Renaissance Quarterly Books Received January–March 2014

Austen, Katherine. Book M: A London Widow’s Life Writings. Ed. Pamela S. Hammons. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 26. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xiii + 216 pp. $21.50. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2150-1.

Bailey, Mark. Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. xii + 374 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-890-6.

Barber, Richard W. Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crécy and the Company of the Garter. London: Allen Lane, 2013. xxi + 650 pp. + 8 color pls. £30. ISBN: 978- 0-713-99838-2.

Barral-Baron, Marie. L’enfer d’Érasme: L’humaniste chrétien face à l’histoire. Travaux d’Humanism et Renaissance 523. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 752 pp. $122.40. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01645-2.

Batchelor, Robert K. London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. vi + 334 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-08065-9.

Ba tschmann, Oskar, and Pascal Griener. Hans Holbein: Revised and Expanded Second Edition. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. 406 pp. £17.95. ISBN: 978-1-78023-1711-6.

Bearbeitet von Antenhofer, Christina, Axel Behne, Daniela Ferrari, Jürgen Herold, and Peter Rückert, eds. Barbara Gonzaga: Die Briefe/Le Lettere (1455–1508). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013. 492 pp. €49. ISBN: 978-3-17-023381-2.

Betteridge, Thomas. Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xi + 256 pp. $38. ISBN: 978-0-268-02239-6.

Blevins, Jacob. Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory. Classical Memories/Modern Identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2014. x + 172 pp. $62.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1241-7.

Botero, Giovanni. De la raison d’État (1589–1598). Ed. Romain Descendre. Bibliothèque de Philosophie. Paris: Gallimar, 2014. 422 pp. €32. ISBN: 978-2-07-013584-4.

Botero, Giovanni. Des causes de la grandeur des villes. Ed. and trans. Romain Descendre. Collection versions françaises. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2014. 188 pp. €17. ISBN: 978-2- 7288-0507-5.

Buchwald, Jed Z., and Mordechai Feingold. Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii + 528 pp. $49.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-15478-7.

Bullinger, Heinrich. Briefe des Jahres 1545. Eds. Reinhard Bodenmann, Alexandra Kess, and Judith Steiniger. Heingrich Bullinger Werke: Zweite Abteilung Briefwechsel 15. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2013. 746 pp. €138. ISBN: 978-3-290-17664-8.

Bullinger, Heinrich. Kommentare zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen: Röm, 1Kor, 2Kor. Ed. Luca Baschera. Heinrich Bullinger Werke: Dritte Abteilung Theologische Schriften 6. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2012. lxxxiii + 640 pp. + 1 CD. €98. ISBN: 978-3-290-17665-5.

Burrow, Colin. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. viii + 282 pp. £16.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-968479-3.

Caines, Michael. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 222 pp. £16.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-964237-3.

Caravale, Giorgio. Storia di una doppia censura: Gli Stratagemmi di Satana di Giacomo Aconio nell’Europa del Seicento. Studi 27. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2013. 248 pp. €25. ISBN: 978- 88-7642-483-0.

Casper, Andrew R. Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xiii + 222 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06054-5.

Cast, David J. The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 338 pp. £85. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0847-5.

Ceserani, Giovanna. Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology. Greeks Overseas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii + 332 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-974427-5.

Cleminson, Richard, and Francisco Vázquez García. Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800. The Body, Gender and Culture 16. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. ix + 214 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-302-6.

Codro, Antonio Urceo. Sermones (I–IV). Eds. Loredana Chines and Andrea Severi. Biblioteca Medievale 144. : Carocci editore, 2013. 458 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-88-430-7025-1.

Crashaw, Richard. The English Poems of Richard Crashaw. Ed. Richard Rambuss. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. lxxxvi + 450 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8068-9.

Crawforth, Hannah. Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 218 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-04176-9.

Crivellari, Daniele. Marcas autoriales de segmentación en las comedias autógrafas de Lope de Vega: Estudio y analisis. Estudios de Literatura 119. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2013. ix + 440 pp. €63. ISBN: 978-3-944244-07-5.

Dadson, Trevor J. Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern : Old Christians and Moriscos in the Campo De Calatrava. Colección Támesis Serie A: Monografías 334. Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2014. xii + 280 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-85566-273-5.

Daniels, Tobias. La congiura dei Pazzi: I documenti del conflitto fra Lorenzo de’ Medici e Sisto IV: Le bolle di scomunica, la “Florentina Synodus,” e la “Disstentio” insorta tra la Santità del Papa e i Fiorentini. Studi di Storia e Documentazione Storica 6. : Edifir Edizioni Firenze, 2013. 206 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-88-7970-649-0.

Davies, Paul, David Hemsoll, Ian Campbell, and Simon Pepper. Renaissance and Later Architecture and Ornament. 2 vols. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Series A, Antiquities and Architecture 10. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2013. vii + 770 pp. €206. ISBN: 978-1-905375-77-6.

Dixon, Laurinda S. The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500–1700. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. xiii + 254 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 978-0- 271-05935-8.

Donne, John. The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I. Ed. David Colclough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. lv + 522 pp. $160. ISBN: 978-0-19-956548-1.

Dooley, Brendan. A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De’ Medici and Livia Vernazza. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv + 454 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72466-2.

Drelichman, Mauricio, and Hans-Joachim Voth. Lending to the Borrower From Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-691-15149- 6.

Edlich-Muth, Miriam. Malory and His European Contemporaries: Adapting Late Arthurian Romance. Arthurian Studies 81. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. ix + 186 pp. $99. ISBN: 978- 1-84384-367-2.

Edwards, Michael. Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 224. Leiden: Brill, 2013. x + 224 pp. $128. ISBN: 978-90-04-23232-7.

Escolme, Bridget. Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion’s Slaves. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xxxix + 302 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-7967-3.

Fara, Giovanni Maria. Albrecht Dürer nelle fonti Italiane antiche, 1508–1686. Biblioteca dell’“Archivum Romanicum” Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 426. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. xi + 590 pp. €58. ISBN: 978-88-222-6297-4.

Farr, David. Major-General Thomas Harrison Millenarianism, Fifth Monarchism and the English Revolution 1616–1660. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 304 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6554-6.

Fisher, Alexander J. Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvii + 360 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-19-976464-8.

Frischlin, Nicodemus. Kommentar zu “Priscianus vapulans” (Der geschlagene Priscian) und “Iulius redivivus” (Julius Caesars Rückkehr ins Erdenleben). Eds. Christoph Jungck and Lothar Mundt. Nicodemus Frischlin: Sämtliche Weke 3:3. Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt): Frommann- Holzboog, 2014. 254 pp. €198. ISBN: 978-3-7728-2447-0.

García-Irigoyen, Javier. The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain. Toronto Iberic 11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. x + 344 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4727-5.

Goldman, Rachael B. Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome. Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity 3. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2013. ix + 194 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-61143-914-4.

Guild, Elizabeth. Unsettling Montaigne. Gallica 34. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xii + 292 pp. $120. ISBN: 978-1-84384-371-9.

Hairston, Julia L., ed. The Poems and Letters of Tullia D’Aragona and Others. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 28. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xii + 352 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2154-9.

Hall, Crystal. Galileo’s Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. vi + 250 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-04755-6.

Hamlin, William M. Montaigne’s English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare’s Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv + 336 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-0-19-968411-3.

Helmstutler Di Dio, Kelley, and Rosario Coppel. Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvi + 464 pp. $149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6904-9.

Herbert, Amanda E. Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xi + 256 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-300-17740-4.

Irvin, Matthew W. Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis. Publications of the John Gower Society 9. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xi + 316 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84384-339-9.

Jagodzinski, Sabine. Die Türkenkriege im Spiegel der polnisch-litauischen Adelskultur: Kommemoration und Repra sentation bei den Zółkiewski, Sobieski und Radziwiłł. Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 13. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2013. 258 pp. €49. ISBN: 978-3- 7995-8413-5.

Jolly, Penny Howell. Picturing the “Pregnant” Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 258 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1495-3.

Jordan, Peter. The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell’Arte. New York: Routledge, 2014. xii + 250 pp. $47.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-69876-4.

Jurdjevic, Mark. A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72546-1.

Kahn, Victoria. The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii + 246 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-08387-2.

Kammerer, Elsa. Jean de Vauzelles et le creuset lyonnais: Un humaniste catholique au service de Marguerite de Navarre entre , Italie et Allemagne (1520–1550). Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 522. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 562 pp. 72CHF. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01647-6.

Kastan, David Scott. A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion. Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ix + 156 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-19-957289-2.

Kelly, Douglas. Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition: Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft. Gallica 35. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xx + 356 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84384- 372-6.

Kent, Francis W. Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de’ Medici and Renaissance Florence. Ed. Carolyn James. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. viii + 370 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-2-503-54171-6.

Killigrew, Anne. “My Rare Wit Killing Sin”: Poems of a Restoration Courtier. Ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 27. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xv + 166 pp. + 1 color pl. $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2152-5.

King, Helen. The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xii + 274 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6335-1.

King, Margaret L. Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2014. xxiii + 352 pp. $19. ISBN: 978-1-62466-111-2.

Knorn-Ezernieks, Nicola. Giovanni de’ Vecchi: Seine Stellung in der römischen Malerei um 1600. Studien zur Kunstgeschichte 202. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013. 572 pp. €82. ISBN: 978-3-487-15084-0.

Knowles, Katie. Shakespeare’s Boys: A Cultural History. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ix + 258 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-00536-6.

Lamanna, Marco. La nascita dell’ontologia nella metafisica di Rudolph Göckel (1547–1628). Europaea memoria 97. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013. 350 pp. €49.80. ISBN: 978-3- 487-14860-1.

Lamb, Claudia. Die Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) und ihre Sprache. Anglistische Forschungen 435. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 394 pp. €52. ISBN: 978-3-8253- 6154-9.

Lawson, Jane A., ed. The Elizabethan New Year’s Gift Exchanges, 1559–1603. Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 740 pp. + 4 b/w pls. $275. ISBN: 978-0-19-726526-0.

Lemerle, Frédérique, and Yves Pauwels. Architectures de papier: La France et l’Europe (XVIe– XVIIe siècles). Collection “Études Renaissantes.” Tournout: Brepols, 2013. 266 pp. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-55020-6.

Lewis, C. S. Spenser’s Images of Life. With Alastair Fowler. Canto Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 144 pp. $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-69113-1.

Lewis, C. S. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Ed. Walter Hooper. Canto Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 196 pp. $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-107- 65892-9.

Lyttleton, James. The Jacobean Plantations in Seventeenth-Century Offaly: An Archaeology of a Changing World. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. viii + 344 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682-393- 0.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Le Prince / De principatibus. Ed. Giorgio Inglese. Trans. Jean-Louis Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini. Quadridge. Paris: PUF, 2014. 440 pp. €16. ISBN: 978-2-13- 062576-6.

Manetti, Giannozzo. De terremotu. Ed. Daniela Pagliara. Il Ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo 4.8; Storiografia umanistica 8. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. xvii + 250 pp. €54. ISBN: 978-88-8450-492-0.

Martin, Craig. Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 262 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1316- 7.

Mayer, Thomas F. The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590–1640. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 362 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4573-8.

Mayernik, David. The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention. Studies in Architecture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiv + 246 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5767-1.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Reading Dante. Open Yale Courses. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xi + 294 pp. $25. ISBN: 978-0-300-19135-6.

De Monzón, Francisco. Libro segundo del Espejo del perfecto príncipe cristiano. Ed. Carlota Fernández Travieso. A Caruña: Sielae, 2012. 384 pp. €32. ISBN: 978-84-92597-14-7.

Moreto, Agustín. Comedias de Agustín Moreto: Segunda parte de comedias, VIII. Eds. María- Luisa Lobato, Sofía Cantalapiedra Delgado, Alfredo Hermenegildo, and Francisco Sáez Raposo. Ediciones críticas 188. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2013. 534 pp. €88. ISBN: 98-3-944244- 10-5.

Munro, Lucy. Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii + 308 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-04279-7.

Murrin, Michael. Trade and Romance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. x + 328 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-07157-2.

Murry, Gregory. The Medicean Succession: Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo Dei Medici’s Florence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. ix + 348 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72547-8.

Nardizzi, Vin. Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xii + 206 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4600-1.

Nichols, Tom. Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 252 pp. £49. ISBN: 978-1-78023-186-0.

Nicholson, Catherine. Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 218 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0- 8122-4558-5.

Nigg, Joseph. Sea Monsters: A Voyage Around the World’s Most Beguiling Map. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. 160 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-226-92516-1.

Van Orden, Kate. Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xiii + 240 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-520-27650-5.

Pade, Marianne, ed. Plutarchi Chaeronensis: Vita Dionis et Comparatio et de Bruto ac Dione iudicium Guarino Veronensi interprete. Il ritorno dei classici nell’umanesimo 8. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013. 160 pp. €42. ISBN: 978-88-8450-513-2.

Pakkala, Juha. God’s Word Omitted: Omissions in the Transmission of the Hebrew Bible. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 251. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. 418 pp. €64.99. ISBN: 978-3-525-53611-7.

Palmer, Patricia. The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 186 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-04184-4.

Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino. Morte e elezione del papa: Norme, riti e conflitti: Il Medioevo. La corte dei papi 22. Rome: Viella, 2013. xiv + 346 pp. + 8 color pls. €25. ISBN: 978-88-6728-036- 0.

Parker, Deborah, and Mark Parker. Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ix + 224 pp. $22.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-27906-4.

Pelc, Milan. Theatrum humanum: Illustrierte Flugbla tter und Druckgrafik des 17. Jahrhunderts als Spiegel der Zeit : Beispiele aus dem Bestand der Sammlung Valvasor des Zagreber Erzbistums. Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 12. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2013. 204 pp. €46. ISBN: 978-3-7995-8412-8.

Pettegree, Andrew. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. vi + 446 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-300-17908-8.

Phillips, William D. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ix + 260 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4491-5.

Pierpont Morgan Library. The Holgate Miscellany: An Edition of Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript, MA 1057. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 438; Renaissance English Text Society Seventh Series 35. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xxiii + 358 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-86698-486-7.

Pipkin, Amanda. Rape in the Republic, 1609–1725: Formulating Dutch Identity. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 172. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvi + 272 pp. $156. ISBN: 978- 90-04-25665-1.

Prögler, Daniela. English Students at Leiden University, 1575–1650: “Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs.” Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvii + 318 pp. + color pls. £75. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3712-3.

Prosperi, Valentina. Omero Sconfitto: Ricerche sul mito di Troia dall’antichità al Rinascimento. Temi e testi 125. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. xi +108 pp. €16. ISBN: 978-88- 6372-588-9.

Raeymaekers, Dries. One Foot in the Palace: The Habsburg Court of Brussels and the Politics of Access in the Reign of Albert and Isabella, 1598–1621. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013. xviii + 366 pp. €65. ISBN: 978-90-5867-939-0.

Rhenanus, Beatus. Epistulae Beati Rhenani: La Correspondance latine et grecque de Beatus Rhenanus de Sélestat. Volume 1 (1506–1517). Ed. James Hirstein. Studia Humanitatis Rhenana 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. clxiv + 942 pp. €185. ISBN: 978-2-503-51358-4.

Rich, Barnabe. The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria (1592). Ed. Joseph Khoury. Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society 20. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 384 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2144-0.

Ringgaard Lorensen, Marlene. Dialogical Preaching: Bakhtin, Otherness and Homiletics. Arbeiten zur Pastoraltheologie, Liturgik und Hymnologie 74. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. 200 pp. €49.99. ISBN: 978-3-525-62424-1.

Rowland, Ingrid D. From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 340 pp. $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-674- 04793-8.

Royer, Katherine. The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700. The Body, Gender and Culture 17. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. 188 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-398-9.

Ryan, Reeves. English Evangelicals and Tudor Obedience, c. 1527–1570. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 167. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ix + 212 pp. $128. ISBN: 978-90-04-25011-6.

Ryner, Bradley. Performing Economic Thought: English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600– 1642. Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. xi + 218 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7486-8465-6.

Sanger, Alice E. Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal . Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. ix + 166 pp. + 2 color pls. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0079-0.

Sauerla nder, Willibald. The Catholic Rubens: Saints and Martyrs. Trans. David Dollenmayer. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2014. 312 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-1-60606-268-5.

Scheel, Johanna. Das altniederla ndische Stifterbild: Emotionsstrategien des Sehens und der Selbsterkenntnis. Neue Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst 14. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2014. 548 pp. €79. ISBN: 978-3-7861-2695-9.

Schwyzer, Philip. Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xi + 248 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-19-967610-1.

Scott, Charlotte. Shakespeare’s : From Cultivation to Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. viii + 258 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-0-19-968508-0.

Scott, William. The Model of Poesy. Ed. Gavin Alexander. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. lxxxiv + 264 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-0-521-19611-6.

Semler, Liam E. Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe Learning versus the System. The Arden Shakespeare; Shakespeare Now! London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2013. x + 154 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978-1-4081-8502-5.

Shotwell, Vivien. Nocturne: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2014. 290 pp. $26. ISBN: 978-0-345-53637-2.

Sillars, Stuart. Shakespeare and the Victorians. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. x + 216 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-966808-3.

Smoller, Laura Ackerman. The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. xvii + 344 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5217-8.

Steinberg, Justin. Dante and the Limits of the Law. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. viii + 232 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-226-07109-1.

Stollhans, Cynthia. St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art: Case Studies in Patronage. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 192 pp. + 4 color pls. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4751-1.

Stubbe, Henry. Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism. Ed. Nabil Matar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xi + 274 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-231-15664-6.

Tartamella, Suzanne M. Rethinking Shakespeare’s Skepticism: The Aesthetics of Doubt in the Sonnets and Plays. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014. x + 294 pp. $58. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0467-8.

Taylor, Jane H. M. Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France: From Manuscript to Printed Book. Gallica 33. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xiv + 278 pp. $99. ISBN: 978- 1-84384-365-8.

Tronzo, William. Petrarch’s Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement. New York: Italica Press, 2014. xi + 226 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1-59910-271-9.

Turley, Steven E. Franciscan Spirituality and Mission in New Spain, 1524–1599: Conflict Beneath the Sycamore Tree (Luke 19:1–10). Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 202 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5421-2.

Tutino, Stefania. Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xi + 278 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-932498-9.

Usher, Phillip John. Epic Arts in Renaissance France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 254 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-0-19-968784-8. van Ginhoven Rey, Christopher. Instruments of the Divinity: Providence and Praxis in the Foundation of the Society of Jesus. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 226. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ix + 244 pp. $141. ISBN: 978-90-04-25988-1.

Visceglia, Maria Antonietta. Morte e elezione del papa: Norme, riti e conflitti: L’Età moderna. Le corte dei papi 23. Rome: Viella, 2013. xvii + 590 pp. + 8 color pls. €49. ISBN: 978-88-6728- 045-2.

Visscher, Eva De. Reading the Rabbis: Christian Hebraism in the Works of Herbert of Bosham. Commentaria: Sacred Texts and their Commentaries: Jewish, Christian and Islamic 5. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xv + 222 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-25468-8.

Visscher, Roemer. Brabbeling (1614): Een Bloemlezing. Ed. Anneke Fleurkens. Hilversum: Verloren, 2013. 318 pp. €29. ISBN: 978-90-8704-391-9.

Walsh, John Evangelist. Dagger of the Mind: Solving the Mystery of Shakespeare’s Death. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Occasional Publications 6. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xvi + 122 pp. $39. ISBN: 978-0- 86698-500-0.

Weigel, Valentin. Handschriftliche Predigtensammlung (Unvollständige Teilpostille), Einfältiger Unterricht, Vom himmlischen Jerusalem. Ed. Horst Pfefferl. Valentin Weigel: Sämtliche Schriften Neue Edition 6. Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt): Frommann-Holzboog, 2013. xxxii + 260 pp. €386. ISBN: 978-3-7728-1845-5.

White, Paul. Jodocus Badius Ascensius: Commentary, Commerce and Print in the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 308 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-0-19-726554-3.

Wicquefort, Abraham de. Les gazettes parisiennes de l’année 1653: Suivies de, L’état de la France en 1654. Ed. Philippe Mauran. Bibliothèque d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 44. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2014. 456 pp. €85. ISBN: 978-2-7453-2526-6.

Wilson, Miranda. Poison’s Dark Works in Renaissance England. Lanham: Bucknell University Press, 2014. lvii + 200 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-1-61148-538-7.

Witham, Larry. Piero’s Light: In Search of Piero Della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion. New York: Pegasus Books, 2014. xxiv + 354 pp. + 8 color pls. $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-60598-494-0.

Yeo, Richard. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. xviii + 398 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-10656-4.

Ziebart, K. M. Nicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect: A Case Study in Fifteenth-Century Fides-Ratio Controversy. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 225. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiii + 328 pp. $167. ISBN: 978-90-04-25213-4.

Edited Collections:

Akkerman, Nadine, and Birgit Houben, eds. The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in- Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers and Elites 4. Leuven: Brill, 2014. xx + 422 pp. $193. ISBN: 978-90-04-23606-6.

Includes: Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben, “Introduction”; Helen Graham-Matheson, “Petticoats and Politics: Elisabeth Parr and Female Agency at the Early Elizabethan Court”; Hannah Leah Crummé, “Jane Dormer’s Recipe for Politics: A Refuge Household in Spain for Mary Tudor’s Ladies-in-waiting”; Katrin Keller, “Ladies-in-Waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns”; Vanessa de Cruz, “‘In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life’: Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-Waiting of Maria of ”; Birgit Houben and Dries Raeymaekers, “Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella’s Camareras Mayores (1598–1633)”; Janet Ravenscroft, “Dwarfs — and a Loca — as Ladies’ Maids at the Spanish Habsburg Courts”; Una McIlvenna, “‘A Stable of Whores’?: The ‘Flying Squadron’ of Catherine de Medici”; Rosalind K. Marshall, “In Search of the Ladies- in-Waiting and Maids of Honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Prosoprographical Analysis of the Female Household”; Oliver Mallick, “Clients and Friends: The Ladies-in-Waiting at the Court of (1615–66)”; Cynthia Fry, “Perceptions of Influence: The Catholic Diplomacy of Queen Anna and Her Ladies, 1601–04”; Nadine Akkerman, “The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford”; Sara J. Wolfson, “The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626– 40”; Fabian Persson, “Living in the House of Power: Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court”; and Jeroen Duindam, “The Politics of Female Households: Afterthoughts.”

Avcıoğlu, Nebahat, and Emma Jones, eds. Architecture, Art and Identity in and its Territories, 1450–1750: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xxii + 288 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1082-5.

Includes: Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Emma Jones, “Introduction”; Allison Sherman, “‘Soli deo honor et gloria’? Cittadino Lay Procurator Patronage and the Art of Identity Formation in Renaissance Venice”; Esther Gabel, “The Sisters Sagredo: Passion and Patronage in 18th- Century Venice”; Paul Davies, “The Early History of Jacopo Sansovino’s Scheme for Piazza San Marco: A Proposal”; Elena Svalduz, “Venice 1557: Sabbadino’s City Plan”; Andrew Hopkins, “Translatio Longhena Salute: Drawings and Patrons in Pilgrimage between Venice, Rome and Gostyn”; Lydia Hamlett, “The Twin Sacristy Arrangement of Palladio’s Venice: Origins and Adaptations”; Laura Moretti, “Palladio’s Patrons and Music: Connections between Cultural Interests and Architecture: the Villa Pisani at Bagnolo”; Tracy E. Cooper, “How Palladio Became Famous: Paolo Gualdo and the Republic of Letters”; Massimo Bisson, “The 17th- Century Project for the Church of San Nicolò del Lido in Venice: Liturgical Problems and New Architectural Models in the Counter-Reformation”; Joanne Allen, “Innovation or Afterthought? Dating the San Giobbe Retrochoir”; Gianmario Guidarelli, “Venice’s Cathedral of San Pietro di Castello 1451–1630”; Johanna D. Heinrichs, “The Topography of Antiquity in Descriptions of Venetian Crete”; Blake de Maria, “Jacopo Foscarini, Francesco Barozzi and the Oracles of Leo the Wise”; Patricia Fortini Brown, “Becoming a Man of Empire: The Construction of Patrician Identity in a Republic of Equals.”

Beghein, Stefanie, Bruno Blondé, and Eugeen Schreurs, eds. Music and the City: Musical Cultures and Urban Societies in the Southern Netherlands and Beyond, C. 1650–1800. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013. 186 pp. €39.50. ISBN: 978-90-5867-955-0.

Includes: Stefanie Beghein and Bruno Blondé, “Music and the City: Musical Cultures and Urban Societies in the Southern Netherlands and Beyond, c. 1650–1800”; Timothy De Paepe, “‘Les operas etaient en vogue’: Opera in a City in Crisis: Antwerp between 1682 and 1794”; Rudolf Rasch, “Opera in a Different Language. Opera Translations in the Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century”; Bruno Forment, “Music-Making Ghosts: Eighteenth-Century Rome as Operatic Memory Machine”; Stefanie Beghein, “Music and Funeral Practices in Antwerp, c. 1650–1750”; Eugeen Schreurs, “Church Music and Minstrel Music in the Southern Netherlands, with a Special Focus on Antwerp”; Tanya Kevorkian, “The Church, the Street, the Tower, and the Home as Sites of Religious Music-Making in Urban Baroque Germany”; Anne-Madeleine Goulet, “Serious Songs, Musical Practices and Sociability in Paris at the End of the Seventeenth Century”; and Louis P. Grijp, “Apollo’s Gifts: Dutch Songbooks for the Urban Youth of the Eighteenth Century.”

Bernauer, James, and Robert A. Maryks, eds. “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 169. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xvi + 358 pp. $189. ISBN: 978-90-04-26021-4.

Includes: James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, “Introduction”; Emanuele Colombo, “The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews”; Claude B. Stuczynski, “Negotiating Relationship: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos — A Reassessment”; Dean Phillip Bell, “Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany”; Diego Lucci, “The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena”; Gianfranco Miletto, “Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries”; Jeremy Clarke, “From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China”; Lou Charnon-Deutsch, “Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European Feuilleton”; Beth Griech-Polelle, “Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and Other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39”; Peter J. Bernardi, “French Jesuits and Action Française”; James Bernauer, “A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy”; David Lebovitch Dahl, “The Anti-Semitism of La Civiltà Cattolica Revisited”; Elena Mazzini, “Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civiltà Cattolica after the Shoah, 1945–65”; Raffaella Perin, “Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War”; David I. Kertzer, “Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews”; Robert A. Maryks, “The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews”; Charles Gallagher, “‘Correct and Christian’: American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Anti-Semitism, 1935– 38”; Michael J. Burns, “‘Accepted and Welcome’: The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920–40”; and Thérèse Andrevon, “Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II.”

Bigliazzi, Silvia, and Lisanna Calvi, eds. Revisiting the Tempest: The Capacity to Signify. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xii + 272 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-137-33313-1.

Includes: Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi, “Introduction”; Andrew Gurr, “The Tempest as Theatrical Magic”; Richard Andrews, “The Tempest and Italian Improvised Theatre”; Robert Henke, “Pastoral Tragicomedy and The Tempest”; Roger Holdsworth, “The Jonsonian Tempest”; Alessandro Serpieri, “The Labyrinth and the Oracle”; Silvia Bigliazzi, “‘Dost thou hear?’ On the Rhetoric of Narrative in The Tempest”; Keir Elam, “A Tempestuous Noise: on the Acoustics and Vocalics of Storms”; Lisanna Calvi, “‘Suppos’d to be raised by magic,’ or The Tempest ‘made fit’”; Lucia Nigri, “‘Lost in Visual Pleasure’: Charles Kean’s Production of The Tempest”; Peter Holland, “Magical Realism: Raising Storms and Other Quaint Devices”; Eleonora Oggiano, “Shakespeare’s Hypertextual Performances: Remediating The Tempest in Prospero’s Books”; Alessandra Squeo, “‘This is a most majestic vision’: Performing Prospero’s Masque on Screen”; Kathleen E. McLuskie, “‘Abstraction and Allegory’: Making The Tempest Mean”; and Ewan Fernie, “Afterword: Is there a Tempest Problem?”

Campbell, Erin J., Stephanie R. Miller, and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, eds. The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiii + 268 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4094-6811-0.

Includes: Erin J. Campbell, Stephanie R. Miller, and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, “Introduction: Early Modern Domesticities: Integrating People, Spaces, Objects”; Catherine Fletcher, “‘Uno palaço belissimo’: Town and Country Living in Renaissance Bologna”; Susan Nalezyty, “From Padua to Rome: Pietro Bembo’s Mobile Objects and Convivial Interiors”; Adelina Modesti, “‘A casa con i Sirani’: A Successful Family Business and Household in Early Modern Bologna”; Stephanie R. Miller, “Parenting in the Palazzo: Images and Artifacts of Children in the Italian Renaissance Home”; Margaret A. Morse, “The Venetian Portego: Family Piety and Public Prestige”; Erin J. Campbell, “Art and Family Viewers in the 17th-Century Bolognese Domestic Interior”; Maria DePrano, “Chi vuol esser lieto, sia: Objects of Entertainment in the Tornabuoni Palace in Florence”; Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, “Il mare di pittura: Domestic Pictures and Sociability in the Late 16th-Century Venetian Interior”; Katherine A. McIver, “Let’s Eat: Kitchens and Dining in the Renaissance Palazzo and Country Estate”; Allyson Burgess Williams, “Silk-Clad Walls and Sleeping Cupids: A Documentary Reconstruction of the Living Quarters of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara”; Jennifer D. Webb, “‘All that is seen’: Ritual and Splendour at the Montefeltro Court in Urbino”; Adriana Turpin, “Objectifying the Domestic Interior: Domestic Furnishings and the Historical Interpretation of the Italian Renaissance Interior”; and Susan E. Wegner, “Recreating the Renaissance Domestic Interior: A Case Study of One Museum’s Approach to the Period Room.”

Chatenet, Monique, and Claude Mignot, eds. Le génie du lieu: La réception du langage classique en Europe (1540–1650): Sélection, interprétation, invention. De Architectura 14. Paris: Picard, 2013. 264 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-2-7084-0954-5.

Includes: Monique Chatenet and Claude Mignot, “Introduction”; Daniela del Pesco, “Evoluzione di un tema antico: Le facciate con portico nelle chiese napoletane tra Controriforma e barocco”; Andrea Guerra, “I mutevoli aspetti dell’antico: Archi trionfali e facciate di chiese nella Venezia del Cinquecento”; Marco Rosario Nobile, “L’angolo come luogo di accumulazione retorica: Balconi e colonne in Sicilia e in Puglia”; Jaier Ibáñez Fernández, “La bóveda tabicada en et l’évolution de son décor aur cour du XVIe siècle”; Catherine Wilkinson-Zerner, “The Architecture of Renaissance Altarpieces in Castile”; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, “Le génie du lieu: Réflexions critiques”; Richard Biegel, “L’architecture au temps de Rodolphe II et la tradition architecturale tchèque du XVIe siècle”; Stanislas Mossakowski, “La decorazione dei portali del palazzo reale di Cracovia e il problema del loro stile”; Krista De Jonge, “Antique et Moderne: La colonne à fût orné dans l’archiecture européene de la Renaissance”; Christiane Roussel, “Un hispanisme en Franche-Comté au XVIe siècle: La zapata revisitée”; Konrad Ottenheym, “Architectura Moderna à Amsterdam (1600–1625), Hendrick De Keyser et les nouvelles inventions à l’antique, 1600–1625”; Maurice Howard, “From Gatehouse to Frontispiece in Sixteenth-Century England”; Charles McKean, “Classical Architecture in Renaissance Scotland”; Sabine Frommel, “De l’ordre prodigieux au langage abrégé: Pierre Lescot interprète des modèles italiens”; Claude Mignot, “L’ordre attique, le sixième ordre français”; and Alexandre Gady, “L’hôtel parisien mis en ordre? Réflexions sur la diffusion et l’adaptation des ordres dans l’architecture aristocratique de la capitale à la Renaissance.”

Christiansen, Keith, ed. Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14 January–30 March 2014. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 96 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-300-19946-8.

Includes: Keith Christiansen, “Piero Della Francesca: Personal Encounters”; Anna Pizzati, “The Family of Girolamo Amadi: A Lucchese Silk Merchant in Venice”; and Roberto Bellucci, Cecilia Frosinini, and Chiara Rossi Scarzanella, “The Restoration and Technical Examination of Saint Jerome and a Supplicant.”

Clark, Emily, and Mary Laven, eds. Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550–1900. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. ix + 220 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5274-4.

Includes: Emily Clark and Mary Laven, “Introduction”; Patrick Collinson, “What Are the Women Doing in Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’?”; Robin Briggs, “From Devilry to Sainthood: Mère Jeanne des Anges and the Catholic Reform”; John J. Clune, Jr., “Islands of Women in a Sea of Change: Havana’s Female Religious Communities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”; Emily Clark, “When Is a Cloister Not a Cloister? Comparing Women and Religion in the Colonies of France and Spain”; Annette Laing, “Crossing Denominational Boundaries: Two Early American Women and Religion in the Atlantic World”; Cathy Skidmore-Hess, “Njinga of Matamba and the Politics of Catholicism”; Susan O’Brien, “Religious Sisters and Revival in the English , 1840s–1880s”; Hazel Mills, “Women and Religious Revival in Nineteenth-Century France: Jeanne-Antide Thouret and the Sisters of Charity of Besançon”; and Timothy J. Lockley, “Religion and the Rise and Fall of Female Benevolence in Antebellum Savannah, 1801–60.”

Cooper, Lisa H., and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds. The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of “O Vernicle.” Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xv + 408 pp. + 12 color pls. £85. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5676-6.

Includes: Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, “Introduction: Arma Christi: The Material Culture of the Passion”; Mary Agnes Edsall, “The Arma Christi before the Arma Christi: Rhetorics of the Passion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”; Seeta Chaganti, “Figure and Ground: Elene’s Nails, Cynewulf’s Runes, and Hrabanus Maurus’s Painted Poems”; Richard G. Newhauser and Arthur J. Russell, “Mapping Virtual Pilgrimage in an Early Fifteenth-Century Arma Christi Roll”; Ann Eljenholm Nichols, “The Footprints of Christ as Arma Christi: The Evidence of Morgan B.54”; Martha Rust, “The Arma Christi and the Ethics of Reckoning”; Ann W. Astell, “Memorial Technai, St. Thomas the Twin, and British Library Additional MS 22029”; Suzanne Verderber, “Arma Christi as Landscape in Hieronymus Bosch’s Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child”; Lee Palmer Wandel, “Liturgy and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: Reframing the Arma Christi”; Salvador Ryan, “The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland”; Shannon Gayk, “Early Modern Afterlives of the Arma Christi”; and Ann Eljenholm Nichols, “O Vernicle: A Critical Edition.”

Cruz, Anne J., and Maria Galli Stampino, eds. Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xviii + 294 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4724-1164-8.

Includes: Anne J. Cruz;, “Introduction”; Joseph F. Patrouch; , “‘Bella gerant alii’: Laodamia’s sisters/Habsburg Brides: Leaving Home for the Sake of the House”; Maria Galli Stampino, “Maria Maddalena, Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Florence: Negotiating Performance, Traditions and Taste”; Blythe Alice Raviola, “The Three Lives of Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua and Vicereine of Portugal”; Magdalena S. Sánchez, “‘Lord of my soul’: The Letters of Catalina Micaela, Duchess of Savoy, to Her Husband, Carlo Emanuele I”; Vanessa de Cruz Medina, “An Illegitimate Habsburg: Sor Ana Dorotea de la Concepción, Marquise of Austria”; Félix Labrador Arroyo, “From Castile to Burgundy: The Evolution of the Queens’ Households during the 16th Century”; María Cruz de Carlos Varona, “Giving Birth at the Habsburg Court: Visual and Material Culture”; Silvia Z. Mitchell, “Habsburg Motherhood: The Power of Mariana of Austria, Mother and Regent for Carlos II of Spain”; Mercedes Llorente, “Mariana of Austria’s Portraits as Ruler-Governor and Curadora by Juan Carreño de Miranda and ”; Laura Oliván Santaliestra, “Isabel of Borbón’s Sartorial Politics: From French Princess to Habsburg Regent”; and Cordula van Wyhe, “The Making and Meaning of the Monastic Habit at Spanish Habsburg Courts.”

Dahood, Roger, and Peter E. Medine, eds. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. Third Series 10. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2013. xii + 252 pp. $155. ISBN: 978-0-404-64560-1.

Includes: Katherine Allen Smith, “Glossing the Holy War: Exegetical Constructions of the First Crusade, c. 1095–c. 1146”; Rebecca Rist, “From ‘Sicut’ to ‘Turbato’ Again: ‘Papal Policy’ toward Jews in the Central Middle Ages: The Evidence Revisited”; John N. Crossley, “Old- Fashioned versus Newfangled: Reading and Writing Numbers, 1200–1500”; Donald J. Kagay, “Disposable Alliances: Aragon and Castile during the War of the Two Pedros and Beyond”; Iva Olah, “Demons and Mages in Renaissance Florence: Ficinian Neoplatonic Magic and Lorenzo de’ Medici”; Robert Finlay, “The Altar Cloth of the Doge: Piety, Pride, and Politics in Renaissance Venice”; and Tom Flanigan, “For ‘such as desire to . . . taste . . .so ravishing a Sweet Science’: Self-Help Lute Books in Early Modern England.”

Enenkel, Karl A. E., ed. Transformations of the Classics Via Early Modern Commentaries. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 29. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xxi + 418 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-26077-1.

Includes: Karl A. E. Enenkel, “Introduction: The Transformation of the Classics: Practices, Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting”; Floris B. Verhaart, “Horace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot’s (1516–1598?) Commentaries”; Trine Arlund Hass, “Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals”; Christoph Pieper, “Horaz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus: Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498)”; Marc Laureys, “Petrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz”; Gergő Gellérfi, “Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio’s Forgotten Commentary on Juvenal”; Valéry Berlincourt, “Commenting on Claudian’s ‘Political Poems,’ 1612/1650”; Marijke Crab, “Josse Bade’s Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary?”; Karl A. E. Enenkel, “Illustrations as Commentary and Readers’ Guidance: The Transformation of Cicero’s De Officiis into a German Emblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner, and Christian Egenolff (1517– 1520; 1530/1531; 1550)”; Ronny Kaiser, “Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus’s Germania in Beatus Rhenanus’s Commentariolus”; Jeanine De Landtsheer, “Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius”; Susanna de Beer, “The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance”; Ekaterina Ilyushechkina, “Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny’s Zoology in the 15th–16th Centuries”; and Katharina Suter-Meyer, “Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie — Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522).”

Engammare, Max, and Alexandre Vanautgaerden, eds. L’intime du droit à la Renaissance: Actes du cinquantenaire de la FISIER. With Franz Bierlaire. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 117. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 544 pp. $102. ISBN: 978-2-600-01729-9.

Includes: Max Engammare, “Historique de la FISIER”; Max Engammare, “Introduction”; Valérie Hayaert, “De l’art de la jurisprudence à celui de l’emblème chez André Alciat et Pierre Coustau : æquiparatio, acumen et satire”; Jean-Louis Fournel, “La question du prince chez Machiavel et Guicciardini : Ecriture(s) diplomatique(s) et écriture(s) de l’Histoire”; Monique Weis, “Fondements juridiques et pratiques diplomatiques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles: L’exemple des relations entre les Pays-Bas espagnols et le Saint Empire”; Alexandre Vanautgaerden, “Censure et autocensure de l’Education du prince chrétien d’Erasme”; Claire Dolan, “Mythes et réalités du père chez les notaires d’Aix-en-Provence dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle”; Monica Ferrari, “Le rôle du père dans la familia des princes en Italie au XVe siècle”; Franz Bierlaire, “Les droits et les devoirs du père de famille selon Erasme”; Jean-Paul Pittion, “Surveiller, édifier, punir : Le recteur et la discipline au collège et à l’académie de Saumur (1613–1685)”; Géraldine Cazals, “Le maître dans les statuts des corps de métier toulousains de la Renaissance”; René Hoven, “L’image du maître d’école chez Erasme et Thomas More”; Matthias Schmoeckel, “Der Pastor als Richter ? Der Einfluss der lutherischen Reformation auf die untere kirchliche Gerichtsbarkeit”; Vincenzo Lavenia, “Donner à César ce qui est à César ? Fiscalité et Eglise catholique après l’époque médiévale”; Jean-Pierre Bordier, “Le procès de Paradis dans la littérature dramatique et didactique de la fin du Moyen Age (XIVe–XVe siècles)”; William G. Naphy, “Calvin’s Consistory: A Secular Court?”; Guy Bedouelle, “Erasme et l’idéal évangélique du pasteur”; Ian Maclean, “Juge et partie: Ou la doctrine de la preuve dans les procès intentés contre les sorciers en Lorraine et en Franche-Comté autour de 1600”; Richard Cooper, “Le juge comme personnage littéraire à la Renaissance”; Alessandro Pastore, “Le juge, le juriste et le médecin (Italie, XVIe–XVIIe siècles)”; Silvana Seidel Menchi, “Le juge comme confesseur (Venise, 1514–1526)”; and Thomas Berns, “Amitié et droit dans les corps intermédiaires.”

Espinosa, Ruben, and David Ruiter, eds. Shakespeare and Immigration. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. ix + 218 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-1100-0.

Includes: Ruben Espinosa and David Ruiter, “Introduction”; Eric Griffin, “Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Stranger Crisis of the Early 1590s”; Geraldo U. de Sousa, “‘My hopes abroad’: The Global/Local Nexus in The Merchant of Venice”; Kathryn Vomero Santos, “Hosting Language: Immigration and Translation in The Merry Wives of Windsor”; Ruben Espinosa, “Fluellen’s Foreign Influence and the Ill Neighborhood of King Henry V”; Bernadette Andrea, “‘A noble troop of strangers’: Masques of Blackness in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII”; Bindu Malieckal, “‘Boat People’: Wars of Religion, Women Refugees, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest”; Imtiaz Habib, “The Black Alien in Othello: Beyond the European Immigrant”; Peter Erickson, “Race Words in Othello”; Elizabeth Valdez Acosta, “Open Doors, Secure Borders: The Paradoxical Immigration Policy of Belmont in The Merchant of Venice”; and David Ruiter, “Coda: ‘And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.’”

Esteve, Cesc, ed. Las razones del censor: Control ideológico y censura de libros en la primera Edad Moderna. With the collaboration of Cristina Luna. Studia Aurea Monográfica 5. Bellaterra (): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. 282 pp. €20. ISBN: 978-84-490-2897-7.

Includes: Cesc Esteve, “Las razones del censor: Presentación”; María José Vega, “Notas teológicas y censura de libros en los siglos XVI y XVII”; Iveta Nakládalová, “Las metáforas del censor en la Europa altomoderna (1550–1650)”; Linda Bisello, “Diffusione dei libri e censura: Il lessico metaforico nella Bibliotheca selecta di Antonio Possevino S.J. (1593)”; Cesc Esteve, “La història als índexs de llibres prohibits: Censura i disciplina historiogràfica a la primera edat moderna”; Xavier Tubau, “La censura del conciliarismo en el siglo XVI: Alfonso Álvarez Guerrero y su tratado sobre el concilio general”; Marcela Londoño, “Devoción supersticiosa en edada”; Consolación Baranda, “La función de la censura en la configuración de la religiosidad femenina del siglo XVII: Una propuesta”; Karine Durin, “El epicureísmo y las heterodoxias españolas: propuestas para un estado de la cuestión”; Blanca Vizán, “Lecturas criptojudías y la Introducción al Simbolo de la fray Luis de Granada”; Donatella Gagliardi, “De autocensuras y censuras: El accidentado camino a la imprenta de los Comentarii sopra Cornelio Tacito de Boccalini (con un parecer del Consejo de estado español)”; Ramón Valdés, “El otro mundo en las sátiras menipeas de Quevedo: Una evolución a merced de la censura”; and Simona Munari, “La Collezione ad usum Delphini di Huet e Montausier (1674– 1730): Implicazioni storiche di una formula censoria.”

Feather, Jennifer, and Catherine E. Thomas, eds. Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi + 272 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-34474-8.

Includes: Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas, “Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities”; Susan Harlan, “Militant Prologues, Memory, and Models of Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Troilus and Cressida”; Timothy Francisco, “Marlowe’s War Horses: Cyborgs, Soldiers and Queer Companions”; Jennifer Forsyth, “Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama”; Lisa S. Starks-Estes, “Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”; Laurie Nussdorfer, “Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome”; Katharine Cleland, “‘Warring Spirits’: Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton’s Paradise Lost”; Andrew D. McCarthy, “King Lear’s Violent Grief”; Catharine Gray, “Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy”; Amanda Bailey, “Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth”; and Laurie Ellinghausen, “Melancholy and Spleen: Models of English Masculinity in The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley.”

Fehler, Timothy G., Greta Grace Kroeker, Charles H. Parker, and Jonathan Ray, eds. Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile. Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 12. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014. xv + 248 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-445-0.

Includes: Greta Grace Kroeker, “Introduction”; Victoria Christman, “Trade in Tolerance: The Portuguese New Christians of Antwerp, 1530–50”; Marina Torres Arce, “Swimming against the Tide: The Entry of Jews in Spain. Religious Mobility, Social Control and Integration at the End of the Ancien Règime”; Stephanie Nadalo, “Populating a ‘Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, etc.’: Tuscan Immigration Policy and Ragion di Stato in the Free Port of Livorno”; David Parry, “Exile, Education and Eschatology in the Works of Jan Amos Comenius and John Milton”; Charles H. Parker, “Missionaries as Exiles: Calvinist Strategies for Restoration in Communities under the Dutch East India Company”; Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, “Niccolò Guidalotto da Mondavio and his City View of Constantinople (1662): The Experience of an Exile”; Berta Cano-Echevarría and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, “Educating for Martyrdom: British Exiles in the English College at Valladolid”; María Tausiet, “Freedom as Exile: Michael Servetus and the Alumbrados”; Timothy G. Fehler, “Coping with Poverty: Dutch Reformed Exiles in Emden, Germany”; Emese Balint, “Anabaptist Migration to Moravia and the Hutterite Brethren”; Jonathan Ray, “Chaos and Community: 1492 and the Formation of the Sephardic Diaspora”; and Vladimír Urbánek, “Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: The Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.”

Fein, Susanna, and Michael Johnston, eds. Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts. York: York Medieval Press, 2014. xii + 310 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-903153-51-2.

Includes: Michael Johnston, “Introduction: The Cheese and the Worms and Robert Thornton”; Susanna Fein, “The Contents of Robert Thornton’s Manuscripts”; George R. Keiser, “Robert Thornton: Gentleman, Reader and Scribe”; Joel Fredell, “The Thornton Manuscripts and Book Production in York”; Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre, “The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition”; Mary Michele Poellinger, “‘The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes’: Religious Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript”; Michael Johnston, “Constantinian Christianity in the London Thornton Manuscript: The Codicological and Linguistic Evidence of Thornton’s Intentions”; Julie Nelson Couch, “Apocryphal Romance in the London Thornton Manuscript”; Julie Orlemanski, “Thornton’s Remedies and Practices of Medical Reading”; and Rosalind Field with Dav Smith, “Afterword: Robert Thornton Country.”

Findlay, Alison, and Liz Oakley-Brown, eds. Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader. Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xiii + 286 pp. £17.99. ISBN: 978-1-47250- 329-9.

Includes: R. S. White , “The Critical Backstory”; Linda Anderson , “Performance History”; William C. Carroll, “The State of the Art”; Keir Elam, “Pictures and Perception in Twelfth Night”; Randall Martin, “Ships, Shipwrecks and Pauline Echoes in Twelfth Night”; Andrew Stott, “The Professional Comic in Twelfth Night”; Tiffany Stern, “Music in Twelfth Night”; and Peter Kirwan, “Pedagogy and Resources.”

Friedeburg, Robert von, ed. Politics, Law, Society, History and Religion in the Politica (1590s– 1650s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Subject. Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte der Philosophie 88. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013. €34.80. ISBN: 978-3- 487-15045-1.

Includes: Robert van Friedeburg, “Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Subject: Law, History, Philosophy, Religion, and the Study of Society in the Politica, 1590s–1650s”; Jan Waszink, “Controversies on Reason of State: Lipsius on Scripture and Politics”; Wolfgang E. J. Weber, “Securing Power”; Luise Schorn-Schütte, Politica Christiana in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Jaap Nieuwstraten, “History and Politics in the Dutch Republic in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century”; and Robert van Friedeburg, “The Discussion of Social and Political Conflict in the Politica.”

Fumerton, Patricia, ed. Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 421; MRTS Texts for Teaching 6. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xxiii + 336 pp. + 2 audio CDs. $95. ISBN: 978-0-86698-469-0.

Includes: Patricia Fumerton, “Preface”; Eric Nebeker, “The Heyday of the Broadside Ballad”; Kris McAbee and Jessica C. Murphy, “Ballad Creation and Circulation: Congers and Mongers”; Paxton Hehmeyer, “The Social Function of the Broadside Ballad: Or, a New Medley of Readers”; William Gahan, “Ballad Measure in Print”; James Revell Carr, “‘An Harmless Dittie’: Ballad Music and its Sources”; Gerald Egan and Eric Nebeker, “‘Other Common Papers’: Papermaking and Ballad Sheets”; Gerald Egan, “Black Letter and the Broadside Ballad”; Simone Chess, “Woodcuts: Methods and Meanings of Ballad Illustration”; Patricia Fumerton, “Recollecting Samuel Pepys: His Life, His Library, and His Legacy”; Tassie Gniady, “Creating Digital Facsimile Transcriptions of the Pepys Ballads”; James Revell Carr, “‘To be Sung in Merry Pastime’: Recording the Pepys Ballad”; Eric Nebeker, “Thinking Categorically and Pepys’s Categories”; Gerald Egan, “Devotion and Morality: ‘Take Heed’s a Faire Thing’”; William Gahan, “History, True and Fabulous”; Tassie Gniady, “Tragedy: Wounds and Ulcers”; Paxton Hehmeyer, “State and Times: Room for Company”; Kris McAbee, “Love Pleasant: Constancy and Craftiness”; Jessica C. Murphy, “Love Unfortunate and Unfortunate Love”; Jessica C. Murphy, “Marriage: Practically Ideal”; Laura Miller, “Sea: Transporting England”; Simone Chess, “Drinking and Good Fellowship: Working Class or Workers’ Classes at the Alehouse?”; Kris McAbee, “Humour, Frollicks &c Mixt: Early Modern Romps”; and selected by Eric Nebeker, “Supplemental Ballands.”

Giacomotto-Charra, Violaine, and Christine Silvi, eds. Lire, choisir, écrire: La vulgarisation des savoirs du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance. Études et Rencontres 43. Paris: École des chartes, 2014. 276 pp. €24. ISBN: 978-2-35723-041-5.

Includes: Violaine Giacomotto-Charra, “Peut-on tracer les frontières de la vulgarisation?”; Christine Silvi, “La revendication de la grécité dans quelques monographies d’oiseaux d’Aristote à Buffon”; Valérie Fasseur, “L’enseignement de saint Augustin contre les manichéens dans le Breviari d’Amor de Matfre Ermengaud: Denis Hüe, Le Calendrier et compost des bergers, un vade-mecum populaire”; Jean Balsamo, “Traduction de l’italien et transmission des savoirs: Le débat des années 1575”; Hélène Cazes, “Charles Estienne: fortunes et faillites d’une entreprise de vulgarisation”; Jacqueline Vons, “Jacques Grévin (1538–1570) et la nomenclature anatomique française”; Philippe Selosse, “Le ‘Plasne,’ la ‘Salmandre,’ le ‘Daulphin’ et le ‘Mauvis’: La vulgarisation des savoirs dans les traités d’histoire naturelle de Pierre Belon”; Marie-Luce Demonet, “Un exemple de vulgarisation philosophique: Les facultés de l’âme à la portée de tous (et de toutes)”; Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, “Affronter et ravir la licorne des autres: Le chemin d’Ambroise Paré parmi les autorités”; Christine Pigné, “Le sommeil vu par Pierre Messie”; Susanna Gambino-Longo, “Imaginaire et connaissance des nations barbares en Italie au XVIesiècle”; and Rosanna Gorris Camos, “Écrire la terre, écrire le ciel: Guy LeFèvre deLaBoderie et Peletier duMans, poètes de la terre et du ciel.”

Giannini, Massimo Carlo, ed. Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. I libri di Viella 159. Rome: Viella, 2013. 252 pp. €28. ISBN: 978-88-6728-098-8.

Includes: Massimo Carlo Giannini, “Introduction”; Boris Jeanne, “The Franciscans of Mexico: Tracing Tensions between Rome and in the provincia del Santo Evangelio (1454– 1622)”; Benoist Pierre, “Religious, the Pope, and the Kings of France during the Wars of Religion”; Esther Jiménez Pablo, “The Evolution of the Society of Jesus during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An Order that Favoured the Papacy or the Hispanic Monarchy?”; Aurélien Girard, “Impossible Independence or Necessary Dependency? Missionaries in the Near East, the ‘Protection’ of the Catholic States, and the Roman Arbitrator”; Massimo Carlo Giannini, “Three General Masters for the Dominican Order: The Ridolfi Affaire between International Politics and Faction Struggle at the Papal Court (1642–1644)”; Ignasi Fernández Terricabras, “Surviving between Spain and France: Religious Orders and the Papacy in (1640–1659)”; Tomáš Parma, “‘Bishops Are not Necessary for Reform’: Religious Orders in the Catholic Reconquista of Bohemia and Moravia: Two Case Studies”; Gaetano Platania, “Two Religious Orders in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poland: The Jesuits and the Arrival of the Capuchin Friars”; and Antal Molnár, “Bosnian Franciscans between Roman Centralisation and Balkan Confessionalisation.”

Gillespie, Vincent, and Susan Powell, eds. A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476–1558. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xviii + 386 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84384-363-4.

Includes: Vincent Gillespie, “Introduction”; Julia Boffey, “From Manuscript to Print: Continuity and Change”; Tamara Atkin and A. S. G. Edwards Printers, “Publishers and Promoters to 1558”; Alan Coates, “The Latin Trade in England and Abroad”; Pamela Robinson, “Materials: Paper and Type”; Alexandra Gillespie, “Bookbinding and Early Printing in England”; Martha W. Driver, “Woodcuts and Decorative Techniques”; Anne Sutton, “Merchants”; Mary C. Erler, “The Laity”; Susan Powell, “The Secular Clergy”; James G. Clarke, “The Regular Clergy”; James Willoughby, “Universities, Colleges and Chantries”; Daniel Wakelin, “Humanism and Printing”; Brenda M. Hosington, “Women Translators and the Early Printed Book”; Andrew Hope, “The Printed Book Trade in Response to Luther: English Books Printed Abroad”; Thomas Betteridge, “Thomas More, Print and the Idea of Censorship”; and Lucy Wooding, “Catholicism, the Printed Book and the Marian Restoration.”

Hamburger, Jeffrey, and Gabriela Signori, eds. Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 13. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. ix + 338 pp. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-54415-1.

Includes: Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Gabriela Signori, “The Making of a Saint: Catherine of Siena, Tommaso Caffarini, and the Others — Introduction”; Otfried Krafft, “Many Strategies and One Goal: The Difficult Road to the Canonization of Catherine of Siena”; Michael Hohlstein, “‘Sacra lipsana’: The Relics of Catherine of Siena in the Context of Propagation, Piety, and Community”; Gabriella Zarri, “Catherine of Siena and the Italian Public”; Thomas Brakmann, “The Transmission of the Upper German Life of Catherine of Siena”; Alison Frazier, “Humanist Lives of Catherine of Siena: Latin Prose Narratives on the Italian Peninsula (1461– 1505)”; F. Thomas Luongo, “Saintly Authorship in the Italian Renaissance: The Quattrocento Reception of Catherine of Siena’s Letters”; Silvia Nocentini, “‘Pro solatio illicteratorum’: The Earliest Italian Translations of the Legenda maior”; Dirk Schultze, “Translating St. Catherine of Siena in Fifteenth-Century England”; Kristin Böse, “‘Uff daz man daz unsicher von dem sichren bekenen mug’: The Evidence of Visions in the Illustrated Vitae of Catherine of Siena”; David Ganz, “The Dilemma of a Saint’s Portrait: Catherine’s Stigmata between Invisible Body Trace and Visible Pictorial Sign”; Catherine M. Mooney, “Wondrous Words: Catherine of Siena’s Miraculous Reading and Writing According to the Early Sources”; Jane Tylus, “Writing versus Voice: Tommaso Caffarini and the Production of a Literate Catherine”; and Tamar Herzig, “Italian Holy Women against Bohemian Heretics: Catherine of Siena and the ‘Second Catherines’ in the Kingdom of Bohemia.”

Herissone, Rebecca, and Alan Howard, eds. Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. xv + 354 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-740-4.

Includes: Rebecca Herissone, “Introduction”; Andrew R. Walking, “‘Big with New Events and some Unheard Success’: Absolutism and Creativity at the Restoration Court”; James A. Winn, “Creativity on Several Occasions”; Kirsten Gibson, “Author, Musician, Composer: Creator? Figuring Musical Creativity in Print at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century”; Stephanie Carter, “Published Musical Variants and Creativity: An Overview of John Playford’s Role as Editor”; Raphael Hallett, “Space, Text and Creativity in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Anne Hultzsch, “The ‘Artificial Sceane’: The Re-Creation of Italian Architecture in John Evelyn’s Diary”; Marina Daiman, “Telling What Is Told: Originality and Repetition in Rubens’s English Works”; Stephen Rose, “Plagiarism at the Academy of Ancient Music: A Case Study in Authorship, Style and Judgement”; John Cunningham, “A Meeting of Amateur and Professional: Playford’s ‘Compendious’ Collection of Two-Part Airs, Court-Ayres (1655)”; Freyja Cox Jensen, “‘Creating’ Cato in Early Seventeenth-Century England”; Amanda Eubanks Winkler, “‘Our Friend Venus Performed to a Miracle’: Anne Bracegirdle, John Eccles and Creativity”; and Linda Phyllis Austern, “Music and Manly Wit in Seventeenth-Century England.”

Holder, R. Ward, ed. Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship. Refo500 Academic Studies 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. 236 pp. €84.99. ISBN: 978-3-525- 55057-1.

Includes: R. Ward Holder, “Calvin and Luther: The Relationship that Still Echoes”; G. Sujin Pak, “Luther and Calvin on the Nature and Function of Prophecy: The Case of the Minor Prophets”; David M. Whitford, “‘Forgetting him selfe after a most filthie and shamefull sorte’: Martin Luther and John Calvin on Genesis 9”; Paul Westermeyer, “Theology and Music for Luther and Calvin”; Timothy J. Wengert, “Philip Melanchthon and John Calvin against Andreas Osiander: Coming to Terms with Forensic Justification”; Susan C. Karant-Nunn, “Postscript on the Religious Emotions in Late- and Post-Reformation Era: Path Dependence and Innovation”; Jeffrey R. Watt, “Reconciliation and the Confession of Sins: The Evidence from the Consistory in Calvin’s Geneva”; Robert Kolb, “The Prophet of the German Nation and Other Saint-Sinner Martyrs among the Lutheran Stars”; Henning P. Jürgens, “Intra-Protestant Conflicts in Sixteenth- Century Poland and Prussia: The Case of Benedict Morgenstern”; J. Todd Billins, “The Contemporary Reception of Luther and Calvin’s Doctrine of Union with Christ: Mapping a Biblical, Catholic, and Reformational Motif”; Theresa F. Latini, “The Church as Mother: The Theme of Union in Christ in Calvin’s and Luther’s Ecclesiology”; and Christine Helmer, “United and Divided: Luther and Calvin in Modern Protestant Theology.”

Honess, Claire E., and Matthew Treherne, eds. Reviewing Dante’s Theology. Vol. 1. Leeds Studies on Dante. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. xi + 322 pp. $72.95. ISBN: 978-3-0343-0924-0.

Includes: Claire E. Honess and Matthew Treherne, “Introduction”; Zygmunt G. Barański, “Dante and Doctrine (and Theology)”; Simon A. Gilson, “Dante and Christian Aristotelianism”; Patrick M. Gardner, “Plato and Platonisms in Dante’s Poetry”; Elena Lombardi, “Augustine and Dante”; Vittorio Montemaggi, “Dante and Gregory the Great”; and Tamara Pollack, “Light, Love and Joy in Dante’s Doctrine of Beatitude.”

Hortal Muñoz, José Eloy, and Félix Labrador Arroyo, eds. La Casa de Borgoña: La Casa del Rey de Espana. Avisps de Flandes 14. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 574 pp. €49.50. ISBN: 978-90-5867-977-2.

Includes: David Nogales Rincón, “Sobre la cultura “borgoñona” y su recepción en Castilla en el siglo XV”; Jean-Marie Cauchies, “Las Ordenanzas de la Casa, Corte y Consejos del archiduque Felipe ‘El Hermoso’ (1495–1506): En la tradición borgoñona”; Raymond P. Fagel, “‘Poner la Corte en orden, poner orden en la Corte’: Los cambios en la Casa de Borgoña alrededor del primer viaje hispánico de Carlos V (1515–7)”; Carlos Javier de Carlos Morales, “La Casa de Borgoña como institución económica, 1517–1665”; Félix Labrador Arroyo, “La formación de las Etiquetas Generales de Palacio en tiempos de Felipe IV: La Junta de Etiquetas, reformas y cambios en la Casa Real”; Marcelo Luzzi Traficante, “La Casa de Borgoña ante el cambio dinástico y durante el siglo XVIII (1680–1761)”; David Nogales Rincón, “La Capilla Real de Castilla y el ideal de Borgoña a fines de la Edad Media (1474–1509)”; Tess Knighton, “‘Rey Fernando, mayorazgo / de toda nuestra esperanza / ¿tus favores a do están?’: Carlos V y la llegada a España de la capilla musical flamenca”; Paulino Capdepón Verdú, “Los oficios musicales en la Real Capilla de Madrid durante el siglo XVII”; Esther Jiménez Pablo, “La espiritualidad en la Capilla Real de los cómo guía de la ortodoxia religiosa de la Monarquía”; José Martínez Millán, “La trasformación institucional de la Cámara de la Casa Real de la Monarquía Hispana durante el siglo XVII”; María de los Ángeles Pérez Samper, “Los Oficios de Boca en la corte española de los Austrias”; Alejandro Lópes Álvarez, “La Caballeriza Real: La imagen externa de la realeza hispana”; José Antonio Guillén Berrendero, “La gestión del honor: Reyes de armas y oficiales borgoñones al servicio de los Austrias hispanos”; José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, “La defensa física y ceremonial del monarca y la integración de las elites: Las Guardas Reales”; Félix Labrador Arroyo and José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, “Presentación: Las Casas de las reinas, de los príncipes, de los y de las infantas, ¿modelo borgoñón o castellano?”; Blythe Alice Raviola, “‘Una delle prime principesse del mondo’: Catalina Micaela y la Corte de Turín al final del siglo XVI”; Henar Pizarro Llorente, “La estructura borgoñona en la Casa de Isabel de Borbón (1621–44)”; Fanny Cosandey and Eloïse Rocher, “¿Modelos de Corte o estructuras monárquicas? Intercambios y formación de las Casas Reales (Francia, siglo XVII)”; and Laura Oliván Santaliestra, “La influencia del modelo borgoñón en la Casa de las emperatrices hispanas (1629–73).”

Isebaert, Lambert, and Aline Smeesters, eds. Poésie latine à haute voix (1500–1700). Latinitates 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 238 pp. €85. ISBN: 978-2-503-54145-7.

Includes: Mathieu Ferrand, “Les exercices de composition et de déclamation poétiques dans les collèges parisiens au début du XVIe siècle”; Grégory Ems, “L’ars pronuntiandi dans les collègues jésuites au XVIIe siècle”; Dirk Sacré and Tim Denecker, “The Actio oratoris seu de gestu et voce libri duo (Paris, 1675) of the Jesuit Joannes Lucas”; Stefano Benedetti, “Roma, settembre 1513: Spettacolo, poesia e satira in Theatro capitolino”; Francesco Lucioli, “‘Forma inimica pudori’: Le Prolusiones Academicae de stylo poetico di Famiano Strada”; Christophe Georis, “Contrafactum et oraison mystique”; Jean Duron, “Les cantiques de Pierre Perrin: ‘De l’or et des pierres brutes pour les musiciens’”; and Anne-Claire Magniez, “Les Exercices spirituels sur la scène d’une congrégation mariale. L’expérience originale des jésuites munichois (1695–1717).

Kane, Bronach, and Fiona Williamson, eds. Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700. The Body, Gender and Culture 15. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. xvi + 210 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-384-2.

Includes: Bronach Kane with Fiona Williamson, “Introduction”; Cordelia Beattie, “Your Oratice: Women’s Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery”; Jeremy Goldberg, “Echoes, Whispers, Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women’s Voices from the Court of York in the Later Middle Ages”; Bronach Kane, “Women, Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts”; Rosemary Horrox, “‘Utterly and Untruly He Hath Decieved Me’: Women’s Inheritance in Late Medieval England”; Deborah Youngs, “‘She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued’: Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales”; Janka Rodziewicz, “Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Yarmouth”; Amanda Flather, “Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England”; Bernard Capp, “The Travails of Agnes Beaumont”; Fiona Williamson, “Parish Politics, Urban Spaces and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich”; and Nicola Whyte, “‘With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande’: Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales.”

Kaufmann, Matthias, and Alexander Aichele, eds. A Companion to Luis De Molina. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 50. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xxxviii + 506 pp. $239. ISBN: 978-90-04-22823-8.

Includes: Alexander Aichele and Matthias Kaufmann, “Introduction”; Alexander Aichele, “The Real Possibility of Freedom”; Petr Dvorak, “Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and Necessity”; Juan Cruz Cruz, “Predestination as Transcendent Teleology: Molina and the First Molinism”; Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, “Rights and Dominium”; Annabel Brett, “Luis de Molina on Law and Power”; Matthias Kaufmann, “Slavery between Law, Morality, and Economy”; Joao Manuel A. A. Fernandes, “Luis de Molina: On War”; Rudolf Schüssler, “The Economic Thought of Luis de Molina”; Rev. Romanus Cessario, OP, “Molina and Aquinas”; Jean-Pascal Anfray, “Molina and John Duns Scotus”; Francesco Piro, “The Philosophical Impact of Molinism in the Seventeenth Century”; and Wolfgang Ertl, “‘Ludewig’ Molina and Kant’s Libertarian Compatibilism.”

Kircher, Timothy, Luc Deitz, and Jonathan A. Reid, eds. Neo-Latin and the Humanities: Essays in Honour of Charles E. Fantazzi. Essays and Studies 32. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 290 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2158-7.

Includes: Timothy Kircher, “The Fruits of Neo-Latin Learning: An Introductory Note”; Luc Deitz, “Select Bibliography of the Works of Charles E. Fantazzi, 1965–2013”; James Hankins, “Charles Fantazzi and the Study of Neo-Latin Literature”; Ronald G. Witt, “The Rolls of the Dead and the Intellectual Revival of the Twelfth Century in Francia and Italy”; Timothy Kircher, “Wrestling with Ulysses: Humanist Translations of Homeric Epic around 1440”; Jeanine De Landtsheer and Marcus De Schepper, “Colligite Fragmenta: A Neglected Tumulus for Joannes Ludovicus Vives (1492–1540)”; Paul F. Grendler, “The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Juan Luis Vives”; James M. Estes, “The Englishing of Erasmus: The Genesis and Progress of the Correspondence Volumes of the Collected Works of Erasmus”; James K. Farge, “Scholasticism, Humanism, and the Origins of the Collège de France”; Luc Deitz, “Francesco Patrizi da Cherso on the Nature of Poetry”; Dustin Mengelkoch, “Euphonia and Energeia: Jan Bernaerts and Statius’s Thebaid”; Enrique González, “A Humanist in the New World: Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (c. 1518–1575)”; Keith Sidwell, “Laus Butleri: Praising the 10th Earl of Ormond in Irish, English, and Latin”; and Luc Deitz, “In Praise of Charles Fantazzi.”

Kirkham, Victoria, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr, eds. Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xix + 556 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-226-07918-9.

Includes: Victoria Kirkham, “Chronology of Boccaccio’s Life and Works”; Janet Levarie Smarr, “Introduction: A Man of Many Turns”; Ronald L. Martinez, “Also Known as ‘Prencipe Galeotto’ (Decameron)”; Brian Richardson, “The Textual History of the Decameron”; Giuseppe Velli, “Moments of Latin Poetry (Carmina)”; Steven M. Grossvogel, “A Fable of the World’s Creation and Phaeton’s Fall (Allegoria mitologica)”; Jason Houston, “A Portrait of a Young Humanist (Epistolae 1–4)”; David Wallace, “Love-Struck in Naples (Filostrato)”; Elissa Weaver, “A Lovers’ Tale and Auspicious Beginning (Filocolo)”; Michael Sherberg, “The Girl outside the Window (Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia)”; Arielle Saiber, “The Game of Love (Caccia di Diana)”; Jonathan Usher, “Mural Morality in Tableaux Vivants (Amorosa visione)”; Jane Tylus, “On the Threshold of Paradise (Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine, or Ameto)”; Susanna Barsella, “Myth and History: Toward a New Order (Ninfale fiesolano)”; David Lummus, “The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum carmen)”; Annelise M. Brody, “An Experiment in the Healing Power of Literature (Elegia di madonna Fiammetta)”; Letizia Panizza, “Rhetoric and Invective in Love’s Labyrinth (Il Corbaccio)”; Deanna Shemek, “Doing and Undoing: Boccaccio’s Feminism (De mulieribus claris)”; Giuseppe Mazzotta, “A Life in Progress (De vita et moribus Francisci Petracchi de Florentia)”; Elsa Filosa, “To Praise Dante, to Please Petrarch (Trattatello in laude di Dante)”; Robert Hollander, “Boccaccio’s Divided Allegiance (Esposizioni sopra la “Comedia”)”; Jon Solomon, “Gods, Greeks, and Poetry (Genealogia deorum gentilium)”; Simone Marchesi, “Boccaccio on Fortune (De casibus virorum illustrium)”; Alison Cornish, “Vernacularization in Context (Volgarizzamenti of Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Ovid)”; James K. Coleman, “Boccaccio’s Humanistic Ethnography (De Canaria)”; Theodore J. Cachey Jr., “Between Text and Territory (De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de diversis nominibus maris)”; Roberto Fedi, “Pathways through the Lyric Forest (Rime)”; Todd Boli, “Personality and Conflict (Epistole, Lettere)”; Claude Cazalé- Bérard, “Boccaccio’s Working Notebooks (Zibaldone Laurenziano, Miscellanea Laurenziana, Zibaldone Magliabechiano)”; Victoria Kirkham, “A Visual Legacy (Boccaccio as Artist)”; and Michael Papio, “An Intimate Self-Portrait (Testamentum).”

Kolrud, Kristine, and Marina Prusac, eds. Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 232 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-7033-5.

Includes: Kristine Kolrud and Marina Prusac, “Introduction: Whose Iconoclasm?”; Eberhard W. Sauer, “Disabling Demonic Images: Regional Diversity in Ancient Iconoclasts’ Motives and Targets”; Marina Prusac, “Presence and the Image Controversies in the Third and Fourth Centuries AD”; Bente Kiilerich, “Defacement and Replacement as Political Strategies in Ancient and Byzantine Ruler Images”; Anne Karahan, “Byzantine Iconoclasm: Ideology and Quest for Power”; Thomas F. X. Noble, “Neither Iconoclasm nor Iconodulia: The Carolingian via Media”; Tarald Rasmussen, “Iconoclasm and Religious Images in the Early Lutheran Tradition”; Andrew Spicer, “Iconoclasm on the Frontier: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1566”; Kristine Kolrud, “The Waldensians and the Piedmontese Easter of 1655”; Jens Braarvig, “Iconoclasm: Three Modern Cases”; and Siri Sande, “Conclusion: Iconoclasm in History and Present-Day Use of Images.”

Kuijpers, Erika, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, and Jasper van der Steen, eds. Memory Before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions 176. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xix + 340 pp. $128. ISBN: 978-90-04-26124-2.

Includes: Judith Pollmann and Erika Kuijpers, “Introduction: On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory”; Alexandr Osipian, “The Usable Past in the Lemberg Arminian Community’s Struggle for Equal Rights, 1578–1654”; Jasper van der Steen, “A Contested Past: Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609–21)”; Ulrich Niggemann, “‘You Will See Who They Are That Revile, and Lessen Your . . . Glorious Deliverance’: The ‘Memory War’ about the ‘Glorious Revolution’”; Sean F. Dunwoody, “Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict: Augsburg in the Sixteenth Century”; Gabriella Erdélyi, “Tales of a Peasant Revolt: Taboos and Memories of 1514 in Hungary”; Philip Benedict, “Shaping the Memory of the : The First Centuries”; Marianne Eekhout, “Celebrating a Trojan Horse: Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590–1650”; Sarah Covington, “‘The Odious Demon from Across the Sea’: Oliver Cromwell, Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland”; Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, “Material Memories of the Guildsmen: Crafting Identities in Early Modern London”; Erika Kuijpers, “Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture: The Memory Brokers of the Dutch Revolt”; Dagmar Freist, “Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early Modern World”; Benjamin Schmidt, “The Spaces of Memory and Their Transmediations: On the Lives of Exotic Images and Their Material Evocations”; Susan Broomhall, “Disturbing Memories: Narrating Experiences and Emotions of Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion”; Andreas Bähr, “Remembering Fear: The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear in Seventeenth-Century Memories”; Johannes Müller, “Permeable Memories: Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century”; Katharine Hodgkin, “Women, Memory, and Family History in Seventeenth-Century England”; and Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollman, “The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory.”

Van der Laan, J. M., and Andrew Weeks, eds. The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2013. 400 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-57113-552-0.

Includes: J. M. van der Laan, “Introduction: Faust Scholarship and the Project at Hand”; Andrew Weeks, “The German Faustian Century”; Frank Baron, “Faustus of the Sixteenth Century: His Life, Legend, and Myth”; Michael Keefer, “Cornelius Agrippa’s Double Presence in the Faustian Century”; Urs Leo Gantenbein, “Converging Magical Legends: Faustus, Paracelsus, and Trithemius”; J. M. van der Laan, “Faust from Cipher to Sign and Pious to Profane”; Marguerite de Huszar Allen, “The Aesthetics of the 1587 Spies Historia von D. Johann Fausten”; Kresten Thue Andersen, “The Lutheran Faust: Repentance in the Augsburg Confession and the German Faustbuch”; Paul Ernst Meyer, “Marriage in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587)”; Andrew Weeks, “Antiauthoritarianism and the Problem of Knowledge in the Faustbuch”; Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, “Exploring the ‘Three-Fold World’: Faust as Alchemist, Astrologer, and Magician”; Albrecht Classen, “The Devil in the Early Modern World and in Sixteenth-Century German Devil Literature”; Günther Bonheim, “Encounters with ‘Schwarz-Hanz’: Jacob Böhme and the Literature of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century”; and Karl S. Guthke, “D. Johann Faust and the Cannibals: Geographic Horizons in the Sixteenth Century.”

Laigneau-Fontaine, Sylvie. “Petite patrie”: L’image de la région natale chez les écrivains de la Renaissance. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 521. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 392 pp. $69.60. ISBN: 978-2-600-01715-2.

Includes: Émilie Séris, “La reverdie dans la poésie latine de la Renaissance: Topos poétique et ancrage régional”; Anne Bouscharain, “Mantoue et la poésie bucolique: Battista Spagnoli, émule de Virgile”; Tristan Vigliano, “Ioannes Lodovicus Vives Valentinus: Réflexions sur Vivès, sa patrie valencienne, ses deux identités”; Jean-Marie Cauchies, “‘Des pays joinctz et uniz en concorde et obeissance’ . . . et de la difficulté de les nommer: L’héritabe ducal bourguignon sous la plume des indiciaires Jean Molinet et Jean Lemaire de Belges (fin XVe–début XVIe siècle)”; Richard Crescenzo, “François Perrin, poète et antiquaire d’Autun”; Paul Delsalle, “Le comté de Bourgogne vu par Loys Gollut (1592)”; Nathaël Istasse, “Le régent humaniste Joannes Ravisius Textor: Nivernensis sive Navarriensis?”; Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine, “Nicolas Bourbon, gloire de Vendeuvre”; Arnaud Laimé, “Un poète en rave patrie : Eloge humaniste de la ‘petite patrie’ bressane par Claude Bigothier dans sa Rapina seu raporum encomium (1540)”; Virginie Leroux, “Les ‘petites patries’ de Jean Second”; Aline Smeesters, “La Venus Zelanda de Petrus Stratenus et Cornelius Boyus (1641)”; David Amherdt, “De l’Alsace à la Suisse : D’une patrie à l’autre ? Ou la poésie et la religion comme remèdes à l’exil dans la vie de l’humaniste Ioannes Fabricius Montanus (1527–1566)”; Thomas Baier, “Johannes Trithemius über seine Heimat”; Brigitte Gauvin, “Steckelberg ou l’impossible petite patrie d’Ulrich von Hutten”; Marie-France Guipponi-Gineste, “Entre incarnation et atopie : La représentation paradoxale de la ‘petite patrie’ chez le poète alsacien Jacob Balde (1604–1668)”; Florian Hurka, “Der Heimatdiskurs in der neulateinischen Hirtendichtung von Eobanus Hessus, Euricius Cordus und Joachim Camerarius”; Nathalie Catellani-Dufrène, “La ‘doulce France’ de l’écossais George Buchanan”; Max Engammare, “Noyon, Orbe, Gap, Vézelay . . . Genève: La ‘petite patrie’ des Réformateurs Calvin, Viret, Farel, Bèze . . . et les autres”; Philip Ford, “La ‘petite patrie’ de Du Bellay entre latin et français”; Perrine Galand, “Jean Salmon Macrin compatriote de Jules César: Pour l’amour de Juliodunum”; Michel Magnien, “Ronsard, Du Bellay, et leur ‘petite patrie’”; John Nassichuk, “Jean Rouxel, poète du Puy et du pays normand”; and Catherine Langlois-Pézeret, “Visagier porte-voix de Marot sur les rives du Pont.”

Laureys, Marc, and Roswitha Simons, eds. The Art of Arguing in the World of Renaissance Humanism. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 34. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013. viii + 232 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-90-5867-963-5.

Includes: Marc Laureys, Roswitha Simons, and Arnold Becker, “Towards a Theory of the Humanistic Art of Arguing”; Roswitha Simons, “Waffen der Nemesis, Pfeile der Satire: Gewaltmetaphorik im metapoetischen Diskurs neulateinischer Satiriker”; Olga Anna Duhl, “Poetic Theory and Sense Perception in Jodocus Badius Ascensius’s Stultiferae naues (c. 1501): From Subitus Calor to Vituperatio”; Arnold Becker, “Huttens Arminius: Humanistische Streitkultur zwischen literarischer Unverlässlichkeit und nationaler Identitätsstiftung”; Christine Bénévent, “Des Barbares aux Cicéroniens Ou comment accommoder l’art de la dispute selon Érasme”; Chris L. Heesakkers, “Multa fortuito fieri: Alberto Pio’s postmortem Praefatio in his Controversy with Erasmus, an Ill-Fated Advance”; George Hugo Tucker, “Strategies of Argument, Politics and Poetics in the Centones ex Virgilio (1555–1556) of Lelio Capilupi of Mantua”; Marc Laureys, “Die Kunst der Verunglimpfung in Nikodemus Frischlins Satiren gegen Jakob Rabus”; and Joanna Partyka, “The Classical Tradition as a Weapon Against the obtrectatores Poloniae.”

Lee, Christina, and Nicola McLelland, eds. Germania Remembered 1500–2009: Commemorating and Inventing a Germanic Past. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 425. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xxxvii + 416 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-0-86698-473-7.

Includes: Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland, “Introduction”; Roberta Frank, “Siegfried and Arminius: Scenes from a Marriage”; John L. Flood, “Conrad Celtis (1459–1508), the Pride of German Humanists”; Thijs Weststeijn, “‘Knowing No Other Paintings than Their Shields’: The Germanic Origins of Art in the Seventeenth Century”; Nicola McLelland, “Germanic Virtues in Linguistic Discourse in Germany (1500–1945)”; Christina Lee, “A Useful Great-Grandmother: Edda Receptions in Post-Medieval Germany”; Maike Oergel, “Germania in England: Functions of the Germanic in English Identity Constructions and British Historical Thinking”; Geraldine Horan, “‘Not a foreign goddess’: Germania, the Niederwald Monument, and Discourses of Gender and Nationalism”; Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Consecrated Groves: British India and the Forests of Germania”; Rachel MagShamhráin, “The Two Faces of a National Hero: Ulrich von Hutten’s Arminius (1515/1529) and Heinrich von Kleist’s Herrmann (1808)”; Tomislav Zelić, “Ironic Mythopoetics of Absolute Sovereignity in Heinrich von Kleist’s Herrmannsschlacht (1808)”; Judith Beniston, “Imagining Thusnelda and Thumelicus: Carl Wilhelm Goettling and Friedrich Halm’s Der Fechter von Ravenna”; Alexander Rehding, “Urklänge: The Search for the Origins of German Music (1910–1950)”; Martin Findell, “From Hávamál to Racial Hygiene: Guido List’s Das Geheimnis der Runen, ‘The Secret of the Runes’ (1908)”; Anselm Heinrich, “Germania on Stage: Nazi Thing Theatre”; Martin Brady, “Anselm Kiefer, Die Hermannsschlacht, and the Battle of Modernism”; Magnus Brechtken, “Leaving the Forest: ‘Hermann the German’ as Cultural Representation from Nationalism to Post-Modern Consumerism”; and Andreas Musolff, “The Global Westphalian: Arminius/Hermann as a Post- National Identification Figure.”

Lorenz, Sönke, and Dieter Mertens, eds. Johannes Reuchlin und der “Judenbücherstreit.” Tübinger Bausteine zur Landesgeschichte 22. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2013. 272 pp. €24.90. ISBN: 978-3-7995-5522-7.

Includes: Sönke Lorenz, “Reuchlin und die Universität Tübingen”; David H. Price, “Joannes Reuchlin und der Judenbücherstreit”; Hans-Martin Kirn, “Das Bild vom Juden im Detuschland der frühen 16. Jahrhunderts”; Saverio Campanini, “Johannes Reuchlin und die Anfänge der christlichen Kabbala”; Matthias Dall’Asta, “Reuchlin im Gefüge des Renaissance- Humanismus”; Wolfgang Schild, “Reuchlin als Jurist”; Hans-Rüdiger Schwab, “Von Reuchlin lernen: Zum Dialog zwischen den Religionen”; David H. Price, “‘Großes Unheil wird daraus entstehen’: Die Judenpolitik Maximilians I.”; and Günther Schweizer, “Die Familie Reuchlin: Eine genealogische Bestandsaufnahme.”

Maillard Álvarez, Natalia. Books in the Catholic World During the Early Modern Period. Library of the Written Word 33; The Handpress World 25. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiii + 240 pp. $141. ISBN: 978-90-04-26289-8.

Includes: Natalia Maillard Álvarez, “Introduction”; Stijn Van Rossem, “The Verdussens and the International Trade in Catholic Books (Antwerp, Seventeenth Century)”; Pedro Rueda Ramírez, “The Globalization of the European Book Market: Diego Crance’s Catalogus librorum (Seville, 1680) and the Sale of Books in New Spain”; Rafael M. Pérez García, “Communitas Christiana: The Sources of Christian Tradition in the Construction of Early Castilian Spiritual Literature, ca. 1400–1540”; Natalia Maillard Álvarez, “Italian Literature in the Hispanic World during the Early Modern Period (Seville and Mexico City)”; Bianca Lindorfer, “Aristocratic Book Consumption in the Seventeenth Century: Austrian Aristocratic Book Collectors and the Role of Noble Networks in the Circulation of Books from Spain to Austria”; Idalia García Aguilar, “Before We Are Condemned: Inquisitorial Fears and Private Libraries of New Spain”; and Adrien Delmas, “Artem Quaevis Terra Alit: Books in the Cape Colony during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.”

Ma rtl, Claudia, Christian Kaiser, and Thomas Ricklin, eds. “Inter graecos latinissimus, inter latinos graecissimus”: Bessarion zwischen den Kulturen. Pluralisierung & Autorität 39. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. xx + 478 pp. $168. ISBN: 978-3-11-028265-8.

Includes: Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker, “Bessarion, de Trébizonde à Mistra: Un parcours intellectuel”; Sebastian Kolditz, “Bessarion und der griechische Episkopat im Kontext des Konzils von Ferrara-Florenz”; Duane Henderson, “Bessarion, Cardinalis Nicenus: A Cardinalitial Vita between Ideal Conceptions and Institutional Structures”; Claudia Märtl, “Kardinal Bessarion als Legat im Deutschen Reich (1460/1461)”; Bianca Concetta, “Da Firenze a Grottaferrata: Greci e latini all’ombra del Bessarione”; Alexander Riehle, “Kreta: Ein ‘melting pot’ der Frühen Neuzeit? Bemerkungen zum Briefnetzwerk des Michaelos Apostoles”; Brigitte Mondrain, “Le cardinal Bessarion et la constitution de sa collection de manuscrits grecs — ou comment contribuer à l’intégration du patrimoine littéraire grec et byzantin en Occident”; Nikolaus Egel, “Bessarion als Geograph? Bessarions Rolle in der Vermittlung der Geographia des Ptolemäus und ihre Aufnahme durch die italienischen Humanisten”; Bernhard Kölbl, “Assimilation des Neuen — Reform des Systems: Strategien im Umgang mit griechischen Quellen in der Musiktheorie an der Wende vom 15. zum 16. Jahrhundert”; Holger A. Klein, “Die Staurothek Kardinal Bessarions: Bildrhetorik und Reliquienkult im Venedig des späten Mittelalters”; Thomas Ricklin, “Bessarions Türke und andere Türken interessierter Kreise: Von der Schwierigkeit, ein Feindbild gelehrt zu plausibilisieren”; Christina Abenstein, “‘Penitus me destruxisti’: Das Verhältnis Georgs von Trapezunt zu Kardinal Bessarion vor dem Hintergrund seiner Basilius-Übersetzung”; John Monfasani, “The Pre- and Post-History of Cardinal Bessarion’s 1469 In Calumniatorem Platonis”; Sergei Mariev, “Der Traktat De natura et arte des Kardinals Bessarion”; and Panagiotis Kourniakos, “Das historische ‘unicum’ Kardinal Bessarion: Versuch einer Identitätssuche zwischen Kultur, Religion und Politik.”

McGee, Timothy J., and Stewart Carter, eds. Instruments, Ensembles, and Repertory, 1300– 1600: Essays in Honour of Keith Polk. Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. xx + 340 pp. €100. ISBN: 978-2-503-54161-7.

Includes: Stewart Carter, “A Tale of Bells and Bows: Stalking the U-Slide Trumpet”; Timothy J. McGee, “The Medieval Fiddle: Tuning, Technique, and Repertory”; H. Colin Slim, “Lute Ladies and Old Men in Early Sixteenth-Century Flemish Paintings: Mirrors, Magdalenes, Mottoes, Moralities, Vanities, Allegories”; Andrew Kirkman, “Organs and Instrumental Performance at the Collegiate Church of St Omer, Northern France, in the Later Middle Ages”; Kristine K. Forney, “Renaissance Piety and Ceremony: Antwerp’s Speellieden at Work”; Gretchen Peters, “Music in Late-Medieval Tours and Orléans: A Reflection of Political Allegiance in the Loire Valley”; Adam Gilbert, “Reverse Engineering Fifteenth-Century Counterpoint: Es solt ein man kein mole farn and Cançon de pifari dco. el Ferrarese”; Ross Duffin, “Ensemble Improvisation in the Fifteenth-Century Mensural Dance Repertoire”; Frank A. D’Accone, “Reclaiming the Past: Bishop Antonio Altoviti’s Entrance into Florence in 1567”; Louise Litterick, “Out of the Shadows: The Double Canon En l’ombre d’ung buissonnet”; David Fallows, “A Hidden Arrangement of Gentil madonna”; and Joshua Rifkin, “Singing Josquin’s Miserere in Ferrara: A Lesson in Ficta from Bidon?”

McMullan, Gordon, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xiii + 368 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-408185-23-0.

Includes: Jean E. Howard, “Edward III: Women and the Making of Shakespeare as Historical Dramatist”; Dympna Callaghan, “Beguiling Fictions”; Hannah Crawforth, “‘Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted’: Language and Gender in The Two Noble Kinsmen”; Hilda L. Smith, “Gender, the False Universal and Shakespeare’s Comedies”; David Scott Kastan, “In Plain Sight: Visible Women and Early Modern Plays”; Valerie Wayne, “Remaking the Texts: Women Editors of Shakespeare, Past and Present”; Neil Tayloy, “‘To be acknowledged, madam, is o’erpaid’: Woman’s Role in the Production of Scholarly Editions of Shakespeare”; H. R. Woudhuysen, “Some Women Editors of Shakespeare: A Preliminary Sketch”; John Lavagnino, “Bernice Kliman’s Enfolded Hamlet”; Suzanne Gossett, “Women Making Shakespeare — and Middleton and Jonson”; Catherine Belsey, “Juliet and the Vicissitudes of Gender”; Keir Elam, “Women Painting Shakespeare: Angelica Kauffman’s Text-Images”; Lucy Monro, “Women Reading Witches, 1800–1850”; Fiona Ritchie, “Joanna Baillie: The Female Shakespeare”; Kate Chedgzoy, “The Girlhood of Mary Cowden Clarke”; Lois Potter, “‘A Sacred Trust’: Helen Faucit, Geraldine Jewsbury, and the Idealized Shakespeare”; Anne Isherwood, “Invisible Women: Mary Dunbar and The Shakespeare Birthday Book”; Gretchen E. Minton, “‘A marvelous convenient place’: Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890–1918”; Kathleen E. McLuskie, “Remembering Charlotte Stopes”; Reiko Oya, “‘Or was it Sh—p—re?’: Shakespeare in the Manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”; Clare McManus, “The Vere Street Desdemona: Othello and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602–1660”; Ailsa Grant Ferguson, “Lady Forbes-Robertson’s War Work: Gertrude Elliott and the Shakespeare Hut Performances, 1916–1919”; Gordon McMullan, “Editing Olivier’s Hamlet: An Interview with Helga Keller”; Trudi Darby, “Trusting the Words: Patsy Rodenburg, Laurence Olivier, and the Women of Richard III”; Russ McDonald, “Peggy of Anjou”; José Manuel González, “Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage”; Elizabeth Schafer, “Re-Making Katherina: Julia Marlowe and The Taming of the Shrew”; Iska Alter, “Class, Identity, and Comic Choice: Bill Alexander’s The Taming of the Shrew”; Farah Karim-Cooper, “Re-Creating Katherina: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe”; Sonia Massai, “Ms-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival, 2012”; Kevin A. Quarmby, “King Lear Performance”; Judith Buchanan, “Not Sycorax”; and Virginia Mason Vaughan, “‘Miranda, where’s your mother?’: Female Prosperos and What They Tell Us.”

Nelson, Brent, and Melissa Terras, eds. Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 426. Toronto: Iter, 2012. viii + 498 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-86698-474-4.

Includes: Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras, “Introduction”; Alan Galey, Richard Cunningham, Brent Nelson, Ray Siemens, and Paul Wesrtine, “Beyond Remediation: The Role of Textual Studies in Implementing New Knowledge Environments”; James Cummings, “The Materiality of Markup and the Text Encoding Initative”; Judith Siefring and Pip Willcox, “More Than Was Dreamt of in Our Philosophy: Encoding Hamlet for the Shakespeare Quarto Archive”; Angus Vine and Sebastiaan Verweij, “Digitizing Non-Linears Texts in TEI P5: The Case of Early Modern Reversed Manuscript”; Perer A. Stokes, “Palaeography and the ‘Virtual Library’ of Manuscripts”; Jacob Thaisen, “A Probabilistic Analysis of a Middle English Text”; Athanasios Velios and Nicholas Pickwoad, “The Digitization of Bookbindings”; Paul Dyck and Ryan Rempel with Stuart Williams, “Digitizing Collection, Composition, and Product: Tracking the Work of Little Gidding”; Patricia Fumerton, Carl Stahmer, Kris McAbee, and Megan Palmer Browne, “Vexed Impressions: Towards a Digital Archive of Broadside Balla Illustrations”; Stephen Pigney and Katherine Hunt, “A Virtual Museum or E-Research? British Printed Images to 1700 and the Digitization of Early Modern Prints”; Christine McWebb and Diane Jakacki, “Rose Tools: A Medieval Manuscript Text-Image Annotation Project”; Wouter Bracke, Gérard Bouvin, and Benoît Pigeon, “Digitization of Maps and Atlases and the Use of Analytical Bibliography”; Paul Vetch, Catherine Clarke, and Keith Lilley, “Between Text and Image: Digital Renderings of a Late Medieval City”; Lisa M. Snyder, “Virtual Reality for Humanities Scholarship”; David Humphrey, “Simulating Splendour: Visual Modelling of Historical Jewellery Research”; and Jonathan Jarrett, Sebastian Zambanini, Reinhold Huber-Mörk, and Achille Felicetti, “Coinage, Digitization, and the World-Wide Web: Numismatics and the COINS Project.”

Parish, Helen, Elaine Fulton, and Peter Webster, eds. The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. viii + 206 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0854-3.

Includes: Elaine Fulton and Peter Webster, “Introduction: The Search for Authority in the Protestant Reformation”; Adam S. Francisco, “‘Arguing about religion’: Luther’s Ongoing Debate with Islam”; Jon Balserak, “The Authority of Scripture and Tradition in Calvin’s Lectures on the Prophets”; Michael S. Springer;, “Spiritual Authority and Ecclesiastical Practice: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio”; Alexandra Kess, “History as Authority: Johann Sleidan and his De statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo Quinto Caesare Commentarii”; Elaine Fulton, “Touching Theology with Unwashed Hands: The Preservation of Authority in Post-Tridentine Catholicism”; Korey D. Maas, “Authority and Method in the Eucharistic Debates of the Early English Reformation”; Helen Parish, “‘To conseile with elde dyuynis’: History, Scripture and Interpretation in Reformation England”; Mary Morrissey, “The ‘Challenge Controversy’ and the Question of Authority in the Early Elizabethan Church”; Peter Webster, “Augustine ‘falleth into dispute with himself’: The Fathers and Church Music in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England”; and Helen Parish, “Conclusion.”

Paul, Benjamin, ed. Celebrazione e autocritica: La Serenissima e la ricerca dell’identità veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento. Venetiana 14. Rome: Viella, 2014. 320 pp. + 32 b/w pls. €36. ISBN: 978-88-6728-075-9.

Includes: Benjamin Paul, “Introduction”; Anna Bellavitis, “‘Tal che chi lei vede/stima veder raccolto in breve spatio il mondo’: Identità sociali e critica a Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento”; Claudio Bernardi, “Tra trombe e campane: Il corpo sociale nei culti eucaristici della Serenissima dopo Lepanto”; Iain Fenlon, “The Memorialization of Lepanto in Music, Liturgy, and Art”; Martin Gaier, “‘Architettura Venetiana’: Antonio Da Ponte, Leonardo Fioravanti e l’idea della Repubblica nel Cinquecento”; Deborah Howard, “Power and Practicality at Palmanova: The Role of Marc’Antonio Barbaro”; Benjamin Paul, “‘Convertire in se medesimo questo flagello’: Autocritica del Doge Alvise Mocenigo nel bozzetto di Tintoretto per il dipinto votivo a Palazzo Ducale”; Dorit Raines, “La storiografia pubblica allo specchio: La ‘ragion di Stato’ della Repubblica da Paolo Paruta ad Andrea Morosini”; David Rosand, “Vltra quid faciam? La crisi degli epigoni”; Giorgio Tagliaferro, “Il ‘Mito’ ripensato: Trasformazioni della pittura veneziana tra Lepanto e l’Interdetto”; Deborah Walberg, “Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo and the Search for Venetian Religious Identity in the Waning of the Renaissance”; and Thomas Worthen, “Soazoni, or The Venetian Reformation of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli.”

Rauschert, Jeannette, Simon Teuscher, and Thomas Zotz, eds. Habsburger Herrschaft vor Ort - weltweit (1300–1600). Conference proceedings Schloß Lenzburg, Zurich, 9–11 October 2008. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2011. vii + 282 pp. + 8 color pls. €49. ISBN: 978-3-7995- 0891-9.

Includes: Simon Teuscher and Thomas Zotz, “Einleitung”; Thomas Zotz, “Zentren und Peripherien des habsburgischen Imperiums im Mittelalter”; Christian Lackner, “Zwischen herrschaftlicher Gestaltung und regionaler Anpassung: Pfandschaften, Ämterkauf und Formen der Kapitalisierung in der Verwaltung der spätmittelalterlichen habsburgischen Länder Österreich und Steiermark”; Klaus Brandstätter, “Lokale Verwaltung und habsburgische Kirchenpolitik in Tirol (14.–16. Jahrhundert)”; Alois Niederstätter, “Habsburgische Herrschaftspraxis zwischen Bodensee und Alpen im ausgehenden Mittelalter”; Simon Teuscher, “Böse Vögte? Narrative, Normen und Praktiken der Herrschaftsdelegation im Spätmittelalter”; Andreas Bihrer, “Zwischen Wien und Königsfelden: Die Kirchenpolitik der Habsburger in den vorderen Landen im 14. Jahrhundert”; Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, “Zeichen der Frömmigkeit oder Bilder der Herrschaft? Die Habsburger in den Glasmalereien der ehemaligen Klosterkirche Königsfelden”; Martina Stercken, “Formen herrschaftlicher Präsenz: Die Habsburger in ihren Städten im Gebiet der heutigen Schweiz”; Wim Blockmans, “Wie beherrscht man eine reiche Peripherie? Integration und Widerstand in den habsburgischen Niederlanden 1477–1581”; Jelle Haemers, “Faire son prouffit: Die Finanzpolitik Maxmilians I. und die städtischen Aufstände in den Niederlanden (1477–1488)”; Teofilo F. Ruiz, “Regierung auf Reisen: Die Herrschereinzüge Philipps II. in Aragón und Barcelona”; Alejandro Cañeque, “‘In weit entfernten Ländern’: Das konfliktreiche System habsburgischer Herrschaft im Vizekönigreich Neuspanien”; Heraclio Bonilla, “Der ‘koloniale Pakt’ der Habsburger in der Andenregion”; and Felix Hinz, “Eine indianische Stadt gibt sich demonstrativ kaisertreu: Habsburgerherrschaft in Tlaxcala (Mexiko) 1521–1550.”

Riether, Achim, ed. Bettler, Diebe, Unterwelt: Leonaert Bramer illustriert spanische Romane. Exh. Cat. Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne, 5 December 2013–9 March 2014. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013. 288 pp. €34.90. ISBN: 978-3-422-07221-3.

Includes: Achim Riether, “Für Kenner und Liebhaber: Leonaert Bramers gezeichnete Illustrationsfolgen”; Hans Paschen, “Der Lange Arm der Lüge: Spöttische Beobachtungen zur Sozialisation des Individuums während des spanischen Imperiums im ‘Lazarillo von Tormes’”; and Hans Paschen, “Die Wahrheit Steckt im Teufel: Francisco de Quevedos Erkundungen des Bösen in den Traumvisionen.”

Robins, William, ed. Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. xvi + 350 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4272-0.

Includes: William Robins, “The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures”; Ronald Witt, “Rhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”; Christopher Kleinhenz, “Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia”; Linda Safran, “Public Textual Cultures: A Case Study in Southern Italy”; Maria Bendinelli Predelli, “The Textualization of Early Italian Cantari”; Nicholas Everett, “Paulinus of Aquileia’s Sponsio episcoporum: Written Oaths and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Carolingian Italy”; Luca Boschetto, “Writing the Vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence”; Dominique Poirel, “The Death of Angela of Foligno and the Genesis of the Liber Angelae”; and Susanne Lepsius, “Editing Legal Texts from the Late Middle Ages.”

Shewring, Margaret, ed. Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. R. Mulryne. European Festival Studies: 1450–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xxv + 440 pp. £85. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0023-3.

Includes: Margaret Shewring, “Introduction”; Richard Cooper, “French Renaissance Waterborne Festivals in the Sixteenth Century”; Margaret M. McGowan, “Lyon: A Centre for Water Celebrations”; Monique Chatenet, “Parisian Waterborne Festivals from Francis I to Henri III”; R. J. Knecht, “Water Festivals of the Reign of Charles IX of France”; Evelyn Korsch, “Renaissance Venice and the Sacred-Political Connotations of Waterborne Pageants”; Iain Fenlon, “Rex Christianissimus Francorum: Themes and Contexts of Henry III’s Entry to Venice, 1574”; Maria Ines Aliverti, “Water Policy and Water Festivals: The Case of Pisa Under Ferdinando de’ Medici (1588–1609)”; J.R. Mulryne, “Arbitrary Reality: Fact and Fantasy in the Florentine Naumachia, 1589”; Marie-Claude Canova-Green, “Lepanto Revisited: Water-Fights and the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Europe (1571–1656)”; Pesala Bandara, “Mary, Queen of Scots’ Aquatic Entertainments for the Wedding of John Fleming, Fifth Lord Fleming to Elizabeth Ross, May 1562”; H. Neville Davies, “Looking Again at Elvetham: An Elizabethan Entertainment Revisited”; Mary M. Young, “The Ice Festival in Florence, 1604”; Sydney Anglo, “The Thames en Fête”; Michael Holden, “Royal River: The Watermen’s Company and Pageantry on the Thames”; Iain McClure, “The Ambassador’s Reception: The Moroccan Embassy to London of 1637–1638 and the Pageantry of Maritime Politics”; Melanie Zefferino, “The Savoy Naumachia on the Lake Mont Cenis: A Site-Specific Spectacle in the ‘Amphitheatre’ of the Alps”; David Sánchez Cano, “Naumachiae at the Buen Retiro in Madrid”; Mara R. Wade, “Waterfront Entertainments in Saxony and Denmark from 1548–1709”; Roger Savage, “Sea Spectacles on Dry Land: The 1580s to the ”; Eric Nicholson, “Sing Again, Sirena: Translating the Theatrical Virtuosa from Venice to London”; and Helen Watanabe- O’Kelly, “Sailing Towards a Kingdom: Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1629–1698) in Venice in 1685 and 1686.”

Smart, Sara, and Mara R. Wade, eds. The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival. Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. 662 pp. €108. ISBN: 978-3-447-10014-4.

Includes: Sara Smart and Mara R. Wade, “The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival. An Introduction”; Jaroslav Miller, “Between Nationalism and European Pan- Protestantism: Palatine Propaganda in Jacobean England and the ”; Matthew L. O’Brien, “‘Admirable Service’: William Trumbull and the Palatine Couple as Icons of the International Calvinist Community”; Christof Ginzel, “‘Iam video Babylona rapi’: Imperialist Prophecy and Propaganda in the Occasional Verse of Alexander Julius, Giovanni Barthola Maria Genochi, and Ludovico Petrucci”; Maureen M. Meikle, “Scottish Reactions to the Marriage of the Lady Elizabeth, ‘first dochter of Scotland’”; Nadine Akkerman, “Semper Eadem: Elizabeth Stuart and the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth I”; Sara Smart, “From Garter Knight to Second David: The Palatine Portrayal of Friedrich V”; Hanns Hubach, “Of Lion and Leopards: Palatine Self- Representation in the Triumphal Entry at Heidelberg”; Rebecca Calcagno, “A Matter of Precedence: Britain, Germany, and the Palatine Match”; Iain McClure, “The Sea-Fight on the Thames: Performing the Ideology of a Pan-Protestant Crusade on the Eve of the Palatine Marriage”; Anne Daye, “‘Graced with measures’: Dance as an International Language in the Masques of 1613”; Jerzy Limon and Agnieszka Żukowska, “Staging the Royal Blend: Time Structures in George Chapman’s Memorable Masque”; Ann Kronbergs, “The Significance of the Court Performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Palatine Wedding Celebrations”; Marie- Claude Canova-Green, “‘Particularitez des Resjoyssances Publiques et Cérémonyes du Mariage de la Princesse’: An Ambassadorial Account of the Palatine Wedding”; Molly Taylor-Poleskey, “Mapping the Journey up the Rhine: Digital Representations of the Palatinate Wedding Route”; Marika Keblusek, “Celebrating a Union: The Festive Entry of Friedrich, Elector Palatine, and Princess Elizabeth in the Netherlands”; Margret Lemberg, “Hessen-Kassel and the Journey up the Rhine of the Princess Palatine Elizabeth in April and May 1613”; Marco Neumaier, “The Epitome of a Residenzstadt: Heidelberg at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century”; Margaret M. McGowan, “‘Les Triomphes de Jason’: A Myth Renewed in 1613”; Mara R. Wade, “ at Work: Danish Cultural Exchange with England and Germany at the Time of the Palatine Wedding”; Klaus Winkler, “‘. . . der Princessin zu Heydelberg Dantzmeister hatts componirt’: Heidelberg Court Music between Tradition and Avant-Garde”; Arne Spohr, “English Masque Dances as Tournament Music? The Case of William Brade’s Newe außerlesene liebliche Branden, Intraden, Mascharaden (Hamburg, Lübeck, 1617)”; Wolfgang Metzger, “The Perspective of the Prince: The Hortus Palatinus of Friedrich V and Elizabeth Stuart at Heidelberg”; and Doris Gerstl, “Three Men in a Bed: Friedrich, Elector Palatine, and English Furniture.”

Smiles, Sam, ed. West Country to World’s End: The South West in the Tudor Age. Exh. Cat. London: Royal Albert Memorial Museum Oct. 2013–March 2014. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013. 120 pp. £20. ISBN: 978-1-907372-52-0.

Includes: Sam Smiles, “Introduction”; Susan Flavi, “The Decorative Arts: Change and Development in the Sixteenth Century”; Karen Hearn, “Art in Britain between 1530 and 1620”; Karen Hearn, “Nicholas Hilliard”; Stephanie Pratt, “Maritime Activity and Exploration”; and Sam Smiles, “Education and Learning.”

Smith, David J., and Rachelle Taylor, eds. Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xxviii + 298 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1198-3.

Includes: David J. Smith, “Introduction”; David J. Smith, “The Interconnection of Religious, Social and Musical Networks: Creating a Context for the Keyboard Music of Peter Philips and Its Dissemination”; Émilie Corswarem, “The Liber Fratrum Cruciferorum Leodiensium and the Dissemination of Organ Repertoire in the Netherlands During the 17th Century”; Anne Lyman, “The Pious Mr Philips and His Few-Voiced Motets at Isabella’s Confraternity of Our Lady”; Naomi J. Barker, “The Ear of the Lynx: The Musical Legacy of the Accademia Dei Lincei”; Rachelle Taylor and Frauke Jürgensen, “Politics, Religion, Style and the Passamezzo Galliards of Byrd and Philips: A Discussion of Networks Involving Byrd and His Disciples”; Julia R. Dokter, “Musical Rhetoric Lost in Translation: National, Religious and Linguistic Networks and the Determination of Title in Sweelinck’s Organ Variations on Psalm 36”; David Schulenberg, “What Is a Composer? Problems of Attribution in Keyboard Music from the Circle of Philips and Sweelinck”; Pieter Dirksen, “Orlando Gibbons’s Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective”; Peter Van Kranenburg and Johan Zoutendijk, “A Pattern Recognition Approach to the Attribution of Early Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Compositions Using Features of Diminutions”; John Bryan, “‘Full of Art, and Profundity’: The Five-Part Consort Pavan as a Medium for Sophisticated Musical Expression and Compositional Cross-Reference in Late Renaissance England”; Arne Spohr, “Networking, Patronage and Professionalism in the Early History of Violin Playing: The Case of William Brade (c.1560–1630)”; Hector Sequera, “Practice and Dissemination of Music in the Catholic Network as Suggested by the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550–1630) and Other Contemporary Sources”; and Abigail Ballantyne, “Social Networking in Seventeenth-Century Italy: The ‘Harmonious Letters’ of a Monk-Musician.”

Souiller, Didier, ed. Maniérisme et Littérature. Comparaisons. Paris: Editions Orizons, 2013. 376 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-2-296-08872-6.

Includes: Didier Souiller, “Le maniérisme en question”; François Lecercle, “De quelques réticences à l’égard des catégories”; François Lecercle, “Apelle et Protogène: un apologue maniériste?”; Sylvie Laighneau-Fontaine, “Les Baisers de Jean Second: Un recueil maniériste”; Dorothea Scholl, “Maniérisme et grotesque”; Paulette Choné, “Bellange ou le parfum de la maniera”; Antonio Domínguez Leiva, “Les rêves mouillés du maniérisme européen”; Nicolas Correard, “Le maniérisme comme décomposition de l’idéal encyclopédique et livresque de l’humaniste, chez Anton Francesco Doni et don Diego de Saavedra Fajardo”; Didier Souiller, “Des jardins ‘maniéristes’?”; Giuseppe Sangirardi, “Tout ècrivain se peint-il lui-même? Sur la place du sujet dans la littérature de l’âge maniériste en Italie”; Nuria Lombardero, “Formes et structures maniéristes dans L’Orazia de l’Arétin”; Sonia Cavicchioli, “‘Specie di spazi’: Note sulla decorazione d’interni in età maniersita in Italia”; Laura Rescia, “Formes dramatiques maniéristes dans La Rodomontade de Charles Bauter (1605)?”; Francis Assaf, “Abraham de Vermeil, poète maniériste”; Richard Crescenzo, “Le poème-tableau: Un jeu maniériste?”; Paloma Bravo, “Maniérisme et littérature politique en Espagne au tournant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: De la pertinence de l’épithète maniériste rapportée à l’œuvre d’Antonio Pérez”; Jean- Claude Laborie, “De quelques usages du concept de maniérisme dans l’histoire littéraire portugaise”; Christian Bouzy, “Entre beaux-arts et belles-lettres: Emblème et devise ou la maniera par antonomase”; Gisèle Venet, “Les comédies maniéristes de Shakespeare”; Line Cottegnies, “L’impossible maniérisme anglais ou l’Angleterre est-elle soluble dans l’Europe?”; Christine Sukic, “Sir Philip Sidney et l’ars poetica maniériste”; Annie-Paule de Prinsac, “Le Conte d’Hiver de Shakespeare et Jules Romain”; Anne Teulad, “Burton maniériste? Quelques hypothèses sur l’Anatomy of Melancholy”; and Daniela Dalla Valle, “Postface: Le ‘maniérisme,’ du colloque Manierismo e Letterature (1983), au colloque ‘Manérisme et Littérature’ (2010).”

Sweetinburgh, Sheila, ed. Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400–c.1600. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 434; Arizona Sutdies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 38. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. ix + 228 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-086698-482-9.

Includes: Sheila Sweetinburgh, “Introduction”; Mark Merry, “‘Specyall lover and preferrer of the polytike and common weale’: John Smyth and Ideal Citizenship in Fifteenth-Century Bury St Edmunds”; Karsten Igel, “Rebuilding the City Centre”; Sheila Sweetinburgh, “Discord in the Public Arena: Processes and Meanings of the St Bartholomew’s Day Festivities in Early Sixteenth-Century Sandwich”; Paula Simpson, “The Skin of the Unjust Judge: ‘Negotiating the Political’ in Early Modern Canterbury”; Claire Bartram and Mary Dixon, “‘With the consent of the towne, and other skillfull marryners and gentlemen’: An Examination of Textual Negotiations in the Elizabethan Restoration of Dover Harbour 1582–1605”; Peter Fleming, “Crown and Town in Later Medieval England: Bristol and National Politics, 1399 to 1486”; Serge Ter Braake, “Brokers in the Cities: The Connections between Princely Officers and Town Officials in Holland at the End of the Middle Ages (1480–1558)”; Frederik Felskau, “Town, Faith, and Power in Unquiet Times: Prague between the Hussite Pre-Reformation and the Habsburgs’ Rule (1436–1526)”; and Caroline M. Barron, “Afterword: Negotiating the Political: The View from London.”

Turner, Henry S., ed. Early Modern Theatricality. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv + 622 pp. $150. ISBN: 978-0-19-964135- 2.

Includes: Henry S. Turner, “Generalization”; Laura Weigert, “Stages”; Richard Preiss, “Interiority”; Peter Womack, “Off-Stage”; Bruce R. Smith, “Scenes”; Paul Menzer, “Lines”; Stephen Guy-Bray, “Source”; William N. West, “Intertheatricality”; Evelyn Tribble, “Skill”; Gina Bloom, “Games”; Erika T. Lin, “Festivity”; Scott Trudell, “Occasion”; Mary Thomas Crane, “Optics”; Joel Altman, “Ekphrasis”; Jeremy Lopez, “Dumbshow”; Ellen MacKay, “Indecorum”; Madhavi Menon, “Desire”; Simon Palfrey, “Formaction”; Scott Maisano, “Now”; Michael Witmore, “Eventuality”; Paul A. Kottman, “Duel”; Julia Reinhard Lupton, “Hospitality”; Jonathan Gil Harris, “Becoming-Indian”; Robert Henke, “Poor”; Susanne L. Wofford, “Foreign”; Anston Bosman, “Mobility”; Phil Withington, “Honestas”; Ann Baynes Coiro, “Reading”; and Blair Hoxby, “Passions.”

Visceglia, Maria Antonietta, ed. Papato e politica internazionale nella prima età moderna. I libri di Viella 153. Rome: Viella, 2013. 650 pp. €42. ISBN: 978-88-6728-019-3.

Includes: Maria Antonietta Visceglia, “The International Policy of the Papacy: Critical Approaches to the Concepts of Universalism and Italianità, Peace and War”; Marco Pellegrini, “Il Rinascimento come stagione della politica concordataria”; Heinz Schilling, “The Two Papal Souls and the Rise of an Early Modern State System”; Alain Tallon, “Conflits et médiations dans la politique internationale de la papauté”; Silvano Giordano, “Uomini e apparati della politica internazionale del papato”; Giovanni Pizzorusso, “La congregazione pontificia de Propaganda Fide nel XVII secolo: Missioni, geopolitica, colonialismo”; Mario Rosa, “Una rilettura della politica dei concordati nel Settecento”; Gianvittorio Signorotto, “La percezione delle frontiere nel cuore d’Italia: Milano e la mobilitazione religiosa e politica (1600–1659)”; Bertrand Forclaz, “Frontières confessionnelles et politiques: La papauté et le Corps helvétique au XVIIe siècle”; Irene Fosi, “Frontiere inquisitoriali nel Sacro Romano Impero”; Francesco Gui, “La centralità del Regno di Boemia fra impero e papato”; Stefano Villani, “Britain and the Papacy: Diplomacy and Conflict in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century”; Manuel Rivero Rodríguez, “El Mediterráneo occidental como espacio de frontera: El papado, las monarquías ibéricas y el Magreb (1492– 1618)”; Laura Ronchi De Michelis, “La diplomazia pontificia alla conquista della slavia ortodossa: Dall’Unione di Firenze ai ‘falsi Demetri’”; Antal Molnár, “Baluardi mediterranei del cattolicesimo sul confine d’Europa: Ragusa e Cattaro tra missioni romane, politica veneziana e realtà balcaniche”; Angelantonio Spagnoletti, “Il mare amaro: Uomini e istituzioni della Chiesa tra Puglia e Albania (XVI–XVII secc.)”; Giovanni Ricci, “Alessandro VI fra Carlo VIII e Bayezid”; Aurélien Girard, “Entre croisade et politique culturelle au Levant: Rome et l’union des chrétiens syriens (première moitié du XVIIe siècle)”; Paolo Broggio, “Teologia ‘romana’ e universalismo papale: La conquista spirituale del mondo (secoli XVI–XVII)”; Francesca Cantù, “Il papato, la Spagna e il Nuovo Mondo”; Christian Windler, “La curie romaine et la cour safavide au XVIIe siècle: Projets missionnaires et diplomatie”; Elisabetta Corsi, “Editoria, lingue orientali e politica papale a Roma tra Cinquecento e Seicento”; and Eugenio Menegon, “Culture di corte a confronto: Legati pontifici nella Pechino del Settecento.”

Waddington, Raymond B. Pietro Aretino: Subverting the System in Renaissance Italy. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Farnham: Ashgate Variorum, 2013. xii + 268 pp. £85. ISBN: 978-1- 4094-6435-8.

Includes: Raymond B. Waddington, “Introduction: Cortigiana (La cortigiana, 1525)”; “A Mask for Aretino (Una machera per Aretino)”; “Meretrix est stampificata: Gendering the Printing Press”; “Pietro Aretino: The New Man of Letters”; “Go East: Pietro Aretino’s Flirtation with Constantinople”; “Aretino’s Prostitutes: The Ragionamenti”; “A Satirist’s Impresa: The Medals of Pietro Aretino”; “Pietro Aretino, Religious Writer”; “Aretino, Titian, and ‘La Humanità di Christo’”; “Before Arcimboldo: Composite Portraits on Italian Medals”; and “Volpone: Aretino’s Venice, Jonson’s Aretino.”

Wade, Mara R., ed. Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 169. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. 386 pp. $116. ISBN: 978-90-42-03774-8.

Includes: Mara R. Wade, “Introduction: Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts”; Judith P. Aikin, “The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt: When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it’s time to call on a woman for help”; Elizabeth Oyler, “The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Nō Plays”; Helmut Puff, “Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer’s The Death of Orpheus”; Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, “The Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art”; Julie Singer, “For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre”; Marcus Keller, “Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron”; Catharine Gray, “Tears of the Muses: 1649 and the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy”; Brian Sandberg, “Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Château: Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion”; Lori Humphrey Newcomb, “The Law Against Lovers: Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England”; Elizabeth Black, “One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau’s Pegme (1560)”; Tara L. Lyons, “Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern English Stage”; Gerhild Scholz Williams, “Romancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel’s Deß Teutschen Carls (1690) and Deß Engelländischen Eduards (1691)”; Susan Parisi, “Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera: The Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti of Francesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault”; Curtis Perry, “Gismond of Salern and the Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama”; Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, “‘Drabs of State vext’: Violent Female Masquers in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women”; Carmen Ripollés, “Death, Femininity, and the Art of Painting in Frans Francken’s The Painter’s Studio”; Lisa Rosenthal, “Masculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury”; Anne J. Cruz, “The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain”; and Carl Niekerk, “Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico.

Walker, Alison, Arthur MacGreger, and Michael Hunter, eds. From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. London: British Library, 2013. x + 310 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-7123- 5880-4.

Includes: Michael Hunter, “Introduction”; James Delbourgo, “Collecting Hans Sloane”; Mark Purcell, “‘Settle in the North of Ireland’: or, Where Did Sloane Come From?”; Barbara M. Benedict, “From Benefactor to Entrepreneur: Sloane’s Literary Reputation 1685–1800”; Kathryn James, “Sloane and the Public Performance of Natural History”; Lisa Wynne Smith, “Sloane as Friend and Physician of the Family”; Eric Jorink, “Sloane and the Dutch Connection”; Pratik Chakrabarti, “Sloane’s Travels: A Colonial History of Gentlemanly Science”; James Robertson, “Knowledgeable Readers: Jamaican Critiques of Sloane’s Botany”; Wendy D. Churchill, “Sloane’s Perspectives on the Medical Knowledge and Health Practices of Non-Europeans”; Julie Chun Kim, “Obeah and the Secret Sources of Atlantic Medicine”; Savithri Preetha Nair, “‘. . . to be serviceable and profitable for their own health’: A Seventeenth-Century English Herbal of East Indian Plants Owned by Sloane”; Marjorie Caygill, “Sloane’s Catalogues and the Arrangement of His Collections”; Charlie Jarvis, Mark Spencer, and Robert Huxley, “Sloane’s Plant Specimens at the Natural History Museum”; Jill Cook, “The Elephants in the Collection: Sloane and the History of the Earth”; Kim Sloan, “Sloane’s ‘Pictures and drawings in frames’ and ‘Books of miniature & painting, designs, &c.’”; Arnold Hunt, “Sloane as a Collector of Manuscripts”; John Goldfinch, “Sloane’s Incunabula”; Julianne Simpson, “From London to Toronto: A Case-Study of the Dispersal of Sloane’s Library”; and Tracy-Ann Smith and Katherine Hann, “Sloane, Slavery and Science: Perspectives from Public Programmes at the Natural History Museum.”

Warren, Jeremy, Leda Cosentino, and Charles Avery, eds. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in and around the Peter Marino Collection. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013. 176 pp. £30. ISBN: 978-0-900785-48-1.

Includes: Jeremy Warren, “Renaissance to Baroque: The Marino Collection in Context”; Regina Seelig, “Guillaume Berthelot as a Sculptor of Small Bronzes; Guillaume Berthelot as a Sculptor in Ivory”; Charles Avery, “The Herculean Efforts of Stefano Maderno”; Philippe Malgouyres, “Apollo and Daphne, and Other Bronze Groups after Bernini”; Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, “The Workshop of André-Charles Boulle (1701–20)”; Jennifer Montagu, “The Master of the Bull Hunt: An Enigma”; Anthea Brook, “Tacca or Cappelli?” and Rosario Coppel, “Spanish Collectors of Small Bronzes: The Collection of the 3rd Duke of Alcalá (1581–1637).”

Wiseman, Susan, ed. Early Modern Women and the Poem. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. x + 256 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9072-1.

Includes: Susan Wiseman, “Introduction: Researching Early Modern Women and the Poem”; Edward Paleit, “Women’s Poetry and Classical Authors: Lucy Hutchinson and the Classicisation of Scripture”; Sarah C. E. Ross, “Elizabeth Melville and the Religious Sonnet Sequence in Scotland and England”; Line Cottegnies, “The Sapphic Sontext of Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus”; Gillian Wright, “Women Poets and Men’s Sentences: Genre and Literary Tradition in Katherine Philips’s Early Poetry”; Suzanne Trill, “‘We thy Sydnean Psalmes Shall Celebrate’: Collaborative Authorship, Sidney’s Sister and the English Devotional Lyric”; Paul Salzman, “Mary Wroth and Hermaphroditic Circulation”; Helen Hackett, “Sisterhood and Female Friendship in Constance Aston Fowler’s Verse Miscellany”; Margaret J. M. Ezell, “Late Seventeenth-Century Women Poets and the Anxiety of Attribution”; Patricia Pender, “Rethinking Authorial Reluctance in the Paratexts to Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry”; Ros Smith, “A ‘Goodly Sample’: Exemplarity, Female Complaint and Early Modern Women’s Poetry”; Judith Hudson, “‘The Nine-Liv’d Sex’: Women and Justice in Seventeenth-Century Popular Poetry”; Susan Wiseman, “‘The Contemplative Woman’s Recreation? Kaherine Austen ad the Estate Poem”; and Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, “Afterword: Reading and Early Modern Women and the Poem.”