200)”; “Images of David in Psalters and Bibles: Medieval Interpretations of Biblical Kingship as Mirrored in Art”; “Images of Rulership on a Romanesque Chalice from Trzemeszno”; “In Praise of the Franks: Rhetorical Influences on the Early Germanic Monarchies”; “A Critique of Fritz Kern’s Gottesgnadentum und Widerstandsrecht im Früheren Mittelalter ”; “The King as Novus David: Political Uses of the Old Testament in the Early Middle Ages”; “Imperator oeconomus Ecclesiae : Notes on a Decretistic Theory of the Imperial Office”; “The Treaty of Constance: Prelude and Epilogue”; “The Clash at Besançon (October 1157)”; “Frederick Barbarossa as ‘Lord of the World’”; “Norman Cantor and ‘The Nazi Twins’: On Inventing the Middle Ages”; “Comment on a Paper by Thomas F. Mathews, ‘How Art History Mistook Christ for the Emperor’”; “The ‘Mythic’ in Studies of Frederick II Hohenstaufen”; and “The Medievalist as Hero.”

Born, Robert, and Sabine Jagodzinski, eds. Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert . Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 14. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 356 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-3-7995-8414-2.

Includes : Karl Vocelka, “Herrscher, Adel und Osmanen: Gedanken zu einem komplexen Beziehungsgeflecht”; Domagoj Maduni č, “Capi di Morlacchi: The Integration of the Morlacchi in the Venetian Defensive System in Dalmatia and the Formation of the Morlacchi Elite (1645– 1669)”; Claus Heinrich Gattermann, “Flucht, Ausharren, Rückkehr: Der Adel der Baranya im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert”; Radu G. P ǎun, “‘Well-born of the Polis’: The Ottoman Conquest and the Reconstruction of the Greek Orthodox Elites under Ottoman Rule (15th–17th Centuries)”; Nataša Stefane č, “Negotiating with the ‘Archenemy’: The Ethics of the Croatian and Slavonian Nobility at the Christian-Ottoman Border”; Klaus Schneiderheinze, “Die Janitscharen Sobieskis: Wie türkisch war das polnische Heer?”; Uwe Tresp, “‘Pro patria pugnando contra Turcam oppetiit ’: Die Erinnerung an Graf Stefan Schlick (d. 1526 bei Mohács) als kulturelles Propagandainstrument”; Zeynep Yelçe, “The Ottoman Reception and Perception of János Szapolyai in 1529”; Marco Penzi, “From ‘Frenchman’ to Crusader: The Political and Military Itinerary of Philippe Emmanuel Duke of Mercoeur (1558–1602)”; Hajnalka Tóth, “Die Beziehung der Familie Batthyány zur osmanischen Elite im ungarisch-osmanischen Grenzgebiet vom 16.–17. Jahrhundert”; Nóra G. Etényi, “Information, Tradition, Glorifikation: Ungarische Adelskultur und Öffentlichkeit während der Türkenkriege”; Borbála Gulyás, “‘Gegen den Bluedthunden und Erbfeindt der Christenhait’: Thematisierung der Türkengefahr in Wort und Bild im Rahmen der höfischen Feste der Habsburger in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts”; Ágnes Drosztmér, “Self-fashioning in the Song Book of Ferenc Wathay: Ideas and Ideals of Authorship in Ottoman Captivity”; Pál Ács, “The Conqueror of the Turks in the Kunstkabinett : Curiosity and the Cult of the Hero in Pál Esterházy’s Poem Egy csudálatos ének (A Song of Wonder )”; Evelin Wetter and Ágnes Ziegler, “Osmanische Textilien in der Repräsentationskultur des siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Patriziats”; Václav B ůžek, “Die türkischen Motive in der materiellen Kultur des Adels in den frühneuzeitlichen böhmischen Ländern”; Sabine Jagodzinksi, “Mehr als Familienmemoria: Ein plnischer ‘Thron der Andenken’ aus dem Jahr 1783”; Herbert Karner, “Türkenköpfe als Mittel symbolischer Repräsentation”; and Ibolya Gerelyes, “The Batthyány Family’s Collection of Ottoman Artefacts.”

Bredekamp, Horst, Irene Brückle, and Paul Needham, eds. A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius. Galileo’s O 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 102 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-3- 11-035464-5.

Includes : Horst Bredekamp, Irene Brückle, Oliver Hahn, Manfred Mayer, Paul Needham, Nicholas Pickwoad, and Theresa Smith, “Introduction”; Paul Needham, “Fruitful Doubts, May– June 2012”; Paul Needham, “The Evidence of the Forged Printing”; Irene Brückle, Theresa Smith, and Manfred Mayer, “The Evidence of the Forged Paper”; Nicholas Pickwoad, “The Evidence of the Forged”; Irene Brückle and Manfred Mayer, “The Evidence of the Forged Padua”; Oliver Hahn, “Results of Non-Destructive Instrumental Analysis. XRF-, FTIR- Spectroscopy and Microscopy”; Horst Bredekamp, “Towards a Psychology of the Forger”; and Paul Needham, Irene Brückle, and Horst Bredekamp, “Final Thoughts.”

Carreras, Juan José, and Iain Fenlon, eds. Polychoralities: Music, Identity and Power in Italy, Spain and the New World . DeMusica 19. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2013. xviii + 318 pp. €56. ISBN: 978-3-937734-96-5.

Includes : Juan José Carreras and Iain Fenlon, “Introduction”; Iain Fenlon, “Polychorality: The Origins and Early Diffusion of an International Genre”; Noel O’Regan, “From Rome to Madrid: The Polychoral Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria”; Francesco Luisi, “Policoralità a Roma: Alcuni casi emblematici”; Juan José Carreras, “La policoralidad como identidad del ‘Barroco musical español’”; Alfonso de Vicente, “Los comienzos de la música policoral en el área de la Corona de Castilla: Algunas hipótesis y muchas preguntas”; Pablo L. Rodríguez, “Il ‘lleno de música’ e la ‘grandeza de Vuestra Majestad’: Potere, cerimonia e policoralità nella Cappella Reale spagnola nel XVII secolo”; Luis Robledo Estaire, “Hacer choro con los ángeles : El concepto de policoralidad en la teoría musical española de Cerone a Nassarre”; Andrea Bombi, “Villancicos policorali nella Corona aragonese”; Geoffrey Baker, “Polychorality, ethnicity and status in colonial Cuzco, Perú”; and Ricardo Miranda, “Éxtasis de luz y fe: La policoralidad en la Nueva España a través de la obra de Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla.”

Celenza, Anna Harwell, and Anthony DelDonna, eds. Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America . Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts 9. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2014. xii + 230 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-916101-80- 0.

Includes : Anna Harwell Celenza, “The Jesuits and Music”; Anthony R. DelDonna, “Jesuit Institutions in Two Urban Centers: Milan and Naples”; Anthony R. DelDonna, “Jesuit Music in Eighteenth-Century Italy: North versus South”; Emanuele Colombo, “‘The music must serve the poetry’: The Jesuit Oratorio in Eighteenth-Century Milan”; Francesco Cotticelli, “Andrea Perrucci’s Dell’arte rappresentativa and the Influence of Jesuit Theater”; Ausilia Magaudda and Danilo Costantini, “The Musical and Theatrical Activities of the Jesuits in the Kingdom of Naples: Accounts from the Gazzetta di Napoli (1675–1768)”; Paologiovanni Maione, “Sacred Itineraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Musical Activities of the Gesú Nuovo”; Francesca Seller and Antonio Caroccia, “Musical Events and Spectacles in the Collegio of Nobles”; Anthony R. DelDonna, “The Society of Jesus and Neapolitan Musical Culture in the Early Eighteenth Century”; Anna Harwell Celenza, “Creating Models of Implementation for the Cultural Mission: The Jesuits as Pedagogues, Scholars, and Missionaries of Music”; Kenneth Stilwell, “Adopting Rituals: The Jesuits and the Huron Noël, ‘Jesous Ahatonnia’”; Anna Harwell Celenza, “A Jesuit University in the New World: Music’s Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789–1930)”; and Michael A. Campelli, S.J., “Bridging the Distance: Jesuit Performance Transposed to a Contemporary Key.”

Ciabattoni, Francesco, and Pier Massimo Forni, eds. The Decameron Third Day in Perspective . Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. ix + 268 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4824-1.

Includes : Massimo Ciavolella, “The Tale of Masetto da Lamporecchio (III.1)”; Elsa Filosa, “The Tale of the King and the Groom (III.2)”; Stefano Gulizia, “The Tale of the Gentlewoman, the Gallant Man and the Friar (III.3)”; Jelena Todorović, “The Tale of Fra Puccio (III.4)”; Alessandro Vettori, “The Tale of Zima (III.5)”; Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, “The Tale of Ricciardo and Catella (III.6)”; Susanna Barsella, “The Tale of Tedaldo degli Elisei (III.7)”; Martin Eisner, “The Tale of Ferondo’s Purgatory (III. 8)”; Anthony Cassell, “The Tale of Giletta di Narbona (III.9)”; and Steven Grossvogel, “The Tale of Alibech (III.10).”

Cohen, Richard I., Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elchanan Reiner, eds. Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman . Pittsburgh: Hebrew Union College Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. xxvi + 378 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-8229- 4433-1.

Includes : Adam Shear, Richard I. Cohen, Elchanan Reiner, and Natalie B. Dohrmann, “Introduction From Venice to Philadelphia: Revisiting the Early Modern”; Joseph R. Hacker, “Continuity or Change: The Case of Two Prominent Jewish Portuguese Clans in the Ottoman Empire”; Elliott Horowitz, “Don’t Mess with Messer Leon: Halakhah and Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy”; Matt Goldish, “Jews and Habsburgs in Prague and Regensburg: On the Political and Cultural Significance of Solomon Molkho’s Relics”; Adam Teller, “Jewish Women in the Wake of the Chmielnicki Uprising: Gzeires Tah-Tat as a Gendered Experience”; Benjamin Fisher, “For God and Country: Jewish Identity and the State in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam”; Anne Oravetz Albert, “‘A Civil Death’: Sovereignty and the Jewish Republic in an Early Modern Treatment of Genesis 49:10”; Talya Fishman, “The Hebrew Bible and the Senses in Late Medieval Spain”; Moshe Idel, “Printing Kabbalah in Sixteenth-Century Italy”; Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, “Persecution and the Art of Printing Hebrew Books in Italy in the 1550s”; J. H. (Yossi) Chajes, “Kabbalah and the Diagrammatic Phase of the Scientific Revolution”; Y. Tzvi Langermann, “Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo’s Engagement with Atomism: Some Further Explorations into a Knotty Problem”; Giuseppe Mazzotta, “The Theater of Creation and Re- Creation”; Joanna Weinberg, “Weeping over Erasmus in Hebrew and Latin”; Andrew Berns, “‘Fair Measures from our Region’: The Study of Jewish Antiquities in Renaissance Italy”; Anthony Grafton, “Christian Hebraism and the Rediscovery of Hellenistic Judaism”; Jonathan Karp, “Jews, Nobility, and Usury in Luther’s Europe”; Debra Kaplan, “‘Adopt this Person So Totally Born Again’: Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews”; Adam Sutcliffe, “The Conservative Hybridity of Miguel de Barrios”; Roger Chartier, “Le Don Quichotte d’Antônio José Da Silva, les Marionnettes du Bairro Alto et les Prisons de l’Inquisition”; Michael Heyd, “The Collapse of Jacob’s Ladders?: A Suggested Perspective on the Problem of Secularization on the Eve of the Enlightenment”; Yaacob Dweck, “A Jew from the East Meets Books from the West”; Francesca Bregoli, “Printing, Fundraising, and Jewish Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Livorno”; Andrea Schatz, “An Interpretive Tradition: Connecting Europe and the ‘East’ in the Eighteenth Century”; David S. Katz, “Gibbon’s Jews: Dead but Alive in Eighteenth-Century England”; Shmuel Feiner, “The ‘Happy Time’ of Moses Mendelssohn and the Transformative Year 1782”; Sharon Flatto, “A Tale of Three Generations: Shifting Attitudes Toward Haskalah, Mendelssohn, and Acculturation”; Rebecca Kobrin, “An Underclass in Jewish History?: Jewish Maidservants in East European Jewish Society, 1700–1900”; Beth S. Wenger, “Did North American Jewry Have an Early Modern Period?”; Israel Bartal, “Language and Periodization: Mendele Moykher Sforim and the Revival of Pre-Haskalah Style”; Vivian Liska, “The End or the Beginning: Jewish Modernity and the Reception of Rahel Varnhagen”; and Yosef Kaplan, “Between Yitzhak Baer and Claudio Sánchez Albornoz: The Rift that Never Healed.”

Connors, Joseph, and Louis A. Waldman, eds. Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage . Villa I Tatti Series 31. Cambridge, MA: Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2014. vii + 440 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-674-42785-3.

Includes : Joseph Connors, “Introduction”; Dietrich Seybold, “Bernard Berenson and Jean Paul Richter: The Giambono’s Provenance”; Jeremy Howard, “Art, Commerce, and Scholarship: The Friendship between Otto Gutekunst of Colnaghi and Bernard Berenson”; Robert Colby, “Palaces Eternal and Serene: The Vision of Altamura and Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Fenway Court”; Alison Brown, “Bernard Berenson and ‘Tactile Values’ in Florence”; Bernd Roeck, “Bernard Berenson’s Florence, 1900”; Claudia Wedepohl, “Bernard Berenson and Aby Warburg: Absolute Opposites”; Mario Casari, “Bernard Berenson and Islamic Culture: ‘Thought and Temperament’”; Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Bernard Berenson and Asian Art”; William Mostyn- Owen, “Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark: A Personal View”; Kathryn Brush, “Bernard Berenson and Arthur Kingsley Porter: Pilgrimage Roads to I Tatti”; David Alan Brown, “Bernard Berenson and Paul Sachs: Teaching Connoisseurship”; Thea Burns, “‘The Cookery of Art’: Bernard Berenson and Daniel Varney Thompson Jr.”; Elisabetta Landi, “The Antiquarian Carlo Alberto Foresti of Carpi, a Correspondent of Bernard Berenson: Unknown Documents for the History of a Dispersed Collection”; Isabelle Hyman, “Bernard Berenson and Archer Huntington”; Robert and Carolyn Cumming, “Bernard Berenson and Count Umberto Morra: ‘Do Not Forget Me’”; and Joseph Connors, “Bernard Berenson and Katherine Dunham: Black American Dance.”

Crousaz, Karine, and Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, eds. Pierre Viret et la diffusion de la Réforme: pensée, action, contextes religieux . Histoire moderne. Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes, 2014. 422 pp. €37. ISBN: 9782889010547.

Includes : Olivier Millet, “La question de la prédication: la théorie homilétique de Pierre Viret et le caractère rhétorique de ses sermons conservés”; Lee Palmer Wandel, “Pierre Viret on the Eucharist”; Carlos Eire, “Pierre Viret and Nicodemism”; Karine Crousaz, “Pierre Viret et l’Islam”; Olivier Pot, “Viret aux origines des sciences religieuses: de la mythologie à l’ethnographie”; Frédéric Amsler, “Le jeune Pierre Viret et les Pères de l’Église”; Irena Backus, “Pierre Viret, historien de l’Église”; Georges Besse, “Une théologie des lettres divines: Le cas de l’ Epistre consolatoire de 1541”; Pierre Dubuis, “Pierre Viret et sa ménagerie de papier”; Michael Bruening, “Pierre Viret’s Epistolary Life and Corpus”; Jean-François Gilmont, “Pierre Viret et ses imprimeurs”; James J. Blakeley, “Neither Catholic nor Reformed: The Challenges Faced by Pierre Viret, Guillaume Farel, and the First Reformers in the Jointly Held Territories”; Geneviève Gross, “Du prédicant de la ‘Dispute de Lausanne’ au rédacteur des Actes: Pierre Viret et la construction du ministère pastoral comme figure d’autorité (1536-1548)”; Olivier Labarthe, “Faut-il prier pour les morts? Un débat de pastorale entre Viret et Caroli”; Claire Montengou Barats, “L’influence de Pierre Viret dans une proposition d’assistance publique à Lausanne, l’ordonnance des pauvres de 1550”; Christian Moser, “A Dissonant Alliance: Viret and the Zurich Reformers”; Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, “Pédagogies en combat: Pierre Viret et les jésuites à Lyon”; and Philippe Chareyre, “L’héritage de Pierre Viret en Béarn.”

Crouzet-Pavan, Élisabeth, Denis Crouzet, and Philippe Desan, eds. Cités humanistes, cités politiques (1400–1600) . Centre Roland Mousnier. Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2014. 316 pp. €28. ISBN: 978-2-84050-927-1.

Includes : Marc Boone and Anne-Laure van Bruaene, “De la politique à l’humanisme: La culture publique à Gand et à Anvers aux xve et xvie siècles”; Ilaria Taddei, “Entre humanisme et politique: La Cité du Lys dans les discours d’investiture de la Seigneurie florentine au Quattrocento”; Marie Houllemare, “L’imaginaire politique du Parlement de Paris sous Henri II, Sénat de la capitale”; Robert Descimon, “Cité humaniste, id est cité absolutiste? Paris et Guillaume Budé (26 janvier 1468–22 août 1540), prévôt des marchands en 1522”; Barbara B. Diefendorf, “Lyon se présente à son roi: Les Joyeuses Entrées de 1548, 1564 et 1595”; Daisy Delogu, “En quoi la ville est-elle un espace féminin et féministe? Les corps politiques de Christine de Pizan”; Marie Barral-Baron, “Érasme et la cité humaniste: De l’idéal platonicien à la désillusion bâloise”; Clémence Revest, “L’émergence de l’idéal humaniste de la Roma instaurata dans le contexte curial de la fin du Grand schisme”; Michael Randall, “Sur la ville trop humaine chez Rabelais”; Philippe Desan, “‘Messieurs de Bordeaux m’esleurent maire de leur ville’: Montaigne, administrateur humaniste”; Loris Petris, “Entre cité pacifiée et cité menacée: Construction et représentations de la ville chez le cardinal Jean du Bellay”; Jean Balsamo, “La cité humaniste: Topiques urbaines et tradition hodoeporique à la fin de la Renaissance”; Richard Cooper, “Ville ruinée, ville reconstituée”; Cornel Zwierlein, “Durée, stabilité et grandeur urbaine: De la cité humaniste à la métropole moderne”; Tatiana Debbagi Baranova, “Ville imaginaire et conflit politique dans Du grand et loyal devoir, fidélité et obéissance de messieurs de Paris envers le Roy”; Marie Lezowski, “Des disputes humanistes à l’oraison silencieuse ? Les contradictions de la rhétorique élitaire à l’époque de Charles Borromée”; Grégory Champeaud, “Être humaniste dans une cité traumatisée et divisée: Élie Vinet à Bordeaux pendant les guerres de Religion (1562–1587).”

Cupperi, Walter, ed. Multiples in Pre-Modern Art . Bilder Diskurs. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2014. 304 pp. €44.95. ISBN: 978-3-03734-374-6.

Includes : Walter Cupperi, “Never Identical: Multiples in Pre-Modern Art”; Miranda Marvin, “In the Roman Empire an Aura Was a Breeze”; Andreas Grüner, “Antike Reproduktionsmedien: Münzen, Siegel und Stempel zwischen Serialität und Authentizität”; Joanna Olchawa, “Die Magdeburger Aquamanilien des 12. Jahrhunderts als ‘Multiple’”; Wolfgang Brassat, “Die Tapisserie: Ein auratischer reproduzierender Bildträger”; Claudia Kryza-Gersch, “Über die Anfänge der Reproduzierbarkeit von Kleinbronzen in der italienischen Renaissance”; Walter Cupperi, “‘You Could Have Cast Two Hundred of Them’: Multiple Portrait Busts and Reliefs at the Court of Charles V of Habsburg”; Susanne Kubersky-Piredda, “‘Et sia ritratto nella forma medesima’: Das Florentiner Gnadenbild der SS. Annunziata und seine Repliken”; Stefano Pierguidi, “‘A Certain Livelier Quality of Expression’: Bernini’s Two Versions of the Bust of Scipione Borghese”; Marjorie Trusted, “The Same but Different: Baroque Ivories and Reproduction”; and Malcolm C. Baker, “Multiples, Authorship and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust’s Aura.”

Denery, Dallas G., II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages . Disputatio 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. viii + 346 pp. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-54776-3.

Includes : Nicolette Zeeman, Kantik Ghosh, and Dallas G. Denery II, “Introduction: The Varieties of Uncertainty”; Dallas G. Denery II, “Uncertainty and Deception in the Medieval and Early Modern Court”; Eileen C. Sweeney, “New Standards for Certainty: Early Receptions of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”; Dominik Perler, “Can We Trust our Senses? Fourteenth- Century Debates on Sensory Illusions”; Christophe Grellard, “How Is it Possible to Believe Falsely? John Buridan, the Vetula, and the Psychology of Error”; Rita Copeland, “Living with Uncertainty: Reactions to Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Later Middle Ages”; Lesley Smith, “Uncertainty in the Study of the Bible”; Karen Sullivan, “On Recognizing the Limits of Our Understanding: Medieval Debates about Merlin and Marvels”; Helen Swift, “The Merits of Not Knowing: The Paradox of ‘Espoir certain’ in Late Medieval French Narrative Poetry”; Nicolette Zeeman, “Philosophy in Parts: Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and Lydgate”; Mishtooni Bose, “Vernacular Opinions”; Kantik Ghosh “Logic, Scepticism, and ‘Heresy’ In Early Fifteenth- Century Europe: Oxford, Vienna, Constance”; Hester Goodenough Gelber, “Laughter and Deception: Holcot and Chaucer Remain Cheerful”; and Sarah Kay, “Medieval Bêtise: Internal Senses and Second Skins in Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amours.”

Dooley, Brendan, ed. A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance . Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 49. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xvi + 454 pp. $216. ISBN: 978-90-04-18352-0.

Includes : Wolfgang Hübner, “The Culture of Astrology from Ancient to Renaissance”; Giuseppe Bezza, “Representation of the Skies and the Astrological Chart”; Ornella Faracovi, “The Return to Ptolemy”; Graziella Federici Vescovini, “The Theological Debate”; William Eamon, “Astrology and Society”; Steven Vanden Broecke, “Astrology and Politics”; Brendan Dooley, “Astrology and Science”; Hiro Hirai, “The New Astral Medicine”; Eileen Reeves, “Astrology and Literature”; Dieter Blume, “Picturing the Stars: Astrological Imagery in the Latin West, 1100–1550”; and Claudia Brosseder, “Reading the Peruvian Skies.”

Elsig, Frédéric, and Mauro Natale, eds. Le Duché de Milan et les commanditaires français (1499–1521) . I libri di Viella Arte; Studi lombardi 3. Rome: Viella, 2013. 356 pp. €42. ISBN: 978-88-6728-051-3.

Includes : Frédéric Elsig and Mauro Natale, “Introduction”; Francesco Repishti, “La cultura architettonica milanese negli anni della dominazione francese: Continuità e innovazioni”; Grégoire Extermann, “Les décorations sculptées de la chapelle Lomellini à Gênes par Tamagnino et Pace Gaggini”; Pier Luigi Mulas, “I Francesi nel Ducato: riflessi nei libri miniati”; Laure Fagnart, “‘Le roi Louis, en admiration devant le repas du Christ à Milan’: Les Français et la Cène de Léonard de Vinci”; Edoardo Villata, “Da Bernardino de Conti a Leonardo: Piccole note sulla moda leonardesca nella Milano francese”; Maria Cristina Passoni, “La ritrattistica di Bernardino de Conti: Alcune precisazioni sulla committenza”; Edoardo Rossetti, “Uno spagnolo tra i francesi e la devozione gesuata: il cardinale Bernardino Carvajal e il monastero di San Girolamo di porta Vercellina a Milano”; Cristina Quattrini, “Il cantiere di Santa Marta a Milano fra secondo e terzo decennio del Cinquecento”; Corinna Tania Gallori, “Il Noli me tangere e il culto della Maddalena nel primo Cinquecento”; Claudia Gaggetta, “Louis II d’Amboise et les fresques de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d’Albi”; and Frédéric Elsig, “Epilogue: Quelques remarques sur la réception de Léonard en France.”

Enthoven, Victor, Henk den Heijer, and Han Jordaan, eds. Geweld in de West: Een militaire geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Atlantische wereld, 1600–1800 . Caribbean Series 33. Leiden: Brill, 2013. viii + 356 pp. $141. ISBN: 978-90-04-24626-3.

Includes : Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer, and Han Jordaan, “De Nederlandse Atlantische wereld in militaire context, 1585–1800”; Jean Jacques Vrij, “Wapenvolk in een wingewest: De slavenkolonie Suriname, 1667–1799”; Natalie Everts, “Krijgsvolk in Elmina: Asafo, garnizoen en Tapoeyerkwartier, 1700–1815”; Han Jordaan, “De vrijen en de Curaçaose defensie, 1791– 1800”; Wim Hoogbergen, “De binnenlandse oorlogen in Suriname in de achttiende eeuw”; Marjoleine Kars, “‘Wij beleeven hier groevige tyden’: Europeanen, indanen en Afrikanen in de Berbice slavenopstand, 1763–1764”; Hank den Heijer, “Het ‘groot desseyn’ en de aanval op Elmina in 1625”; Andri P. van Vilet, “‘Sijt ghekommandeert te zeijlen na de Kust van Ghenee’: Expeditionair optreden op de kust van West-Afrika, 1664–1665”; Benjamin N. Teensma, “Nederlands-Braziliaans militair inlichtingenwerk van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1629– 1654”; and Wim Klooster, “Marteling, muiterij en beeldenstorm: Militair geweld in de Nederlandse Atlantische wereld, 1624–1654.”

Esposito, Anna. Donne del Rinascimento a Roma e dintorni . RR inedita 55. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2013. 198 pp. + 8 color pls. €20. ISBN: 88-85913-79-0.

Includes : Anna Esposito, “La fama delle donne (Roma e Lazio, secc. XV–XVI)”; Elena Di Maggio, “Le donne dell’Ospedale del Salvatore di Roma: La beneficenza femminile tra ‘400 e ‘500”; Ivana Ait, “Donne in affari: Il caso di Roma (secoli XIV–XV)”; Paolo Procaccioli, “Nanna e le altre: Prodezze e sventure di una regina della Roma coda mundi ”; Anna Cavallaro, “Musica, danza e svaghi di corte in un ciclo di figure femminili nel castello Orsini di Bracciano”; Francesca Niutta, “Libri per donne, sante e madonne”; and Anna Esposito, “Donne del Rinascimento: Affeti, desideri, aspettative, stili di vita (Roma e Lazio).”

Fajt, Jir í,̌ and Markus Ho rsch,̈ eds. Niederla ndischë Kunstexporte nach Nord- und Ostmitteleuropa vom 14. bis 16. Jahrhundert: Forschungen zu ihren Anfa ngen,̈ zur Rolle ho fischer̈ Auftraggeber, der Künstler und ihrer Werkstattbetriebe . Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 15. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 352 pp. €49.95. ISBN: 9783799584159 3799584153.

Includes : Ulrich Schäfer, “Unhandlich, schwer, kompliziert und empfindlich: spätgotische Retabel aus den Niederlanden für Europa”; Ria De Boodt, “Einfach einordnen und zuschreiben? Merkmale der südniederländischen Skulpturenzentren der Spätgotik und ihre Anwendung”; Kim Woods, “Towards a Methodology of Netherlandish Altarpieces in Alabaster”; Peter Tångeberg, “Künstlerische Werbindungen Schwedens im Mittelalter: Eine Übersicht”; Kerstin Petermann, “Lübeck, Bernd Notke und die niederländische Kunst”; Jan Friedrich Richter, “Wer war eigentlich Bernt Notke? Bemerkungen zu einer ausweglosen Forschungssituation”; Peter Tångeberg, “Ausweglose Forchung? Nachsätze zur Stockholmer St.-Georgs-Gruppe vier Jahre nach Erscheinen meines Buches, nebst einigen Bemerkungen zum neuen Band des Corpus’ der mittelalterlichen Holzskulptur und Tafelmalerei in Schleswig-Holstein”; Sandra Braun, “Das Antwerpener Retabel von 1518 in der Marienkirche zu Lübeck: Beobachtungen zu einem Antwerpener Importstück im westlichen Ostseeraum”; Markus Hörsch, “Niederländer, niederländische Kunst oder niederländische Formen? Beobachtungen zum Kunst- und Stilimport im höfischen Miliue Mitteleuropas”; Ji ří Fajt, “Havelberg, Paris, Prag: Überlegungen zur Herkunft einiger Werke aus dem Umfeld des Bischofs Johann Wöpelitz im Havelberger Dom”; Markus Mock, “Brabanter Scnitzretabel im östlichen Deutschland”; Arthur Saliger, “Zum Verhältnis der altniederländischen Bildkünstlerichen Schaffen in den habsburgish regierten Ländern”; Ji ří Fajt, “Die Taufe Christi in der Kollegiatstiftskirche St. Florian in Krakau: Reflexionen nach einigen Jahren der Forschung und Diskussion”; Benno Baumbauer, “Veit Wirsbergers Pappenheim-Retabel und seine Stellung zur neiderländisch-oberrheinischen Hofkunst Kaiser Friedrichs III”; and Ulrike Berger, “Das Antwerpener Schützenfest des sog. Meisters von Frankfurt: Rhetorik und Narrativik eines Schlüsselwerks niederländischer weltlicher Ikonografie.”

Fajt, Ji ří, Markus Hörsch, and Vladislav Razím, eds. Krivoklat – Pürglitz: Jagd, Wald, Herrscherrepra sentation̈ . Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 17. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 396 pp. €69. ISBN: 978-3-7995-8417-3.

Includes : Jan Kypta and Jan Veselý, “Wie alt ist das romanische Pürglitz?”; Petr Macek, “Romanik und Gotik”; Miroslav Ková ř, “Zur Interpretation der formalen Gestaltung der Propsteikirche St. Joahnnes der Täufer auf dem Velíz”; Jan Veselý, “3D-Scans des Inneren der Pürglitzer Burgkapelle”; Petr Macek, “Die dreifache Welt der Kapelle auf Burg Pürglitz”; Ji ří Fajt and Markus Hörsch, “Die Pürglitzer Burgkapelle: Baugeschichte, Nutzung, Künstler”; Št ěpá ňka Chlumská, “Das Marienkrönungsretabel der Pürglitzer Burgkapelle: Bericht über die Untersuchungsergebnisse”; Pavel Kroupa and Jaroslava Kroupová, “Das Pürglitzer Retabel – ein Hauptwerk spätgotsicher Schreinarchitektur in Böhmen und seine kunsthistorische Stellung”; Jan Žižka, “Anmerkungen zur Baugestalt der Kirche St. Peter in Pürglitz-Amalienberg”; Kv ěta Křížová, “Die Gemäldegalerie auf Burg Pürglitz”; Ji ří Kolbek, “Die natürlichen Lebensräume des Pürglitzer Jagdforsts”; Vladislav Razím and Alena Nachtmannová, “Burg Pürglitz und ihr Jagdforst”; Martin Ježek, “Der p řemyslidische Jagdforst im 10.–13. Jahrhundert: Das Zusammenspiel von repräsentativen und wirtschaftlichen Ansprüchen”; Libor Jan, “Königsforste in der Wirtschaft der přemyslidischen Domäne”; Alena Nachtmannová, “Der nieder Adel im Pürglitzer Gebiet in vorhussitischen Zeit und seine Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten”; Jan Žižka, “Die St.- Martins0Kirche in Zbe čno”; Jan Černý, “Die Beziehungen zwischen Pürglitz und der Stadt Rakonitz im 16. Jahrhundert”; Ji ří Bláha and Tomáš Kyncl, “Die Pürglitzer Wälder als Bauholzlieferant in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit”; Tomáš Klír, “Das Hinterland des herrschaftlichen Hofes in Sadská und des Schlosses Podiebrad: Entwicklung und Ende eines Jagdforsts”; Martin Čapský, “Jagd als Privileg, höfisches Vergnügen und Pflicht: Jagdforste schlesischer Fürsten während des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters”; Martina Giese, “Kaiser Friedrich II. als Jäger”; Filip Laval, “Ansichten von Wald und Jagd im Westeuropa des Mittelalters”; and Janina Wirth, “Der Nürnberger Reichswald zwischen Nutzung und Repräsentation.”

Fischer, Michael, Norbert Haag, and Gabriele Haug-Moritz, eds. Musik in neuzeitlichen Konfessionskulturen (16. bis 19. Jahrhundert): Ra umë - Medien - Funktionen . Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 296 pp. €39.50. ISBN: 978-3-7995-0510-9.

Includes : Michael Fischer and Gabriele Haug-Moritz, “Einleitung”; Beat Kümin, “Musik in englischen Kirchgemeinden der Reformationszeit”; Stephanie Moisi, “Die Medialität des geistlichen Liedes im Zeitalter der Reformation (1517–1555) am Beispiel deutschsprachiger Psalmlieder”; Beat Föllmi, “Der Genfer Psalter als Medium. Die Rolle von Straßburg und Genf bei der Ausbildung eines musikalischen Repertoires als Ausdruck reformierter Identität”; Grabriele Haug-Moritz, “Von Instrumentenklängen und Gesängen – Anmerkungen zur akustischen Dimension der französischen Religionskriege: Pariser Prozessionen 1562/63 als Beispiel”; Matthew Laube, “‘Hymnis Germanicis Davidis, Lutheri & aliorum piorum virorum’: Hymnbooks and Confessionalisation in Heidelberg, 1546–1620”; Stephen Rose, “‘Haus Kirchen Cantorei’: Lutheran Domestic Devotional Music in the Age of Confessionalisation”; Katharina Talkner, “Die Rolle des geistlichen Liedes auf dem Weg vom Lehrmädchen zur lutherischen Klosterjungfer in den Lüneburger Klöstern der Frühen Neuzeit”; Janina Klassen, “Kunst- Geheimnis versus Religionsdissonantia. Andreas Hirschs ‘Extract’ aus Athanasius Kirchers Musurgia universalis als transkonfessionelle Wissensvermittlung”; Konstanze Grutschnig- Kieser, “Carmen, inspiriertes Singen und Gesangbuch – Lieder im Kontext der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine”; Wolfgang Fuhrmann, “Interkonfessionalität oder Überkonfessionalität in der Kirchenmusik um 1800?”; Stefanie Steiner-Grage, “Zwischen Kirche und Konzertsaal. Ludwig van Beethovens Missa/Drey Hymnen op. 86”; Konrad Klek, “Heinrich von Herzogenberg – ein Komponist des 19. Jahrhunderts als konfessioneller Grenzgänger”; Silvia Maria Erber and Sandra Hupfauf, “‘S’zibori ausser g’rissn, die Hostien umher g’schmissn’: Die Religion als bestimmendes Moment in der politischen Musik Tirols zwischen 1796 und 1809”; Linda Maria Koldau, “Nationalreligiosität und Oratorien: Bonifatius und Luther als konfessionelle Antipoden im 19. Jahrhundert”; Meinrad Walter, “Protestantisch, catholisch, ökumenisch? Bach-Deutungen zwischen Konfessionalität und Universalität am Beispiel der Passionen und der h-Moll-Messe”; and Michael Fischer, “Exklusion durch Inklusion im Ersten Weltkrieg: Das Lutherlied ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ im Dienste des ‘Burgfriedens.’”

Franklin, Arnold E., Roxani Eleni Margariti, Marina Rustow, and Uriel Simonsohn, eds. Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen . Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies 2. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xix + 420 pp. $181. ISBN: 978-90-04-25733-7.

Includes : Norman A. Stillman “How Mediterranean Was Goitein’s Mediterranean Society?”; Roxani Eleni Margariti, “Aṣḥābun ā al-tujj ār — Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza’s India Traders”; Miriam Frenkel, “Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society”; Yaron Ayalon, “Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities”; Oded Zinger, “‘What Sort of Sermon is This?’: Leadership, Resistance and Gender in a Communal Conflict”; Ivan G. Marcus, “Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry ( Ṣarfat) Disappear?”; Uriel Simonsohn, “Are Geonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources”; David J. Wasserstein, “What’s in a Name? ʿAbd All āh b. Is ḥāq ibn al-Shan āʿa al-Muslim ānī al-Isr āʾīlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba”; Jane Hathaway, “Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt”; Menahem Ben-Sasson, “Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God ( Qiddush ha-Shem ) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages”; Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, “The Mu ḥammadan Stipulations: Dhimm ī Versions of the Pact of ʿUmar”; Jessica M. Marglin, “Jews in Shar īʿa Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza”; Hassan S. Khalilieh, “Perception of Piracy in Islamic Shar īʿa”; William Chester Jordan, “Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited”; Olivia Remie Constable, “Cleanliness and Convivencia : Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain”; Jessica L. Goldberg, “Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters”; Arnold E. Franklin, “More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer”; Marina Rustow, “The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza”; Petra M. Sijpesteijn, “Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition”; Martha Himmelfarb, “‘ ʾAz milifnei vereishit’: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century”; Raymond P. Scheindlin, “A Panegyric Qa ṣīda by Judah Halevi, Its Antecedent by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife”; Sasson Somekh, “Hebrew Vestiges in Sa ʿadya’s Tafs īr”; and Natalie Zemon Davis, “Epilogue.”

Gahtan, Maia Wellington, ed. Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xix + 276 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5684-1.

Includes : Maia Wellington Gahtan, “Introduction: Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum”; Alessandro Cecchi, “Decorations and Collections in Vasari’s Houses in Arezzo and Florence”; Anna Forlani Tempesti, “Giorgio Vasari and the Libro de’ disegni : A Paper Museum or Portable Gallery”; Maia Wellington Gahtan, “Giorgio Vasari, Collector of Epitaphs”; Nadia Cannata, “Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Giovio, Portrait Collections and the Rhetorics of Images”; Rick Scorza, “Vasari, Borghini and Cristofano dell’Altissimo: The Papal Portraits in the Sala delle Carte Geografiche ”; Tommaso Casini, “Portrait Galleries, Artists’ Biographies and the Birth of Academies and Museums”; Andrea Gáldy, “Vasari, Exhibitor of Art: Medici Collections of Antiquities”; Donatella Pegazzano, “Giorgio Vasari, Rome and Early Forms of Display of the Medici Collections in Florence: Models and Afterlife”; Emilie Passignat, “The Order, the Itinerary, the Beholder: Considerations on Some Aspects of the Ragionamenti del Sig. Cavalier Giorgio Vasari ”; Henk Th. van Veen, “Virtual Guided Museum Tours: Vasari’s I Ragionamenti and Cosimo Bartoli’s Ragionamenti accademici ”; Claudia Conforti, “Giorgio Vasari, Architect: The Uffizi of the Gallery”; Luigi Zangheri, “The Accademia del Disegno and its Museology”; Ingrid R. Vermeulen, “Paper Museums and the Multimedia Practice of Art History: The Case of Stefano Mulinari’s Istoria Pratica (1778–80) in the Uffizi”; and Elizabeth Pilliod, “Vasari: The Territory Beyond.”

Goeing, Anja-Silvia, Anthony Grafton, and Paul Michel, eds. Collectors’ Knowledge: What Is Kept, What Is Discarded / Aufbewahren oder wegwerfen: Wie Sammler entscheiden . Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 227. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvii + 464 pp. $167. ISBN: 978-90-04- 26214-0.

Includes : Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton, Paul Michel, “Questions Framing the Research – Fragen an das Forschungsgebiet”; Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, “Erzählen und Sammeln: Einige phänomenologische Erwägungen”; Ulrich Marzolph, “Coining the Essentials: Arabic Encyclopaedias and Anthologies of the Pre-Modern Period”; Marc Winter, “Die Hoheit über die Erinnerung – Der Herrscher und das Erinnern in China”; Gerald Schwedler, “Lethe and ‘Delete’: Discarding the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of Fredegar”; Iolanda Ventura, “Changing Representations of Botany in Encyclopaedias from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance”; Anthony T. Grafton, “‘I wasted time, and now doth time waste me’: Chronologers as Collectors”; Livia Cárdenas, “Kollektionskataloge des Heiligen: Reliquiensammlungen im Bild”; Jürgen Leonhardt, “Humanistisches Weltwissen: Die Lectionum antiquarum libri des Caelius Rhodiginus”; Anja-Silvia Goeing, “Storing to Know: Konrad Gessner’s De Anima and the Relationship between Textbooks and Citation Collections in Sixteenth-Century Europe”; Jürgen Oelkers, “Wissensdynamik an Hand von Lehrmitteln im katechetischen Unterricht”; Paul Michel, “Getilgtes Wissen: Gotthard Heideggers Überarbeitung der ‘Acerra philologica’”; Laurence Brockliss, “Forming and Displaying a Collection in the Age of the Enlightenment: The Case of Esprit Calvet”; François de Capitani, “Fallstricke des Wissens: die Überlieferung der materiellen Kultur im Spiegel des Geschichtsbildes”; Steven Conn, “Museums by Commerce, Museums of Commerce, Museums for Commerce”; Monika T. Wicki, “Kaum ein Wort: Tabuisierung von Inhalten und Fokussierung auf die Disziplin als Strategien der Wissensverarbeitung”; Nicola Schneider, “The Losses of the Music Collection of the Hessische Landesbibliothek in Darmstadt in 1944: A Case Study on the Failure to Safeguard Historical Library Holdings”; Stephen Bann, “Response”; and Janet Grau, “Public Attic – ausgestellter speicher.”

Gorris, Rosanna, ed. Les muses secrètes: Kabbale, alchimie et littérature à la Renaissance: Hommage à François Secret . Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 115. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 184 pp. $48. ISBN: 978-2-600-01747-3.

Includes : Rosanna Gorris Camos, “Les Muses Secrètes: Pour François Secret (1911-2003)”; Jean-François Maillard, “Littérature et kabbale avant Guillaume Postel et son école”; Jean-Marc Mandosio, “Le De magia naturali de Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples: Magie, alchimie et cabale”; Jean-Pierre Brach, “Guillaume Postel et la ‘Sextessence’”; Rosanna Gorris Camos, “Le Séraphin et la Sibylle: Signes célestes de L’Encyclie des secrets de l’Eternité au Cantique de la nouvelle estoile ”; and Didier Kahn, “La question de la palingénésie, du pseudo-Paracelse à H. P. Lovecraft en passant par Joseph Du Chesne, Agrippa d’Aubigné et quelques autres.”

Grabski, Józef, ed. Artibus et historiae: An Art Anthology 67 . Papers Dedicated to Peter Humfrey 1. Kraków: IRSA, 2013. 318 pp. €90. ISBN: 0391-9064.

Includes : Keith Christiansen, “Bellini and the Meditational poesia ”; Beverly Louise Brown, “As Time Goes By: Temporal Plurality and the Antique in Andrea Mantegna’s Saint Sebastian and Giovanni Bellini’s Blood of the Redeemer ”; Anchise Tempestini, “Giovanni Bellini nella storia dell’arte del XX secolo”; William L. Barcham, “Deferential or Formulaic? Antonio Vivarini and the Sacred Image of the Man of Sorrows”; Lilian Armstrong, “A Manuscript of Francesco Petrarca’s Libro degli uomini famosi Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese in Early Quattrocento Venice”; David Alan Brown, “Art and Espionage: Michael Straight’s Giorgione”; Carolyn C. Wilson, “St. Joseph and the Process of Decoding Vincenzo Catena’s Warrior Adoring the Infant Christ and the Virgin ”; Patricia Fortini Brown, “A Death in Venice: The Forgotten Tomb of Alvise Della Torre”; Debra Pincus, “Signatures of the Lombardo Workshop”; Stefania Mason, “Le vanità di un cardinale: Alvise Pisani e il suo inventario (1570)”; Deborah Howard, “Contextualising Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love : The Cultural World of the Venetian Chancery in the Early Sixteenth Century”; Joanna Woods-Marsden, “The Sword in Titian’s Portraits of Emperor Charles V”; Tom Nichols, “The Master as Monument: Titian and His Images”; Paul Joannides, “A Portrait by Titian of Girolamo Cornaro”; Luba Freedman, “Apelles, Giovanni Bellini, and Michelangelo in Titian’s Life and Art”; Miguel Falomir, “Titian, Jacopo Bassano and the Purification of the Temple ”; and Józef Grabski, “The Contribution of Collaborators in Titian’s Late Works.”

Grabski, Józef, ed. Artibus et historiae: An Art Anthology 68 . Papers Dedicated to Peter Humfrey 2. Kraków: IRSA, 2013. 340 pp. €90. ISBN: 0391-9064.

Includes : Paul Hills, “Lorenzo Lotto’s Shrouds and Veils”; Bernard Aikema, “L’ Ecce Homo di Lorenzo Lotto”; Allison Sherman, “Murder and Martyrdom: Titian’s Gesuiti Saint Lawrence as a Family Peace Offering”; Aidan Weston-Lewis, “Titian’s Lost Annunciation Altarpiece for Murano: An Early Copy”; Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, “Un piccolo maestro dimenticato: Domenico Bottazzo”; Andrea Bayer, Michael Gallagher, and Silvia Centeno, “Jacopo Bassano’s Baptism of Christ ”; Linda Borean, “Ritratti di collezionisti a Venezia tra secondo Cinquecento e prima metà del Seicento: Alcune considerazioni”; Philip Cottrell, “Painting Poetry: Bonifacio de’ Pitati’s Triumphs of Petrarch ”; Nina Kudiš, “Unknown Paintings by Pace Pace in Dalmatia and a Proposal for Gabriele Caliari”; Mauro Lucco, “Occultato nell’ombra di Bonifacio Veronese: disvelamento di Stefano Cernotto”; Joseph Hammond, “Tintoretto and the Presentation of Christ : The Altar of the Purification in Santa Maria dei Carmini, Venice”; Joanna Kilian Michieletti, “Tastar de corde : Musical Improvisation and the Aesthetics of sprezzatura in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting”; Matthias Wivel, “A Comical Reverse: Titian’s Doodles in Context”; Marzia Faietti, “Betrayals of the Gods and Metamorphoses of Artists: Parmigianino, Caraglio and Agostino Carracci”; and Irving Lavin, “Divine Grace and the Remedy of the Imperfect. Michelangelo’s Signature on the St Peter’s Pietà .”

Herman, Peter C., ed. Approaches to teaching Milton’s Paradise Lost. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2012. xii + 232 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-60329-117-0.

Includes : Regina Schwartz, “Teaching Paradise Lost and the Bible”; Achsah Guibbory, “Paradise Lost and the Jews”; Jessica Wolfe, “Teaching Paradise Lost and the Epic Tradition”; Abraham Stoll, “Clues to the Classical Tradition”; Thomas Fulton, “Paradise Lost and Milton’s Revolutionary Prose and Poetry”; David Loewenstein, “Radical Politics in Paradise Lost ?”; Michael Bryson, “The Problem of God”; Gregory M. Colón Semenza, “The Problem of Satan; or, How to Teach Satan on His Own Terms”; Julia M. Walker, “Teaching Eve: The Grammar of Eden”; Richard Rambuss, “Milton’s Adam”; John T. Shawcross, “Paradise Lost and Milton’s Biography”; Elizabeth Sauer, “Narrators”; Catherine Gimelli Martin, “Approaches to Teaching Paradise Lost Allegorically”; John Leonard, “Fit Quantity of Syllables”; Feisal G. Mohamed, “The Analogical Approach to Paradise Lost and Milton’s Prose: Uses and Abuses”; Anthony Welch, “Editing Milton with Richard Bentley”; Wendy Furman-Adams, “Visualizing Paradise Lost : Artists Teaching Milton”; Sean Keilen, “Imitating Milton in the Classroom”; Lauren Shohet, “Teaching Paradise Lost through Adaptation; or, Books Promiscuously Read”; Peter C. Herman, “Teaching Paradise Lost through the New Milton Criticism”; William Kolbrener, “Dieting in Paradise: Angelic Eating, Metaphysics, and Poetry in Paradise Lost ”; Jeffrey Theis, “Ecocritical Milton”; Boyd Berry, “Paradise Lost in the British Literature Survey Course”; Randall Ingram, “Teaching Paradise Lost in a Western Civilization Course”; Thomas H. Luxon, “The John Milton Reading Room : Teaching Paradise Lost with an Online Edition”; Hugh Richmond, “Performance and Paradise Lost Paradise Lost as an Oral Epic”; and Angelica Duran, “Premeditated Verse: Marathon Readings of Milton’s Epic.”

d’Hoine, Pieter, and Gerd van Riel, eds. Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought: Studies in Honour of Carlos Steel . Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 49, Series 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. xiv + 786 pp. €140. ISBN: 978-90-5867-970-3.

Includes : Gerd Van Riel and Pieter d’Hoine, “Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility: An Introduction”; Lambros Couloubaritsis, “Émergence de la thématique de la providence divine de Diogène d’Apollonie à Platon”; Pierre Destrée, “Comment être responsable de son destin ? Platon et le mythe d’Er”; Sylvain Delcomminette, “Liberté et caractère dans le mythe d’Er”; John Dudley, “The Fate of Providence and Plato’s World Soul in Aristotle”; Jörn Müller, “Was Aristotle an Ethical Determinist? Reflections on His Theory of Action and Voluntariness”; Frans A.J. de Haas, “Presuppositions of Moral Action in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias”; Keimpe Algra, “Plutarch and the Stoic Theory of Providence”; Jan Opsomer, “The Middle Platonic Doctrine of Conditional Fate”; Luc Brisson, “The Question of Evil in the World in Plotinus”; Riccardo Chiaradonna, “Plotinus’ Metaphorical Reading of the Timaeus: Soul, Mathematics, Providence”; Alessandro Linguiti, “Choice, Self-Determination and Assimilation to God in Plotinus”; John Dillon, “Signs and Tokens: Do the Gods of Neoplatonism Really Care?”; Robbert M. van den Berg, “A Problem Concerning Providence: Proclus and Plutarch on Inherited Guilt and Postponed Punishment”; Christoph Helmig and Antonio L.C. Vargas,”Ascent of the Soul and Grades of Freedom: Neoplatonic Theurgy between Ritual and Philosophy”; Danielle A. Layne, “A Fatal or Providential Affair? Socrates and Alcibiades in Proclus’ Commentary on the Alcibiades I ”; Alain Lernould, “Le cycle triadique de la causalité démiurgique: Bonté, Vouloir, Providence: L’interprétation proclienne de Timée 29e1-30c2”; Geert Roskam, “Hermias of Alexandria on Socrates’ Divine Sign”; Gary Gabor, “When Should a Philosopher Consult Divination? Epictetus and Simplicius on Fate and What Is Up to Us”; Claudio Moreschini, “Goodness, Evil and the Free Will of Man in Gregory of Nyssa”; Caroline Macé, “Édition d’un fragment Contre les astronomes, contenant une contribution à la théorie des quatre humeurs et des tempéraments”; Michele Trizio, “A Late Antique Debate on Matter-Evil Revisited in 11th-Century Byzantium: John Italos and His Quaestio 92”; Peter Van Deun and Erika Gielen, “The Metochion, Holy Sepulchre 363 Manuscript and an Unpublished Byzantine Opuscule on Predetermination”; Daniel De Smet, “La Providence selon le ‘Livre de la réprimande adressée de l’âme’ attribué à Hermès Trismégiste. Un document néoplatonicien arabe oublié”; Jules Janssens, “What about Providence in the Best of All Possible Worlds? Avicenna and Leibniz”; Richard Taylor, “Providence in Averroes”; Tianyue Wu, “Are First Movements Venial Sins? Augustinian Doctrine and Aquinas’s Reinterpretation”; Valérie Cordonier, “La doctrine aristotélicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d’Aquin”; Andreas Speer, “Divine Government and Human Freedom”; Rudi te Velde, “Thomas Aquinas on Providence, Contingency and the Usefulness of Prayer”; Pasquale Porro, “Divine Predestination, Human Merit and Moral Responsibility. The Reception of Augustine’s Doctrine of Irresistible Grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus”; Marialucrezia Leone, “Henry of Ghent and the Ethics of Intention”; Gordon Wilson, “Henry of Ghent on Fatalism and Naturalism 591”; Jean-Michel Counet, “Voir la Providence: Autour du De Visione Dei de Nicolas de Cues”; Kent Emery, Jr, “Fate, Providence and Predestination in the Sapiential Project of Denys the Carthusian”; Demmy Verbeke, “Human Nature and Moral Responsibility in the Work of Juan Luis Vives”; Guy Guldentops, “L’anti-fatalisme de Julius Sirenius”; and Filips Defoort, “Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) on Predestination, Providence and Free Will.”

Hourihane, Colum, ed. Manuscripta Illuminata: Approaches to Understanding Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The Index of Christian Art: Occasional Papers 16. Index of Chirstian Art; Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xiv + 288 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-9837537-3-5.

Includes : Henry Mayr-Harting, “Public Liturgy and Private Prayer in Ottonian Liturgical Manuscripts c. 1000”; Stella Panayotova, “The Rohan Masters: Collaboration and Experimentation in the House of Isabella Stuart”; Elizabeth J. Moodey, “Variations on Grisaille in a Newly Acquired Prayerbook (Princeton Ms 223)”; Marc Michael Epstein, “Thought Crime: Implied Ensuing Action in Medieval Manuscripts Made for Jewish Patrons and Audiences”; Anne Rudloff Stanton, “Design, Devotion, and Durability in Gothic Prayerbooks”; Don C. Skemer, “Words Not Written in Stone: John Shirwood’s Verse Epitaph for a Canon of Exeter Cathedral, c. 1462”; Patricia Stirnemann, “Inquiries Prompted by the Kane Suetonius (Kane Ms 44)”; Lucy Freeman Sandler, “Questions for Homeless Manuscripts: The Case of Princeton Garrett MS 35”; Walter Cahn, “A Late Medieval Compendium of Ancient Wisdom: Guillaume de Tignonville’s ‘Dits moraux de philosophes’”; Richard and Mary Rouse, “Will Power: Manuscripts in Medieval Testaments”; Virginia Reinburg, “An Archive of Prayer: The Book of Hours in Manuscript and Print”; Adelaide Bennett, “The Chambly Hours: A Diminutive French Book of Hours of the Fourteenth Century (Ms 2010–115) in the Princeton University Art Museum”; and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, “A New Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook ‘Canticum Canticorum.’”

Jonckheere, Koenraad, ed. Michiel Coxcie (1499–1592) and the Giants of His Age . Exh. Cat. Museum Leuven, 31 Oct. 2013–23 Feb. 2014. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013. 208 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-1-909400-14-6.

Includes : Peter Carpreau, “‘Vanished like smoke along with fleeting time’: Michiel Coxcie’s Lost Reputation”; Koenraad Jonckheere and Ruben Suykerbuyk, “The Life and Times of Michiel Coxcie, 1499–1592”; Eckhard Leuschner, “The Young Talent in Italy”; Koenraad Jonckheere, “Michiel Coxcie and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Low Countries”; Almudena Pérez de Tudela, “Michel Coxcie, Court Painter”; Koenraad Jonckheere, “Fist Painter of the Counter-Reformation”; Melina Reintjens, “The Habsburg Windows in Brussels Cathedral”; and Joris Van Grieken, “Publish or Perish: Michiel Coxcie in Print.”

Kallendorf, Hilaire, ed. A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater . The Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series 2. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xv + 388 pp. $188. ISBN: 978-90-04-23456-7.

Includes : Enrique Fernandez Rivera “Celestina as Closet Drama”; Robert Bayliss, “Courtly Love and the Comedia”; Frederick A. de Armas, “The Comedia and the Classics”; J. Enrique Duarte “Spanish Sacramental Plays: A Study of Their Evolution”; A. Robert Lauer, “Honor/Honra Revisited”; Matthew D. Stroud, “The Wife-Murder Plays”; Maria M. Carrion, “’Til Play Do Us Part: Marriage, Law, and the Comedia”; Adrienne L. Martin, “Onstage/Backstage: Animals in the Golden Age Comedia”; Ted L. L. Bergman, “Entremeses and Other Forms of Teatro Breve”; Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas, “On Speed and Restlessness: Calderon’s Urban Kaleidoscope”; Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, “The New World in Lope de Vega’s Columbus and St. Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon”; Manuel Delgado Morales, “The Quest for Spiritual Transcendence in the Theater of Gil Vicente”; Christina H. Lee, “Lope de Vega and The Martyrs of Japan”; Edward H. Friedman, “Picaresque Sensibility and the Comedia”; Ignacio Arellano, “Emblems at the Golden Age Theater”; Cory A. Reed, “Science, Instrumentality, and Chaotics in Early Modern Spanish Drama”; Teresa Scott Soufas, “Melancholy, the Comedia, and Early Modern Psychology”; and Henry W. Sullivan, “Jacques Lacan and Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain.”

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, and Susanna Niiranen, eds. Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe . Later Medeival Europe 12. Leiden: Brill, 2014. x + 286 pp. $149. ISBN: 978-90-04- 26414-4.

Includes : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen, “Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe”; Timo Joutsivuo, “How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine”; Catherine Rider, “Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine”; Marko Lamberg, “Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla”; Gerhard Jaritz, “Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence”; Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, “Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes”; Jussi Hanska, “‘Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius’: Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being”; Susanna Niiranen, “Mental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material”; Iona McCleery, “Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438)”; Sophie Oosterwijk, “‘This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage’: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre”; and Kirsi Kanerva, “Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland.”

Kim, David Young, ed. Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period . Berlin: Edition Imorde, 2013. 152 pp. €69. ISBN: 978-3-942810-23-4.

Includes : David Young Kim, “Why Weight? The Heaviness of Art and Narrative Focus”; Matteo Valleriani, “Weight and Resistance”; Fabian Jonietz, “Bartolomeo Ammannatis Lob des Lasttiers”; Anne Dunlop, “Carrying the Weight of Empire”; Mateusz Kapustka, “Pictorial Gravities: Objecthood, Authority, and Artistic Invention in Albrecht Dürer’s Veronicas”; Roland Krischel, “Bilder von Gewicht: Tintoretto und die Gesetze der Schwerkraft”; and Estelle Lingo, “Francesco Mochi’s Balancing Act and the Prehistory of Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain .”

Kirby, Torrance, and P. G. Stanwood, eds. Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640 . Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 171. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xx + 500 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-24227-2.

Includes : John Schofield, “Reconstructing St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1520–1640”; Natalie Mears, “Paul’s Cross and Nationwide Special Worship, 1533–1642”; John N. Wall, “Virtual Paul’s Cross: The Experience of Public Preaching after the Reformation”; Cecilia Hatt, “‘The Tree and the Weed’: Bishop John Fisher’s Sermons at Paul’s Cross”; Richard Rex, “Paul’s Cross and the Crisis of the 1530s”; Ralph S. Werrell, “Reformation Conflict between Stephen Gardiner and Robert Barnes, Lent 1540”; John N. King, “Paul’s Cross and the Implementation of Protestant Reforms under Edward VI”; Torrance Kirby, “Public Conversions: Richard Smyth’s ‘Retractation’ at Paul’s Cross in 1547”; Jason Zuidema, “‘Lords and Labourers’: Hugh Latimer’s Homiletical Hermeneutics”; Mark Rankin, “The Style and Logic of James Brooks’s 1553 ‘Reconciliation Sermon’”; Angela Ranson, “The Challenge of Catholicity: John Jewel at Paul’s Cross”; Thomas Dabbs, “Paul’s Cross and the Dramatic Echoes of Early Elizabeth Print”; David Neelands, “Richard Hooker’s Paul’s Cross Sermon”; Gerard Kilroy, “Edmund Campion in the Shadow of Paul’s Cross: The Culture of Disputation”; Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, “Thomas Bilson and Anti-Catholicism at Paul’s Cross”; Steven W. May, “Queen Elizabeth’s Performance at Paul’s Cross in 1588”; P. G. Stanwood, “John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: ‘Right Cause and Faithful Obedience’”; W. Bradford Littlejohn, “Bancroft versus Penry: Conscience and Authority in Elizabethan Polemics”; Anne James, “Preaching the Good News: William Barlow Narrates the Fall of Essex and the Gunpowder Plot”; Roze Hentschell, “‘Paul’s Work’: Repair and Renovations of St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1561–1625”; Jeanne Shami, “The Love-Sick Spouse : John Stoughton’s 1624 Paul’s Cross Sermon in Content”; Kathleen O’Leary, “Sermon, Salvation, Space: John Donne’s Performative Mode and the Politics of Accommodation”; Mary Morrissey, “The Paul’s Cross Jeremiad and Other Sermons of Exhortation”; and Susan Wabuda, “Lost at Paul’s Cross: Unrecorded Sermons.”

Knaap, Anna C., and Michael C. J. Putnam, eds. Art, Music and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens: The Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi. Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013. viii + 352 pp. €125. ISBN: 978-1-905375-83-7.

Includes : Anna C. Knaap, “Introduction”; Jonathan Israel, “Rubens, Antwerp, and the Fight for Domination of the World Trade System (1572–1650)”; Peter N. Miller, “Peiresc, Rubens, and Visual Culture, c. 1620”; Bart Ramakers, “Ferdinand’s Triumph and the Vernacular Dramatic Tradition”; Louis P. Grijp, “Music Performed in the Triumphal Entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp (1635)”; Frank Fehrenbach, “The Unmoved Mover”; Caroline van Eck, “Animation and Petrifaction in Rubens’s Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi ”; Michael C. J. Putnam, “Virgil and the Pompa ”; Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, “Coins and Classical Imagery in the Time of Rubens: The Stage of Welcome in the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi ”; Anne T. Woollett, “The Burden of Invention: Rubens and TheStage of Welcome ”; and Ivan Gaskell, “Being True to Rubens.”

Ko nig,̈ Jason, and Greg Woolf, eds. Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv + 602 pp. $140. ISBN: 978-1-107-03823-3.

Includes : Jason König and Greg Woolf, “Introduction”; Jason König and Greg Woolf, “Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire”; Myrto Hatzimichali, “Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library”; Mary Beagon, “Labores pro bono publico : The Burdensome Mission of Pliny’s Natural History ”; Teresa Morgan, “Encyclopaedias of Virtue? Collections of Sayings and Stories about Wise Men in Greek”; Katerina Oikonomopoulou, “Plutarch’s Corpus of quaestiones in the Tradition of Imperial Greek Encyclopaedism”; Daniel Harris-McCoy, “Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica as Fragmentary Encyclopaedia”; Jill Harries, “Encyclopaedias and Autocracy: Justinian’s Encyclopaedia of Roman Law”; Marco Formisano, “Late Latin Encyclopaedism: Towards a New Paradigm of Practical Knowledge”; Paul Magdalino, “Byzantine Encyclopaedism of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries”; András Németh, “The Imperial Systematisation of the Past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and His Historical Excerpts ”; Erika Gielen, “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam : Joseph Rhakendytès’ Synopsis of Byzantine Learning”; Elizabeth Keen, “Shifting Horizons: The Medieval Compilation of Knowledge as Mirror of a Changing World”; Andrew Merrills, “Isidore’s Etymologies : On Words and Things”; Ian Johnson, “Loose Giblets: Encyclopaedic Sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in Later Medieval English Literary Culture and the Sad Case of Reginald Pecock”; Elias Muhanna, “Why Was the Fourteenth Century a Century of Arabic Encyclopaedism?”; Maaike van Berkel, “Opening up a World of Knowledge: Mamluk Encyclopaedias and Their Readers”; Ann Blair, “Revisiting Renaissance Encyclopaedism”; D. C. Andersson, “Philosophy and the Renaissance Encyclopaedia: Some Observations”; Paul Dover, “Reading ‘Pliny’s Ape’ in the Renaissance: The Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the First Century of Print”; Neil Rhodes, “Shakespeare’s Encyclopaedias”; Claire Preston, “Big Dig: Dugdale’s Drainage and the Dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning”; William West, “Irony and Encyclopedic Writing before (and after) the Enlightenment”; and Harriet Zurndorfer, “The Passion to Collect, Select, and Protect: Fifteen-Hundred Years of the Chinese Encyclopaedia.”

Lemonde, Anne, and Ilaria Taddei, eds. Circulation des idées et des pratiques politiques France et Italie (XIIIe–XVIe siècle) . Collection de l’École française de Rome 478. Rome: École française de Rome, 2013. ix + 406 pp. €40. ISBN: 978-2-7283-0963-4.

Includes : Anne Lemonde and Ilaria Taddei, “Introduction”; Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, “‘La cité qui plus sagement se gouverne’: Variations sur le paradigme vénitien”; Patrick Gilli, “Cité et citoyens dans la pensée politique italienne et française (fin XIIIe-fin XIVe siècle): Unité et diversité des lectures d’Aristote”; Guido Castelnuovo, “Bartole de Sassoferrato et le Songe du Vergier : Les noblesses de la cité à l’aune du Royaume”; Ariane Boltanski, “Machiavélien ou anti-machiavélien? Conseiller le Prince à la cour des derniers Valois”; Jean Balsamo, “L’expérience italienne ‘à l’essai’: Montaigne, Machiavel, Guichardin’; Giuliano Milani, “Sulle relazioni politiche e ideologiche tra Carlo I d’Angiò e i comuni italiani: Una nota”; Anne Lemonde, “Le Dauphiné, trait d’union entre deux mondes? Grenoble-Paris-Naples, 1226–1349”; Marion Chaigne-Legouy, “‘Pays de par-deçà, pays de par-delà’: Les relations entre Angevins et Napolitains sous le regard de Jean le Fèvre, chancelier de la seconde Maison d’Anjou (1380– 1388)”; Pierre Savy, “Pouvoir seigneurial et modèle monarchique français (Milan, XIVe–XVe siècles)”; Letizia Arcangeli, “‘Parlamento’ e “libertà” nello Stato di Milano al tempo di Luigi XII (1499–1512)”; Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa, “La Trinité trifrons en France dans le sillage de Savonarole”; Benoît Grevin, “Les notaires médiévaux croyaient-ils à leurs préambules? Note sur la circulation des motifs idéologiques entre la Curie pontificale, la cour de Sicile et l’Europe du nord (France/Angleterre/Mitteleuropa) au XIIIe–XIVe siècle”; Enrica Salvatori, “Libertà, impero, diritto e pace: Ideologia e pratica di potere a Marsiglia nel XIII secolo”; Laurence Ciavaldini Rivière, “Modèle monarchique et rayonnement politique dans l’Europe du XIVe siècle: La Maison d’Anjou et l’Apocalypse”; Rosa Maria Dessì, “Entre Sienne, Naples et Avignon au XIVe siècle: Formes de la communication visuelle et circulation des peintres- magistrats”; Lorenzo Tanzini, “Luigi Marsili : Firenze e il mondo politico francese all’alba del Grande Scisma”; Ilaria Taddei, “‘Fedeli servidori et divotissimi figliuoli fiorentini dei Reali di Francia’: Parenté et libertas dans le langage diplomatique (fin XIVe–début XVe siècle)”; and Riccardo Fubini, “Conclusioni.”

Marshall, Melanie L., Linda L. Carroll, and Katherine A. McIver, eds. Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy: Playing with Boundaries . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 242 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6468-6.

Includes : Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll, and Katherine A. McIver, “Introduction: Playing with Boundaries”; Katherine A. McIver, “Visual Pleasures, Sensual Sounds: Music, Morality, and Sexuality in Paintings by Titian”; Catherine Baxter, “‘Galeotto fu la metafora’: Language and Sex in Boccaccio’s Decameron ”; Paul Schleuse, “‘Balla la mona e salta il babuino’: Performing Obscenity in a Musical Dialogue”; Catherine Lawless, “Sexuality and Depictions of the Female Saint in Medieval Tuscany”; Anthony M. Cummings, “Leonine Lasciviousness and Luther”; Flavio Rurale, “The Roman Church and Sexuality: Some Notes on Prelates and Regular Clergy in Sixteenth–Seventeenth-Century Italian Courts”; Christophe Brouard, “Tradition and Gender Transgression: The Iconography of the Shepherd Couple in Venetian Pastoral Landscape during the Sixteenth Century”; Linda L. Carroll, “‘(El) ge sa bon laorare’: Female Wealth, Male Competition, Musical Festivities, and the Venetian Patriciate in Ruzante’s Pavan ”; and Melanie L. Marshall, “‘Farò quel che mi piacerà’: Fictional Women in Villotta Voice Resistance.”

McKitterick, Rosamond, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson, and Joanna Story, eds. Old Saint Peter’s, Rome . British School at Rome Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxx + 484 pp. + 4 color pls. $160. ISBN: 978-1-107-04164-6.

Includes : Paolo Liverani, “St Peter’s and the City of Rome between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”; Richard Gem, “From Constantine to Constans: The Chronology of the Construction of St Peter’s Basilica”; Lex Bosman, “Spolia in the Fourth-Century Basilica”; Olof Brandt, “The Early Christian Baptistery of St Peter’s”; Rosamond McKitterick, “The Representation of Old St Peter’s Basilica in the Liber Pontificalis ”; Meaghan McEvoy, “The Mausoleum of Honorius: Late Roman Imperial Christianity and the City of Rome in the Fifth Century”; Alan Thacker Popes, “Emperors and Clergy at Old St Peter’s from the Fourth to the Eighth Century”; Peter Jeffery, “The Roman Liturgical Year and the Early Liturgy of St Peter’s”; Éamonn Ó Carragáin, “Interactions between Liturgy and Politics in Old St Peter’s, 670–741: John the Archcantor, Sergius I and Gregory III”; Antonella Ballardini and Paola Pogliani, “A Reconstruction of the Oratory of John VII (705–707)”; Charles McClendon, “Old St Peter’s and the Iconoclastic Controversy”; Ann van Dijk, “The Veronica, the Vultus Christi , and the Veneration of Icons in Medieval Rome”; Joanna Story, “The Carolingians and the Oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd”; John Osborne, “Plus Caesare Petrus : the Vatican Obelisk and the Approach to St Peter’s”; Carmela Vircillo Franklin, “The Legendary of St Peter’s Basilica: Hagiographic Traditions and Innovations in the Late Eleventh Century”; Katharina Christa Schüppel, “The Stucco Crucifix of Saint Peter’s Reconsidered: Textual Sources and Visual Evidence for the Renaissance Copy of a Medieval Silver Crucifix”; Carol M. Richardson, “St Peter’s in the Fifteenth Century: Paul II, the Archpriests and the Case for Continuity”; Robert Glass, “Filarete’s Renovation of the Porta Argentea at Old St Peter’s”; Catherine Fletcher, “The Altar of Saint Maurice and the Invention of Tradition in Saint Peter’s”; Bram Kempers, “Epilogue: A Hybrid History: The Antique Basilica with a Modern Dome”; and Carol M. Richardson and Joanna Story, “Appendix: Letter of the Canons of St Peter’s to Paul V Concerning the Demolition of the Old Basilica, 1605.”

Melion, Walter S., James Clifton, and Michel Weemans, eds. Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400–1700 . Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 33-2014. Leiden: Brill, 2014. lv + 1008 pp. + 24 color pls. $329. ISBN: 978-90-04- 26200-3.

Includes : Walter S. Melion, “Introduction: Visual Exegesis”; Jamie L. Smith, “Jan van Eyck’s Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna ”; Giovanni Careri, “Typology at Its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel”; Wim François, “Typology—Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman’s 1534 Dutch Bible”; Colette Nativel, “L’Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens: Rhétorique et Exégèse Visuelle”; Caroline Van Eck, “A New Interpretation of Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith : Vividness and Figural Interpretation”; Bret L. Rothstein, “Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit”; Walter S. Melion, “Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523”; Michel Weemans, “The Preaching of John the Baptist : Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology”; Todd M. Richardson, “Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen”; Tatiana Senkevitch, “Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce”; Ingrid Falque, “‘See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him’: On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting”; Elliott D. Wise, “Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the “Twice- Dyed” Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion ’; Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti, “Helenus and Dorotheos: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers”; Joseph F. Chorpenning, “Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts”; Maria Deiters, “Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image—Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing”; Merel Groentjes, “Clades Judaeae Gentis : Patterns of Destruction”; James Clifton, “Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century”; Ralph Dekoninck and Agnès Guiderdoni, “Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature”; Shelley Perlove, “‘The Glory of the Last House’ (Haggai 2: 9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai”; Birgit Ulrike Münch, “Saints amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg’s Pre-Reformatory Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer’s Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ”; Wolfgang Neuber, “Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandisement”; Dagmar Eichberger, “Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders”; Arthur J. Difuria, “Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven from the Temple : Translatio and the Interrogative Print”; Jürgen Müller, “Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion”; Larry Silver, “Bruegel’s Biblical Kings”; Nathalie de Brézé, “From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius’ Paintings and Emblems”; Agnès Guiderdoni, “Exegetical Immersion: The Festivities on the Occasion of Francis de Sales’s Canonization (1665–1667)”; Trudelien van ‘t Hofm, “Old Emblems, New Meaning: A Critical Visual Account of the Reformation in De Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica ”; Alexander Linke, “Vasari and The Transfiguration of Christ : Converging the Testaments and Competing with Predecessors”; and Barbara Haeger, “Rubens’s Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death : Unveiling the Glory of God.”

Michon, Cédric, and Loris Petris, eds. Le cardinal Jean du Bellay: Diplomatie et culture dans l’Europe de la Renaissance . Renaissance. Tours: Presses universitaires François Rabelais de Tours; Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013. 390 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-2-86906-305-1.

Includes : Laurent Bourquin, “Les Du Bellay avant Du Bellay”; Thomas Nicklas, “Le cardinal Jean Du Bellay, les princes et les cours du Saint Empire”; David Potter, “Jean Du Bellay et l’Angleterre, 1527–1550”; Cédric Michon, “Le cardinal Jean Du Bellay et ses bénéfices en France sous François Ier”; Alain Tallon, “Jean Du Bellay et la réforme de l’Eglise”; Rémy Scheurer, “L’accession de Jean Du Bellay au décanat du Sacré Collège”; Marie Barral-Baron, “Jean Du Bellay, lecteur d’Erasme”; Perrine Galand, “Jean Du Bellay, cardinal-poète, entre tendresse et oracle dans les Poemata de 1546”; Richard Cooper, “Poésies inédites de Jean Du Bellay”; David Amherdt, “La Silva Langaeana de Jean Du Bellay”; Nathalie Guillod, “Jean Du Bellay: La tentation de l’Histoire”; Loris Petris, “La familia de Jean Du Bellay à Rome”; Flaminia Bardati, “Jean Du Bellay, bâtisseur passionné, de la France à Rome”; Renata Samperi, “Les Horti Bellaiani dans le contexte des villas romaines: Les rapports avec la ville, le paysage et l’Antiquité”; Barbara Furlotti, “Le cardinal Jean Du Bellay et le marché des antiquités à Rome au milieu du XVIe siècle”; Carmelo Occhipinti, “Jean Du Bellay et la Rome de Jules III: Les monuments antiques et Michel Ange vus par les Français”; Guido Rebecchini, “Les débuts de Jean Du Bellay à Rome, la cour d’Hippolyte de Médicis et le rôle de Giovan francesco Valier”; and Guillaume Alonge, “Au service du roi, au service de l’Evangile: Deux collaborateurs italiens des frères Du Bellay (Giovan Gioacchino da Passano et Ludovico di Canossa).”

Morrissey, Thomas E. Conciliarism and Church Law in the Fifteenth Century: Studies on Franciscus Zabarella and the Council of Constance . Variorum Collected Studies Series. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. 18 + 348 pp. $165. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2387-0.

Includes : Thomas E. Morrissey, “Cardinal Zabarella and Nicholas of Cusa: From Community Authority to Consent of the Community”; “Ein unruhiges Lebel: Franciscus Zabarella an der Universität von Padua (1390–1410): Die Welt, die Nikolaus von Kues vorfand”; “Ecce Sacerdos Magnus : On Welcoming a New Bishop: Three Addresses for Bishops of Padua by Franciscus Zabarella”; “Canonists in Crises ca. 1400–1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel”; “The Decree ‘Haec Sancta’ and Cardinal Zabarella: His Role in Its Formulation and Interpretation”; “Emperor-elect Sigismund, Cardinal Zabarella, and the Council of Constance”; “The Call for Unity at the Council of Constance: Sermons and Addresses of Cardinal Zabarella, 1415–1417”; “Cardinal Franciscus Zabarella (1360–1417) as a Canonist and the Crisis of His Age: Schism and the Council of Constance”; “‘More Easily and More Securely’: Legal Procedure and Due Process at the Council of Constance”; “Natural Rights, Natural Law and the Canonist: Franciscus Zabarella, 1360–1417”; “Radicalism and Restraint in a Late medieval Canonist”; “Reform at the Council of Constance in the View of a Canonist and Cardinal, Franciscus Zabarella”; “Cardinal Zabarella on Papal and Episcopal Authority”; “Franciscus Zabarella (1360–1417): Papacy, Community, and Limitations upon Authority”; “The Art of Teaching and Learning Law: A Late Medieval Tract”; “Padua in Crisis and Transition around 1400”; and “A Sermon for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June 1407: A Mixed Papalist Response.”

Murphy, Kathryn, and Anita Traninger, eds. The Emergence of Impartiality . Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 31–2014. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xx + 444 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-26083-2.

Includes : Kathryn Murphy and Anita Traninger, “Introduction: Instances of Impartiality”; Anita Traninger, “Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality”; Richard Scholar, “Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne”; Jörg Jochen Berns, “Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press”; Joad Raymond, “Exporting Impartiality”; Derek Dunne, “‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude’: Partial Judges and Impartial Revengers in Early Modern English Drama”; Nathan Stogdill, “‘Out of Books and Out of Themselves’: Invigorating Impartiality in Early Modern England”; Christine Gerrard, “The Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in England, 1680–1745”; Rhodri Lewis, “Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion”; Rainer Godel, “The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in the Early Eighteenth Century”; Hanns-Peter Neumann, “Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics in the Leibnizian-Wolffian Debates between 1720 and 1750”; Nick Hardy, “Impartiality and the Early Modern ars critica : The Case of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes (1618)”; Anne Eusterschulte, “Pierre Bayle’s Dictionaire historique et critique : Historical Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement”; Tamás Demeter, “Morals Before Objectivity: On the Relation of Moral Cognition and Moral Philosophy in Hume”; Bastian Ronge, “Between Impartiality and Parrhesia: Adam Smith’s Figure of the Impartial Spectator”; Bernd Roling, “Impartiality in the Matrix of Taxonomy: Carl von Linné and Folklore”; and Anja Zimmermann, “Truth Rather Than Elegance: A Paradoxical Case of Impartiality in Alexander Cozens’s Principles of Beauty (1778).”

Nasti, Paola, and Claudia Rossignoli, eds. Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary . The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature 13. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xv + 470 pp. + 4 color pls. + 12 b/w pls. $50. ISBN: 978-0-268-03609-6.

Includes : Steven Botterill, “Reading, Writing, and Speech in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth- Century Commentaries on Dante’s Comedy ”; Robert Wilson, “Allegory as Avoidance in Dante’s Early Commentators: ‘bella menzogna’ to ‘roza corteccia’”; Spencer Pearce, “Uses of Learning in the Dante Commentary of Iacomo della Lana”; Saverio Bellomo, “How to Read the Early Commentaries”; Paola Nasti, “A Friar Critic: Guido da Pisa and the Carmelite Heritage”; Lucia Battaglia Ricci, “Guido da Pisa’s ‘Chantilly’ Dante: A Complex Exegetical System”; Massimiliano Corrado, “Presenze del Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum nell’Ottimo Commento alla Commedia ”; Massimiliano Chiamenti, “Pietro Alighieri and the Lexicon of the Comedy ”; Simon Gilson, “Modes of Reading in Boccaccio’s Esposizioni sopra la Comedia ”; Claudia Tardelli, “Tipologie compositive e hapax nel Commento alla “Commedia” di Francesco da Buti (con una nota sulla cultura grammaticale e lessicografica dell’autore)”; Corrado Calenda, “A “Commentary for the Court”: Guiniforte Barzizza”; Lino Pertile, “A Text in Movement: Trifon Gabriele’s Annotationi nel Dante , 1527–1565”; Claudia Rossignoli, “Castelvetro on Dante: Tradition, Innovation, and Mockery in the Sposizione ”; and Andrea Mazzucchi, “A Pictorial Interpretation of Dante’s Commedia : Federigo Zuccari’s Dante historiato .

Orlin, Lena Cowen. Othello : The State of Play . The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xi + 290 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-8456-1.

Includes : Ambereen Dadabhoy, “Two Faced: the Problem of Othello’s Visage”; Lynn Enterline, “Eloquent Barbarians: On the Critical Potential of Passionate Character”; Laurie E. Maguire, “Audience-Actor Boundaries in Othello”; Robert Hornback, “‘Speak[ing] Parrot’ in Othello : Recontextualizing Black Speech in the Global Renaissance”; Lois Potter, “Secrets and Lies”; Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld, “Shakespeare’s Nobody”; David Schalkwyk, “Lucretius and Consummation in Othello ”; James Siemon, “Making Ambition Virtue?”; Ian Smith, “Othello’s Black Handkerchief”; and Robert N. Watson, “Double Diction and Othello’s Dual Identity.”

Puglisi, Catherine R., and William L. Barcham, eds. New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows . Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013. 348 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-158044193-3.

Includes : John Sawyer, “‘A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief’ (Isa. 53:3): The Biblical Text and Its Afterlife in Christian Tradition”; Colum Hourihane, “Defining Terms: Ecce Homo, Christ of Pity, Christ Mocked, and the Man of Sorrows”; Grazyna Jurkowlaniec, “The Rise and Early Development of the Man of Sorrows in Central and Northern Europe”; Mitchell B. Merback, “The Man of Sorrows in Northern Europe: Ritual Metaphor and Therapeutic Exchange”; Susan Boynton, “From Book to Song: Texts Accompanying the Man of Sorrows in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”; Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides, “The Man of Sorrows from Byzantium to Venetian Crete: Some Observations on Iconography and Function”; William L. Barcham, “Six Panels by Michele Giambono, ‘pictor Sancti Marci’”; Lyle Humphrey, “From Column to Chalice: Passion Imagery in Venetian Mariegole ca. 1320–1550”; Catherine R. Puglisi, “Veronese’s Visioning of the Man of Sorrows”; and Stefania Mason, “Images of Christ for Venetian Piety and Devotions in the Light of the Council of Trent.”

Rubinstein, Nicolai. Studies in Italian History in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Vol. 3: Humanists, Machiavelli, Guicciardini . Ed. Giovanni Ciappelli. Storia e Letteratura 281. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012. ix + 549 pp. €78. ISBN: 978-88-6372-480-6.

Includes : Giovanni Ciapelli, “Nota del curatore”; Nicolai Rubinstein, “Il Poliziano e la questione delle origini di Firenze (1957)”; “An Unknown Letter by Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini on Discoveries of Classical Texts (1958)”; “Bartolomeo Scala’s Historia florentinorum (1964)”; “Die Vermogenslage florentiner Humanisten im 15. Jahrhundert (1983)”; “A Grammar Teacher’s Autobiography: Giovanni Conversini’s Rationarium Vite (1988)”; Il Bruni a Firenze retorica e politica (1990)”; “The Beginning of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Career in the Florentine Chancery (1956)”; “Machiavelli e le origini di Firenze (1967)”; “Machiavelli and the World of Florentine Politics (1972)”; “Machiavelli storico (1987)”; “Machiavelli and Florentine Republican Experience (1990)”; “Machiavelli and the Mural Decoration of the Hall of the Great Council of Florence (1991)”; “An Unknown Version of Machiavelli’s Ritratto delle cose della Magna (1998)”; “The Storie fiorentine and the Memorie di famiglia by Francesco Guicciardini (1953)”; “[Francesco Guicciardini and His “Ricordi”] (1965)”; “Guicciardini politico (1984)”; “Francesco Guicciardini (1989)”; “Il medio evo nella storiografia italiana del Rinascimento (Firenze — Milano — Venezia) (1973)”; “Michelozzo and Niccolò Michelozzi in Chios 1466– 67 (1976)”; “Reprisals and Citizenship in Law Suit at Lucca after the Death of Castruccio Castracani (1980)”; “Palazzi pubblici e palazzi privati al tempo di Brunelleschi (Problemi di storia politica e sociale) (1980)”; “Das politische System Italiens in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts (1988)”; “‘Reformation’ und Ordensreform in italienischen Stadtrepubliken und Signorien (1989)”; “Lay Patronage and Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Florence (1990)”; “Fortified Enclosures in Italian Cities under Signori (1993)”; and “Youth and Spring in Botticelli’s Primavera (1997).”

Ryle, Stephen. Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters . Disputatio 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. xviii + 474 pp. €110. ISBN: 978-2-503-53030-7.

Includes : Lisa Jardine, “Foreword”; Stephen Ryle, “Introduction”; Michel Magnien, “Supplementunculum Allenianum : Le début de l’ep. 2021 retrouvé”; Christine Bénévent, “Supplementa Alleniana : Tentative de bilan et perspectives”;James McConica, “The Englishing of P. S. Allen”; Silvana Seidel Menchi, “Julius, Erasmus, Hutten: A Dialogue of Three Voices”; Clare M. Murphy, “Erasmus as Biographer of Thomas More and his Family”; Alexandre Vanautgaerden, “Les Lettres de Dirk Martens, imprimeur d’Érasme”: Charles Fantazzi, “The Erasmus-Vives Correspondence”; Erika Rummel, “Erasmus and Capito: The Trajectory of Friendship”; Marie Barral-Baron, “La relation entre Érasme et le duc de Saxe au cours des années 1520: Réforme de l’Église et engagement théologique”; Romano Ruggeri, “Polidoro Virgili, Erasmo e la Respublica litteraria ”; Ari Wesseling, “Erasmus and Plagiarism”; Catherine Langlois-Pézeret, “Indus elephantus haud curat culicem : Érasme et Dolet (1528–38)”; Béatrice Périgot, “Concorde et polémique dans les Colloques d’Érasme”; Hanan Yoran, “The Erasmian Republic of Letters and its Discontents”; Isabelle Diu, “Enjeux de la traduction du grec en latin dans la Respublica litteraria autour d’Érasme”; Jeanine de Landtsheer, “Two Models of Humanist Letter-Writing: Desiderius Erasmus and Justus Lipsius”; Jane E. Phillips, “The Shaping of a Gospel: Further Reflections on the Paraphrase of Luke”; Letizia Panizza, “Italian Humanist Predecessors of Erasmus’s Encomium matrimonii of 1518”; Dominic Baker-Smith, “Tranquillitas animi : Erasmus and the Quest for Spiritual Reassurance, 1533–43”; Gregory Dodds, “Joseph Hall, Thomas Fuller, and the Erasmian Via Media in Early Stuart England”; and Mark Vessey, “‘Nothing if not Critical’: G. E. B. Saintsbury, Erasmus, and the History of (English) Literature.”

Sánchez García, Encarnación, ed. Lingua Spagnola e cultura Ispanica a Napoli fra rinascimento e barocco: Testimonianze a stampa . Materia Hispánica 2. Naples: Tullio Pironti Editore, 2013. xii + 482 pp. €50. ISBN: 978-88-7937-635-8.

Includes : Encarnación Sánchez García, “Sobre la princeps de la Propalladia (Nápoles, Ioan Pasqueto de Sallo, 1517): Los mecenas (Fernando D’Ávalos, Vittoria y Fabrizio Colonna, Belisarío) y la epístola latina de Mesinerius I. Barberius”; Tobia R. Toscano, “Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo, facta est quasi vidua : Carlo V nell’editoria napoletana di primo Cinquecento tra elezione all’Impero e rivolta del 1547”; Marco Federici, “Corsari del Mediterraneo e viceré d’Italia: La Historia de la guerra y presa de Africa di Pedro de Salazar (Napoli, Mattia Cancer, 1552)”; Vincenzo Boni, “Il territorio napoletano nella cartografia scientifica tra metà Cinquecento e inizi del Settecento”; Marco Santoro, “Editoria e Spagna a Napoli nel Seicento”; Giuseppe Mazzocchi, “Le relazioni su fatti napoletani stampate a Milano nel XVII secolo”; Mario D’Agostino, “La Cerviz de Atlante : El conde de Lemos en la poesía de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola”; Pierre Civil, “La Inmaculada Concepcíon entre España y Nápoles: Textos e imágenes del siglo XVII”; Elena Gallego and Francisca Moya, “Las traducciones de textos del Anacreon de Quevedo exclusivas del manuscrito de Nápoles”; Flavia Gherardi, “Pusílipo (1629): La ‘palabra personalizada’ de Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa”; Laura Rodríguez Fernández, “La erupcíon del Vesubio de 1631 en la imprenta napolitana en lengua castellana: Los incendios de la montaña de Soma (Nápoles, Egidio Longo, 1632)”; Encarnación Sánchez García, “Ecos gongorinos en la Nápoles del III Duque de Alcalá: El Epitalamio de Salcedo Coronel en honor de María Enríquez de Ribera y Luis de Aragón y Moncada”; Roberto Mondola, “I martiri di Otranto nel secolo XVII: La Historia di Francisco de Araujo (Napoli, Egidio Longo, 1631)”; Mercedes Blanco, “La ley con fuego escrita : Acerca del Macabeo de Miguel de Silveira”; Elena Papagna, “. . . Perdonando mi mal cortada pluma : Le opere in lingua spagnola di Antonio Pérez Navarrete”; Maria Francesca Stamuli, “Imagines agentes : La natura paratestuale dei frontespizi architettonici nelle edizioni napoletane in lingua spagnola del Viceregno”; Andrea Baldissera, “La España defendida de Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa (Nápoles, 1644)”; and Maria Gabriella Mansi, “. . . Nelle stampe eternizzate : Feste e descrizioni di feste nella Napoli del Viceregno.”

Schwartz, Louis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xv + 216 pp. $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-66440-1.

Includes : Stephen M. Fallon, “Milton as Narrator in Paradise Lost ”; Neil Forsyth, “Satan”; John Rumrich, “Things of Darkness: Sin, Death, Chaos”; Victoria Silver, “The Problem of God”; Maggie Kilgour, “Classical Models”; Jeffrey Shoulson, “Milton’s Bible”; John Creaser, “The Line in Paradise Lost”; Paul Stevens, “The Pre-Secular Politics of Paradise Lost ”; Karen L. Edwards, “Cosmology”; William Shullenberger, “Imagining Eden”; Joad Raymond, “Milton’s Angels”; Shannon Miller, “Gender”; W. Gardner Campbell, “Temptation”; Mary C. Fenton, “Regeneration in Books 11 and 12”; and William Kolbrener, “Reception.”

Smith, Pamela H., Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook, eds. Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge . The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. xi + 430 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-472-11927-1.

Includes : Harold J. Cook, Pamela H. Smith, and Amy R. W. Meyers, “Introduction: Making and Knowing”; Pamela H. Smith, “Making as Knowing: Craft as Natural Philosophy”; Suzanne B. Butler, “From Skills to Wisdom: Making, Knowing, and the Arts”; Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, “Between Trade and Science: Dyeing and Knowing in the Long Eighteenth Century”; Alisha Rankin, “How to Cure the Golden Vein: Medical Remedies as Wissenschaft in Early Modern Germany”; Patrick Wallis and Catherine Wright, “Evidence, Artisan Experience, and Authority in Early Modern England”; Mark Laird and Karen Bridgman, “American Roots: Techniques of Plant Transportation and Cultivation in the Early Atlantic World”; Joel T. Fry, “Inside the Box: John Bartram and the Science and Commerce of the Transatlantic Plant Trade”; Lisa L. Ford, “From Plant to Page: Aesthetics and Objectivity in a Nineteenth-Century Book of Trees”; Glenn Adamson, “The Labor of Division: Cabinetmaking and the Production of Knowledge”; Elizabeth Yale, “Making Lists: Social and Material Technologies in the Making of Seventeenth-Century British Natural History”; Harold J. Cook, “The Preservation of Specimens and the Takeoff in Anatomical Knowledge in the Early Modern Period”; Sachiko Kusukawa, “Conrad Gessner on an ‘Ad Vivum’ Image”; Horst Bredekamp, “Corals versus Trees: Charles Darwin’s Early Sketches of Evolution”; Mary M. Brooks, “Decay, Conservation, and the Making of Meaning through Museum Objects”; and Malcolm Baker, “Epilogue: Making and Knowing, Then and Now.”

Thompson, Ann, ed. Macbeth: The State of Play . The Arden Shakespeare State of Play. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. xii + 294 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-5982-8.

Includes : Ann Thompson, “Introduction”; Anthony B. Dawson, “Notes and Queries Concerning the Text of Macbeth ”; Brett Gamboa, “Dwelling ‘in doubtful joy’: Macbeth and the Aesthetics of Disappointment”; Dermot Cavanagh, “Politic Bodies in Macbeth ”; Debapriya Sarkar, “‘To crown my thoughts with acts’: Prophecy and Prescription in Macbeth ”; Kevin A. Quarmby, “Lady Macbeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty- First Century Stage”; Darlene Farabee, “‘A walking shadow’: Place, Perception and Disorientation in Macbeth ”; Geraldo U. de Sousa, “Cookery and Witchcraft in Macbeth ”; Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore, “The Language of Macbeth ”; Sandra Clark, “The Shapes of Macbeth : The Staged Text”; Philippa Sheppard, “Raising the Violence while Lowering the Stakes: Geoffrey Wright’s Screen Adaptation of Macbeth ”; and Ramona Wray, “The Butcher and the Text: Adaptation, Theatricality and the ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’ Macbeth .”

Wiemann, Dirk, and Gaby Mahlberg, eds. Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. x + 228 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4094-5567-7.

Includes : Dirk Wiemann and Gaby Mahlberg, “Introduction: Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism”; Martin Dzelzainis, “Harrington and the Oligarchs: Milton, Vane, and Stubbe”; Cesare Cuttica, “Anti-Republican Cries under Cromwell: The Vehement Attacks of Robert Filmer against Republican Practice and Republican Theory in the Early 1650s”; Günther Lottes “Language and Content: The Political Thought of Algernon Sidney between Republicanism and Enlightenment”; J. C. Davis, “Literary and Political Culture: The Prose Romance of the 1650s as a Context for Oceana ”; Anette Pankratz, “Performing Republics: Negotiations of Political Discourse in Restoration Comedies”; Gerold Sedlmayr, “The Fatal Contagiousness of French Republicanism: Edmund Burke and the Body Politic”; Edward Vallance, “Harrington, Petitioning, and the Construction of Public Opinion”; Dirk Vanderbeke, “‘None can love freedom heartily, but good men’: Milton’s Religious Republicanism”; Luc Borot, “Religion in Harrington’s Political System: The Central Concepts and Methods of Harrington’s Religious Solutions”; Justin Champion, “Mosaica respublica : Harrington, Toland, and Moses”; and Glenn Burgess, “Postscript: Republicanism: Theory, Culture, and History.”

Winn, Colette H., ed. Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation . Options for Teaching. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2011. vii + 432 pp. $25. ISBN: 978-1-60329-090-6.

Includes : Colette H. Winn, “Introduction”; Brigitte Roussel, “Nicole Estienne’s Les misères de la femme mariée and the Marriage Controversy in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century”; Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, “Picturing Great Ladies of the Renaissance Who Helped Pave the Literary Way”; Carrie F. Klaus, “Jeanne de Jussie, the Convent of Saint Clare, and the Reformation of Geneva”; Diane S. Wood and Laura B. Bergman, “Humanism and Women’s Writing: The Case of Hélisenne de Crenne”; Susan Broomhall, “Production and Reproduction: Contextualizing Women’s Writing as Labor”; François Rigolot, “The Invention of Female Authorship in Early Modern France”; Dora E. Polachek, “Brantôme’s Women: Revising the Masculine Point of Reference”; Ann Rosalind Jones, “Pernette Du Guillet among the Néoplatoniciennes of Her Time: Private Conversation Meant to Be Overheard”; Zeina Hakim, “Louise Labé’s Elegies ; or, The Assuming of a Borrowed Voice”; Danielle Trudeau, “A Case Study in Close Reading: Pernette Du Guillet’s Chanson 7”; Jane Couchman, “Gender and Genres: Teaching Women and the Epistolary Genre”; Carla Zecher, “Georgette de Montenay’s Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes : Material Object, Digital Subject”; Edith Joyce Benkov, “The Pasquin and Political Commentary: The Case of Anne de Marquets”; Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, “Feminine Authorial Ethos: The Use of Marie de Gournay’s Discours sur ce livre as an Introduction to Her Collected Works”; Leslie Zarker Morgan, “Approaches and Methodologies Louise Labé and Italian in Sixteenth-Century Lyon”; Carla Freccero, “Reading the Heptameron: Feminist and Queer Approaches”; Nancy Frelick, “Reading Hélisenne with Transference”; Cécile Alduy, “The Anatomy of Gender: Decoding Petrarchan Lyrics (Labé, Scève, Ronsard)”; Claude La Charité, “How Should Sixteenth-Century Feminine Poetry Be Taught? The Exemplary Case of Marie de Romieu”; Leah Chang, “The Cross-Dressed Text: Reading Men Writing as Women in Sixteenth-Century France”; Anne R. Larsen, “Teaching the Influence of Renaissance Women Writers on One Another: The Case of Catherine Des Roches”; Gary Ferguson, “Women’s Writing, Anne de Marquets, and the Priory of Poissy”; Mary M. McKinley, “Marie Dentière’s Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and the Heptameron ”; Colette H. Winn, “Variations on the Same Tune: The Love Lyrics of Louise Labé and Gabrielle de Coignard”; Deborah Lesko Baker, “Teaching Louise Labé’s Prose in Translation: The Dedicatory Letter and the Debate of Folly and Love ”; Colette H. Winn, “Print Resources for Teaching and Further Study”; “Professional Resources and Activities”; Graziella Postolache and Colette H. Winn, “Online Resources”; and Karen Simroth James and Mary B. McKinley, “Rare Books and Web Pages.”