This article aims to reopen discussion of the Renaissance ars historica, a genre that has garnered little attention in modern scholarship. It does so by using a set of computational tools to measure the quantitative occurrence of terms related to artistry and cognition in Johann Wolff's collection of historical-method texts entitled “Artis Historicae Penus” (1579). Like the period's historical writing, which amalgamated aesthetics and historiography, the Renaissance artes historicae belonged to a historiographical paradigm in which the skillful construction of discourse went hand in hand with the search for historical truth. The title of Wolff's anthology accordingly draws an overt connection between the concepts of “ars” and “historia,” yet what did sixteenth-century theorists mean by “art”?
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This article examines Antonio Agustín's (1517–86) philological and historical treatise “De Emendatione Gratiani” (1587). Canon law became a key controversial issue in Catholic-Protestant confessional arguments in the sixteenth century, but its convoluted history also posed a challenge within Catholic orthodoxy itself. This essay discusses how Agustín, working to improve the text of Gratian's “Decretum” (ca. 1140), navigated between his own scholarly integrity and the requirements of Tridentine reforms. The focus on canon law uncovers rarely acknowledged connections between Renaissance philology and ecclesiastical scholarship, and opens a new perspective on the entanglement of humanism and religion, confessional conflicts, and erudition.
{"title":"The Limits of Philology: Antonio Agustín and Textual Criticism of Canon Law in Tridentine Europe","authors":"Mateusz Falkowski","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.545","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Antonio Agustín's (1517–86) philological and historical treatise “De Emendatione Gratiani” (1587). Canon law became a key controversial issue in Catholic-Protestant confessional arguments in the sixteenth century, but its convoluted history also posed a challenge within Catholic orthodoxy itself. This essay discusses how Agustín, working to improve the text of Gratian's “Decretum” (ca. 1140), navigated between his own scholarly integrity and the requirements of Tridentine reforms. The focus on canon law uncovers rarely acknowledged connections between Renaissance philology and ecclesiastical scholarship, and opens a new perspective on the entanglement of humanism and religion, confessional conflicts, and erudition.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Banishment was probably the most frequent punishment in early modern Spanish criminal courts. It was impossible to enforce and antithetical to the interests of the state, yet it survived. This article, based on archival sources, proposes that the study of early modern law, probably in general but definitely in Spain, must account for its symbolic and rhetorical meaning beyond the language of a given statute. Looking at the practice of banishment, the long history of legal compilation in Spain, and the particularities and contradictions of legal practice there, this article calls for a deeper and more interdisciplinary approach.
{"title":"Banishment's Vanishing Act: The Inconstancy of Law in Early Modern Spain","authors":"Ruth MacKay","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2022.432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2022.432","url":null,"abstract":"Banishment was probably the most frequent punishment in early modern Spanish criminal courts. It was impossible to enforce and antithetical to the interests of the state, yet it survived. This article, based on archival sources, proposes that the study of early modern law, probably in general but definitely in Spain, must account for its symbolic and rhetorical meaning beyond the language of a given statute. Looking at the practice of banishment, the long history of legal compilation in Spain, and the particularities and contradictions of legal practice there, this article calls for a deeper and more interdisciplinary approach.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139590066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii + 154 pp. $160.","authors":"V. Bartels","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45439828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Criminal Baroque: Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping, and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain. Ted L. L. Bergman. Colección Támesis Serie A: Monografías 393. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. xii + 258 pp. £75.","authors":"Victoria Jane Rasbridge","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57196330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Error in Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Error. Alice Leonard. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xx + 198 pp. €77.99.","authors":"Stephanie Chamberlain","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49488029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
nineteen contributors and the two coeditors that, across the board, all the chapters are written clearly and comprehensively. In short, there is not a single weak chapter—a remarkable feat. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a thorough picture of Pietro Aretino’s literature: his activities of self-promotion through the visual arts, including his friendship with Titian and the circulation of medallions; his satires, beginning in Rome with the voice of Pasquino and his pioneering of pornographic language; his hagiographies and epistolary; his networks of support and rivalries— sometimes violent—with contemporaries. The volume presents a complete composite view of the author’s activities during the sixteenth century. In conclusion, the volume functions as a compendium of the criticism of Aretino, synthesizing the work of many scholars into chapters that are accessible and easy to read. It will serve as a type of one-stop shopping for those wishing to understand the “scourge of princes,” whether in part or in whole. Consequently, the volume will also serve as the starting point for future studies, providing the background necessary upon which future critics can build. Coeditors Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini are to be commended for this major contribution to the field of literary criticism.
{"title":"Del Santo Uffizio in Sicilia e delle sue carceri. Giovanna Fiume. La storia. Temi 90. Rome: Viella, 2021. 356 pp. €34.","authors":"Christopher F. Black","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.232","url":null,"abstract":"nineteen contributors and the two coeditors that, across the board, all the chapters are written clearly and comprehensively. In short, there is not a single weak chapter—a remarkable feat. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a thorough picture of Pietro Aretino’s literature: his activities of self-promotion through the visual arts, including his friendship with Titian and the circulation of medallions; his satires, beginning in Rome with the voice of Pasquino and his pioneering of pornographic language; his hagiographies and epistolary; his networks of support and rivalries— sometimes violent—with contemporaries. The volume presents a complete composite view of the author’s activities during the sixteenth century. In conclusion, the volume functions as a compendium of the criticism of Aretino, synthesizing the work of many scholars into chapters that are accessible and easy to read. It will serve as a type of one-stop shopping for those wishing to understand the “scourge of princes,” whether in part or in whole. Consequently, the volume will also serve as the starting point for future studies, providing the background necessary upon which future critics can build. Coeditors Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini are to be commended for this major contribution to the field of literary criticism.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47856360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Concepts and Ideas. Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz. Routledge Research in Early Modern History. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. vi + 270 pp. $160.","authors":"Clarinda E. Calma","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46180385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's “Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem” and Its Reception. Ovanes Akopyan. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 325. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiv + 258 pp. €99.","authors":"Ernesto Priani Saisó","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42383743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain. John Beusterien. Connected Histories in the Early Modern World 2. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 254 pp. €99.","authors":"Lauren E. MacDonald","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47807346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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