Cranston, Jodi. Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice.

Contributor(s): Chriscinda Henry

Cussen, Bryan. Pope Paul III and the Cultural Politics of Reform, 1534–1549.

Contributor(s): John M. Hunt

Dzelzainis, Martin, and Edward Holberton, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell.

Contributor(s): Willis Goth Regier

Geddes, Leslie A. Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature.

Contributor(s): Francesca Fiorani

Herzig, Tamar. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.

Contributor(s): Nilab Ferozan

Jones-Davies, Margaret et Florence Malhomme, éds. Éloquence et action à la Renaissance.

Contributor(s): Estelle Doudet

Laguna, Ana Maria, and John Beusterien, eds. Goodbye Eros: Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes.

Contributor(s): Sherry Velasco

Mazzonis, Querciolo. Riforme di vita cristiana nel Cinquecento italiano.

Contributor(s): James W. Nelson Novoa

McClure, Ellen. The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature.

Contributor(s): George Hoffmann

More, Thomas. The Essential Works of Thomas More. Ed. Gerard Wegemer and Stephen Smith.

Contributor(s): Arazoo Ferozan

Sachet, Paolo. Publishing for the Popes. The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555).

Contributor(s): Michele Lodone

Vester, Matthew. Transregional Lordship and the Italian Renaissance: René de Challant, 1504–1565.

Contributor(s): Mack P. Holt

Interpreting in Early Modern Diplomacy: Occasional Mobility and the Liminal Spaces of Trust

Contributor(s): Andrea Rizzi

In this article, I examine the relationship between mobility and trust in the work and life of a wide range of early modern diplomatic interpreters. I address this relationship by bringing together archival material unearthed by literary scholars and social historians: specifically, historians of...

Relaying the Epistemic Foundations of a Transcultural Natural Theology: Proving the Existence of God in Valignano’s Catechismus christianae fidei and Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu

Contributor(s): Daniel Canaris

When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which...

Maple Wood Heirlooms and the Re-formation of a Dynastic Identity: Elector John of Saxony’s Sermon Notes as Grapho-Relics

Contributor(s): Daniel Gehrt

The widespread practice of taking notes on sermons as a form of learning and piety among literate Protestants in the sixteenth century has been largely untreated by scholars. This article offers a brief survey of this phenomenon before focusing on two eight-piece sets of palm-sized maple tablets...

The Case of Catherine Dammartin: Friends, Fellows, and the Survival of Celibacy in England’s Protestant Universities

Contributor(s): K. J. Kesselring

Catherine Dammartin began her adult life as a nun in Metz but ended it in 1553 as a wife in an Oxford college. First laid to rest in Christ Church Cathedral, her corpse was later removed as a pollutant then finally restored in a ceremony that saw her bones mixed with those of the virgin St....

De la forme littéraire comme arme politique : l’effet-recueil dans la version française de la Detectio de George Buchanan

Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

Histoire de Marie Royne d’Escosse … constitutes the final outcome of a complex publishing history. This collection of texts, published in 1572, contains the only translation into French of George Buchanan’s Detectio, an unrelenting character assassination purporting to narrate the crimes of the...

Cestus Responds to Æthiopissa

Contributor(s): Robert Whalen

Yale Osborn MS. b 197 includes a neglected witness, one of six, to George Herbert’s “Æthiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum,” followed by the only known copy of a twenty-two-line reply, “Cesti ad Æthiopissam Responsio.” This latter cannot be said with any certainty to be Herbert’s; it is...

Kohl, Benjamin G., Andrea Mozzato, and Monique O’Connell, gen. eds. The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524. Database.

Contributor(s): Giorgos Plakotos

Parker, Deborah, gen. ed. World of Dante. Other.

Contributor(s): Brenda Deen Schildgen