... d’Anjou and negotiations that followed the abandonment of those marriages, as discussed in letters written in 1569–73 and 1581 by Francis Walsingham, Thomas Smith, Henry Norris, and others, often in correspondence with Lord Burghley. The title page describes the Ambassador as having been “Faithfully...

...Thomas Fulton The accession of James I triggered an outpouring of religious literature, including Shakespeare's Measure for Measure , which was performed before a royal audience on December 26, 1604. With over thirty biblical allusions and a conspicuously scriptural title, Shakespeare's most...

...David Aers; Nigel Smith This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography. The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing senses...

...Jennifer F. Kosmin Although Vesalius, like his contemporaries, had only extremely limited opportunities to examine or dissect the human gravid uterus, it is the image of the anatomist laying bare the (un)pregnant female body and revealing its secrets that graces the title page of the 1543 edition...

... publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous...

... physiognomic knowledge and practice, thus defining more refined criteria for reading the external, bodily “signs of nature in man”—as reads the title of Antonio Pellegrini's 1545 physiognomic dialogue. In this framework, the particularities of criminal physiognomies entered into physiognomists’ scope...

...Gail McMurray Gibson Collectors of medieval religious drama manuscripts routinely bequeathed their names to the play texts they preserved; the titles of the Towneley cycle, the Digby plays, and the Macro plays attest to the importance of prominent bookish intermediaries in saving medieval drama...

...: the alleged misuse of the emperor’s title by the English diplomat and the rejection of Elizabeth’s gifts by the Russian ruler. Focusing on the discrepancies between the English and Russian accounts of these frictions, the essay argues that the English embassy of 1588–89 was marked by a greater complexity...

... publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous...

... of the title page was intended to demonstrate that it was the book of a gentleman, a “noble book.” This displayed nobility supported Montaigne's moral and pedagogical purpose, it served as the basis of his social authority and literary authorship, and, last but not least, this noble status ensured the success...

... publications of Thomas Milles (1550?–1627?) are a case in point. At first glance, Milles would seem to sit comfortably on the first floor of the Cambridge University Library, as a prolific author of printed texts now listed in more or less standard form in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC...

... a sizable corpus.2 This essay will examine one subtle but highly illu- minating transformation that specialized gynecological literature underwent in the later Middle Ages: a change in title. Latin gynecological literature from the early Middle Ages appeared...

... half of the officina’s material, including the remainder of the stock, the copper plates, and the rights to produce reprints of the De Bry titles.1 The outstanding work in the back catalogue of the De Brys was Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:1, Winter 2011...

... covers of Inglis’s own making and introduced by a variety of materials including a title page, self- portrait, and dedication to someone of rank, including Elizabeth I, James VI, Prince Henry, and Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England...

... systems sorted by type, title, and author.6 These include ABC books, broadside ballads, collages, damask paper, hybrid books of print pages interleaved with manuscript pages, and round sheets for decorating the underside of trenchers (the Renaissance equivalent of the drink coaster).7 Printers...

... was rather a way of setting the tone: they had been delayed enough already. This initial strategy was rethought when they received a counter- complaint that they had got the tsar s titles wrong. Every word of their Latin tran- script of the speech had been examined strictly. 20 If the decorum of each...

...? Bucher’s title, focusing on the “grands” voyages, suggests that the difference between the eastern and western projects was one of bigness and smallness. As van Groesen points out, however, the differentiation merely refers to the size of the paper used to print the two sets: the smaller page size...

... Portland State University Portland, Oregon In 1576, just a few years after the newly invented crystal glass pocket mir- ror was first available as a novelty import in England, George Gascoigne published a verse satire conspicuously titled The Steele Glas. The poem...

... theocracy to be just as civilized as European monarchies in its deployment of a rational mode of social control through violence. De Bry Of all the De Bry representations of pagan deities from the Americas, the most remarkable is from the title page of part 12 of America (see fig. 1), which...