... in that nature imi- tated from classical poets seems to stand for a lost poetic and moral order, the rhetorical counterpart to current events represented by an actual threat to the local trees. I trace Ronsard’s early construction of the forest in his Odes, and offer a close reading and reconsideration...

..., and Micha Zytka. Byzantina Lodziensia, vol. 36. ód , Poland: ód University Press; Kraków: Jagiel- lonian University Press, 2017. 226 pp., 28 illus. Paper $55.00. Coonin, A. Victor. Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art. Renaissance Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 288 pp., 58 color and 18 black...

..., such as the cru- elties suffered during the siege of Poitiers in 1566. Madeleine Des Roches’s published odes meditate on her personal experience of the ravages of war in her city by drawing on perceived parallels with ancient history and epic lit- erature—the patricide of Oedipus and the matricide...

... such indicative-­infinitive phrases, as a crowning grace and efficiency of the Latin language. Here Linacre is developing a suggestion of Priscian at 18.96 – 98 (Keil, 3:251 – 52). 26 Linacre, De Emendata Structura, fol. 14r, citing Juvenal, Satires 1.14. 27 Ibid., fol. 14v, citing Horace, Odes...

..., 251 pp., 4 figs. $39.95. Courtney, Krystyna Kujawi ska, and Grzegorz Zinkiewicz, eds. Shake- speare: His Infinite Variety. Second edition. ód , Poland: ód University Press; Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019. 204 pp., 12 color illus. $50.00. Cruse, Mark, ed. Performance and Theatricality...

... by Georges Duby and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie are exceptions to the general rule — Dutton suggests that the meth- ods may actually be an extension of the close reading of sources so essential to medieval history.4 His starting point is a puzzling and strange colophon — an inscription at the end...

... was probably intended as a companion-piece to Milton’s gorgeous “Nativity Ode”; it is written in the same meter and rhyme scheme as the opening stanzas of that poem. The precocious twenty-one-year-old poet obviously planned in these two poems to cover the birth and death of his Savior. While the sub- ject...

... found in poetry (Pindar, Pythian Odes IV, 74; Aeschylus, Eumenides 40 and 116; and Bacchylides, Carmina IV, 4), but the allusion is grounded in the stone navel described by Strabo (Geography IX, 3.6) and Pausanias (in his Guide to Greece, X, 16.3). 160  Journal of Medieval...

... Books across the Disciplines  595 Ficino on Plato’s Writings, vol. 3. London: Shepheard-­Walwyn Publishers, 2009. xi, 180 pp. $34.95. [The first English translation of Ficino’s commen- taries on these works of Plato.] Filelfo, Francesco. Odes. Edited and translated by Diana Robin. The I Tatti...

... a flourish- 320  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 ing civilization. Lescarbot illustrates that new civilization with a new hybrid subject who is summoned into being by his mastery of the codes of courtly discourse. Lescarbot was a habitual versifier. Odes, sonnets...

... was well aware, no single year, author, or even group of authors alone transformed the fate of lyric. The rise of the ode was important, but so, of course, was the development of the Petrarchan sonnet, along with any number of other genres and writers across languages. Nevertheless, the transition Abrams...

.... Paperback. Anderson, Joel D. Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200–1350 . The Middles Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. xvi, 240 pp., 3 figs., 2 maps, 3 tables. Hardcover, ebook. Zinger, Oded. Living with the Law: Gender...

... Press, 2015. xxiii, 285 pp. $39.95. Grigor, Narekats’i, Saint. The Festal Works of St. Gregory of Narek: Anno- tated Translation of the Odes, Litanies, and Encomia. Translated and edited by Abraham Terian. A Pueblo Book. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2016. liv, 407 pp. $39.95. Horwitz...

... knowledge infinite / And always moving as the restless spheres,” is, as Andrew Brown Taylor has pointed out, a pagan rewriting of Calvin’s platonic vision of the soul reaching toward God; it also invokes Lucretius’s ode to Epicurus in De rerum natura. Epicurus, declaims Lucretius...

.... [Prose translation of the Armenian mystic poet and theologian's prayer book and hymnic odes.] Henry VIII, king of England. Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525–1527 . Edited by Richard Rex. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2021. xvi, 306 pp. gbp 70.00. [Critical edition...

... Greek Scholarship and Printing. 2 vols. Cologne: Dinter, 2015. xvii, 787 pp.; 20 tables, 160 plates. eur 180.00. [A study in the wide variation of 227 printed copies of Pindar’s Odes published by Zacharias Kallierges in 1515, which served as the vulgate text of Pindar for centuries.] Gázquez...

... Dennis Flynn, “The English Mission of Jasper Heywood, S.J.,” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 45 (1985): 45–76, at 45–46. It is generally held that Elizabeth translated a choral ode from Hercules Oetaeus , a tragedy usually ascribed to Seneca in the sixteenth century, but Janel Muller and Joshua...

... or esquire,” at least in belles lettres, in books on the etiquette of conversation, and in scholarly works. Pierre de Brach, a friend of Montaigne, dedicated his ode “La Monomachie” that por- trays the combat between David and Goliath to “Monsieur de Montagne, Chevalier de l’Ordre du Roy...

...] is unreal may become real. . . . the phantasm yet receives from this negation a reality principle and emerges from the mute interior crypt in order to enter into a new and fundamental dimension” (Stanzas, 25). 48 The locus classicus for this convention is Horace’s Odes 3.30. 49 Aristotle...

... Ambrose / Travel in Time  421 form in that such diaries rarely proceed with narrative regularity; instead, they consist of terse phrases that appear in bursts, perhaps indicative of peri- ods of reflection, rather than sustained, systematic sessions of recording. Even when almanac notations are more...