EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS FALL - WINTER 2006 Vol. 64 Nos. 3&4 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 54, Nos. 3&4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 64, Nos. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2006 SCN, an official organ of the Milton Society of America and of the Milton Section of the Modern Language Association, is published as a double issue two times each year with the support of the English Departments of: University of Akron Oklahoma State University Texas A&M University SUBMISSIONS: Though primarily a review journal, SCN publishes shorter articles and scholarly notes (3000 words). Manuscripts should be submitted in duplicate (with the author’s name and institutional affiliation on the cover page only), accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. As a service to the scholarly community, SCN also publishes news items. SUBSCRIPTIONS, Domestic and International. $20.00 ($25.00) for one year; $35.00 ($45.00) for two years; $50.00 ($65.00) for three years. 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Tootalian, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 64, NOS. 3&4 ......................... FALL-WINTER, 2006 REVIEWS Charles W.A. Prior, Defining the Jacobean Church: the Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625. Review by GRAHAM PARRY ..................151 James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State: Views From China, Russia, and the West. Review by GALINA I. YERMOLENKO ........................................... 154 Anthony Milton, ed., The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort (1618- 1619). Review by JONATHAN WRIGHT ........................................ 158 Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls, eds., Socinianism and Arminianism. Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Review by MARIAN HILLAR ........................................................... 160 Brent Nelson, Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. Review by RICHARD TODD ................................... 165 Matthew Reynolds, Godly Reformers and their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich. Review by GEOFF BAKER ...............168 Lyn Bennett, Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer. Review by FRANCES TEAGUE .......172 Hero Chalmers, Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689. Review by ELIZABETH CLARKE ....................................................174 Jason R. Rosenblatt, Renaissance England’s Chief Rabbi: John Selden. Review by WILLIAM E. ENGEL......................................................176 Paul Cefalu, Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature. Review by GARY KUCHAR .............................................................179 Stephen A. McKnight, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon’s Thought. Review by STEVEN MATTHEWS ....................................................183 Susan C. Staub, Nature’s Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Seventeenth Century England. Review by SARAH SCOTT ...............................................................187 Francis J. Bremer and Lynn A. Botelho, eds., The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England 1588-1649. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ...................................................189 David A. Weir, Early New England: A Covenanted Society. Review by JANET MOORE LINDMAN ...........................................192 Virginia Mason Vaughan, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800. Review by NANCY M. BUNKER .....................................................194 Gary Kuchar, Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England. Review by KATE NARVESON ............................198 Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra, eds., The Enterprise of Science in Islam. New Perspectives. Review by DARIN HAYTON...................201 Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, eds., Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Review by JANET MOORE LINDMAN ............................................204 Phil Withington, The Politics of Commonwealth: Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England. Review by SIMON KOW .....................................207 Michael Losonsky, Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought. Review by JOSEPH M. MCCARTHY .................................210 Catherine Gimelli Martin, ed., Milton and Gender. Review by JULIA M. WALKER ........................................................212 Michael Lieb, Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon. Review by LARRY ISITT .....................................................216 Ernan McMullin, ed., The Church and Galileo. Review by LUCIANO BOSCHIERO ..................................................219 Massimo Turatto, Stefano Benetti, Luca Zampieri, William Shea, eds., 1604-2004: Supernovae as Cosmological Lighthouses. Review by ALESSANDRO GIOSTRA ...............................................222 Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668). Edition, translation and commentary by Christopher Allen, Yasmin Haskell, and Frances Muecke. Review by JOHN A. GALLUCCI ................226 Charles M. Natoli, Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal’s Pensées and Provinciales. Review by SUSAN READ BAKER ...................................................228 Georges Forestier, Essai de génétique théâtrale: Corneille à l’oeuvre. Review by JOHN D. LYONS ............................................................231 Luduvine Goupillaud, De l’or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: Métamorphoses de l’épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France. Review by TOM CONLEY ...............................................................234 Paul Crenshaw, Rembrandt’s Bankruptcy: The Artist, His Patrons, and the Art Market in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. Review by H. PERRY CHAPMAN ....................................................236 D.W. Hayton. Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742: Politics, Politicians and Parties. Review by KAY J. BLALOCK............................................................240 Debra Meyers, Common Whores, Vertuous Women and Loveing Wives. Review by MARTHA OBERLE ........................................................243 Susan J. Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar, Horst Vey, eds. Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings. Review by MAUREEN E. MULVIHILL ............................................246 ESSAY ..................................................................................................249 Dung-Carters and Holy Avarice in Edward Taylor’s “Meditation 1.46.” by William J. Scheick NEO-LATIN NEWS ........................................................................ 255 REVIEWS 151 Charles W.A. Prior. Defining the Jacobean Church: the Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 294 pp. $85.00. Review by GRAHAM PARRY, UNIVERSITY OF YORK. Defining the Jacobean Church is a considerable addition to the flourishing literature on the early Stuart Church, for it offers a new angle on the current debate about the causes of division, shifting the bias away from theological disagreements to questions of ecclesiastical government. Recent writing about religious ideology in early Stuart England has tended to emphasise the theo- logical conflict between Calvinism and Arminianism as the main cause of division in the Church, with prominent arguments over predestination and the role of the sacraments, but Charles Prior maintains that the chief concerns of most clerics who engaged in religious controversy were not those relating to ways of salvation, but issues of governance, rites and liturgy that arose from the sovereignty exercised by the Crown over the Church. A formi- dable body of writing about the ideal condition of the Church was pub- lished, but as Anthony Milton remarked in his important book Catholic and Reformed (1995), “the greater proportion of printed religious literature of the period 1600-40 remains almost wholly unstudied, and much historiographi- cal debate has focused on a tiny sample of surviving material.” Prior has made some inroads into this terra incognita and encountered a number of little- known clerics “who, like Salamanders, lived in the fire of controversy.” Their disputes were always on the same overlapping topics: What are the historical evidences for the practices of reformed Protestants? Can precedents be found in the Gospels, in the letters of the Apostles, in the worship of the early Church, in the statements of the Fathers? Do Old Testament models of government by kings, priests and judges still have a prescriptive force