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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , Spring 2006 , pp. 310 - 335
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Editions and Translations:

Moše ben Baruk, Almosnino. Regimiento de la vida / Tratado de los suenyos. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 255. Ed. John M. Zemke. Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. xix + 545 pp. append. illus. gloss. chron. bibl. $55.44. ISBN: 0-86698-298-1.Google Scholar
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Anthologies and Texts:

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Collections and Studies:

Robert, and John Wood Sweet, eds, Appelbaum. Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xv + 368 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0-8122-1903-1 . Includes: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “Foreword”; John Wood Sweet, “Introduction: Sea Changes”; James Horn, “The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia”; Alden Vaughan, “Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England”; Lisa Blansett, “John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics”; Emily Rose, “The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne’s Letters Home”; Eric Griffin, “The Specter of Spain in John Smith’s Colonial Writing”; Pompa Banerjee, “The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith’s True Travels”; Susan Iwanisziw, “England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval”; Andrew Hadfield, “Irish Colonies and the Americas”; Robert Appelbaum, “Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off over Excess Want and Need”; Jess Edwards, “Between ’Plain Wilderness’ and ’Goodly Corn Fields’: Representing Land Use in Early Virginia”; Michael Guesco, “Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World”; Peter Herman, “’We All Smoke Here’: Behn’s The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity”; and Constance Jordan, “Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World.”Google Scholar
Mieke, ed, Bal. The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxv + 246 pp. index. illus. bibl. $27.50. ISBN: 0-226-03581-6 . Includes: Mieke Bal, “Introduction”; Mary D. Garrard, “Artemisia’s Hand”; Nanettte Salomon, “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History”; Elena Ciletti, “’Gran Macchina è Bellezza’: Looking at the Gentileschi Judiths”; Babette Bohn, “Death, Dispassion, and the Female Hero: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Jael and Sisera”; Mieke Bal, “Grounds of Comparison”; and Griselda Pollock, “Feminist Dilemmas with the Art/Life Problem.”Google Scholar
Anne L., Birberick , eds. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Charlottesville : Rookwood Press, 2005. x + 186 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 1-886365-54-7 . Includes: Russell Ganim, “Introduction”; David LaGuardia, “French Renaissance Literature and the Problem of Theory: Alcofribas’s Performance in the Prologue to Gargantua”; Katherine Almquist, “The Bibliophile and the Archivist on Montaigne”; William Cloonan, “La Barque de Dante: Michelangelo and the Anxiety of Influence”; Stephen Shapiro, “Roland Joffé’s Vatel: Refashioning the History of the Ancien Régime”; Ugo Dionne, “Sans peur, sans reproche et sans perruque: La Figure de Philosophe dans le cinéma français contemporain (1988-2001)”; Séverine Genieys-Kirk, “(Ré)visions de la période pré-moderne dans l’œuvre de Phillippe Sollers”; Jeffrey N. Peters and Todd W. Reeser, “Between Freedom and Memory: The Early Modern in Barthes’s Le degré zéro de l’écriture”; and Jean-Vincent Blanchard, “The Cyber-Baroque: Walter Ong, The History of Rhetoric, and an Early Modern Information Mode.”Google Scholar
Emmanuel, ed, Bury. “Tous vos gens à Latin”: Le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). Geneva : Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 464 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 132. ISBN: 2-600-00975-2 . Includes: Emmanuel Bury, “Introduction”; Pascale Bourgain, “Réflexions médiévales sur les langues de savoir”; Anne Grondeux, “Le latin et les autres langues au Moyen Âge: contacts avec des locuteurs étrangers, bilinguisme, inter-prétation et traduction (800-1200)”; Pierre Lardet, “Langues de savoir et savoirs de la langue: la refondation du latin dans le De causis linguæ latinæ de Jules-César Scaliger (1540)”; Jean-Marc Mandosio, “Encyclopédies en latin et encyclop édies en langue vulgaire (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle)”; Claire Lecointre, “L’appropriation du latin, langue du savoir et savoir sur la langue”; Martine Furno, “De l’érudit au pédagogue: prosopographie des auteurs de dictionnaires latins, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles”; Bernard Colombat, “Changement d’objectif et/ou changement de méthode dans l’apprentissage du latin au XVIIe siècle? La Nouvelle Méthode[…] latine de Port-Royal”; Monique Bouquet, “Le De viris illustribus de Lhomond: un monument de frantin”; Jocelyn Royé, “La littérature comique et la critique du latin au XVIIe siècle”; Michel Lemoine, “Les n éologismes dans le commentaire de Calcidius sur le Timée”; Joëlle Ducos, “Passions de l’air, impréssions ou météores: l’élaboration médiévale d’un lexique scientifique de la météorologie”; Jacques Paviot, “Le latin comme langue technique: l’exemples des termes concernant le navire”; Marie-Joëlle Louison-Lassablière, “Antonius Arena ou le latin macaronique au service du savoir chorégraphique”; Laurence Boulègne, “Le latin, langue de la philosophie dans les traités d’amour du XVIe siècle en Italie: Les enjeux du De Pulchro et Amore d’Agostino Nifo”; Geneviève Demerson, “Langue ancienne et nouveau Monde”; Alexandre Vanautgaerden, “L’œuvre ’latin’ de Jean Froben, imprimeur d’Erasme”; Jean-François Cottier, “Les Paraphrases sur les Evangiles d’Erasme: le latin, instrument de vulgarisation des écritures?”; Dominique de Courcelles, “Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490-1573), traducteur du grec et historiographe en langue latine: sur le choix de l’écriture en langue latine en Espagne vers 1540”; Hélène Cazes, “La Dissection des parties du corps humain et son double: les anatomies latine et française de Charles Estienne (Paris, 1545-1546)”; Etienne Wolff, “Jérôme Cardan (1501-1576) et le latin”; Ludivine Goupillaud, “Demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi: mathématiques et merveille dans l’œuvre de Pierre de Fermat”; Jacob Schmutz, “Le latin, est-il philosophiquement malade? Le projet de réforme du Leptotatos de Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1681)”; Yasmin Haskell, “Bad Taste in Baroque Latin? Father Strozzis Poem on Chocolate”; and Alain Michel, “Le latin, les mots et les choses: Virgile, Eckhart, Edmond Jabès.”Google Scholar
Nicole, Cazauran. Variétés pour Marguerite de Navarre 1978-2004: Autour de. L’Heptaméron . Paris : Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2005. 566 pp. index. tbls. bibl. €88. ISBN: 2-7453-1336-3 . Includes: Nicole Cazauran, “Honneste, honnesteté et honnestement dans le langage de Marguerite de Navarre”; “Marguerite de Navarre et le vocabulaire de l’ignorance”; “Marguerite de Navarre et son théâtre: dramaturgie traditionnelle et inspiration sacrée”; “Marguerite de Navarre entre mystique et mystère: la Vierge au repos dans la Nativité et le Désert”; “Deux ’ravies de l’amour de Dieu’ dans la Comédie de Mont Marsan et le Mirouer des simples âmes”; “Marguerite de Navarre: le deuil en dialogues”; “Sur l’élaboration de L’Heptamron é”; “A propos du manuscrit ’de New York’”; “L’Heptaméron face au Décaméron”; “Marguerite de Navarre dans L’Heptaméron ou l’auteur invisible”; “Boaistuau et Gruget éditeurs de L’Heptaméron à chacun sa part”; “L’Heptaméron et les origines du roman moderne”; “La nouvelle exemplaire ou le roman tenue en échec”; “Un nouveau ’genred’écrire’: les débuts du dialogue mondain dans L’Heptaméron”; “Fin de Journées”; “Dénouements dans L’Heptaméron”; “Les citations bibliques dans L’Heptam éron”; “Henri Estienne lecteur de L’Heptaméron”; “Quand la séduction est affaire de mots: L’Heptaméron en ’beau langage’”; “Les devisants de L’Heptam éron et leurs nouvelles”; “Des devisants, peu ou prou mortifiés? Note en marge du prologue de L’Heptaméron”; “A propos de L’Heptaméron: lecture de la cinquième nouvelle”; “La trentième nouvelle de L’Heptaméron”; “Aux marges de L’Heptam éron: lombre’du chevalier de La Tour Landry”; “Sur trois récits de L’Heptam éron: de limportance’ des arri ère-plans (N.11 et 11 bis- N.13)”; and “Sur L’Heptaméron: enquêtes d’authenticité (Trois nouvelles “Gruget” – N.30).”Google Scholar
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William R., ed, Cook. The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy. The Medieval Franciscans 1 . Leiden and Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. xxii + 298 pp. + 46 color pls. + 52 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $199. ISBN: 90-04-13167-1 . Includes: William R. Cook, “Introduction”; Donald Cooper, “’In loco tutissimo et firmissimo’: The Tomb of St. Francis in History, Legend and Art”; Janet Robson, “The Pilgrims Progress: Reinterpreting the Trecento Fresco Programme in the Lower Church at Assisi”; Daniel T. Michaels, “Prophecy in Stone: The Exterior Façade of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi”; Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, “Cimabue at Assisi: The Virgin, the ’Song of Songs,’ and the Gift of Love”; Thomas de Wesselow, “The Date of the St. Francis Cycle in the Upper Church of San Francesco at Assisi: The Evidence of Copies and Considerations of Method”; Beth A. Mulvaney, “The Beholder as Witness: The Crib at Greccio’ from the Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi and Franciscan Influence on Late Medieval Art in Italy”; Ronald B. Herzman, “’I speak not yet of Proof’: Dante and the Art of Assisi”; Gregory W. Ahlquist and William R. Cook, “The Representation of Posthumous Miracles of St. Francis of Assisi in Thirteenth-Century Italian Painting”; and Nancy M. Thompson, “Cooperation and Conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce.”Google Scholar
Wim, ed, de Groot. The Seventh Window: The Kings Window Donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1557). Hilversum : Uitgeverij Verloren BV, 2005. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. €50. ISBN: 90-6550-822-8 . Includes: Wim de Groot, “Preface”; Geoffrey Parker, “Prologue: The Window Everyone Overlooked”; Estrella Cavero Saiz, “The Accession of Emperor Charles V’s Son as King of Spain, King of England and Sovereign of the Low Countries, 1549-1559”; Fernando Brugman, and Dina Aristodemo, “The Joyeuses Entres é of 1549: The Staging of Royal Power and Civic Prestige”; Glyn Redworth, “’Matters impertinent to women’: Male and Female Monarchy under Philip and Mary”; Koen Goudriaan, “City and Sovereign: The Pragmatic Relations between Gouda and its Monarchs Charles V and Philip II, 1549-1559”; Corrie Ridderikhoff and Lucy Schlüter, “Humanists, ’Batavian Ears,’ and Philip II as a Christian Soldier in Gouda”; Biance van den Berg, “Turbulent Times for Sint Janskerk in Gouda: The Story of the Building Campaign and the Reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1552”; Marinus Gout, “The Symbolic Context of Sint Janskerk in Gouda, in the Light of the Architectural Development of the French Cathedral”; Marloes Biermans, “Music and Liturgy in Sint Janskerk in Gouda”; Jan Van Damme, “The Donation of the Seventh Window: A Burgundian-Habsburg Tradition and the Role of Viglius van Aytta”; Wim de Groot, “Viglius van Aytta and the Iconography of the Seventh Window, and his Protective Influence during the Iconoclasm of 1566 in Gouda”; “Habsburg Patronage and the Particular Situation of the Emperor’s and King’s Windows during the Dutch Revolt”; Juan Rafael de la Caudra “King Philip of Spain as Solomon the Second: The Origins of Solomonism of the Blanco, Escorial in the Netherlands”; Klaas A. D. Smelik, “The Portrayal of King Solomon in the Hebrew Bible”; Rebecca Zorach, “’Blood upon the earth: Sacrifice and Ritual in the King’s Window of Gouda”; Kees van der Ploeg, “Iconographical Aspects of the Last Supper in the Middle Ages”; Andrea C. Gasten, “The Kingship of Philip and Mary: Some Remarks on Presentation and Heraldry and the Special Circumstances Surrounding the King’s Window of Gouda”; Peter Fuhring, “Ornament in the King’s Window of Gouda”; Wim de Groot, “The King’s Window of Gouda: A Prestigious Commission?”; Joost M. A. Caen, “Glass Painting Techniques in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century”; and Henny van Dolder-de Wit, “Through Storm and Shine: The Conservation History of the Seventh Window.”Google Scholar
Georgiana, Donavin , eds Speculum Sermonis: Interdiscplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon. Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, 2004. xxvi + 416 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €80. ISBN: 2-503-51339-5 . Includes: Georgiana Donavin, “Introduction”; Leo Carruthers, “The Word Made Flesh: Preaching and Community from the Apostolic to the Late Middle Ages”; John Kitchen, “’Going to the Gate of Life’: The Carthage Ampitheatre and Augustine’s Sermons on Saints Perpetua and Felicitas”; Catherine Brown Tkacz, “Susanna Victrix, Christus Victor: Lenten Sermons, Typology, and the Lectionary”; Jeffrey Burton Russell, “Time and Again: A Response to Leo Carruthers, John Kitchen, and Catherine Brown Tkacz”; Stephen Morris, “’Let Us Love One Another: Liturgy, Morality, and Political Theory in Chrysostom’s Sermons on Rom. 12-13 and II Thess. 2”; Wim Verbaal, “Preaching the Dead from Their Graves: Bernard of Clairvauxs Lament on His Brother Gerard”; Eve Salisbury, “’Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child’: Proverbial Speech Acts, Boy Bishop Sermons, and Pedagogical Violence”; Emily Michelson, “Bernardino of Siena Visualizes the Name of God”; Peter Howard, “Sermons Reflecting Upon Their World(s): A Response to Stephen Morris, Wim Verbaal, Eve Salisbury, and Emily Michelson”; David Strong, “Illumination of the Intellect: Franciscan Sermons and Piers Plowman”; Lynn T. Ramey, “Unauthorized Preaching: The Sermon in Jean Bodel’s Jeu de Saint Nicolas”; Peter V. Loewen, “The Conversion of Mary Magdalene and the Musical Legacy of Franciscan Piety in the Early German Passion Plays”; Elizabeth Schirmer, “Interdisciplinary Craft: A Response to Peter Loewen, Lynn T. Ramey, and David Strong”; Ingunn Lunde, “Speech-Reporting Strategies in ’Dramatic Preaching’: With Examples from East Slavic Festal Sermons”; Thom Mertens, “Relic or Strategy: The Middle Dutch Sermon as a Literary Phenomenon”; Holly Johnson, “Fashioning Devotion: The Art of Good Friday Preaching in Chaucerian England”; Martine De Reu, “A Statistical Treatment of Sin and Holiness in Sermons from the Early Middle Ages (500-1100)”; Simon Forde, “Multilingualism in Medieval Sermons: A Response to Thom Mertens, Martine De Reu, Ingunn Lunde, and Holly Johnson”; and Georgiana Donavin, “Bibliography.”Google Scholar
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T. F., Earle , eds. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 418 pp. index. illus. bibl. $110. ISBN: 0-521-81582-7 . Includes: Kate Lowe, “Introduction: The Black African Presence in Renaissance Europe”; “The Stereotyping of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe”; Jean Michel Massing, “The Image of Africa and the Iconography of Lip-Plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers’ World Map of 1550”; Jeremy Lawrence, “Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish Literature”; Anu Korhonen, “Washing the Ethopian White: Conceptualising Black Skin in Renaissance England”; Jorge Fonseca, “Black Africans in Portugal during Cleynaerts’s Visits (1533 -1538)”; Paul H. D. Kaplan, “Isabella d’Este and Black African Women”; Annemarie Jordan, “Images of Empire: Slaves in the Lisbon Household and Court of Catherine of Austria”; Lorenz Seelig, “Christoph Jammitzer’s ’Moor Head’: A Late Renaissance Drinking Vessel”; Sergio Tognetti, “The Trade in Black African Slaves in Fifteenth-Century Florence”; Debra Blumenthal, “’La Casa dels Negres’: Black African Solidarity in Late Medieval Valencia”; Aurelai Martn Casares, í “Free and Freed Black Africans in Granada in the Time of the Spanish Renaissance”; Didier Lahon, “Black African Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal during the Renaissance: Creating a New Pattern of Reality”; Nelson H. Minich, “The Catholic Church and the Pastoral Care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy”; John K. Brackett, “Race and Rulership: Allessandro de’ Medici, First Medici Duke of Florence, 1529-1537”; Baltasar Fra-Molinero, “Juan Latino and His Racial Difference”; and T. F. Earle, “Black Africans versus Jews: Religious and Racial Tension in a Portuguese Saints Play.”Google Scholar
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João, ed, Medina. Clio: Revista do Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. Lisbon : Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, 2005. 294 pp. illus. €10. ISBN: n.a . Includes: João Medina, “Função e natureza do PCP na história portuguesa: Salazar e Àlvaro Cunjal, ou a metáfora dos ’dois cães de faiança’”; Alberto Vilaça, “Um ’estalinismo’ de sinal menos”; João Freire, “A argumantação anarquista contra o estalinismo”; Antonio Ventura, “A perdra de toque: Estaline no pós-25 de Abril”; Pablo Pérez López, “En torno al complot y a Franco: ’Dragon Rapide’ (Jaime Comino, 1986)”; Elena Sánchez Movellán, “’Libertarias,’ una perspectiva didáctica”; Ignacio Martín Jiménez, “’La lengua de las mariposas’”; Celso Almuiña, “La Guerra Civil Española (1936 -1939): ’Memorias del General Escobar’”; Antonio Ventura, “Francisco Franco guionista: O Filme ’Raza’”; João Medina, “O velho sonho americano, o novo sonho europeu”; Jeremy Rifkin, “O sonho europeu”; Dominique Mosi, ï “Reinventando o Ocidente”; Ivan Krastev, “O que separa a Europa dos EUA?”; Timothy Snyder, “’Guerra é Paz’: una América orwelliana”; Garry Wills, “O Dia em que as Luzes se apagaram”; and Timothy Garton Ash, “Americanos azuis”;Google Scholar
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Peter, Milward , eds. The Renaissance Bulletin. The Renaissance Bulletin 31 . Tokyo : The Renaissance Institute, 2004. 80 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a . Includes: Peter Milward, “Thirty Years of the Renaissance Institute”; John R. Yamamoto-Wilson “Catholic Books and Protestant Readers, 1603-1642”; Peter Milward, “Saints of the English Renaissance”; “The Presence of Thomas More in Shakespeare’s Romances”; Masaaki Imanishi, “The Sacred Dimension in Othello – Dynamism in Shakespearean Characterization”; Peter Milward, “Mass, Tea and Renaissance”; “A Decade of Decadence”; and “Notice-Board.”Google Scholar
Peter, Parshall , eds Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art, 2005. x + 372 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-11339-0 . Includes: Earl A. Powell III and G. Ulrich Großmann, “Directors’ Foreward”; Richard S. Field, “The Early Woodcut”; Peter Parshall and Richard W. Schoch, “Preface”; Peter Parshall and Richard W. Schoch, “Early Woodcuts and the Reception of the Primitive”; Richard S. Field, “The Early Woodcut: The Known and the Unkown”; Peter Schmidt, “The Multiple Image: The Beginnings of Printmaking, between Old Theories and New Approaches”; “Catalogue”; and Shelley Fletcher, “Appendix: The Papers and their Watermarks.”Google Scholar
Bruno, Petey-Girard. Guillaume Du Vair: Parlemen-taire et crivainé (1556-1621). Geneva : Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 318 pp. index. tbls. 92 CHF. ISBN: 2-600-00994-9 . Includes: Roger Zuber, “Préface”; Robert Descimon, “Guillaume Du Vair (1551-1621): les enseignements d’une biographie sociale: La construction symbolique d’un grand homme et l’échec d’un lignage”; Jacqueline Boucher, “Guillaume Du Vair et Henri III: un double langage”; Gilles Banderier, “Du Vair et Du Perron: deux vies parallèles?”; Wolfgang Kaiser, “Guillaume Du Vair et la pacification de la Provence”; Alexandre Tarrête, “La querelle qui opposa Du Vair au duc d’Epernon”; Michel Magnien, “Une archéologie de l’éloquence: l’Oraison d’Appius Clodius contre Anne Milon”; Anne Sancier, “Modernité de Guillaume Du Vair dans son traité De l’éloquence Françoise”; Bruno Petey-Girard, “Les enjeux des Harangues funèbres provençales de Du Vair”; Volker Mecking, “Quelques observations à propos du vocabulaire de Guillaume Du Vair”; Jean Balsamo, “Guillaume Du Vair, Malherbe et les Epistres amoureuses et morales de François de Rosset”; Jean Gœury, “Le luth muet de Guillaume Du Vair: Etude sur la paraphrase du psaume CXXXVII Super flumina Babylonis”; Louis-Georges Tin, “Ambigut ï és de la vie civile au XVIe siècle”; Frédéric de Buzon, “’Cest ordre reiglé qu’on appelle Nature’: sur la conception de la causalit é chez Du Vair”; and Bruno Méniel, “La Justice dans les Harangues de Guillaume Du Vair au parlement de Provence.”Google Scholar
Gianna, Pomata , eds Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press, 2005. x + 490 pp. index. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-262-16229-6 . Includes: Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi, “Introduction”; Anthony Grafton, “The Identities of History in Early Modern Europe: Prelude to a Study of the Artes Historicae”; Brian W. Ogilvie, “Natural History, Ethics, and Physico-Theology”; Gianna Pomata, “Praxis Historialis: The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine”; Ian Maclean, “White Crows, Graying Hair, and Eyelashes: Problems for Natural Historians in the Reception of Aristotelian Logic and Biology from Pomponazzi to Bacon”; Martin Mulsow, “Antiquarianism and Idolatry: The Historia of Religions in the Seventeenth Century”; Donald R. Kelley, “Between History and System”; Laurent Pinon, “Conrad Gessner and the Historical Depth of Renaissance Natural History”; Ann Blair, “Historia in Zwinger’s Theatrum humanae vitae”; Chiara Crisciani, “Histories, Stories, Exempla, and Anecdotes: Michele Savonarola from Latin to Vernacular”; Nancy G. Siraisi, “Historiae, Natural History, Roman Antiquity, and Some Roman Physicians”; and Peter N. Miller, “Description Terminable and Interminable: Looking at the Past, Nature, and Peoples in Peirescs Archive.”Google Scholar
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Shakespeare Studies Vol. 41 (2003). Tokyo : The Shakespeare Society of Japan, 2005. 43 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a . Includes: John Lee. “Kiplings Shakespearean’ Traffics and Discoveries”; and Junji Kobayashi, “Gorboduc and the Inner Temple Revels of Christmas.”Google Scholar
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William, ed, Tronzo. St. Peter’s in the Vatican. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi + 320 pp. index. illus. bibl. $125. ISBN: 0-521-64096-2 . Includes: Williams Tronzo, “Introduction”; Glen W. Bowersock, “Peter and Constantine”; Dale Kinney, “Spolia”; Antonio Iacobini, “Est Haec Sacra Principis Aedes: The Vatican Basilica From Innocent III to Gregory IX (1198-1241)”; Christof Thoenes, “Renaissance St. Peter’s”; Henry A. Millon, “Michelangelo to Marchionni, 1576-1784”; Irving Lavin, “Bernin at St. Peters’: Singularis in ingulis, in Omnibus Unicus”; Alessandra Anselmi, “Theaters for the Canonization of Saints”; and Richard A. Etlin, “St. Peter’s in the Modern Era: The Paradoxical Colossus.”Google Scholar
Rosalynn, Voaden , eds Framing the Family: Narrative and Representations in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 306 pp. index. illus. tbls. $40. ISBN: 0-86698-297-3 . Includes: Diane Wolfthal, “Introduction”; Felicity Riddy, “Fathers and Daughters in Holbein’s Sketch of Thomas More’s Family”; Carol Mejia-LaPerle, “Domestic Rhetors of an Early Modern Family: Female Persuasions in A Woman Killed with Kindness”; Robert S. Sturges, “Purgatory in the Marriage Bed: Conjugal Sodomy in The Gast of Gy”; Sharon Farmer, “The Leper in the Master Bedroom: Thinking Through a Thirteenth-Century Exemplum”; Rosalynn Voaden, “A Marriage Made for Heaven: The Vies Occitanes of Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel”; Micheline White, “Power Couples and Women Writers in Elizabethan England: The Public Voices of Dorcas and Richard Martin and Anne and Hugh Dowriche”; Frima Fox Hofrichter, “An Intimate Look at Baroque Women Artists: Births, Babies and Biography”; Pamela Sheingorn, “Constructing the Patriarchal Parent: Fragments of the Biography of Joseph the Carpenter”; Juliann Vitullo, “Fatherhood, Citizenship, and Childrens’ Games in Fifteenth-Century Florence”; Karen Bollermann, “In the Belly, in the Bower: Divine Maternal Practice in Patience”; Eva Frojmovic, “Reframing Gender in Medieval Jewish Images of Circumcision”; Diane Wolfthal, “Marriage and Memory: Images of Marriage Rituals in Early Yiddish Books of Customs”; and M. Bryan Curd, “Constructing Family Memory: Three English Funeral Monuments of the Early Modern Period.”Google Scholar
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