{"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":"76 1","pages":"700 - 701"},"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}
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":"76 1","pages":"703 - 704"},"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}
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":"76 1","pages":"720 - 722"},"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":"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":"76 1","pages":"717 - 718"},"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":"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":"76 1","pages":"729 - 730"},"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}
{"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":"76 1","pages":"672 - 673"},"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}
(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":"76 1","pages":"686 - 688"},"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":"76 1","pages":"754 - 755"},"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}
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":"76 1","pages":"786 - 787"},"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}
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