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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , Summer 2006 , pp. 656 - 681
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Editions and Translations:

Pietro, Aretino. Aretino’s Dialogues. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. vii + 397 pp. chron. bibl. $60 (cl), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8020-9004-4 (cl), 0-8020-4890-0 (pbk).Google Scholar
Théodore de, Bèze. Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale. Textes littéraires français. Ed. Charles-Antoine Chamay. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. xcii + 224 pp. index. gloss. bibl. CHF 72. ISBN: 2-6000-0923-X.Google Scholar
John E., Booty, ed.  The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Reprint. xvi + 428 pp. index. illus. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8139-2517-7..Google Scholar
Wolfgang, Capito. The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito. Vol. 1, 1507–1523. With Milton Kooistra. Ed. and trans. Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xlii + 286 pp. index. append. tbls. $95. ISBN: 0-8020-9017-6..Google Scholar
François de, Chantelouve, and , Matthieu, Pierre. The Tragedy of the Late Gaspard de Coligny and The Guisiade. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 40. Trans. Richard Hillman. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, Inc., 2005. 312 pp. illus. bibl. $20. ISBN: 1-895537-86-X..Google Scholar
Hermann, Conring. New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 282. Ed. and trans. Constantin Fasolt. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xxxviii + 122 pp. index. chron. bibl. $32. ISBN: 0-88698-325-2..Google Scholar
Desiderius, Erasmus. Controversies: Apologia qua respondet invectivis Lei; Responsio ad annotationes Lei. Collected Works of Erasmus 72. Ed. Jane Phillips. Trans. Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. ix + 450 pp. index. $150. ISBN: 0-8020-3836-0.Google Scholar
Pierre, Gringore. Les Entrées royales à Paris de Marie d’Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517). Textes Littéraires Français. Ed. Cynthia J. Brown. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 360 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. CHF 52. ISBN: 2-600-01007-6..Google Scholar
Roch, Le Baillif. Le Demosterion. Textes de la Renaissance 93. Ed. Hervé Baudry. Paris: Honoré Champion éditeur, 2005. 288 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €36. ISBN: 2-7453-1205-7.Google Scholar
Thomas, More. The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition. Ed. George M. Logan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. lxii + 142 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. chron. $45 (cl), $17.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-253-34657-6 (cl), 0-253-21799-7 (pk).Google Scholar
Anthony, Mortimer, ed.  Petrarch’s Canzoniere in the English Renaissance. Rev. ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 196 pp. index. gloss. bibl. $55. ISBN: 90-420-1676-0.Google Scholar
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David E, Rutherford. Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of Antonio da Rho. Renaissance Text Series 19. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 301. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 360 pp. + 1 color pl. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $48. ISBN: 0-86698-345-7.Google Scholar
William, Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare in Production. Ed. Frances A. Shirley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii + 258 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $70 (cl), $27.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-79255-X (cl), 0-521-79684-9 (pk).Google Scholar
Simon de, Vallambert. Cinq Livres, de la maniere de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 74. Ed. Colette H. Winn. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A,, 2005. 512 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. chron. bibl. CHF 108. ISBN: 2-600-01029-7.Google Scholar

Bibliography and Reference:

Gioacchino, Barbera. Antonello da Messina: Sicily’s Renaissance Master. With contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. 56 pp. illus. bibl. $14.95. ISBN: 0-300-11648-9.Google Scholar
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Anthologies and Texts:

Luís de, Camões. Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition. Ed. and trans. William Baer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 200 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-226-09266-6.Google Scholar
William H, Chafe., Sitkoff, Harvard, and , Bailey, Beth, eds.  A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. Sixth ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Reprint. xii + 482 pp. illus. bibl. $37.95. ISBN: 0-195-15105-4.Google Scholar
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Paul., Edmondson. Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life. The Shakespeare Handbooks. Hampshire: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2005. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $59.95 (cl), $16.95 (pbk). ISBN: 1-4039-3386-3 (cl), 1-4039-2094-X (pk).Google Scholar
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Johannes, Kepler. Selections from Kepler’s Astronomia Nova A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies. Ed. and trans. William H. Donahue. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2004. x + 109 pp. append. illus. gloss. bibl. $9.95. ISBN: 1-888009-28-4.Google Scholar
Isaac, Newton. Selections from Newton’s Principia A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies. Ed. Dana Densmore. Trans. William H. Donahue. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2004. xxiv + 97 pp. illus. gloss. bibl. $9.95. ISBN: 1-888-00926-8.Google Scholar
Peter, Scupham, ed., and , Golding, Arthur, trans. Metamorphoses: A Selection. Fyfield Books. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2005. xx + 156 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $17.95. ISBN: 1-85754-776-4.Google Scholar
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Mark., Van Doren. Shakespeare. Foreword by David Lehman. New York: New York Review of Books, 2005. Reprint. xxiv + 300 pp. index. $15. ISBN: 1-59017-168-3.Google Scholar
John, Witte, and , Kingdon, Robert M. Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin’s Geneva. Vol. 1, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2005. xxxii + 512 pp. index. $32. ISBN: 0-8028-4803-6.Google Scholar
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Collections and Studies:

Craig A, Berry., and , Hayton, Heather Richardson, eds.  Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 294. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xviii + 254 pp. index. $45. ISBN: 0-86698-338-4. Includes: Craig A. Berry, “Translating Desire: An Introduction”; Daniel T. Kline, “Resisting the Father in Pearl”; Kathleen Long, “Victim of Love: The Poetics and Politics of Violence in Le Printemps’ of Theodore Agrippa D’Aubigné”; Albert Russell Ascoli, “Body Politics in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso”; Suzanne Wayne, “Desire in Language and Form: Heloise’s Challenge to Abelard ”; V. Stanley Benfell, “Translating Petrarchan Desire in Vittoria Colonna and Gaspara Stampa”; Mary Trull, “‘Odious Ballads: Fallen Women’s Laments and All’s Well That Ends Well”; Heather Richardson, “Teaching How to Translate: Love and Citizenship in Brunetto Latini’s Tesoretto”; Craig A. Berry, “What Silence Desires: Female Inheritance and the Romance of Property in the Roman de Silence”; and Harry Berger, Jr., “Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene. ”Google Scholar
Danièle, Bohler, and , Simonin, Catherine Magnien, eds.  écritures de l’Histoire (XIVe-XVIe siècle): Actes du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux, 19–21 septembre, 2002. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 565 pp. index. illus. bibl. CHF 184. ISBN: 2-600-01011-4. Includes: Catherine Magnien and Danièle Bohler, “Avant-propos”; Claude-Gilbert Dubois, “Propos liminaire”; Ken Keffer, “Sources catastrophiques de l’histoire chez Blaise de Monluc, François de La Noue et le seigneur de Brantôme”; Philippe Desan, “Loys Le Roy et l’anthropologie historique”; Mireille Chazan, “Charlemagne dans l’historiographie messine à la fin du Moyen Age”; Anne Schoysman, “L’écriture mythographique de l’histoire à la cour de Bourgogne: les Genealogie deorum gentilium de Boccace exploitées par Jean Miélot, remanieur de l’Epitre Othea de Christine de Pizan”; Bruna Conconi, “Quasi luci sunt offundendæ, ut illustretur, tenebræ: lombre de Thucydide sur la reddition de Sancerre”; Rosanna Gorris Camos, “‘La France estoit affamée de la lecture d’un tel historien’: lectures de Tacite entre France et Italie”; Richard Cooper, “Histoire et archéologie de la Gascogne antique au XVIe siècle”; Géraldine Cazals, “La constitution d’une mémoire urbaine à Toulouse (1515–1556)”; Myriam Yardeni, “Histoire et petite histoire chez Pierre de L’Estoile”; Elisabeth Gaucher, “Le vrai et le faux dans l’écriture de quelques biographies du XVe siècle: ‘écrire la vie, une autre histoire’”; Isabelle Heullant-Donat, “L’historiographie, le faussaire et la truffe. Les falsifications d’Alfonso Ceccarelli sur les chroniques de fra Elemmosina”; Estelle Doudet, “De la dissonance his-torique à la conjointure littéraire: l’art de la manipulation textuelle dans la Chronique de George Chastelain”; Pascale Chiron, “‘Un temps turbulent à de-scrire en forme lysable’, l’écriture de l’histoire chez Jean Lemaire de Belges”; Jean Dufournet, “Commynes et l’écriture des Mémoires”; Bruno Méniel, “Mémoires privés et histoire publique à la Renaissance: les cas de Guichardin et d’Aubigné”; Jacqueline Boucher, “La difficulté d’être acteur et rédacteur de l’histoire à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe siècle”; Claude Thiry, “Le lyrisme de l’histoire dans l’œuvre des indiciaires de Bourgogne”; Daniel Ménager, “Le récit de bataille”; Yves-Marie Bercé, “L’Histoire comme un théâtre”; Claude-Gilbert Dubois, “La méthode qu’on doit tenir en la lecture de l’histoire (1579) de Pierre Droict de Gaillard”; Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardins, “Maîtriser le temps pour maî-triser les lieux: la politique historiographique bourguignonne dans l’appropriation des terres du Nord au XVe siècle”; Colette Beaune and Elodie Lequain, “Histoire et mythe familiaux chez les Boulogne-Auvergne”; Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, “Réforme, identité nationale et sources médiévales: Matthew Parker et le Memoriale historiarum de Jean de Saint-Victor”; Frank Lestringant, “L’écriture du martyrologue: Richard Verstegan et Matthieu de Launoy”; Amy Graves, “La méthode pragmatique: la pratique de l’histoire dans les Mémoires de Condé et leurs prolongations”; Hughes Daussy, “L’instrumentalisation politique et religieuse de l’histoire chez Philippe Duplessis-Mornay”; Jean-Claude Laborie, “L’écriture jé-suite de l’histoire, le laboratoire historiographique jésuite au XVIe siècle”; Louis Lobbes, “L’œuvre historiographique de Pierre Matthieu ou la tentative d’embrigader Clio”; and Jean-Marie Moeglin, “Qui a inventé la Guerre de Cent ans? Le règne de Philippe VI dans l’historiographie médiévale et moderne (vers 1350-vers 1650).”Google Scholar
Stephen, Boyd, ed.  A Companion to Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares. Collección Támesis 218. London: Tamesis Books, 2005. viii + 326 pp. index. append. $85. ISBN: 1-8556-6118-7. Includes: Stephen Boyd, “Introduction”; “Cervantes’s Exemplary Prologue”; William Clamurro, “Enchantment and Irony: Reading La gitanilla”; Peter N. Dunn, “The Play of Desire: El amante liberal and El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros”; A. K. G. Paterson, “Language as Object of Representation in Rinconete y Cortadillo”; Isabel Torres, “Now you see it, now you … see it again? The Dynamics of Doubling in La española inglesa”; Stephen Rupp, “Soldiers and Satire in El licenciado Vidriera”; Anthony Lappin, “Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre”; B. W. Ife and Trudi L. Darby, “Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre: Spanish and English Perspectives”; Paul Lewis-Smith, “Free-Thinking in El celoso extremeño”; D. Gareth Walters, “Performances of Pastoral in La ilustre fregona: Games within the Game”; Idoya Puig, “Cervantine Traits in Las dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia”; Edward Aylward, “The Peculiar Arrangement of El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros”; Colin Thompson, “Eutrapelia and Exemplarity in the Novelas ejemplares”; and José Montero Reguera, “‘Entre parejas anda el juego’/ ‘All a Matter of Pairs’: Reflections on some Characters in the Novelas ejemplares”.Google Scholar
Douglas A, Brooks., ed. Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xviii + 436 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0425-X. Includes: Douglas A. Brooks, “Introduction”; Margreta de Grazia, “Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenberg, and Descartes”; Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson, “Meaning, ‘Seeing’, Printing ”; Katharine Eisaman Maus, “A Womb of His Own: Male Renaissance Poets in the Female Body”; Lynne Dickson Bruckner, “Ben Jonson’s Branded Thumb and the Imprint of Textual Paternity”; David Lee Miller, “All Father: Ben Jonson and the Psychodynamics of Authorship”; James A. Knapp, “The Bastard Art: Woodcut Illustration in Sixteenth-Century England”; Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, “Promiscuous Textualities: The Nashe-Harvey Controversy and the Unnatural Productions of Print”; Michael Baird-Saenger, “The Birth of Advertising”; Aaron W. Kitch, “Printing Bastards: Monstrous Birth Broadsides in Early Modern England”; Bianca F. C. Calabresi, “‘Red Incke: Reading the Bleeding on the Early Modern Page”; Stephen Orgel, “Marginal Maternity: Reading Lady Anne Clifford’s A Mirror for Magistrates”; Cyndia Susan Clegg, “Checking the Father: Anxious Paternity and Jacobean Press Censorship”; Howard Marchitello, “Pater patriae: James I and the Imprint of Prerogative”; Laurie E. Maguire, “How Many Children Had Alice Walker?”; Mark Rose, “Mothers and Authors: Johnson v. Calvert and the New Children of Our Imagination”; Judith Roof, “In Locus Parentis”; and Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth, “Afterword.”Google Scholar
Pamela Allen, Brown, and , Parolin, Peter, eds.  Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xviii + 330 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0953. Includes: Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, “Introduction”; James Stokes, “Women and Performance: Evidences of Universal Cultural Suffrage in Medieval and Early Modern Lincolnshire”; Gweno Williams, Alison Findlay, and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, “Payments, Permits and Punishments: Women Performers and the Politics of Place”; Natasha Korda, “The Case of Moll Frith: Women’s Work and the ‘All-Male Stage’”; Bella Mirabella, “‘Quacking Delilah’s: Female Mountebanks in Early Modern England and Italy”; M. A. Katritzky, “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery”; Julie D. Campbell, “‘Merry, nimble, stirring spirit[s]:’ Academic, Salon and Commedia dell’ arte Influence on the Innamorate in Love’s Labour’s Lost”; Rachel Poulsen, “Women Performing Homoerotic Desire in English and Italian Comedy: La Calandria, Gl’Ingannati and Twelfth Night”; Melinda J. Gough, “Courtly Comédiantes: Henrietta Maria and Amateur Women’s Stage Plays in France and England”; Peter Parolin, “The Venetian Theater of Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel”; Julie Crawford, “‘Pleaders, Atturneys, Petitioners and the like’: Margaret Cavendish and the Dramatic Petition”; Jean E. Howard, “Staging the Absent Woman: The Theatrical Evocation of Elizabeth Tudor in Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I ”; Bruce R. Smith, “Female Impersonation in Early Modern Ballads”; Pamela Allen Brown, “Jesting Rights: Women Players in the Manuscript Jestbook of Sir Nicholas Le Strange”; and Phyllis Rackin, “Afterword.”Google Scholar
Caroline, Campbell, and , Chong, Alan, eds.  Bellini and the East. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2005. 144 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 1-857-09336-4. Includes: Deborah Howard, “Venice, the Bazaar of Europe”; Caroline Campbell, “The Bellini, Bessarion and Byzantium”; J. M. Rogers, “Mehmed the Conqueror: Between East and West”; and Alan Chong, “Gentile Bellini in Istanbul: Myths and Misunderstandings.”Google Scholar
Paul Maurice, Clogan, ed.  Reengagement with History. Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture N. S. 31. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2005. xiv + 172 pp. index. illus. $75. ISBN: 0-7425-4949-6. Includes: Don A. Monson, “Andreas Capellanus and Reception Theory: The Third Dialogue”; Karen Elizabeth Gross, “Virgilian Hauntings in Boccaccio’s De casibus virorum illustrium”; Daisy Deloglu, “Reinventing the Ideal Sovereign in Christine de Pizan’s Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du Sage roy Charles V ”; Robert Stretter, “Cupid’s Wheel: Love and Fortune in The Knight’s Tale”; Jennifer Monahan, “Clément Marot, The Roman de la Rose, and Poetic Identity”; and Paul Freedman, “Atrocities and the Executions of Peasant Rebel Leaders in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe.”Google Scholar
Jane, Couchman, and , Crabb, Ann M, eds.  Women’s Letters across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. vii + 336 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5107-X. Includes: Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb, “Form and Persuasion in Women’s Letters, 1400–1700”; Ann Crabb, “How to Influence Your Children: Persuasion and Form in Alessandra Macigni Strozzi’s Letters to Her Sons”; Malcolm Richardson, “‘A Masterful Woman’: Elizabeth Stonor and English Women’s Letters, 1399-c. 1530”; Erin Henriksen and Mark Zelcer, “‘Much could be written’: Glikl of Hameln’s Life in Writing”; Deborah Stott, “‘I am the same Cornelia I have always been’: Reading Cornelia Collonello’s Letters to Michelangelo”; Christina Antenhofer, “Letters across Borders: Strategies of Communication in an Italian-German Renaissance Correspondence”; Deanna Shemek, “Isabella d’Este and the Properties of Persuasion”; James Daybell, “‘I wold wyshe my doings myght be … secret’: Privacy and the Social Practices of Reading Women’s Letters in Sixteenth Century England”; Jane Couchman, “‘Give birth quickly and then send us your good husband’: Informal Political Influence in the Letters of Louise de Coligny”; Barbara Stephenson, “‘Pregnant with 100,000 Soldiers’: The Correspondence of Marguerite de Navarre and François I”; Elizabeth McCartney, “In the Queen’s Words: Perceptions of Regency Government Gleaned from the Correspondence of Catherine de Médicis”; Susan Broomhall, “‘Burdened with small children’: Women Defining Poverty in Sixteenth-Century Tours”; Alison Weber, “‘Dear Daughter’: Reform and Persuasion in St. Teresa’s Letters to Her Prioresses”; Elena Levy-Navarro, “The Religious Warrior: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza’s Correspondence with Rodrigo de Calderón”; Peter Matheson, “Form and Persuasion in the Correspondence of Argula von Grumbach”; and Anne R. Larsen, “The French Reception of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Letters on Women’s Education (1646).”Google Scholar
Chrysa, Damianaki, Procaccioli, Paolo, and , Romano, Angleo, eds.  Il Rinascimento italiano di Fronte alla Riforma: Letteratura e Arte/Sixteenth-Century Italian Art and Literature and the Reformation. Testi e Studi di letteratura italiana 12. Rome: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2005. 344 pp. + 11 color and 9 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €40. ISBN: 88-8247-165-9. Includes: Antonio Corsario, “Gli spazi e gli interventi dei letterati fra la Riforma e il Concilio”; Luca D’Ascia-Stefano Simoncini, “Il Simia di Andrea Guarna e lo Julius exclusus di Erasmo: elementi per un confronto”; Letizia Panizza, “Removable Eyes, Speaking Lamps and a Philosopher-Cock: Lucianic Motifs in the Service of the Cinquecento Reform”; Harald Hendrix, “Pietro Arentino’s Humanità di Christo and the Rhetoric of Horror”; Christopher Cairns, “Some Absent Friends from the Circle of Aretino: Antonio Brucioli, Gian Pietro Carafa and Ortensio Lando”; Paolo Procaccioli, “1542: Pietro Aretino sulla via di Damasco”; Enrico Garavelli, “Lodovico Domenichi nicodemita?”; Angelo Romano, “La Letteratura dei riformati: Celio Secondo Curione ed Olimpia Morata”; Fabio Massimo Bertolo, “John Wolfe, un editore inglese tra Arentino e Machiavelli”; Chrysa Damianaki “La Porta della Sagrestia di San Marco di Sansovino: implicazioni ideologiche e culturali”; Michael Douglas-Scott, “Prohibition of Text and Licence of Image: Painters and the Vernacular Bible in Counter-Reformation Venice”; and Tom Nichols, “Paragons of Poverty: The Imagery of Deserving Beggars in the Age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation.”Google Scholar
Anne Marie, D’Arcy, and , Fletcher, Alan J, eds.  Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 416 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 1-85182-929-6. Includes: David Aers, “The Testimony of William Thorpe: Reflections on Self, Sin and Salvation”; Valerie Allen, “Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England”; Julia Boffey, “Chaucer’s Fortune in the 1530s: Some Sixteenth-Century Recycling”; J. A. Burrow, “Politeness and Privacy: Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess”; Helen Conrad-OBriain, “Some Reflections on Sir Orfeo’s Poetic Mirror of Polity”; Helen Cooper, “Lancelot, Roger Mortimer and the Date of the Auchinleck Manuscript”; Anne Marie DArcy, “‘Into the kirk wald not hir self present:’ Leprosy, Blasphemy and Heresy in Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid”; A. S. G. Edwards, “A New Text of The Canterbury Tales” ? ; Richard Firth Green, “The Hunting of the Hare: An Edition”; Alan J. Fletcher, “Pearl and the Limits of History”; Ralph Hanna, “Notes on Some Trinity College Dublin Manuscripts”; Angela M. Lucas, “‘But if a man be vertuous withal’: Has Aurelius in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale ‘lerned gentillesse aright?’”; Peter J. Lucas, “An Englishman in Rome: Capgrave’s 1450 Jubilee Guide, The Solace of Pilgrimes”; Alastair J. Minnis, “Piers’ Protean Pardon: The Letter and Spirit of Langland’s Theology of Indulgences”; Charlotte C. Morse, “Scenes of Farewell in the Middle Ages”; Derek Pearsall, “The Flower and the Leaf and the Assembly of Ladies: A Revisitation”; Helen Phillips, “Remembering Edward I”; Oliver Pickering, “Stanzaic Verse in the Auchinleck Manuscript: The Alphabetical Praise of Women”; Wendy Scase, “‘Satire on the Retinues of the Great’ (MS Harley 2253): Unpaid Bills and the Politics of Purveyance”; James Simpson, “Consuming Ethics: Caxton’s History of Reynard the Fox”; Myra Stokes, “Gawain and the Good”; John J. Thompson, “Patch and Repair and Making Do in Manuscripts and Texts Associated with John Stow”; Thorlac Turville-Petre, “St Erkenwald and the Crafty Chronicles”; and Greg Walker, “The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman’s Tale.”Google Scholar
Clifford, Davidson, ed.  The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages. AMS Studies in the Middle Ages 26. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2005. viii + 318 pp. index. illus. $78.50. ISBN: 0-404-64166-0. Includes: Michael Norton and Amelia Carr, “Women’s Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg”; Nils Holger Peterson, “Another Visitatio Sepulchri from Scandinavia”; Mark Pilkinton, “The Easter Sepulcher at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol”; Dunbar H. Ogden, “The Visitatio Sepulchri: Public Enactment and Hidden Rite”; Martin Walsh, “Eulenspiegel (Episode 13) as a Theater-Historical Document”; Nicholas J. Rogers, “Mechanical Images at Salisbury”; Jennifer S. Alexander, “The ‘Molly Grime’ Ritual in Glentham Church”; Hans-Jürgen Diller, “A Palmesel from the Cracow Region”; Gunilla Iversen, “O Virginitas, in regali thalamo stas: New Light on the Ordo Virtutum: Hildegard, Richardis, and the Order of the Virtues”; Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, “Another Manuscript of the Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen”; Rick Johnson, “Sequentia’s Ordo Virtutum at Ann Arbor: A Performance in Memory of Barbara Thornton”; Michael Milway, “Boy Bishops in Early Modern Europe: Ritual, Myth, and Reality”; John W. Velz, “Adoxography as a Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”; Yumi Dohi, “Melchisedek in Late Medieval Religious Drama”; Mikiko Ishii, “A Spoon and the Christ Child”; Elza Tiner, “English Law in the York Trial Plays”; Mark R. Sullivan, “The Missing York Funeral of the Virgin”; Barbara D. Palmer, “Staging the Virgin’s Body: Spectacular Effects of Annunciation and Assumption”; Véronique Plesch, “Ludus Sabaudiae: Observations on Late Medieval Theater in the Duchy of Savoy”; Alan E. Knight, “Manuscript Painting and Play Production: The Evidence from the Processional Plays of Lille”; Jarmila F. Veltrusky, “Medieval Drama in Bohemia”; Andrzej Dabrówka, “Polish Saint Plays of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Susan Verdi Webster, “The Descent from the Cross in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”; Francesc Massip, “The Cloud: A Medieval Aerial Device, Its Origins, and Its Use in Spain Today”; Sandra Pietrini, “Medieval Ideas of the Ancient Actor and Roman Theater”; and Leif Søndergaard and Thomas Pettitt, “The Flyting of Yule and Lent: A Medieval Swedish Shrovetide Interlude.”Google Scholar
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Peter, Erickson, and , Hunt, Maurice, eds.  Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. xiii + 244 pp. index. bibl. $37.50 (cl), $19.75 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87352-990-1 (cl), 0-87352-991-X (pbk). Includes: Peter Erickson, “Othello in the Work of James R. Andreas”; Michael Neill, “Othello and Race”; Francesca T. Royster, “Rememorializing Othello: Teaching Othello and the Cultural Memory of Racism”; Nicholas F. Radel, “‘Your Own for Ever’: Revealing Masculine Desire in Othello”; Emily C. Bartels, “Improvisation and Othello: The Play of Race and Gender”; Cynthia Marshall, “Orders of Fantasy in Othello”; Jean E. Howard, “Othello as an Adventure Play”; Douglas Bruster, “Teaching Othello as Tragedy and Comedy”; Cynthia Lewis, “‘’Tis But a Man Gone’: Teaching Othello as an (Anti)Revenge Play”; Michael Warren, “Teaching the Texts of Othello”; Maurice Hugo, “Motivating Iago”; Geraldo U. de Sousa, “Unhoused in Othello”; Martha Tuck Rozett, “Teaching Teachers: Othello in a Graduate Seminar”; Virginia Mason Vaughan, “Teaching Richard Burbage’s Othello”; Miranda Johnson-Haddad, “Teaching Othello through Performance Choices”; Samuel Crowl, “‘Ocular Proof’: Teaching Othello in Performance”; Kathy M. Howlett, “Interpreting the Tragic Loading of the Bed in Cinematic Adaptations of Othello”; Lisa Gim, “Teaching Othello with Works by Elizabeth Cary and Aphra Behn”; Sheila T. Cavanagh, “Tales of a Fateful Handkerchief: Verdi, Vogel, Cinthio, and Shakespeare Present Othello”; Janelle Jensted, “Paper, Linen, Sheets: Dinesen’s ‘The Blank Page’ and Desdemona’s Handkerchief’; and Joyce Green MacDonald, “Finding Othello’s African Roots through Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet” .Google Scholar
Ewan F, Fernie., ed. Spiritual Shakespeares. Accents on Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2005. xxx + 244 pp. index. bibl. $31. ISBN: 0-415-31967-6. Includes: Ewan Fernie, “Introduction: Shakespeare, Spirituality and Contemporary Criticism”; Kiernan Ryan, “‘Where hope is coldest’: All’s Well That Ends Well ”; David Ruiter, “Harrys (In)human face”; Lowell Gallagher, “Waiting for Gobbo”; Philippa Berry, “‘Salving the mail: Perjury, Grace and the Disorder of Things in Love’s Labour’s Lost”; Lisa Freinkel, “The Shakespearean Fetish”; John J. Joughin, “Bottoms’ Secret ….”; Richard Kearney, “Spectres of Hamlet”; Ewan Fernie, “The Last Act: Presentism, Spirituality and the Politics of Hamlet”; and Jonathan Dollimore, “Afterword.”Google Scholar
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Günter, Frank, and , Selderhuis, Herman J, eds.  Melanchthon und der Calvinismus. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 9. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2005. 376 pp. index. illus. €48. ISBN: 3-7728-2236-3. Includes: Günter Frank and Herman J. Selderhuis, “Vorwort”; Paul Metzger, “Geleitwort”; Riemer Faber, “The Humanism of Melanchthon and of Calvin”; Lyle D. Bierma, “The Structure of the Heidelberg Catechism: Melanchthonian or Calvinist?”; Herman J. Selderhuis, “Ille Phoenix: Melanchthon und der Heidelberger Calvinismus 1583–1622”; Karin Maag, “Higher Education for Melanchthon and Calvinism: A Comparative Approach”; Jan Rohls, “Aristotelische Methodik und protestantische Theologie: Von Melanchthon zu Zabarella”; Michael Becht, “Pia Synodus: Die Lehre vom Konzil in der Theologie Philipp Melanchthons und Johannes Calvins”; Christoph Strohm, “Melanchthon-Rezeption in der Ethik des frühen Calvinismus”; Günter Frank, “Zur Gottes- und Trinitätslehre bei Melanchthon und Calvin”; Theodor Mahlmann, “Melanchthon als Vorl äufer des Wittenberger Kryptocalvinismus”; Max Engammare,“The Horoscopes of Calvin, Melanchthon and Luther: An Unexpected Post-Tridentine Polemical Argument”; Wim Janse, “Die Melanchthonrezeption des Nonkonformisten Wilhelm Klebitz (ca. 1533–1568)”; Willem Van’t Spijker, “Die Diversität der reformierten Scholstik: Die theologische Methode Melanchthons und Calvins im Vergleich und beider Aus-wirkungen auf die reformierte Scholastik”; and Andreas J. Beck, “Zur Rezeption Melanchthons bei Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676), namentlich in seiner Gotteslehre.”Google Scholar
Jean-François, Gilmont, and , Kemp, William, eds.  Le livre évangélique en Français avant Calvin / The French Evangelical Book before Calvin: Original Analyses, Newly Edited Texts, Bibliographic Catalogues. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. 396 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €40. ISBN: 2-503-51705-6. Includes: William Kemp and Jean-François Gilmont, “Introduction”; Reinhard Bodenmann, “Farel et le livre réformé français”; William Kemp and Isabelle C. Denommé, “L’Epistre chrestienne tresutile (c. 1524), un écrit de Guillaume Farel? Présentation et édition”; Francis Higman, “Farel’s Summaire: The Interplay of Theology and Polemics”; Myra D. Orth, “Reconsidering Radical Beauty: Marguerite de Navarre’s Illuminated Evangelical Catechism and Confession (Arsenal, MS 5096)”; Jean-François Gilmont and William Kemp, “La plus ancienne édition dun psaume traduit par Clément Marot”; Jean-François Gilmont, “La production typographique de Martin Lempereur (Anvers, 1525–1536)”; James P. Carley, “French Evangelical Books at the Court of Henry VIII ”; William Kemp, “La redécouverte des éditions de Pierre de Vingle imprimées à Genève et à Neuchâtel (1533–1536)”; Isabelle C. Denommé, “La vision théologique de Marie d’Ennetières et le ‘Groupe de Neuchâtel’”; Diane Desrosiers-Bonin, “L’Epistre de Marie dEnnetières et les dédicaces évangéliques offertes à la famille royale avant 1540”; René Paquin, “érasme expurgé: LExhortation à la lecture des sainctes lettres et le problème nicodémite”; William Kemp, “L’Epigraphe Lisez et puis jugez: Le Libre Examen dans la Réforme française avant 1540”; Eric H. Reiter, “The Decline of a Catholic Bestseller during the Early Reformation: The Stella clericorum in the Sixteenth Century”; and Jean-Fran çois Gilmont, “En guise de conclusion: le livre évangélique de langue française avant Calvin.”Google Scholar
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Martin, Mulsow, and , Rohls, Jan, eds.  Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. x + 310 pp. index. $134ISBN: 90-04-14715-2. Includes: Jan Rohls, “Calvinism, Arminianism and Socinianism in the Netherlands until the Synod of Dort”; Martin Mulsow, “The New Socinians’: Intertextuality and Cultural Exchange in Late Socinianism”; Didier Kahn, “Between Alchemy and Antitrinitarianism: Nicolas Barnaud (ca. 1539–1604?)”; Florian Mühlegger, “Pluralization and Authority in Grotius’ Early Works”; Hans W. Blom, “Grotius and Socinianism”; Dietrich Klein, “Hugo Grotius’ Position on Islam as Described in De veritate religionis Christianae. Liber VI ”; Roberto Bordoli, “The Socinian Objections: Hans Ludwig Wolzogen and Descartes”; Luisa Simonutti, “Resistance, Obedience and Toleration: Przypkowski and Limborch”; Sarah Hutton, “Platonism and the Trinity: Anne Conway, Henry More and Christoph Sand”; Douglas Hedley, “Persons of Substance and the Cambridge Connection: Some Roots and Ramifications of the Trinitarian Controversy in Seventeenth-Century England”; and Stephen David Snobelen, “Isaac Newton, Socinianism and the One Supreme God.’”Google Scholar
Marianne, Pade, ed.  On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae. Neo-Latin Texts and Studies 4. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2005. 140 pp. index. €34.80. ISBN: 3-487-12955-8. Includes: Marianne Pade, “Preface”; Robert Ulery, “Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae in the Edition of Venice, 1500: The Medieval Commentary and the Renaissance Reader”; Patricia J. Osmond, “The Valla Commentary on Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae: Questions of Authenticity and Reception”; Marianne Pade, “Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu Copiae: Commentary on Martial and Encyclopedia”; Johann Ramminger, “A Commentary? Ermolao Barbaros Supplement to Dioscorides”; Julia Haig Gaisser, “Filippo Beroaldo on Apuleius: Bringing Antiquity to Life”; and Craig Kallendorf, “Marginalia and the Rise of Early Modern Subjectivity. ”Google Scholar
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Emmanuel, Schwartz. The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxii + 338 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-10918-0. Includes: Henry-Claude Cousseau, Peter Trippi, and Susan M. Taylor, “Director’s Forewords”; George Steiner, “Preface”; Emmanuel Schwartz, “Reading Homer in France: From Text to Image”; Philippe Senechal, “Truth in the Fold: Notes on Drapery in the Ancient Style, 1750–1850”; and Emmanuel Schwartz, “A Brief Administrative and Artistic History: Teaching Art in Paris.”Google Scholar
Kevin, Siena, ed.  Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 294 pp. $28. ISBN: 0-7727-2030-4. Includes: Kevin Siena, “Introduction”; Jon Arrizabalaga, “Medical Responses to the ‘French Disease’ in Europe at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century”; David Gentilcore, “Charlatans, the Regulated Marketplace and the Treatment of Venereal Disease in Italy”; Darin Hayton, “Joseph Grünpeck’s Astrological Explanation of the French Disease”; Jonathan Gil Harris, “(Po)X Marks the Spot: How to ‘Read’ ‘Early Modern’ ‘Syphilis’ in The Three Ladies of London”; Roze Hentschell, “Luxury and Lechery: Hunting the French Pox in Early Modern England”; Diane Cady, “Linguistic Disease: Foreign Language as Sexual Disease in Early Modern England.” Domenico Zanrè, “French Diseases and Italian Responses: Representations of the mal francese in the Literature of Cinquecento Tuscany”; Laura J. McGough, “Quarantining Beauty: The French Disease in Early Modern Venice”; Mary Hewlett, “The French Connection: Syphilis and Sodomy in Late-Renaissance Lucca”; and Kevin Siena, “The Clean and the Foul: Paupers and the Pox in London Hospitals, c. 1550-c. 1700.”Google Scholar
Julie Robin, Solomon, and , Gimelli Martin, Catherine, eds.  Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. ix + 272 pp. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5359-5. Includes: Julie Robin Solomon, “Introduction”; Reid Barbour, “Bacon, Atomism, and Imposture: The True and the Useful in History, Myth, and Theory”; Michael McCanles, “The New Science and the Via Negativa: A Mystical Source for Baconian Empiricism”; Catherine Gimelli Martin, “The Feminine Birth of the Mind: Regendering the Empirical Subject in Bacon and His Followers”; John C. Briggs, “‘The Very Idea!’: Francis Bacon, E. O. Wilson on the Rehabiliation of Eidos”; Jerry Weinberger, “Francis Bacon and the Unity of Knowledge: Reason and Revelation”; Guido Giglioni, “The Hidden Life of Matter: Techniques for Prolonging of Life in the Writings of Francis Bacon”; Daniel R. Coquillette, “‘The Purer Foundations’: Bacon and Legal Education”; William T. Lynch, “A Society of Baconians?: The Collective Development of Bacon’s Method in the Royal Society of London”; Fritz Levy, “Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, and Historical Thought”; and Timothy J. Reiss, “‘Seated Between the Old World and the New’: Geopolitics, Natural Philosophy, and Proficient Method.”Google Scholar
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