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Volume 74 - Issue 1 - Spring 2021

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Emperor: A New Life of Charles V. Geoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xx + 738 pp. + color pls. $35.
Marc R. Forster
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26 March 2021, pp. 276-278
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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 256 pp. $85.
Liam Matthew Brockey
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26 March 2021, pp. 278-280
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Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues between Nations and Cultures, 1550–1750. Helen Hackett, ed. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 262 pp. $119.95.
Warren Boutcher
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26 March 2021, pp. 280-281
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Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno. Ronald G. Musto. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2019. xxxvi + 302 pp. $149.95.
Matteo Soranzo
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26 March 2021, pp. 281-283
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Natural desiderio di sapere: Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi. Sabina Brevaglieri. La corte dei papi 31. Rome: Viella, 2019. 472 pp. €49.
Robert John Clines
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26 March 2021, pp. 283-284
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A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine. Carlo Tapia. Ed. Tommaso Astarita and Gaetano Sabatini. Economic Ideas That Built Europe. London: Anthem Press, 2019. x + 230 pp. £80.
Steven A. Epstein
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26 March 2021, pp. 285-286
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Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples: The Body of Naples. Alessandro Giardino, ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. xiv + 144 pp. $90.
Andrew R. Casper
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26 March 2021, pp. 286-287
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Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean. Erin Maglaque. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. xviii + 220 pp. $55.
Eric R. Dursteler
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26 March 2021, pp. 288-289
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Alfonso il Magnanimo: Il re Rinascimento che fece di Napoli la capitale del Mediterraneo. Giuseppe Caridi. Profili 81. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2019. 376 pp. €25.
Ronald G. Musto
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26 March 2021, pp. 289-291
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The Maltese Dialogue: Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights (1554–1556). Kiril Petkov. London: Routledge, 2020. vi + 120 pp. $140.
Valeria Vanesio
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26 March 2021, pp. 291-292
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Victory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia. Thomas W. Barton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 412 pp. $49.95.
Michael J. Sanders
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26 March 2021, pp. 292-294
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Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601. Ruth MacKay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 276 pp. $39.99.
Colin Rose
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26 March 2021, pp. 294-296
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Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain: Taxonomic and Intellectual Perspectives. Elena del Río Parra, ed. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 68. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 218 pp. €95.
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
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26 March 2021, pp. 296-297
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Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France: Lyon, 1285–1530. Sarah B. Lynch. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 190 pp. €89.
Paul F. Gehl
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26 March 2021, pp. 297-299
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Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany. Laura Kounine. Emotions in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 280 pp. $78.
David J. Collins
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26 March 2021, pp. 299-300
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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany. Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Joel F. Harrington, eds. Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 20. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. x + 270 pp. $120.
Peter Hess
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26 March 2021, pp. 301-302
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Heilige, Helden, Wüteriche: Herrschaftsstile der Luxemburger (1308–1437). Martin Bauch, Julia Burkhardt, Tomáš Gaudek, and Václav Žůrek, eds. Regesta Imperii-Beihefte: Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters 41. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017. 452 pp. €57.
Duncan Hardy
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26 March 2021, pp. 302-304
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Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota. Philip Robinson-Self. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. x + 178 pp. $89.99.
Sarah Connell
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26 March 2021, pp. 304-306
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Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558–1630. Michael Questier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xviii + 500 pp. $45.
R. Malcolm Smuts
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26 March 2021, pp. 306-307
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Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England, 1603–1689. Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen, eds. History of European Political and Constitutional Thought 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xiv + 304 pp. €116.
Johann Sommerville
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26 March 2021, pp. 307-309
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Emperor: A New Life of Charles V. Geoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xx + 738 pp. + color pls. $35.

(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 256 pp. $85.

Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues between Nations and Cultures, 1550–1750. Helen Hackett, ed. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 262 pp. $119.95.

Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno. Ronald G. Musto. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2019. xxxvi + 302 pp. $149.95.

Natural desiderio di sapere: Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi. Sabina Brevaglieri. La corte dei papi 31. Rome: Viella, 2019. 472 pp. €49.

A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine. Carlo Tapia. Ed. Tommaso Astarita and Gaetano Sabatini. Economic Ideas That Built Europe. London: Anthem Press, 2019. x + 230 pp. £80.

Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples: The Body of Naples. Alessandro Giardino, ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. xiv + 144 pp. $90.

Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean. Erin Maglaque. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. xviii + 220 pp. $55.

Alfonso il Magnanimo: Il re Rinascimento che fece di Napoli la capitale del Mediterraneo. Giuseppe Caridi. Profili 81. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2019. 376 pp. €25.

The Maltese Dialogue: Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights (1554–1556). Kiril Petkov. London: Routledge, 2020. vi + 120 pp. $140.

Victory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia. Thomas W. Barton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 412 pp. $49.95.

Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601. Ruth MacKay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 276 pp. $39.99.

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain: Taxonomic and Intellectual Perspectives. Elena del Río Parra, ed. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 68. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 218 pp. €95.

Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France: Lyon, 1285–1530. Sarah B. Lynch. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 190 pp. €89.

Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany. Laura Kounine. Emotions in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 280 pp. $78.

Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany. Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Joel F. Harrington, eds. Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 20. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. x + 270 pp. $120.

Heilige, Helden, Wüteriche: Herrschaftsstile der Luxemburger (1308–1437). Martin Bauch, Julia Burkhardt, Tomáš Gaudek, and Václav Žůrek, eds. Regesta Imperii-Beihefte: Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters 41. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017. 452 pp. €57.

Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota. Philip Robinson-Self. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. x + 178 pp. $89.99.

Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558–1630. Michael Questier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xviii + 500 pp. $45.

Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England, 1603–1689. Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen, eds. History of European Political and Constitutional Thought 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xiv + 304 pp. €116.

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