Renaissance Quarterly Books Received April–June 2015 (68.2)

Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene. Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 238 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4231-4.

Allen, Michael J. B., ed. Marsilio Ficino: On Dionysius the Areopagite; Volume 1: Mystical Theology and The Divine Names, Part I. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 66. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. lxxii + 516 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05835-4.

Allen, Michael J. B., ed. Marsilio Ficino: On Dionysius the Areopagite; Volume 2: The Divine Names, Part II. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 67. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. xxxviii + 484 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-74379-3.

Almási, Gábor, and Farkas Gábor Kiss. Humanistes du bassin des Carpates, II: Johannes Sambucus. Europa Humanistica 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. lxxiv + 288 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-2-503-53162-5.

Aono, Junko. Confronting the Golden Age: Imitation and Innovation in Dutch Genre Painting, 1680– 1750. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. 230 pp. €99. ISBN: 978-90-8964-568-5.

Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the First Cartesians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xix + 236 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-956351-7.

Armon, Shifra. Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain. New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 144 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 4189-8.

Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers. Ed. Kate Bennett. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. clviii + 1776 pp. $399. ISBN: 978-0- 19-968953-8.

Baader, Hannah. Das Selbst im Anderen: Sprachen der Freundschaft und die Kunst des Porträts 1370– 1520. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015. 342 pp. €39.90. ISBN: 978-3-7705-3965-9.

Baldassari, Francesca. Carlo Dolci: Complete Catalogue of the Paintings. Florence: Centro Di, 2015. 392 pp. €150. ISBN: 978-88-7038-531-1.

Barbier-Mueller, Jean Paul. Dictionnaire des Poètes Français de la Seconde Moitié du XVIe Siècle (1549–1615): A-B. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 540. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 1000 pp. €79. ISBN: 978-2-600-01851-7.

Barducci, Marco. Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought, 1648–1650. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. x + 146 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9680-8.

Barker, Juliet. 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 506 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-36814-9.

Beltrame, Carlo, Sauro Gelichi, and Igor Miholjek. Sveti Pavao Shipwreck: A 16th Century Venetian Merchantman from Mljet, Croatia, with Italian and Croatian Abstracts. With contributions by Cristiano Alfonso, Jurica Bezak, Elisa Costa, Martina Ćurković, Margherita Ferri, Anita Jelić, Antonija Jozić, Garo Kürkman, Igor Mihajlović, Robert Mosković, Mladen Mustaček, Domagoj Perkić, Tajana Trbojević Vukičević and Vesna Zmaić Kralj. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2014. viii + 180 pp. £40. ISBN: 978-1-78297-706-3.

Béraud, Nicolas. Praelectio et commentaire à la Silve Rusticus d’Ange Politien (1518). Ed. and trans. Perrine Galand. With Georges André Bergère, Anne Bouscharain, and Olivier Pedeflous. Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 537. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. lxix + 614 pp. $123. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01717-6.

Berger, Harry Jr. Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. xiv + 160 pp. $20. ISBN: 978-0-8232-5748-5.

Blum, Shirley Neilsen. The New Art of the Fifteenth Century: Faith and Art in Florence and the Netherlands. New York: Abbeville Press, 2015. 314 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-7892-1192-7.

Bock, Nils. Die Herolde im römisch-deutschen Reich: Studie zur adligen Kommunikation im späten Mittelalter. Mittelalter-Forschungen 49. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2015. 438 pp. €54. ISBN: 978-3-7995-4368-2.

Boran, Elizabeth, ed. The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600–1656. 3 vols. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2015. lx + 1360 pp. €130. ISBN: 978-1-874280-89-7.

Brown, Eric C. Milton on Film. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2015. xii + 420 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0476-0.

Brückner, Undine. Dorothea von Hof: “Das buoch der götlichen liebe und summe der tugent”: Studien zu einer Konstanzer Kompilation geistlicher Texte des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Konstanzer Geschichts- und Rechtsquellen 44. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2015. 302 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-3-7995-6844-9.

Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xviii + 366 pp. $54.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-09077-4.

Bulman, William J. Anglican Enlightenment: Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648–1715. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx + 340 pp. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-07368-5.

Buron, E., P. Guérin, and C. Lesage, eds. Les états du dialogue à l’âge de l’humanisme. Collection “Renaissance.” Tours: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais; Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 542 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-2-86906-383-9.

Callaghan, Dympna. Hamlet: Language and Writing. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xviii + 212 pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-5489-2.

Campanella, Tommaso. Etica. Hermes Classici Tradotti 2. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2015. 238 pp. €20. ISBN: 978-88-7642-551-6.

Carlton, Genevieve. Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 238 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-25531-6.

Cartledge, Paul. After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars. Emblems of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxx + 204 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0- 19-974732-0.

Castiglione, Caroline. Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Early Modern Rome. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi + 316 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-230-20331-0.

Cholcman, Tamar. Art on Paper: Ephemeral Art in the Low Countries : The Triumphal Entry of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella into Antwerp, 1599. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 158 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-2-503-54341-3.

Coldiron, A. E. B. Printers Without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 340 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-07317-3.

Colón Mendoza, Ilenia. The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xviii + 186 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3068-1.

Crawforth, Hannah, Sarah Dustagheer, and Jennifer Young. Shakespeare in London. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xviii + 262 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4081-4596-8.

Cressy, David. Charles I and the People of England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix + 448 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-870829-2.

Dall’Aglio, Stefano. The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici. Trans. Donald Weinstein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xviii + 300 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-300-18978- 0.

Davis, Lisa Fagin. La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading and Writing History in Fifteenth- Century France. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2014. 440 pp. €175. ISBN: 978-1-905375-55-4.

De Benedictis, Angela. Tumulti: Moltitudini ribelli in età moderna. Studi e ricerche 654. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013. 300 pp. €27. ISBN: 978-88-15-24429-1.

Degler, Anna. Parergon: Attribut, Material und Fragment in der Bildästhetik des Quattrocento. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015. 300 pp. €39.90. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5756-1.

De Roye, Jean. Chronique scandaleuse: Journal d’un Parisien du temps de Louis XI. Ed. and trans. Joël Blanchard. Agora 379. Paris: Pocket, 2015. 382 pp. €9.80. ISBN: 978-2-266-25066-5.

Devaney, Thomas. Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460–1492. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. x + 246 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4713-8.

Dewald, Jonathan. Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France: The Rohan Family, 1550– 1715. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xiv + 248 pp. $74.95. ISBN: 978- 0-271-06616-5.

Dolce, Lodovico. Dialogo della instituzion delle donne, secondo li tre stati che cadono nella vita umana. Ed. Helena Sanson. MHRA Critical Texts 30. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015. viii + 202 pp. $15.99. ISBN: 978-1-907322-24-2.

Donne, John. The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. Volume 1: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615–1619. Ed. Peter McCullough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xlvi + 318 pp. $200. ISBN: 978-0-19-957936-5.

Doran, Susan. Elizabeth I and Her Circle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xx + 398 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-957495-7.

Douglas, Alexander X. Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism: Philosophy and Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii + 184 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-19-873250-1.

Dowd, Michelle M. The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii + 290 pp. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-09977-7.

Dyballa, Katrin. Georg Pencz: Künstler zu Nürnberg. Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2014. 484 pp. €101.80. ISBN: 978-3-87157-237-1.

Eklund, Hillary. Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic: Elegant Sufficiencies. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xx + 222 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6234-7.

Engle, Paul. Conciatore: The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Hubbardson, MA: Heiden & Engle Publications, 2014. xxii + 370 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-9743529-5-4.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, Ordinis noni tomus sextus: Polemics with Alberto Pio of Carpi. Ed. C. L. Heesakkers. Erasmi Opera Omnia IX-6. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv + 760 pp. $235. ISBN: 978-90-04-27465-5.

Erasmus, Desiderius. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2204 to 2356, August 1529–July 1530. Ed. James M. Estes. Trans. Alexander Dalzell. Collected Works of Erasmus 16. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xxvi + 440 pp. $175. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4749-7.

Fay, Isla. Health and the City: Disease, Environment and Government in Norwich, 1200–1575. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2015. xxvi + 246 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-903153-60-4.

Fehrenbach, R.J., and Joseph L. Black, eds. Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists; Volume VIII, PLRE 167–260. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 455. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xxxii + 468 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-0-86698-506-2.

Firpo, Massimo. Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xvi + 262 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3977-2.

Fletcher, John, and William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Ed. Lois Potter. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xx + 452 pp. $18. ISBN: 978-1-4725- 7754-2.

Friedlein, Roger. Kosmovisionen: Inszenierungen von Wissen und Dichtung im Epos der Renaissance in Frankreich, Portugal und Spanien. Text und Kontext: Romanische Literaturen und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft 36. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 412 pp. €64. ISBN: 978-3-515- 10896-6.

Frisch, Andrea. Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. x + 176 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7486-9439-6.

Frye, David, ed. Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscón): Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015. xxxvi + 180 pp. $14. ISBN: 978-1-62466-344-4.

Gatti, Hilary. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. x + 216 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-691-16383-3.

Gavin, Michael. The Invention of English Criticism, 1650–1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii + 220 pp. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-10120-3.

Gertsman, Elina. Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xviii + 268 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06401-7.

Giovio, Paolo. Vita di Adriano VI: Testo latino a fronte. Ed. Lara Michelacci. Umanesimo e Rinascimento 8. Naples: La scuola di Pitagora editrice, 2015. 190 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-88-6542- 333-2.

Goldstein, David B. Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 280 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-03906-3.

González Echevarría, Roberto. Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Open Yale Courses. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xiv + 370 pp. $25. ISBN: 978-0-300-19864-5.

Grace, Philip. Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. x + 186 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4554-4.

Graney, Christopher M. Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xvi + 270 pp. $29. ISBN: 978-0-268-02988-3.

Greenberg, Marissa. Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xvi + 232 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4880-7.

Griffiths, Jane. Diverting Authorities: Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 240 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-965451-2.

Guerrini, Anita. The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xiv + 344 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-226-24766-3.

Guibbory, Achsah. Returning to John Donne. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. x + 268 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6878-3.

Heavey, Katherine. The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature, 1558–1688. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. viii + 274 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-46634-1.

Jackson, Ken. Shakespeare and Abraham. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xii + 172 pp. $27. ISBN: 978-0-268-03271-5.

James, Susan E. Women’s Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603: Authority, Influence and Material Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 320 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 5382-2.

Jütte, Daniel. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 432 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-300-19098-4.

Kaborycha, Lisa, ed. A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375–1650. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvi + 302 pp. + 1 b/w pl. + 7 color pls. $29.95. ISBN: 978- 0-19-934243-3.

Kerr, Rosalind. The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 216 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4911-8.

Krause, Virginia. Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 192 pp. $95. ISBN: 9781-107-07440-8.

Kren, Thomas, and Kurt Barstow. Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Second Edition. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2015. xx +92 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-60606-436- 8.

Lake, Peter, and Isaac Stephens. Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid’s Tragedy. Studies in Modern British Religious History 32. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. 392 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-78327-014-9.

Langdon, Anthony. A Guide to Baroque Rome: The Palaces. London: Pallas Athene, 2015. 292 pp. £34.95. ISBN: 978-1-84368-114-4.

Larson, Katherine R. Early Modern Women in Conversation. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 218 pp. $29. ISBN: 978-1-137-50630-6.

Loh, Maria H. Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxii + 304 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16496-0.

Maier, Jessica. Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xii + 276 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-226-12763-7.

Marlowe, Christopher. Edward II: With Related Texts. Ed. Stephen J. Lynch. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015. xl + 156 pp. $14. ISBN: 978-1-62466-238-6.

Martínez d’Alós-Moner, Andreu. Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557–1632. Jesuit Studies: Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History 2. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxxiv + 420 pp. $203. ISBN: 978-90-04-28914-7.

McClive, Cathy. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 268 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6603-5.

McGee, J. Sears. An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xxii + 512 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8546-4.

Miller, Peter N. Peiresc’s Mediterranean World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. x + 630 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-74406-6.

Mitchell, Charles, Edward W Bodnar, and Clive Foss, eds. Cyriac of Ancona: Life and Early Travels. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 65. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. xxii + 376 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-59920-8.

Mitterauer, Michael, and John Morrissey. Pisa nel Medioevo: Potenza sul mare e motore di cultura. La storia: Temi 45. Rome: Viella, 2015. 298 pp. €25. ISBN: 978-88-8334-632-3.

Moore, Cyrus. Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 444. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xiv + 236 pp. $68. ISBN: 978-0-86698-492-8.

Mulchahey, M. Michèle, ed. Girolamo Savonarola: Apologetic Writings. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 68. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. xliv + 414 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0- 674-05498-1.

Myrup, Erik Lars. Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. xiv + 242 pp. $42.50. ISBN: 978-0-8071-5980-4.

Netzley, Ryan. Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events. Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. xii + 270 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-8232-6347-9.

Normore, Christina. A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. viii + 262 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-226-24220-0.

Paoletti, John T. Michelangelo’s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity. Ed. Rolf Bagemihl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 388 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-1-107-04359-6.

Pasciuta, Beatrice. Il diavolo in Paradiso: Diritto, teologia e letteratura nel Processus Satane (sec. XIV). I libri di Viella 194. Rome: Viella, 2015. 270 pp. €26. ISBN: 978-88-6728-387-3.

Patterson, Jonathan. Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 320 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-19-871651-8.

Perry, David M. Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xiv + 234 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-27-06507-6.

Petráček, Tomáš. Church, Society and Change: Christianity Impaired by Conflicting Elites. Lublin: EL- Press, 2014. 124 pp. ISBN: 978-83-86869-35-0.

Petráček, Tomáš. Man, Values and the Dynamics of Medieval Society: Anthropological Concepts of the Middle Ages in a Transcultural Perspective. Lublin: EL-Press, 2014. 126 pp. ISBN: 978-83-86869- 39-8.

Polak, Emil J. Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters 3: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Europe: The Works on Letter Writing from the Eleventh through the Seventeenth Century Found in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Italy. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv + 906 pp. $301. ISBN: 978-90-04-28477-7.

Pon, Lisa. A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 288 pp. + 4 color pls. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-09851-0.

Preiss, Richard. Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 288 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-03657-4.

Prévost, Xavier. Jacques Cujas (1522–1590): Jurisconsulte Humaniste. Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 541. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. xvi + 590 pp. $122.76. ISBN: 978-2-600-01814-2.

Prins, Jacomien. Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 234. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xii + 462 pp. $193. ISBN: 978-90-04-27437-2.

Prise, John. Historiae Britannicae Defensio: A Defence of the British History. Ed. and trans. Ceri Davies. British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 6; Studies and Texts 195. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. liv + 336 pp. $150. ISBN: 978-1-85124- 436-2.

Pye, Christopher. The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. xiv + 256 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-0-8232-6505-3.

Quaintance, Courtney. Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4913-2.

Randolph, Adrian W. B. Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Fifteenth-Century Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. viii + 328 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-300-20478-0.

Ray, Meredith K. Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 292 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-674-50423-3.

Reston, James Jr. Luther’s Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 2015. xii + 260 pp. $27.50. ISBN: 978-0-465-06393-2.

Rolet, Anne. Les Questions symboliques d’Achille Bocchi: Symbolicae quaestiones, 1555. 2 vols. Renaissance. Tours: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais; Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 1610 pp. €150. ISBN: 978-2-86906-380-8.

Rosenthal, David. Kings of the Street: Power, Community, and Ritual in Renaissance Florence. Europa Sacra 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. xxii + 276 pp. €85. ISBN: 978-2-503-54172-3.

Ross, Alan S. Daum’s Boys: Schools and the Republic of Letters in Early Modern Germany. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xiv + 236 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9089-9.

Rosser, Gervase. The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250–1550. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv + 236 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-820157-1.

Roush, Sherry. Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. ix + 264 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-5040-4.

Rubini, Paolo. Pietro Pomponazzis Erkenntnistheorie: Naturalisierung des menschlichen Geistes im Spätaristotelismus. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 116. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xviii + 640 pp. $234. ISBN: 978-90-04-28044-1.

Rundell, Benedict. Common wealth, Common Good: The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland- Lithuania. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xi + 190 pp. $100. ISBN: 978-0-19-873534-2.

Salzberg, Rosa. Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. xiv + 200 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8703-5.

Sasso, Gennaro. La lingua, la Bibbia, la storia: Su De vulgari eloquentia I. I libri di Viella 195. Rome: Viella, 2015. 202 pp. €25. ISBN: 978-88-6728-331-6.

Scott, Christopher L. The Maligned Militia: The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xxii + 334 pp. $144.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 3771-6.

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Eds. Sandra Clark and Pamela Mason. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xx + 382 pp. $17. ISBN: 978-1-904271413.

Skaarup, Bjørn Okholm. Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 286 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4724-4826-2.

Sluijter, Eric Jan. Rembrandt’s Rivals: History Painting in Amsterdam 1630–1650. Oculi: Studies in the Art of the Low Countries 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. x + 486 pp. $210. ISBN: 978-90-272-4966-1.

Sobecki, Sebastian. Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463– 1549. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. x + 258 pp. $38. ISBN: 978-0-268-04145-8.

Spolsky, Ellen. The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxxii + 284 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-19-023214-6.

Steinmetz, Greg. The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. xviii + 284 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-4516-8855-9.

Sutton, Elizabeth A. Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 184 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-226-25478-4.

Tarnow, Ulrike. Die Oberfläche der Zeichen: Zur Hermeneutik visueller Strukturen in der frühen Neuzeit. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2014. 226 pp. €39.90. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5065-4.

Terreaux-Scotto, Cécile. Les âges de la vie dans la pensée politique florentine (ca 1480–1532). Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 125. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 462 pp. $58.80. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01819-7.

Teskey, Gordon. The Poetry of John Milton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. xviii + 620 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-41664-2.

Thomas, Vivian. Shakespeare’s Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary. Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xl + 376 pp. $44.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4725-7338-4.

Tomić, Zlata Blažina, and Vesna Blažina. Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377–1533. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society 43. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xxii + 362 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4540-3.

Torres, Isabel. Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age: Eros, Eris and Empire. Monografías A. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2013. xv + 228 pp. $115. ISBN: 978-1-855-66265-0.

Trocmé-Latter, Daniel. The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523–1541. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xviii + 386 pp. $154.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3206-3.

Truitt, E. R. Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xii + 256 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4697-1.

Valier, Agostino. Instituzione d’ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane and Ricordi di Monsignor Agostino Valier Vescovo di Verona lasciati alle monache nella sua visitazione fatta l’anno del santissimo Giubileo 1575. Ed. Francesco Lucioli. MHRA Critical Texts 43. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015. vi + 172 pp. $15.99. ISBN: 978-1-78188-101-9.

Vélez de Guevara, Pedro. Epistolario. Eds. Guy Lazure and Bartolomé Pozuelo Calero. Palmyrenvs, Serie Textos 13. Alcañiz: Instituto de Estudios Humanisticos; Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2014. clvi + 400 pp. €43.27. ISBN: 978-84-00-09875-9.

Wagner, Bettina, ed. Worlds of Learning: The Library and World Chronicle of the Nuremberg Physician Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514). Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2015. 168 pp. €22.90. ISBN: 978-3- 86906-757-5.

Watt, Isabella M., Wallace McDonald, and Jeffrey R. Watt, eds. Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin: Tome IX (15 février 1554–31 janvier 1555). With James S. Coons. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 542. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1996. xli + 366 pp. ISBN: 978-2-600- 01847-0.

Weisser, Olivia. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. ix + 282 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-300-200700-6.

Wellman, Sam. Frederick the Wise: Seen and Unseen Lives of Martin Luther’s Protector. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2015. xxiv + 322 pp. $25.99. ISBN: 978-0-7586-4917-1.

Weststeijn, Thijs. Art and Antiquity in the Netherlands and Britain: The Vernacular Arcadia of Franciscus Junius (1591–1677). Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History 12. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxiv + 452 pp. $161. ISBN: 978-90-04-28361-9.

Wiggins, Martin, and Catherine Richardson, eds. British Drama, 1533–1642: A Catalogue, Volume V: 1603–1608. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv + 530 pp. $160. ISBN: 978-0-19- 871923-6.

Williams, Deanne. Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xii + 278 pp. $105. ISBN: 978-1-137-02475-6.

Williams, Sarah F. Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xiv + 226 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2082-4.

Wright, Diana Gilliland, and John R Melville-Jones, eds. The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Volume II: Dispacci from Candia (1500–1502). Archivio del Litorale Adriatico 11. Padua: Unipress, 2015. xxx + 274 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-88-8098-314-9.

Yver, Jacques. Le printemps d’Yver. Eds. Marie-Ange Maignan and Marie-Madeleine Fontaine. Textes Littéraires Français 632. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. clii + 756 pp. $85.62. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01808-1.

Zak, William F. Hamlet’s Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. xviii + 132 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1310-4.

Zak, William F. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: Asps amidst the Figs. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. viii + 164 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1036-3.

Zaru, Denise. Art and Observance in Renaissance Venice: The Dominicans and their Artists (1391–ca. 1545). Trans. Sarah Melker. I libri di Viella Arte. Rome: Viella, 2014. 372 pp. €65. ISBN: 978-88- 6728-338-5.

Edited Collections:

Augustine, Matthew C., and Steven N Zwicker, eds. Lord Rochester in the Restoration World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 294 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-06439-3.

Includes: Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker, “Introduction”; Jonathan Sawday, “John Wilmot and the Writing of ‘Rochester’”; Paul Davis, “From Script to Print: Marketing Rochester”; Matthew C. Augustine, “Trading Places: Lord Rochester, the Laureate, and the Making of Literary Reputation”; Steven N. Zwicker, “Lord Rochester: A Life in Gossip”; Nicholas von Maltzahn, “Rochester and the Satiric Underground”; David Francis Taylor, “Rochester, the Theatre, and Restoration Theatricality”; Christopher Tilmouth, “Rochester and the Play of Values”; Tim Harris, “Sexual and Religious Libertinism in Restoration England”; Melissa E. Sanchez, “Sex and Sovereignty in Rochester’s Writing”; Ros Ballaster, “Rochester, Behn, and Enlightenment Liberty”; Tom Jones, “Unfit to Print: Rochester and the Poetics of Obscenity”; Nicholas Fisher, “The Perspective of Rochester’s Letters”; and Tom Lockwood, “Rochester and Rhyme.”

Baker, Nicholas Scott, and Brian Maxson, eds. After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy. Essays and Studies 35. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 298 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2177-8.

Includes: Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson, “Introduction: After Civic Humanism”; Oren J. Margolis, “After Baron, Back to Burckhardt?”; Christopher S. Celenza, “Why Florence? Pocock, Civic Humanism, and the Debate Over the Latin Language”; Alexander Lee, “Albertino Mussato and the Defence of Empire;” Lorenza Tromboni, “Looking for Peace in Fourteenth- Century Florence: The ‘Difenditore della pacie’ in Context”; Brian Jeffrey Maxs, “Humanism and the Ritual of Command in Fifteenth-Century Florence”; Elizabeth McCahill, “Civility and Secularism in the Ambit of the Papal Court”; Gary Ianziti, “Pier Candido Decembrio and the Beginnings of Humanist Historiography in Visconti Milan”; Jennifer A. Cavalli, “The Learned Consort: Learning, Piety, and Female Political Authority in the Northern Courts”; Isabella Lazzarini, “A ‘New’ Narrative: Historical Writing, Chancellors, and Public Records in Renaissance Italy (Milan, Ferrara, Mantua ca. 1450–1520)”; John Gagné, “Crisis Redux: The Views from Milan, 1499”; Mark Jurdjevic, “Writing History in a Ruined World: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Vettori on History and Republicanism”; Nicholas Scott Baker, “The Remembrance of Politics Past: Memory and Melancholia in Jacopo Nardi’s Istorie della città di Firenze”; and Edward Muir, “The Perilous Legacy of Civic Humanism in Seventeenth-Century Venice.”

Benadusi, Giovanna, and Judith C. Brown, eds. Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany. Essays and Studies 36. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 380 pp. $45.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2180-8.

Includes: Judith C. Brown, “Introduction”; Natalie Tomas, “Eleanora di Toledo, Regency, and State Formation in Tuscany”; Elisabetta Mori, “Isabella de’Medici: Unravelling the Legend”; Sarah Bercusson, “Joanna of Austria and the Negotiation of Power and Identity at the Florentine Court”; Sheila Barker, “Christine of Lorraine and Medicine at the Medici Court”; Maria Pia Paoli, “Foreign Mothers and the International Education of Medici Children: Christine of Lorraine and Maria Maddalena of Austria at the Medici Court”; Adelina Modesti, “Margherita de’ Medici Farnese: A Medici Princess at the Farnese Court”; Giovanna Benadusi, “The Gender Politics of Vittoria della Rovere”; Giulia Calvi, “Connected Courts: Violante Beatrice of Bavaria in Florence and Siena”; Stefano Casiu, “Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine: Last Art Patron and Collector of the Medici Dynasty”; and Marcello Verga, “Between Dynastic Strategies and Civic Myth: Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici and Florence as the New Athens.”

Bjaï, Denis, and François Rouget, eds. Les poètes Français de la Renaissance et leurs “libraires”: Actes du Colloque international de l’Université d’Orléans (5–7 juin 2013). Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 122. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 550 pp. €49.55. ISBN: 978-2-600-01929-3.

Includes: Denis Bjaï et François Rouget, “Introduction”; Michèle Clément, “Les poètes et leurs libraires au prisme du privilège d’auteur au XVIe siècle : La proto-propriété littéraire”; Isabelle Pantin, “Innovation poétique, innovation typographique: Comment penser un synchronisme?”; Jean Balsamo, “Les libraires du Palais et les poètes (1530–1610)”; François Rouget, “Philippe Desportes et ses libraires”; Geneviève Guilleminot-Chrétien, “Ronsard, Baïf et la veuve Maurice de La Porte: Une nouvelle présentation du recueil poétique”; Daniel Ménager, “Ronsard, Henri Estienne et Anacréon”; Emmanuel Buron, “La pratique du poème liminaire comme analyse pragmatique de l’acte”; Denis Bjaï, “Un imprimeur orléanais de la Renaissance et ‘ses’ poètes: Autour d’Eloi Gibier (1551–c. 1587)”; Nicolas Ducimetière, “Coups d’essai: Les étudiants poètes et leurs imprimeurs- libraires dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle”; Anne Réach-Ngô, “Des Trésors poétiques à la Renaissance? L’ambition éditoriale du Trésor immortel de Jacques Sireulde”; Christine Bénévent, “Auger Gaillard: Les tribulations d’un poète en quête de libraire(s)”; François Rigolot, “D’un libraire l’autre: Marot, de Tory à Dolet via Montmorency”; Mireille Huchon, “Jean de Tournes et ses poetrices”; Elise Rajchenbach-Teller, “Charles Fontaine: Le poète et ses imprimeurs-libraires”; Max Engammare, “Théodore de Bèze poète et ses imprimeurs”; Véronique Ferrer, “Entre La Rochelle et Genève: Les poètes protestants et leurs imprimeurs (1560–1610)”; Yvonne Bellenger, “Du Bartas et ses libraires”; Alain Cullière, “Les éditeurs des Dévots élancements du poète chrétien d’Alphonse de Rambervillers (1602–1617)”; Michel Magnien, “Vascosan éditeur de Guillaume Du Mayne (1556)”; Philippe Desan, “La Boétie poète et ses deux éditeurs: Federic Morel et Montaigne”; and John Nassichuk, “L’oeuvre latin de Jean Rouxel et le monde de l’édition en Normandie.”

Blackburn, Bonnie J., and Laurie Stras, eds. Eroticism in Early Modern Music. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xx + 308 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4333-5.

Includes: Laurie Stras, “Introduction: Encoding the Musical Erotic”; Bonnie J. Blackburn, “The Lascivious Career of B-Flat”; Leofranc Holford-Strevens, “Fa mi la mi so la: The Erotic Implications of Solmization Syllables”; Donna G. Cardamone, “Unmasking Salacious Subtexts in Lasso’s Neapolitan Songs”; Melanie L. Marshall, “Imitating the Rustic and Revealing the Noble: Masculine Power and Music at the Court of Ferrara”; Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, “‘The Ways’ (I Modi) of Black- Note Erotica”; Laurie Stras, “‘Non è sì denso velo’: Hidden and Forbidden Practice in Wert’s Ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1586)”; Linda Phyllis Austern, “‘Lo Here I Burn’: Musical Figurations and Fantasies of Male Desire in Early Modern England”; Wendy Heller, “Ovid’s Ironic Gaze: Voyeurism, Rape, and Male Desire in Cavalli’s La Calisto”; Catherine Gordon- Seifert, “‘Precious’ Eroticism and Hidden Morality: Salon Culture and the Mid-Seventeenth- Century French Air”; and Alan Howard, “Eroticized Mourning in Henry Purcell’s Elegy for Mary II, O dive custos.”

Bloemendal, Jan, ed. Bilingual Europe: Latin and Vernacular Cultures, Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300–1800. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 239. Leiden: Brill, 2015. x + 238 pp. $149. ISBN: 978-90-04-28962-8.

Includes: Jan Bloemendal, “Introduction: Bilingualism, Multilingualism and the Formation of Europe”; Arie Schippers, “Hispania, Italia and Occitania: Latin and the Vernaculars, Bilingualism or Multilingualism?”; Ari Wesseling, “Latin and the Vernaculars: The Case of Erasmus”; Arjan C. van Dixhoorn, “The Multilingualism of Dutch Rhetoricians: Jan van den Dale’s Uure van den doot (Brussels, c. 1516) and the Use of Language”; Demmy Verbeke, “Types of Bilingual Presentation in the English-Latin Terence”; Eva Del Soldato, “An Aristotelian at the Academy: Simone Porzio and the Problem of Philosophical Vulgarisation”; Ingrid Rowland, “Science and Rhetoric from Giordano Bruno’s Cena de le Ceneri to Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems”; Guillaume van Gemert, “Vom Aristarchus zur Jesuiten-Poesie: Zum dynamischen Wechselbezug von Latein und Landessprache in den deutschen Landen in der Frühen Neuzeit / From Aristarch to Jesuit Poetry: The Shifting Interrelation between Latin and the Vernacular in the German Lands in Early Modern Times”; H. Floris Cohen, “From Philosophia Naturalis to Science, from Latin to the Vernacular”; Wiep van Bunge, “The Use of the Vernacular in Early Modern Philosophy”; Françoise Waquet, “Le bilinguisme dans l’Université du XVIIIe siècle / Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century University”; and Joep T. Leerssen, “Latinitas Goes Native: The Philological Turn and Jacob Grimm’s De desiderio patriae (1830).”

Boucheron, Patrick, and Stéphane Gioanni, eds. La memoria di Ambrogio di Milano: Usi politici di una autorità patristica in Italia (secc. V-XVIII). Collection de l’École française de Rome 503; Historie ancienne et médiévale 133; Série du LAMOP 2. Rome: Publications de la Sorbonne; École française de Rome, 2015. 632 pp. €40. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1131-6.

Includes: Patrick Boucheron et Stéphane Gioanni, “Introduction: Gouverner, prier et combattre avec les Pères en Italie (Ve-XVIIIe siècle): Pour une histoire politique de la mémoire d’Ambroise”; Silvia Lusuardi Siena, Elisabetta Neri, and Paola Greppi, “Le chiese di Ambrogio e Milano: Ambito topografico ed evoluzione costruttiva dal punto di vista archeologico”; Simone Piazza, “Il volto di Ambrogio: La fortuna del modello paleocristiano e alcune varianti altomedievali”; Vivien Prigent, “Une bulle de plomb à l’effigie de saint Ambroise”; Guido Cariboni, “L’iconografia ambrosiana in rapporto al sorgere e al primo svilupparsi della signoria viscontea”; Annalisa Albuzzi, “La barba di Ambrogio: Iconografia, erudizione agiografica e propaganda nella Milano dei due Borromeo”; Camille Gerzaguet, “La ‘mémoire textuelle’ d’Ambroise de Milan en Italie : Manuscrits, centres de diffusion, voies de transmission (Ve-XIIe siècle)”; Stéphane Gioanni, “Augustin, Paulin, Ennode et les origines de la mémoire d’Ambroise (Ve-VIe siècles): Une nouvelle fondation de l’Église de Milan?”; Claire Sotinel, “Ne pas se souvenir d’Ambroise: L’effacement de la référence ambrosienne en Italie du Nord au VIe siècle”; Alessio Peršič, “Aquileia e Ambrogio dopo Ambrogio: La difesa rufiniana delle ‘adiecta’ locali al Simbolo contraddette da Ambrogio e la relazione critica-imitativa dell’inno ‘In sanctorum Petri et Pauli’ del patriarca poeta Paolino II con il rispettivo modello ambrosiano”; Paolo Tomea, “L’immagine e l’ombra di Ambrogio nell’agiografia ‘italiana’ dei sec. V- XI”; Roberto Bellini, “I frammenti di Ambrogio nelle fonti canonistiche: Nuove prospettive di studio”; Cesare Alzati, “Genesi e metamorfosi della tradizione ambrosiana”; Marco Petoletti, “Le lettere di Martino Corbo ‘Ambrosiani saporis amicus’: Vicende politiche e filologia nella Milano del sec. XII”; Miriam Rita Tessera, “La memoria di Ambrogio a Milano nei secoli X-XI”; Fabrice Delivré, “Ambroise, le schisme et l’hérésie (XIe-XIIe siècles)”; Paolo Grillo, “Sant’Ambrogio e la memoria della Milano tardo-imperiale durante l’età comunale”; Patrick Boucheron, “Les combattants d’Ambroise: Commémorations et luttes politiques à la fin du Moyen Âge”; Isabelle Fabre et Marie Formarier, “Les Carmina de rebus divinis de Marcantonio Flaminio (1550): La lyrique ambrosienne au service de la Réforme?”; Marie Lezowski, “Le sceau d’Ambroise : L’exemplaire dans l’épiscopat de Charles Borromée”; Marco Navoni, “Giovanni Andrea Irico: Un erudito del Settecento rilegge la figura di Ambrogio”; and Cesare Alzati, “Riflessioni conclusive.”

Brooks, Julian, ed. Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action. With Denise Allen and Xavier F. Salomon. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. xiv + 222 pp. $59. ISBN: 978-1- 60606-438-2.

Includes: Yvonne Szafran and Sue Ann Chui, “A Perfectionist Revealed: The Resourceful Methods of Andrea del Sarto”; Dominique Cordellier, “Drawings by Andre del Sarto after Ancient and Modern Sources”; Marzia Faietti, “The Red-Chalk Drawings of Andrea del Sarto: Linear Form and Luminous Naturalism”; Sanne Wellen, “The Shortcomings of the ‘Pittore Senza Errori’: Andrea del Sarto in Vasari’s Lives”; and Alessandro Cecchi, “Andrea del Sarto in the Medici Collections.”

Brownlee, Victoria, and Laura Gallagher, eds. Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550–1700. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xii + 252 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190- 9155-1.

Includes: Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher, “Introduction: Discovering Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550–1700”; Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher, “Overview: Reading Old Testament Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1700”; Elizabeth Hodgson, “A ‘Paraditian Creature’: Eve and Her Unsuspecting Garden in Seventeenth Century Literature”; Adrian Streete, “Christian Liberty and Female Rule: Exegesis and Political Controversy in the 1550s”; Michele Osherow, “Wives, Fears and Foreskins: Early Modern Reproach of Zipporah and Michal”; Alison Thorne, “The Politics of Female Supplication in the Book of Esther”; Danielle Clarke, “Gender and the Inculcation of Virtue: The Book of Proverbs in Action”; Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher, “Overview: Reading New Testament Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1700”; Beatrice Groves, “Christ’s Tears and Maternal Cannibalism in Early Modern London”; Thomas Rist, “Mary of Recusants and Reform: Literary Memory and Defloration”; Laura Gallagher, “Stabat mater dolorosa: Imagining Mary’s Grief at the Cross”; Lisa Hopkins, “St Helena of Britain in the Land of the Magdalene: All’s Well That Ends Well”; Victoria Brownlee, ”Imagining the Enemy: Protestant Readings of the Whore of Babylon in Early Modern England, c.1580–1625“; and Dympna Callaghan, “Afterword.”

Chiari, Sophie, ed. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xxii + 260 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4915-3.

Includes: Gordon McMullan, “Foreword: Transgression and Transmission in the Shrew Plays”; Sophie Chiari, “General Introduction”; Richard Wilson, “Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans”; David Levin, “Shakespeare’s Paradoxes of Excellence”; Jonathan Pollock, “Shakespeare and the Atomist Heritage”; Anne-Valérie Dulac, “Hilliard and Sidney’s ‘Rule of the Eye’”; Christophe Hausermann, “Mercurial Apprentices in City Comedies”; Chantal Schütz, “The Courtesan and Her Mother in Middleton’s A Mad World, my Masters”; Claire Guéron, “Rumour and Second-Hand Knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing”; Roy Eriksen, “Marlowe’s Political Balancing Act: Religion and translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B)”; François Laroque, “Magic, Manipulation and Misrule in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure”; Joseph Sterrett, “Shakespeare and the Violation of Sanctuary”; Noam Reisner, “Limited Being: Revising Hamlet in The Revenger’s Tragedy”; Sarah Annes Brown, “Cephalus and Procris: The Transmission of a Myth in Early Modern England”; Laetitia Sansonetti, “Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”; Pierre Kapitaniak, “From Intertextual to Gender Transgression in Middleton’s The Witch”; Denis Lagae- Devoldère, “‘Transversing’ and ‘Transprosing’: The Case of George Villiers’s The Rehearsal (1671)”; Livia Segurado, “Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpão’s Romeu e Julieta”; and Ewan Fernie, “Afterword: ‘Love’s Transgression.’”

Clifton, James, Liesbeth M. Helmus, and Arthur K. Jr. Wheelock, eds. Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxvi + 210 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0- 691-16606-3.

Includes: Liesbeth M. Helmus, “Introduction: A Surprising and Diverse Life: Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638)”; Anne W. Lowenthal, “Desire and Devotion in Wtewael’s Art”; Liesbeth M. Helmus, “Love and Passion: Wtewael’s Personal Statement”; James Clifton, “Hastening to See Christ: Religious Painting in an Age of Conflict”; Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., “Wtewael’s Historical Reputation”; and Stijn Alsteens, “Wtewael as Draftsman.”

Costa, Palmira Fontes da, ed. Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xxiv + 280 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3123-3.

Includes: Palmira Fontes da Costa, “Introduction”; Jon Arrizabalaga, “Garcia de Orta in the Context of the Sephardic Diaspora”; Michael Pearson, “Locating Garcia de Orta in the Port City of Goa and the Indian Ocean World”; Ines G. Županov, “Garcia de Orta’s Colóquios: Context and Afterlife of a Dialogue”; Inês de Ornellas e Castro, “A ‘Pleasant Banquet of Words’: Therapeutic Virtues and Alimentary Consumption in Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India”; Isabel Soler and Juan Pimentel, “Between Science and Philology: Taxonomy of Errors in Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies”; Hugh Cagle, “Cultures of Inquiry, Myths of Empire: Natural History in Colonial Goa”; Harold J. Cook, “Trading in Medical Simples and Developing the New Science: de Orta and His Contemporaries”; António Manuel Lopes Andrade, “Garcia de Orta and Amato Lusitano’s Views on Materia Medica: A Comparative Perspective”; Florike Egmond, “Figuring Exotic Nature in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Garcia de Orta and Carolus Clusius”; José Pardo Tomás, “East Indies, West Indies: Garcia de Orta and the Spanish Treatises on Exotic Materia Medica”; Timothy D. Walker, “‘Enduring Echoes of Garcia de Orta’: The Royal Hospital Gardens in Goa and Evolving Hybridization in Portuguese Colonial Medical Culture”; Palmira Fontes da Costa, “Identity and the Construction of Memory in Representations of Garcia de Orta”; and Andrew Cunningham, “Afterword.”

Demetriou, Tania, and Rowan Cerys Tomlinson, eds. The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500–1660. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 232 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-40148-9.

Includes: Tania Demetriou and Rowan Tomlinson, “‘Abroad in Mens Hands’: The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France”; Warren Boutcher, “From Cultural Translation to Cultures of Translation? Early Modern Readers, Sellers, and Patrons”; Glyn P. Norton, “Francis I’s Royal Readers: Translation and the Triangulation of Power in early Renaissance France (1533– 34)”; Neil Rhodes, “Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England”; Paul White, “From Commentary to Translation: Figurative Representations of the Text in the French Renaissance”; Tania Demetriou, “Periphrōn Penelope and her Early Modern Translations”; Patricia Palmer, “Richard Stanihurst’s Aeneis and the English of Ireland”; Edward Wilson-Lee, “Women’s Weapons: Country House Diplomacy in the Countess of Pembroke’s French Translations”; Kirsti Sellevold, “‘Peradventure’ in Florio’s Montaigne”; John O’Brien, “Translating Scepticism and Transferring Knowledge in Montaigne’s House;” Anne Lake Prescott, “Urquhart’s Inflationary Universe”; and Terence Cave, “Epilogue.”

DeSilva, Jennifer Mara, ed. The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World: Studies and Sources. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. x + 326 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1826-5.

Includes: Jennifer Mara DeSilva, “Introduction: ‘Piously made’: Sacred Space and the Transformation of Behavior”; Jennifer Mara DeSilva, “Preventing Sloth and Preserving the Liturgy: Organizing Sacred Space in Sixteenth-Century Rome”; Rebecca Constabel, “Piety, Patronage, and Power: Funerary Sculpture in Sixteenth-Century France”; Pamela A.V. Stewart, “Ritual Viewing in the Chapel of Corpus Christi: Bernardino Luini’s Passion Cycle at San Giorgio al Palazzo, Milan”; Annick Delfosse, “From Rome to the Southern Netherlands: Spectacular Sceneries to Celebrate the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier”; Abel A. Alves, “The Sanctification of Nature in Marian Shrines in Catalonia: Contextualizing Human Desires in a Mediterranean Cult”; John M. Hunt, “The Pope’s Two Souls and the Space of Ritual Protest during Rome’s Sede Vacante, 1559–1644”; Eric Nelson, “Defining the Sacred in the Community: Iconoclasm, Renewal and Remembrance at the Basilica of Saint Martin in Tours”; Celeste McNamara, “Extending the Boundaries of the Sacred in Seventeenth-Century Padua”; Emily F. Winerock, “Churchyard Capers: The Controversial Use of Church Space for Dancing in Early Modern England”; and David Stiles, “The Imperial Horrification of Jesuit Frontier Sacred Space in South America, 1750–67.”

Doran, Susan, and Paulina Kewes. Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. xvi + 320 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8606-9.

Includes: Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes, “Introduction: A Historiographical Perspective”; Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes, “The Earlier Elizabethan Succession Question Revisited”; Paulina Kewes, “The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean Succession”; Peter Lake and Michael Questier, “Taking It to the Street? The Archpriest Controversy and the Issue of the Succession”; Patrick Collinson, “Bishop Richard Bancroft and the Succession”; Alexandra Gajda, “Essex and the ‘Popish Plot’”; Alexander Courtney, “The Scottish King and the English Court: The Secret Correspondence of James VI, 1601–3”; Arnold Hunt, “The Succession in Sermons, News and Rumour”; Richard Dutton, “Hamlet and Succession”; Richard A. McCabe, “The Poetics of Succession, 1587–1605: The Stuart Claim”; Susan Doran, “Polemic and Prejudice: A Scottish King for an English Throne”; Rory Rapple, “Brinkmanship and Bad Luck: Ireland, the Nine Years’ War and the Succession”; Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, “A View from Abroad: Continental Powers and the Succession”; R. Malcolm Smuts, “States, Monarchs and Dynastic Transitions: The Political Thought of John Hayward”; and Blair Worden, “Afterword.”

Engammare, Max, ed. Études Rabelaisiennes, Tome LIV. Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 538. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 132 pp. $98.40. ISBN: 978-2-600-01830-2.

Includes: Tristan Vigliano, “Le pantagruélisme est-il un paganisme? Rabelais et l’amour des ennemis”; Eric M. MacPhail, “Rabelais and the Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism”; Raphael Cappellen, “Rabelais entre bibliophilie et lecture érudite: Sur un exemplaire du Tiers Livre de 1552”; Jonathan Patterson, “Rabelais’s Uncommon Villains: A Reinterpretation of Quart Livre 45-7”; and François Rouget, “Avantage Saint-Gelais: Retour sur l’attribution de l’‘Enigme en prophétie’ (Gargantua, chap. 58).”

Fuchs, Barbara, and Emily Weissbourd, eds. Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean. The UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 282 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4902-6.

Includes: Ania Loomba, “Mediterranean Borderlands and the Global Early Modern”; Palmira Brummett, “Mapping Trans-Imperial Ottoman Space: Movement, Genre, Temporality, Ethnography of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Larry Silver, “Europe’s Turkish Nemesis”; Carina Johnson, “The Houses of Habsburg and Osman: Rivals, Mirrors, Internecine Families”; Andrew W. Devereux, “‘The ruin and slaughter of … fellow Christians’: The French as Threat to Christendom in Spanish Assertions of Sovereignty in Italy, 1479–1516”; Elizabeth R. Wright, “Modern War, Ancient Form: Lessons from Lepanto for a Latin Seminar in Post-Bellum Granada”; Thomas Dandelet, “Imperial Anxiety, the Roman Mirror, and the Neapolitan Academy of the Duke of Medinaceli, 1696–1701”; Jane Degenhardt, “Meta-Theater and the Mediterranean”; Eric Griffin, “Copying ‘the Anti-Spaniard’: Post-Armada Hispanophobia and English Renaissance Drama”; Emily Weissbourd, “The Spanish Empire in Webster’s Italianate Drama”; Brian Lockey, “The Pope’s Scholars: Papal Supremacy and the 1579 Student Revolt at the English College in Rome”; and William Goldman, “Seeing Spain through Darkened Eyes: The Black Legend and Cornwallis’ Mission to Spain, 1605–1609.”

Fuhring, Peter, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach, eds. A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660–1715. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2015. xii + 332 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-1-60606-450-4.

Includes: Thomas W. Gaehtghens, “Foreword”; Bruno Racine, “Foreword”; Thomas W. Gaehtgens, “The Arts in the Service of the King’s Glory”; Maxime Préaud, “Printmaking under Louis XIV”; Vanessa Selbach, “What Is a Print? The Fabrication of Images”; Rémi Mathis, “What Is a Printmaker?”; Peter Fuhring, “Publishers, Sellers, and the Market”; Véronique Meyer, “Collectors and Collecting Prints”; and Louis Marchesano, “On the Critical Fortune of Girard Audran and Gérard Edelinck.”

Hamilton, Michelle M., and Núria Silleras-Fernández. In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies. Hispanic Issues 41. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. xxviii + 306 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8265-2030-2.

Includes: Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández, “Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction”; Brian A. Catlos, “Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval ‘Spain,’ and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed”; Gerard Wiegers, “The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective”; Manuela Marín, “The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa’ bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family”; Nicholas M. Parmley, “Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio”; Simone Pinet, “Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander”; Vicente Lledó- Guillem, “The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner’s Crónica”; Andrew W. Devereux, “Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479–1516”; Josiah Blackmore, “Singing the Scene of History in Fernão Lopes”; Eleazar Gutwirth, “The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes: Historiography and the ‘Marvelous’ in the Sixteenth Century”; David A. Wacks, “Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora”; Ryan D. Giles, “Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza”; Luis F. Avilés, “Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in Cervantes’s El amante liberal”; Barbara Fuchs, “Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes’s Drama of Captivity”; and Luis Martín- Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini, “Afterword: Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective.”

Harreld, Donald J., ed. A Companion to the Hanseatic League. Brill’s Companions to European History 8. Leiden: Brill, 2015. viii + 278 pp. $142. ISBN: 978-90-04-28288-9.

Includes: Donald J. Harreld, “Introduction”; Rolf Hammel-Kiesow, “The Early Hansas”; Jürgen Sarnowsky, “The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League”; Michael North, “The Hanseatic League in the Early Modern Period”; Mike Burkhardt, “Kontors and Outposts”; Ulf Christian Ewert and Stephan Selzer, “Social Networks”; and Carsten Jahnke, “The Baltic Trade.”

Knight, Sarah, and Stefan Tilg, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii + 614 pp. $150. ISBN: 978-0-19-994817-8.

Includes: Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg, “Introduction”; Keith Sidwell, “Classical Latin — Mediaeval Latin — Neo-Latin”; Demmy Verbeke, “Neo-Latin’s Interplay with Other Languages”; Victoria Moul, “Lyric Poetry”; Florian Schaffenrath, “Narrative Poetry”; David Money, “Epigram and Occasional Poetry”; Stefan Tilg, “Comedy”; Gary Grund, “Tragedy”; Marc Van Der Poel, “Oratory”; Erik de Bom, “Political Advice”; Patrick Baker, “Historiography”; Jan Papy, “Letters”; Mark T. Riley, “Fiction”; Ingrid De Smet, “Satire”; Robert Black, “School”; Sarah Knight, “University”; Guido Giglioni, “Philosophy”; Brian Ogilvie, “Science and Medicine”; Dag Nikolaus Hasse, “Contacts with the Arab World”; Andrew Taylor, “Biblical Humanism”; Jason Harris, “Catholicism”; Irena Backus, “Protestantism”; Marc Laureys, “Political Action”; Diana Robin, “Gender”; Françoise Waquet, “Social Status”; David Marsh, “Italy”; Paul White, “France”; Estelle Haan, “British Isles”; Robert Seidel, “German-Speaking Countries”; Alejandro Coroleu and Catarina Fouto, “Iberian Peninsula”; Dirk Sacré, “Low Countries”; Peter Zeeberg and Annika Ström, “Scandinavia”; Cristina Neagu, “East-Central Europe”; Andrew Laird, “Colonial Spanish America and Brazil”; Jean-François Cottier, Haijo Westra, and John Gallucci, “North America”; Noël Golvers, “Asia”; and Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg, “General References.”

LaGuardia, David P., and Cathy M. Yandell, eds. Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 5337-2.

Includes: David LaGuardia, “Two Queens, a Dog, and a Purloined Letter: On Memory as a Discursive Phenomenon in Late Renaissance France”; Brooke Di Lauro, “‘M’en souvenant, je m’oblie moymesmes’: Délie as Memento Mori”; Amy C. Graves-Monroe, “Soundscapes of the Wars of Religion: Sensory Crisis and the Collective Memory of Violence”; Hope Glidden, “Communities Under Siege: Léry, Famine, and the Cannibal Within”; Kathleen P. Long, “Fathers and Sons: Paternity, Memory, and Community in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Histoire Universelle”; Andrea Frisch, “Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Tragiques as Testimony”; George Hoffmann, “From Communion to Communication: The Creation of a Reformation Public through Satire”; Dora E. Polachek, “Brantôme’s Dames illustres: Remembering Marguerite de Navarre”; Nicolas Russell, “How Memory Constitutes Nations in Louis Le Roy’s Vicissitude”; Elisabeth Hodges, “Montaigne and the Will Not to Forget”; Marian Rothstein, “Memory and Forgetting in Louis Le Roy’s Presentation of the Androgyne”; Cathy Yandell, “Cannibalism and Cognition in Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage”; Marcus Keller, “The Struggle for Cultural Memory in Ronsard’s Discours des misères de ce temps”; and Virginia Krause, “Witchcraft and Subjectivity: The Trial of the Witches of Marlou (1582–83).”

Le Blanc, Charles, and Luisa Simonutti, eds. Le masque de l’écriture: Philosophie et traduction de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 539. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. xiv + 846 pp. $110.40. ISBN: 978-2-600-01694-0.

Includes: C. Le Blanc et L. Simonutti, “Préface”; C. Le Blanc, “Philosophie, traduction, histoire”; M. Vittori, “Renaissance, Contre-Réforme et Siècle des Lumières : Tradition et traduction”; S.U. Baldassarri, “Humanisme et traduction durant la Contre-Réforme: Girolamo Catena”; I. Ferron, “Luther et la germanisation de la Bible”; J.-K. Sohn, “Ronsard, apologiste de la liberté de traduire”; F. Dell’Omodarme, “Ficin traducteur de Psellus”; R. Ragghianti, “La Boétie et Montaigne: La Mesnagerie de Xénophon et la ‘légende socratique’”; N. Panichi, “Montaigne traducteur de Sebond”; M. Engammare, “Jean Calvin et l’hébreu”; F. Lelli, “La version hébraique abrégée des Voyages de Jean de Mandeville réalisée par Yohanan Alemanno”; A. Del Prete, “Le De interpretatione de Pierre- Daniel Huet: Entre tradition humaniste et critique scripturaire”; G. Bartolucci, “Marsile Ficin traducteur de lui-même: Le cas de Christiana Religione”; M. Turchetti, “‘Politique’ dans la terminologie latine de Jean Bodin, auteur des Six livres de la République (1576)”; G. Ernst, “‘Voces propter res, non res propter voces’: Campanella traducteur de lui-même”; M. Turchetti, “Thomas Hobbes traducteur de lui-même: Les deux versions du Leviathan et les deux procès, du roi et des régicides”; C. Baffioni, “Nā ir-e Khosrow traducteur des Ikhwān al- afā’?”; A. Cagnolati, “Comenius et le débat sur la langue universelle”; G. Dragnea Horvath, “Philosophie, magie de la parole, encyclopédie: La Tipocosmiaṣ d’Alessandro Citolini”; L. Simonutti,Ṣ “Les traductions de Machiavel en Angleterre”; S. Bassi, “‘Aller au fond des pensées’: Giordano Bruno et les traductions”; L. Bianchi, “L’instruction des princes dans l’Europe du XVIIe siècle: La traduction italienne (1677) des écrits pour le prince de La Mothe Le Vayer”; F. A. Cappelletti, “Sorbière traducteur de Hobbes: L’irruption du politique en traduction”; J.-L. Breteau, “Les Platoniciens de Cambridge traducteurs”; M. Spallanzani, “Les mots et les pensées: Sur la première traduction latine du Discours de la Méthode”; G. Belgioioso, “Descartes: Traduction, vérité et langue universelle”; L. Delia, “Descartes et la traduction latine de la morale par provision”; D. Donna, “La part de Descartes dans la traduction de ses oeuvres: Du Discours de la Méthode à la Dissertatio de Methodo”; C. Santinelli, “Spinoza ‘traducteur’ des Principia philosophiae cartesii”; S. Brogi, “Verbum sermo ratio: Lectures hétérodoxes du logos de Jean entre les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles”; M. Favaretti Camposampiero, “Leibniz et la traduction universelle”; M. Favaretti Camposampiero, “Théorie du langage et philosophie de la traduction chez Christian Wolff”; J.-M. Vienne, “Traduction et théorie du langage chez Locke”; L. Simonutti, “Locke traducteur de Nicole: Of the Weaknesse of Man”; F. Lomonaco, “Vico, traducteur de Le Clerc”; P. Schiavo, “Les Epistolæ pseudo-hippocratiques: Entre traduction, tradition et translation”; D. Pfanner, “Lucrèce en Angleterre: Echos et traductions du poème lucrétien au XVIIe siècle en Angleterre”; R. Minuti, “L’image de l’islam au XVIIIe siècle entre érudition et vulgarisation: Notes sur la traduction française du De religione mahommedica d’Adriaan Reeland”; E. Barilier, “Terrible merveille”; S. Richter, “Une Antiquité controversée et diversement adaptée: L’Ars poetica d’Horace dans les commentaires et la poétique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles”; F. Ervas, “La question de l’équivalence dans la traduction”; S. Poggi, “Vingt ans après: Alexander von Humboldt se réécrit et se traduit lui-même”; and I. Ferron, “Wilhelm von Humboldt et le paradigme de la traduction.”

Lennox, Patricia, and Bella Mirabella, eds. Shakespeare and Costume. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xviii + 292 pp. $112. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2507-9.

Includes: Patricia Lennox and Bella Mirabella, “Introduction”; Russell Jackson, “Brief Overview: A Stage History of Shakespeare and Costume”; Maria Hayward, “‘The Compass of a Lie’? Royal Clothing at Court and in the Plays of Shakespeare, 1598–1613”; Erika T. Lin, “Suits of Green: Festive Livery on Shakespeare’s Stage”; Catherine Richardson, “‘Honest Clothes’ in The Merry Wives of Windsor”; Natasha Korda, “How to Do Things with Shoes”; Bella Mirabella, “‘Apparel oft Proclaims the Man’: Dressing Othello on the English Renaissance Stage”; Russell Jackson, “The Stylish Shepherd, or, What to Wear in As You Like It’s Forest of Arden”; Patricia Lennox, “How Designers Helped Juliet’s Nurse Reclaim her Bawdy”; Kate Dorney, “Shakespeare Stripped: Costuming Prisoner-of-War Entertainments and Cabaret”; and Joan Greenwood and Robert Morgan, “The Designers.”

Lichtert, Katrien, Jan Dumolyn, and Maximiliaan P.J Martens, eds. Portraits of the City: Representing Urban Space in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Studies in European Urban History (1100– 1800) 31. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. vi + 200 pp. €79. ISBN: 978-2-503-55226-2.

Includes: Katrien Lichtert, Jan Dumolyn, and Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, “Images, Maps, Texts: Reading the Meanings of the Later Medieval and Early Modern City”; Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Elien Vernackt, “The Digital Thematic Deconstruction of Historic Town Views and Maps”; Petra Maclot, “A Portrait Unmasked: The Iconology of the Birds’-Eye View of Antwerp by Virgilius Bononiensis (1565) as a Source for Typological Research of Private Buildings in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Antwerp”; Eva Chodějovská and Jiří Krejčí, “Eighteenth-Century Prague: Joseph Daniel Huber’s ‘images’ of the Capital City of Bohemia”; Jelle de Rock, “The Image of the City Quantified: The Serial Analysis of Pictorial Representations of Urbanity in Early Netherlandish Art (1420–1520)”; Katrien Lichtert, “The Artist, the City and the Urban Theatre: Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Battle between Shrovetide and Lent’ (1559) Reconsidered”; Oliver G. Kik, “Bramante in the North: Imag(in)ing Antiquity in the Low Countries (1500–1539)”; Cecilia Paredes, “Pavie, Bruxelles, Barcelone et Tunis: Quelques portraits de villes dans les tapisseries de Charles Quint”; Maria Clelia Galassi, “Topography and Mythological Transfiguration in Two Sixteenth-Century Flemish Cityscapes of Genoa: A Painting by Jan Massys and an Etching by Anton van den Wyngaerde”; Silvia Beltramo, “Describing and ‘Mapping the Town’ Using Iconographic and Literary Sources: Cities in the Late Middle Ages in Italy”; Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, “A Venetian City View of Constantinople: Mapping the City”; Sarah Van Ooteghem, “‘There we will see many views that will inspire us to create landscapes’: The Use of Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Artists’ Roman Vedute as Historical Sources”; and Megan K. Williams, “Lux Patentissima and World Piazza: Early Modern Diplomatic Portraits of Rome.”

Maryks, Robert A., and Jonathan Wright, eds. Jesuit Survival and Restoration: A Global History, 1773–1900. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 178. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxii + 530 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-28238-4.

Includes: Robert A. Maryks and Jonathan Wright, “Introduction”; Thomas Worcester, S.J., “A Restored Society or a New Society of Jesus?”; Robert Danieluk, S.J., “Some Remarks on Jesuit Historiography 1773–1814”; Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, “Before and After Suppression: Jesuits and Former Jesuits in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, c.1750–1795”; Marek Inglot, S.J., “The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1772–1820) and the Restoration of the Order”; Carolyn C. Guile, “Sebastian Sierakowski, S.J. and the Language of Architecture: A Jesuit Life during the Era of Suppression and Restoration”; Jeffrey Chipps Smith, “The Jesuits Artistic Diaspora in Germany after 1773”; Paul Shore, “Enduring the Deluge: Hungarian Jesuit Astronomers from Suppression to Restoration”; Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., “‘Est et Non Est’: Jesuit Corporate Survival in England after the Suppression”; Niccolò Guasti, “The Exiled Spanish Jesuits and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus, Inmaculada Fernández Arrillage”; Eva Fontana Castelli, “The Society of Jesus Under Another Name: The Paccanarists in the Restored Society of Jesus”; Emanuele Colombo, “Jesuit at Heart: Luigi Mozzi de’ Capitani (1746-1813) Between Suppression and Restoration”; Frédéric Conrod, “The Romantic Historian under Charles X: Evaluating Jesuit Restoration in Charles Laumier’s Résumé de l’Histoire des Jésuites”; Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, “Jesuit Survival and Restoration in China”; Paul Rule, “Restoration or Re-creation? The Return of the Society of Jesus to China”; César Guillen-Nuñez, “Rising from the Ashes: The Gothic Revival and the Architecture of the New Society of Jesus in China and Macao”; Paul Mariani, S.J., “The Phoenix Rises from its Ashes: The Restoration of the Jesuit Shanghai Mission”; Jeremy Clarke, S.J., “The Chinese Rites Controversy’s Long Shadow over the Restored Society of Jesus”; Sabina Pavone, “The Province of Madurai Between the Old and New Society of Jesus”; Daniel Schlafly, “The ‘Russian’ Society and the American Jesuits: Giovanni Grassi’s Crucial Role”; John Meehan, S.J. and Jacques Monet, S.J., “The Restoration in Canada: An Enduring Patrimony”; Andrés I. Prieto, “Jesuit Tradition and the Rise of South-American Nationalism”; Ignacio Telesca, “The First Return of the Jesuits to Paraguay”; Perla Chinchilla Pawling, “Jesuit Restoration in Mexico”; Festo Mkenda, S.J., “Early Departure, Late Return: An Overview of the Jesuits in Africa during the Suppression and after the Restoration”; Aquinata N. Agonga, “Hoping Against all Hope: The Survival of the Jesuits in Southern Africa (1875–1900)”; and Jean-Luc Enyeque, S.J., “The Jesuits in Fernando Po (1858– 1872): An Incomplete Mission.”

Meek, Richard, and Erin Sullivan, eds. The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xii + 276 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9078-3.

Includes: Richard Meek and Erin Sullivan, “Introduction”; Erin Sullivan, “The Passions of Thomas Wright: Renaissance Emotion across Body and Soul”; David Bagchi, “‘The scripture moveth us in sundry places’: Framing Biblical Emotions in the Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies”; Sara Coodin, “‘This was a way to thrive’: Christian and Jewish Eudaimonism in The Merchant of Venice”; Mary Ann Lund, “Robert Burton, Perfect Happiness and the visio dei”; Nigel Wood, “Spleen in Shakespeare’s Comedies”; Richard Meek, “‘Rue e’en for ruth’: Richard II and the Imitation of Sympathy”; Richard Chamberlain, “What’s Happiness in Hamlet?”; Andy Kesson, “‘They that tread in a maze’: Movement as Emotion in John Lyly”; Ann Kaegi, “(S)wept from Power: Two Versions of Tyrannicide in Richard III”; Frederika Bain, “The Affective Scripts of Early Modern Execution and Murder”; R. S. White and Ciara Rawnsley, “Discrepant Emotional Awareness in Shakespeare”; and Peter Holbrook, “Afterword.”

Moelants, Dirk, ed. Improvising Early Music: The History of Musical Improvisation from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Baroque. Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 134 pp. €34.50. ISBN: 978-90-5867-997-0.

Includes: Rob C. Wegman, “What is Counterpoint?”; Johannes Menke, “‘Ex centro’ Improvisation: Sketches for a Theory of Sound Progressions in the Early Baroque”; and Peter Schubert, “From Improvisation to Composition: Three Sixteenth Century Case Studies.”

Mulryne, J. R., Maria Ines Aliverti, and Anna Maria Testaverde, eds. Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power. European Festival Studies: 1450–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xvi + 388 pp. $149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3203-2.

Includes: J.R. Mulryne, “Introduction: Ceremony and the Iconography of Power”; Richard Cooper, “The Theme of War in French Renaissance Entries”; Linda Briggs, “‘Concernant le service de leurs dictes Majestez et auctorité de leur justice’ Perceptions of Royal Power in the Entries of Charles IX and Catherine de Médicis (1564–1566)”; Margaret M. McGowan, “Henri IV as Architect and Restorer of the State: His Entry into Rouen, 16 October 1596”; Marie-Claude Canova-Green, “Warrior King or King of War? Louis XIII’s Entries into his Bonnes Villes (1620–1629)”; Anna Maria Testaverde, “‘Entrate, onoranze, esequie et altre cose’: The Book of Ceremonies of Francesco Tongiarini (1536– 1612)"; Lucia Nuti, "Re-Moulding the City: The Roman Possessi in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century’; Iain Fenlon, “Theories of Decorum: Music and the Italian Renaissance Entry”; Julia de la Torre Fazio, “The Grand Entry of Elizabeth of Valois into Spain (1559)”; Veronika Sandbichler, “Elements of Power in Court Festivals of Habsburg Emperors in the Sixteenth Century”; Jacek Żukowski, “Ephemeral Architecture in the Service of Vladislaus IV Vasa”; Margaret Shewring, “The Iconography of Populism: Waterborne Entries to London for Anne Boleyn (1533), Catherine of Braganza (1662) and Elizabeth II (2012)”; Sara Trevisan, “The Golden Fleece of the London Drapers’ Company: Politics and Iconography in Early Modern Lord Mayor’s Shows”; Lucinda H.S. Dean, “Enter the Alien: Foreign Consorts and their Royal Entries into Scottish Cities, c. 1449– 1590”; and Andrea Sommer-Mathis, “A Survey of Recent Research on Renaissance Festivals in the German-speaking Area.”

Payne, Alina, ed. Vision and Its Instruments: Art, Science, and Technology in Early Modern Europe. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xii + 288 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-271- 06389-8.

Includes: Alina Payne, “Introduction”; Lorraine Daston, “Epistemic Images”; Sachiko Kusukawa, “Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner”; Catherine Wilson, “Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science”; Frank Fehrenbach, “Leonardo’s Point”; Alina Payne, “Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture”; Gerhard Wolf, “Dante’s Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy”; Carla Mazzio, “The Invisible Element in Art: Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne”; Nicola Suthor, “‘Art on the Tip of the Brush’: A Blind Manœuvre? Reflections on Correggio’s Brush, Arent de Gelder’s Spatula, and Pietro Testa’s Figure of Practice”; Karin Leonhard, “White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory”; Claudia Swan, “Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art”; Michael Cole, “Sculpture Before Photography”; and Victoria I. Stoichita, “From Alberti’s Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film.”

Pierno, Franco, ed. The Church and the Languages of Italy before the Council of Trent. Toronto Studies in Romance Philology 3. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. x + 320 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-88844-192-8.

Includes: Franco Pierno, “Introduction”; Francesco Bruni, “Parola udita, parola letta: Modi di collaborazione con l’autore in alcune testualità religiose”; Vittorio Coletti, “L’italiano e il modello omiletico di due predicatori a confronto: San Bernardino e Girolamo Savonarola”; Giuseppe Polimeni, “Il Sermone di Pietro da Barsegapè: Appunti sugli esordi della poesia in volgare milanese”; Raymund Wilhelm and Miriam Wittum, “Errori, reinterpretazioni e riformulazioni: Osservazioni sulle varianti nella tradizione manoscritta della Vita di santa Margarita lombarda”; Wanda Santini, “Appunti per un approccio sintattico-testuale alla lingua del volgarizzamento delle Vite die santi padri”; Rita Librandi, “La Bibbia riportata da Caterina da Siena”; Carla Damnotti, “La lingua religiosa a Venezia nel primo Cinquecento: Il Giardino de oratione”; Dorothea Kullmann, “Early Italian Poetry and the Language of the laude”; Marco Prina, “‘Esmesuranza’ nelle laude di Iacopone da Todi”; Olga Zorzi Pugliese, “The Language of Religion in the Writings of Girolamo Benivieni (Florence 1453–1542)”; Nicoletta Maraschio, “I testi religiosi medievali tra i ‘citati’ della prima Crusca”; and Carla Marcato, “Toponomastica sacra in Italia.”

Prescott, Paul, and Erin Sullivan. Shakespeare on the Global Stage: Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xviii + 356 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2032-6.

Includes: Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan, “Preface”; Paul Prescott, “Shakespeare and the Dream of Olympism”; Kapka Kassabova, “Two Poems from the Olympic Year”; Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tom Bird, and Tracy Irish, “Performing Shakespeare in the Olympic Year: Interviews with Three Practitioners”; Stuart Hampton-Reeves, “States of the Nations: Henry VI, the London Olympics and the Spectacular City”; Adam Hansen and Monika Smialkowska, “Shakespeare in the North: Regionalism, Culture and Power”; Stephen Purcell, “Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the ‘Olympic Spirit’”; Rose Elfman, “Expert Spectatorship and Intra-Audience Relationships at Globe to Globe 2012”; Colette Gordon, “‘Mind the gap’: Globalism, Postcolonialism and Making up Africa in the Cultural Olympiad”; Peter Kirwan and Charlotte Mathieson, “A Tale of Two Londons: Locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012”; Tony Howard, “1948/2012: Building Nations”; Erin Sullivan, “Olympic Shakespeare and the Idea of Legacy: Culture, Capital and the Global Future”; and Kathleen McLuskie, “Afterword.”

Rolet, Anne, and Stéphane Rolet, eds. André Alciat (1492–1550): Un humaniste au confluent des savoirs dans l’Europe de la Renaissance. Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance; Collection “Études Renaissantes.” Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 494 pp. €110. ISBN: 978-2-503-55021-3.

Includes: Anne Rolet and Stéphane Rolet, “Introduction: Alciat, entre ombre et lumière”; Anne Rolet and Stéphane Rolet, “André Alciat (1492–1550): Quelques repères bio-bibliographiques”; Denis L. Drysdall, “L’humaniste en herbe: Opuscules de jeunesse”; Stéphane Rolet, “Règlement de comptes à Milan: Giovanni Biffi versus Alciat et ses amis”; Ian Maclean, “Les premiers ouvrages d’Alciat: Les Annotationes in tres posteriores Codicis Iustiniani, et l’Opusculum quo graecae dictiones fere ubique in Digestis restituuntur (1515)”; Lucie Claire, “Les In Cornelium Tacitum annotationes d’André Alciat et leur fortune au XVIe siècle”; Jean-Louis Charlet, “Les épigrammes d’Alciat traduites de l’Anthologie grecque (èdition Cornarius, Bâle, Bebel, 1529)”; Nicolas Warembourg, “André Alciat, praticien bartoliste”; Bruno Méniel, “La sémantique d’un juriste: La réflexion d’André Alciat sur le titre De uerborum significatione”; Giovanni Rossi, “La lezione metodologica di Andrea Alciato: Filologia, storia e diritto nei Parerga”; Olivier Guerrier, “Fantaisie et fictions juridiques dans les Parerga”; Juan Carlos D’Amico, “L’Empire romain et la translatio imperii dans le De formula Romani Imperii d’André Alciat”; Anne Rolet, “Les enjeux pluriels de la méthode emblématique d’André Alciat: L’exemple de Mézence, entre littérature, droit et médecine”; Christine Bénévent, “Érasme, Alciat et le Contra uitam monasticham”; Richard Cooper, “Alciat entre l’Italie et la France”; Raphaële Mouren, “Andrè Alciat et les imprimeurs lyonnais”; Olivier Millet, “Les intérêts communs de Geoffroy Tory et d’Alciat autor de l’emblème”; George Hugo Tucker, “De Milan à Bourges: André Alciat, professeur de droit et homo viator, d’après les éloges posthumes de Giovanni Matteo Toscano (1578) et de François Le Douaren (1551)”; Stéphane Rolet, “La genèse complexe de l’emblème d’Alciat Virtuti fortuna comes: De la devise au caducée de Ludovic Sforza à la médaille de Jean Second en passant par quelques dessins de Léonard”; Paulette Choné, “Alciat et la couleur”; Michael Bath, “Les emblèmes d’Alciat dans les arts décoratifs”; Mino Gabriele, “Visualizzazione mnemonica negli Emblemi di Alciato”; David Graham, “Vernacular Versions of Alciato’s Nupta contagioso”; Alison Saunders, “A Largely Unknown Early Modern English Translation of Alciato’s Emblems”; and Gloria Bossé-Truche, “La Declaración magistral sobre los emblemas de Alciato de Diego López de Valencia (Nájera, Juan de Mongaston, 1615): Étude sur la dernière traduction et les derniers commentaires espagnols des emblèmes d’Alciat à la Renaissance.”

Rutherglen, Susannah, and Charlotte Hale. In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert. New York: The Frick Collection, in association with D Giles Limited, 2015. 232 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-1-907804-39-7.

Includes: Keith Christiansen, “Foreword: Encountering Bellini’s St. Francis”; Susannah Rutherglen, “‘The Footprints of Our Lord’: Giovanni Bellinin and the Franciscan Tradition”; Susannah Rutherglen, “The Desert and the City: Marcantonio Michiel and the Early History of St. Francis”; Anne-Marie Eze, with the assistance of Raymond Carlson, “From the Grand Canal to Fifth Avenue: The Provenance of Bellini’s St. Francis from 1525 to 1915”; Susannah Rutherglen and Charlotte Hale, “St. Francis in the Desert: Technique and Meaning”; Joseph Godla and Denise Allen, “St. Francis in the Desert and the Art of Linear Perspective”; Micheal F. Cusato, O.F.M., “The Formative Stimulus for Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert: History and Literature of the Franciscan Movement in Late Medieval Italy”; Charlotte Hale, “Appendix A: The Technical Examination of St. Francis in the Desert”; and Susannah Rutherglen, “Appendix B: Detail at the Waist of the Saint’s Habit.”

Shaw, Paul, ed. The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital. Codex Studies in Letterforms. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015. xii + 258 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-262-02901-8.

Includes: Paul Shaw, “The Eternal Letter: The Fluctuating Fortunes of the Classical Roman Capital”; Paul Shaw, “Defining the Classical Roman Capital”; Paul Shaw, “Father Edward M. Catich and the Trajan Inscription”; Father Edward M. Catich, “The Genetrix”; Tom Perkins, “The Trajan Secrets”; Jost Hochuli, “Walter Kaech, Craftsman”; Frank E. Blokland, “On the Origin of Capital Proportions in Roman Type”; James Mosley, “Felice Feliciano and the Inscriptions on the Macello of Verona”; Paul Shaw and Garrett Boge, “The Tomb of Niccolò Forteguerri”; James Mosley, “The Baroque Inscriptional Letter in Rome”; Garrett Boge, “The Baroque Set”; Steve Matteson, “Goudy’s Inscriptional Letters”; Ewan Clayton, “Eric Gill’s Capital Letter”; Martin Majoor, “Jan van Krimpen and Roman Capitals”; Paul Shaw, “Hermann Zapf’s Roman Capitals: An Appreciation”; Maxim Zhukov, “The Trajan Letter in Russia”; Ewan Clayton, “Gill’s Legacy”; Paul Shaw, “Straight, No Chaser: The Work of Michael Harvey”; Richard Kindersley, “The John Stevens Shop: Three Generations of Lettercarvers”; Lance Hidy, “Penumbra: The Offspring of Trajan and Futura”; Gregory Macnaughton, “Father Catich at Reed College”; Scott-Martin Kosofsky, “Democratizing the Empire: The Birth of Adobe Trajan”; Paul Shaw, Maxim Zhukov, and Gerry Leonidas, “Trajan Revived Redux”; Paul Shaw, “Artist of the Written Word”; Werner Schneider with Dan Reynolds, “The Origins of Senatus”; Matthew Carter, “Mantinia”; Jonathan Hoefler, “Requiem: A True Renaissance Letter”; Julian Waters, “Waters Titling”; Yves Peters, “Trajan at the Movies”; and Cyrus Highsmith, “Learning from Chairs.”

Steiner-Weber, Astrid, and K. A. E. Enenkel, eds. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Münster 2012). Acta Conventus Neo-Latini 15. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxxvi + 632 pp. $299. ISBN: 978-90-04-28917-8.

Includes: Minna Skafte Jensen, “Presidential Address”; Concetta Bianca, “La diffusione della stampa e la nascita della filologia”; Hélène Cazes, “Démonstrations d’amitié et d’humanisme: Alba, adages et emblèmes chez les petits-enfants d’Érasme”; Harm-Jan van Dam, “Poems on the Threshold: Neo- Latin carmina liminaria”; Reinhold F. Glei, “Paradoxie und Ironie in Johann Valentin Andreaes Christianopolis (1619)”; Carolina Ponce Hernández, “La Bibliotheca Mexicana de Juan José de Eguiara y Eguren, obra unificadora de la cultura mexicana”; David Amherdt, “Les Poemata de Johannes Fabricius Montanus: Un Enchiridion vatis Christiani?”; Nathalie de Brézé, “Les implications politiques d’Otto Vaenius dans les Pays-Bas”; Anna Gioia Cantore, “L’Aegidius di Giovanni Pontano: L’approdo religioso di un uomo politico”; Alejandro Coroleu, “Huellas del Petrarca Latino en la corona de Aragón entre 1470 y 1520: El caso del Petrarca moral y religioso”; Jean-François Cottier, “Lexicographie latine et religion autochtone en Nouvelle-France: À propos de la Radicum Montanarum Silva (1766–1772) du P. Jean-Baptiste de la Brosse”; Judith Deitch, “Philosophy of Friendship in Agricola’s Letters”; Patricia Demers, “Anna Maria van Schurman: The Arts of Argumentation and Self-Portraiture”; Michael Fontaine, “The Intercalary Scenes in Joannes Burmeister’s Aulularia (1629)”; Maia Wellington Gahtan, “Appended Epitaphs”; Jacqueline Glomski, “Religion, the Cosmos, and Counter-Reformation Latin: Athanasius Kircher’s Itinerarium exstaticum (1656)”; Gerard González Germain, “¿Agostino Nettucci, alter ego de Agostino Vespucci? Cultura humanística y política en la Florencia de inicios del s. XVI”; Felipe González Vega, “Apuntamientos para un estudio de la difusión de Pico en la España renacentista”; Roger Green, “Dousa, Johnston, and the Ambivalent Epigram”; László Havas, “Carmen Unisonum: Un manuel d’éthique en vers, composé à l’aube de la réforme catholique en Hongrie”; Judith Rice Henderson, “Hans Buchler of Gladbach’s Thesaurus conscribendarum epistolarum: Humanist Epistolary Rhetoric Distilled for Posterity”; Brenda M.Hosington, “Elizabeth Jane Weston and her Place in the Respublica Litterarum”; Antonio Iurilli, “La Bestiarum schola di Pompeo Sarnelli fra educazione religiosa e cultura politica”; Angelika Kemper, “Konstantindramen als habsburgische Festdramen: Solimanis ‘Constantinus victor’ (Prag 1627) und Avancinis ‘Pietas victrix’ (Wien 1659)”; Sari Kivistö, “Hieronymus Hirnhaim’s De typho generis humani (1676) and Scepticism about Human Learning”; Martin Korenjak, “Josias Simmlers De Alpibus commentarius”; John C. Leeds, “Clausal Relations and Aristotelian Ontology in Erasmus’ Novum Testamentum”; Anna Maria Lesigang- Bruckmüller, “Prolusio academica und Programma: Zwei akademische Textsorten im Vergleich”; Mariano Madrid Castro, “Lecturas en los estudios de latinidad en España: El alcance de la obra de Baptista Mantuanus como libro de texto”; Karl August Neuhausen, “Engelbertus Kaempfer in Amoenitatibus Exoticis (1712) quam veras genuinasque cum prioribus Neolatinis Persicarum rerum descriptionibus comparatas obtulerit Relationes de aulae Persicae statu hodierno”; Howard B. Norland, “Nero as an exemplum for James I of England”; Christian Peters, “Mythologie und Politik im neulateinischen Epos”; Lee Piepho, “International Protestantism and Commemorative Anthologies on the End of the First Anglo-Dutch War”; Franz Römer, “Sprache und Stil des ‘Schweigsamen Historikers’ als Anreiz für neulateinische Deutungen”; Giovanni Rossi, “L’umanista senese Francesco Patrizi e la lezione etico-politica degli antichi: Il trattato De institutione reipublicae (ante 1471)”; François Rouget, “Jean Dorat poète sacré, d’après un poème Latin inédit”; Barbara Sasse Tateo, “Liberator Germaniae: Ulrich von Huttens Dialog mit Karl V. im Spiegel seiner politischen Korrespondenz der Jahre 1520-21”; Sonja M. Schreiner, “Utra serviet alteri, an Roma Carthagini an Romae Carthago? Wissenschaft und Religion, Literatur und Politik in Joseph du Baudorys De novis systematum inventoribus quid sentiendum oratio”; Peter R. Schwertsik, “Der Astronom Andalò di Negro als Quelle Boccaccios: Die Miniatur des Planetengottes Saturn in Andalos ‘Introductorius ad judicia astrologiae’ im Prunkcodex Fonds Latin 7272 der Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris”; Margherita Sciancalepore, “La realtà ‘infernale’ nel ’Charon’ di Giovanni Pontano”; Minna Skafte Jensen, “Religion and Politics in the Works of Marin Barleti”, Matthieu Somon, “Sebastian Barradas et la peinture biblique au XVIIe siècle”; Nikolaus Thurn, “Paul Schede Melissus und der Kronborg- Brunnen”; Ulrich Töns, “Politik und Geschichte, Frömmigkeit und literarische Bildung bei Rudolf von Langen (1438-1519): Zum Humanismus in Münster in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts”; Pablo Toribio Pérez, “El Nucleus historiae ecclesiasticae (Ámsterdam, 1669) de Christoph Sand y los escritos en latín de Isaac Newton sobre historia de la Iglesia (ca. 1680): Algunos indicios textuales de su conexión”; Gilbert Tournoy, “Latin Inscriptions by Justus Lipsius in Alba amicorum”; Sebastiano Valerio, “Dialogare alla soglie del paradiso: I modelli dell’Eremita di Galateo e la sua fortuna nell’Europa della riforma”; Juan J. Valverde Abril, “Los Apophthegmata de Conradus Lycosthenes: Historia editorial”; Kristi Viiding, “Thomas Lansius Consultatio de principatu inter provincias Europae im frühneuzeitlichen Sprach- und Stiluntrricht”; Anne Weber, “Tempus fugit - versiones manent: DFG Project Saarbrücker Übersetzungsbibliographie - Latein”; and Svorad Zavarský, “Quinquaginta Rationes: Fifty Reasons: From an Opusculum Polemicum Tyrnaviense to a Standard Catholic Book in America.”

Strosetzki, Christoph, ed. Wort und Zahl / Palabra y número. Studia Romanica 188. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 316 pp. €54. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6284-3.

Includes: Eric Achermann, “‘Denn Gott treibt immer Geometrie’: Zur politischen Bedeutung des Verhältnisses von Geometrie und Arithmetik in der Frühen Neuzeit”; María Jesús Mancho, “Del cero al infinito: Una aproximación al léxico matemático a partir de los tratados y diálogos renacentistas”; Luis Galván, “Lógica y pragmática de la narración: Contingencia y contrafacticidad en el paradigma cognitivo”; Cirilo Flórez Miguel, “Palabra y número en la orba de Juan Pérez de Moya: Aritmética práctica y especulativa”; Folke Gernert, “Die Vermessung des menschlichen Körpers: Medir el cuerpo humano”; Eberhard Geisler, “Sprache und Wert: Eine Theorie der spanischen Literatur”; Adrián J. Sáez, “Más que letras: Algunos ecos del avance científico en la poesía àurea desde Góngora y Quevedo”; Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, “Lope y la Academia Real Matemática (c.1584–1587): Desde las matemáticas a las letras (con una precisión sobre la Isagoge a los Reales Estudios de la Compañia de Jesús)”; Wolfram Aichinger and Simon Kroll, “‘Una mona en castellano Son 100 monas en guarismo’: Número, geometría, desdoblamiento reflexivo y cifra en las comedias de Calderón”; Emilio Blanco, “Gracián y las cantidades: Peso y número”; Manfred Tietz, “Die ‘aufgeklärte Vermessung des Himmels und der Erde’: Der spanische Jesuit Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809) und seine zahlenbasierten ‘Überlegungen zur Mechanik und zu den hauptsächlichen Erscheinungen des Himmels’”; Felix Schmelzer, “‘Vibra el vacío’: Interpretación de un poema de Clara Janés, a partir de la físca cuántica”; Natalia González de la Llana, “Palabra y número en El Libro Infierno de Carlo Frabetti”; László Scholz, “Palabra y número en obras de Cortázar”; Juan Arana, “Borges y las paradojas de Zenón”; Manuel Rivas González, “Es la existencia ‘la verdad de la existencia’? De los sentidos huérfanos de referencia. A propósito del planeta ‘Tlön’ de Borges”; Christoph Strosetzki, “Realitätsverlust und mathematische Exaktheit: Vom Wiener Kreis zu Jorge Luis Borges und Ernesto Sábato”; and Corinna Deppner, “Pendelschwingungen zwischen Wort und Zahl: La biblioteca de Babel von Jorge Luis Borges.”

Suerbaum, Almut, George Southcombe, and Benjamin Thompson, eds. Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. x + 292 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2506-5.

Includes: George Southcombe, Almut Suerbaum, and Benjamin Thompson, “Introduction”; Francesca Southerden, “Between Autobiography and Apocalypse: The Double Subject of Polemic in Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta”; Alastair Matthews, “The Ends of Polemic and the Beginning of Lohengrin”; Sean Curran, “Feeling the Polemic of an Early Motet”; Emma Gatland, “‘Why do you concern yourself with these words?’ Rhetoric and Polemic in Medieval Castilian Female Saints’ Lives”; Monika Otter, “Dissing the Teacher: Classroom Polemics in the Early and High Middle Ages”; Almut Suerbaum, “Language of Violence: Language as Violence in Vernacular Sermons”; Annie Sutherland, “Psalms as Polemic: The English Bible Debate”; C.M. MacRobert, “Maximos the Greek: Imprisoned in Polemic”; Benjamin Thompson, “The Polemic of Reform in the Later Medieval English Church”; Natalia Nowakowska, “Lamenting the Church? Bishop Andrzej Krzycki and Early Reformation Polemic”; and George Southcombe, “The Polemics of Moderation in Late Seventeenth-Century England.”

Szpiech, Ryan. Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean. Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. xvi + 330 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8232-6462-9.

Includes: Ryan Szpiech, “Introduction”; Sarah Stroumsa, “The Father of Many Nations: Abraham in al-Andalus”; Sidney Griffith, “Ibn al-Mahrūmah’s Notes on Ibn Kammūnah’s Examination of the Three Religions: The Issue of the Abrogation of Mosaic Law”; Walid Saleh, “Al-Biqā’ī Seen through Reuchlin: Reflections on the Islamic Relationship with the Bible”; Thomas E. Burman, “Two Dominicans, a Lost Manuscript, and Medieval Christian Thought on Islam”; Antoni Biosca I Bas, “The Anti-Muslim Discourse of Alfonso Buenhombre”; Ursula Ragacs, “Reconstructing Medieval Jewish-Christian Disputations”; Harvey J. Hames, “Reconstructing Thirteenth-Century Jewish- Christian Polemic: From Paris 1240 to Barcelona 1263 and Back Again”; Yosi Yisraeli, “A Christianized Sephardic Critique of Rashi’s Peshat in Pablo de Santa María’s Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra”; Ángel Sáenz-Badillos, “Jewish and Christian Interpretations in Arragel’s Biblical Glosses”; Alexandra Cuffel, “Between Epic Entertainment and Polemical Exegesis: Jesus as Antihero in Toledot Yeshu”; Nina Caputo, “Sons of God, Daughters of Man, and the Formation of Human Society in Nahmanides’s Exegesis”; Esperanza Alfonso, “Late Medieval Readings of the Strange Woman in Proverbs”; and Steven F. Kruger, “Exegesis as Autobiography: The Case of Guillaume de Bourges.”

Verdon, Timothy, and Daniel M. Zolli, eds. Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral. London: D. Giles Ltd, 2015. 200 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1- 907804-56-4.

Includes: Timothy Verdon, “Florence Cathedral, Renaissance Sculpture, Sacred Scripture”; Daniel M. Zolli, “Donatello’s Visions: The Sculptor at Florence Cathedral”; Amy R. Bloch, “Lorenzo Ghiberti: From the Early Workshop to the Gates of Paradise”; Marco Ciatti, “‘...with immense diligence and discipline’: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s North Doors and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure’s Conservation and Retoration Project”; and Timothy Verdon, “The New Museo dell’Opera del Duomo.”

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., ed. Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xvi + 382 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2960-5.

Includes: Valerie Traub, “History in the Present Tense: Feminist Theories, Spatialized Epistemologies, and Early Modern Embodiment”; Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, “Early Modern Gender and the Global Turn”; Charlene Villaseñor Black, “Gender and Representation in the Early Modern Hispanic World”; Gerhild Scholz Williams, “Body Language: Keeping Secrets in Early Modern Narratives”; Tara Pedersen, “Bodies by the Book: Remapping Reputation in the Account of Anne Greene and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing”; Pamela M. Jones, “Envisioning a Global Environment for Blessed Teresa of Avila in 1614: The Beatification Decorations for S. Maria della Scala in Rome”; Sara L. French, “Re-Placing Gender in Elizabethan Gardens”; Alena Buis, Christi Spain-Savage, and Myra E. Wright, “Attending to Fishwives: Views from Seventeenth-Century London and Amsterdam”; Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, “Baby Jesus in a Box: Commerce and Enclosure in an Early Modern Convent”; Kimberlyn Montford, “Within and Without: Women’s Networks and the Early Modern Roman Convent”; Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Julie A. Eckerle, Michelle M. Dowd, and Megan Matchinske, “Women’s Kinship Networks: A Meditation on Creative Genealogies and Historical Labor”; John Garrison, Kyle Pivetti, and Vanessa Rapatz, “Navigating Shakespearean Representations of Female Collaboration”; Ann Christensen, “Guides to Marriage and ‘Needful Travel’ in Early Modern England”; Bernadette Andrea, “The ‘Presences of Women’ from the Islamic World in Sixteenth- to early Seventeenth-Century British Literature and Culture”; and Sheila T. Cavanagh, “Rival to the Virgin Queen: The Enduring Narrative of Amy Robsart.”

Yachnin, Paul, and Marlene Eberhart, eds. Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe. Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x + 334 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-62534-167-9.

Includes: Marlene Eberhart, Amy Scott, and Paul Yachnin, “Introduction”; David Harris Sacks, “States, Nations, and Publics: The Politics of Language Reform in Renaissance England”; Stephen Deng, “Translating the Law: Sir Edward Coke and the Formation of a Juristic Public”; Torrance Kirby, “Apocalyptics and Apologetics: Richard Helgerson on Elizabethan England’s Religious Identity and the Formation of the Public Sphere”; Anne Lake Prescott, “Perverse Delights: Cross Channel Trash Talk and Identity Publics”; Lena Cowen Orlin, “Making Public the Private”; Angela Vanhaelen, “Public and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women/Painters and Enigmatic Paintings”; Javier Castro-Ibaseta, “Sonnets from Carthage, Ballads from Prison: Entertainment and Public Making in Early Modern Spain”; Lesley B. Cormack, “Forms of Nationhood and Forms of Publics: Geography and Its Publics in Early Modern England”; Meredith Donaldson Clark, “‘The Land Speaks’: John Shrimpton’s Antiquities of Verulam and St. Albans and the Making of Verulamium”; Patricia Fumerton, “Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of a Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Public: From Networks to Spheres”; Vera Keller, “Forms of Internationality: The Album Amicorum and the Popularity of John Owen (1564–1622)”; David Lee Miller, “The Voice of Caesar’s Wounds: The Politics of Martyrdom in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”; Jeffrey Knapp, “Shakespeare’s Pains to Please”; Jean E. Howard, “The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Early Modern Stage”; and Paul Yachnin, “Afterword: Richard Helgerson and Making Publics.”

Zey, Claudia, ed. Mächtige Frauen?: Königinnen und Fürstinnen im europäischen Mittelalter (11.–14. Jahrhundert). Vorträge und Forschungen 81. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2015. 488 pp. €58. ISBN: 978-3-7995-6881-4.

Includes: Claudia Zey, “Mächtige Frauen? Königinnen und Fürstinnen im europäischen Mittelalter (11.–14. Jahrhundert): Zur Einführung”; Christine Reinle, “Was bedeutet Macht im Mittelalter?”; Nikolas Jaspert, “Indirekte und direkte Macht iberischer Königinnen im Mittelalter: ‘Reginale’ Herrschaft, Verwaltung und Frömmigkeit”; Alan V. Murray, “Women in the Royal Succession of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291)”; Philippe Goridid, “Gefährten, Regenten, Witwer: Männliche Herrschaft im Heiligen Land der Erbköniginnen”; Elisabeth van Houts, “Queens in the Anglo-Norman/Angevin Realm 1066–1216”; Patrick Corbet, “Entre Aliénor d’Aquitaine et Blanche de Castille: Les princesses au pouvoir dans la France de l’Est”; Brigitte Kasten, “Krönungsordnungen für und Papstbriefe an mächtige Frauen im Hochmittelalter”; Elke Goez, “Mit den Mitteln einer Frau? Zur Bedeutung der Fürstinnen in der späten Salierzeit”; Martina Stercken, “saeldenrîche frowen und gschwind listig wib: Weibliche Präsenz Habsburgs im Südwesten des Reiches”; Julia Hörmann- Thurn und Taxis, “Mächtige Fürstinnen – fromme Stifterinnen? Das Stiftungsverhalten der Tiroler Landesfürstinnen (13. und 14. Jahrhundert)”; Sigrid Hirbodian, “Weibliche Herrschaft zwischen Kirche und Welt: Geistliche Fürstinnen im 11.–14. Jahrhundert”; Jörg Rogge, “Mächtige Frauen? Königinnen und Fürstinnen im europäischen Mittelalter (11.–14. Jahrhundert) – Zusammenfassung”; and Sophie Caflisch and Philippe Goridis, “Personen: Und Ortsregister.”