Renaissance Quarterly Books Received, October–December 2013
Ahnert, Ruth. The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. x + 222 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-04030-4.
Allen, Gemma. The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xi + 274 pp. $105. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8833-9.
Amelang, James S. Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xi + 208 pp. $25.95. ISBN: 978-0-8071-5410-6.
Areford, David. Art of Empathy: The Mother of Sorrows in Northern Renaissance Art and Devotion. Exh. Cat. Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 26 November 2013–16 February 2014. London: D. Giles Ltd, 2013. 64 pp. $17.95. ISBN: 978-1-907804-26-7.
Aricò, Nicola. Architettura del tardo Rinascimento in Sicilia: Giovannangelo Montorsoli a Messina (1547-57). Biblioteca’“Archivum Romanicum” Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 422. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. xiv + 224 pp. + 8 color pls. €28. ISBN: 978-88-222-6268- 4.
Arner, Lynn. Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. ix + 198 pp. $64.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-05893-1.
Backscheider, Paula R. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiii + 304 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0842-2.
Baker, Geoff. Reading and Politics in Early Modern England: The Mental World of a Seventeenth-Century Catholic Gentleman. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xiii + 236 pp. €14.99. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9124- 7.
Baker, Nicholas Scott. The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xi + 368 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72452-5.
Banker, James R. Documenti fondamentali per la conoscenza della vita e dell’arte di Piero della Francesca. Istituzione Culturale Biblioteca Museo Archivi Storici Città di Sansepolcro. Selci- Lama: Editrice Pliniana, 2013. xvii + 238 pp. np. ISBN: 978-88-97830-16-0.
Barber, Tabitha, and Stacy Boldrick, eds. Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm. Exh. Cat. London: Tate Britain. London: Tate Publishing, 2013. 192 pp. £24.99. ISBN: 978-1- 84976-030-0.
Barbour, Reid. Sir Thomas Browne: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv + 534 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-19-967988-1.
Barclay, John. Icon Animorum or the Mirror of Minds. Ed. Mark Riley. Trans. Thomas May (1631). Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013. x + 368 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-90-5867-945-1.
Bell, Robert H. Shakespeare’s Great Stage of Fools. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. x + 186 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-1-137-34675-9.
Du Bellay, Joachim. Oeuvres complètes: Tome III, 1551–1553. Eds. Marie-Dominique Legrand, Michel Magnien, Daniel Ménager, and Olivier Millet. Textes de la Renaissance 187. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 536 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-2-8124-1142-7.
Bistué, Belén. Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xii + 184 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1158-7.
Black, Jeremy. The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xii + 492 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0300-16795-5.
Black, Robert. Machiavelli. New York: Routledge, 2013. xxvii + 376 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0- 582-78406-2.
Bodin, Jean. Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem. Ed. Sara Miglietti. Testi e Commenti 15. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2013. 792 pp. €70. ISBN: 978-88-7642-459-5.
Boes, Maria R. Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt Am Main, 1562–1696. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xi + 280 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3147-3.
Boucheron, Patrick, and Claudio Giorgione, eds. Leonardo da Vinci: Vorbild Natur — Zeichnungen und Modelle. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2013. 208 pp. €29.90. ISBN: 978-3-7774- 2090-5.
Bridgeman, Jane, ed. A Renaissance Wedding: The Celebration at Pesaro for the Marriage of Costanzo Sforza & Camilla Marzano D’Aragona (26–30 May 1475). London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013. 198 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-1-905375-93-6.
Bruno, Giordano. On the Heroic Frenzies: A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585). Ed. Eugenio Canone. Trans. Ingrid D. Rowland. The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. lxix + 396 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4389-5.
Cadden, Joan. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 328 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4537-0.
Calbi, Maurizio. Spectral Shakespeares: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century. Reproducing Shakespeare: New Studies in Adaptation and Appropriation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xii + 236 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-230-33875-3.
Cannon, Joanna. Religious Poverty, Visual Riches: Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xii + 444 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-300-18765-6.
Carter, Tim, and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xiv + 480 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674- 72464-8.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Ed. José Miguel Martínez Torrejón. Biblioteca Clásica de la Real Academia Española 28. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2013. xii + 364 pp. n.p. ISBN: 978-84-15863-01-4.
Castelluccio, Stéphane. Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Pre-Revolutionary Paris. Trans. Sharon Grevet. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013. 224 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-1- 60606-139-8.
Christine de Pizan. Le Livre du duc des vrais amants. Eds. Dominique Demartini and Didier Lechat. Champion Classiques Série Moyen Âge. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2013. 472 pp. €14. ISBN: 978-2-7453-2633-1.
Cockram, Sarah D. P. Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvii + 256 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4831-0.
Cooper, Richard. Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiii + 436 pp. $144.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5265-2.
Cristante, Nevio. Machiavellis Revivus: Slashing a Sword on the Western Classical Tradition. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. xx + 240 pp. $67.99. ISBN: 978-1-4438- 2892-5.
Cummings, Brian. Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 368 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-0-19- 967771-9.
Cursi, Marco. La scrittura e i libri di Giovanni Boccaccio. Scritture e libri del medioevo 13. Rome: Viella, 2313. xii + 172 pp. + 32 color pls. €40. ISBN: 978-88-6728-092-6.
Dane, Joseph A. Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. viii + 220 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8122- 4549-3.
Darcy, Eamon. The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xiii + 212 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-86193-320-4.
Daykin, Frank. Encyclopedia of French Art Song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc. Vox Musicae: The Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, and Song 10. Hillsdale: Pendragon Press, 2013. vi + 740 pp. $96. ISBN: 978-157647210-1.
Dickson, Vernon Guy. Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xx + 190 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4094-6928-5.
Domínguez Torres, Mónica. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xv + 284 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6671-4.
Doublet, Jean. Élégies. Ed. Hélène Hôte. Textes de la Renaissance 183; République des Muses 1. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 258 pp. €29. ISBN: 978-2-8124-0948-6.
Drosay, Jean de. Éléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544–1554. Ed. Alberte Jacquetin- Gaudet. Textes de la Renaissance 185; Traités sur la langue française 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 424 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-2-8124-1144-1.
Dunthorne, Hugh. Britain and the Dutch Revolt 1560–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxv + 264 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-521-83747-7.
Dyson, Jessica. Staging Authority in Caroline England: Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625–1642. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. x + 224 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3332-3.
Erler, Mary C. Reading and Writing During the Dissolution: Monks, Friars and Nuns 1530– 1558. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 204 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-03979- 7.
Florio, John. A Worlde of Wordes. Ed. Hermann W. Haller. The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. lxiii + 792 pp. $125. ISBN: 978-1-4426- 4580-6.
Foard, Glenn, and Anne Curry. Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013. xx + 220 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-1-78297-173-3.
Frese, Tobias. Aktual- und Realpräsenz: Das eucharistische Christusbild von der Spätantike bis ins Mittelalter. Neue Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst 13. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2013. 290 pp. €59. ISBN: 978-3-7861-2693-5.
Garber, Marjorie. Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xviii + 226 pp. $20. ISBN: 978-0-300-19543-9.
García Reidy, Alejandro. Las musas rameras: Oficio dramático y conciencia profesional en Lope de Vega. Colección Escena Clásica 2. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2013. 440 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-84-8489-743-9.
Geisler, Eberhard. El dinero en la obra de Quevedo: La crisis de identidad en la sociedad feudal española a principios del siglo XVII. Problemata literaria 73. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2013. xii + 268 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-3-944244-13-6.
Gérard-Marchant, Laurence, ed. Draghi rossi e querce azzurre: Elenchi descrittivi di abiti di lusso (Firenze, 1343–1345). Memoria Scripturarum 6; Testi latini 4. Florence: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013. clv + 684 pp. €110. ISBN: 978-88-8450-509-5.
Getz, Christine Suzanne. Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan. Music and the Early Modern Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. x + 356 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-253-00787-2.
Giambonini, Francesco. Bernardino Lanino ritrattista e l’ambiente artistico-politico del suo tempo. Biblioteca’“Archivum Romanicum” Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 410. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. 332 pp. + 4 color pls. €38. ISBN: 978-88-222-6225-7.
Gil, Daniel Juan. Shakespeare’s Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. vi + 168 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-1-137-27500-4.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Trans. John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xxxv + 180 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0988-7.
Gragnolati, Manuele. Amor che move: Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante. Milan: Il saggiatore, 2013. 232 pp. €19. ISBN: 978-88-428-1865-6.
Gray, Floyd. Montaigne et les livres. Études montaignistes 62. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 296 pp. €34. ISBN: 978-2-8124-0874-8.
Groeben, Otto Friedrich von der. Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung. Ed. Ulrich van der Heyden. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013. xlvii + 266 pp. £148. ISBN: 978-3-487-14879-3.
Guidi, Remo L. Frati e Umanisti nel Quattrocento. Contribute e Proposte 82. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2013. 624 pp. €50. ISBN: 978-88-6274-461-4.
Guinn-Chipman, Susan. Religious Space in Reformation England: Contesting the Past. Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 9. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xi + 236 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-283-8.
Hamlin, Hannibal. The Bible in Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvii + 378 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-967761-0.
Herron, Thomas, and Brendan Michael Kane. Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 19 January–19 May 2013. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2013. xvi + 118 pp. $34.99. ISBN: 978-0-9629254-5-0.
Herzig, Tamar. Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith. Scritture nel chiostro; Temi e Testi 114. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. xix + 330 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-88-6372-526-1.
Holderness, Graham. Nine Lives of William Shakespeare. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. x + 216 pp. £12.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1730-2.
Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: A Critical Edition with Modern Spelling. Ed. Arthur Stephen McGrade. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 1,152 pp. £275. ISBN: 978-0-19-960495-1.
Hornby, Emma, and Rebecca Maloy. Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 13. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xiii + 368 pp. $130. ISBN: 978-1-84383-814-2.
Horning, Audrey J. Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xviii + 386 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4696-1072-6.
Jacobs, Fredrika Herman. Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii + 248 pp. + 8 color pls. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-02304-8.
Kallendorf, Hilaire. Sins of the Fathers: Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xiii + 446 pp. + 6 b/w pls. $90. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4458-8.
Kaufman, Peter Iver. Religion around Shakespeare. Religion Around 1. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. vi + 256 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06181-8.
Kent, E. J. Cases of Male Witchcraft in Old and New England, 1592–1692. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 13. Thurnhout: Brepols, 2013. ix + 190 pp. €70. ISBN: 978-2-503-52474- 0.
Kirby, Torrance. Persuasion and Conversion: Essays on Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 166. Leiden: Brill, 2013. x + 230 pp. $139. ISBN: 978-90-04-25364-3.
Klein, Francesca. Scritture e governo dello Stato a Firenze nel Rinascimento: Cancellieri, ufficiali, archivi. Studi di Storia e Documentazione Storica 4. Florence: Edifir, 2013. 318 pp. €22. ISBN: 978-88-7970-610-0.
Koering, Jérémie. Le prince en représentation: histoire des décors du palais ducal de Mantoue au XVIe siècle. Paris: Actes sud, 2013. 416 pp. €34. ISBN: 978-2-330-02237-2.
Korsch, Evelyn. Bilder der Macht: Venezianische Repräsentationsstrategien beim Staatsbesuch Heinrichs III.(1574). Studi: Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Studienzentrums in Venedig 5. Berlin: Akademie Verlag Berlin, 2012. x + 280 pp. + 12 color pls. $126. ISBN: 978-3-05-004975-5.
Kremer, Anette. Die Anfänge der deutschen Fremdwörterlexikographie: Metalexikographische Untersuchungen zu Simon Roths Ein Teutscher Dictionarius (1571). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. xi + 256 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6144-0.
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. Ed. Michael Neill. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. xl + 290 pp. $13.12. ISBN: 978-0-393-93400-7.
Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm. Fate, Glory, and Love in Early Modern Gallery Decoration: Visualizing Supreme Power. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xx + 276 pp. + 12 color pls. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3154-1.
Landon, William J. Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste / An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xiii + 278 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4424-3.
Larkin, Hilary. The Making of Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550–1650. Studies in the History of Political Thought 8. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xi + 348 pp. $167. ISBN: 978-90-04- 23473-4.
Lees-Jeffries, Hester. Shakespeare and Memory. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 228 pp. £16.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-967425-1.
Legrand, Marie-Dominique, and Keith Cameron, eds. Vocabulaire et création poétique dans les jeunes années de la Pléiade (1547–1555). Colloques, congrès et conférences sur le XVIe siècle 1. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2013. 336 pp. €60. ISBN: 978-2-7453-2536-5.
Levy, Evonne, and Kenneth Mills, eds. Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xi + 352 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-292-75309-9.
Lisy-Wagner, Laura. Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453–1683. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. x + 196 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3165-7.
Lloret, Albert. Printing Ausiàs March: Material Culture and Renaissance Poetics. Madrid: Centro Para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, 2013. 316 pp. np. ISBN: 978-84-936665-6-9.
Löblein, Friedrich. Prediger der Barmherzigkeit im 16. Jahrhundert Band 1: Predigt und Diakonie in südwestdeutschen Reichsstädten. Veröffentlichungen des Diakoniewissenschaftlichen Instituts an der Universität Heidelberg 19. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 358 pp. €24. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6124-2.
Löblein, Friedrich. Prediger der Barmherzigkeit im 16. Jahrhundert Band 2: Biografien reichsstädtischer Prediger und ausgewählte diakonische Predigten. Veröffentlichungen des Diakoniewissenschaftlichen Instituts an der Universität Heidelberg 20. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. viii + 264 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6125-9.
Lochman, Daniel T., and Daniel J. Nodes, eds. John Colet on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of Dionysius: A new Edition and Translation with Introduction and Notes. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 171; Texts and Sources 4. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xv + 380 pp. $193. ISBN: 978-90-04-25788-7.
Luther, Martin. On the Freedom of a Christian: With Related Texts. Ed. Tryntje Helfferich. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2013. xxviii + 132 pp. $10. ISBN: 978-0-87220-768-4.
Lynn, Kimberly. Between Court and Confessional: The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xviii + 392 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-03116-6.
Malhomme, Florence. Musica humana: La musique dans la pensée de l’humanisme italien. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance 10. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 402 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-2- 8124-0814-4.
Marchiaro, Michaelangiola. La Biblioteca di Pietro Crinito: Manoscritti e libri a stampa della raccolta libraria di un umanista florentino. Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 67. FIDEM: Porto, 2013. 342 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-2-503-54949-1.
Marciari, John, and Suzanne Boorsch. Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena. Exh. Cat. Yale University Art Gallery, 27 Sept. 2013–5 Jan. 2014. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. ix + 246 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-300-13548-0.
McCahill, Elizabeth. Reviving the Eternal City: Rome and the Papal Court, 1420–1447. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. ix + 288 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72453-2.
Meakin, H. L. The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvii + 328 pp. + 64 color pls. $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6397-3.
Meuwese, Mark. Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World, 1595–1674. The Atlantic World23. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xiii + 368 pp. $177. ISBN: 978-90-04-21083-7.
Middleton, Thomas. Un monde de fous, messieurs! Ed. Chantal Schütz. Textes de la Renaissance 186. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 412 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-2-8124-0927-1.
Montclos, Xavier de. L’ancienne bourgeoisie en France: Emergence et permanence d’un groupe social du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris: Picard Editions, 2013. 150 pp. €31. ISBN: 978-2-7084- 0939-2.
Neufeld, Matthew. The Civil Wars After 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 17. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xiv + 284 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-815-9.
O’Malley, John W. Saints or Devils Incarnate?: Studies in Jesuit History. Jesuit Studies: Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History 1. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xiii + 312 pp. $182. ISBN: 978-90-04-25534-0.
Olson, Rebecca. Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013. viii + 172 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1- 61149-468-6.
Orgel, Stephen. Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books and Selves in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xix + 284 pp. £15.99. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8169-9.
De Ornellas, Kevin. The Horse in Early Modern English Culture: Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. xxiii + 210 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-61147- 658-3.
Pantani, Italo. Responsa poetae: corrispondenze poetiche esemplari dal Vannozzo a Della Casa. Dulces Musae: Collana di Studi e Testi di Letteratura Italiana 8. Rome: Aracne, 2012. 234 pp. €12. ISBN: 978-88-548-5251-8.
Petitjean, Johann. L’intelligence des choses: Une histoire de l’information entre Italie et Méditerranée (XVIe–XVII siècles). Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 354. Rome: École française de Rome, 2013. 520 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-2-7283-0964-1.
Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius. Europe (c. 1400–1458). Ed. Nancy Bisaha. Trans. Robert Brown. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013. xx + 356 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0- 8132-2182-3.
Plumley, Yolanda. The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxiv + 460 pp. $74. ISBN: 978-0-19-991508-8.
Porter, Chloe. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. x + 230 pp. £65. ISBN: 978- 0-7190-8497-3.
Quint, David. Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. x + 330 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-691-15974-4.
Rhodes, Neil, Gordon Kendal, and Louise Wilson, eds. English Renaissance Translation Theory. MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations 9. London: Modern Human Research Association, 2013. xiv + 544 pp. $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-907322-05-1.
Richardson, Glenn. The Field of Cloth of Gold. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xii + 276 pp. + 4 color pls. $65. ISBN: 978-0-300-14886-2.
Robinson, Cynthia. Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. xiii + 466 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-05410-0.
Rodwell, Warwick. The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone: History, Archaeology and Conservation. Westminster Abbey Occasional Papers (series 3) 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books and The Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 2013. xvi + 304 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78297-152-8.
Runyon, Randolph Paul. Order in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s Essais. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013. x + 276 pp. $87.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1240-0.
Saenger, Michael. Shakespeare and the French Borders of English. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xvi + 238 pp. £55. ISBN: 978-1-137-32782-6.
Sager, Jenny. The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema: Robert Greene’s Theatre of Attractions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. x + 212 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-137-33239-4.
Salas Almela, Luis. The Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1641): An Aristocrat in the Crisis of the Spanish Empire. Trans. Ruth Mackay. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 52. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xix + 184 pp. $133. ISBN: 978-90-04-25526-5.
Sander-Faes, Stephan Karl. Urban Elites of Zadar: Dalmatia and the Venetian Commonwealth (1540–1569). I libri di Viella 155. Rome: Viella, 2013. 292 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-88-6728-115-2.
Savy, Pierre. Seigneurs et condottières: les Dal Verme: Appertenances sociales, constructions étatiques et pratiques politiques dans l’Italie de la Renaissance. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 357. Rome: École française de Rome, 2013. xi + 616 pp. €50. ISBN: 978-2-7283-0948-1.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Ed. Robert S. Miola. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. xxiv + 382 pp. $14.37. ISBN: 978-0-393-92326-1.
Silesius, Angelus. The Sacred Epigrams from the Cherubinic Pilgrim. Trans. Anthony Mortimer. AMS Studies in the Seventeenth Century 6. Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2013. xxxi + 130 pp. $62.50. ISBN: 978-0-404-61726-4.
Sophia of Hanover. Memoirs (1630–1680). Ed. and trans. Sean Ward. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 25. Toronto: Iter Inc. and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. ix + 206 pp. $21.50. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2148-8.
Speroni, Sperone. Canace (1542). Trans. Elio Christoph Brancaforte. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 42. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 152 pp. $19. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2140-2.
Standring, Timothy J., and Martin Clayton. Castiglione: Lost Genius. Exh. Cat. Royal Collection Trust Nov. 2013–March 2014. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2013. 176 pp. £19.95. ISBN: 978-1-905688773.
Steen, Charlie R. Margaret of Parma: A Life. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 174. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ix + 322 pp. $179. ISBN: 978-90-04-25744-3.
Stevens, Jenniver, and Pamela Bickley. Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ix + 344 pp. £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-408-15873-9.
Sullivan, Karen. The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xi + 296 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-0-226-10432-4.
Upton, Elizabeth Randell. Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xvi + 232 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-137-27770-1.
Vesalius, Andreas. The Fabric of the Human Body: An Annotated Translation of the 1543 and 1555 Editions. Eds. Daniel H. Garrison and M. H. Hast. Basel: Karger, 2014. cvi + 1312 pp. $1,650. ISBN: 978-3-318-02246-9.
Viroli, Maurizio. Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiv + 190 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16001-6.
Vives, Juan Luis. De Disciplinis / Savoir et Enseigner. Ed. Tristan Vigliano. Le miroir des humanistes 13. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. cxlv + 750 pp. €99. ISBN: 978-2-251-34606-9.
Wall-Randell, Sarah. The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. ix + 184 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-472-11877-9.
Walls, Kathryn. God’s Only Daughter: Spencer’s Una as the Invisible Church. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xiii + 238 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-7190- 9037-0.
Warner, J. Christopher. The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557: Songs and Sonnets in the Summer of the Martyrs’ Fires. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiv + 250 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5745-9.
Weigel, Valentin. Vom wahren seligmachenden Glauben, Daß das Wort Gottes in allen Menschen sei, Wie der Glaube aus dem Gehör komme, und andere Schriften. Ed. Horst Pfefferl. Valentin Weigel: Sämtliche Schriften 5. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2013. xxxii + 136 pp. €386. ISBN: 978-3-7728-1844-8.
Werrell, Ralph S. The Roots of William Tyndale’s Theology. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2013. 196 pp. £25. ISBN: 978-0-227-17402-9.
Wilson, Adrian. Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. vii + 262 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6812-7.
Wood, Andy. The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii + 396 pp. $90. ISBN: 978- 0-521-89610-8.
Wooding, Barbara. John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603–1647: Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiii + 210 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5267-6.
Woods, Susanne. Milton and the Poetics of Freedom. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2013. ix + 290 pp. $58. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0466-1.
Yarington, Robert. Two Lamentable Tragedies. Ed. Chiaki Hanabusa. Malone Society Reprints 180. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xxix + 78 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-0-7190- 9062-2.
Edited Collections:
Adlington, Hugh, Tom Lockwood, and Gillian Wright, eds. Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, Literature and Religion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xi + 228 pp. $105. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8834-6.
Includes: Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright, “Introduction”; Kenneth Fincham, “The Roles and Influence of Household Chaplains, c. 1600–c. 1660”; David Crankshaw, “Chaplains to the Elizabethan Nobility: Activities, Categories and Patterns”; Mary Morrissey, “Episcopal Chaplains and Control of the Media, 1586–1642”; Hugh Adlington, “Chaplains to Embassies: Daniel Featley, Anti-Catholic Controversialist Abroad”; Tom Lockwood, “Poetry, Patronage and Cultural Agency: The Career of William Lewis”; Angus Vine, “‘His Lordships First, and Last, CHAPLEINE’: William Rawley and Francis Bacon”; Christopher Burlinson, “Richard Corbett and William Strode: Chaplaincy and Verse in Early Seventeenth-Century Oxford”; Erica Longfellow, “The Isham family and Their Clergy”; William Gibson, “A Chaplain and His Patron: Samuel Willes and Lord Huntingdon”; and Grant Tapsell, “The Reluctant Chaplain: William Sancroft and the Later Stuart Church.”
Ahrens, Rüdiger, ed. The Construction of the Other in Early Modern Britain: Attraction, Rejection, Symbiosis. Asst. eds. Yolanda Caballero Aceituno and Primavera Cuder. Anglistische Forschungen 433. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. viii + 228 pp. €46. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6083-2.
Includes: Jesús López-Peláez Casellas, “‘Menne of straunge borders’: Attraction, Rejection, Symbiosis: An Introduction”; Jüri Talvet, “‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Thinking with Montaigne, Liiv and Lotman”; Rüdiger Ahrens, “The Critical Impact of Alterity and its Reflections in William Shakespeare’s Plays”; Yolanda Caballero Aceituno, “Useful Contexts: the Instrumentality of Foreigners in the Transmission of Transnational Feminist Ideas in Some Plays by Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix and Catharine Trotter”; Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, “Reconceiving Gender Alterity: Political Commentary in Women-Authored Plays (1669–1713)”; Primavera Cuder, “‘Spaniard or Moor, the saucy slave shall die’: Early Modern English Attitudes towards the Stranger in Thomas Dekker’s Lust’s Dominion (ca. 1600)”; Eroulla Demetriou and Cinta Zunino-Garrido, “Catharsis of Alien, non-Protestant Elements in Robert Wilson’s The Three Lords and the Three Ladies of London”; John Drakakis, “Shylock, Morocco, Othello: On Representing the Shakespearean Intertext”; Luciano García García, “The Moor in the English Dramatic Mirror 2: The Term ‘Moor’ in the Secondary Texts of Early Modern English: Plays in which this Term has a Major Presence”; Zenón Luis-Martínez, “Hungry Swine and Politic Worms: Humanist Identity and Animal Tropes from Amleth to Hamlet”; Andrew Monnickendam, “Whose Othello?: Title Deeds and Property Rights in Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Rossini’s Opera”; José Ruiz Mas, “Another Brick in the Wall of the Turkish Black Legend: The Fall of Nicosia and its Impact in English Literature”; Rafael Vélez, “Imperial Moments: The Cromwellian Black Legend”; and Ali Shehzad Zaidi, “The Monstrous King in Edward III.”
Arbel, Benjamin, Evelien Chayes, and Harald Hendrix, eds. Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450– 1650). Mediteranean Nexus 1100–1700 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 470 pp. €95. ISBN: 978-2- 503-54192-1.
Includes: Lorenzo Calvelli, “Archaeology in the Service of the Dominante: Giovanni Matteo Bembo and the Antiquities of Cyprus”; Enrico Parlato, “Memorie romane del Cardinale cipriota Ludovico Podocataro e dei suoi eredi”; Paolo Procaccioli, “‘Cipri non vi dee torre de la mente questa città’: Quesiti e ipotesi sugli anni ciprioti di Francesco Marcolini”; Gilles Grivaud, “Une liste de manuscrits grecs trouvés à Chypre par Francesco Patrizi”; Angel Konnari-Nicolaou, “Francesco Patrizi’s Cypriot Connections and Giason and Pietro Nores”; Evangelia Skoufari, “L’Arcivescovo Filippo Mocenigo e l’applicazione della Riforma tridentina a Cipro”; Evelien Chayes, “Carriers, Companions, Accomplices: The Zaccaria Network”; Paola Cosentino, “Attorno all’assedio di Famagosta: La scrittura tragica e la storia contemporanea”; Carlo Alberto Girotto, “Sguardi doniani sul ‘bel Cipro’”; Benjamin Arbel, “Cypriot Wildlife in Renaissance Writings”; Daniele Baglioni, “Some Methodological Remarks Concerning the Study of Romance Borrowings in Medieval Cypriot Texts”; and Chris Schabel, “A Knight’s Tale: Giovan Francesco Loredano’s Fantastic Historie de’ re Lusignani.”
Armitage, Christopher M. Literary and Visual Ralegh. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xi + 396 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8771-4.
Includes: Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron and Julian Lethbridge, “Introduction: Of Letters and The Man: Sir Walter Ralegh”; James Nohrnberg, “Ralegh in Ruins, Ralegh on the Rocks: Sir Walter’s Two Books of Mutabilitie and Their Subject’s Allegorical Presence in Select Spenserean Narratives and Complaints”; Wayne Erickson, “Spenser and Ralegh: Friendship and Literary Patronage”; Thomas Herron, “Love’s ‘emperye’: Ralegh’s ‘Ocean to Scinthia,’ Spenser’s ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’ and The Faerie Queene IV.vii in Colonial Context”; Anna Beer, “‘Bellphebes course is now observde no more’: Ralegh, Spenser and the Piterary Politics of Cynthia Holograph”; Hannibal Hamlin, “Replying to Ralegh’s ‘The Nymph’s Reply’: Allusion, Anti-Pastoral, and Four Centuries of Pastoral Invitations”; Michael Booth, “‘Moving on the Waters’: Metaphor and Mental Space in Ralegh’s History of the World”; Lowell Duckert, “Walter Ralegh’s Liquid Narrative: The Discoverie of Guiana”; Alden T. Vaughan, “Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American Ethnography”; Andrew Hiscock, “‘most fond and fruitlesse warre’: Ralegh and the Call to Arms”; Gary Waller, “Ralegh’s ‘As You Came from the Holy Land’ and the Rival Virgin Queens of Late Sixteenth-Century England”; Judith Owens, “Patrilineal Ralegh”; Vivienne Westbrook, “Ralegh’s Image in Art”; Susan Anderson, “Where’s Walter? The Screen Incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh”; and Christopher M. Armitage “Sir Walter Ralegh Bibliography (1986–2010).”
Baert, Barbara, Anita Traninger, and Catrien Santing, eds. Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 28-2013. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xx + 312 pp. $171. ISBN: 978-90-04-25354-4.
Includes: Catrien Santing And Barbara Baert, “Introduction”; Marina Montesano, “Adam’s Skull”; Robert Mills, “Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics”; Esther Cohen, “The Meaning of the Head in High Medieval Culture”; Scott B. Montgomery, “Securing the Sacred Head: Cephalophory and Relic Claims”; Barbara Baert, “The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, The Medium and the Senses”; Mateusz Kapustka, “Chasing the Caput: Head Images of John the Baptist in a Political Conflict”; Arjan R. de Koomen, “The Self-Portrait ‘En Décapité’: Interpreting Artistic Self-Insertion”; Jetze Touber, “Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra: Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome (ca. 1570-ca. 1630)”; Bert Watteeuw, “Framing the Face: Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture”; and Catrien Santing, “‘And I bear your beautiful Face painted on my chest’: The Longevity of the Heart as the Primal Organ in the Renaissance.”
Ballor, Jordan J., David S. Sytsma, and Jason Zuidema, eds. Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 170. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxx + 800 pp. $259. ISBN: 978-90-04-25828-0.
Includes: Carl R. Trueman, “Introduction: The Dogma Is Not Necessarily the Drama”; David C. Steinmetz, “Justification by Faith Alone: Martin Luther among the Early Anglicans”; Timothy J. Wengert, “Philip Melanchthon and Wittenberg’s Reform of the Theological Curriculum”; Amy Nelson Burnett, “Academic Heresy, the Reuchlin Affair, and the Control of Theological Discourse in the Early Sixteenth Century”; Fred P. Hall, “Influences in Luther’s Reforms”; Robert Knoll, “Pastoral Education in the Wittenberg Way”; Theodore G. Van Raalte, “François Lambert d’Avignon (ca. 1487–1530): Early Ecclesial Reform and Training the Ministry at Marburg”; J. Mark Beach, “The Idea of a ‘General Grace of God’ in Some Sixteenth-Century Reformed Theologians Other Than Calvin”; Kiven S. K. Choy, “Calvin’s Reception and Reformulation of the Necessitarian Concepts of the Early Reformation on Human Will, Providence, and Predestination”; Cornelis P. Venema, “The duplex gratia Dei and the Organization of Calvin’s Institutes: ordo docendi or ordo salutis?”; Paul Mpindi, “Calvin’s Hermeneutics of the Imprecations of the Psalter”; Emidio Campi, “The Italian Convert: Marquis Galeazzo Caracciolo and the English Puritans”; Frank A. James III, “Confluence and Influence: Peter Martyr Vermigli and Thomas Aquinas on Predestination”; Mark J. Larson, “Peter Martyr Vermigli, Scholasticism, and Aquinas’ Justice of War Doctrine”; Sebastian Rehnman, “Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology in Vermigli”; Jason Zuidema, “Word and Spirit in the Piety of Peter Martyr Vermigli as Seen in His Commentary on 1 Corinthians”; Raymond A. Blacketer, “The Man in the Black Hat: Theodore Beza and the Reorientation of Early Reformed Historiography”; Karin Maag, “From Professors to Pastors: The Convoluted Careers of Jean Diodati and Théodore Tronchin”; Donald Sinnema, “The Attempt to Establish a Chair in Practical Theology at Leiden University (1618–1626)”; Aza Goudriaan, “Theologia practica: The Diverse Meanings of a Subject of Early Modern Academic Writing”; Benjamin T. G. Mayes, “Lumina, non Numina: Patristic Authority According to Lutheran Arch-Theologian Johann Gerhard”; David S. Sytsma, “The Logic of the Heart: Analyzing the Affections in Early Reformed Orthodoxy”; Yudha Thianto, “Reformed Education from Geneva through the Netherlands to the East Indies”; Willem J. van Asselt, “‘A Grievous Sin’: Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) and His Anti-Lombard Polemic”; Andreas J. Beck, “Voetius on the Subject and Formal Act of Happiness — A Scholastic Exercise”; Henry M. Knapp, “Revealing the Mind of God: Exegetical Method in the Seventeenth Century”; Alan W. Gomes, “Reason Run Amok? The Protestant Orthodox Charge of Rationalism against Faustus Socinus (with Special Consideration of a ‘Smoking Gun’ Passage from De Jesu Christo Servatore)”; Brian J. Lee, “Johannes Cocceius as Federal Polemicist: The Usefulness of the Distinction between the Testaments”; Albert Gootjes, “‘A Smattering of the New Philosophy’: Étienne Gaussen (ca. 1638–1675) and the Cartesian Question at Saumur”; James E. Bradley, “Nonconformist Schools, the Schism Act, and the Limits of Toleration in England’s Confessional State”; John L. Thompson, “Piety, Theology, Exegesis, and Tradition: Anna Maria van Schurman’s ‘Elaboration’ of Genesis 1–3 and Its Relationship to the Commentary Tradition”; Reita Yazawa, “John Howe (1630–1705) on Divine Simplicity: A Debate over Spinozism”; Gregory D. Schuringa, “Orthodoxy, Scholasticism, and Piety in the Seventeenth-Century Further Reformation: Simon Oomius”; Godfried Quaedtvlieg, “Mylius on Elleboogius: A Fatal Misinterpretation”; Jordan J. Ballor, “The Shape of Reformed Orthodoxy in the Seventeenth Century: The Soteriological Debate between George Kendall and Richard Baxter”; Irena Backus, “G. W. Leibniz and Protestant Scholasticism in the Years 1698–1704”; Martin I. Klauber, “The Uniqueness of Christ in Post-Reformation Reformed Theology: From Francis Turretin to Jean- Alphonse Turretin”; Adriaan C. Neele, “Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and the Nature of Theology”; Herman Selderhuis, “Calvinism as Reformed Protestantism: Clarification of a Term”; Nathan A. Jacobs, “Reconsidering the Platonism of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) and Its Role in His Thought on the Education of Artists”; Jeongmo Yoo, “The Bristol Academy and the Education of Ministers in Eighteenth-Century England (1758–1791)”; and Paul W. Fields and Andrew M. McGinnis, “Bibliography of the Works of Richard A. Muller.”
Barbour, Daphne, and E. Melanie Gifford, eds. Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History: Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2013. xiii + 186 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-300-19742-6.
Includes: Kimberly Schenck, Barbara H. Berrie, John K. Delaney, Paola Ricciardi, and John Witty III, “A Page from Giorgio Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni as Composite Object”; Michael Belman, Alison Luchs, and Shelley Sturman, “A Renaissance of Color: The Conservation of Lorenzo the Magnificent”; Elizabeth Walmsley, “Italian Renaissance Paintings Restored in Paris by Duveen Brothers, Inc., c. 1927–1929”; Julia M. Burke, Lisha Deming Glinsman, John K. Delaney, Suzanne Quillen Lomax, Kathryn M. Morales, Michael Palmer, Christina Lynn Cole, and Paola Ricciardi, “Technical Study of The Triumph of Christ (The Mazarin Tapestry)”; Judy L. Ozone, “One of Many: A Cartapesta Relief of Jacopo Sansovino”; E. Melanie Gifford, Catehrine A Metzger, and John K. Delaney, “Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation: Painting Materials and Techniques”; David Bull, “The Cleaning and Restoration of Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation”; and Dylan Smith, “Reconstructing the Casting Technique of Severo da Ravenna’s Neptune.”
Bate, Jonathan, and Eric Rasmussen, eds. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. With Jan Sewell and Will Sharpe. The RSC Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 782 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-137-27144-0.
Includes: Jonathan Bate, “General Introduction”; Will Sharpe, “Authorship and Attribution”; and Peter Kirwan, “Interviews: From Script to Stage.”
Baum, Katja von, and Iris Schaefer, eds. Köln im Mittelalter: Die Geheimnisse der Maler. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013. 150 pp. €24.90. ISBN: 978-3-422-07217-6.
Includes: Carl Dietmar, “Die Stadt Köln im Spätmittelalter”; Iris Schaefer, “Wekstatt und Aufgaben der Kölner Maler”; Iris Schaefer, “Hinter den Kulissen”; Katja von Baum, “Geschichten der Bilder”; Katja von Baum, “Tragenda Elemente: Holztafeln und Leinwände”; Katja von Baum, “Wer war am Werk?”; Katja von Baum, “Der Blick in den Himmel: Gold und seine Verzierung”; Iris Schaefer, “Meister ohnegleichen: Stefan Lochner”; and Iris Schaefer, “Wie gemalt! Farbauftrag und Malweise.”
Bellavitis, Anna, Laura Casella, and Dorit Raines, eds. Construire des liens de famille dans l’Europe moderne. Changer d’époque 26. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013. 206 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-2-87775-566-5.
Includes: Gabriela Signori, “L’éphémère voix vivante: Les contrats de mariage dans le sud d’Allemagne (XIVe–XVe siècles)”; Anna Bellavitis, “Mariage, témoins et contrats dans les milieux populaires vénities à l’époque moderne”; Élie Haddad, “Mariage, coutumes et échanges dans la noblesse française à l’époque moderne”; Margareth Lanzinger, “Mariages entre parents, l’économie de mariage et le ‘bien commun’: La politique de dispense de l’État dans l’Autriche de l’Ancien Régime finissant”; Eleonora Canepari, “‘In signum amoris et benevolentiae’: Liens entre générations dans les milieux artisanaux (Rome, 1595–1650)”; Beatrice Zucca Micheletto, “Femmes, transmission du métier et accès aux corporations dans l’Italie moderne (Turin, XVIIIe siècle): Lumières et ombres des ‘liens forts’”; Dorit Raines, “Entre rameau et branche: Deux modèles du comportement familial du patriciat vénitien”; José María Imízcoz Beunza, “D’une génération à l’autre: Réseaux et pratiques familiales de reproduction dans les carrières de la monarchie hispanique au XVIIIe siècle”; and Richard Flamien, “Une aporie de l’historiographie sociale moderne: Mobilités et identités bourgeoises: Trois réseaux de l’ascension sociale des Le Couteulx, XVIIe–XIXe siècle.”
Bennett, Susan. Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment. Ed. Christie Carson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvi + 318 pp. $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-67469- 1.
Includes: Susan Bennett and Christie Carson, “Introduction: Shakespeare Beyond English”; Tom Bird, “The Globe to Globe Festival: An Introduction”; Kimberly Richards, “Performance Calendar”; Malcolm Cocks, “U Venas no Adonisi: Grassroots Theatre or Market Branding in the Rainbow Nation?”; Catherine Silverstone, “Festival Showcasing and Cultural Regeneration: Aotearoa New Zealand, Shakespeare’s Globe and Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (Troilus and Cressida) in te reo Māori”; Kevin A. Quarmby, “‘What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine’: Measure for Measure, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow”; Emma Cox, “‘The girl defies’: A Kenyan Merry Wives of Windsor”; Becky Becker, “Pericles and the Globe: Celebrating the Body and ‘embodied spectatorship’”; Elizabeth Schafer. “Technicolour Twelfth Night”; Lee Chee Keng, “Performing Cultural Exchange in Richard III: Intercultural Display and Personal Reflections”; Adele Lee, “‘A girdle round about the earth’: Yohangza’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Yong Li Lan, “Intercultural Rhythm in Yohangza’s Dream”; Sonia Massai, “Art of Darkness: Staging Giulio Cesare at the Globe Theatre”; Kim Solga, “Neo-Liberal Pleasure, Global Responsibility and the South Sudan Cymbeline”; Adele Lee, “Titus in No Man’s Land: The Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio’s Production”; Yong Li Lan, “Tang Shu-wing’s Titus and the Acting of Violence”; Samuel West, “‘A strange brooch in this all-hating world’: Ashtar Theatre’s Richard II”; Tamara Haddad, “‘We want Bolingbroke’: Ashtar’s Palestinian Richard II”; P. A. Skantze, “O-thell-O: Styling Syllables, Donning Wigs, Late Capitalist, National ‘scariotypes’”; Christine Dymkowski, “Power Play: Dhaka Theatre’s Bangla Tempest”; Robert Ormsby, “Locating Makbet/Locating the Spectator”; Harriet Walter, “‘Who dares receive it other’: Conversation with Harriet Walter (9 May 2012) Following a Performance of Makbet”; Sonia Massai, “Two Gentlemen of Verona for/by Zimbabwean Diasporic Communities”; Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović, “Inter-Theatrical Reading: Theatrical and Multicultural Appropriations of 1–3 Henry VI as a Balkan Trilogy”; Randall Martin, “‘This is our modern history’: The Balkans Henry VI”; David Ruiter, “Shakespeare 2012/Duchamp 1913: The Global Motion of Henry IV”; Michael Dobson, “Foreign Shakespeare and the Uninformed Theatre- Goer: Part I, an Armenian King John”; Keren Zaiontz, “The right to the Theatre: The Belarus Free Theatre’s King Lear”; Katie Normington, “‘Playing’ Shakespeare: Marjanishvili, Georgia’s As You Like It”; Jacquelyn Bessell, “Romeu e Julieta (Reprise): Grupo Galpão at the Globe, Again”; Deana Rankin, “Bread and Circuses: Chiten, Japan and Coriolanus”; Kate Rumbold, “‘No words!’: Love’s Labour’s Lost in British Sign Language”; Peter Kirwan, “Ending Well: Reconciliation and Remembrance in Arpana’s All’s Well That Ends Well”; Julie Sanders, “Creative Exploitation and Talking Back: Renegade Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale or Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn (‘Winter’s Tales’)”; Elizabeth Schafer, “A Shrew Full of Laughter”; Michael Dobson, “Foreign Shakespeare and the Uninformed Theatre-Goer: Part II, a Turkish Antony and Cleopatra”; Janet Suzman, “‘Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?’: Conversation with Janet Suzman Following a Performance of Antony and Cleopatra, 26 May 2012”; Suzanne Gossett, “Habima Merchant of Venice: Performances Inside and Outside the Globe”; Juan F. Cerdá, “Patriotism, Presentism and the Spanish Henry VIII: The Tragedy of the Migrant Queen”; Stephen Purcell, “Touch and Taboo in Roy-e-Sabs’ The Comedy of Errors”; Jeannie Farr and Benedict Schofield, “Shakespeare and the Euro-Crisis: The Bremer Shakespeare Company’s Timon aus Athen”; David Calder, “Restaging Reception: Translating the mélange des genres in Beaucoup de bruit pour rien”; Ann Thompson, “Reviving Hamlet? Nekrošius’ Lithuanian ‘Classic’”; Abigail Rokison, “Afterword I: ‘From thence to England’: Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe”; and Bridget Escolme, “Afterword II: Decentring Shakespeare: A Hope for Future Connections.”
Bento, António, and José Maria Silva Rosa, eds. Revisiting Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise. Religion and Civil Society 3. Hildesheim: Olms, 2013. 340 pp. €58. ISBN: 978-3-487- 14889-2.
Includes: António Bento and José Maria Silva Rosa, “Foreword”; Jaume Aurell, “Spinoza’s Theology in Context: Dutch Democratic Republicanism and Radical Enlightenment”; André Santos Campos, “Political Freedom between the Theological-Political Treatise and the Political Treatise”; José Maria Silva Rosa, “‘That the catholica religio does [not] need a pontiff’”; Guadalupe González Diéguez, “Zero Degree of Interpretation? Spinoza and the Literal Meaning of Scripture in the Jewish Exegetical Tradition”; André Tosel, “La figure du Christ et la vérité de la religion”; Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira, “Casting a Worried Look on TPT: Oldenburg’s Letters to Spinoza”; Pedro Lomba, “Pierre Bayle, Spinoza’s Reader”; António Bento, “Spinoza and the Hebrew State”; Luís Machado de Abreu, “The Art of Vigilance”; Rui Bertrand Romao, “Considerations on Conservation and Change in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus”; and Diogo Pires Aurélio, “Spinoza and Wittenstein: On Certainty.”
Bloemendal, Jan, and Howard B. Norland, eds. Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe. Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe 3. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xiii + 794 pp. $228. ISBN: 978-90-04-25342-1.
Includes: Jan Bloemendal and Howard B. Norland, “Introduction: Neo-Latin Drama: Contexts, Contents and Currents”; Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, “Neo-Latin Theatre in Italy”; Cora Dietl, “Neo-Latin Humanist and Protestant Drama in Germany”; Fidel Rädle, “Jesuit Theatre in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”; Jan Bloemendal, “Neo-Latin Drama in the Low Countries”; Mathieu Ferrand, “Humanist Neo-Latin Drama in France”; Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, “Jesuit Neo- Latin Tragedy in France”; Howard B. Norland, “Neo-Latin Drama in Britain”; Joaquín Pascual Barea, “Neo-Latin Drama in Spain, Portugal and Latin America”; Jan Bloemendal, “Central and Eastern European Countries”; and Raija Sarasti-Wilenius, “Latin Drama in the Nordic Countries.”
Boldrick, Stacy, Leslie Brubaker, and Richard Clay, eds. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiii + 236 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 1367-3.
Includes: Stacy Boldrick, “Introduction: Breaking Images”; Leslie Brubaker, “Making and Breaking Images and Meaning in Byzantium and Early Islam”; Henry Chapman and Benjamin Gearey, “Iconoclasm in European Prehistory? Breaking Objects and Landscapes”; Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders, “The Buddha Head at Kōfukuji Temple (Nara, Japan)”; Megan E. O’Neil, “Marked Faces, Displaced Bodies: Monument Breakage and Reuse Among the Classic- Period Maya”; Anna M. Kim, “Creative Iconoclasms in Renaissance Italy”; Lauren Dudley, “Allegorical Tomb of Lord Somers: British Identity Built on Ruins?”; Richard Clay, “Saint Geneviève, Iconoclasm and the Transformation of Signs in Revolutionary Paris”; James Simpson, “Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment Museum”; James Noyes, “Iconoclasm in the Twentieth Century: Machines, Mass Destruction and Two World Wars”; Jamal J. Elias, “The Taliban, Bamiyan, and Revisionist Iconoclasm”; Simon Baker, “The Cruel Practice of Art”; Simon Cane and Jonathan Ashley-Smith, “Iconoclasm as Conservation, Concealment and Subversion”; and Stacy Boldrick and Tabitha Barber, “Conclusions: Saving Images (The Fate of Bones).”
Bourus, Terri, and Gary Taylor, eds. The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xviii + 330 pp. £20. ISBN: 978-1-137-34420-5.
Includes: Roger Chartier, “Mr Fletcher and Shakespeare. [and Theobald]”; Elizabeth Spiller, “The Passion of Readers, the Imitation of Texts: The History of Reading in the Quest for Cardenio”; Gary Taylor and Steven Wagschal, “Reading Cervantes, or Shelton, or Phillips: The Source(s) of Cardenio and Double Falsehood”; David Gants, “The 1612 Don Quixote and the Windet-Stansby Printing House”; Gerald Baker, “Quixote on the English Stage: A New Glimpse of Cardenio?”; Joyce Boro, “Blessed with a Baby or ‘bum-fiddled with a bastard’?: Maternity in Fletcher’s The Chances and Cervantes’ Novela de la señora Cornelia”; Christopher Hicklin, “Girls on the Run: Love’s Pilgrimage, The Coxcomb, and Double Falsehood”; Vimala C. Pasupathi, “Furious Soldiers and Mad Lovers: Plotting Fletcher and The History of Cardenio”; Huw Griffiths, “‘Shall I never see a lusty man again?’ John Fletcher’s Men, 1608–1715”; John V. Nance, “Shakespeare, Theobald, and the Prose Problem in Double Falsehood”; Gary Taylor, “Sleight of Mind: Cognitive Illusions and Shakespearian Desire”; Lori Leigh, “The ‘Unscene’ and Unstaged in Double Falsehood, Cardenio, and Shakespeare’s Romances”; Carla della Gatta, “Performing Spanish Culture Through Flamenco: Aurality and Embodiment in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cardenio”; Terri Bourus, “Poner en escena The History of Cardenio”; Gerald Baker, “Review of The History of Cardenio (2012)”; Ayanna Thompson, “Cardenio: Shakespeare’s Lost Race Play?”; Gary Taylor, “A Posthumous Collaborator’s Preface”; and John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, and Gary Taylor, “The History of Cardenio, 1612-2012.”
Buccola, Regina, and Peter Kanelos, eds. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. viii + 284 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-0- 87580-467-5.
Includes: Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos, “Introduction”; Terry Teachout , “Chicago First”; Regina Buccola , “Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present: The Artistic Vision of Barbara Gaines”; Jonathan Abarbanel , “Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me”; Jonathan Walker , “The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago: Shakespeare Theater”; Alicia Tomasian , “This One’s for the Girls: Millennial Ladies in Josie Rourke’s Twelfth Night”; Jeffrey Gore , “Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young”; Peter Sagal , “Doing Things with Words . . . and, Sometimes, Swords”; Simon Callow , “Chicago Shakespeare”; Richard Ouzounian , “Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians”; Gina M. DiSalvo , “The Framing of the Shrew”; Bradley Greenburg , “Michael Bogdanov: An International Director’s The Winter’s Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater”; Clark Hulse , “Risky Business: Rose Rage at Chicago Shakespeare Theater”; Michael Billington, “In Defense of Ruffled Feathers”; Peter Kanelos, “‘Never did young man fancy’: Troilus and Cressida and Chicago Shakespeare Theater”; Wendy Wall, “At Home with Shakespeare: Merry Wives on Stage”; Michael Shapiro, “Two Merchants: The Glow of the Roaring Twenties and the Shadow of 9/11”; and Wendy Doniger, “Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night.”
Calaresu, Melissa, and Helen Hills, eds. New Approaches to Naples c.1500–c.1800: The Power of Place. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvii + 260 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-1-4094- 2943-2.
Includes: Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills, “Introduction: Between Exoticism and Marginalization: New Approaches to Naples”; John A. Marino, “Myths of Modernity and the Myth of the City: When the Historiography of Pre-Modern Italy Goes South”; Helen Hills, “Through a Glass Darkly: Material Holiness and the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples”; Rose Marie San Juan, “Contaminating Bodies: Print and the 1656 Plague in Naples”; Harald Hendrix, “Topographies of Poetry: Mapping Early Modern Naples”; Dinko Fabris, “The Collection and Dissemination of Neapolitan Music, c.1600–c.1790”; Helena Hammond, “Landed Identity and the Bourbon Neapolitan State: Claude-Joseph Vernet and the Politics of the ‘Siti reali’”; Paola Bertucci, “The Architecture of Knowledge: Science, Collecting and Display in Eighteenth-Century Naples”; Melissa Calaresu, “Collecting Neapolitans: The Representation of Street Life in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples”; and Anna Maria Rao, “‘Missed Opportunities’ in the History of Naples.”
Connolly, Annaliese, and Lisa Hopkins, eds. Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xii + 324 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-0-7190- 8494-2.
Includes: Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins, “Introduction”; Richard Wood, “‘Cleverly playing the stoic’: The Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and Surviving Elizabeth’s Court”; Matthew Steggle, “Essexianism and the Work of Gervase Markham”; Grace Ioppolo, “Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, and the Practice of Theatre”; Linda Shenk, “Essex’s International Agenda in 1595 and His Device of the Indian Prince”; Andrew Hiscock, “‘Achilles alter’: The Heroic Lives and Afterlives of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex”; Willy Maley and Chris Butler, “‘Bringing rebellion broached on his sword’: Essex and Ireland”; Andrew Gordon, “Essex’s Last Campaign: The Fall of the Earl of Essex and Manuscript Circulation”; Hugh Gazzard, “‘Idle papers’: An Apology of the Earl of Essex”; Chris Laoutaris, “‘Toucht with bolt of treason’: The Earl of Essex and Lady Penelope Rich”; Alexandra Gajda, “The Earl of Essex and ‘politic history’”; Mary Partridge, “Prodigality and the Earl of Essex”; and Lisa Hopkins, “The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Windsor: Elizabeth and Essex on Film.”
Connolly, Annaliese, ed. Richard III: A Critical Reader. Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. xii + 254 pp. $26.96. ISBN: 978-1-4725-0496-8.
Includes: Annaliese Connolly, “Introduction”; Peter J. Smith, “The Critical Backstory”; Kate Wilkinson, “Richard III on Stage”; Nina Levine, “The State of the Art”; Brian Walsh, “New Directions: Audience Engagement and the Genres of Richard III”; Rebecca Lemon, “New Directions: Tyranny and the State of Exception in Shakespeare’s Richard III”; David Houston Wood, “New Directions: ‘Some tardy cripple’: Timing and Disability in Richard III”; Adele Lee, “New Directions: ‘Put[ing] on Some Other Shape’: Richard III as an ARAB VIP”; and Daniel Cadman, “Resources for Teaching and Studying Richard III.”
Contadini, Anna, and Claire Norton, eds. The Renaissance and the Ottoman World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvi + 304 pp. + 16 color pls. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 0991-1.
Includes: Claire Norton, “Blurring the Boundaries: Intellectual and Cultural Interactions between the Eastern and Western; Christian and Muslim Worlds”; Anna Contadini, “Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century”; Palmira Brummett, “The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited: Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century”; Deborah Howard, “The Role of the Book in the Transfer of Culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean”; Caroline Campbell, “The ‘Reception of the Venetian Ambassadors in Damascus’: Dating, Meaning and Attribution”; Sonja Brentjes, “Giacomo Gastaldi’s Maps of Anatolia: The Evolution of a Shared Venetian-Ottoman Cultural Space?”; Owen Wright, “Turning a Deaf Ear”; Zweder von Martels, “Old and New Demarcation Lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire: From Pope Pius II (1458– 1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005–2013)”; Asaph Ben-Tov, “Turco-Graecia: German Humanists and the End of Greek Antiquity — Cultural Exchange and Misunderstanding”; Noel Malcolm, “Positive Views of Islam and of Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Jean Bodin”; Alison Ohta, “Binding Relationships: Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance Book- Bindings”; Suraiya Faroqhi, “Ottoman Textiles in European Markets”; and Anna Akasoy, “Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy: Latin and Byzantine Perspectives.”
Cummings, Brian, and Freya Sierhuis, eds. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. x + 318 pp. £60. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1364-2.
Includes: Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis, “Introduction”; Christopher Tilmouth, “Passion and Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Literature”; Russ Leo, “Affective Physics: Affectus in Spinoza’s Ethica”; Brian Cummings, “Donne’s Passions: Emotion, Agency and Language”; Angus Gowland, “Melancholy, Passions and Identity in the Renaissance”; Felicity Green, “Montaigne’s Soul”; Katharine Fletcher, “Uncertain Knowing, Blind Vision and Active Passivity: Subjectivity, Sensuality and Emotion in Milton’s Epistemology”; Freya Sierhuis, “Friendship and Freedom of Speech in the Work of Fulke Greville”; Isabel Karremann, “A Passion for the Past: The Politics of Nostalgia on the Early Jacobean Stage”; Ioannis D. Evrigenis, “‘Not Truth but Image Maketh Passion’: Hobbes on Instigation and Appeasing”; Joe Moshenska, “‘A Sensible Touching, Feeling and Groping’: Metaphor and Sensory Experience in the English Reformation”; Katrin Ettenhuber, “‘Tears of Passion’ and ‘Inordinate Lamentation’: Complicated Grief in Donne and Augustine”; Adrian Streete, “Passions, Politics and Subjectivity in Philip Massinger’s The Emperor of the East”; Daniella Jancsó, “The Fallacy of ‘that within’: Hamlet Meets Wittgenstein”; Björn Quiring, “‘The Greatest Share of Endless Pain’: The Spectral Sacramentality of Pain in Milton’s Paradise Lost”; Stephan Laqué, “‘Not Passion’s Slave’: Hamlet, Descartes and the Passions”; and Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis, “Afterword.”
Cypess, Rebecca, Beth L. Glixon, and Nathan Link, eds. Word, Image, and Song, Volume 1: Essays on Early Modern Italy. Eastman Studies in Music 101. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013. xv + 398 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-58046-429-1.
Includes: Jennifer Williams Brown, “Maria Cavalli, Copyist and Teacher”; Alan Curtis, “Il ritorno di Poppea: A New German Source Provokes Some New Thoughts-and Old Arguments”; Gary Tomlinson, “An Unreported Mantuan Libretto from 1623”; Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon, “The Triumph of Inconstancy: The Vicissitudes of a Seventeenth-Century Libretto”; Dinko Fabris, “A Letter on Benedetto Ferrari, ‘Eccellentissimo sonator di tiorba’”; Deborah Howard, “Recordings of Music Written for St. Mark’s: An Architectural Historian’s View”; Alvaro Torrente, “The Twenty-Two Steps: Clef Anomalies or ‘Basso alla bastarda’ in Mid- Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera”; Suzanne G. Cusick, “‘Indarno chiedi’: Clorinda and the Interpretation of Monteverdi’s Combattimento”; Wendy Heller, “The Veil, the Mask, and the Eunuch: Sight, Sound, and Imperial Erotics in L’incoronazione di Poppea”; Andrew H. Weaver, “Baciami, Claudio: Psychological Depth and Carnal Desire in the Marino Settings of Monteverdi’s Book Seven”; Barbara Russano Hanning, “Powerless Spirit: Echo on the Musical Stage of the Late Renaissance”; Susan Parker Shrimp, “Excavating Virgil in Counter- Reformation Rome: Domenico Mazzocchi’s Dialoghi Based on the Aeneid”; Robert R. Holzer, “Music as a Fonte della varietà: Sforza Pallavicino on the Aria 233 Robert R. Holzer”; Giuseppe Mazzolta, “Giambattista Marino’s Operatic Aesthetics”; Ruth I. DeFord, “Strophic Form in the Canzonettas of Orazio Vecchi, Luca Marenzio, and Claudio Monteverdi”; Margaret Murata, “Cantar ottave, cantar storie”; Mauro Calcagno, “Dramatizing Discourse in Seventeenth- Century Opera: Music as Illocutionary Force in Francesco Cavalli’s Giasone (1649)”; and David Rosand, “Incitamentum amoris musica [picta].”
Cypess, Rebecca, Beth L. Glixon, and Nathan Link, eds. Word, Image, and Song, Volume 2: Essays on Musical Voices. Eastman Studies in Music 102. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013. xv + 272 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-1-58046-430-7.
Includes: Ruth Smith, “The Choices of Hercules and Handel”; Ellen T. Harris, “The Cantata as Narrative: Serials, Colloquies, and Commemoratives”; Nathan Link, “Communities of Time in Handel’s Opera”; Giovanni Morelli, “The Metastasian Sonosphere”; Rebecca Cypress, “Music for a Saxon Princess”; Daniel R. Melamed, “Text, Voice, and Genre in ‘Nun ist der Herr zur Ruh gebracht’”; Joseph Kerman, “Ellen’s Songs (D. 837–39)”; Kristina Muxfeldt, “Happy and Sad: Robert Schumann’s Art of Ambiguity”; Bathia Churgin, “Beethoven’s Handel and the Messiah”; Philip Gossett, “The Livre d’or of Charlotte de Rothschild”; Roger Freitas, “The Art of Artlessness, or Adelina Patti Teaches Us How to Be Natural”; and Ruth A. Solie, “Manly Music: Reading Victorian Language.”
Davies, Paul, Deborah Howard, and Wendy Pullan, eds. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000– 1500: Southern Europe and Beyond. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xvi + 286 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1083-2.
Includes: Paul Davies and Deborah Howard, “Introduction”; Henry Maguire, “Pilgrimage through Pictures in Medieval Byzantine Churches”; Avinoam Shalem, “The Four Faces of the Ka’ba in Mecca”; Wendy Pullan, “Tracking the Habitual: Observations on the Pilgrim’s Shell”; Deborah Howard, “Venice as Gateway to the Holy Land: Pilgrims as Agents of Transmission”; Claudia Bolgia, “Icons ‘in the Air’: New Settings for the Sacred in Medieval Rome”; Joanna Cannon, “Dominican Shrines and Urban Pilgrimage in Later Medieval Italy”; Donal Cooper and Janet Robson,“Imagery and the Economy of Penance at the Tomb of St Francis”; Paul Davies, “Likeness in Italian Renaissance Pilgrimage Architecture”; Robert Maniura, “Two Marian Image Shrines in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany, the ‘Iconography of Architecture’ and the Limits of ‘Holy Competition’”; and Herbert L. Kessler, “Afterword: Pilgrimage and Transformation.”
Deutermann, Allison K., and András Kiséry, eds. Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xii + 258 pp. $105. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8553-6.
Includes: Allison Deutermann and András Kiséry. “Introduction”; Heather James, “The First English Printed Commonplace Books and the Rise of the Common Reader”; Matthew Zarnowiecki, “Reading Shakespeare Miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Love’s Martyr”; Adam Smyth, “‘Divines into dry Vines’: Forms of Jesting in Renaissance England”; Jeffrey Todd Knight, “Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the Book, and the Genre of Continuation”; Tanya Pollard, “Greek Playbooks and Dramatic Forms in Early Modern England”; Henry S. Turner, “Book, List, Word: Forms of Translation in the Work of Richard Hakluyt”; Alan Stewart, “The Forms of News from France in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry V”; Amanda Bailey, “Writings and the Problem of Satisfaction in Michaelmas Term”; Peter Lake, “Saving Souls or Selling (Virtual) Godliness? The ‘Penny Godlinesses’ of John Andrewes and the Problem of ‘Popular Puritanism’ in Early Stuart England”; Shankar Raman, “How to Construct a Poem: Descartes, Sidney”; and David Scott Kastan, “Afterword.”
DiMeo, Michelle, and Sara Pennell, eds. Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. xvi + 270 pp. £65. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8727-1.
Includes: Sara Pennell and Michelle DiMeo, “Introduction”; Michelle DiMeo, “Authorship and Medical Networks: Reading Attributions in Early Modern Manuscript Recipe Books”; Annie Gray, “‘A practical art’: An Archaeological Perspective on the Use of Recipe Books ”; Francisco Alonso-Almeida, “Genre Conventions in English Recipes, 1600–1800”; Gilly Lehmann, “Reading Recipe Books and Culinary History: Opening a New Field”; Jayne Elisabeth Archer, “The ‘Quintessence of Wit’: Poems and Recipes in Early Modern Women’s Writing"; Lauren F. Winner, "The Foote Sisters’ Compleat Housewife: Cookery Texts as a Source in Lived Religion”; Margaret J. M. Ezell, “Cooking the Books, or, the Three Faces of Hannah Woolley”; Alun Withey, “Crossing the Boundaries: Domestic Recipe Collections in Early Modern Wales”; Anne Stobart, “‘Lett her refrain from all hott spices’: Medicinal Recipes and Advice in the Treatment of the King’s Evil in Seventeenth-Century South-West England”; and Sara Pennell, “Making Livings, Lives and Archives: Tales of Four Eighteenth-Century Recipe Books.”
Donato, Maria Pia, Luc Berlivet, Sara Cabibbo, Raimondo Michetti, and Marilyn Nicoud, eds. Médecine et religion: Collaborations, compétitions, conflits (XIIe–XXe siècle). Collection de l’École française de Rome 476. Rome: École française de Rome, 2013. 400 pp. €40. ISBN: 978- 2-7283-0967-2.
Includes: Luc Berlivet, Sara Cabibbo, Maria Pia Donato, Raimondo Michetti, Marilyn Nicoud, “Introduction”; Maria Pia Donato, “Medicina e religione: percorsi di lettura”; Joseph Ziegler, “Bodies, Diseases, and the Preservation of Health as Foci of Inter-Religious Encounters in the Middle Ages”; Laurence Moulinier-Brogi, “Un aspect particulier de la médecine des religieux après le XIIe siècle: l’attrait pour l’astrologie médicale”; Chiara Crisciani, “Prolungamento della vita: medicina e teologia (secoli XIII e XIV)”; Elisa Andretta, “Medicina e comunità religiose nella Roma del secondo Cinquecento: Il caso dei Gesuiti e degli Oratoriani”; Bradford Bouley, “Contested Cases: Medical Evidence, Popular Opinion, and the Miraculous Body”; Vincenzo Lavenia, “La medicina dei diavoli: il caso italiano, secoli XVI-XVII”; David Armando, “Spiriti e fluidi: Medicina e religione nei documenti del Sant’Uffizio sul magnetismo animale (1840– 1856)”; Alessandro Di Marco, “I medici di fronte al miracolo alla fine del XIX secolo: Il Bureau des Constatations Médicales di Lourdes tra devozione popolare e riconoscimento ecclesiastico”; Agnès Desmazières, “Agostino Gemelli et l’origine psychosomatique des maladies mentales”; Emmanuel Betta, “Le Saint-Office et la fécondation artificielle (XIXe–XXe siècle)”; Manfredi Merluzzi, “Religione e medicina nel Nuovo Mondo: sguardi europei e pratiche tradizionali indigene”; Jacalyn Duffin, “Parallels between Medicine and Religion through the Canonization Miracles, 1800–2000”; and Isacco Turina, “La Santa Sede e i diritti riproduttivi.”
Drakakis, John, and Dale Townshend, eds. Macbeth: A Critical Reader. Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. xv + 334 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-5674-3227-8.
Includes: John Drakakis and Dale Townshend, “Introduction”; Sandra Clarke, “The Critical Backstory”; Bernice Kliman, “Performance History”; Julie Sanders, “Macbeth: The State of the Art”; John Drakakis, “Macbeth and ‘Sovereign Process’”; Adrian Streete, “Rooting for Macbeth: Parable Ethics in Scotland”; Dale Townshend, “Unsexing Macbeth”; and Terence Hawkes, “Macbeth in the Present.”
Enenkel, Karl A. E., ed. The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 30. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xv + 276 pp. $141. ISBN: 978-90-04-25562-3.
Includes: Karl Enenkel, “Introduction — Manifold Reader Responses: The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Europe”; Karl Enenkel, “A Blueprint for the Reception of Erasmus: Beatus Rhenanus’s Second Vita Erasmi (1540)”; Dirk Sacré, “Medicinae laus per Eobanum Hessum ex Erasmo, versu reddita Reassessed”; Lucia Felici, “Universalism and Tolerance in a Follower of Erasmus from Zurich: Theodor Bibliander”; Gregory D. Dodds, “‘Betwixt Heaven and Hell’: Religious Toleration and the Reception of Erasmus in Restoration England”; Hilmar M. Pabel, “Praise and Blame: Peter Canisius’s Ambivalent Assessment of Erasmus”; Philip Ford†, “Erasmian Irenism in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard”; Jeanine De Landtsheer, “On Good Government: Erasmus’s Institutio Principis Christiani versus Lipsius’s Politica”; Paul J. Smith, “Jean Thenaud and François Rabelais: Some Hypotheses on the Early Reception of Erasmus in French Vernacular Literature”; Reinier Leushuis, “Antonio Brucioli and the Italian Reception of Erasmus: The Praise of Folly in Dialogue”; and Johannes Trapman, “Erasmus and the Radical Enlightenment: An Atheistic Adaptation of the Praise of Folly by Jan van der Wyck (1798).”
Enenkel, Karl, and Henk Nellen, eds. Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400–1700). Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 33. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013. xiii + 524 pp. €79.50. ISBN: 978-90-5867-936-9.
Includes: Karl Enenkel and Henk Nellen, “Introduction: Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge”; Karl Enenkel, “Kommentare als multivalente Wissenssammlungen: Das ‘Fürstenspiegel’-Kommentarwerk Antonio Beccadellis (De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum, 1455), Enea Silvio Piccolominis (1456) und Jakob Spiegels (1537)”; Susanna de Beer, “The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny’s Natural History and Mela’s De situ orbis (1450-1700)”; Craig Kallendorf, “Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure of Renaissance Knowledge”; Christoph Pieper, “Horatius praeceptor eloquentiae: The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino’s Commentary”; Marianne Pade, “Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae: The Commentary as a Repository of Knowledge”; Valéry Berlincourt, “‘Going beyond the Author’: Caspar von Barth’s Observations on the Art of Commentary-Writing and his Use of Exegetical Digressions”; Jan Bloemendal, “In the Shadow of Donatus: Observations on Terence and Some of his Early Modern Commentators”; Volkhard Wels, “Contempt for Commentators: Transformation of the Commentary Tradition in Daniel Heinsius’ Constitutio tragoediae”; Willem J. Zwalve, “Text & Commentary: The Legal Middle Ages and the Roman Law Tradition: Justinian’s Const. Omnem and Its Medieval Commentators”; Bernard H. Stolte, “Text and Commentary: Legal Humanism”; Bernd Roling, “Animalische Sprache und Intelligenz im Schriftkommentar: Bileams Esel in der Bibelkommentierung des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit”; Henk Nellen, “Bible Commentaries as a Platform for Polemical Debate: Abraham Calovius versus Hugo Grotius”; and Jetze Touber, “Philology and Theology: Commenting the Old Testament in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700.”
Fenech Kroke, Antonella, ed. The History of Florence in Painting. In collaboration wtih Cyril Gerbron, Stefano Calonaci, and Neville Rowley. New York: Abbeville Press, 2013. 496 pp. $235. ISBN: 978-0-7892-1145-3.
Includes: Antonella Fenech Kroke, “Introduction: Rejoice, Florence, For Thou Art so Great”; Cyril Gerbron, “From Dante to Savonarola: The Renaissance: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”; Antonell Fenech Kroke, “From the Republic to the Medici State: The Sixteenth Century”; Stefano Calonaci, “An Extended Period of Stability Under Medici Rule: The Seventeenth Century”; “Florence and Europe: Light and Shadow: The Eighteenth Century”; and Neville Rowley, “The Century of Nostalgia: The Nineteenth Century.”
Gillespie, Raymond, and Ruairí Ó hUiginn, eds. Irish Europe, 1600–1650: Writing and Learning. Irish in Europe 3. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 192 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682- 282-7.
Includes: Mary Ann Lyons, “St Anthony’s College, Louvain: Gaelic Texts and Articulating Irish Identity, 1607–40”; Nollaig Ó Muraíle, “An Insider’s View: Tadhg Ó Cianáin as Eyewitness to the Exile of Ulster’s Gaelic Lords, 1607-8”; Micheál Mac Craith, “An Irishman’s Diary: Aspects of Tadhg Ó Cianan’s Rome”; Ruairí Ó hUiginn, “Transmitting the Text: Some Linguistic Issues in the Work of the Franciscans”; Raymond Gillespie, “The Louvain Franciscans and the Culture of Print”; Bernadette Cunningham, “John Colgan as Historian”; Pádraig Ó Macháin, “‘One glimpse of Ireland’: The Manuscript of Fr Nicolás (Fearghal Dubh) Ó Gadhra, OSA”; and Salvador Ryan, “Continental Catechisms and Their Irish Imitators in Spanish Habsburg Lands, c.1550–c.1650.”
Gomez-Géraud, Marie-Christine, ed. Sébatien Castellion: des Écritures à l’écriture. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance 9. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 562 pp. €49. ISBN: 978-2- 8124-0923-3.
Includes: Frank Lestringant, “‘J’ai trouvé un nouveau héros’: Le retour de Castellion au temps des dictatures: Stefan Zweig, Romain Rolland et André Gide (1935–1937)”; Valentine Zuber, “L’invention d’un héros du protestantisme libéral: Castellion aux xixe-xxe siècles”; Alain Sandrier, “Castellion et les Lumières”; Olivier Millet, “Castelloniana: Les annotations manuscrites figurant sur un exemplaire conservé à Strasbourg du Contra libellum Calvini de Castellion”; Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud, “Une lecture franciscaine oubliée de la Biblia à la fin du xvie siècle”; Josef Eskhult, “Castellion, traducteur de la Bible latine. Image de soi et réception durant la Renaissance et l’Âge classique”; Marie-France Monge-Strauss, “Castellion, traducteur en français du livre de Jonas”; Anne-Laure Metzger-Rambach, “‘De faire tant de livres, il n’y a point de fin, et trop grand souci lasse le corps’: Sagesse de l’Écriture chez Sébastien Castellion”; Nicole Gueunier, “Castellion écrivain quand il traduit les prophètes”; Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud, “Des noms pour Dieu: de la traduction à l’expression poétique”; Irena Backus, “Les extraits des Antiquités juives dans la Bible latine de Castellion”; Jean-Michel Roessli, “Sébastien Castellion et les oracula Sibyllina: Enjeux philologiques et théologiques”; David Amherdt, “Les ‘Odæ in Psalmos XL’ et l’Églogue latine ‘Sirillus’ de Sébastien Castellion: Lorsque Bible et Antiquité classique se rencontrent”; Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer, “Les Carmina Mosaica de Castellion et son programme d’une poésie sacrée: Poesia sacra Castalionis”; Carine Skupien Dekens, “La part de l’Esprit saint, la part de l’Écrivain: Variations stylistiques et variations syntaxiques dans la traduction française de la Bible de 1555”; Jean-Pierre Delville, “L’herméneutique de Sébastien Castellion: Obscurité de la Bible, pluralité des interprétationset convergence entre religions”; Nadia Cernogora, “Rhétorique et théologie. Castellion et l’exégèse du sens figuré dans le De arte dubitandi et confidendi, ignorandi et sciendi”; Pierre Gibert, “Castellion, précurseur de la critique historique?”; Maria d’Arienzo, “Théologie et droit dans la pensée et les oeuvres de Sébastien Castellion: Aspects méthodologiques”; Stefania Salvadori, “Socrate contre Aristote: Sébastien Castellion et la discussion sur les modèles rhétoriques”; and Daniel Ménager, “Le Conseil à la France désolée et la passion de la tolérance.”
Gordon, Andrew, and Thomas Rist, eds. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xi + 260 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4657-6.
Includes: Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist, “Introduction: The Arts of Remembrance”; Lucy Wooding, “Remembrance in the Eucharist”; Robert Tittler, “Portraiture and Memory Amongst the Middling Elites in Post-Reformation England”; Tara Hamling, “‘An Arelome To This Hous For Ever’: Monumental Fixtures and Furnishings in the English Domestic Interior, c.1560– c.1660”; Oliver D. Harris, “Lines of Descent: Appropriations of Ancestry in Stone and Parchment”; Thomas Rist, “Monuments and Religion: George Herbert’s Poetic Materials”; Tom Healy, “‘Making it True’: John Foxe’s Art of Remembrance”; Gerard Kilroy, “A Tangled Chronicle: The Struggle over the Memory of Edmund Campion”; Marie-Louise Coolahan, “Literary Memorialization and the Posthumous Construction of Female Authorship”; Philip Schwyzer, “Shakespeare’s Arts of Reenactment: Henry at Blackfriars, Richard at Rougemont”; Janette Dillon, “Scenic Memory”; Rory Loughnane, “The Artificial Figures and Staging Remembrance in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi” and Andrew Gordon, “The Ghost of Pasquill: The Comic Afterlife and the Afterlife of Comedy on the Elizabethan Stage.”
Guy-Bray, Stephen, Joan Pong Linton, and Steve Mentz, eds. The Age of Thomas Nashe: Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. viii +202 pp. £55. ISBN: 978-1- 4094-6805-9.
Includes: Steve Mentz, “Introduction: The Age of Thomas Nashe”; Georgia Brown, “Sex and the City: Nashe, Ovid, and the Problems of Urbanity”; Jonathan Crewe, “This Sorrow’s Heavenly: Christ’s Teares and the Jews”; Jennifer Andersen, “Blame-in-Praise Irony in Lenten Stuffe”; Steve Mentz, “Nashe’s Fish: Misogyny, Romance, and the Ocean in Lenten Stuffe”; Melissa Hull Geil, “Reproducing Paper Monsters in Thomas Nashe”; Karen Kettnich, “Nashe’s Extemporal Vein and his Tarltonizing Wit”; John V. Nance, “Gross Anatomies: Mapping Matter and Literary Form in Thomas Nashe and Andreas Vesalius”; David Landreth, “Wit without Money in Nashe”; Corey McEleney, “Nashe’s Vain Vein: Poetic Pleasure and the Limits of Utility”; and Stephen Guy-Bray and Joan Pong Linton, “Postscript: Nashe Untrimmed: The Way We Teach Him Today.”
Hawkes, David, and Richard G. Newhauser, eds. The Book of Nature and Humanity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 29. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. xxv + 322 pp. €80. ISBN: 978-2-503-54921-7.
Includes: David Hawkes and Richard G. Newhauser,“Introduction: Boundaries of the Human”; Albrecht Classen, “The Discovery of the Mountain as an Epistemological Challenge: A Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Highly Elevated Nature: Petrarch’s Ascent to Mont Ventoux and Emperor Maximilian’s Theuerdank”; Kathleen Crowther, “The Lutheran Book of Nature”; Laura Kilian, “A Missionary Manual: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Florentine Codex in Relationship to European Bestiaries”; Fabian Alfie, “Of Incontinence and Incontinentia: Women’s Flatulence in the Poetry of Rustico Filippi”; Brenda Gardenour Walter, “Theodoric of York: Teaching Medieval Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Modern Medical Curriculum (or: How I learned to Stop Apologizing for Teaching ‘Bad Medicine’)”; Michael Alan Anderson, “Root, Branch, and Flower: Lineage and Fecundity in the Versified Offices for St. Anne”; William Bradford Smith, “Crossing the Boundaries of the Civic, the Natural, and the Supernatural in Medieval and Renaissance Europe”; Guita Lamsechi, “Freiberg’s Tulip Pulpit: Hybrid Nature and Civic Politics”; Jacqueline Stuhmiller, “Poaching and Carnival”; Laurence Erussard, “The Watchdogs of the Soul: The Role of Dogs in the Spiritual Salvation of Robert the Devil”; Marijane Osborn, “Archaic Magic of Wolf and Eagle in the Anglo-Saxon ‘Wen Charm’"; Charles W. Connell, “Issues of Humanity in the Rhetoric of Crusade Preaching”; Andrew Fleck, “‘None Ends Where He Begun’: John Donne, Reformation Polemic, and the New Astronomy”; and Kendra Willson, “Inside and Outside in Gísla saga Súrssonar and Hrafnkels saga Fresgoða.”
Hindle, Steve, Alexandra Shepard, and John Walter, eds. Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 14. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xviii + 374 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383- 796-1.
Includes: Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, and John Walter, “The Making and Remaking of Early Modern English Social History”; Alexandra Shepard, “Brokering Fatherhood: Illegitimacy and Paternal Rights and Responsibilities in Early Modern England”; Helen Berry, “Gender, Sexuality and the Consumption of Musical Culture in Eighteenth-Century London”; Naomi Tadmor, “Where was Mrs Turner? Governance and Gender in an Eighteenth-Century Village”; Paul Griffiths, “Local Arithmetic: Information Cultures in Early Modern England”; Phil Withington, “Intoxicants and the Early Modern City”; Adam Fox, “Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England”; Tim Stretton, “Written Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580-1680”; Malcolm Glaskill, “Witchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England”; Andy Wood, “Deference, Paternalism and Popular Memory in Early Modern England”; Steve Hindle, “Work, Reward and Labour Discipline in Late Seventeenth-Century England”; H. R. French, “Living in Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Terling”; Craig Muldrew, “From Commonwealth to Public Opulence: The Redefinition of Wealth and Government in Early Modern Britain”; and Lindsay O’Neill, “Appendix: Bibliography of the Published Writings of Keith Wrightson from 1974 to 2011.”
Hirschfelder, Dagmar, and León Krempel, eds. Tronies: Das Gesicht der frühen Neuzeit. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2014. 136 pp. €59. ISBN: 978-3-7861-2694-2.
Includes: Thomas Kirchner, “Ausdruckstheorien von der Antike bis zum 18. Jahrhundert”; Lia van Gemert, “The Stamp of Your Face: Tronies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature”; Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, “Gesicht und Individuum im Goldenen Jahrhundert”; Dagmar Hirschfelder, “Rezeption und Fortleben der niederländischen Tronie: Denner, Fragonard, Tiepolo und ihre Zeitgenossen”; Peter Black, “A Rubens Tronie of an ‘Old Man with Curly Beard’ in Glasgow: The Life and Afterlife of a Head Study Painting”; Jan Muylle, “Von Tronies antiker Philosophen: Lagneau und Rembrandt”; Jan Nicolaisen, “Theatralische Identitäten?: Zu zwei Tronies von Jan Lievens im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig”; and León Krempel, “Allegorische Tronie-Paare bei Johannes Vermeer.”
Hourihane, Colum, ed. Patronage: Power & Agency in Medieval Art. The Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers XV. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. xxiv + 336 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-9837537-4-2.
Includes: Colm Hourihane, “Introduction”; Jill Caskey, “Medieval Patronage and Its Potentialities”; Julian Luxford, “The Construction of English Monastic Patronage”; Elizabeth Carson Pastan, “Imagined Patronage: The Bayeux Embroidery and Its Interpretive History”; Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, “The Heart of the Matter: Valois Patronage of the Charterhouse at Bourgfontaine”; Claudine Lautier, “The Canons of Chartres: Their Patronage and Representation in the Stained Glass of the Cathedral”; Anne Derbes, “Patronage, Gender and Generation in Late Medieval Italy: Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua”; Benjamin Zweig, “Picturing the Fallen King: Royal Patronage and the Image of Saul’s Suicide”; Nigel Morgan, “What are they Saying? Patrons and Their Text Scrolls in Fifteenth-Century English Art”; Robin Cormack, “‘Faceless Icons’: The Problems of Patronage in Byzantine Art”; Corine Schleif, “Seeking Patronage: Patrons and Matrons in Language, Art, and Historiography”; Adelaide Bennett, “Issues of Female Patronage: French Books of Hours, 1220–1320”; Stephen Perkinson, “Portraits and Their Patrons: Reconsidering Agency in Late Medieval Art”; Lucy Freeman Sandler, “The Bohun Women and Manuscript Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England”; and Aden Kumler, “The Patron-Function.”
Israëls, Machtelt, and Louis A. Waldman, eds. Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors. 2 vols. Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 29. Florence: Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Studies, 2013. xlvii + 1786 pp. $115. ISBN: 978-0-674-07327-2.
Includes: Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman, “Introduction”; Louis A. Waldman, “Octahedron Tattianum”; Henk van Os, “A Skull for Lunch”; Hervé Brunon, “L’insondable puits du passé ou les métamorphoses du labyrinthe”; Roberto Cobianchi, “From translatio to canonizatio in Late Medieval Italian Iconography”; Julian Gardner, “Constantine, St. Peter, Pope Gregory IX, and St. Francis: The Franciscan Transept in Question”; Barbara Deimling, “The Struggle for Power and its Architectural Representation in Communal Orvieto”; Claudia Bolgia, “Two Enigmatic Portraits of the ‘Blessed’ Giovanna Felici, Sister-in-Law of St. Francesca Romana: Family Promotion and Sanctity through Images in Fifteenth-Century Rome”; Dávid Falvay, “St. Elizabeth’s Roses in Italy: Texts and Images”; Christa Gardner von Teuffel, “‘The Child is Father of the Man’: Some Renaissance Versions of the traditio clavium”; Keith Christiansen, “Ghiberti and Painting”; Amy R. Bloch, “Ghiberti’s Dogs”; Mattia Vinco, “Una Madonna col Bambino di Nanni di Bartolo”; Zsombor Jékely, “Masolino in Hungary”; Eve Borsook, “‘Per memoria della fede e virtù sua’”; Anne Dunlop, “On the Problem of Visions in Florentine Art”; Andrea Staderini, “Una pala d’altare di Apollonio di Giovanni”; John T. Paoletti, “Blood on the Doors (and on the Walls and on the Floors): The Sanguinary Medici Palace”; Joanna Woods-Marsden, “The Sitter as ‘Guest’: Reception of the Portrait in the Renaissance”; Brian A. Curran, “‘You Are There’: Passages in Time and Space in Cosimo Rosselli’s Procession of the Miraculous Blood in Sant’Ambrogio, Florence”; Zsolt Gyozo Török, “Artist and Cosmographer: Francesco Rosselli and his Fiorenza”; Thea Burns, “(Re)Drawing in Metalpoint”; Donal Cooper, “Footnotes for Sassetta”; Giovanni Pagliarulo, “Un nuovo documento seicentesco sulla dispersione del polittico agostiniano di Piero della Francesca”; Lina Bolzoni, “Le iscrizioni nel dittico di Urbino di Piero della Francesca. Il ritratto di Battista e la tradizione metrica”; Fredrika Jacobs, “Narrative of Another Kind: tavolette votive in Context”; Fabrizio Nevola, “A Short Note for Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Madonna of the Earthquakes (1467)”; Samo Štefanac, “The Devotional Context of a Miraculous Image: Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino’s Madonna at Orebic”; Joško Belamaric, “Alberti’s Pathos Formula in the Chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini of Trogir”; Mauro Mussolin, “Fiori di blasoneria: Gli stemmi di Sisto IV e Antonio Basso della Rovere d’Aragona nel sovraporta di Villa La Pietra a Firenze”; Guido Beltramini, “Modelli antichi e alcuni disegni per i monasteri della congregazione benedettina di Santa Giustina, poi Cassinese, nel Quattrocento”; Francesca Fiorani, “The Genealogy of Leonardo’s Shadows in a Drapery Drawing”; Frank Fehrenbach, “Taking Flight: Leonardo’s Childhood Memories”; Romano Nanni, “‘Figura d’elementi’: Leonardo e i solidi platonici nel foglio 27r–v dell Manoscritto F”; Philippe Morel, “Un (auto)ritratto cristo-bacchico di Boltraffio”; Bette Talvacchia, “When Marcantonio Met Raphael”; Martin Kemp, “Precision and Pragmatism: Baldassare Peruzzi’s Perspectival Studies and the Sala delle Prospettive”; Janet Cox-Rearick, “Michelangelo’s Mask of the Head of a Faun: Myth and the Mythic in the Sculpture Garden of Lorenzo il Magnifico”; Carmen C. Bambach, “A Neglected Work by Michelangelo: The Fragment of a Mural Drawing at the Villa Michelangiolo in Settignano”; Angela Dressen, “The umbilico of the World: The Roman Capitol and its Pavement”; Bram Kempers, “Centralized Churches and the Concept of figura composta: Ideal and Practice from Brunelleschi to Borromini”; Deborah Howard, “Architecture and Invention in Venice and the Veneto in the Later Sixteenth Century”; Laura Moretti, “The Sound of Venice”; Michael Cole, “Alessandro Vittoria between Ornament and Art”; Marco Spallanzani, “Tre bacini domaschini con stemmi veneziani”; Anchise Tempestini, “Una preziosa albumina di un dipinto di Giovanni Bellini nella Fototeca Berenson”; Duncan Bull, “A Superannuated Analemma in Veronese’s Portrait of Daniele Barbaro”; Diane H. Bodart, “Tintoretto e il ritratto di Luigi Groto, detto il Cieco d’Adria”; Robert Kiely, “Henry James, Tintoretto’s San Cassiano Crucifixion, and a Note on The American Scene”; Ippolita di Majo, “Fantastie ariostesche sulla rocca dei d’Avalos a Ischia”; Bianca de Divitiis, “Antiquities as gelatine: The Palace of Diomede Carafa in the Eyes of Costanza d’Avalos”; Valeria Cafà, “Del restauro di scultura antica nel corso del sedicesimo secolo: La trasformazione di una Venus Genetrix in una Giuditta e Oloferne”; Caroline Elam, “‘Con certo ordine disordinato’: Images of Giovanni Gaddi’s Grotto and Other Renaissance Fountains”; Guido Rebecchini, “For Pleasure and for Entertainment: A Rustic Fountain in Sixteenth-Century Rome and a Project by Giovanni Mangone”; Denis Ribouillault, “Julius III’s Tower of the Winds: A Forgotten Aspect of Villa Giulia”; Robert W. Gaston, “Vituperation and Revenge: Giorgio Vasari and the Reputation of Pirro Ligorio”; Robert G. La France, “Three Brothers and One Altarpiece: A Connoisseur’s Proposal for Bachiacca in Borgo San Lorenzo”; Morten Steen Hansen, “Giovanni Bologna’s Mercury, and Pellegrino Tibaldi’s”; Stuart Lingo, “Music and the Performance of Painting: Titian and Barocci, the Brush and the Bow”; Flaminia Bardati, “Flamboyant e première Renaissance: Due modernità a confront”; Jutta Sperling, “Charity’s Nudity and the Veil of Allegory”; Jane Tylus, “Mapping Siena”; Suzanne Boorsch, “‘in brachiis suis illum suscepit…cum delectatione immensa’: Francesco Vanni’s St. Catherine of Siena Holding the Infant Christ, Engraved by Philippe Thomassin”; Alina Payne, “Teofilo Gallaccini, Reader of John Dee”; Machtelt Israëls, “A Promise Long Kept: Rutilio Manetti for Lucrezia Ballati, 1538–1621”; Kristen Lippincott, “Rubens, Peiresc, and the Birth of Maria de’ Medici”; Helena Seražin, “Giovanni Pieroni’s Reports about Fortresses on the Borders of Innerösterreich”; Babette Bohn, “Elisabetta Sirani and the Marchese Ferdinando Cospi: Humanism, Natural History, and Art Collecting in Early Modern Bologna”; Guido Guerzoni, “Mirabilie viventi”; Kathleen Wren Christian, “Mummies, Scimitars, and a Lost Crucifixion by Domenichino: The Collections of Pietro and Nicolò Francesco della Valle in Seventeenth-Century Rome”; Estelle Lingo, “Looking Back: Mochi and Borromini at San Giovanni dei Fiorentini”; Stefanie Walker, “Born(e) by God’s Breath: Bernini’s Angels for the Ponte Sant’Angelo”; James G. Harper, “The Barberini Chapel at Sant’Isidoro and the Submemoration of the Architect Domenico Castelli”; Massimiliano Rossi, “‘Stuccasti sì, ma troppo al fin stuccasti’: Un ‘concetto’ di Pietro da Cortona per Santa Maria del Fiore”; Maurizio Campanelli, “Discutendo di architettura nella Roma del 1763”; Andrew Hopkins, “Giving Away One’s Children: Baldassare Longhena and a Drawing for Francesco Borromini”; Victoria Avery, “‘Due incomparabili donzelle’: Catarina and Anna Castelli, Sister Bell-Makers in Eighteenth-Century Venice”; Charles Dempsey, “The Eye of the Needle: Jacques-Louis David’s Bélisaire, reconnu par un soldat qui avait servi sous lui, au moment qu’une femme lui fait l’aumône”; Ilaria Della Monica, “Antiche armonie: Un’aggiunta per Burne-Jones a Firenze”; Lorenzo Calvelli, “‘The Most Unspoiled of the Mediterranean Lands’: Bernard Berenson and Cyprus”; Robert S. Nelson, “A Painting Becomes Canonical: Bernard Berenson, Royall Tyler, and the Mellon Madonna”; Dominique Thiébaut, “Berenson, Sassetta…et la France”; Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Bode’s Signorelli for Johnson”; Paul Barolsky, “Mr. Berenson and the Pleasures of Art”; Claudia Chierichini, “‘To the Dearest and the Youngest of My Friends’: Margherita Sarfatti to Bernard Berenson, 1936–57”; Sanne Wellen, “The Role of Ethel ‘Kitten/Bunny’ Le Vane and Bernard Berenson in the Creation of J. Paul Getty’s Art Collection”; Jaynie Anderson, “The Fascination of an Art Historian at I Tatti: Bernard Berenson and Jacqueline Kennedy”; Marica S. Tacconi, “Finding Resonance: Integration, Interdisciplinarity, and the Role of the Humanities Research Center”; Ildikó Fehér, “Two Cities, Two Directors, and One Collection”; Edward D. English, “Spatial Power in Siena and Its State: The Magnates in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries”; William R. Day Jr., “Bencio Carucci of Florence in the Papal Mint for Gold Coinage at Pont-de-Sorgues, Avignon, 1322–30”; Serena Ferente, “Joanna II of Anjou-Durazzo, the Glorious Queen”; Samantha Kelly, “The Neapolitan Giovanni Villani: Florence, Naples, and Medieval Historiographical Categorization”; Ann E. Moyer, “Villani’s Medieval Chronicle in Later Renaissance Florence”; Amedeo De Vincentiis, “Il tiranno in mostra: Stefano Ussi, Niccolò Tommaseo e il duca d’Atene”; Marco Gentile, “Alberi guelfi e alberi ghibellini”; Alison K. Frazier, “Who Wrote the First Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici?”; John M. Najemy, “Machiavelli’s Florentine Tribunes”; Gabriele Pedullà, “Una nuova fonte per il Ciompo: Niccolò Machiavelli e il De Nobilitate di Antonio de’ Ferrariis”; Jérémie Barthas, “Un lapsus machiavélien: Tenuto / temuto dans le chapitre XVI du Prince”; Luigi Lazzerini, “‘Bizzarrissime fantasie’: Piero di Cosirno’s Pageant Wagon of the Dead and Girolamo Savonarola”; Kate Lowe, “Displaying Govermnent Treasures in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence”; Elena Valeri, “Civil History in the Kingdom of Naples: Some Considerations”; Christine Shaw, “The Other Congress of Bologna”; Matthew Vester, “Rights of Passage: Spatial Politics in the Sixteenth-Century Sabaudian Lands”; Monica Azzolini, “A Starry Gift: A New Horoscope for Cosimo I de’ Medici”; H. Darrel Rutkin, “Astrological Timing and Architectural Sites: The Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato in One of Its Historical Contexts”; Christina Strunck, “Murder and Mystery: The Missing Medici Crown”; Nicholas Terpstra, “The Stripping of the Tables: Sociability in Florentine Confraternities”; Allen Grieco, “What’s in a Detail: More Chickens in Renaissance Birth Scenes”; Anthony F. D’Elia, “Iron Stomach: The Heroisrn of Eating Rancid Food — a locus classicus?”; Dóra Bobory, “Renaissance Toothpaste and Wine Therapy: Medical Curiosities from the Correspondence of a Hungarian Nobleman”; Eric R. Dursteler, “‘A Continual Tavern in My House’: Food and Diplomacy in Early Modern Constantinople”; Andrea Gáldy, “Hounds for a Cardinal”; Andrea Mozzato, “The Pigment Trade in Venice and the Mediterranean in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century”; Dale Kent, “A Measure of Madness in Renaissance Florence”; Monica Calabritto, “A Family Matter Turned Ugly: The Murder of Leone Marescotti, 1522”; Roberta Mucciarelli, “Neighborhood, Rumors, and fama: A Piece of Judiciary History from Thirteenth- Century Prato”; Monique O’Connell, “A Tale of Two Families: The Abramo and Gradenigo between Venice and Crete”; Giovanna Benadusi, “Law and the Fabric of Everyday Life in Tuscany”; Peter Howard, “The Remembered Past as Present Exemplar in Florentine Renaissance Preaching”; Silvia Evangelisti, “Education and the Senses: Fragments for Future Thinking”; Catherine Kovesi, “Luxury in the Renaissance: A Contribution to the Etymology of a Concept”; Jan Stejskal, “In the Footsteps of the Missionaries: Czech and Polish Exiles in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany”; Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “Les pierres ont-elles une vie? Mémoire et expérience chez les pèlerins de Terre Sainte”; Ivayla Popova, “Fifteenth-Century Istria and Dalmatia in Four Memoirs of Western Pilgrims”; Laura Corti, “Frammenti di storia vera dipinti nelle vere storie dei santi”; Anthony Colantuono, “Fraternal Concord and the ‘Lutheran’ Underground: Ludovico Castelvetro’s Pictorial invenzione for the House of Giovanni Grillenzoni”; Dainora Pociuté, “Kulvietis, Ochino, and the First Evangelical Confession of Faith in Lithuania”; Stefano Dall’Aglio, “Eresia e Inquisizione a Siena nel secondo Cinquecento: Un nuovo documento su Marcantonio Cinuzzi”; Giorgio Caravale, “L’eretico e il suo maestro: Umanesimo, neoplatonismo ed eterodossia nella Firenze del Cinquecento”; Matteo Duni, “The Editor as Inquisitor: Francisco Peña and the Question of Witchcraft in the Late Sixteenth Century”; Camilla Russell, “Vocation to the East: Italian Candidates for the Jesuit China Mission at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century”; Miguel Gotor, “Agiografia e censura libraria nel Seicento: La santità impossibile dell’orefice Girolamo Pisa da Capri”; Christopher Carlsmith and Gábor Buzási, “Student Conflict in the Brevis Relatio of the Hungarian-Illyrian College of Bologna, 1675”; Federica Favino, “Gaspare Berti: Notes and Materials for a Biography”; Edward Muir, “‘People Who Believe in Nothing’: Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy”; John E. Law, “James Dennistoun, Rawdon Brown, and the Dukes of Urbino”; Lodi Nauta, “Rabelais’s Laughter behind a Portrait by Holbein: Play and Culture in the Work of Johan Huizinga”; Ronald Witt, “Albertano da Brescia, Model of Thirteenth-Century Lay Culture”; Max Freeman, “The Nature of Petrarch’s Martiri”; Gábor Almási, “The Humanist Dog”; Roberta Morosini, “‘E lavorando semini ciascuno’: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Decameron, III.4”; Federica Ciccolella, “When a Dead Tongue Speaks Again: The Revival of Greek Studies in the Renaissance”; Silvia Fiaschi, “Poesia e cultura antiquaria nell’Umanesimo: Scritti di Ciriaco d’Ancona nel codice Colombino 7.1.13”; Marc Laureys, “Friendship and Exile: On Francesco Filelfo’s Ode IV.6”; Jozef Matula, “Marsilio Ficino as a Critic of Averroes”; Maude Vanhaelen, “Marsilio Ficino and the Irrational”; Maria Agata Pincelli, “Gli umanisti e il rinoceronte: Passando per Dürer”; Patrick Baker, “Launching the ars historica: Paolo Cortesi’s Dialogue with Cicero on Historiography”; Marc Schachter, “Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius’ Golden Ass”; Carlo Taviani, “Due personaggi del Cortegiano tra Urbino e Roma: Ottaviano e Federico Fregoso”; Michael T. Tworek, “The Polish Castiglione: Lukasz Górnicki, Padua, and the Education of the ‘Domestic Pole’”; Una Roman D’Elia, “Anatomizing Love, Vivisecting Cupid”; Annalisa Andreoni, “Benedetto Varchi’s Lezioni on Poetry”; Abigail Brundin, “Composition a due: Lyric Poets and Scribal Practice in Sixteenth- Century Italy”; Karel Thein, “Scattered Fire: Art and Nature in a Poem by Michelangelo”; Deborah Parker, “Bronzino’s Erotic Imagination: The Lesson of ‘Del pennello’”; Maddalena Spagnolo, “Giovio’s Puns and Vasari’s Curly Tuft”; Daniel Javitch, “Another Look at Ariosto’s Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Orlando furioso”; Eleonora Stoppino, “Il cronotopo- amazzone nell’epica italiana: Alcune osservazioni”; Yulia Ryzhik, “Chastening Pictures: Donne and Aretino”; Mario Casari, “Eleven Good Reasons for Learning Arabic in Late Renaissance Italy: A Memorandum by Giovan Battista Raimondi”; Clizia Carminati, “La cultura barberiniana e Marino: Sulla paternità della Difesa di Girolamo Aleandro”; Stefano Jossa, “The Lies of Poets: Literature as Fiction in the Italian Renaissance”; Elena Pierazzo, “Research without Borders: The Text Encoding Initiative and International Cooperation in Digital Humanities”; James Hankins, “Editorial Criteria for ‘Provisional Editions’ of Renaissance Latin Texts: Some Comments”; Michael Scott Cuthbert, “Changing Musical Time at the Beginning of the Renaissance (and Today)”; Anna Maria Busse Berger, “The Use of Architectural Proportions in Musical Compositions of the Fourteenth Century”; Pedro Memelsdorff, “‘Janua sum’: Note su un nuovo frammento musicale trecentesco alla Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona”; Yolanda Plumley, “Guillaume de Machaut Heads South: The Reception of French Songs in Italy, ca. 1400”; Evan A. MacCarthy, “Giacomo Paladini: Professional Singer and Bishop in Fifteenth-Century Italy”; Sean Gallagher, “Musical Quotation or Compositional Habit? The Case of Guillaume Du Fay’s En triumphant de Cruel Dueil”; Klaus Pietschmann, “Liturgical and Musical Space in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy”; Victor Coelho, “Bronzino’s Lute Player: Music and Youth Culture in Renaissance Florence”; Don Harrán, “Salamone Rossi’s Songs by Solomon as a Song of Songs and Song of Ascents”; Janie Cole, “‘Le donne theatrali son Amazoni infernali’: Anti-Theatricalism and Bargaining Strategies at the Medici Court during the Early Seventeenth Century”; and Vincenzo Borghetti, “A Past that Lasts: Reworking Music and Creating History at the Dawn of Modernity.”
Lafont, Agnès, ed. Shakespeare’s Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xiii + 202 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5131-0.
Includes: Agnès Lafont, “Introduction: Interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare”; Ilaria Andreoli, “Ovid’s ‘Meta-Metamorphosis’: Book Illustration and the Circulation of Erotic Iconographical Patterns”; Agnès Lafont, “Political Uses of Erotic Power in an Elizabethan Mythological Programme: Dangerous Interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall”; François Laroque, “Erotic Fancy/Fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Anthony and Cleopatra”; Janice Valls-Russell, “Erotic Perspectives: When Pyramus and Thisbe Meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet”; Frédéric Delord, “Priapus in Shakespeare: Luxuriant Gardens and Luxurious Brothels”; Stuart Sillars, “Parody and the Erotic Beast: Relocating Titania and Bottom”; Jane Kingsley-Smith, “Cupid, Infantilism and Maternal Desire on the Early Modern Stage”; Sarah Annes Brown, “Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter’s Tale”; Marguerite Tassi, “The ‘new Gorgon’: Eros, Terror and Violence in Macbeth”; and Yves Peyré, “Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian Mythical Structures, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It.”
Lloyd, Howell A., ed. The Reception of Bodin. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 223. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xi + 468 pp. $180. ISBN: 978-90-04-23608-0.
Includes: Howell A. Lloyd, “Introduction”; Peter Burke, “The History and Theory of Reception”; Marie-Dominique Couzinet, “On Bodin’s Method”; Mark Greengrass, “The Experiential World of Jean Bodin”; Virginia Krause, “Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers”; Christian Martin, “Bodin’s Reception of Johann Weyer in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers”; Ann Blair, “Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin”; Johannes Machielsen, “Bodin in the Netherlands”; Sara Miglietti, “Reading from the Margins: Some Insights into the Early Reception of Bodin’s Methodus”; Michaela Valente, “The Works of Bodin under the Lens of Roman Theologians and Inquisitors”; Jonathan Schüz, “Bodin’s Démonomanie in the German Vernacular”; Harald E. Braun, “Making the Canon? The Early Reception of the République in Castilian Political Thought”; Robert Von Friedeburg, “The Reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the Making of the Territorial State”; Luc Foisneau, “Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes”; Vittor Ivo Comparato, “The Italian Readers of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: Readers of Bodin in Italy: From Albergati to Filangieri”; Diego Quaglioni, “The Italian Readers of Bodin, 17th–18 Centuries: The Italian ‘Readers’ Out of Italy: Alberico Gentili”; Glenn Burgess, “Bodin in the English Revolution”; and Howell A. Lloyd, “Conclusion.”
Loskoutoff, Yvan, ed. Héraldique et numismatique I: Moyen Âge–Temps modernes. Mont-Saint- Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013. 262 pp. + 6 color pls. €25. ISBN: 978-2-87775-572-6.
Includes: Michel Dhénin, “La numismatique, l’héraldique, la sigillographie: les types de monnaies d’or royales françaises (XIIIe–XVe siècles)”; Christian de Mérindol, “Emblèmes et symboles: les signes d’identification des ateliers monétaires en France d’Édouard III d’Angleterre à Louis XII de France”; Andrea Saccocci, “Comment l’héraldique peut servir la numismatique: études de cas dans l’Italie septentrionnale (Padoue, XIVe siècle–Gorizia, XIIe– XIVe siècle)”; Joëlle Bouvry, “Héraldique et nusmatique en Provence du XIIe au XVe siècle”; Jean-Christophe Blanchard, “La monnaie des duchés de Lorraine et de Bar de 1419 à 1508: un média au service des ducs de Lorraine, de la seconde maison d’Anjou, puis de la seconde maison de Vaudémont”; Jérôme Jambu, “Sens et symbolique des différents des maȊtres et directeurs des Monnaies dans le royaume de France à l’époque moderne (milieu du XVIe siècle–fin du XVIIIe siècle)”; Inès Villela-Petit, “La portrait armorié dans les médailles françaises du XVe siècle”; Armelle Fémelat, “Cheval et héraldique sur les revers de médailles italiennes du Quattrocento”; Yvan Loskoutoff, “Héraldique et numismatique: l’exemple du pape Sixte-Quint (1585–1590)”; Giancarlo Alteri, “L’héraldique dans les médailles de la papauté”; Fabrice Charton, “Héraldique et numismatique à l’Academie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles”; and Marie-Claude Canova-Green, “L’Histoire du roy Louis le Grand par les medailles et la philosophique des images du père Ménestrier.”
Major, Philip, ed. Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage: New Perspectives. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xii + 224 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6668-0.
Includes: Philip Major, “Introduction: ‘A Man of Much Plot’”; Eleanor Collins, “From Court to Cockpit: The Prisoners and Claricilla in Repertory”; Victoria Bancroft, “Tradition and Innovation in The Parson’s Wedding”; David Roberts, “Thomas Killigrew, Theatre Manager”; Karen Britland, “Henry Killigrew and Dramatic Patronage at the Stuart Courts”; Marcus Nevitt, “Thomas Killgrew’s Thomaso as Two-Part Comedy”; J.P. Vander Motten, “Recycling the Exile: Thomaso, The Rover and the Critics”; Geoffrey Smith, “‘A Gentleman of Great Esteem with the King’: The Restoration Roles and Reputations of Thomas Killigrew”; and Philip Major, “‘This Lemon in mine eye’: Writing the Exile in Thomas Killigrew’s The Pilgrim.”
Maley, Willy, and Rory Loughnane, eds. Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xli + 324 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2259-4.
Includes: John Kerrigan, “Prologue: Díonbrollach: How Celtic Was Shakespeare?”; Willy Maley and Rory Loughnane, “Introduction: Celtic Connections and Archipelagic Angles”; Philip Schwyzer, “A Scum of Britons? Richard III and the Celtic Reconquest”; Vimala C. Pasupathi, “The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare’s Scots in 1 Henry IV and Henry V”; Thomas Herron, “War, the Boar and Spenserian Politics in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”; Chris Butler, “‘The howling of Irish wolves’: As You Like It and the Celtic Essex Circle”; Christopher Ivic, “Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England/Jacobean Britain”; Willy Maley, “Othello and the Irish Question”; Andrew J. Power, “‘Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword?’: The Senecan Tradition in Macbeth”; Margaret Downs-Gamble, “‘To th’ crack of doom’: Sovereign Imagination as Anamorphosis in Shakespeare’s ‘show of kings’”; Stewart Mottram, “Warriors and Ruins: Cymbeline, Heroism and the Union of Crowns”; Rory Loughnane, “‘I myself would for Caernarfonshire’: The Old Lady in King Henry VIII”; Nicholas McDowell, “The Nation’s Poet? Milton’s Shakespeare and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms”; Rob Doggett, “Shakespeare and Transnational Heritage in Dowden and Yeats”; Robin E. Bates, “Cymbeline and Cymbeline Refinished: G. B. Shaw and the Unresolved Empire”; Stephen O’Neill, “Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and Critical Contexts”; and Richard Wilson, “Epilogue: Hwyl and Farewell.”
McEachern, Claire, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 302 pp. $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-64332-1.
Includes: Colin Burrow, “What Is a Shakespearean Tragedy?”; Russ McDonald, “The Language of Tragedy”; David Bevington, “Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Career”; Michael Warren, “Shakespearean Tragedy Printed and Performed”; Claire McEachern, “Religion and Shakespearean Tragedy”; Michael Hattaway, “Tragedy and Political Authority”; Catherine Belsey, “Gender and Family”; Gail Kern Paster, “The Tragic Subject and Its Passions”; Robert N. Watson, “Tragedies of Revenge and Ambition”; Catherine Bates, “Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love”; Coppélia Kahn, “Shakespeare’s Classical Tragedies”; Paul A. Kottman, “Why Think about Shakespearean Tragedy Today?”; and Lucy Munro, “Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Performance.”
Mujica, Bárbara, ed. Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia: Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan Fischer. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013. ix + 298 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-61148-517-2.
Includes: Bárbara Mujica, “Shattering Boundaries: Susan Fischer’s Approach to Theater Studies”; Katherine Faull, “Performing Translation: The [Dangerous] Mobilities of Cultural Identity”; David Johnston, “‘Eking Out’ Performance with the Mind”; Jonathan Thacker, “The Translation of La vida es sueno for a Twenty-First Century Anglophone Audience”; Denis Rafter, “Translating Hamlet for the Spanish Actor”; Edward H. Friedman, “The High Anxiety of Influence: Caro, Zayas, Sor Juana, and the New Arts”; William R. Blue, “Versions of the Battle of Cadiz, 1625”; Charles Victor Ganelin, “Polyphony and Calderón de la Barca’s La dama duende”; Frederick A. de Armas, “The Portrait of a Pious Widow: Francisco de Ribalta and Lope de Vega’s La viuda valenciana”; Emilie L. Bergmann, “Women Tame and Untamed: Two Dutiful Daughters in the Romance de la doncella guerrera and Luis Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera”; Mary Malcolm Gaylord, “Cultural Capital and Comedy: Talking Heads in Guillén de Castro’s Las mocedades del Cid”; Michael Payne, “Shakespeare’s Imagination”; Isaac Benabu, “Constructing Stage Character: The Duke of Ferrara in Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza”; Bárbara Mujica, “Facing the Music: Introducing Song into the Comedia”; James C. Bulman, “The Autonomy of Henry IV, Part Two”; and David Bevington, “Staging Options in the Early Texts of Hamlet.”
Nenonen, Marko, and Raisa Maria Toivo, eds. Writing Witch-Hunt Histories: Challenging the Paradigm. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 173. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiv + 220 pp. $165. ISBN: 978-90-04-25790-0.
Includes: Marko Nenonen and Raisa Maria Toivo, “Challenging the Paradigm of With-Hunt Historiography”; Marko Nenonen, “The Dubious History of the Witch-Hunts”; Charles Zika, “Images and Witchcraft Studies: A Short History”; Raisa Maria Toivo, “Gender, Sex and Cultures of Trouble in Witchcraft Studies: European Historiography with Special Reference to Finland”; Marianna G. Muravyeva, “Russian Witchcraft on Trail: Historiography and Methodology for Studying Russian Witches”; Rune Blix Hagen, “Witchcraft and Ethnicity: A Critical Perspective on Sami Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Northern Norway”; Gunnar W. Knutsen, “Topics of Persecution: Witchcraft Historiography in the Iberian World”’; and Ronald Hutton, “Witchcraft and Modernity.”
Noreña, Carlos G. Juan Luis Vives: Vie et destin d’un humaniste européen. Trans. Olivier Pédeflous and Justine Pédeflous. With the collaboration of Roberto Salazar. Le miroir des humanistes 12. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. 456 pp. €45. ISBN: 978-2-251-34607-6.
Includes: Olivier Pédeflous, “Vives et la France (2013/1509–1514)”; and Enrique González González and Victor Gutiérrez Rodríguez, “Vives en France: La fabrique de l’oubli.”
Quicchelberg, Samuel. The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones 1565. Ed. Mark A. Meadow. Trans. Bruce Robertson and Mark A. Meadow. The Getty Research Institute Texts & Documents. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013. xiii + 146 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-1-60606-149-7.
Includes: Bruce Robertson, “Preface: Wonderful Museums and Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones”; Mark A. Meadow, “Introduction”; Heinrich Pantaleon, “Biography of Samuel Quiccheberg”; Leo Quiccheberg, “Preface to Quiccheberg Manuscript”; Samuel Quiccheberg, “Inscriptiones; or, Titles of the Most Ample Theater.”
Regard, Frédéric, ed. The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576–1806. Empires in Perspective 19. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. x + 190 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-270-8.
Includes: Sophie Lemercier-Goddard and Frédéric Regard, “Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth”; Mary C. Fuller, “Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598–1600)”; Ladan Niayesh, “From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566–1628)”; Catherine Bécasse, “‘Not Now Believed’: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615–16)”; Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, “George Best’s Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie . . . of Martin Frobisher (1578)”; Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Mickaël Popelard, “‘A People of Tractable Conversation’: A Reappraisal of Davis’s Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585–7)”; I. S. MacLaren, “Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and The Strange and Dangerous Voyage (1633)”; Nathalie Zimpfer, “Anthropology as Curiosity: Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort . . . to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795)”; Robert Sayre, “Alexander Mackenzie’s Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789–93)”; and Gérard Hugues, “Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson’s ‘Corps of Discovery’ and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804–6).”
Florenz! Exh. Cat. Bundeskunsthalle, 22 November 2013–9 March 2014. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2013. 384 pp. €49.90. ISBN: 978-3-7774-2089-9.
Includes: Gerhard Wolf, “Florenz als Raum-Experiment und Selbstausstellung”; Philine Helas, “Die Stadt, das Gemeinwohl, das Seelenheil, die Memoria: Hospitäler und Bruderschaften in Florenz zwischen dem 14. und 15. Jarhundert”; Wolf-Dietrich Löhr, “Die Dürze Italiens: Florentiner Künstler, ihre Stadt und ihr Ruf”; Timothy Verdon, “Der Florentiner Dom im Städtischen Kontext”; Volker Reinhardt, “Politik in Florenz”; Christian Barteleit, “Die Florentiner Wirtschaft”; Hannah Baader, “Geschichte und Natur im Laboratorium der Welt: Vom Schreiben, Drucken und Sammeln in Florenz, von Lorenzo il Magnifico bis Cosimo I”; Bernd Roeck, “Weltkultur am Arno: Renaissance, Renaissancen und Florenz”; Jürgen Renn, “Florenz — Matrix der Wissenschaft”; Annamaria Giusti, “Ursprung und Glanz der Galleria dei Lavori der Medici”; Ettore Spalletti, “Entstehen und Konsolidierung der Florentiner Museumslandschaft in der Zeit der Habsburg-Lothringer”; and Christine Tauber, “Die Konstruktion der Florentiner Renaissance im 19. Jahrhundert.”
Van Miert, Dirk, ed. Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500–1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. Warburg Institute Colloquia 23. London: The Warburg Institute, 2013. ix + 268 pp. £50. ISBN: 978-1-908590-46- 6.
Includes: Dirk van Miert, “Introduction”; Gerhard Holk, “The First Anthropologist of America: Petrus Martyr de Angleria (1457–1526) and his Epistolary Reports De orbe novo decades octo”; Candice Delisle, “‘The Spices of Our Art’: Medical Observation in Conrad Gessner’s Letters”; Florike Egmond, “Observing Nature: The Correspondence Network of Carolus Clusius (1526– 1609)”; William Stenhouse, “Monumental Letters in the Late Renaissance”; Dirk van Miert, “Philology and Empiricism: Observation and Description in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609)”; Adam Mosley, “Reading the Heavens: Observation and Interpretation of Astronomical Phenomena in Learned Letters circa 1600”; Peter N. Miller, “Mapping Peiresc’s Mediterranean: Geography and Astronomy, 1610–36”; Erik-Jan Bos and Theo Verbeek, “Conceiving the Invisible: The Role of Observation and Experiment in Descartes’s Correspondence, 1630–50”; Elizabethanne Boran, “‘A Cloud of Witnesses’: Scientific Observation in the Correspondence of Jame Ussher (1581–1656)”; Iordan Avramov, “Men of Science as Objects of Observation in the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 1641–77”; and Dirk van Miert, “Concluding Observations on Communicating Observations.”
Scarci, Manuela, ed. Creating Women: Representation, Self-Representation, and Agency in the Renaissance. Essays and Studies 31. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 206 pp. $21.50. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2146-4.
Includes: Manuela Scarci, “Introduction”; Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, “In Joan of Arc’s Shadow: The Maid of Orleans as Identificatory Model in Some Seventeenth-Century Polemical Texts”; Diane Desrosiers, “Women’s Voices in the Works of Suzanne de Nervèze”; Renée Claude Breitenstein, “Speaking of Women and Giving Voice to Women: The Example of Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry’s Femmes illustres ou les harangues héroïques”; Jane Couchman, “Models for Women in the Letters of Huguenot Noblewomen 1560–1620”; Patricia Demers, “Early Modern Englishwomen’s Miserere: Ambitious and Penitent Expression”; Anne Lake Prescott, “Female Impressions: Some Women Writers in Seventeenth-Century English Print”; Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Honour and Shame: The Construction of Married Women’s Bodies in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Law”; Bridgette Ann Sheridan, “From a Manly Knowledge to a Man’s Helpmeet: Changing Conceptions of Midwives’ Roles in Seventeenth-Century France”; Cristian Berco, “The Many Faces of Female Discipline: Gender Control, Subversion, and the Nun-Confessor Relationship in Golden Age Barcelona”; Elena Brizio, “The Role of Women in Their Kin’s Economic and Political Life: The Sienese Case (End XIV-Mid XV Century)”; Francesco Divenuto, “The Role of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony in the Planning of the Royal Palace of Caserta.”
Shifflett, Andrew, and Edward Gieskes, eds. Renaissance Papers 2012. Southeastern Renaissance Conference Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting. Rochester: Camden House, 2013. xiii + 126 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-1-571-13560-5.
Includes: Sonya Freeman Loftis, “Reconstructing the Bower of Bliss: Homoerotic Myth-Making in The Faerie Queene”; Christina A. Taormina, “Ovid, Lucretius, and the Grounded Goddess in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”; Emily Stockard, “The Soul as Commodity: Materialism in Doctor Faustus”; Russell Hugh McConnell, “Antipholus and the Exorcists: The Acts of the Apostles in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors”; Thomas W. Dabbs, “Paul’s Cross Churchyard and Shakespeare’s Verona Youth”; Robert L. Reid, “The Summoning of Hamlet and Lear”; Susan C. Staub, “‘Bred Now of Your Mud’: Land, Generation, and Maternity in Antony and Cleopatra”; Amrita Sen, “Cosmetic Blackness: East Indies Trade, Gender, and The Devil’s Law-Case”; Emma Annette Wilson, “From One Marvell to Another: Puritan Logic in ‘To His Coy Mistress’”; Nathan Stogdill, “‘An Heap Is Form’d into an Alphabet’: Thomas Blount’s Sociable Lexicography”; and David Ainsworth, “Getting Past the Ellipsis: The Spirit and Urania in Paradise Lost.”
Sukic, Christine, ed. Corps héroïque, corps de chair dans les récits de vie de la première modernité. Imaginaires 16. Reims: Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims, 2013. 242 pp. €22. ISBN: 978-2-915271-63-8.
Includes: Isabelle Fernandes, “‘Dissoudre ce tabernacle de terre’: Corps de mort, corps de vie dans le martyrologe de John Foxe”; Anne Dunan-Page, “Les entraves de la chair? Le corps, les émotions et la voix dans les récits de l’expérience spirituelle”; Marion de Lencquesaing, “Les premières Vies de la mère Jeanne de Chantal: un processus d’héroïsation par un corps en négatif?”; Marian Rothstein, “Catherine de Médicis: la reine-veuve et le cœur du roi”; Véronique Garrigues, “‘Ce grand héros étant ainsi rétréci’: D’un corps en majesté à la dépouille démembrée de Don Juan d’Autriche (1547–1578)”; Line Cottegnies, “La mise en scène du corps du sujet biographique dans la Life of Donne de Izaak Walton: portrait du prédicateur en vanité”; Irene Salas, “Les Essais de Montaigne: journal d’un corps”; Violaine Lambert, “‘In the pulpit of his bed’: représentations exemplaires du corps défunt dans les Vies de John Donne (1640/1658/1670) et de Thomas Fuller (1661)”; Cécile Toublet, “Les Aventures corporelles de Dassoucy (1605–1677): représentation antihéroïque de soi et naissance de l’individu”; and Laetitia Coussement-Boillot, “Moll Cutpurse: corps héroïque, corps de chair?”
Taylor, Stephen, and Grant Tapsell, eds. The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited: Essays in Honour of John Morrill. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 18. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xi + 296 pp. $115. ISBN: 978-1-84383-818-0.
Includes: Tim Harris, “Charles I and Public Opinion on the Eve of the English Civil War”; Ethan H. Shagan, “Rethinking Moderation in the English Revolution: The Case of An Apologeticall Narration”; Tim Wales, “The Parish and the Poor in the English Revolution”; John Walter, “Body Politics in the English Revolution”; Philip Baker, “The Franchise Debate Revisited: The Levellers and the Army”; Blair Worden, “Oliver Cromwell and the Instrument of Government”; J. C. Davis, “‘de te Fabula narratur’: the Narrative Constitutionalism of James Harrington’s Oceana”; Rachel Foxley, “Democracy in 1659: Harrington and the Good Old Cause”; Kenneth Fincham and Stephen Taylor, “Ordination, Re-ordination, Conformity and the Restoration of the Church of England, 1660–1662”; John Spurr, “Style, Wit and Religion in Restoration England”; and Grant Tapsell, “A British Patriarchy? Ecclesiastical Imperialism under the Later Stuart.”
Walsby, Malcolm, and Natasha Constantinidou, eds. Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print. Library of the Written World 31; The Handpress World 23. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xv + 416 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-25889-1.
Includes: Malcolm Walsby, “Book Lists and Their Meaning”; Alexander Marr, “Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605”; Kasper van Ommen, “The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609–1716”; Kevin M. Stevens, “Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540)”; Malcolm Walsby, “The Library of Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d’Argentré in 1582”; John A. Sibbald, “The Heinsiana — Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue”; Jürgen Beyer and Leigh T.I. Penman, “Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Gina Dahl, “The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature”; Flavia Bruni, “The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter-Reformation Italy”; Andrea Ottone, “Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses”; Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, “The Book Inventory of Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki”; Shanti Graheli, “Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through its Book Lists”; Benito Rial Costas, “The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco’s Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563)”; and Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris, “Oil and Green Ginger: The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484–1488.”
Wandel, Lee Palmer, ed. A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 46. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xx + 518 pp. $239. ISBN: 978-90-04-20410-2.
Includes: Lee Palmer Wandel, “Introduction”; Gary Macy, “The Medieval Inheritance”; Volker Leppin, “Martin Luther”; Carrie Euler, “Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger”; Nicholas Thompson, “Martin Bucer”; Nicholas Wolterstorff, “John Calvin”; John D. Rempel, “Anabaptist Theologies of the Eucharist”; James F. Turrell, “Anglican Theologies of the Eucharist”; Robert J. Daly, SJ, “The Council of Trent”; Isabelle Brian, “Catholic Liturgies of the Eucharist in the Time of Reform”; Thomas Schattauer, “From Sacrifice to Supper: Eucharist Practice in the Lutheran Reformation”; Raymond A. Mentzer, “Reformed Liturgical Practices”; Michele Zelinsky Hanson, “Anabaptist Liturgical Practices”; James F. Turrell, “Anglican Liturgical Practices”; Jaime Lara, “The Spanish New World”; Andrew Spicer, “Sites of the Eucharist”; Achim Timmermann, “A View of the Eucharist on the Eve of the Reformation”; Birgit Ulrike Münch, “The Lutheran Tradition”; Andreas Gormans, “Reformed”; Alexander J. Fisher, “The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture”; Regina M. Schwartz, “Sacramental Poetics”; and Christopher Wild, “Enlightenment Aesthetics and the Eucharistic Sign: Lessing’s Laocoön.”