reading of Julia’s wit in Anne Wharton’s unpublished play Love’s Martyr, Or Witt Above Crowns. By concluding in this way, James opens readings of Ovidian liberty and speech up to future prospects for change. Such an approach leaves audiences satisfied and, paradoxically, longing for more of James’s astute insights. Overall, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England is highly recommended. Aside from its foundational introduction, subsequent chapters can be read together or in isolation due to the text’s clear structure and convenient notes. Moreover, James’s writing style is approachable and jargon-free. Her robust analysis, in theory, could be impenetrable to those unfamiliar with Ovid or early modern literary studies. However, James carefully and humbly guides her readers through nuanced ideas; this stylistic choice makes the monograph refreshingly accessible to a variety of audiences, ranging from seasoned literary scholars to upper-level undergraduates.
{"title":"Shakespeare / Sense: Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture. Simon Smith, ed. Arden Shakespeare Intersections. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020. xvi + 384 pp. £117.","authors":"Thomas Dabbs","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.294","url":null,"abstract":"reading of Julia’s wit in Anne Wharton’s unpublished play Love’s Martyr, Or Witt Above Crowns. By concluding in this way, James opens readings of Ovidian liberty and speech up to future prospects for change. Such an approach leaves audiences satisfied and, paradoxically, longing for more of James’s astute insights. Overall, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England is highly recommended. Aside from its foundational introduction, subsequent chapters can be read together or in isolation due to the text’s clear structure and convenient notes. Moreover, James’s writing style is approachable and jargon-free. Her robust analysis, in theory, could be impenetrable to those unfamiliar with Ovid or early modern literary studies. However, James carefully and humbly guides her readers through nuanced ideas; this stylistic choice makes the monograph refreshingly accessible to a variety of audiences, ranging from seasoned literary scholars to upper-level undergraduates.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"791 - 792"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42319090","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":"All Wonders in One Sight: The Christ Child among the Elizabethan and Stuart Poets. Theresa M. Kenney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. viii + 228 pp. $65.","authors":"E. L. Ryan","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"777 - 778"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41471991","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":"Andrea del Sarto: Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece. Steven J. Cody. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 314; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 47. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xxii + 290 pp. + color pls.","authors":"Louise Arizzoli","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"660 - 661"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43210110","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 Miguel de Cervantes’s exemplary novels, and claims that, in the context of early modern narrative, illegitimacy is “about making and unmaking” (145). This chapter is not free of inaccuracies, such as the remark on the Novelas ejemplares having been published before Cervantes’s Don Quixote (143). Chapter 5, “Lope de Vega’s Bastard Heroes: Pieces and Traces,” discusses illegitimacy in four of Lope de Vega’s plays through themes of absence and presence, and parts and whole. The volume’s conclusion emphasizes the fluidity and legacy of illegitimacy. The book has considerable deficiencies in proofreading. The following examples are part of a longer list. The spelling of Spanish names is inconsistent: “Alfonso IX of León” versus “Alfonso VI of Leon” (8–9); “river Ubierna” versus “River Ovierna” (23, 26); “Fernán Gómez” versus “Martin Gómez” (80, 81), among others. In chapter 3, notes 2 and 14 are identical (136, 138), and the entry for “Wolf” is incomplete in the list of works cited (142). Despite its weaknesses, Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature is a valuable contribution to current scholarship. Hazbun embarked on a challenging multi-genre analysis. Her results will facilitate further exploration of illegitimacy in other works and disciplines.
{"title":"Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre. Erin Alice Cowling, Tania de Miguel Magro, Mina García, and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xvi + 274 pp. $34.95.","authors":"Katherine L. Brown","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.279","url":null,"abstract":"of Miguel de Cervantes’s exemplary novels, and claims that, in the context of early modern narrative, illegitimacy is “about making and unmaking” (145). This chapter is not free of inaccuracies, such as the remark on the Novelas ejemplares having been published before Cervantes’s Don Quixote (143). Chapter 5, “Lope de Vega’s Bastard Heroes: Pieces and Traces,” discusses illegitimacy in four of Lope de Vega’s plays through themes of absence and presence, and parts and whole. The volume’s conclusion emphasizes the fluidity and legacy of illegitimacy. The book has considerable deficiencies in proofreading. The following examples are part of a longer list. The spelling of Spanish names is inconsistent: “Alfonso IX of León” versus “Alfonso VI of Leon” (8–9); “river Ubierna” versus “River Ovierna” (23, 26); “Fernán Gómez” versus “Martin Gómez” (80, 81), among others. In chapter 3, notes 2 and 14 are identical (136, 138), and the entry for “Wolf” is incomplete in the list of works cited (142). Despite its weaknesses, Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature is a valuable contribution to current scholarship. Hazbun embarked on a challenging multi-genre analysis. Her results will facilitate further exploration of illegitimacy in other works and disciplines.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"767 - 769"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43131958","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}
This article explores Poggio Bracciolini's letters to Niccolò Niccoli from a variety of perspectives: it looks at what imitation meant for Poggio, examines the letters’ commentary on the manuscript culture of the early Quattrocento, discusses Poggio's efforts to craft a personal voice, and traces the interplay of optimism and pessimism in the letters, an interplay common to humanist texts of this period. By bringing together these different perspectives, the article articulates the range of ways in which one scholar used his epistolary collection to shape his own persona, connect himself to Ciceronian precedents, and create norms and expectations for a developing intellectual community.
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are discussed in the book’s second chapter. Both men and women, for instance, participated in pilgrimages, yet the length of the journey tended to be codified by sex. While men were permitted to make long journeys, women were encouraged to visit local shrines. The relationship between women and the practice of worshiping saints, particularly with the help of wax votives, prayers, fasting, and/or chants, is also examined. Men, by contrast, used their positions at work and at home to facilitate their religious experiences, namely through concepts of independence, authority, and responsibility. Secular and clerical masculinities are also discussed, along with the concepts of male chastity, willpower, and role-twisting, further queering traditional gender norms. The third and final section examines performed religion and gender in the religious sphere, spanning sainthood and episodes of spiritual ecstasy to demonology and witchcraft. According to Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo, early modern bodies appeared to be dualistic entities, forced onto a continuum that stretched from holy to diabolical and understood as vessels that could connect with God or the devil. As a result, one’s corporeality, especially in relation to male and female monasticism, needed to be continuously monitored and controlled. The hierarchical distinction between virginity and chastity is similarly explored. Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo also discuss the rise of demonology and witchcraft cases in fifteenth-century Europe. They caution against an oversimplification of these events and note that cases varied by geography, time period, dominant local religion, and source material. In territories located in the northeast of Europe—like Finland, for instance—the popular image of the witch was male, as men were convicted at higher rates in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Although the vast range of topics can leave the reader feeling a bit overwhelmed at times, Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo provide an extremely thoughtful and convincing analysis based on archival sources from an assortment of geographical locations. Gender categories most certainly existed, yet Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo demonstrate their consistent instability, encouraging historians to look more carefully at the complex systems used to negotiate identities in the lived experience of many distinct historical communities.
{"title":"Mediterranean Crossings: Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity (10th–18th Centuries). Umberto Grassi, ed. Viella Historical Research 18. Rome: Viella, 2020. 170 pp. €30.","authors":"Mathew Kuefler","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.258","url":null,"abstract":"are discussed in the book’s second chapter. Both men and women, for instance, participated in pilgrimages, yet the length of the journey tended to be codified by sex. While men were permitted to make long journeys, women were encouraged to visit local shrines. The relationship between women and the practice of worshiping saints, particularly with the help of wax votives, prayers, fasting, and/or chants, is also examined. Men, by contrast, used their positions at work and at home to facilitate their religious experiences, namely through concepts of independence, authority, and responsibility. Secular and clerical masculinities are also discussed, along with the concepts of male chastity, willpower, and role-twisting, further queering traditional gender norms. The third and final section examines performed religion and gender in the religious sphere, spanning sainthood and episodes of spiritual ecstasy to demonology and witchcraft. According to Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo, early modern bodies appeared to be dualistic entities, forced onto a continuum that stretched from holy to diabolical and understood as vessels that could connect with God or the devil. As a result, one’s corporeality, especially in relation to male and female monasticism, needed to be continuously monitored and controlled. The hierarchical distinction between virginity and chastity is similarly explored. Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo also discuss the rise of demonology and witchcraft cases in fifteenth-century Europe. They caution against an oversimplification of these events and note that cases varied by geography, time period, dominant local religion, and source material. In territories located in the northeast of Europe—like Finland, for instance—the popular image of the witch was male, as men were convicted at higher rates in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Although the vast range of topics can leave the reader feeling a bit overwhelmed at times, Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo provide an extremely thoughtful and convincing analysis based on archival sources from an assortment of geographical locations. Gender categories most certainly existed, yet Katajala-Peltomaa and Toivo demonstrate their consistent instability, encouraging historians to look more carefully at the complex systems used to negotiate identities in the lived experience of many distinct historical communities.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"733 - 735"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42595487","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":"Africans in East Anglia, 1467–1833. Richard C. Maguire. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 41. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. xiv + 378 pp. $99.","authors":"A. Kettler","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"711 - 712"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42656825","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}
epigrams, and verse letters, Donne, Joseph Hall, John Marston, and others were reacting against stanzaic poetry as a pretentious European import, cladding their thoughts instead in the looser, lighter, naughty-but-native garb of Chaucer. Marking a turning point in the history of the couplet, chapter 3 positions Ben Jonson as the poet who, following the Bishops’ Ban of 1599, “contributed most to snatching the couplet from the fires and bringing it into polite society” (83). The reader is reminded here that rhyme alone does not a couplet make; Jonson’s reform of the couplet largely hinged on his “regularizing its meter and pauses” (90). Bolstering the pursuit of rhyme not empty of reason, Jonson made the English couplet a more measured form whose steady pace was well suited to the task of expressing inner character and patterning virtuous living. Chapter 4 considers the impact of the English Civil War on verse form. Using Robert Herrick, Katherine Philips, and Abraham Cowley as case studies, Rush posits that the poets of the period sought “to retain the Jonsonian couplet but make it responsive to the passions,” not least to accommodate the “extreme grief of a mourning nation” (126). Chapter 5 brings us full circle to Milton, who in 1668 took arms against a sea of couplets. While contextualizing Milton’s famous renunciation of rhyme in light of “his effort to craft a style distinct from the affective lyrics of the Royalists” (161), Rush looks back at the poet’s earlier use of rhyme in Comus, Lycidas, and especially the sonnets. Ironically, Milton appears to be a son of Ben: wresting Jonsonian formalism from the royalists, his metric regularity and reasonable rhymes connoted discipline, civility, and liberty within bounds. It seems only fitting to close this review with a rhyme. In Cooper’s Hill (1655), John Denhammirrors the measured flow of the river Thames with lines that, while epitomizing the ethos of the heroic couplet, just so happen to provide proper praise for this book: Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o’er-flowing full.
{"title":"The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime. Jenny C. Mann. Ancient World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xxii + 272 pp. $39.95.","authors":"A. Atkinson","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.301","url":null,"abstract":"epigrams, and verse letters, Donne, Joseph Hall, John Marston, and others were reacting against stanzaic poetry as a pretentious European import, cladding their thoughts instead in the looser, lighter, naughty-but-native garb of Chaucer. Marking a turning point in the history of the couplet, chapter 3 positions Ben Jonson as the poet who, following the Bishops’ Ban of 1599, “contributed most to snatching the couplet from the fires and bringing it into polite society” (83). The reader is reminded here that rhyme alone does not a couplet make; Jonson’s reform of the couplet largely hinged on his “regularizing its meter and pauses” (90). Bolstering the pursuit of rhyme not empty of reason, Jonson made the English couplet a more measured form whose steady pace was well suited to the task of expressing inner character and patterning virtuous living. Chapter 4 considers the impact of the English Civil War on verse form. Using Robert Herrick, Katherine Philips, and Abraham Cowley as case studies, Rush posits that the poets of the period sought “to retain the Jonsonian couplet but make it responsive to the passions,” not least to accommodate the “extreme grief of a mourning nation” (126). Chapter 5 brings us full circle to Milton, who in 1668 took arms against a sea of couplets. While contextualizing Milton’s famous renunciation of rhyme in light of “his effort to craft a style distinct from the affective lyrics of the Royalists” (161), Rush looks back at the poet’s earlier use of rhyme in Comus, Lycidas, and especially the sonnets. Ironically, Milton appears to be a son of Ben: wresting Jonsonian formalism from the royalists, his metric regularity and reasonable rhymes connoted discipline, civility, and liberty within bounds. It seems only fitting to close this review with a rhyme. In Cooper’s Hill (1655), John Denhammirrors the measured flow of the river Thames with lines that, while epitomizing the ethos of the heroic couplet, just so happen to provide proper praise for this book: Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o’er-flowing full.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"802 - 804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46273258","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 Aztec (Mexica) city of Tenochtitlan was transformed after the Spanish invasion of 1519–21 into a staging ground for Habsburg colonial experiments. Indigenous response is glimpsed in this essay through the lens of annals, written in Nahuatl, that document urban festivals celebrating Spanish Habsburg monarchs. I argue that the redeployment of particular spaces—long charged with meaning by Indigenous residents—was crucial to the public legitimacy of the Habsburg festival. These festivals promoted new means of temporal orientation, thus disrupting Indigenous orientations in time, at the same moment that Indigenous calendars were coming under scrutiny for their heretical potentials.
{"title":"The 2022 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: Mexica Space and Habsburg Time","authors":"Barbara E. Mundy","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.202","url":null,"abstract":"The Aztec (Mexica) city of Tenochtitlan was transformed after the Spanish invasion of 1519–21 into a staging ground for Habsburg colonial experiments. Indigenous response is glimpsed in this essay through the lens of annals, written in Nahuatl, that document urban festivals celebrating Spanish Habsburg monarchs. I argue that the redeployment of particular spaces—long charged with meaning by Indigenous residents—was crucial to the public legitimacy of the Habsburg festival. These festivals promoted new means of temporal orientation, thus disrupting Indigenous orientations in time, at the same moment that Indigenous calendars were coming under scrutiny for their heretical potentials.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"365 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47527874","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 Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva. Jeffrey R. Watt. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. xvi + 322 pp. Open Access eBook.","authors":"J. Olson","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"740 - 741"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44440771","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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