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Special Reviews

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  • Out of the Margins: Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy*

  • David S. Peterson
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 53 / Issue 3 / 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 835-879

  • 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 Étienne Delaruelle and his collaborators on the Renaissance volumes of Fliche and Martin's great Histoire de l'Église to justify excluding from their survey of the emerging "national" churches of the period any consideration of Italy, "it being always subsumed within the history of the papacy." If religion had any place in the Renaissance it was, in the words of Carlo Angeleri, as "a problem."

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  • Early Modern Play: Three Perspectives

  • Bret Rothstein
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 71 / Issue 3 / 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 1036-1046

  • Let us Draw on the past as we look toward the future. Specifically, let us begin with the Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes, or “Problems to Sharpen the Young,” by Alcuin of York. Written sometime in the later eighth century, this text offers a number of logical and mathematical problems meant, as the title suggests, to refine one’s intellect. Some of the problems are fairly straightforward, as in the case of a question about how many sheep might fit in a field measuring 200 × 100 feet, with each sheep being allocated a space of 5 × 4 feet. Others, like de porcis, are somewhat trickier. This latter example is an impossible puzzle that asks how one might slaughter 300 pigs in three days by only slaughtering an odd number on each of the days.

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