Switching the focus to the Jaggards presents new opportunities for thinking about the production and dissemination of the collection. For instance, to center printers over publishers subverts conventional narratives that publishers, not printers, were the motivating agents of publication. It would have been interesting to get a more in-depth discussion of this change in perspective as it prompts new questions about motivation and textual authority among agents of the book trade. In chapter 3, “Rips and Scrapes,” the misdated title pages are contextualized in the Jaggard printing house. The fascinating study of hand-inked changes to imprints shows that the altered dates of at least some of the title pages were made near to the time of printing. Overall, this rich study raises almost as many questions as it produces answers, a point Lesser readily acknowledges in his conclusion. For example, how common are some of these elements beyond the Shakespeare bubble? The book also raises issues of access and inclusivity in twenty-first-century bibliography. Lesser rightly argues for the need to examine all existing texts in person, but few scholars will have the resources to conduct such extensive, in-person research. Nevertheless, this riveting study provides compelling new takes on a foundational episode of Shakespeare book history and will reinvigorate scholarship on these texts.
{"title":"Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage. Matt Williamson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. vi + 238 pp. $99.99.","authors":"Felicia J. Ruff","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.291","url":null,"abstract":"Switching the focus to the Jaggards presents new opportunities for thinking about the production and dissemination of the collection. For instance, to center printers over publishers subverts conventional narratives that publishers, not printers, were the motivating agents of publication. It would have been interesting to get a more in-depth discussion of this change in perspective as it prompts new questions about motivation and textual authority among agents of the book trade. In chapter 3, “Rips and Scrapes,” the misdated title pages are contextualized in the Jaggard printing house. The fascinating study of hand-inked changes to imprints shows that the altered dates of at least some of the title pages were made near to the time of printing. Overall, this rich study raises almost as many questions as it produces answers, a point Lesser readily acknowledges in his conclusion. For example, how common are some of these elements beyond the Shakespeare bubble? The book also raises issues of access and inclusivity in twenty-first-century bibliography. Lesser rightly argues for the need to examine all existing texts in person, but few scholars will have the resources to conduct such extensive, in-person research. Nevertheless, this riveting study provides compelling new takes on a foundational episode of Shakespeare book history and will reinvigorate scholarship on these texts.","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":"49248008","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}
conflicting directions, generating unruly charismatic experiences and eschatological protest alongside templates for spiritual authority and communal order. Indeed, “the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism cannot be characterized in terms of a straightforward, linear progression toward social respectability” (55). Given the wide-ranging implications of this task, where then might this work sit in the burgeoning discipline of Quaker studies? John Maynard Keynes once wisely observed: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” (cited in Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital [2019], 309). Herein lies the value of Pennington’s project for a new generation of scholars. In its abject refusal to contain early Friends within tiresome conceptual straitjackets (either as unknowing capitalist moderns or failed spiritual revolutionaries), new questions can be asked of the historical evidence. Instead of preempting what might be found, Pennington delights in the sheer complexity of her subject, finding in early Quakers “a dynamic faith in a constantly changing situation” (125). From this vantage point, one can forge a new case for the endurance and coherence of early Quaker theological culture, despite substantial transformations of presentation, emphasis, and strategy. With its invigorating irreverence toward stale polarities and tired debates, and its willingness to break new ground, this work will be invaluable not merely to scholars of Quakerism but to early modern historians, religious studies specialists, and theologians.
{"title":"the campaigning committee or the local press behind them. What better reason for studying the stimulating albeit never simplistic topic of remembering the Reformation?","authors":"Scott N. Kindred-Barnes","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.261","url":null,"abstract":"conflicting directions, generating unruly charismatic experiences and eschatological protest alongside templates for spiritual authority and communal order. Indeed, “the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism cannot be characterized in terms of a straightforward, linear progression toward social respectability” (55). Given the wide-ranging implications of this task, where then might this work sit in the burgeoning discipline of Quaker studies? John Maynard Keynes once wisely observed: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” (cited in Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital [2019], 309). Herein lies the value of Pennington’s project for a new generation of scholars. In its abject refusal to contain early Friends within tiresome conceptual straitjackets (either as unknowing capitalist moderns or failed spiritual revolutionaries), new questions can be asked of the historical evidence. Instead of preempting what might be found, Pennington delights in the sheer complexity of her subject, finding in early Quakers “a dynamic faith in a constantly changing situation” (125). From this vantage point, one can forge a new case for the endurance and coherence of early Quaker theological culture, despite substantial transformations of presentation, emphasis, and strategy. With its invigorating irreverence toward stale polarities and tired debates, and its willingness to break new ground, this work will be invaluable not merely to scholars of Quakerism but to early modern historians, religious studies specialists, and theologians.","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":"42138410","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}
whose distinguished pedigree he clearly hoped his sons would continue to uphold. What does this say about the role of factors such as gender, status, family, religious affiliations, and personal networks in shaping what and how people chose to remember? This is a well-written and thought-provoking study. A tension emerges, however, between a book whose core material is bounded by the existence of the republican regimes and a concluding chapter on “post-war states.” Although it succeeds in offering up a more “nuanced picture” of memories of a “catastrophic event” (7), the book provides no extended treatment of how these insights affect historiographies of republican England and its people. One implication is that the jarring of “official” narratives with “heterogenous reconstructions of the past” did little to help people come to terms with what had happened to them. The book’s conclusion instead takes us in a different direction. It seeks to align mid-seventeenth-century England with “post-conflict states” from across time and space, as a means of challenging histories of memorial culture that stress its essential modernity. The comparisons, for me, reinforced why the book was at its best when it focused on historicized social contexts. People in mid-seventeenth-century England did not remember conflict through the prisms of colonialism, as in Zimbabwe, or fascism, as in General Francisco Franco’s Spain, or ethno-religious difference, as in Croatia. Peck’s final sentence asserts that people in the past “did not do things so very differently there” (202), but I think she shows that they did, and there is much in this fine book that will help readers toward a better sense of why.
{"title":"The Irish Tower House: Society, Economy and Environment, c. 1300–1650. Victoria L. McAlister. Social Archaeology and Material Worlds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. x + 278 pp. £80.","authors":"Jennifer Cochran Anderson","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.250","url":null,"abstract":"whose distinguished pedigree he clearly hoped his sons would continue to uphold. What does this say about the role of factors such as gender, status, family, religious affiliations, and personal networks in shaping what and how people chose to remember? This is a well-written and thought-provoking study. A tension emerges, however, between a book whose core material is bounded by the existence of the republican regimes and a concluding chapter on “post-war states.” Although it succeeds in offering up a more “nuanced picture” of memories of a “catastrophic event” (7), the book provides no extended treatment of how these insights affect historiographies of republican England and its people. One implication is that the jarring of “official” narratives with “heterogenous reconstructions of the past” did little to help people come to terms with what had happened to them. The book’s conclusion instead takes us in a different direction. It seeks to align mid-seventeenth-century England with “post-conflict states” from across time and space, as a means of challenging histories of memorial culture that stress its essential modernity. The comparisons, for me, reinforced why the book was at its best when it focused on historicized social contexts. People in mid-seventeenth-century England did not remember conflict through the prisms of colonialism, as in Zimbabwe, or fascism, as in General Francisco Franco’s Spain, or ethno-religious difference, as in Croatia. Peck’s final sentence asserts that people in the past “did not do things so very differently there” (202), but I think she shows that they did, and there is much in this fine book that will help readers toward a better sense of why.","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":"47559594","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":"Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750: Objects, Affects, Effects. Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, and Ulinka Rublack, eds. Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 418 pp. Open Access.","authors":"Susannah Lyon-Whaley","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.220","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":"45552145","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":"Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt, eds. Hagiography Beyond Tradition. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 342 pp. Open Access eBook.","authors":"Ellis Light","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.264","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":"41518729","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":"Faraway Settings: Spanish and Chinese Theaters of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Juan Pablo Gil-Osle and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2019. 264 pp. €29.80.","authors":"John T. Cull","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.276","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":"42529924","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":"Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region. Anu Mänd and Marek Tamm, eds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. xx + 344 pp. $160.","authors":"A. Mänd, M. Tamm","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.238","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":"49409953","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":"Shakespeare and Montaigne. Lars Engle, Patrick Gray, and William Hamlin, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. xxiv + 448 pp. £90.","authors":"J. Curran","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.299","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":"44818001","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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