This article investigates how and why scholars began to systematically examine and record ancient inscriptions in fifteenth-century Italy. Finding evidence in the revolutionary work of Ciriaco d'Ancona, it shows that this change emerged from the synthesis of several cultural traditions. Ciriaco learned to observe antiquities from the Italian elite living in the Greek colonies and to record inscriptions from an early Christian pilgrim's practice. He introduced a new degree of precision in his records, learned partly from humanists. These facts suggest that a new culture of observing, discussing, and writing about antiquities was developing in the early Renaissance Mediterranean.
{"title":"Ciriaco d'Ancona and the Origins of Epigraphy","authors":"Lillian Datchev","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2022.439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2022.439","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how and why scholars began to systematically examine and record ancient inscriptions in fifteenth-century Italy. Finding evidence in the revolutionary work of Ciriaco d'Ancona, it shows that this change emerged from the synthesis of several cultural traditions. Ciriaco learned to observe antiquities from the Italian elite living in the Greek colonies and to record inscriptions from an early Christian pilgrim's practice. He introduced a new degree of precision in his records, learned partly from humanists. These facts suggest that a new culture of observing, discussing, and writing about antiquities was developing in the early Renaissance Mediterranean.","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":"48247514","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":"Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe (c. 1450–1700). Tanja L. Jones, ed. Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. €99.","authors":"B. Barnes","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.222","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":"41938713","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}
Chronica. In the first section, the focus is on Bruno’s activities to establish the Carthusian order (40–73). The second section (73–95) deals with details of the history of the Carthusian order that can be connected to Bruno’s deeds and his afterlife, especially with the process of canonization and the question of whether Bruno may be venerated as a saint even if he was not canonized. Readers expecting Heinrich Arnoldi to have gathered information on how the order was organized and who was responsible for the development after Bruno’s death will be disappointed. In the footnotes, Galle offers valuable information on unusual terms, on Heinrich Arnoldi’s sources, and on historical contexts relevant for the Carthusian order. Broader contexts are only now and again explained. The fact that Heinrich Arnoldi assumes that Bruno had studied at a fully developed university with four faculties, for example, is passed over without comment. This may be misleading for younger readers who do not yet know that the institution Heinrich Arnoldi had in mind did not exist in the eleventh century. At the same time, this episode indicates that Heinrich Arnoldi was obviously more interested in situating Bruno in the intellectual and spiritual life of the fifteenth century than in reconstructing the historical contexts he lived in (Galle’s comments on page 58 concerning Bruno’s role in the bishopric of Reims reinforce this impression). Therefore, it would be helpful if this edition of Heinrich Arnoldi’s life of Bruno of Cologne would attract attention within research on the réécriture of saints’ lives and its relevance for the spiritual life of monastic convents.
{"title":"Francisco de Osuna's “Norte de los estados” in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Dana Bultman, ed. Foundations. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. xii + 346 pp. $79.","authors":"Lauren Beck","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.205","url":null,"abstract":"Chronica. In the first section, the focus is on Bruno’s activities to establish the Carthusian order (40–73). The second section (73–95) deals with details of the history of the Carthusian order that can be connected to Bruno’s deeds and his afterlife, especially with the process of canonization and the question of whether Bruno may be venerated as a saint even if he was not canonized. Readers expecting Heinrich Arnoldi to have gathered information on how the order was organized and who was responsible for the development after Bruno’s death will be disappointed. In the footnotes, Galle offers valuable information on unusual terms, on Heinrich Arnoldi’s sources, and on historical contexts relevant for the Carthusian order. Broader contexts are only now and again explained. The fact that Heinrich Arnoldi assumes that Bruno had studied at a fully developed university with four faculties, for example, is passed over without comment. This may be misleading for younger readers who do not yet know that the institution Heinrich Arnoldi had in mind did not exist in the eleventh century. At the same time, this episode indicates that Heinrich Arnoldi was obviously more interested in situating Bruno in the intellectual and spiritual life of the fifteenth century than in reconstructing the historical contexts he lived in (Galle’s comments on page 58 concerning Bruno’s role in the bishopric of Reims reinforce this impression). Therefore, it would be helpful if this edition of Heinrich Arnoldi’s life of Bruno of Cologne would attract attention within research on the réécriture of saints’ lives and its relevance for the spiritual life of monastic convents.","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":"43149382","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}
of one Guilhem Enric, a jurist who was closely involved with a two-year conflict to remove Raymon d’Agoult from his position as seneschal of Provence. This conflict, adroitly traced by Archambeau, threatened civil war, but was resolved thanks to Delphine’s peacemaking efforts in 1349, efforts that were included as part of the canonization enquiry. Guilhem’s decision to elide in his testimony this important event of fourteenth-century Provençal politics is, we are told, “a powerful reminder of the choices witnesses had as they testified.” (39) Another closely involved witness, Bishop Philippe Cabassole, made a similar choice; he also did not have much to say about the conflict, choosing instead to focus on Delphine’s ability to bring about peace. For Archambeau, such choices reflect how “the story of the averted ‘war’ . . . brought order and a sense of control” (65) during this period of tumult and death. The actual story of war, it seems, remained best untold. Archambeau also points to contemporary anxieties caused by the presence of mercenary forces and the destabilizing effect they had on people’s lives, with a particular focus on how women were affected. While she offers a very interesting general discussion, her witnesses are again rather taciturn. One of them, Andrea Raymon, for instance, recalled how, upon being ambushed by a group of mercenaries, she prayed to Delphine for courage and found a sudden surge of confidence that allowed her to escape to safety with her son. For Archambeau, this demonstrates “women’s protective and leadership roles in their communities . . . during times of heightened violence” (104). Another point that Archambeau observes below the surface in the witness accounts is a kind of penitential anxiety—bad enough in ordinary times, and rather worse during a period that seemed like “divine punishment for sinful behavior” (143). But here too, the source of anxiety is addressed rather indirectly, the focus being on how the holy countess assuaged such fears. It is not surprising that a canonization inquest would focus intently on the character, piety, and miracles of the candidate, nor, then, that the more personal stories of war, plague, and confession would often only be hinted at, or referenced indirectly. While Archambeau is energetic in reading between the lines, one is nonetheless left wishing for rather more lines to read between.
{"title":"The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity. Hall Bjørnstad. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xii + 222 pp. + color pls. $30.","authors":"Sherrod Brandon Marshall","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.242","url":null,"abstract":"of one Guilhem Enric, a jurist who was closely involved with a two-year conflict to remove Raymon d’Agoult from his position as seneschal of Provence. This conflict, adroitly traced by Archambeau, threatened civil war, but was resolved thanks to Delphine’s peacemaking efforts in 1349, efforts that were included as part of the canonization enquiry. Guilhem’s decision to elide in his testimony this important event of fourteenth-century Provençal politics is, we are told, “a powerful reminder of the choices witnesses had as they testified.” (39) Another closely involved witness, Bishop Philippe Cabassole, made a similar choice; he also did not have much to say about the conflict, choosing instead to focus on Delphine’s ability to bring about peace. For Archambeau, such choices reflect how “the story of the averted ‘war’ . . . brought order and a sense of control” (65) during this period of tumult and death. The actual story of war, it seems, remained best untold. Archambeau also points to contemporary anxieties caused by the presence of mercenary forces and the destabilizing effect they had on people’s lives, with a particular focus on how women were affected. While she offers a very interesting general discussion, her witnesses are again rather taciturn. One of them, Andrea Raymon, for instance, recalled how, upon being ambushed by a group of mercenaries, she prayed to Delphine for courage and found a sudden surge of confidence that allowed her to escape to safety with her son. For Archambeau, this demonstrates “women’s protective and leadership roles in their communities . . . during times of heightened violence” (104). Another point that Archambeau observes below the surface in the witness accounts is a kind of penitential anxiety—bad enough in ordinary times, and rather worse during a period that seemed like “divine punishment for sinful behavior” (143). But here too, the source of anxiety is addressed rather indirectly, the focus being on how the holy countess assuaged such fears. It is not surprising that a canonization inquest would focus intently on the character, piety, and miracles of the candidate, nor, then, that the more personal stories of war, plague, and confession would often only be hinted at, or referenced indirectly. While Archambeau is energetic in reading between the lines, one is nonetheless left wishing for rather more lines to read between.","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":"46112967","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":"Toward an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France. Derval Conroy, ed. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. xii + 240 pp. $160.","authors":"R. Boone","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.243","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":"44350918","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}
The global dimensions of Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Genoese noblewoman Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo have been largely overlooked by art historians. Seventeenth-century Genoa was immersed in the global movement of goods, knowledge, and peoples; these encounters and exchanges shaped Genoa's fashion system. This article situates the portrait within networks of international exchange to explore the meaningful representation of dress and globalized materials. The global is not restricted to Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo's attire, however; it extends to the African servant, whose presence and dress bring the portrait into dialogue with histories of global commodities, race, and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.
安东尼·范·戴克(Anthony van Dyck)为热那亚贵族女子埃琳娜·格里马尔迪·卡塔内奥(Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo)所画的肖像画的全球维度在很大程度上被艺术史学家忽视了。17世纪的热那亚沉浸在商品、知识和人口的全球流动中;这些相遇和交流塑造了热那亚的时尚体系。本文将肖像置于国际交流的网络中，以探索服装和全球化材料的有意义的表现。然而，全球并不局限于埃琳娜·格里马尔迪·卡塔尼奥的服装;它延伸到非洲仆人，他的出现和穿着使肖像与全球商品，种族，大西洋和地中海奴隶制的历史对话。
{"title":"Materializing the Global: Textiles, Color, and Race in a Genoese Portrait by Anthony van Dyck","authors":"Ana Howie","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.203","url":null,"abstract":"The global dimensions of Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Genoese noblewoman Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo have been largely overlooked by art historians. Seventeenth-century Genoa was immersed in the global movement of goods, knowledge, and peoples; these encounters and exchanges shaped Genoa's fashion system. This article situates the portrait within networks of international exchange to explore the meaningful representation of dress and globalized materials. The global is not restricted to Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo's attire, however; it extends to the African servant, whose presence and dress bring the portrait into dialogue with histories of global commodities, race, and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.","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":"41759430","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":"A Companion to Pietro Aretino. Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini, eds. The Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies 18. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xxviii + 594 pp. $299.","authors":"F. Alfie","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.231","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":"46841404","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":"Un entrepreneur des lettres au xviie siècle: Donneau de Visé, de Molière au “Mercure galant.” Christophe Schuwey. Lire le XVIIe siècle 69; Discours critique 2. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 552 pp. €58.","authors":"Caitlin Dahl, C. Hogg","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.282","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":"49617467","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}
parts is a bolder work than one might expect. Early on she declares “the story of Orpheus is the story of humanism” (17). This, it seems to me, is the larger claim Mann professes not to be making—the idea that all the captivating and terrifying tensions of human language and culture inhere in the figure of Orpheus, whose song could tame rocks and trees but could not save him from the savage fury of the Bacchantes. Indeed, she observes that “the moment words fail to persuade is precisely the moment that they become Orphic poetry” (186). This provocative and poignant claim is a reminder that Orpheus has much to say about poetry’s power, but also about its failures and limitations. It is one of the many reasons this book is sure to draw a wide and enthusiastic readership among scholars of Renaissance English literature.
{"title":"Exemplars in Medieval English Texts","authors":"A. Alberts","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.302","url":null,"abstract":"parts is a bolder work than one might expect. Early on she declares “the story of Orpheus is the story of humanism” (17). This, it seems to me, is the larger claim Mann professes not to be making—the idea that all the captivating and terrifying tensions of human language and culture inhere in the figure of Orpheus, whose song could tame rocks and trees but could not save him from the savage fury of the Bacchantes. Indeed, she observes that “the moment words fail to persuade is precisely the moment that they become Orphic poetry” (186). This provocative and poignant claim is a reminder that Orpheus has much to say about poetry’s power, but also about its failures and limitations. It is one of the many reasons this book is sure to draw a wide and enthusiastic readership among scholars of Renaissance English literature.","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":"46534968","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":"Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. María Morrás, Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida, and Yonsoo Kim, eds. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 79. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv + 296 pp. €105.","authors":"Rosilie Hernández","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.277","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":"44893463","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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