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Volume 58 - Issue 2 - Summer 2005

Book Review

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Neil Kenny. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 484 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. £65. ISBN: 0-19-927136-4.

Christopher I. Lehrich. The Language of Demons and Angels: Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 119. Leiden and Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xiv + 256 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $87. ISBN: 90-04-13574-X.

William R. Newman. Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. + 9 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $30. ISBN: 0-226-57712-0.

Pamela H. Smith. The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 323 pp. + 28 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-226-76399-4.

Howard Jones. Printing the Classical Text. Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica 62. Utrecht : Hes & de Graaf Publishers BV, 2004. x + 228 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €132.50. ISBN: 90-6194-279-9.

Claudia Schmitz. Rebellion und Bändigung der Lust: Dialogische Inszenierung konkurrierender Konzepte vom glücklichen Leben (1460–1540). Frühe Neuzeit 88. Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004. vi + 354 pp. bibl. €56. ISBN: 3-484-36588-9.

Paul Botley. Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 208 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-521-83717-0.

Justus Lipsius. Politica: Six Books on Politics or Political Instruction. Ed. and trans. Jan Waszink. Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae 5. Assen: : Royal Van Gorcum BV, 2004. xii + 840 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €94.50. ISBN: 90-232-4038-3.

Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. 2 vols. Eds. G. A. J. Rogers and Karl Schuhmann. Bristol: : Thoemmes Continuum, 2003. 272; 568 pp. illus. $225. ISBN: 1-84371-026-9.

Steven Nadler. Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind. Oxford and New York : The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 226 pp. index. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0-19-926887-8.

John W. Yolton. The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke: Man, Person, and Spirits in the “Essay.”. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 180 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-8014-4290-7.

Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debbie L. Barrett-Graves, eds. Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xii + 282 pp. + 1 color pl. index. illus. map. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0797-6.

John A. Guy. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. xiii + 582 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-618-25411-0.

Mary Ann Lyons. Franco-Irish Relations, 1500–1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series 35. Suffolk and Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2003. xiii + 242 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $70. ISBN: 08-61-93266-8.

Scott R. Pilarz. Robert Southwell, and the Mission of Literature, 1561–1595: Writing Reconciliation. Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. xxvii + 300 pp. index. illus. bibl. $84.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3380-2.

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