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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , Winter 2007 , pp. 1493 - 1525
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Editions and Translations

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Anthologies and Textbooks

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Collections and Studies

Jayne Elisabeth, Archer,, Goldring, Elizabeth, and, Knight, Sarah M, eds. The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 310 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-929157-1. Includes: Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Sarah Knight, “Elizabetha Triumphans”; Mary Hill Cole, “Monarchy in Motion: An Overview of Elizabethan Progresses”; Felicity Heal, “Giving and Receiving on Royal Progress”; Hester Lees-Jeffries, “Location as Metaphor in Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation Entry (1559): Veritas Temporis Filia”; Siobhan Keenan, “Spectator and Spectacle: Royal Entertainments at the Universities in the 1560s”; C. E. McGee, “Mysteries, Musters, and Masque: The Import(s) of Elizabethan Civic Entertainments”; Patrick Collinson, “Pulling the Strings: Religion and Politics in the Progress of 1578”; David M. Bergeron, “The ‘I’ of the Beholder: Thomas Churchyard and the 1578 Norwich Pageant”; Elizabeth Goldring, “Portraiture, Patronage, and the Progresses: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575”; Elizabeth Heale, “Contesting Terms: Loyal Catholicism and Lord Montague’s Entertainment at Cowdray, 1591”; Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson, “Elizabeth I’s Reception at Bisham (1592): Elite Women as Writers and Devisers”; Gabriel Heaton, “Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange”; James Knowles, “‘In the purest times of peerless Queen Elizabeth’: Nostalgia, Politics, and Jonson’s use of the 1575 Kenilworth Entertainments”; and Julian Pooley, “A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship: John Nichols and The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth.”Google Scholar
Consolacion, Baranda Leturio, and, Herrero, Ana Vian, eds. El personaje literario y su lengua en el siglo XVI. Madrid : Editorial Complutense de Madrid, 2007. 350 pp. n.p. ISBN: 84-7491-797-2. Includes: Consolacion Baranda Leturio and Ana Vian Herrero, “Introduccion”; Jose Jesus De Busto Tovar, “Lengua comun y lengua del personaje en la transicion del siglo XV al XVI”; Elena Artaza Alvarez, “Los estilos retoricos en los discursos de los personajes literarios”; Angel Garcia Galliano, “Venus, Marte, Mercurio: Arquitectura simbolica de los personajes arcadicos”; F. Javier Herrero Ruiz De Loizaga, “El monologo en la comedia celestinesca: aspectos linguisticos y textuales”; Consolacion Baranda Leturio, “El discurso en el esperjo: decoro y relexiones sobre el lenguage en la Comedia Leturio, Thebayda”; Flor Salazar, “El personaje como epicentro de un esterotipo linguistico y literario en el Romancero”; Jesus Antonio Cid Martinez, “Metamorfosis del heroe carolingio: de Roldan a Don Beltran”; Jesus Gomez, “La caracterizacion del personage dialogico desde la ficcion conversacional”; Ana Vian Herrero, “La codificacion del habla y del personaje del indio en los Coloquios de la Verdad (c. 1569) de Pedro de Quiroga”; Javier Gomez-Montero, “Celestina, Lozana, Lazaro, Urdemalas y la subjetividad. A proposito del lenguaje y los generos de la ‘escritura realista’ del Renacimiento”; and Michel Moner, “Retorica y mayeutica: estrategias dialogicas en el Persiles.”Google Scholar
Francisco, Bethencourt, and, Curto, Diogo Ramada, ed. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400–1800. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx + 536 pp. index. illus. map. $90 (cl), $34.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-521-84644-8 (cl), 978-0-521-60891-6 (pbk). Includes: Norman Fiering, “Foreword”; Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto, “Preface”; Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto (trans. Neil Safier), “Introduction”; Stuart B. Schwartz, “The Economy of the Portuguese Empire”; Jorge M. Pedreira, “Costs and Financial Trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1822”; Michael N. Pearson, “Markets and Merchant Communities in the Indian Ocean: Locating the Portuguese”; Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (trans. Marguerite Itamar Harrison), “The Economic Network of Portugal’s Atlantic World”; John K. Thornton, “The Portuguese in Africa”; A. J. R. Russell-Wood, “Patterns of Settlement in the Portuguese Empire, 1400–1800”; Francisco Bethencourt, “Political Configurations and Local Powers”; Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, “Ecclesiastical Structures and Religious Action”; Anthony Disney, “Portuguese Expansion, 1400–1800: Encounters, Negotiations, and Interactions”; Diogo Ramada Curto, “Portuguese Imperial and Colonial Culture”; Lusí de Sousa Rebelo, “Language and Literature in the Portuguese Empire”; Luís de Moura Sobral, “The Expansion and the Arts: Transfers, Contaminations, Innovations”; Francisco Contente Domingues (trans. Neil Safier), “Science and Technology in Portuguese Navigation: The Idea of Experience in the Sixteenth Century”; and Felipe Ferná ndez-Armesto, “Portuguese Expansion in a Global Context.”Google Scholar
Danielle, Boillet, and, Plaisance, Michel, eds. Les Années trente du XVI e siècle italien: actes de colloque international (Paris 3–5 juin 2004). Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la Renaissance italienne 28/Centre de recherche: culture et société en Italie aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris : CIRRI, 2007. 364 pp. index. €35. ISBN: 978-2-900478-28-8. Includes: Antonio Sorella, “L’autore e il Suo Tipografo”; Lina Bolzoni, “L’amore e le Donne Nella Trattatistica Degli Anni Trenta”; Paul Lariviaille, “Prodromes de Maniérisme dans les Premières Décennies du XVI e Siècle”; Mario Chiesa, “Don Teofilo Folengo ‘parteggiano’”; Adriano Prosperi, “Leandro Alberti e la Storioggraifia sull’Italia Negli Anni ‘30 del ‘500”; Juan Carlos D’Amico, “Le De Coronatione de Girolamo Balbi et la Fin de l’Age de Fer”; Nerida Newbigin, “Una Commedia per la Visita de Carlo V? I prigioni Tradotti dagl’Intronati di Siena”; Paolo Procaccioli, “Nobiltà e Miseria Della Questua d’Artista: A Proposito di Aretino Ricattatore”; Luciana Miotto, “La villa Imperiale de Pesaro: Architecture et Théâtre”; Sylvie Terzariol, “Les Dialogorum de Prodigiis libri tres de Polydore Vergile”; Elise Boillet, “L’Écriture Traduite, Commentée, Réécrite: Antonio Brucioli, Teofilo Folengo, l’Arétin”; Michel Feuillet, “L’Annonciation de Recanati par Lorenzo Lotto: La Crise de Mystère”; Donatella Donzelli, “Il sogno di Parnaso de Lodovico Dolce (1532)”; Matteo Residori, “Sulla Corrispondenza Poetica Tra Berni e Michelangelo (Senza Dimenticare Sebastiano del Piombo)”; Paola Cosentino, “Une Publication ‘Florentine’ à Rome: Les Rime volgari de Lodovico Martelli”; Marie-Françoise Piéjus, “Une Lecture Académique d’Alessandro Piccolomini: La Poésie Feminine à l’Honneur”; Alexandre Doroszlaï, “L’ultime Rédaction du Roland furieux et l’‘inspiration cartographique’”; Giulio Ferroni, “L’Orlando Furioso Negli Anni ‘30: Qualche Nota ”; Sergio Zatti, “Poesia, Verità e Potere: Furioso XXXV, Furioso XXXVII, Liberata IV”; Salvatore Lo Re, “Tra Filologia e Politica: Un Medaglione di Piero Vettori (1532–1543)”; Alfredo Perifano, “Un Aspect du Dialogue Scientifique dan les Années 1530: Le Barbaromastix Contenu dans le Novae academiae florentinae opuscula (1533)”; Michel Plaisance, “La Formation Littéraire de Lasca” ; Marina Marietti, “L’Aridosia de Lorenzino de Médicis (1536)”; and Lucie De Los Santos, “Florence et les Exilés Républicains: Le Tournant de 1534–1537.”Google Scholar
Anne, Borsay, and, Shapely, Peter, eds. Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c. 1550–1950. Historical Urban Studies. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007. xiv + 270 pp. index. illus. tbls. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5148-2. Includes: Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely, “Introduction”; Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath, and Alannah Tomkins, “‘Pressed down by want and afflicted with poverty, wounded and maimed in war and worn down with age?’ Cathedral Almsmen in England 1538–1914”; Sylvia Pinches, “From Common Rights to Cold Charity: Enclosure and Poor Allotments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”; Sheila Cooper, “Kinship and Welfare in Early Modern England: Sometimes Charity Begins at Home”; Anne Borsay, “Deaf Children and Charitable Education in Britain 1790–1944”; Stuart Hogarth, “Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary: A Plebeian Patient in the Industrial Revolution”; Jonathan Reinarz, “Investigating the ‘Deserving’ Poor: Charity and the Voluntary Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century Birmingham”; Andrea Tanner, “Choice and the Children’s Hospital: Great Ormond Street Hospital Patients and their Families 1855–1900”; Anne C. Shepherd, “Mental Health Care and Charity for the Middling Sort: Holloway Sanatorium 1885–1900”; Flurin Condrau, “Urban Tuberculosis Patients and Sanatorium Treatment in the Early Twentieth Century”; Barry Doyle, “Power and Accountability in the Voluntary Hospitals of Middlesbrough 1900–1948”; Peter Shapely, “The Co-operative Men’s Guild, Citizenship and the Limits of Mutual Aid 1911–1960”; and Pat Starkey, “Retelling the Stories of Clients of Voluntary Social Work Agencies in Britain after 1945.”Google Scholar
Annabel, Brett, and, Tully, James, with, Hamilton-Bleakley, Holly, eds. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 298 pp. index. bibl. $90 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-521-84979-1 (cl), 978-0-521-61503-7 (pbk). Includes: James Tully and Annabel Brett, “Preface”; Mark Goldie, “The Context of The Foundations”; Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, “Linguistic Philosophy and The Foundations”; J. G. A. Pocock, “Foundations and Moments”; Marco Geuna, “Skinner, Pre-Humanist Rhetorical Culture and Machiavelli”; Warren Boutcher, “Unoriginal Authors: How to do Things with Texts in the Renaissance”; Cathy Curtis, “‘The Best State of the Commonwealth’: Thomas More and Quentin Skinner”; H. M. Höpfl, “Scholasticism in Quentin Skinner’s Foundations”; Annabel Brett, “Scholastic Political Thought and the Modern Concept of the State”; Martin Van Gelderen, “‘So meerly humane’: Theories of Resistance in Early-Modern Europe”; Richard Tuck, “Hobbes and Democracy”; Kinch Hoekstra, “A Lion in the House: Hobbes and Democracy”; David Armitage, “Hobbes and the Foundations of Modern International Thought”; and Quentin Skinner, “Surveying The Foundations: A Retrospect and Reassessment.”Google Scholar
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