Renaissance Quarterly back issues from September 2006:
Recent trends in the study of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Europe.
Sep 22, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION When the Executive Board of The Renaissance Society of America asked me to organize the Trends panel for the Society's 2005 conference, they also suggested that its theme should be religion. To keep this theme as broad and flexible as possible, 1 blandly titled ...
Homer for the court of Francois I.
Sep 22, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Hugues Salel (1503-53), courtier, cleric, and poet, wrote averse translation of the first ten books of the Iliad that appeared in Paris in 1545 as a carefully produced small folio volume with eleven fine new woodcut illustrations. (1) The publisher, Vincent ...
"Plain broad narratives of substantial facts": credibility, narrative, and Hakluyt's Principall Navigations.(Richard Hakluyt, Principall Navigations of the English Nation)
Sep 22, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION When J. A. Froude attacked the narrative style of Richard Hakluyt's Principall Navigations of the English Nation (1589) in his 1852 review of the Hakluyt Society's first three publications, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) leapt to Hakluyt's defense, ...
Penelope's web: Francesco Primaticcio's epic revision at Fontainebleau.
Sep 22, 2006; ... When Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), sister of King Francis I (1494-1547), visited the royal chateau of Fontainebleau in 1542, she remarked that the absence of the king during her stay dulled the charm of her experience: "because to see your buildings without you, it is a dead body, and ...
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Marsilio Ficino. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino. Volumes 1-7. Trans. Members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London. London: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2001. index. append. bibl. [pounds sterling]140. ISBN: 0-85683-010-0. Ficino ...
The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Lodovico Lazzarelli. The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents. Ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Ruud M. Bouthoorn. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 281. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xii + 356 pp. index, bibl. $45. ISBN: ...
The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Leo Catana. The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. x + 210 pp. index. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5261-0. Leo Catana's study on the noetic and ontological concept of contractio in the writings of ...
On Renaissance Commentaries.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Marianne Pade, ed. On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae: Neo-Latin Texts and Studies 4. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005. 139 pp. index. [euro]34.80. ISBN: 3-487-12955-8. What features of content or method distinguish a work of Renaissance pedagogy or ...
Lyric Poetry, Etna.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Pietro Bembo. Lyric Poetry, Etna. Ed. and trans. Mary P. Chatfield. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 18. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xxii + 278 pp. index. append. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01712-9. Gary R. Grund, ed. and trans. Humanist Comedies. ...
The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... J. Christopher Warner. The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. x + 270 pp. index. bibl. $75 ISBN: 0-472-11518-9. In this book, Warner attempts nothing less than a new history of the epic tradition in the ...
L'idea del poema: Studio sulla.(L'idea del poema: Studio sulla Gerusalemme conquistata di Torquato Tasso)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Matteo Residori. L'idea del poema: Studio sulla Gerusalemme conquistata di Torquato Tasso. Testi e saggi rinascimentali 3. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2004. 470 pp. index. illus. bibl. [euro]35. ISBN: 88-7642-132-7. Facts: Tasso completed the Gerusalemme liberata ...
Langues et ecritures de la Republique et de la guerre: Etudes sur Machiavel.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Alessandro Fontana, Jean-Louis Fournel, Xavier Tabet, and Jean-Claude Zancarini, eds. Langues et ecritures de la Republique et de la guerre: Etudes sur Machiavel. Genoa: Name edizione, 2004. 506 pp. index. [euro] 32. ISBN: 88-87298-54-8. This is a volume of ...
Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... William Stenhouse. Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 86. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2005. x + 204 pp. index, append. illus. bibl. $100. ISBN: ...
"Qui voluerit in iure promoveri ...": I dottori in diritto nello Studio di Bologna (1501-1796).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Maria Teresa Guerrini. "Qui voluerit in iure promoveri ...": I dottori in diritto nello Studio di Bologna (1501-1796). Voci di Clio: Fonti e studi per l'eta moderna. Bologna: CLUEB, 2005. 991 pp. index. [euro]50. ISBN: 88-491-2456-2. This very substantial volume ...
La Ca' di Dio di Padova nel Quattrocento: Riforma e governo di un ospedale per l'infanzia abbandonata.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Francesco Bianchi. La Ca' di Dio di Padova nel Quattrocento: Riforma e governo di un ospedale per l'infanzia abbandonata. Memorie: Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti 109. Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2005. xi + 266 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl ....
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Nicholas Terpstra. Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science 4. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiv + 350 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl ....
Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... George W. Dameron. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 374 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. maps. chron. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-8122-3823-0. Dameron's central theme is the role of the ...
Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... William J. Connell and Giles Constable. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi. Essays and Studies 8. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 126 pp. index. append. illus. chron. bibl. $14. ISBN: 0-7727-2030-4. ...
Lorenzo de'Medici: Collector and Antiquarian.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti. Lorenzo de'Medici: Collector and Antiquarian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 448 pp. + 9 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $170. ISBN: 0-521-45245-7. Laurie Fusco, in collaboration with Gino Corti, has produced a ...
Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Dennis Looney and Deanna Shemek, eds. Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 286. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xii + 484 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $50 ....
Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina's "Life of Sixtus IV" and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Eunice D. Howe. Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina's "Life of Sixtus IV" and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito. Studi e Testi 422. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2005. 268 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 88-210-0771-5. ...
St. Peter's in the Vatican.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... William Tronzo, ed. St. Peter's in the Vatican. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi + 320 pp. index. illus. bibl. $125. ISBN: 0-521-64096-2. Is it possible, this book inspires us to ask, to write a kind of biography of a building in which its changing ...
The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Elizabeth Cropper. The Domenichino Affair. Novelty, Imitation and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-300-10914-8. In this exemplary study, Elizabeth Cropper examines the story of ...
The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Stephen J. Campbell. The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 402 pp. index, append. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-300-1 1753-1. Stephen J. Campbell's exemplary new book ...
Bellini and the East.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Caroline Campbell and Alan Chong, eds. Bellini and the East. London: The National Gallery, 2005. 144 pp. index illus. map. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 1-85709-376-3. This slim but very rich volume was written to accompany an equally small but significant exhibition ...
Benvenuto Cellini: Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Margaret A. Gallucci and Paolo L. Rossi, eds. Benvenuto Cellini: Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 240 pp. + 8 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0-521-81661-0. Just like Benvenuto Cellini, this collection ...
Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Susan Mosher Stuard. Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 322 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3900-8. While there has been ...
The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Erik Thuno and Gerhard Wolf, eds. The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 35. Rome: Bibliotheca Hertziana, 2004. 320 pp. append. illus. bibl. [euro]95. ISBN: 88-8265-000-0. This important volume includes papers ...
Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Michael J. Levin. Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 228 pp. index, map. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8014-4352-0. Michael J. Levin's study of Spanish resident ambassadors in Rome and Venice between ...
Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Clive Griffin. Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 320 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $120. ISBN: 0-19-928073-8. Clive Griffin, who is well known for his meticulous studies of the ...
The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Mary Elizabeth Perry. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xxii + 202 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $35. ISBN; ...
"By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... J. B. Owens. "By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. 372 pp. index. map. gloss. bibl. $75. ISBN: ...
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, vol.1.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Jerome Nadal. Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Volume 1, The Infancy Narratives. Trans. Frederick A. Homann. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2003. xii + 184 pp. + 23 b/w pls. + CD-ROM. append. illus. tbls. $39.95. ISBN: 0-916101-41-X. Jerome ...
Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th-17th Centuries.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Ines G. Zupanov. Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries). History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xvi + 374 pp. + 17 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: ...
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Allan Greer. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi + 250 pp. index. illus. map. $30. ISBN: 0-19-517487-9. Although zeal for explicitly hagiographic works is quite rare in today's academia, interest in the saints ...
The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France, 1590-1615.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Eric Nelson. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu 58. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 276 pp. index. append. illus. bibl ....
Ecritures de l'histoire (XIVe-XVIe siecle): Actes du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux, 19-21 septembre 2002.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Daniele Bohler and Catherine Magnien Simonin, eds. Ecritures de l'histoire (XIVe-XVIe siecle): Actes du colloque du Centre Montaigne: Bordeaux, 19-21 septembre 2002. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 456. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 566 pp. index. illus. bibl. CHF 184 ....
Les Entrees royales a Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Pierre Gringore. Les Entrees royales a Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517). Ed. Cynthia J. Brown. Textes litteraires francais 577. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 360 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. CHF 52. ISBN: 2-600-01007-6. ...
Amadis de Gaule.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Herberay des Essarts. Amadis de Gaule. Book 4. Ed. Luce Guillerm. Textes de la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2005. 455 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro]55.60. ISBN: 2-7453-1159-X. Luce Guillerm's critical edition of book 4 of Herberay des Essarts's ...
Euvres poetiques intitulez louanges aveq quelques autres ecriz.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Jacques Peletier du Mans. Euvres poetiques intitulez louanges aveq quelques autres ecriz. Ed. Sophie Arnaud, Steven Bamforth, and Jan Miernowski. Textes de la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2005. xiv + 388 pp. index. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]51.70. ISBN: ...
The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Ullrich Langer, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 248. index. chron. bibl. $65 (cl), $22.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-81953-9 (cl), 0-521-52556-X (pbk). The welcome appearance of Montaigne on the list of authors in ...
Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Zahi Zalloua. Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2005. x + 192 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 1-886365-56-3. In this new monograph on Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua conducts an inquiry into the ethical identity of ...
Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... David L. Sedley. Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. viii + 208 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-472-11528-6. Traditionally, literary and philosophical approaches to the two concepts of sublimity and ...
Guillaume Du Vair, Parlementaire et ecrivain (1556-1621).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Bruno Petey-Girard and Alexandre Tarrete, eds. Guillaume Du Vair, Parlementaire et ecrivain (1556-1621). Colloque d'Aix-en-Provence, 4-6 octobre 2001. Travaux d'humanisme et renaissance, 403. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 318 pp. index. tbls. CHF 92. ISBN: 2-600-00994-9. ...
Grammaire francaise (1623).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Joannes Serreius. Grammaire francaise (1623). Ed. and trans. Alberte Jacquetin-Gaudet. Textes de la Renaissance 91. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2005. 462 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]84. ISBN: 2-7453-11441-1. In spite of its fundamental place in the ...
Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Rebecca Zorach. Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xvi + 314 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-226-98937-2. This book is as rich, copious, and complex as the media ...
Bernard Salomon: Illustrateur Lyonnais.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Peter Sharratt. Bernard Salomon: Illustrateur Lyonnais. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 534 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. CHF 145. ISBN: 2-600-01000-9. Peter Sharratt's Bernard Salomon provides a new monographic treatment of ...
Le livre evangelique en francais avant Calvin: Etudes originales, publications d'inedits, catalogues d'editions anciennes/The French Evangelical Book before Calvin: Original Analyses, Newly Edited Texts, Bibliographic Catalogues.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Jean-Francois Gilmont and William Kemp, eds. Le livre evangelique en francais avant Calvin: Etudes originales, publications d'inedits, catalogues d'editions anciennes/The French Evangelical Book before Calvin: Original Analyses, Newly Edited Texts, Bibliographic Catalogues. ...
L'Epithete et la connivence: Ecriture concertee chez les Evangeliques francais (1523-1534).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Isabelle Garnier-Mathez. L'Epithete et la connivence: Ecriture concertee chez les Evangeliques francais (1523-1534). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 404. Geneva: Librarie Droz S. A., 2005. 408 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 156. ISBN: 2-600-01010-6. ...
Lutheran Reformation and the Law.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Virpi Makinen, ed. Lutheran Reformation and the Law. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. vii + 270 pp. index. bibl. $120. ISBN: 90-04-14904-X. Most of the eight essays in this volume deal with the topic announced ...
Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Robert Kolb. Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. xiv + 382 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-8028-2933-8. Robert Kolb is one of the best historians of ...
The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito, vol. 1.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Wolfgang Capito. The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito Volume 1, 1507-1523. Ed. and trans. Erika Rummel with Milton Kooistra. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xlii + 286 pp. index. append. tbls. $95. ISBN: 0-8020-9017-6. This book is the first of a ...
Melanchthon und der Calvinismus.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Gunter Frank and Herman J. Selderhuis, eds. Melanchthon und der Calvinismus. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2005. 376 pp. index. illus. [euro]48. ISBN: 3-7728-2236-3. Both scholars and partisans have been making comparisons ...
John Calvin's Ideas.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Paul Helm. John Calvin's Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 438 pp. index. bibl. $125. ISBN: 0-19-925569-5. This is a book on Calvin's theology through the eyes of Paul Helm, a professor of philosophical theology at Regent College, Vancouver ....
Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Theodore de Beze. Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale. Ed. Charles-Antoine Chamay. Textes litteraires francais 576. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. xcii + 224 pp. index. gloss. bibl. CHF 72. ISBN: 2-600-00923-X. Charles-Antoine Chamay's critical edition of ...
Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls, eds. Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 134. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. x + 310 pp. index. ISBN: 90-04-14715-2. ...
L'Europe de l'exegese au XVIe siecle: Interpretations de La Parabolen Des Ouvriers a la Vigne (Matthieu 20, 1-16).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Jean-Pierre Delville. L'Europe de l'exegese au XVIe siecle: Interpretations de La Parabolen Des Ouvriers a la Vigne (Matthieu 20,1-16). Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 174. Leuven: Peeters Publishers and Booksellers, 2004. xli + 774 pp. index. illus. tbls ....
Controversies: Apologia qua respondet invectivis Lei; Responsio ad annotationes Lei.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Desiderius Erasmus. Controversies: Apologia qua respondet invectivis Lei; Responsio ad annotationes Lei. Collected Works of Erasmus 72. Ed. Jane E. Phillips. Trans. Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. ix + 450 pp. index. $150. ISBN: 0-8020-3836-0. ...
Creaturen van de Macht: Patronage bij Willen Frederik van Nassau (1613-1664).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Geert H. Janssen. Creaturen van de Macht: Patronage bij Willen Frederik van Nassau (1613-1664). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 304 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]29.50. ISBN: 90-5356-787-9. Janssen's work is a carefully crafted study of the full ...
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Maarten Prak. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age. Trans. Diane Webb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 318 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $70 (cl), $24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-84352-9 (cl), 0-521-60460-5 (pbk). Diane ...
Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Berhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, and Henk Van Veen, eds. Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. x + 482 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-89236-816-0. This volume should be required reading ...
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Andrea Pearson. Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xx + 236 pp. + 8 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5154. ...
La societa dei principi nell' Europa moderna (secoli XVI-XVII).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Christof Dipper and Mario Rosa, eds. La societa dei principi nell'Europa moderna (secoli XVI-XVII). Quaderni dell' Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 66. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. 384 pp. illus. [euro]25. ISBN: 88-15-10112-8. This collection of essays ...
Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Marc R. Forster and Benjamin J. Kaplan, eds. Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. x + 242 pp. index. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7646-5248-3. For the past ...
Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Jodi Bilinkoff. Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xii + 182 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8014-4251-6. With Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750, Jodi Bilinkoff ...