Renaissance Quarterly articles from December 22 2000

Renaissance Quarterly archives from December 22 2000

Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530 [*]
December 22, 2000... As a consequence of its dismal experience in the War of Cambrai (1509-1517), the Venetian Republic adopted a military policy of avoiding battlefield encounters. As a commander in the war and as doge of Venice after 1523, Andrea Gritti was the...

Embodying Dislocation: A Mirror for Magistrates and Property Relations [*]
December 22, 2000... This paper argues that A Mirror for Magistrates's fascination with the mutilated bodies of its subjects, and its compulsive retelling of ambition punished offer evidence of cultural trauma. The works of legal theorist Margaret Jane Radin and...

The Politics of Access and Representations of the Sodomite King in Early Modern England
December 22, 2000... This essay treats the image of the sodomite king--in Marlowe's Edward II and in the gossip surrounding James 1 and his favorites-- as a figurative response to resentments stemming from the regulation of access to the monarch. Animosities in...

The Sempster's Wares: Merchandising and Marrying in the Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607) [*]
December 22, 2000... This essay demonstrates how handkerchiefs in The Fair Maid map out the cultural anxieties about courtship and marriage practices that were mobilized by women's participation in early modern England's expanding market economy. It locates...

Geography and Empire in the Late Renaissance. Botero's Assignment, Western Universalism, and the Civilizing Process [*]
December 22, 2000... The article seeks to relate the emerging, new discipline of geography to the European and specifically the Iberian, Catholic experience of expansion, power, and empire in those decades of Spain's alignment with Portugal and their respective...

Toward the Genesis of the Kristeller Thesis of Renaissance Humanism. Four Bibliographical Notes
December 22, 2000... Paul Oskar Kristeller's interpretation of Renaissance humanism as a "characteristic phase in what may be called the rhetorical tradition in Western culture" [1] has exercised an enormous influence on Renaissance studies. What I wish to do here...

New Scholarship on Renaissance Universities
December 22, 2000... UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA I maestri di medicina ed arti dell'Universita di Ferrara 1391-1950. Ed. Francesco Raspadori. (Pubblicazioni dell'Universita di Ferrara, 2.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1991. xxxi + 295 pp. IL 55,000. ISBN: 88-222-3906-7....

French Women and the Early Modern Canon: Recent Conferences, Editions, Monographs, and Translations.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Philip Ford and Gillian Jondorf, eds. Women's Writing in the French Renaissance. Proceedings of the Fifth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium, 7-9 July 1997. (Cambridge French Colloquia.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii +...

Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Scott Gordon, Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 395 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-674-16987-5. James Muldoon, Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800...

Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999. xii + 289 PP. $47 (cl), $ 18 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-30669-0 (cl), 0-226-30670-4 (pbk). Kenneth Parker, ed., Early...

Reading Dante's Stars.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Alison Cornish, Reading Dante's Stars New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ix + 226 pp. $25. ISBN: 0-300-07679-7. Nowadays, as in the 1950s and 1960s, literary critics are drawn to the history of science. This book...

Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Gordon Braden, Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xviii + 198 pages. $25. ISBN: 0-300-07621-5. Gordon Braden begins with an admission many of us might second: "I did not...

The Protestant Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Salvatore Caponetto, The Protestant Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 18.) Trans. Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999. xxii + 449 pp....

The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Franco Mormando, The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xvi + 5 pls. + 380 pp. $29. ISBN: 0-226-53854-0. Cynthia L....

Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Michael North and David Ormrod, eds., Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800 Aldershot and Brookfleld, VT: Ashgate, 1998. xi + 250 pp. $83.95. ISBN: 1-8401-630-3. Eckart Marchand and Alison Wright, eds., With and Without the Medici:...

Masaccio's "Trinity".(Review)
December 22, 2000... Rona Goffen, ed., Masaccio's "Trinity" (Masterpieces of Western Painting.) New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 30 pls. + 166 pp. $44.95 (cl), $15.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-46150-2 (cl), 0-521-46709-8 (pbk). ...

Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Diane Wolfthal, Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives Cambridge and New York Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv + 118 figs. + 286 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-521-58311-X. Bette Talvacchia, Taking Positions: On the Erotic...

The Transformation of Europ 1300-1600.(Review)
December 22, 2000... David Nicholas, The Transformation of Europ 1300-1600 London and New York: Arnold of the Hodder Headline Group and Oxford University Press, 1999. 486 pp. $80. ISBN: 0-340-66208-5. Robert Bireley, The Refashioning of Catholicism,...

Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Paul Corby Finney, ed., Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition Grand Rapids. Eerdmans, 1999. xviii + 46 pls. + 539 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-8028-3860-X. Catharine Randall, Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism...

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Brad S. Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. $49.95. xvi + 35 figs. + 528 pp. ISBN: 0-674-78551-7. The willingness of an individual to embrace death for...

Le Dieu Neant: Theologies negatives a l'aube des temps modernes.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Jan Miernowski, Le Dieu Neant: Theologies negatives a l'aube des temps modernes (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 82.) Leiden and New York: Brill, 1998. 186 pp. $75. ISBN: 90-04-10915-3. Jean Calvin, La famine spirituelle...

Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Ann W. Ramsey. Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630 Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1999. xii + 447 pp. $99. ISBN: 1-58046-031-3. The French Holy League...

Vater und Sohn im 16. Jahrhundert. Der Briefwechsel des Wolfgang Reichart genannt Rychardus mit seinem Sohn Zeno (1520-1543).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Walther Ludwig, ed., Vater und Sohn im 16. Jahrhundert. Der Briefwechsel des Wolfgang Reichart genannt Rychardus mit seinem Sohn Zeno (1520-1543) Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1999. 446 pp. n.p. ISBN: 3-615-00205-9. Howard Hotson,Johann...

The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700.(Review)
December 22, 2000... John Roger Paas, The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700 Volume 5:1630-1631. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. 351 pp. DM 1248,00. ISBN: 3-447-03861-6. John Roger Paas, The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700 Volume 6: 1632....

Kateryn Parr: The Making of A Queen.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Susan E. James, Kateryn Parr: The Making of A Queen Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Press, 1999. xii + 43 pls. + 467 pp. $83.95. ISBN: 1-84014-683-4. Kateryn Parr (ca. 1512-1548) followed a destiny that led from an ambitious...

Edward VI.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Jennifer Loach, Edward VI (Yale English Monarchs Series.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xviii + 24 pls. + 210 pp. n.p.. ISBN: 0-300-07992-3. This book is a melancholy memorial to one of England's respected Tudor...

Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585.(Review)
December 22, 2000... A. N. McLaren, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ix + 272 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 0-521-65144-1. A. N. McLaren's study of political culture in the...

Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Carol Edington, Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Ed. Arthur F. Kinncy. (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. x + 6 pls. + 276 pps. $40....

English Drama Before Shakespeare.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Peter Happe, English Drama Before Shakespeare London and NewYork; Longman, 1999. xi + 291 pp. [pound]14.99. ISBN: 0-582-49374-9. Peter Happe's English Drama Before Shakespeare offers a sound, thorough, and scholarly treatment of a...

Shakespeare and the Globe.(includes another review)(Review)
December 22, 2000... Stanley Wells, ed., Shakespeare and the Globe (Shakespeare Survey, 52.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 22 pls. + 338 pp. $74.95. ISBN: 0-521-66074-2. R. B. Graves, Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567-1642 ...

Marlovian Tragedy: The Play of Dilation.(includes another review)(Review)
December 22, 2000... Troni Y. Grande, Marlovian Tragedy: The Play of Dilation Lewisburg, PA and Cranbury NJ: Bucknell University Press. 1999. 221 pp. $38.50. ISBN: 0-8387-5375-4. Ian McAdam, The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of...

The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Catherine Gimelli Martin, The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv + 385 pp. $23.95. ISBN:0-8223-1989-6. When we think of English Renaissance...

From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Paul Slack, From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. viii + 179 pp. $45. IBSN: 0-19-820661-5. The...

A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Barbara J. Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720 Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2000. 284 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-8014-3686-9. In this fascinating work, designed to integrate legal concepts and traditions into more general...

Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England: The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements.(Review)
December 22, 2000... David Martin Jones, Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England: The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1999. viii + 340 pp. $70. ISBN: 1-58046-039-9. Charles Stuart...

Renaissance Society of America
December 22, 2000... William Bregman 1999 FINANCIAL STATEMENT REPORT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Members of the Executive Board And Advisory Council The Renaissance Society of America I have audited the statements of financial position...