Renaissance Quarterly back issues from September 2000:
Theater and its Social Uses. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Spectacle of Infamy [*].(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Long seen as a play that celebrates the new-found freedom of its female protagonist, Mandragola may in fact question the very possibility of theatrical "liberation." Drawing on the foundational myth central to Renaissance thinking about theater, the abduction of the Sabine women, this ...
Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza [*].
Sep 22, 2000; ... This essay examines the creation of a notorious anecdote about a Machiavellian mother -- Caterina Sforza. The adjective "Machiavellian "functions on two levels: first, Sforza often simply appears in her role as mother in Machiavelli works; second, her behavior in this particular instance ...
The Carolina and the Culture of the Common Man: Revisiting the Imperial Penal Code of 1532 [*].(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2000; ... The Carolina penal code of 1532, issued as a manual of court procedures for the Holy Roman Empire, offers an opportunity to examine connections between the legal text and broader cultural discourses. The code uses persuasive techniques that promote a vision of the rational layman as the ...
Moving the Monarch. The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Camoes's Lusiadas.
Sep 22, 2000; ... Like many other medieval and Renaissance works, the Lusiadas by Luis de Camoes can he profitably interpreted as a work of rhetorical persuasion. Although rhetoric was a primary feature of the educational curriculum of the time, this line of reasoning has been missing from the critical ...
The Gendering of the Lute in Sixteenth-Century French Love Poetry [*].
Sep 22, 2000; ... Blame not my lute for he must sound Of this or that as liketh me. Sir Thomas Wyatt Lute-poems came into vogue in France in the 1540s and 1550s. Because of the lute's shape, it could be gendered either as masculine or feminine; male and female poets therefore made use ...
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des vers de Virgile" [*].
Sep 22, 2000; ... This study reconstructs the thematic and literary presence of a labyrinth in Montaigne's "Sur des vers de Virgile." Indispensable to such a reconstruction will be a consideration of Catullus's epithalamium on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis from which are derived the hexameters textually ...
The View from the Concave Stai Recent Literature on Renaissance Architecture and Architectural Writing.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Ennio Concina. A History of Venetian Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 362 pp. illus, bibl, index. $75. ISBN: 0-521-57338-6. David Cowling. Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modem France. (Oxford Modern Languages and ...
Out of the Margins: Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy [*].
Sep 22, 2000; ... In the last few decades religion and the church have moved from the margins -- or, more precisely, the chronological borders -- of Italian Renaissance studies to their center. Less than half a century ago it was possible for Etienne Delaruelle and his collaborators on the Renaissance ...
The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy & Il Banco Cambini: Affari e cercati di una compagnia mercantile-bancaria nella Firenze del XV secolo.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Richard K. Marshall, The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 117.) Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xix + 191 pp. $42.50. ISBN: ...
Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300-1600.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Barisa Krekic, Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300-1600 (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS581.) Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. viii + 260 pp. $98.95. ISBN: 0-86078-631-5. Since his native Dubrovnik/Ragusa has always been in the focus of Barisa ...
The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494) & Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini's "Discorso di Logrogno".(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Nicolai Rubinstein, The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494) Second ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. xviii + 406 pp. $87. ISBN: 019-817418-7. Athanasios Moulakis, Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini's "Discorso di ...
Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation & Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di studi nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte (1494-1994) & Die Erlosungslehre Marsilio Ficinos.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Michael J. B. Allen, Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation Florence: Olschki, 1998. xiv + 236 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-222-4664-0. Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed., Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di studi nel ...
Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Paul Hills, Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550 New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 40 b/w + 160 color pls. 240 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-300-08135-9. Hill's Venetian Colour is even broader in its range than the subtitle suggests. The fruit of ...
Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... John Cunnally, Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiii + 230 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-691-01668-2. Ancient coins were a ubiquitous element of Renaissance culture. By 1563, when Hubert Goltzius ...
Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Alan Levine, ed., Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration (Applications of Political Theory.) Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999. vii + 282 pp. $60 (cl), $22.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-7391-0023-8 (cl), 0-7391-0024-6 (pbk). This is a remarkable book. It is a commonplace that ...
The Thief the Cross and the Whee: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe & Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Mitchell B. Merback, The Thief the Cross and the Whee: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Chicago: University of Chicago Press, and London: Redaktion Books, 1999. 352 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-22-52015-3. John Dillenberger, ...
Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance & Hygiene in the Early Medical Tradition.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Roger French, Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.43 pls. + ix + 289 pp. $86.95. ISBN: 1-85928-361-6. Heikki Mikkeli, Hygiene in the Early Medical Tradition (Humaniora, 305.) Helsinki: Academia ...
Judith: Sexual Warrior. Women and Power in Western Culture.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Margarita Stocker, Judith: Sexual Warrior. Women and Power in Western Culture New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 36 pls. + ix + 278 pp. $30. ISBN: 0-300-07365-8. Monographic volumes on female heroines have become something of a genre, providing often ...
Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation & Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe & Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Ole Peter Grell, ed., Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 85.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1998. x + 360 pp. $114.75. ISBN: 90-06-11177-8. Noel L. Brann, Trithemius and Magical ...
The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Michele Sharon Jaffe, The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 45.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 18 pls. + 196 pp. $40 (cl), $20 (pbk). ISBN: 0-674-89951-1 (d), 0-674-89951-X ...
The Iconography of Power: The French "Nouvelle" at the End of the Middle Ages & Reading in the Renaissance: "Amadis tie Gaule "and the Lessons of Memory.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... David Laguardia, The Iconography of Power: The French "Nouvelle" at the End of the Middle Ages Newark and London: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 178 pp. ISBN 0-87413-669-5. Marian Rothstein, Reading in the Renaissance: "Amadis tie Gaule "and the Lessons of ...
Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Joaneath Spicer, ed., Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Walters Art Gallery and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1998. 206 b/w + 90 color pls. + 48O pp. $75. ISBN: 0-300-0339-9. ...
Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii + 221 PP. $35. ISBN: n.a. In recent years, numerous studies have appeared on the history of medieval and early modern prostitution ....
The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy: Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Tim Cooper, The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy: Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 15.) Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. xvi + 236 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-85115-752-1. ...
The Genius of Shakespeare.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv + 384 pp. $17.95. ISBN: 0-19-512823-0. Parallel in many ways to Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare (1989), this book seeks to answer why Shakespeare's works have long ...
Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Fred B. Tromly, Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xii + 238 pp. $50. ISBN: 0-8020-4355-0. This perceptive study focuses on a recurrent motif in Marlowe's writing: "games of tantalization ...
Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne & The Theology of John Donne.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson, Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne Newark and London: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 223 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-87413-674-1. Jeffrey Johnson, The Theology of John Donne (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 1). Cambridge, ...
The Pulse of Praise: Form as Second Self in the Poetry of George Herbert & Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Julia Carolyn Guernsey, The Pulse of Praise: Form as Second Self in the Poetry of George Herbert Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 270 pp. $46.50. ISBN: 0-87413-679-2. Jeffrey Powers-Beck, Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue ...
In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth- Century England.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth- Century England Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 103 pls. + xxv + 313 pp. $130. ISBN: 0-19-818471-9. In his lavishly illustrated volume, based on the Lyell Lectures delivered in 1995-96, ...
The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Bruce R. Smith, The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 386 pp. $21. ISBN: 0-226-76377-3. In a bravura performance, Bruce Smith makes audible a world of sound obscured by ...
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday & Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces 1580-1690.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt, eds., Renaissance Culture and the Everyday Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. vi + 367 pp. $45.00 (cl), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8122-3454-5 (ci), 0-8122-1663-6 (pbk). Gordon McMullan, ed., Renaissance Configurations: ...
The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640 & The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Robert Tittler, The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640 New York: Clarendon, 1998. x + 395 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-19-820718-2. Gerald MacLean, Donna Landry, Joseph P. Ward, eds., The Country and the City Revisited: England and ...
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England & The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage.(Review)
Sep 22, 2000; ... Theodore B. Leinwand, Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 31.) New York and Oxford: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xii + 199 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 0-521-64031-8. Garrett A. Sullivan, The Drama ...
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660.(Review)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2000; ... David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 509 pp. $64.95 (cl), $24.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-63275-7 (d), 0-521-78569-3 (pbk). In this important new book, David Norbrook sets ...