Renaissance Quarterly back issues from March 2004:
The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation*.(The 2003 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A persistent view holds that Renaissance universities were conservative homes of outmoded knowledge. Professors droned on about Aristotle when they should have been teaching Copernicus and Galileo. Innovative research and religious revolution went on outside the lecture halls. Students ...
Creating canons in fifteenth-century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's De politia litteraria, 1.10*.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The formation of literary canons and their materialization in libraries constitute an intriguing aspect of learned culture in fifteenth-century Italy. The development of semipublic libraries was one of the enduring achievements of fifteenth-century Italian culture which, along with the ...
The beauties of the land: Bale's books, Aske's abbeys, and the aesthetics of nationhood.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2004; ... <Pre>"That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase, 'beautified' is a vile phrase."--Hamlet, 2.2.111-12 </Pre> What is the place of beauty in the life of the nation, and of nationalist thought? What makes a nation aesthetically pleasing, and does it matter whether it happens to be so ...
On the evolution of toads in the French Renaissance*.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Symbolic toads, like real ones, must adapt to their environment or die. The evolutionary development of toads as symbols of monarchical power in France from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries demonstrates this principle as metaphoric bufones or crapaux flourish, adapt, or die ...
Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... David A. Lines. Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxiv + 614 pp. index. append. bibl. $140. ISBN: 90-04-12085-8. This large book ...
Hermes' Lyre, Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Sherry L. Roush. Hermes' Lyre, Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella. Buffalo and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ix + 250 pp. index. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-8020-3712-7. Introduced by a captivating title, Sherry Roush's book, Hermes' ...
Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Francesco Petrarch. Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Ed. and trans. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. 242 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $37.50. ISBN: 0-268-03873-2. ...
La fonte di ogni eloquenzia: Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Italo Pantani. La fonte di ogni eloquenzia: Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese. Studi e testi italiani: Collana del Dipartimento di italianistica e spettacolo 16. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2002. 468 pp. index. bibl. [euro] 30. ISBN: ...
Studi sulle fonti di Leon Battista Alberti.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Rinaldo Rinaldi. Melancholia christiana: Studi sulle fonti di Leon Battista Alberti. Biblioteca di "Lettere italiane": studi e testi 58. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. Pbk. 246 pp. index. bibl. [euro] 26. ISBN: 88-222-5080-X. The essays in this volume offer detailed ...
De sermone.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Giovanni Pontano. De sermone. Ed. Alessandra Mantovani. Piccola biblioteca letteraria 11. Rome: Carocci editore, 2002. 494 pp. [euro] 26.50. ISBN: 88-430-2410-8. Alessandra Mantovani, editor and translator of the De Sermone by the humanist, poet, and public figure, ...
Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Michael J. B. Allen and Valery Rees, eds., with Martin Davies. Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxii + 493 pp. index. illus. bibl. $125. ISBN: 90-04-11855-1. No philosopher of the ...
Sumptuary Law in Italy: 1200-1500.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Catherine M. Kovesi Killerby. Sumptuary Law in Italy: 1200-1500. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 192 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-19-924793-5. In the middle of the fourteenth century, Perugia and Verona enacted sumptuary laws "to avoid the ...
A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... P. Renee Baernstein. A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xxii + 270 pp. index. map. bibl. $27.50. ISBN: 0-415-92717-X. Honorable mention, the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for 2003-04. This history of ...
Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Toby Osborne. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-521-65268-5. Savoy ranks, according to Osborne, ...
Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... William J. Connell, ed. Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xii + 454 pp. + 2 col. pls. index. illus. tbls. map. $65. ISBN: 0-520-23254-2. This festschrift volume dedicated to Gene Brucker is ...
La politique de l'experience: Savonarole, Guicciardini et le republicanisme florentin.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Jean-Louis Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini. La politique de l'experience: Savonarole, Guicciardini et le republicanisme florentin. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2002. Pbk. 386 pp. index. bibl. [euro]21. ISBN: 88-7694-563-6. The common theme of this book is the ...
Venezia e il senso del mare, storia di un prisma culturale dal XIII al XVIIII secolo.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Alberto Tenenti. Venezia e il senso del mare, storia di un prisma culturale dal XIII al XVIIII secolo. Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici, Saggi 34. Milan: Guerini e Associati, 1999. L 120,000. 653 pp. ISBN: 88-83350-51-8. Of Italian historians of the ...
Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan. Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xxiv + 386 pp. index. map. chron. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8018-6958-7. In the late 1970s the Venetian archives were ...
Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Visceglia, eds. Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 257 pp. index. $60. ISBN: 0-521-64146-2. The authors ...
Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Janis C. Bell and Thomas C. Willette, eds. Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 396 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-521-78248-1. In his ...
Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Tracy Ehrlich. Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xix + 422 pp. + 12 col. and 155 b/w pls. index. append. illus. maps. gloss. chron. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-521-59257-7 ....
Giovanni Baglione: Artistic Reputation in Baroque Rome.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Maryvelma Smith O'Neil. Giovanni Baglione: Artistic Reputation in Baroque Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 404 pp. + 15 col. and 108 b/w pls. index. bibl. $125. ISBN: 0-521-57038-7. Against the litany of monographs on Caravaggio, ...
The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Dorothy Metzger Habel. The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxii + 424 pp. + 223 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-521-77264-8. In her ambitious and thorough study of urban ...
The Italian Renaissance Palace Facade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Charles Burroughs. The Italian Renaissance Palace Facade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xix + 289 pp. + 55 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-521-62438-X. Peter Burke called Italy a ...
Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Rona Goffen. Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. viii + 521 pp. + 80 col. and 120 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-300-09434-5. Honorable mention, the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for ...
De Figura Umana: Fisiognomica, anatomia e arte in Leonardo.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Domenico Laurenza. De Figura Umana: Fisiognomica, anatomia e arte in Leonardo. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. xxxii + 242 pp. + 103 b/w pls. index. append. bibl. [euro] 26.86. ISBN: 86-222-4997-6. This book is about the role played by the sciences concerned with the ...
Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Carmen Bambach, ed. Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. 800 pp. + 333 col. pls. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-09878-2. This enormous, and enormously valuable, book provides a ...
The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence: catalogue of the exhibition magnificenza!, Palazzo Strozzi, June 6 2002.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Alan P. Darr. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence: Catalogue of the Exhibition Magnificenza!, Palazzo Strozzi, June 6 2002. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xii + 381 pp. + 250 col. and 50 b/w pls. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: ...
The Wealth of Michelangelo.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Rab Hatfield. The Wealth of Michelangelo. Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento. Studi e testi del Rinascimento europeo 16. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2002. lxiv + 564 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. [euro] 72. ISBN: 88-8498-057-7. It might seem ...
Francesco Paciotti: Architetto urbinate (1521-1591).(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Nadia Ragni. Francesco Paciotti: Architetto urbinate (1521-1591). Urbino: Accademia Raffaello, 2001. 200 pp. + 35 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $48. ISBN: 88-87573-08-5. Alessandra Coppa. Francesco Paciotti: Architetto militare. Milan: Edizioni ...
Historia de los hechos del Cardenal Gil de Albornoz.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Juan Gines de Sepulveda. Historia de los hechos del Cardenal Gil de Albornoz. Eds. L. Carrasco Reija, M. Trascasas Casares, and J. Costas Rodriguez. Obras Completas del Dr. Juan Gines de Sepulveda 5. Pozoblanco: Ayuntamiento de Pozoblanco, 2002. cxcvii + 115 pp. index. bibl ....
Correspondencias: Los origenes del arte epistolar en Espana.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Gonzalo Ponton. Correspondencias: Los origenes del arte epistolar en Espana. Estudios criticos de literature 1. Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2002. 254 pp. index. bibl. [euro] 12. ISBN: 84-9742-079-9. Correspondencias: Los origenes del arte epistolar en Espana ...
Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Joan F. Cammarata, ed. Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. viii + 304 pp. index. $59.95. ISBN: 0-8130-2578-8. This anthology comprises fifteen essays first presented as papers at various meetings of the ...
For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Luis R. Corteguera. For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii + 231 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. $32.95. ISBN: 0-8014-3780-6. In For the Common Good, Luis Corteguera sets out to uncover and ...
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Susan M. Broomhall. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. viii + 282 pp. index. append. bibl. $69.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0671-6. This book will be of ...
Le sentiment du temps dans la litterature francaise (XIIe s.--fin du XVIe s.).(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Miha Pintaric. Le sentiment du temps dans la litterature francaise (XIIe s.--fin du XVIe s.). Presses universitaires de la faculte des lettres de Toulon Babeliana 4. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 342 pp. index. bibl. [euro] 53. ISBN: 2-7453-0673-1. Many ...
Devis d'amitie: Melanges en l'honneur de Nicole Cazauran.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Jean Lecointe, Catherine Magnien, Isabelle Pantin, and Marie-Claire Thomine, eds. Devis d'amitie: Melanges en l'bonneur de Nicole Cazauran. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 966 pp. index. [euro] 137.20. ISBN: 2-7453-0617-0. The festschrift is a notoriously ...
L'Erreur de la Renaissance: Perspectives litteraires.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Francois Rigolot. L'Erreur de la Renaissance: Perspectives litteraires. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 418 pp. index. tbls. bibl. [euro] 55. ISBN: 2-7453-0684-7. The polysemy of the term announces the ambitious scope of this book. Despite the restriction of ...
Poesie et Renaissance.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Francois Rigolot. Poesie et Renaissance. Points Essais serie Lettres. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2002. 406 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro] 7.95. ISBN: 2-02-047423-9. In the preface to his new study of French sixteenth-century poetry, Francois Rigolot assures the ...
Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon's Dialogues.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Anne D. Hedeman. Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon's Dialogues. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xvii + 123 pp. + 8 col. and 39 b/w pls. append. bibl. index. $49.95. ISBN: 0-252-02614-4. Timothy Hampton. Literature ...
Noel du Fail: Conteur.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Marie-Claire Bichard-Thomine. Noel du Fail: Conteur. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 628 pp. index. bibl. 590 FF. ISBN: 2-7453-0527-1. Noel du Fail (ca. 1520-91) was born into the rural aristocracy of Brittany. He attended the College de Sainte Barbe in Paris, ...
Essais sur poutres: Peintures et inscriptions chez Montaigne.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Alain Legros. Essais sur poutres: Peintures et inscriptions chez Montaigne. Paris: Klincksieck, 2000. 548 pp. index. illus. bibl. 420 FF. ISBN: 2-252-03317-7. Andre Tournon. Montaigne: la glose et l'essai. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 424 pp ....
Sponde: commentateur d'Homere.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Christiane Deloince-Louette. Sponde: commentateur d'Homere. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 472 pp. index. tbls. bibl. 450 FF. ISBN: 2-7453-0532-8. This lucid and captivating study of Jean de Sponde's Latin commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey, published in ...
Pontus de Tyard et son oevre poetique.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Eva Kushner. Pontus de Tyard et son oevre poetique. Bibliotheque litteraire de la Renaissance 3.49. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 354 pp. index. bibl. [euro] 48.80. ISBN: 2-7453-0624-3. Eva Kushner's comprehensive work on Pontus de Tyard's poetic collections ...
Marc Lescarbot (vers 1570-1641): un homme de plume au service de la Nouvelle-France.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Eric Thierry. Marc Lescarbot (vers 1570-1641): un homme de plume au service de la Nouvelle-France. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2001. 440 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. [euro] 59.45. ISBN: 2-7453-0625-1. Marc Lescarbot was a fervent Catholic not inclined to ...
Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XI[I.sup.e] colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etude du Seizieme Siecle Bar-le-Duc, 2-5 decembre 1999.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Jean Balsamo, ed. Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XI[I.sup.e] colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etude du Seizieme Siecle Bar-le-Duc, 2-5 decembre 1999. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2002. Pbk. 535 pp. index. illus. map. n.p. ISBN: 2-600-00636-2. This ...
The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... D. J. B. Trim, ed. The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism. History of Warfare 11. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xiii + 360 pp. + 9 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $115. ISBN: 90-0413-095-5. In the half-century ...
Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Norman Housley. Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. index. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-19-820811-1. It is not usual to consider the causes of war in the time and place dealt with in this book as "religious." ...
Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... James Tracy. Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 344 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-521-81431-6. Professor Tracy's ...
From Criminal To Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... David Kunzle. From Criminal To Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672. History of Warfare 10. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxxii + 662 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 90-04-12369-5. Johan Huizinga famously declared in his ...
Jan Gossaert: Die niederlandische Kunst zu Beginn der Neuzeit.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Ariane Mensger. Jan Gossaert: Die niederlandische Kunst zu Beginn der Neuzeit. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2002.240 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. [euro] 64. ISBN: 3-496-01266-8. Jan Gossaert, the early standard-bearer of the Netherlandish Renaissance, is ...
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... H. Rodney Nevitt. Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland. Cambridge Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 302 pp. index. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0-521-64329-5. This book ...
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia and H. F. K. Van Nierop, eds. Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 187 pp. index. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-521-80682-8. Today, Holland is famous for its liberal ...
Gender in Early Modern German History.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Ulinka Rublack, ed. Gender in Early Modern German History. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 308 pp. index. illus. map. $60. ISBN: 0-521-81398-0. It is a pleasure and an honor to review this multifaceted ...
Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Charlotte Woodford. Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvi + 229 pp. index. append. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-19-925671-3. Charlotte Woodford's monograph is a ...
Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality. Essays Dedicated to the Memory of F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Thomas M. Izbicki and Christopher M. Bellitto, eds. Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality. Essays Dedicated to the Memory of F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus. Studies in the History of Christian Thought 105. Leiden and Boston: Brill ...
The Case against Johann Reuchlin: Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Erika Rummel. The Case against Johann Reuchlin: Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xvi + 174 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $50 (cl), $22.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8020-3651-1 (cl), 0-8020-8484-2 (pbk). ...
Luther's Rhetoric: Strategies and Style from the Invocavit Sermons.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Neil R. Leroux. Luther's Rhetoric: Strategies and Style from the Invocavit Sermons. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002. Pbk. 240 pp. index. append. bibl. $24.99. ISBN: 0-7586-002-X. Probably in no century was preaching such a force for change as in the ...
Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Emidio Campi, Frank A. James III, and Peter Opitz, eds. Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation. Travaux d' Humanisme et Renaissance 365. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2002. 326 pp. index. [euro] 80. ISBN: 2-600-00653-2. The conference papers ...
The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Brad S. Gregory, ed. The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs. Kerhistorische Bijdragen 18: Documenta Anabaptistica Neerlandica 8. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xlvi + 403 pp. index. $149. ISBN: 90-04-12087-4. Here we have a valuable ...
Caritas et Reformatio: Essays on Church and Society in Honor of Carter Lindberg.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... David M. Whitford, ed. Caritas et Reformatio: Essays on Church and Society in Honor of Carter Lindberg. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002. 270 pp. append. $34.99.ISBN: 0-7586-0038-0. This volume's sixteen essays begin with short pieces on Romanesque ...
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Brian Cummings. The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvii + 470 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-19-818735-1. "The Reformation is as much about literary truth as it is about literal ...
Das literarische Bild des verfolgten Glaubensgenossen bei den protestantischen Schriftstellern der Romania zur Zeit der Reformation.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Stefan Osieja. Das literarische Bild des verfolgten Glaubensgenossen bei den protestantischen Schriftstellern der Romania zur Zeit der Reformation. Franzosische Sprache und Literatur 262. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2002. xiv + 358 pp. illus. bibl. $43.95. ISBN: ...
Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Oleg Tarasov. Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia. London and New York: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2003. 416 pp. + 50 col. pls. index. illus. $40. ISBN: 1-86189-118-0. Is it possible to explain a people on the basis of its religious art? Anyone who has ...
Visions of Politics. Vol. 1, Regarding Method.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Quentin Skinner. Visions of Politics. Vol. 1, Regarding Method. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 210 pp. index. bibl. $65 (cl), $23 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-58105-2 (cl), 0-521-58926-6 (pbk). Quentin Skinner. Visions of Politics. Vol. 2, ...