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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , Spring 2007 , pp. 324 - 349
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Editions and Translations:

Michel, Bideaux, ed., and, Des Essarts, Herberay, Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. €63. ISBN: 2-7453-1422-X.Google Scholar
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Collections and Studies:

David, Adams, and, Armstrong, Adrian, eds. Print and Power in France and England, 1500–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 158 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5591-1. Includes: Adrian Armstrong, “Cosmetic Surgery on Gaul: The Printed Reception of Burgundian Writing in France before 1550”; Kenneth Austin, “Immanuel Tremellius’ Latin Bible (1575–79) as a Pillar of the Calvinist Faith”; Sarah Knight, “‘It was not mine intent to prostitute my Muse in English’: Academic Publication in Early Modern England”; Lee Morrissey, “‘Charity’, Social Control and the History of English Literary Criticism”; Alison Saunders, “Spreading the Word: Illustrated Books as Political Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century France”; Ann C. Dean, “Insinuation and Instruction: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century ‘Letters to the Printer’”; Simon Burrows, “Police and Political Pamphleteering in Pre-Revolutionary France: The Testimony of J.-P. Lenoir, Lieutenant-Général of Police of Paris”; and David Adams, “Fancy Costume and Political Authority in the French Revolution.”Google Scholar
Christian, Belin, ed. La méditation au XVIIe siècle: Rhétorique, art, spiritualité;. Colloques, congrès et conférences sur le Classicisme. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 276 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €50. ISBN: 2-7453-1352-5. Includes: Christian Belin, “Avant-propos: Une voix qui illumine”; “La tradition méditative: écriture, procédures, mystère”; Véronique Ferrer, “Les Méditations sur les Pseaumes d’Agrippa d’Aubigné: défense et illustration des Écritures”; Bruno Petey-Girard, “Vie parlementaire et méditation: Pibrac, Du Vair et quelques autres”; Ralph Dekoninck, “L’image au coeur des trois puissances de l’âme dans la spiritualité jésuite du XVIIe siècle”; Richard Parish, “Polémique et poétique dans la méditation catholique en prose”; Huguette Courtès, “Méditations métaphysiques et méditations chrétiennes”; Véronique Adam, “La méditation poétique: un méditant-narcisse”; Georges Forestier, “Présence et lieux de la méditation dans la tragédie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles”; Nathalie Grande, “Le roman: un genre spirituel?”; Anne Le Pas de Sécheval, “Peinture et méditation, la méditation dans le tableau, le tableau-méditation: à la recherche d’un concept d’analyse”; Anne Piéjus, “La musique française du XVIIe siècle face à la question de la méditation”; and Maya Suemi Lemos, “La musique et la méditation: l’exemple des vanités.”Google Scholar
D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre, Boulton, and, Veenstra, Jan R., eds. The Ideology of Burgundy: The Promotion of National Consciousness, 1364–1565. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 145. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. 300 pp. index. illus. tbls. $129. ISBN: 90-04-15359-4. Includes: D’A. J. D. Boulton and Jan R. Veenstra, “Introduction”; Jan Dumolyn, “Justice, Equity and the Common Good: The State Ideology of the Councillors of the Burgundian Dukes”; D’A. J. D. Boulton, “The Order of the Golden Fleece and the Creation of Burgundian National Identity”; Bernhard Sterchi, “The Importance of Reputation in the Theory and Practice of Burgundian Chivalry: Jean de Lannoy, the Croÿs, and the Order of the Golden Fleece”; Malte Prietzel, “Rhetoric, Politics and Propaganda: Guillaume Fillastre’s Speeches”; David J. Wrisley, “Burgundian Ideologies and Jehan Wauquelin’s Prose Translations”; Graeme Small, “Of Burgundian Dukes, Counts, Saints and Kings (14 C. E.–c. 1520)”; Jan R. Veenstra, “‘Le prince qui se veult faire de nouvel roy’: The Literature and Ideology of Burgundian Self-Determination”; and Robert Stein, “Seventeen: The Multiplicity of a Unity in the Low Countries.”Google Scholar
David, Bradby, and, Calder, Andrew, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 242 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $75 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-83759-6 (cl), 0-521-54665-6 (pbk). Includes: Marie-Claude Canova-Green, “The Career Strategy of an Actor Turned Playwright: ‘de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace’”; Jan Clarke, “The Material Conditions of Molière’s Stage”; Stephen Knapper, “The Master and the Mirror: Scaramouche and Molière”; Larry F. Norman, “Molière as Satirist”; Richard Parish, “How (and why) Not to Take Molière Too Seriously”; Robert McBride, “L’Avare or Harpagon’s Masterclass in Comedy”; Andrew Calder, “Laughter and Irony in Le Misanthrope”; Charles Mazouer, “Comédies-ballets”; John S. Powell, “Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Molière and Music”; Julia Priest, “Medicine and Entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire”; Ralph Albanese, Jr., “Molière and the Teaching of Frenchness: Les Femmes savantes as a Case Study”; Roxanne Lalande, “L’École des femmes: Matrimony and the Laws of Chance”; Noël Peacock, “Molière Nationalised: Tartuffe on the British Stage from the Restoration to the Present Day”; Jim Carmody, “Landmark Twentieth-Century Productions of Molière: a Transatlantic Perspective on Molière: mise en scène and Its Historiography”; David Whitton, “Dom Juan the Directors’ Play”; and David Bradby, “‘Reculer pour mieux sauter’: Modern Experimental Theatre’s Debt to Molière.”Google Scholar
Margaret, Burland, LaGuardia, David P., and, Tarnowski, Andrea, eds. Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France. Yale French Studies 110. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 192 pp. illus. $22. ISBN: 0-300-11241-6. Includes: Margaret Burland, David LaGuardia, and Andrea Tarnowski, “Editors’ Preface: Meaning and Its Objects”; Andrew Cowell, “Swords, Clubs, and Relics: Performance, Identity, and the Sacred”; Deborah McGrady, “‘Tout son païs m’abandonna’: Reinventing Patronage in Machaut’s Fonteinne Amoureuse”; Margaret Burland, “Narrative Objects and Living Stories in Galeran de Bretagne”; Peggy McCracken, “Miracles, Mimesis, and the Efficacy of Images”; Alexa Sand, “Vision and the Portrait of Jean le Bon”; Cynthia J. Brown, “Books in Performance: The Parisian Entry (1504) and Funeral (1514) of Anne of Brittany”; Ann Rosalind Jones, “Habits, Holdings, Heterologies: Populations in Print in a 1562 Costume Book”; George Hoffmann, “Montaigne’s Nudes: The Lost Tower Paintings Rediscovered”; Jeff Persels, “Taking the Piss out of Pantagruel: Urine and Micturition in Rabelais”; David LaGuardia, “Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris”; Andrea Tarnowski, “Material Examples: Philippe de Mézières’s Order of the Passion”; and Michael Randall, “Sword and Subject in Du Haillan’s Histoire de France (1576).”Google Scholar
Anne-Marie, Chabrolle-Cerretini, and, Zaercher, Véronique, eds. Dialogue et intertextualité;. Europe XVI–XVII, 6. Nancy: Groupe “XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe”, Université de Nancy, 2005. ii + 212 pp. illus. €17. ISBN: 2-9515883-5-6. Includes: Claire Cazanave, “Trois façons de faire son miel: Pellison et le discours sur les oeuvres de M. Sarasin”; Anne-Marie Chabrolle-Cerretini, “Juan de Valdés: un modèle d’intégration? Aperçu d’un enjeu de l’intertextualitè dans le Diálogo de la lengua”; Véronique Zaercher, “L’usage des modèles dans le dialogue français: procédé et inventivité”; Pierre Demarolle, “Dialogues et débats dans le Receuil de poésies françaises d’Anatole de Montaiglon”; Jacqueline Ferreras, “Le dialogue humaniste espagnol ou comment écrire la modernité (entre mimesis et rhétorique)”; Gerda Haßler, “Dialogues entre Français, Espagnols et Allemands au XVIIe siècle: les dialogues dans les manuels de langues”; Marie-Hélène Maux-Piovano, “Le rôle de l’interlocuteur dans le Miroir de la Grammaire en dialogues d’Ambrosio de Salazar (1614)”; Mariana Gois Neves, “La structure de O Escritório Falante, dialogue allégorique”; Ruxandra Vulcan, “Les Dialogues du désordre de Pierre Viret (de 1545) et la tradition des questions naturelles”; Véronique Duché-Gavet, “Le dialogue du Cueur Contemplatif et de l’Ame Dévote”; and Christian Bouzy, “Dialogue et image dans des recueils d’emblèmes, de devises et de médailles au XVIe siècle (Alciat, Giovio et Agustin).”Google Scholar
Patrick, Cheney, Hadfield, Andrew, and, Sullivan, Garrett A., eds. Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxiv + 342 pp. index. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 0-19-515387-3. Includes: Susanne Woods, “Inventing English Verse”; Arthur F. Marotti, “Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies”; Peter C. Herman, “Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry”; Catherine Bates, “Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court”; John N. King, “Spenser’s May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry”; Steven May, “Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne”; William J. Kennedy, “Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism”; Bart van Es, “Spenserian Pastoral”; John Watkins, “Spenser’s Poetry and the Apocalypse”; Elizabeth D. Harvey, “Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality”; William A. Oram, “Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry”; Alan Sinfield, “Marlowe’s Erotic Verse”; Jonathan Goldberg, “Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism”; Lynn Enterline, “‘The Phoenix and the Turtle,’ Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief”; Patrick Cheney, “Shakepeare’s Literary Career and Narrative Poetry”; Sasha Roberts, “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences”; Danielle Clarke, “Mary Sidney Herbert and Women’s Religious Verse”; Naomi J. Miller, “Lady Mary Wroth and Women’s Love Poetry”; Andrew Hadfield, “Donne’s Songs and Sonetsand Artistic Identity”; Andrew McRae, “Satire and the Politics of Town”; Achsah Guibbory, “Donne’s Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace”; Helen Wilcox, “Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion”; Julie Sanders, “Jonson, King and Court”; Michael Schoenfeldt, “George Herbert, God, and King”; Lowell Gallagher, “Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon”; Laura Lunger Knoppers, “Cavalier Poetry and Civil War”; Thomas Healy, “Marvell and Pastoral”; and Barbara K. Lewalski, “Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas.”Google Scholar
Stephen, Clucas ed. John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought. International Archives of the History of Ideas 193. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. xviii + 366 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $189. ISBN: 1-4020-4245-0. Includes: Stephen Clucas, “Introduction: Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee”; Nicholas H. Clulee, “John Dee’s Natural Philosophy Revisited”; Robert Goulding, “Wings (or Stairs) to the Heavens: The Parallactic Treatises of John Dee and Thomas Digges”; Stephen Johnston, “Like Father, Like Son? John Dee, Thomas Digges and the Identity of the Mathematician”; Richard Dunn, “John Dee and Astrology in Elizabethan England”; Robert Baldwin, “John Dee’s Interest in the Application of Nautical Science, Mathematics and Law to English Naval Affairs”; William H. Sherman, “John Dee’s Columbian Encounter”; Karen De Léon-Jones, “John Dee and the Kabbalah”; Federico Cavallaro, “The Alchemical Significance of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica”; Jim Reeds, “John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga”; György E. Szönyi, “Paracelsus, Scrying and the Lingua Adamica: Contexts For John Dee’s Angel Magic”; Stephen Clucas, “John Dee’s Angelic Conversations and the Ars Notoria: Renaissance Magic and Mediaeval Theurgy”; Deborah E. Harkness, “The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology and Natural Philosophy in John Dee’s Angel Conversations and Library”; Susan Bassnett, “Absent Presences: Edward Kelley’s Family in the Writings of John Dee”; Jan Bäcklund, “In the Footsteps of Edward Kelley: Some Manuscript References at the Royal Library in Copenhagen Concerning an Alchemical Circle around John Dee and Edward Kelley”; Julian Roberts, “Additions and Corrections to ‘John Dee’s Library Catalogue’”; and Stephen Clucas, “Recent Works on John Dee (1988–2005): A Select Bibliography.”Google Scholar
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