{"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":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":"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}
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":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":"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}
{"title":"I romanzi arturiani in Italia: Tradizioni narrative, strategie delle immagini, geografia artistica. Ilaria Molteni. I libri di Viella Arte; Études lausannoises d'histoire de l'art 30. Rome: Viella, 2020. 330 pp. + color pls. €60.","authors":"Costanza G. Dopfel","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.273","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":"42482293","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}
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":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":"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":"Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, and Emotion. Penelope Geng. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xviii + 258 pp. $75.","authors":"Rachel Holmes","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.286","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":"44612887","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":"Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650","authors":"Per Landgren","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.267","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":"46460080","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 Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750. Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, and Franco Boggero. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiv + 370 pp. $65.","authors":"George L. Gorse","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.211","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":"45714633","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":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":"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}
remains Maguire’s dominant structure for understanding African labor and identities in East Anglia for the entirety of 1467 to 1833. Chapter 5 exposes the Atlantic connections, analyzes baptismal customs, and looks at six slaving voyages involving the region and connecting to the slave port of Liverpool. Chapters 7 and 8 look at a deeply contested historiography by asserting slavery came before racialization and that Africans were more a part of the working poor in the region than majority enslaved. Africans in East Anglia is highly empirical reading that looks at individuals whose lives “contained the opportunity, even for the ones who had been previously enslaved . . . to be remembered as part of the region’s working population” (199). It is a dry work in that respect, but not to a fault, as this project of reclamation needs a tone of rigor due to the importance of the recovery. As such, this work will become a standard reading for anyone researching slavery, labor, and African populations in East Anglia, as well as providing methods for understanding a more local background of African populations in Britain during the early modern era.
{"title":"Britain and Its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Dirk H. Steinforth and Charles C. Rozier, eds. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. xx + 240 pp. $160.","authors":"Anna M. Duch","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.245","url":null,"abstract":"remains Maguire’s dominant structure for understanding African labor and identities in East Anglia for the entirety of 1467 to 1833. Chapter 5 exposes the Atlantic connections, analyzes baptismal customs, and looks at six slaving voyages involving the region and connecting to the slave port of Liverpool. Chapters 7 and 8 look at a deeply contested historiography by asserting slavery came before racialization and that Africans were more a part of the working poor in the region than majority enslaved. Africans in East Anglia is highly empirical reading that looks at individuals whose lives “contained the opportunity, even for the ones who had been previously enslaved . . . to be remembered as part of the region’s working population” (199). It is a dry work in that respect, but not to a fault, as this project of reclamation needs a tone of rigor due to the importance of the recovery. As such, this work will become a standard reading for anyone researching slavery, labor, and African populations in East Anglia, as well as providing methods for understanding a more local background of African populations in Britain during the early modern era.","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":"47281016","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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