Renaissance Quarterly articles from September 2003

Renaissance Quarterly archives from September 2003

William of Ockham and Lorenzo Valla: False Friends. Semantics and Ontological Reduction *
September 22, 2003... 1. INTRODUCTION Lorenzo Valla's attack on scholastic-Aristotelian logic and metaphysics in his Repastinatio dialectice et philosophie has frequently been associated with medieval nominalism. (1) It is not difficult to see why. Valla's attempt...

Rhetoric and Humanism in Quattrocento Venice
September 22, 2003... 1. THE VENETIAN ORATOR PERFECTUS IN A LETTER OF ERMOLAO BARBARO Of the endless variations Italian Renaissance writings have to offer on that hoariest of humanistic themes, the qualities of the ideal orator, one of the most distinctive is...

Alciato and the Grammarians: The Law and the Humanities in the Parergon Iuris Libri Duodecim *
September 22, 2003... Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) is known to modern scholars for his work as a humanist reformer of jurisprudence and as the inventor of the poetic emblem (Fig. 1.). (1) The twelve books of what he called "Asides from the law" are only marginally...

"The Death of the 'New Poete': Virgilian Ruin and Ciceronian Recollection in Spenser's the Shepheardes Calender". *
September 22, 2003... Critics working in the field of English Renaissance literature often discover in Edmund Spenser's (ca. 1552-99) pastoral poetry the birth of a sacred cow: a "new" Virgil for a renewed era. Spenser, after all, seemingly embodied an entire...

Paul F. Grendler. The Universities of the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx + 592 pp. 13 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-8018-6631-6. Research on Italian universities has grown exponentially in the last twenty years. This...

Alison Cornish and Dana E. Stewart, eds. Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife: Essays in Honor of John Freccero.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Intro Giuseppe Mazzotta. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2000. x + 348 pp. [euro] 50. ISBN: 2-503-50906-1. This volume, a tribute to the eminent Dantist John Freccero, is a collection of sixteen essays by scholars operating in the...

Salvatore Di Maria. The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lewisberg and London: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 11 pls. + 272 pp. $46.50. ISBN: 0-8387-5490-2. Whereas considerable critical attention has been focused recently on sixteenth-century Italian comedy, little advance has been made in...

Remo L. Guidi. Il dibattito sull'uomo nel Quattrocento: Indagini e dibattiti.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rome: Tielle Media, 1999. viii + 1276 pp. + 20 b/w pls. index. bibl. 83 [euro]. ISBN: 88-87604-00-2. To call this work a magnum opus seems inadequate, if not even ungenerous. Its bibliography alone takes up sixty-three pages. Its first...

Gigliola Fragnito, ed. Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Trans. A. Belton. (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 264 pp. illus, index. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-66172-2. The title of this book is a misnomer. By the "Church"...

Sara F. Matthews-Grieco and Sabina Brevaglieri, eds. Monaca moglie serva cortigiana: Vim e immagine delle donne tra Rinascimento e Controriforma.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Florence: Comune di Firenze, 2001. Pbk. 287 pp. + 74 b/w pls. illus. 30 [euro]. ISBN: 888-5698-75-1. Over the last few years, a large number of publications which focus on women in early modern Italy have come into print, and the current...

Shifra Baruchson-Arbib. La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie a la fin de la Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Documents, etudes et repertoires, 66.) Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001. 296 pp. illus. bibl. index. 45 [euro]. ISBN: 2-271-05933-X. Dr. Shifra Baruchson-Arbib presents her thesis through an in-depth analysis of special lists requested by...

Mario Del Treppo, ed. Condottieri e uomini d'arme nell'Italia del Rinascimento.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Europa Mediterranea Quaderni, 18.) Naples: Liguori Editore S.R.L, 2001. Pbk. xix + 484 pp. + 1 pl. index. 34.50 [euro]. ISBN: 88-207-3141-X. This volume contains the proceedings of the Lucca conference of 1998, held under the same name...

Carolyn C. Wilson. St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: New Directions and Interpretations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2001. xxiv + 79 pls. + 281 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-916101-36-3. St. Joseph has not been a fortunate figure in the history of pre-Tridentine art and religion. Too often and too easily, we have...

Gregorio Comanini. The Figino, or On the Purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the Late Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Eds. Giancarlo Maiorino and Ann Doyle-Anderson. (Toronto Italian Studies.) Buffalo and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxii + 158 pp. index, bibl. $50 (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8020-3574-4 (cl), 0-8020-8446-X (pbk). The...

David G. Franklin. Painting in Renaissance Florence 1500-1550.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. vi + 274 pp. + 80 color and 140 b/w pls. index, illus, bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-300-08399-8. This book poses provocative questions as it offers a new way of understanding Florentine painting....

Margaret Haines, ed. Santa Maria del Fiore: The Cathedral and Its Sculpture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Villa I Tatti Series, 18.) Fiesole: Edizione Cadmo, 2001. 161 illus. + 318 pp. $42.50. ISBN: 88-7923-246-0. As a part of the celebration of the seventh centenary of the cathedral of Florence, an International Symposium on the cathedral...

Bruce Boucher, ed. Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova; & Francesco Caglioti. Donatello e i Medici: Storia della David e della Giuditta.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Bruce Boucher, ed. Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xii + 312 pp. + 80 color and 120 b/w pls. index, illus, bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-09080-3. ...

Stephen John Campbell. Cosme Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ed. Alan Chong. Milan: Electa, 2002. x + 294 pp. index, illus, bibl. 70 [euro]. ISBN: 88-435-9665-9. The career of Cosme Tura (ca. 1430-95) presents considerable challenges, not least because, although richly documented, very few of his...

Kate van Orden, ed. Music and the Cultures of Print; Tim Carter. Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence; & Richard J. Agee. The Gardano Music Printing Firms, 1569-1611.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Kate van Orden, ed. Music and the Cultures of Print. (Critical and Cultural Musicology, 1.) New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000. xxi + 354 pp. $70. index. ISBN: 0-8153-2574-6. Tim Carter. Music, Patronage and Printing in Late...

Colleen Reardon. Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 289 pp. illus, append, gloss. bibl. index. $65. [SBN: 0-19-513295-5. Colleen Reardon's book is an important contribution to the study of early modern Italian culture. Dealing with...

Aude Viaud, ed. Correspondance d'un ambassadeur castillan au Portugal dans les annees 1530: Lope Hurtado de Mendoza.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian.) Lisbon and Paris: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001. 653 pp. + 14 color pls. index. bibl. 28.57 [euro]. ISBN: 972-8462-22-0. When Charles V married Isabel, princess of Portugal, in 1526, he...

Andres Laguna. Europa heautentimorumene: es decir, que miseramente a si misma se atormenta y lamenta su propia desgracia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ed. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Manjarrez. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y Leon, 2001. 208 pp. index, bibl. 18.03 [euro]. ISBN: 84-7846-990-7. With this study Gonzalez Manjarrez revisits a controversial Erasmist, Andres Laguna (1511-69),...

Marsha S. Collins. The Soledades, Gongora's Masque of the Imagination.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xvi + 270 pp. index, bibl. $37.50. ISBN: 0-8262-1363-4. The latter part of the twentieth century saw a reevaluation of seventeenth-century Baroque Spanish poet Luis de Gongora's...

Theresa Ann Sears. Clio, Eros, Thanatos: The "Novela sentimental" in Context.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York and Washington, DC: Peter Lang, 2001. x + 284 pp. index. illus. bibl. $59. ISBN: 0-8204-4993-8. The subtitle of Professor Sears' study proves somewhat misleading, as it understates the work's scope. While the book's central (and...

Anne J. Cruz. Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Buffalo and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xvii + 297 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8020-4439-5. This book attempts to answer one overarching question: why was the genre of the picaresque novel so popular in Golden Age Spain? The...

Denis Hue. La poesie palinodique a Rouen (1486-1550).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Bibliotheque litteraire de la Renaissance, 3.44.) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 1047 pp. index, illus, bibl. 120 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0479-8. Joachim du Bellay's prominent and disparaging remarks concerning the Puy de Rouen...

Antoine Cauchie. Grammaire francaise (1586): Texte latin original.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ed. Colette Demaiziere. (Textes de la Renaissance, 46.) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 544 pp. index. 85.35 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0627-8. This book is the fourth volume in the collection Traites sur la langue francaise, directed by...

Helene Germa-Romann. Du "bel mourir" au "bien mourir. "Le sentiment de la mort chez les gentilshommes francais (1515-1643).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 347.) Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2001. 352 pp. index, bibl. 88 [euro]. ISBN: 2-600-00463-7. The notion that a large class of men, privileged by birth, education, and rank, raised as Christians,...

Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer, eds. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 242 pp. + 3 b/w pls. index, illus, tbls. $60. ISBN: 0-521-77324-5. What did it mean to be Protestant in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? This is the...

Madeleine Lazard. Les Avenues de Femynie: Les femmes et la Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2001. 437 pp. bibl. index. 23 [euro]. ISBN: 2-213-61022-3. In her twelfth book on the French Renaissance, Madeleine Lazard has brought together a summa of information about women in this period. Unlike...

Franco Giacone, ed. Le Cinquiesme Livre: Actes du colloque international de Rome (16-19 octobre 1998).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Etudes Rabelaisiennes, 40, Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 354.) Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2001. 636 pp. index, tbls. 230 [euro]. ISBN: 2-600-00637-0. If Francois Rabelais' fifth book has been relatively neglected by critics,...

Gerald Sandy, ed. The Classical Heritage in France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 109.) Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. vi + 592 pp. $187. index, illus, bibl. ISBN: 90-04-11916-7. Combining the expertise of seventeen specialists with his own, Gerald Sandy...

Luciano Floridi. Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (American Philological Association, American Classical Studies, 46.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvi + 150 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-19-514671-9. Long ago, in his classic study of Montaigne, Hugo Friedrich emphasized the enduring...

Geralde Nakam. Les Essais de Montaigne: miroir et proces de leur temps: temoignage historique et creation litteeraire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Etudes Montaignistes, 37.) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 536 pp. index, append. illus, tbls. bibl. 79.25 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0626-X. This edition represents the third incarnation of Geralde Nakam's study on Montaigne's Essais....

Colette H. Winn, ed. Protestations et revendications feminines. Textes oublies et inedits sur l'education feminine (XVIe-XVIIe siecle).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 276 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index, illus, gloss, bibl. 38 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0649-9. Professor Winn has collected and edited for experts on the Renaissance as well as for readers with modern literary,...

Anthony Levi. Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xii + 484 pp. index. $39.95. ISBN: 0-300-09333-0. A noted contributor to the intellectual history of Renaissance France and to Erasmus studies, Anthony Levi is perhaps best known for his 1964 study...

Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori. The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship between Two Historians of Religious Toleration.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ed. John A. Tedeschi. (Studi e testi per la storia della tolleranza in Europa nei secoli XVI-XVIII, 6.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. Pbk. 314 pp. index, append. 29 [euro]. ISBN: 88-222-5119-9. An age has surely ended when its...

Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, eds. Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 18.) Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. vi + 478 pp. index. 60 [euro]. ISBN: 90-5867-212-3 This book is more than a hallmark in the study of the history of letter writing in early modern Europe....

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and Claude Dupuy. Une correspondance entre deux humanistes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ed. Anna Maria Raugei. 2 vols. (Le corrispondeze letterarie, scientifiche ed erudite dal rinascimento all'eta moderna, 8.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. Pbk. cxxviii + 770 pp. + 1 b/w pl. index, append. 77.46 [euro]. ISBN: 88-222-4995-X....

Anthony Grafton. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. viii + 360 pp. index, illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-674-00468-X. More than anyone since the late Arnaldo Momigliano, Anthony Grafton has worked to rehabilitate the history of...

Daniel Menager. Diplomatie et theologie a la Renaissance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Perspectives litteraires.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. 232 pp. 24 [euro]. ISBN: 21-30-50975-4. This is a very wide-ranging and interesting book. Daniel Menager takes as his point of departure Tasso's dialogue, "II...

Larissa J. Taylor, ed. Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (A New History of the Sermon, 2.) Koln and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. xviii + 398 pp. index. $127. ISBN: 90-04-11564-1. "Neither this book, nor many like it, could have been written two decades ago" are the apposite opening...

Robert J. Bast and Andrew C. Gow, eds. Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History: Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Leiden: Brill, 2000. xv + 1 color pl. + 430 pp. bibl. index. $97. ISBN: 9-0041-1633-8. The late Heiko Oberman (1930-2001) had a long and distinguished career at three universities: Harvard (1958-66), Tubingen (1966-84), and Arizona...

Marco Bellabarba, Gerd Schwerhoff, and Andrea Zorzi, eds. Criminalita e giustizia in Germania e in Italia: Pratiche giudiziarie e linguaggi giuridici tra tardo medioevo ed eta moderna.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Istituto trentino di cultura, Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento/Jahrbuch des italienischen-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient, Contributi/Beitrage, 11.) Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 2001. Pbk. 374 pp....

Barbara Fuchs. Mimesis and Empire. The New World, Islam, and European Identities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvi + 211 pp. index, bibl. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-521-80102-8. In her exploration of empire in Spain, England, and the New World, Barbara Fuchs provides her readers with a...

Michael Jeanneret. Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Trans. Nidra Poller. (Parallax Re-Visions of Culture and Society.) Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xii + 320 pp. illus, bibl. indexes. $49.95. ISBN: 0-8018-6480-1. In this sublunar world of ours, where...

Luba Freedman and Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, eds. Wege zum Mythos.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption de antiken Mythos in Europa, 3.) Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001. 214 pp. illus, index. DM 104. ISBN: 3-7861-2419-1. How did Pollaiuolo read the three Herculean representations of the Porta...

Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, eds. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 428 pp. + 167 b/w illus, index. $90. ISBN: 0-521-78225-2. The study of gardens and designed landscapes has undergone...

Melissa R. Katz and Robert A. Orsi, eds. Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxi + 298 pp. illus, index. $29.95. ISBN: 0-19-514558-5. This lavishly-illustrated volume examines the complex relationship between the sacred image and the secular identity of the...

Thomas P. Campbell. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalogue.) x + 594 pp. + 250 color pls. + 126 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-09370-5. Because of their huge cost, vast size, and...

Stephen K. Scher, ed. Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Garland Studies in the Renaissance.) London and New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. 240 pp. index. $60. ISBN: 0-8153-2074-4. In this most recent collection of essays on the Renaissance portrait medal, twelve leading international...

Goran V. Stanivukovic, ed. Ovid and the Renaissance Body.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Toronto and Buffalo: The University of Toronto Press, 2001. viii + 281 pp. index. $65. ISBN: 0-8020-3515-9. The reading of Ovid during the Renaissance was done in the light of new contemporary philosophies (Plato, Ficino). Ovid and the...

Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity Through Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. vii + 327 pp. index. $64.95 (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223- 2655-8 (cl), 0-8223-2644-2 (pbk). This volume of essays by some of the most innovative and challenging scholars working on...

Anthony Grafton and William R. Newman, eds. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe; & Pierre Jean Fabre. L'alchimiste chretien: traduction anonyme inedite du XVIIIe siecle avec le fac-simile de l'edition latine originale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Anthony Grafton and William R. Newman, eds. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Boston: The MIT Press, 2001. 520 pp. $50. ISBN: 0-262-14075-6. Pierre Jean Fabre. L'alchimiste chretien: traduction anonyme...

Thomas Vaughan and Rebecca Vaughan. Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan's Aqua Vitae: Non Vitis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Aqua Vitae: Non Vitis (British Library MS, Sloane 1741). Ed. and trans. Donald R. Dickson. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 217.) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001. liii + 270 pp. gloss. bibl. $35....

Daniel Stolzenberg, ed. The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2001. xi + 160 pp. append, illus. $35. ISBN: 0-911221-23-9. Athanasius Kircher, his voluminous publications, and his fabled museum have enjoyed something of a recent vogue, with a number of...

Owen Gingerich. An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Studia Copernicana Brill's Series, 2.) Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxxii + 402 pp. + 63 b/w pls. index, append, illus, bibl. $132. ISBN: 90-04-11466-1. Gingerich began his pursuit of the extant copies of...

Kenneth J. Howell. God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. viii + 320 pp. index, illus, tbls. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-268-01045-5. When Copernicus published his De revolutionibus in 1543, the idea of God's two books had long been a commonplace....

Stephen Gaukroger. Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 249 pp. bibl. index. $59.95 (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-80154-0 (cl), 0-521-80536-8 (pbk). Stephen Gaukroger, well known for his intellectual biography of Descartes...

Ann E. Moyer. The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with an edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Most Noble, Auncient, and Learned Playe (1563) (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization.) Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001. vi + 232 pp. illus, bibl. index. $57.50. ISBN: 0-472-11228-7. Students at medieval...

Wolfram Ax, ed. Von Eleganz und Barbarei. Lateinische Grammatik und Stilistik in Renaissance und Barock.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Wolfenbutteler Forschungen, 95.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001. 288 pp. illus. index. 69 [euro]. ISBN: 3-447-04493-4. Von Eleganz und Barbarei is the result of an "Arbeitsgesprach" in Wolfenbuttel 1999) focusing on the Latin...

Rudolph Agricola. Letters.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Eds. Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 216; Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae, 4.) Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2002. x + 435 pp. index. illus, gloss, bibl. 64.50 [euro]. ISBN: 90-232-3808-7. ...

Sari Kivisto. Creating Anti-eloquence: Epistolae obscurorum virorum and the Humanist Polemics on Style.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 118.) Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2002. Pbk. 256 pp. index, bibl. $23.30. ISBN: 951-653-315-9. This book on stylistic virtues and--especially--stylistic vices focuses on the Letters of...

Harm-Jan van Dam, trans. Hugo Grotius: De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Vol. 1.2 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 102.) Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. xiii + 1101 pp. index, append, bibl. $249. ISBN: 90-04-12027-0. Harm-Jan van Dam has produced a painstakingly thorough...

Craig E. Harline and Eddy F. Put, eds. A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pbk. x + 388 pp. index, illus, map. gloss, bibl. $16.95. ISBN: 0-300-09405-1. Following the path of such masters of historical storytelling as Natalie Zemon Davis and Carlo Ginzburg, A...

Kantik Ghosh. The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 45.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 296 pp. $65. index, bibl. ISBN: 0-521-80720-4. Kantik Ghosh explores the hermeneutic complexity of the writings of John...

Susanne Saygin. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 105.) Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xv + 307 pp. + 5 b/w pls. index, illus, bibl. $97. ISBN: 90-04-12015-7. Duke Humphrey has traditionally emerged from received scholarship...

Norman L. Jones. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. xvi + 254 pp. + 7 b/w pls. index, illus. map. bibl. $64.95 (cl), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-631-21042-3 (cl), 0-631-21043-1 (pbk). For most English men and women, the advent of the Reformation...

Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 242 pp. + 6 b/w pls. index, illus. $55 (cl), $20 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-80274-1 (cl), 0-521-00324-5 (pbk). This volume is a contribution to the continuing debate over the...

R.W.. Hoyle. The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 487 pp. index, map. bibl. $45.1SBN: 0-19-820874-X. The Pilgrimage of Grace was the greatest and most threatening of the Tudor rebellions as well as the most vexing. Perhaps as many as thirty...

Geoffrey Gibbons. The Political Career of Thomas Wriothesley, First Earl of Southampton 1501-1550, Henry VIII's Last Chancellor.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Studies in British History, 64.) Lewiston, NY and Queenston, ON: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2001. xviii + 334 pp. + 1 color pl. index, illus, bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7734-7415-3. Although Thomas Wriothesley was centrally involved in Tudor...

Stephen Alford. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 233 pp. + 6 b/w pls. index, tbls. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-521-66055-6. The reign of Edward VI can no longer claim to be a neglected period of Tudor historiography. W.K. Jordan's two-volume...

John Craig. Reformation, Politics and Polemics: the Growth of Protestantism in East Anglian Market Towns, 1500-1610.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001. xvi + 268 pp. index, append. illus, this. map. bibl. $84.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0269-9. Understanding the reception of the Reformation in English counties, towns, parishes, and...

Barry H. Howson. Erroneous and Schismatical Opinions: the Question of Orthodoxy regarding the Theology of Hanserd Knollys (ca. 1599-1691).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 99.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2001. x + 377 pp. append, bibl. index. $117. ISBN: 90-04-11997-3. Barry Howson's study of the theology of the English Particular (i.e. Calvinist) Baptist...

Michael Mendle, ed. The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 297 pp. illus, index. $64.95. ISBN: 0-521-65015-1. As Michael Mendle notes in an often witty introduction, discussion of the details of the meeting of the army council at...

Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds. A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 338 pp. index. $65. ISBN: 0-521-80252-0. "What, if anything, was new in the Restoration?" The question posed by Tim Harris in a stimulating essay, "Understanding popular...

T. R. Langley. Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphosis in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.) Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001. 256 pp. illus, bibl. index. $60. ISBN: 0-8207-0326-5. A reader might interpret the title of this monograph by T.R. Langley, Lecturer in English at...

Dorothy Auchter. Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Dorothy Auchter. Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. xxxiv + 403 pp. append, index. $91. ISBN: 0-313-31114-5. Andrew Hadfield, ed. Literature and...

Andrew Hadfield, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Spenser.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Andrew Hadfield, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Spenser. (Cambridge Companions to Literature.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 278 pp. illus. index. $54.95 (cl), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-64199-3 (cl), 0-521-64570-0 (pbk)....

N. H. Keeble, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Cambridge Companions to Literature.) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxii + 296 pp. illus, index. $59.95 (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-52164252-3 (cl), 0-521-64522-0 (pbk). Until quite recently, students of...

Michael Witmore. Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 224 pp. bibl. index. $55. ISBN: 0-8047-3556-5. Michael Witmore's Culture of Accidents examines a number of prominent New Historicist themes from a new but not wholly unprecedented...

Dennis Kezar. Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. viii + 268 pp. index. $45. ISBN: 0-19-514295-0. Guilty Creatures, a study of the English Renaissance "killing poem," explores the author's creative and ethical responsibility for his...

David Hawkes. Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Early Modern Cultural Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001. viii + 294 pp. index. $55. ISBN: 0-312-24007-4. In Idols of the Marketplace David Hawkes posits that the century in question bore witness to the...

Ceri Sullivan. The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cranbury, NJ and Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. 224 pp. $46.50. ISBN: 0-8386-3926-7. The last two decades have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the links between the early modern stage and the market....