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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 557–571.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as a source of prophecy dates back to late antiquity and was, as far as we can tell, widely known in the Renaissance. While scholars have explored the sortes Biblicae and other practices of divination involving books in the early modern period, less has been said about the sortes Virgilianae...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 457–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and 1617, Milles published more than a dozen books outlining his schemes for fiscal reform, becoming one of Renaissance England's most prolific writers on economics. But virtually every surviving copy of every published text was customized after it left the press: Milles used manuscript marginalia...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Whitney Trettien As early efforts to include women in the canon of Renaissance literature give way to gender-oriented research in material culture and book history, it is increasingly the scholar's task to marry the language of ideological negotiation to a more wide-ranging investigation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Morgan Ng Taking the case of a late Renaissance treatise on Huguenot architecture, this essay explores the potentials of collage as an expression of confessional contestation in the wake of the French Wars of Religion. The book's hybrid imagery bears a formal language of cutting, removal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 139–159.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Natasha Simonova In 1804, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia was described as “a book that all have heard of, that some few possess, but that nobody reads.” Indeed, the usual critical narrative has Philip Sidney’s romance falling sharply out of fashion in the eighteenth century from its height...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
... draws attention to the range of media in which early modern texts were “written.” © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Renaissance books composition and techniques cutting...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2015
... University of Washington Seattle, Washington It could be argued that the most extensive available evidence for Renaissance sewing and needlework is found not in surviving textiles, but in books. This would not be surprising to library curators or bibliographers. Early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 367–382.
Published: 01 May 2021
...”: Renaissance Proportion Theory . Translated and edited by James Hutson. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020. xiii, 208 pp., 18 figs. Gbp 37.95, paper Gbp 22.95. [The first English translation of Gallucci's Della simmetria dei corpi humani , an Italian translation of Dürer's treatise.] Gerhard Zerbolt...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 197–216.
Published: 01 January 2015
... and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xi, 203 pp. $65.00. [Dutch texts of Hue Mars en Venus tsae- Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  199 men bueleerden, Een spel van sinnen van de historie van Piramus en Thisbe genaempt de Sinnelijcke Genegentheyt, and Pyramus ende Thisbe...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 401–427.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Chevalier deliberé (The Resolute Knight). Edited by Carleton W. Carroll. Translated by Lois Hawley Wilson and Carleton W. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines 403 Carroll. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 199. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... English Renaissance books were not fixed entities. Books were what Jennifer Richards has called a “choral” object, created cumulatively through use and through collaboration, where voices join, respond, riposte, and complement each other. 72 This could be the case even in textless music, which could...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 215–236.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., 433 pp.; 54 figs. $45.00. [Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of prominent queens and mistresses.] Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  225 5. Liturgy and devotion Austern, Linda Phyllis, Kari Boyd McBride, and David L. Orvis...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the Reformation  579 Notes This article has been adapted from a paper delivered at the 2014 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America as well as from chapter 7 of Daniel Cheely, “Opening the Book of Marwood: English Catholics and Their Bibles in Early Mod- ern Europe” (Ph.D...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 325–351.
Published: 01 May 2025
..., no. 3 (2001): 567–74. 28 See Lewalski, Protestant Poetics , 184. 29 See Pauline Reid, Reading by Design: The Visual Interface of the English Renaissance Book (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), 158–95. 30 Francis Quarles, “Emblemes” (1635) and “Hieroglyphikes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 413–430.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., pp.; illus. Paper Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume , Books VI – X [Genealogia Deorum Gentilium ad Ugonem Inclitum Ierusalem et Cypri Regem Secundum Iohannem Boccaccium de Certaldo]. Edited and translated by Jon Solomon. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 225–244.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., 222 pp.; 2 illus. $95.00, paper $34.95. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods: Volume 1, Books I  –   V [Genealogia deorum]. Edited and translated by Jon Solomon. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 46. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. xxxvii, 889 pp.; 1 illus...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 455–471.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 2019. x, 310 pp. $49.95. Moran, Bruce T. Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life. Renaissance Lives. Lon- don: Reaktion Books, 2019. 216 pp., 20 color and 3 black- and- white illus. $22.50. Nelson, Janet L. King and Emperor...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... Brizio, Elena, and Marco Piana, eds. Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance . Essays and Studies, vol. 55. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2022. 305 pp., 1 map, 22 color and 3 black-and-white illus. Paperback, ebook...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 201–221.
Published: 01 January 2009
...]. Translated by Thelma S. Fenster and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 341. The French of England Translation Series, vol. 1. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. xvi, 166 pp. $40.00. Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris. The Sentences, Book...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 641–655.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., ebook. Mac Carthy, Ita. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiii, 246 pp., 22 illus. Hardcover, ebook. Longfield Karr, Susan F. “Jus Gentium” in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right . History of European Political and Constitutional...