...D. J. Hopkins The royal entry of King James I into London in 1604 serves as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between public, urban performance and the primary sources that ostensibly document it. The author revisits his own past study of this occasion, revising and expanding previous...

.... In his entry for “Britania,” Elyot dismisses the version of British ori- gins made popular by Geoffrey’s Historia, in which the name is said to have derived from its Trojan founder, Brutus. Elyot concludes that, “as I haue done in the worde Albion, so wyll I here declare a reasonable cause...

... by Carpenter which describes a program of seven pageants that the two writers may have devised together. As several critics have recently noted, by contrast with the city’s earlier royal entry pag- eant for Henry V in 1415, where the king was identified with powerful Old Testament figures like King...

.... Instead, they rep- resent something like the apotheosis of both royal feminine goodness and, more specifically, the political authority of Catherine and the Tudor family about to welcome her in marriage. The saints can stand for that political authority, I would argue, only because their function...

..., MSS Royal 1.C.viii and 17.B.i. James P. Carley, “Index I: Indexes of Manuscripts,” in The Libraries of King Henry VIII (London: British Library, 2000), 297 – 306. 17 For a description of the manuscript, see Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi, with Stella Panayotova, Western...

... history as recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth, reinforcing both local and national identity at once. By the sixteenth century, civic authorities regularly appropriate Gogmagog for royal entries. Although the use of giants dates back to at least 1415 in London entries, Gogmagog makes his first...

... about England’s most famous divorce, All Is True would seem inappropriate to include as part of royal nuptial celebrations. 11 Prologue to Sir John Oldcastle Part I in The Oldcastle Controversy: Sir John Oldcas- tle, Part I and The Famous Victories of Henry V, ed. Peter Corbin and Douglas...

... over a long tradition of medieval and early modern information management when he reflected in 1778 that “I have often pitied those harmless Drudges, who exercise the Trade of cutting and pasting printed Papers together, for the Emolument of Booksellers, and which they call compiling.”1 Ann Blair...

... on the event and texts of the coronation entry of Elizabeth I. The coronation entry was a traditional, ritual procession of the monarch and court through the streets of London, beginning at the Tower of London and ending at Westminster, moving along a fixed route through...

..., James Knowles, and Sue Wiseman. 1 Juliet Fleming, Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England (London: Reaktion, 2001), 115. 2 Ibid., 24 and 43. 3 Ibid., 51. 4 Ibid., 33. 5 I differ here with Fleming who sees J. A. Symonds as representating the joyful wel- come...

...?) Samson / A Fine Romance  67 that his father, coming to Santiago, was most solemnly received by King Alfonso X, who was the brother of his mother (Eleonor of Castile married Edward I Longshanks Yet despite the close ties of kinship binding the royal houses together stretch...

... and centralizations of the sixteenth century provoked correlative sim- plifications and narrowings in literature. If literary history and criticism is, as I believe it should be, ancillary to the complex his- tory of freedoms, then this is a narrative of diminishing liberties...

...’: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Touch,” Albion 21, no. 2 (1989): 191 – 205; and Caroline McManus, “Queen Elizabeth, Dol Common, and the Performance of the Royal Maundy,” in The Myster- ies of Elizabeth I: Selections from “English Literary Renaissance,” ed. Kirby Farrell...

... are for cloth editions. For paperback reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by librar- ies. Thanks go to David Aers...

...: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy . I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. xi, 330 pp., 9 figs. $49.95. Principe, Lawrence M. The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences...

...) and Subh 10. Hisham II (no issue) Figure 2. Genealogy of the Hispano- Umayyad dynasty with the royal mothers (D. F. Ruggles). here? Rah, the mother of 1Abd al-Rahman I, was a Berber slave from the Maghreb...

....: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. xv, 210 pp. $45.00. [First-time translations of three of Ambrose's treatises, one on Noah and two defenses of David.] Arnauld d'Andilly, Robert. Oeuvres chrétiennes (1644) . Edited by Tony Gheeraert. Univers Port-Royal, vol. 40. Paris: Classiques Garnier...

... presentation of Æthelthryth’s resistance to royal aggression in Book I. It seems as if the chronicler is intentionally drawing parallels between the two parts of his narrative and asking his reader to remember the monastery’s position in relation to royal power. Specifically, the narrative describes Ely...

... at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503 1533. Royal Historical Society Stud- ies in History, New Series. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2018. x, 185 pp., 4 illus. $99.00. Cañizares -Esguerra, Jorge, ed. Entangled Empires: The Anglo...

..., and Robert Blyth. The Armada Portrait . Icons. London: Royal Museums Greenwich, 2020. 80 pp., color plates throughout. $15.95. [Study of the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I.] Silver, Nathaniel, ed. Titian's “Rape of Europa.” Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; London: Paul Holberton Publishing...