{"title":"The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Meaning, Embodiment, and Making. Katie Barclay and Bronwyn Reddan, eds. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 67. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. x + 250 pp. €29.95.","authors":"Jennifer J. Edwards","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.272","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":"47351885","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":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":"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}
{"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":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":"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}
(rather than an exploration of literal hermaphroditism and its destabilization of the gender binary, as Long somewhat anachronistically suggests). Some essays suffer from interpretive shortcomings. Andrea Frisch’s claim that Ronsard’s use of La Franciade (1572) to link orthodoxy and Frenchness was selfdefeating, since the Merovingians were Germanic and had been pagan; Frisch seems to view the problem from a post-Enlightenment perspective (I doubt that sixteenthcentury observers would have reasoned in these terms). Two of the essays that analyze literary works offer no discussion of authorship, the context of writing and publication, or reception. Éric Durot’s essay on John Knox’s transnational influence in France addresses an important issue but requires more evidence. Few would argue with Schachter’s claim that propaganda during the French religious wars was informed by “a longstanding tradition of using allegations of luxuriousness and excessive appetites to characterize bad rulers” (239). Somehow, the hackneyed argument that “from ancient times the state allied itself to religion as a means of enhancing its control of citizens and subjugated populations alike” (271) made its way into the volume. The conclusion informs us that many contemporaries saw factionalism as the root cause of sedition. While certainly true, this finding adds little to our understanding of political culture during the religious wars. Nevertheless, many of the contributions to this collection point toward helpful avenues of further investigation.
{"title":"The Black Death: A New History of the Great Mortality in Europe, 1347–1500. John Aberth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxii + 394 pp. $24.94.","authors":"L. Jones","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.229","url":null,"abstract":"(rather than an exploration of literal hermaphroditism and its destabilization of the gender binary, as Long somewhat anachronistically suggests). Some essays suffer from interpretive shortcomings. Andrea Frisch’s claim that Ronsard’s use of La Franciade (1572) to link orthodoxy and Frenchness was selfdefeating, since the Merovingians were Germanic and had been pagan; Frisch seems to view the problem from a post-Enlightenment perspective (I doubt that sixteenthcentury observers would have reasoned in these terms). Two of the essays that analyze literary works offer no discussion of authorship, the context of writing and publication, or reception. Éric Durot’s essay on John Knox’s transnational influence in France addresses an important issue but requires more evidence. Few would argue with Schachter’s claim that propaganda during the French religious wars was informed by “a longstanding tradition of using allegations of luxuriousness and excessive appetites to characterize bad rulers” (239). Somehow, the hackneyed argument that “from ancient times the state allied itself to religion as a means of enhancing its control of citizens and subjugated populations alike” (271) made its way into the volume. The conclusion informs us that many contemporaries saw factionalism as the root cause of sedition. While certainly true, this finding adds little to our understanding of political culture during the religious wars. Nevertheless, many of the contributions to this collection point toward helpful avenues of further investigation.","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":"45182596","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 Chastity Plot. Lisabeth During. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 494 pp. $45.","authors":"E. Benkov","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.271","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":"45201783","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 essays fully engage the theoretical implications of actor-network theory, all persua-sively document networking activities in the more familiar non-Latourian habits of personal, social, cultural, and institutional relationships (4). This fi ne collection gathers a network, so to speak, of biographical, cultural, military
{"title":"Print Culture at the Crossroads: The Book and Central Europe. Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Paul Louthan, and Drew B. Thomas, eds. Library of the Written Word 94; The Handpress World 94. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiv + 552 pp. $206.","authors":"John T. McQuillen","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.239","url":null,"abstract":"the essays fully engage the theoretical implications of actor-network theory, all persua-sively document networking activities in the more familiar non-Latourian habits of personal, social, cultural, and institutional relationships (4). This fi ne collection gathers a network, so to speak, of biographical, cultural, military","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":"44900740","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":"Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England. Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Lauren Working, and Haig Smith. Connected Histories in the Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 360 pp. Open Access.","authors":"Vic Muñoz","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.248","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":"43942438","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":"Early Modern Sovereignties: Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands. Erik De Bom, Randall Lesaffer, and Werner Thomas, eds. Legal History Library 47. Leiden: Brill, 2021. x + 310 pp. €141.","authors":"Jesse A. Spohnholz","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.236","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":"48274657","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":"Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg. Thomas Max Safley. Routledge Explorations in Economic History. London: Routledge, 2020. xii + 288 pp. $140.","authors":"Christof Jeggle","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.237","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":"48438851","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":"Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence. Susan M. Cogan. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 296 pp. €105.","authors":"Courtney Herber","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.255","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":"44039442","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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