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Book SynopsisIt has for decades been part of the canon of maxims of basic research that most images of rulers in early medieval book illustrations have been transmitted in liturgical manuscripts, i.e. manuscripts originally intended for divine worship. There have however to date been few investigations which draw serious consequences from this and which also view miniatures of rulers in the light of their functional aspects, for example as ‘memorial depictions’ (O.G. Oexle), or on the basis of the social reality of the pious motives behind their presentation. This study gives a more precise explanation of the function and purpose of ruler-images by examining a few selected early medieval miniatures. It analyzes the historical and social contexts of their genesis and the liturgical and commemorative aims of their use against the setting of the social form of remembrance of confraternity.Table of ContentsAbbildungen . . . ix Tabellen . . . . xi Vorwort . . . . xiii Erstes Kapitel: Einleitung . . . . 1 1. Prasenz, Abwesenheit und Vergegenwartigung des fruhmittelalterlichen Herrschers: Zugange der Forschung . . . . 3 2. Alles Stiftung—oder? Untersuchungsansatz . . . . 27 Zweites Kapitel: Herrscher als Bruder und Herrscherinnen als Schwestern der Monche: Idealtypische Bestimmung eines fruhmittelalterlichen Rituals. . . . 41 1. Wie wurde eine Gebetsverbruderung abgeschlossen? . . . 41 2. Verbruderungsvertrage. . . . 45 2.1. Herzog Burchard I. und St. Gallen . . . . 50 2.2. Markgraf Gero und St. Gallen . . . 52 3. Historiographische Berichte . . . . 61 3.1. KonigTheudebert I. und der Hl. Maurus: Ein Fall von ‘ritualgeleiteter Vergangenheitskonstruktion’ . . . 62 3.2. Konig Konrad I. in St. Gallen: Gebetsverbruderung als erzahlte Konfliktlosung . . . . 69 3.3. Kaiserin Gisela und ihr Sohn Heinrich in St. Gallen: Gebetsverbruderung imKonflikt . . . . 83 3.4. Kaiser Heinrich II. in Cluny? Noch ein Fall ‘ritualgeleiteter Vergangenheitskonstruktion’ oder Ubernahme aus einer alteren Tradition . . . 86 4. Briefe . . . 111 4.1. Seneschall Adalhard und Reichenau . . . . 114 4.2. Kaiserin Agnes und Fruttuaria (I) . . . 116 4.3. Bernhard von Clairvaux und der irische Konig Dermot MacMurrough . . . 119 5. Urkunden . . . . 121 5.1. Kaiserin Agnes und Fruttuaria (II) . . . . 122 5.2. Kaiser Otto II. und St. Bavo in Gent . . . 127 6. Consuetudines und Formulare. . . . 131 6.1. Consuetudines aus Cluny . . . . 133 6.2. Constitutiones Lanfranci . . . . 142 7. Liturgische Texte . . . . 149 8. Das Ritual der Verbruderung: Zusammenfassung . . . 157 Drittes Kapitel: Kaiser Lothar I. in seinem Evangeliar fur St. Martin vor Tours (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Fonds latin 266) . . . 163 1. Beschreibung der Handschrift und des Herrscherbildes . . . 163 2. Herstellungsort und Datierung der Handschrift . . . 167 3. Historischer Kontext . . . . 172 4. Gebetsverbruderung undHerrscherbild . . . 185 5. Funktionaler Kontext—liturgischer Gebrauch der Handschrift . . . . 192 6. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick . . . 202 Viertes Kapitel: Kaiser Heinrich II. in seinem Regensburger Evangeliar fur Montecassino (Rom, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottobonianus latinus 74) . . . . 205 1. Beschreibung der Handschrift und des Herrscherbildes . . . 205 2. Datierung der Handschrift und Identifizierung des Herrschers . . . 217 3. Historischer Kontext . . . . 222 4. Gebetsverbruderung undHerrscherbild . . . 227 5. Funktionaler Kontext—liturgischer Gebrauch der Handschrift . . . . 245 6. Zusammenfassung. . . 247 Fünftes Kapitel: Konig Heinrich III. und seine Mutter, die Kaiserin Gisela, in seinem Evangelistar aus Echternach (Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Bremen,Ms. b. 21) . . . 251 1. Beschreibung der Handschrift und der Herrscherbilder . . . 251 2. „Tugend undHeiligkeit“? Bisherige Deutungen. . . . 260 3. Funktionaler Kontext: Schenkungszusammenhange und -zwecke—liturgischer Gebrauch . . . . 267 4. Datierungsversuche . . . 274 5. Historischer Kontext . . . . 281 6. Gebetsverbruderung undHerrscherbilder . . . 287 7. Zusammenfassung. . . 298 Sechstes Kapitel: ‘Causae pingendi’—Resumee . . . 301 Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis . . . . 311 Abkurzungen und Siglen . . . 311 1. Quellen . . . . 312 1.1. Handschriften . . . . 312 1.2. Editionen . . . 313 2. Literatur. . . . 322 Index der Personen- und Ortsnamen . . . 369 Abbildungen . . . . anschliessend an Seite 378

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Book SynopsisThis volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period. An introductory section discusses the theoretical problems of comparative analysis, with particular reference to formative phases of cultural crystallization. The first main thematic section focuses on European developments. The emergence of Western Christendom as a distinctive civilization is analyzed in a broader Eurasian context. Other contributions examine the Europeanization of northern and eastern peripheries, as well as the different course of events in the Byzantine world. The last section covers socio-cultural changes in non-European regions - the Islamic world, India, China and Japan - and concludes with a discussion of the Eurasian empire created by the Mongols. With contributions by Thomas Lindkvist; Sverre Bagge; Paul Jakov Smith; Paul Stephenson; Mikael Adolphson; Dr. Michal Biran; Said A. Arjomand; Gábor Klaniczay; R. I. Moore; Sheldon Pollock. Originally published in hardcover

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Book SynopsisThe work published in this third, and final, volume of Brill’s handbook on the tradition of the Book of Sentences breaks new ground in three ways. First, several chapters contribute to the debate concerning the meaning of medieval authority and authorship. For some of the most influential literature on the Sentences consisted of study aids and compilations that were derivative or circulated anonymously. Consequently, the volume also sheds light on theological education “on the ground”—the kind of teaching that was dispensed by the average master and received by the average student. Finally, the contributors show that Peter Lombard’s textbook played a much more dynamic role in later medieval theology than hitherto assumed. The work remained a force to be reckoned with until at least the sixteenth century, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Contributors are Claire Angotti, Monica Brinzei, Franklin T. Harkins, Severin V. Kitanov, Lidia Lanza, Philipp W. Rosemann, Chris Schabel, John T. Slotemaker, Marco Toste, Jeffrey C. Witt, and Ueli Zahnd.Trade Review"[Each of the three avenues of the volume] makes a decisive contribution to the history of this subject … This volume dedicated to Peter Lombard’s work opens up new research fields and addresses the practical concerns of contemporary ‘Sentences commentators’, while giving precious information on how the Book of ‘Sentences’… influenced the study of theology throughout the Middle Ages and is presently influencing researches in different areas, ranging from theology to history and philosophy." Alexandra Baneu, Philobiblon, Vol. XXI (2016), No. 1Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii Abbreviations ix Introduction: Three Avenues for Studying the Tradition of the Sentences 1 Philipp W. Rosemann 1 Filiae Magistri: Peter Lombard’s Sentences and Medieval Theological Education “On the Ground” 26 Franklin T. Harkins 2 Les listes des opiniones Magistri Sententiarum quae communiter non tenentur: forme et usage dans la lectio des Sentences 79 Claire Angotti 3 Henry of Gorkum’s Conclusiones Super IV Libros Sententiarum: Studying the Lombard in the First Decades of the Fifteenth Century 145 John T. Slotemaker 4 The Past, Present, and Future of Late Medieval Theology: The Commentary on the Sentences by Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl, Vienna, ca. 1400 174 Monica Brinzei and Chris Schabel 5 Easy-Going Scholars Lecturing Secundum Alium? Notes on Some French Franciscan Sentences Commentaries of the Fifteenth Century 267 Ueli Zahnd 6 The Concept of Beatific Enjoyment (Fruitio Beatifica) in the Sentences Commentaries of Some Pre-Reformation Erfurt Theologians 315 Severin V. Kitanov 7 John Major’s (Mair’s) Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Scholastic Philosophy and Theology in the Early Sixteenth Century 369 Severin V. Kitanov, John T. Slotemaker, and Jeffrey C. Witt 8 The Sentences in Sixteenth-Century Iberian Scholasticism 416 Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste 9 Texts, Media, and Re-Mediation: The Digital Future of the Sentences Commentary Tradition 504 Jeffrey C. Witt Bibliography 517 Figures 533 Index of Manuscripts 546 Index of Names 552

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century religious and nationalistic concerns widely influenced the reconstruction of the history of the archdiocese of Methodius. Offering a new reading of already widely-used sources, both Slavonic and Latin, Maddalena Betti turns attention upon the jurisdictional conflict between Rome, the Bavarian churches and Byzantium, in order to uncover the strategies and the languages adopted by the Apostolic See to gain jurisdiction over the new territories in central and south-eastern Europe.Trade Review"In her book, Maddalena Betti attempts to chart the fate of the Methodian mission in Great Moravia and the establishment of Sancta ecclesia Marabensis in Moravian territory in the second half of the ninth century. While this topic has been treated previously, she has chosen to look at the formation of ecclesiastical hierarchies in Great Moravia from the perspective of papal policies. For this reason, Betti has studied in detail papal correspondence pertinent to matters of the Moravian mission, especially the letters of John VIII, whose correspondence is particularly concerned with the Moravian mission. Her study is an extremely valuable addition to previous research into Great Moravian Christian culture, as it provides a well-rounded and erudite picture of the papal position on the Methodian mission in Great Moravia. Besides, Betti’s study also contributes to other scholarly inquiries connected with the Moravian state, such as its geographical location..." Evina Steinova, Network and Neighbours, Volume 2, Number 1 (2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Foreword ... xi by Thomas F. X. Noble Introduction ... 1 I. The Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Historiography ... 9 1. The Use of the Cyrillic-Methodian Heritage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Romantic Slavophilism, the “Reawakening of the Slavs,” and Roman Ecumenism ... 10 2. Great Moravia and the Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia ... 14 3. Revisionist Analyses of the Methodian Archdiocese ... 27 4. The Archdiocese of Methodius in František Dvornik: “La lutte autour de l’Illyricum” ... 34 5. Conclusion ... 39 II. The Origins of the Methodian Diocese during the Pontificates of Nicholas I (858–867) and Hadrian II (867–872). A Comparison of the Roman and Slavonic Sources ... 41 1. The Silence of the Roman Sources: The Possible Censure by Pope Stephen V (885–890) ... 43 2. Nicholas I (858–867): The First Contact ... 54 3. Hadrian II (867–872): The Constitution of a New Church ... 65 4. Introduction to the Slavonic Sources: The “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Constantine and Methodius” ... 72 5. Nicholas I and Hadrian II in the Slavonic Sources: the “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Cyril and Methodius” ... 83 6. Anastasius the Librarian and Constantine the Philosopher ... 90 7. A Roman source: The “Vita Constantini-Cyrilli cum translatione S. Clementis” ... 96 8. Conclusion ... 104 III. The Pannonian-Moravian Diocese in the Letters of Pope John VIII (872–882): Papal Strategies and Languages ... 109 1. Papal Missionary Involvement: Sixth to Ninth Century ... 111 2. John VIII’s Diplomatic Network: Letters and Legates ... 121 3. Geographical Sources for the Methodian Archdiocese ... 138 4. Pannonian Diocese—Moravian Diocese ... 154 5. The Ecclesiastical Career of a Roman Missionary: Methodius, Augustine, and Boniface ... 168 6. Svatopluk’s Role in Shaping the “Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis” ... 7. The Sirmian Issue ... 192 8. Conclusion ... 203 Conclusion: The Question of the Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis Revisited ... 207 Maps ... 217 Bibliography ... 223 Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning. Like Brand’s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests. Contributors include Sir John H. Baker*, David Carpenter, David Crook, Charles Donahue, Jr, Barbara Harvey, Richard H. Helmholz, John Hudson, Paul Hyams, David J. Ibbetson, Susanne Jenks, Janet S. Loengard, Alexandra Nicol, Bruce R. O'Brien, Robert C. Palmer, Sandra Raban, Jonathan Rose, Henry Summerson and Sarah Tullis. *Professor Jon Baker is the winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2013 Sutherland Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, is for the best article on English legal history published in the previous year. The Prize was awarded to John baker for his article “Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290-1321" in Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand, ed. Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick (2012). For more information about the Prize see: http://aslh.net/about-aslh/honors-awards-and-fellowships/sutherland-prize/Trade Review"...In Anerkennung seiner großen Verdienste um die anglophone Rechtsgeschichte haben seine Freunde, Kollegen und Schüler die vorliegende Festschrift verfasst. Sie enthält außer einer einfühlsamen Würdigung [...] insgesamt 16 eindringliche Studien [...] Eine Bibliographie der zahlreichen weiterführenden Arbeiten des Geehrten und ein umfangreicher Index schließen das mit Illustrationen und einem Brustbild Brands geschmückte vielseitige Werk benutzerfreundlich ab und zugleich auf." Gerhard Köbler, Innsbrück, February 2014 (http://www.koeblergerhard.de/ZIER-HP/ZIER-HP-04-2014/LawsLawyersandTexts.htm) "This volume is both a worthy tribute to the person it honours, Professor Paul Brand, formerly of All Souls, Oxford, and recently visiting Professor in the University of Michigan Law School, and a significant contribution in its own right to the areas of research made possible by Brand’s scholarship. [...] There is much here for readers interested in the history of specific actions in the English common law [...] This book deserves a wider readership than the specialist nature of its subject matter will no doubt allow. This is to compliment the editors and contributors for appositely paying tribute to their dedicatee; on the other hand, such rich scholarship deserves to read by all." Jason Taliadoros, (School of Law, Deakin University), Parergon, Vol. 30, 2, 2013, pp. 202-204 "...This festschrift is a richly-deserved tribute to Brand's continuing collegiality and influence. [...] Taken as a whole, this collection not only stands as a testament to the influence of Paul Brand himself on his friends, colleagues, and students, but as a testament to the high quality of scholarly production among current historians of medieval English law. [...] all demonstrate the kind of meticulous scholarship and accessible presentation for which Brand is justifiably well known. [...] In the final analysis, this is not only a welcome addition to the body of work on English law and procedure, it is also a fitting tribute to one of the most productive and significant members of that community. Those interested in the topics of the articles themselves will find much to value in them; those curious about the state of English legal history today will find it well represented here." Linda E. Mitchell (University of Missouri--Kansas City), The Medieval Review 13.09.46 "...einem sauber bearbeiteten umfangreichen Index...die hohe Konsistenz der Einzelbeiträge untereinander...Alle Beiträge beziehen sich ganz explizit auf das zentrale Arbeitsgebiet des Jubilars: Recht und Rechtspflege im England des »langen« 13. Jahrhunderts....Damit ist schon ein weiterer Schwerpunkt angesprochen, der die meisten der versammelten Beiträge durchzieht: der ständig wiederkehrende und wohltuende Bezug zur Quellenkunde und Quellenkritik...Diese Festschrift stellt einen facettenreichen und doch thematisch konsistenten Beitrag zur englischen Rechtsgeschichte des hohen und späten Mittelalters dar, mit der die Forschungsinteressen des Jubilars aufgegriffen und überzeugend weitergeführt werden." Hiram Kümper (Universität Bielefeld), Francia-Recensio 2013/3 | Mittelalter - Moyen ge (500-1500) "...The focus of the volume is predominantly on the Common Law and the English legal system, reflecting Brand’s expert knowledge and interpretation of medieval law and legal practice, and it would have been easy to locate the essays purely within this comfortable domain. One of the key strengths of this book, however, is that many of the contributions range more broadly, examining overlaps between other legal traditions and jurisdictions..." Anthony Musson (Bracton Centre for Legal History Research, University of Exeter), Edinburgh Law Review. Volume 17, Page 268-269 DOI 10.3366/elr.2013.0159, ISSN 1364-9809, Available Online May 2013Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... ix Paul Brand: Encomium ... xi *Barbara Harvey Editors’ Preface ... xv List of Abbreviations ... xvii List of Contributors ... xxi Constitutions of Clarendon, Clause 3, and Henry II’s Reforms of Law and Administration ... 1 *John Hudson Notes on the Transformation of the Fief into the Common Law Tenure in Fee ... 21 *Paul R. Hyams An English Book of Laws from the Time of Glanvill ... 51 *Bruce O’Brien Annuities and Annual Pensions ... 69 *Richard H. Helmholz Civilian and Canonist Influence on the Writ of Cessavit per Biennium ... 87 *David Ibbetson Burning Issues: The Law and Crime of Arson in England, 1200–1350 ... 101 *Henry Summerson Crucifijixion and Conversion: King Henry III and the Jews in 1255 ... 129 *David Carpenter Robert of Lexington, Senior Justice of the Bench, 1236–1244 ... 149 *David Crook Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290–1321 ... 177 *John Baker Lawyers Retained by Peterborough Abbey in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries ... 201 *Sandra Raban The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England: Serjeants of the Common Bench and Advocates of the Court of Arches ... 227 *Charles Donahue, Jr Writs De Minis and Supplicavit: The History of Surety of the Peace ... 253 *Susanne Jenks Common Law and Custom: Windows, Light, and Privacy in Late Medieval England ... 279 *Janet S. Loengard Medieval Estate Planning: The Wills and Testamentary Trials of Sir John Fastolf ... 299 *Jonathan Rose Glanvill after Glanvill: The Afterlife of a Medieval Legal Treatise ... 327 *Sarah Tullis The Construction of an Online Digital Archive: The Anglo-American Legal Tradition Website Project ... 361 *Robert C. Palmer Bibliography of the Published Works of Paul Brand ... 379 *Alexandra Nicol Index (by Carrie Smith) ... 385

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2018 Book Prize This volume offers a novel, trans-regional vision of Viking Age (9th-11th century) cultural and political contacts between Scandinavia and the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, using predominantly archaeological evidence, combined with historical sources, topography and logistical considerations.Trade ReviewWinner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2018 Book Prize for most outstanding recent scholarly monograph on pre-modern Slavdom. The work was described by the prize committee in the following terms: "The scope of this book is far broader than the title might suggest. It amounts to a substantial rethinking of the history of the eastern Baltic from the tenth to the thirteenth century, based on both archaelogical and written evidence. The author is by training an archaeologist, and she mounts a powerful criticism of historians who prioritise the written sources and then pick and choose from the archaeological evidence to suit their theories. This book foregrounds the archaeology, which is used to question and consider the written evidence. The author is also highly and rightly critical of the archaeological scholarship, for projecting back into the past the narrow concerns of the numerous nation states that now exist across the eastern and northern Baltic, or the Great Russian nationalist-materialist-imperialist interpretations of the Soviet period. The result is a detailed and fascinating account of the interactions of the worlds of Scandinavia and Rusʹ with the various peoples of the Baltic region, both Finno-Ugric and Baltic. The resulting picture of commercial, political, and cultural interaction across several cultures, and based on reading in a wide range of languages, is a tour-de-force." "This is unarguably a very important, rich and often well-conceived work with many profound analyses of the source material. For the first time, an experienced archaeologist has brought together the whole archaeological material from the Eastern Baltic region, from Eastern Prussia to Estonia. This is a formidable presentation. I am convinced that this book will for a long time be a standard work of reference for those interested in the Baltic region and the period in question." Johan Callmer, in Journal of Northern Studies 13 (2019).Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1 Viking Age Cultural Contacts across The Baltic Sea: Behind the Interpretations  1.1 The Evolutionary Development Model  1.2 Eastern Baltic Archaeology and the Concepts of Different Cultural Impacts  1.3 The Character of Communications across the Baltic Sea  1.4 Conclusions 2 Clan-Based Collectivists or Hierarchical Individualists? Late Prehistoric Societies in the Eastern Baltic  2.1 Finland  2.2 Estonia  2.3 Latvia and Lithuania  2.4 Prussia  2.5 Comparing Social Systems in Different Regions in the Eastern Baltic  2.6 Conclusions 3 Making Trade: Cultural Landscapes and Communication Routes  3.1 Maritime Landscapes in Countries around the Baltic  3.2 Long-distance Trade Routes through the Eastern Baltic  3.3 Travelling along Viking Age Routes  3.4 Points in Communication  3.5 Different Modes of Communication in the Eastern Baltic  3.6 Conclusions 4 The Historical Reality: Places, Place Names, and Ethnonyms in Written Sources  4.1 Estland(s) in the East  4.2 Pre-viking and Viking Age Eastern Baltic in Scandinavian Sources  4.3 What Was Rus’?  4.4 Languages and Personal Names  4.5 Conclusions 5 Networks Take Shape: Communication Through the Eastern Baltic 600–850  5.1 Cultural Situation around the Northern Part of the Baltic Sea  5.2 Viking Colonies in the Southern Half of the Eastern Baltic  5.3 Pre-viking Period Hill-Forts and Trade Centres along the Eastern Baltic Coast  5.4 Conclusions 6 West Goes East: Viking Age Long-distance Communication and the Eastern Baltic 850-ca. 1000  6.1 Viking Age Centres Connected with International Trade Routes in the Eastern Baltic  6.2 Cultural Landscapes along the Eastern Way  6.3 Cultural Landscapes in the Middle Part of the Eastern Baltic  6.4 Coin Finds in the Eastern Baltic  6.5 Interpreting Routes and Centres in the 9th–10th Centuries  6.6 Conclusions 7 Between Consolidating States. The Eastern Baltic Areas in the 11th and 12th Centuries  7.1 Interaction with Scandinavian Kingdoms  7.2 Northern Eastern Baltic in the Final Centuries of Prehistory  7.3 The East Attacks  7.4 Landscapes around the Daugava Route  7.5 Southern Couronian Coast  7.6 Coins and Trade  7.7 Conclusions 8 Summing up and Conclusions  8.1 Two Cultural Spheres in the Eastern Baltic  8.2 The Shared Cultural Sphere of Warriors  8.3 Written Sources and Places on the Eastern Coasts of the Baltic Sea  8.4 Different Periods in the Viking Age Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the Middle Ages, the head of St John the Baptist was widely venerated. According to the biblical text, John was beheaded at the order of Herod’s stepdaughter, who is traditionally given the name Salome. His head was later found in Jerusalem. Legends concerning the discovery of this relic form the basis of an iconographic type in which the head of St John the Baptist is represented as an “object.” The phenomenon of the Johannesschüssel is the subject of this essay. Little is known about how exactly these objects functioned. How are we to understand this fascination with horror, death and decapitation? What phantasms does the artifact channel? The present study offers the unique key to the Johannesschüssel as artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ...xi Copyrights ...xix Acknowledgements ...xxiii Prologue ...1 1.The narrative ...9 2.The relics ...22 3.The genesis of an artifact ...45 4.The liturgical calendar: performative acts and therapy ...61 5.The sacramental context: water and blood ...83 6.The Andachtsbild: the gaze and the senses ...105 7.The Medusa efffect ...130 8.Skull cult ...143 9.Sacrifijice and dance ...153 10.In utroque: genealogy and foundation ...166 11.In utroque: head and face...184 12.The executioner’s arm: painting as blood ...205 13.Epilogue: Nachleben ...211 Bibliography ...225 Index ...247

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Book SynopsisFor nearly a century, the concept of a twelfth-century renaissance has been integral to our understanding of the medieval Latin West. At the heart of any notion of renaissance is a Rome of the mind’s eye. This collection places Rome into the larger context of multilingual imaginations to reveal that Rome was both an object of fascination and contestation across the Mediterranean world. In Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, in art, inscriptions, geographies, ritual practice, and itineraries, Rome was both held up as ideal and challenged as an authoritative center. These constructions of Rome could be deployed for renewal and reform, or to enhance or challenge papal or imperial authority because of the imaginative force of the ancient city. Contributors are Herbert L. Kessler, Louis I. Hamilton, Stefano Riccioni, Marie-Thérèse Champagne, Ra‘anan S. Boustan, Emily Albu, Irene A. O’Daly, and Mario Casari

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Book SynopsisEven with growing popularity in the United States, there existed no English-language scholarly introduction to Marguerite Porete or her sole-surviving work Mirror of Simple Souls until now. The study of Marguerite and her work touches on so many disciplines – from religious and secular histories to theological and literary readings of her book – that the scholarship had often been lost in the divides between the disciplines. Our contributors are chosen from both sides of the Atlantic and from an array of disciplines in order to bridge this geographical and linguistic divide. The interdisciplinary nature of the interest in Marguerite and the Mirror and the implications her book has on medieval scholarship make a collection such as this companion ideal. Contributors are Marleen Cré, Imke De Gier, Dávid Falvay, Sean Field, Geneviève Hasenohr (with Zan Kocher), Jonathan Juilfs, Zan Kocher, Joanne Robinson, Elizabeth Scarborough, Robert Stauffer, Wendy R. Terry, and Justine Trombley.Trade Review“Ink will continue to flow in the debates around Marguerite and her Mirror of Simple Souls, and this book provides a superlative springboard for any aspiring student eager to dive in”. John Arblaster, University of Antwerp. In: Speculum, Vol. 94, No. 3 (July 2019), pp. 904-906.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Robert Stauffer Editors’ Introduction Wendy R. Terry Section 1—Marguerite Porete and the Writing of The Mirror Chapter 1 Debating the Historical Marguerite Porete Sean L. Field Chapter 2 Marguerite’s Mystical Annihilation Joanne Maguire Robinson Chapter 3 A Review of Possible Theological Sources for Marguerite Porete’s Mirror Wendy R. Terry Chapter 4 Literary Sources of the Mirror of Simple Souls Zan Kocher Chapter 5 Exemplum ‘Ce livre monstrera a tous vraye lumiere de verité. The Role of the Mirror of Simple Souls as a book. Imke de Gier Section 2—Translations and Transmission of The Mirror Chapter 6 The Tradition of the Mirror of Simple Souls in the Fifteenth Century: From Marguerite Porete (†1310) to Marguerite of Navarre (†1549)" written and updated by Geneviève Hasenohr, translated by Zan Kocher Chapter 7 The Latin Manuscripts of The Mirror of Simple Souls Justine L. Trombley Chapter 8 The Italian Version of the Mirror: Manuscripts, Diffusion and Communities in the 14-15th Century Dávid Falvay Chapter 9 Further thoughts on M.N.’s Middle English Translation of Marguerite’s Mirouer des simples âmes anienties Marleen Cré Chapter 10 Possibilities for the Identity of the English Translator of The Mirror of Simple Souls Robert Stauffer Section 3—Modern Scholarship: Looking Forward, Looking Back Chapter 11 Marguerite Porete and Various Modern Critical Approaches Elizabeth Scarborough Chapter 12 Mirrors on the Wall: Which One Is Fairest of Them All? Jonathan Juilfs Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars. There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history). This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar. Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"...a wonderfully thought-provoking text which offers, I believe, the most comprehensive examination of medieval historiography to date ... a tremendous contribution to contemporary scholarship. It is rich, accessible, and informative, illuminating our understanding of how the past was understood and written in medieval contexts. It would make a valuable acquisition for any library." – Alicia Marchant, in: The Limina, 2005 "…an extremely valuable resource for anyone seeking to find their bearings in a vast and complex field." – Graeme Dunphy, in: MLR, 2005Table of Contentschapters include: Universal History 300-1000: Origins and Western Developments (Michael I. Allen), Ethnic and National History ca. 500-1000 (Joaquín Martínez Pizarro), Local and Institutional History (300-1000) (Michel Sot), Christian Biography: Foundation To Maturity (Thomas J. Heffernan), World Historiography in the Late Middle Ages (Rolf Sprandel), High and Late Medieval National Historiography (Norbert Kersken ), Dynastic History (Leah Shopkow), Contemporary and Eyewitness History (Peter Ainsworth), Later Medieval Institutional History (Bert Roest), Medieval Urban Historiography in Western Europe (1100-1500) (Augusto Vasina), Biography 1000-1350 (Michael Goodich), Legendary History: Historia and Fabula (Peter Ainsworth)

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Book SynopsisIntermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside more traditional fields such as literature, art history and cultural history. Focusing on religious texts and images between 1400 and 1700, the essays gathered in this volume contribute to these developments by grounding their case studies in methodology. In considering various relations between the visual and the verbal, the editors have adopted the broadest position possible, emphasizing the phenomenological point of view from which the objects under discussion are examined. Contributors to this volume: Ralph Dekoninck, Anna Dlabačová, Grégory Ems, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion, Kees Schepers, Paul J. Smith, and Elliott D. Wise.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Ingrid Falque and Agnès Guiderdoni 2 Framing the Text-Image Relationship(s) in Henry Suso’s Exemplar  Ingrid Falque 3 How to Read the Drawings of Gielis vander Hecken (1491–1538)  Kees Schepers 4 The Adventures of the Soul in a Wonderful Emblematic Manuscript of the Belgium Royal Library  Grégory Ems 5 Sese oblectari in dies: Tropes of Materiality and Artisanship in the Paradisus precum selectarum (1610) of the Cistercian Sub-prior Martin Boschman  Walter S. Melion 6 “Hidden Sons”, Baptism, and Vernacular Mysticism in Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Triptych  Elliott D. Wise 7 The Art of Observance. Jan Provoost’s Diptych of a Franciscan Friar as an Exponent of the Spirituality and Position of the Franciscan Order in the Low Countries, c.1520  Anna Dlabačová 8 Jan Brueghel the Elder’s First Paradise Landscape (1594)  Paul J. Smith

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century. Volume One: Studies, offers 18 studies and Volume Two: Texts in Contexts, includes editions and analyses of hitherto unpublished texts of medieval Latin-into-Hebrew translations. Both volumes are available separately or together as a set.

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which ‘women above stairs’ shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence-gathering and espionage. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of female agency, this collection demonstrates clearly that the political climate of Europe was often shaped outside the male-dominated institutions of government and administration. Contributors include: Helen Graham-Matheson, Hannah Leah Crummé, Katrin Keller, Vanessa de Cruz, Birgit Houben, Dries Raeymaekers, Janet Ravenscroft, Una McIlvenna, Rosalind K. Marshall, Oliver Mallick, Cynthia Fry, Nadine Akkerman, Sara J. Wolfson, Fabian Persson, and Jeroen Duindam.Trade Review"This is an important work for the emergent field of gendered court politics. It is logically structured and beautifully produced, with colour images of artworks appearing within a page of their having been discussed. It would be of interest for scholars and students of early modern court culture or gender studies, or to specialists seeking fresh insights concerning the biographies of particular queens from the early modern period, or of regents or ladies who exerted power within the specified courtly households." Elizabeth Reid, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon 35.1 (2018), pp. 141-142. "These chapters, valuable as they are, only begin to open up the large subject of how the activities of court ladies have been variously represented and misrepresented through cultural discourses and visual sources; and how cultural codes and social conventions constrained and shaped the roles women were able to play within courts. Much work remains to be done on these topics, but this collection unquestionably provides a valuable start." R. Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts, Boston. In: Early Modern Women, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015). "An excellent recent collection in the study of royal households with deep relevance for both royal and court studies" Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester) and Cathleen Sarti (University of Mainz). In: Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 2 (2015), p. 16.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of illustrations, List of contributors Introduction Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben PART 1. TUDOR ENGLAND 1.‘Petticoats and Politics: Elisabeth Parr and Female Agency at the Early Elizabethan Court’ Helen Graham-Matheson 2.‘Jane Dormer’s Recipe for Politics: A Refuge Household in Spain for Mary Tudor’s Ladies-in-waiting’ Hannah Leah Crummé PART 2. HABSBURGS I. THE IMPERIAL COURT IN VIENNA 3.‘Ladies-in-waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns’ Katrin Keller 4.‘“In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life”: Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria’ Vanessa de Cruz II. THE COURT IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS 5.‘Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella’s Camareras Mayores (1598-1633)’ Birgit Houben & Dries Raeymaekers 6.‘Dwarfs – and a Loca – as Ladies’ Maids at the Spanish Habsburg Courts’ Janet Ravenscroft PART 3. FRANCE 7.‘ “A Stable of Whores”?: The “Flying Squadron” of Catherine de Medici’ Una McIlvenna 8.‘In Search of the Ladies-in-Waiting and Maids of Honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Prosoprographical Analysis of the Female Household’ Rosalind K. Marshall 9.‘Clients and Friends: The Ladies-in-waiting at the Court of Anne of Austria (1615-66)’ Oliver Mallick PART 4. THE STUART COURTS 10.‘Perceptions of Influence: The Catholic Diplomacy of Queen Anna and Her Ladies, 1601-4’ Cynthia Fry 11.‘The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford’ Nadine Akkerman 12.‘The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-40’ Sara J. Wolfson PART 5. THE SWEDISH COURT 13.‘Living in the House of Power: Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court’ Fabian Persson Epilogue ‘The Politics of Female Households: Afterthoughts’ Jeroen Duindam Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death).Trade Review"...Kinch traces how visual and verbal artists draw on, adapt, and transform each other’s traditions in ways that are sometimes complementary, sometimes competitive, and nearly always in the service of making death more palatable to their powerful patrons. It would have been significantly easier to study one or two of these topics more deeply and in isolation, but it is in teasing out this vast network that Imago Mortis does its most valuable work... Any chapter in Imago Mortis could serve as a useful model in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars. I also want to note that the book is unusually readable: a boon to any reader, but one that is vital for introducing students to rigorous scholarship..." Bridget Whearty, in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015, pp. 301-304Table of ContentsList of Figures ... vii Preface ... xiii Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1 Section One: Facing Death 1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 35 2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69 Section Two: Facing the Dead 3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 109 4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145 Section Three: The Community of Death 5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 185 6: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227 Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261 Bibliography ... 281 Index ... 297

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Book SynopsisThirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. Multi- and inter-disciplinary analyses in art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and manuscript studies, reveal the nature and evolution of layout and addenda. They follow these Bibles as they were used by monks and friars, preachers and merchants. By addressing Latin Bibles alongside their French, Italian and English counterparts, this book challenges the Latin-vernacular dichotomy to show links, as well as discrepancies, between lay and clerical audiences and their books. Contributors include Peter Stallybrass, Diane Reilly, Paul Saenger, Richard Gameson, Chiara Ruzzier, Giovanna Murano, Cornelia Linde, Lucie Doležalová, Laura Light, Eyal Poleg, Sabina Magrini, Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Guy Lobrichon, Elizabeth Solopova, and Matti Peikola.Trade Review"a great contribution to the study of bibles from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries."– Pablo Alvarez, University of Michigan, in: Renaissance Quarterly 67/2 (Summer 2014), pp. 662-663 "A major contribution to recent advancements in medieval biblical studies […]. Form and Function has, in a very important way, raised as many questions as it has answered, and has suggested many fruitful areas of research for historians of material and religious culture, book and manuscript history, art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and monastic reform." – Jessalynn Bird, Naperville, IL., in: Sehepunkte 14/1 (15 January 2014) "What Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible shows us, is the diversity and scope of late medieval Bibles and how this is connected to readers and users in, but also outside monastic communities. […] A worthy addition to the impressive and rapidly expanding series Library of the Written Word." – Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries, in: Quaerendo 44/3 (2014), pp. 216-218Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Photographic Acknowledgements Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Eyal Poleg and Laura Light, Introduction Diane Reilly, The Bible as Bellwether: Manuscript Bibles in the Context of Spiritual, Liturgical and Educational Reform, 1000-1200 Paul Saenger, The Twelfth-Century Reception of Oriental Languages and the Graphic Mise en Page of Latin Vulgate Bibles Copied in England Richard Gameson, Durham’s Paris Bible and the Use of Communal Bibles in a Benedictine Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle Ages Chiara Ruzzier, The miniaturization of Bible manuscripts in the XIIIth century. A comparative study Giovanna Murano, The Epistles of St. Paul of the Convent of San Domenico (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1545) Cornelia Linde, John Pecham on the Form of Lamentations Lucie Doležalová, The Summarium Biblicum: A Biblical Tool both Popular and Obscure Laura Light, The Thirteenth-Century Pandect and the Liturgy Eyal Poleg, The Interpretations of Hebrew Names in Theory and Practice Sabina Magrini, Vernacular Bibles, Biblical Quotations and the Paris Bible in Italy from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century: a First Report Sabrina Corbellini, Vernacular Bible Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy: Cultural Appropriation and Textual Transformation Margriet Hoogvliet, The Medieval Vernacular Bible in French as a Flexible Text: Selective and Discontinuous Reading Practices Guy Lobrichon, The Story of a Success: The Bible historiale in French (1295-ca. 1500) Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscript Evidence for the Patronage, Ownership and Use of the Wycliffite Bible Matti Peikola, Table of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible Peter Stallybrass, Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.Trade Review'In fact, the volume is impressive. It impresses through its sheer quantity of facts, be that information concerning persons, or the detailed description of the written and oral sources (interviews) in the appendix. [...] ....a very well-investigated presentation loaded with an abundance of details, which by means of the index can serve as a kind of reference work for experts, but also as informative reading for anyone interested in the history of Islam in Africa.' - Angelika Brodersen, in: Entangled Religions, 2 (2015)Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Figures Note on Transliteration, Quotes and Dates 1 Introduction The Ripple and the Reef: Perspectives and Objectives 2 The Luminescent Sun and Brilliant Rays of Light: Towards a Geography of Reform Towards a Geography of Reform: A Web of Centres The Ḥaramayn: The Blessed and the Radiant The Ḥaḍramawt: Home of the Luminescent, Encompassing Mid-Day Sun Zanzibar: The Brilliant Star of East Africa Lamu and the Riyadha Mosque The Comoro Islands: Moon Islands in a Sea of Sun Rays of Light and Hierarchies 3 The Branches of the Qādiriyya and the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique: Silsilas to the South The Ṭarīqa Qādiriyya in Zanzibar The Qādiriyya in Mozambique: Multiple Routes South Muḥammad Al-Maʿrūf and the Spread of the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique The Emergence of Sufi Orders in Norhern Mozambique 4 The Shādhiliyya in Northern Madagascar c. 1890–1940: The Planting of a Garden and the Growing of Malagasy Roots Islam in Northern Madagascar Family, Religion and Trade on Madagascar: East African-Comorian Networks and the Shādhiliyya Aḥmad al-Kabīr: The Great Shaykh of the Ṭarīqa Shādhiliyya of Northern Madagascar Reform and the Emergence of a Malagasy Sufi Order 5 The Cape Town Muslim Community and East African Sufi Networks: Beyond the Monsoon Islam in South Africa and Cape Town Muhammad Salih Hendricks: From Periphery to Centre to the Network Other Travellers – More Daʿwa 6 Travelling Texts: Arabic Literate Learning in Coastal East Africa, c. 1860–1930 Textual Transmission and Religious Authority Book Knowledge in the Age of Manuscripts: 1860s into the Twentieth Century From Manuscript to Print: Parallel or Converging Authorities? Manuscripts, Printed Books and Religious Authority 7 Ritual of Reform – Reform of a Ritual: Rātib al-Ḥaddād in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1880–1940 Rātib Al-Ḥaddād as Sufi Reform Rātib al-Ḥaddād in East and South Africa The Rātib in Writing: Textualization of Charisma The Rātib Performed: Reform of a Ritual? The Rātib al-Ḥaddād: New Reform of a Reformist Ritual? 8 Consolidating the Network: Waqf Distribution and New Organizations in Zanzibar, c. 1900–1930 Scholarly Networks and the Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs”, c. 1880–1940 Waqf Distribution within Intellectual Networks: Consolidating Reform through Waqf Funds From Networks to Organizations: The Rise of the Jamʿiyya, c. 1900–1930 9 Conclusions On Ripples and Reefs: Agency in a Translocal World Sufi Reform on the Move The Ecumene that wasn’t – yet? Appendix 1 The Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs” Contained in ZA-HD10 Sources and Bibliography Arabic Textual Material Arabic Manuscript Sources (Listed) Archival Sources Oral Sources/Interviews Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe dynastic centre and the provinces were linked by agents and ritual occasions. This book includes contributions by specialists examining these connections in late imperial China, early modern Europe, and the Ottoman empire, suggesting important revisions and an agenda for comparison. This title is available online in its entirety in Open AccessTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Editors and Contributors List of Figures and Maps Jeroen Duindam, Introduction PART ONE AGENTS Jürgen Osterhammel, The Imperial Viceroy: Reflections on an Historical Type İ. Metin Kunt, Devolution from the Centre to the Periphery: an Overview of Ottoman Provincial Administration Yingcong Dai, Broken Passage to the Summit: Nayancheng’s Botched Mission in the White Lotus War R. Kent Guy, Routine Promotions: Li Hu and the Dusty Byways of Empire Christian Büschges, Ceremonial demarcations. The viceregal court as space of political communication in the Spanish monarchy (Valencia, Naples, and Mexico 1621-1635) Sabine Dabringhaus, The Ambans of Tibet – Imperial Rule at the Inner Asian Periphery PART TWO INTERACTIONS Patricia Ebrey, Remonstrating against Royal Extravagance in Imperial China Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, ‘True and Historical Descriptions’? European Festivals and the Printed Record Neil Murphy, Ceremonial Entries and the Confirmation of Urban Privileges in France, c. 1350-1550 Margit Thøfner, ‘Willingly we follow a gentle leader…’: Joyous Entries into Antwerp Michael G. Chang, Historical Narratives of the Kangxi Emperor's Inaugural Visit to Suzhou, 1684 Jeroen Duindam, Towards a comparative understanding of rulership: discourses, practices, patterns Index INTRODUCTION JEROEN DUINDAM Throughout global history empires have been expanding and contracting, rising and declining. New dynasties challenged their predecessors, only to be ousted in their turn. Conquerors stunned their contemporaries by overrunning huge landmasses, but their successors frequently proved unable to maintain even a semblance of unity. Chinese history, at first glance the epitome of continuity, hides repeated and protracted phases of violent contestation and sweeping geographical reconfiguration. Many dynasties, moreover, show a pattern of alternation between centralising and regionalising phases. In Europe, never unified under one single political or religious authority, the same patterns can be observed on the smaller-scale level of its dynastic mosaic. Traditionally, Europe and China were seen as opposites, with China standing for unity, harmony, and continuity, Europe for division, competition and dynamism. Echoes of this view can still be found in debates on the ‘rise of the West’ and to some extent they reflect real differences. However, such essentialist perspectives on European and Asian history tend to be self-confirmatory; they can be re-examined only by adopting a radically different approach based on focused comparison of well-defined themes. Comparative history has been practiced largely at the level of secondary sources within a restricted field of languages: it almost inevitably reproduces clichés of the older literature. Mastering the languages and research traditions of Chinese as well as European history reaches beyond the lifespan and capabilities of most individual scholars. By bringing together specialists studying the connections between dynastic centres and the territories formally under their sway, mostly in Late Imperial China and Early Modern Europe, this volume explores the uncharted path towards comparison at a different level. The concentrated and detailed chapters are not themselves comparative in nature, but they powerfully suggest the intellectual potential of combining a global scope with a keen awareness of the complications of local sources. This introduction outlines the themes under scrutiny; an epilogue elaborates some of the consequences of the contributions assembled here for further comparative research in this field. Powers wax and wane – not only in terms of territorial scope but also in the degree to which the centre can control the provinces. Imperial centres can command respect and extract tribute without actively governing outlying regions; as soon as the authority of the centre wanes, however, tributaries tend to drift away. Loss of control and political cohesion threatens even modern states supported by a technology of communication and infrastructures beyond the wildest imagination of any pre-modern ruler. How could leaders hope to secure the acquiescence of populations they ruled, particularly in remote areas? This classic question, examined at length in Max Weber’s influential typology of power, can be answered in many ways. Three different ingredients figure in most durable political arrangements, albeit in variously proportioned combinations: coercion, interests, and ideals. It is difficult to conceive of any political constellation binding together a variety of groups and territories without 1) the threat of violent retribution, 2) the promise of material rewards, and 3) the appeal to shared values and ideas. The French Revolution expanded greatly the potential of states in each of these respects, a development enhanced by a sequence of technological breakthroughs. Not only did the revolution entail a sharp polarisation of political ideas and an upsurge of popular political action; it also caused an explosion of the repressive apparatus, adopted voluntarily by restoration monarchs. The growth of state power throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries went hand in hand with a differentiating and expanding agenda of state activities, and – in democratic regimes – with a rise in the numbers of voters and stakeholders. The protracted phase of change from the final decades of the ancien régime into our contemporary world powerfully suggested a more linear view of history; it has also shaped our perception of pre-revolutionary forms of power. Post-revolutionary critique underlined the omnipotence and arbitrariness of monarchical government as well as its disregard for the interest of its peoples. The legacies of dynastic power, in the form of palaces, images, and texts, likewise suggested strength, inflated self-importance, and detachment from public needs. With the demise of the moral underpinning of monarchical rule, it became difficult to differentiate its religious-hierarchical mandate from blatant abuse and self-enrichment. Amidst mostly negative associations one appreciative note remained: monarchy had triumphed over feudal anarchy and baronial power. In the national historiographies of Europe, particularly of France, monarchy appeared as an intermediate stage, with rulers laying the groundwork for the modern state by subduing their overmighty noble subjects. This overstated and one-sided view of royal power firmly dominated European history textbooks until recently. A gradual revision of European ‘absolutism’ took shape in the last decades of the twentieth century largely on the basis of research in archives that added regional and elite perspectives to the top-down monarchical view. The language of fidelity and subservience went together with a keen defence of local corporate interests. While the monarchical state harshly punished open defiance, it accepted regional elites as necessary partners in government, as a rule accommodating local interests and rights. At the heart of the monarchical state a similar pattern predominated: open challenges were never tolerated, but loyal supporters were granted extensive rights. The household, long understood as a gilded cage where once-powerful nobles were captured in a contest for vain honours, was never wholly detached from governance. Louis XIV’s successful attempt to attach the highest nobles to his court by rewarding them with prestigious offices and privileges created an aristocratic stronghold that would persist until the revolution. The rulers themselves, whether strong or weak, relied at least a part of their lives on the support and advice of confidants in their domestic environment. In addition to the qualification of the reach and force of royal power, it has become clearer that dynastic rulers, too, cherished a moral view of their responsibilities, even if in practice they often ignored the dictates of their mandate. The tension between the practices outlined in Machiavelli’s The Prince and the moral code voiced in numerous princely mirrors reflects the Janus-faced nature of political action in general. Can this process of revision profitably be extended to Chinese dynastic power? The European perception of Asian dynastic constellations was encumbered not only by the generic legacies of revolution and dynastic propaganda: in addition it has been plagued by the clichés of ‘Oriental despotism’. While omnipotence, arbitrariness, luxury, and decadence can be found among the negative connotations of European dynastic rule, they have dominated the European view of Asian rulers from Montesquieu to Wittfogel. Montesquieu’s typology of the leading principles of despotism (fear), monarchy (honour), and republic (virtue), to some extent reflect the three categories outlined above: coercion, interests, and ideals. His understanding of monarchy, based on the distribution of ‘honours’ in the sense of advantages and titles as much as on the principle of honour, comes close to material interests. Montesquieu located the republican principle of virtue in antiquity and actually could no longer trace it in the republics of eighteenth-century Europe. The empires of Asia, finally, served as his main example of despotic rule based on fear. Montesquieu did not accept his Jesuit contemporaries’ appreciative view of China’s government and failed to see honour and virtue among the Chinese, ‘à qui’, he stressed, ‘on ne fait rien faire qu’à coups de baton’. Traditional Chinese dynastic histories, written from the perspective of the scholarly elite of officials, gave pride of place to wise advisers admonishing the emperor – their ideal role. On the whole, however, they too have underlined the unchallen¬geable powers of the emperor, corrupted only under weaker emperors by the malicious influence of eunuchs and dowagers – the scholars’ inner-court rivals. Will different sources, at court or in the regions, bring to light different perspectives? An abundant harvest of recent literature tends to answer affirmatively. The relatively small imperial magistracy ruling over huge and populous territories forcefully suggests that power necessarily was based on local co-operation and co-optation. At court, strong emperors wielding power actively and weaklings reigning without ruling can both be expected to have been influenced by their confidants and restrained by the accumulation of ritual responsibilities. No emperor escaped entirely from the pressures and restrictions dictated by his office and its socio-cultural embedding. This preliminary discussion outlines some of the issues behind the initiative culminating in this volume: 1) One of the key questions of government can be found in the changing relationship between a political centre and the provinces under its authority. 2) The post-revolutionary stress on coercion as the key element in pre-modern dynastic states or empires needs to be re-examined, allowing more room for the interplay of coercion, interests and ideals. 3) The revision of ‘absolutism’ in the European context and the reconfiguration of the history of European dynastic states on the basis partly of new source materials raise the question to what extent these changing interpretations are relevant for Asian dynastic states and empires, notably Late Imperial China. 4) Recent publications on dynastic power in Late Imperial Chinese history likewise suggest a revision of traditional images of dynastic power – can they be understood as converging with European revisionism? Only by bringing together specialists on European and Chinese history can we hope to effectively start answering such questions. Our effort took shape in two meetings, the first concentrating on occasions where rulers visited the regions or met regional representatives, the second focusing on persons representing the ruler in the provinces. These two poles form the sections of the current book: agents & interactions. While this introduction outlines the general themes of this volume, a more extensive and probing opening chapter by Jürgen Osterhammel examines the patterns recurring in the history of the ruler’s most eminent representatives. For some rulers traveling could substitute for the appointment of local agents. Dynastic rule long retained a mobile character, following a seasonal-liturgical-political calendar of movement. Most Early Modern European courts developed a single prominent winter residence but usually travelled to a sequence of hunting lodges in spring, summer, and early autumn. No Early Modern European court refrained from travel altogether – even the French court after its installation in Versailles moved to Fontainebleau for a six-week sojourn every autumn and undertook shorter trips to various other palaces. These patterns echoed the tradition of Reisekönigtum, in which the ruler himself moved from province to province, being hosted by his various regional stalwarts who at the same time confirmed their loyalty. From the later seventeenth century onwards, however, most European monarchies could rely on a more developed system of regional government, reducing the political necessity for travel – or placing it on the shoulders of regional representatives, who in turn were expected to report to the centre. Chinese emperors had long since established a sedentary court in their various capitals, but this did not prevent them from moving on hunting expeditions, inspection tours, or visits to dynastic tombs and important shrines. The late Ming emperors were notorious homebodies, hiding behind the moat and walls of the Forbidden City, some to the point of refusing to face their outer-court officials. Conversely, their Qing successors proved more mobile, sometimes to the point of provoking the classic admonitions of their Confucian advisers. Clearly in Early Modern Europe and in Late Imperial China the rulers’ travels were an addition to, rather than a replacement for, a system of regional administration. Apparently, a network of regional agents supported by a system of government by paper, highly developed in the Chinese case and rapidly gaining pace in most European countries, did not necessarily take away the need to meet in person. The feudal hierarchy of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation still expected vassals to perform an act of homage to the emperor, although this ritual was increasingly performed by proxies. The highest office-holders in France pledged their oath to the king in person, ‘entre les mains de sa majesté’. All European dynastic rulers expected a share of their elites to attend ritual highlights and festive occasions, wherever these took place. Personal attendance and notably access into the ruler’s direct proximity retained great importance for elites. The numerous honorary servitors of the European court cultivated their rights of access even if they served at court only haphazardly. The persistent importance of personal interaction, or ‘Anwesenheits¬gesellschaft’, around dynastic rulers was extended into distant territories by sending out representatives who could be seen as the ruler’s alter ego. Ambassadors and viceroys personally performed royalty in the name of their ruler. High-placed personal representatives could operate as the head of a well-developed central administration in the region; often, however, they served first and foremost as a prestigious personal intermediary between the distant ruler and local elites. Most extended empires left room for various arrangements ranging from a closely monitored core territory, via outlying regions with more autonomy, to a frontier based mostly on tributary connections or alliances. The differentiated conditions shaped the forms of interaction and the status and functions of agents. Did rulers distance themselves from the population at large

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Book SynopsisIn Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.     Trade Review'Wer an der Astronomiegeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit interessiert ist, wird dieses Opus gerne zur Hand nehmen.' Günther Oestmann, in: Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, 13, p. 321-322. Massimo Bucciantini, in Il Sole 24 Ore, 4 Ottobre 2015: 'Pietro Daniel Omodeo indaga settant'anni di cosmologia e astronomia a cavallo di due secoli decisivi per le sorti dell'umanità, dove quei saperi sono inseparabili dalle filosofie e dalle teologie del loro tempo. E procede con passo spedito, ma ben equipaggiato e ben allenato ai lunghi viaggi, facendoci conoscere non solo gli attori principali ma anche i tanti personaggi spesso a torto considerati minori, alcuni dei quali pochissimo noti in Italia.' (Pietro Daniel Omodeo investigates 70 years of cosmology and astronomy between two centuries that were crucial for the fate of humanity, years when those sciences were inseparable from philosophy and theology. He proceeds fluently, ‘well equipped’ and ‘well used’ to long journeys by getting us acquainted to the main and to the less known characters, some of them not enough known in Italy.) 'Cliò che subito colpisce è l'attenzione alla pluralità che scaturisce dai tanti modi in cui venne letto Copernico. Sono le molteplici interpretazioni a rendere peculiare questo lavoro.' (What’s remarkable is the attention to a pluralistic perspective emerging from all the different ways in which Copernicus was read. The multiple interpretations make this work special.) 'Attraverso l'esame di un numero impressionante di testi Omodeo ci restituisce la fotografia di un'epoca animata da un susseguirsi interminabile di discussioni filosofiche e controversie scientifiche.' (By examining an impressive number of texts, Omodeo gives us a picture of an age animated by a succession of never-ending philosophical discussions and scientific disputes.) 'Trai capitoli più interessanti del libro ci sono quelli dedicati ai matematici luterani allievi di Filippo Melantone.' (The chapters devoted to the Lutheran mathematicians, alumni of Filippo Melantone are among the most interesting ones.) 'Siamo di fronte a un libro per lettori esigenti che, non accontentandosi delle troppo lineari ricostruzioni manualistiche, sono disposti a inoltrarsi - e con gusto a perdersi - nell'intricata selva dei molteplici e immaginifici universi che popolano la seconda metà del Cinquecento e i primi decenni del Seicento.' (This is a book for demanding readers, who are not satisfied by the too simple/linear reconstructions of usual handbooks, and instead are willing to dive in – and be happily lost in – the intricate wood of the multiplex imaginative universes of the second half of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations of Journals and Reference Books xii Introduction 1 1 Copernicus between 1514 and 1616: An Overview 11 1 Copernicus’s Connection 11 2 Platonizing Humanists 15 3 Rheticus and the Printing of De revolutionibus 19 4 The Network of German Mathematicians 23 5 Italy 25 6 France 31 7 Spain and Flanders 35 8 England and Scotland 37 9 Central European Circles and Courts 43 10 The Physical-Cosmological Turn 48 11 Heliocentrism between Two Centuries: Kepler and Galileo 51 12 Geo-Heliocentrism and Copernican Hypotheses 53 13 The Difficult Reconciliation between Copernicus and the Sacred Scripture 56 14 Copernicus before and after 1616 59 15 Summary of the Main Lines of the Early Reception of Copernicus 63 2 Astronomy at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Epistemology 66 1 A Split Reception of Copernicus 66 2 Copernicus Presents Himself as a Mathematician 70 3 Cosmology and Mathematics in Copernicus’s Commentariolus 71 4 A Clash of Authorities: Averroist Criticism of Mathematical Astronomy 76 5 Fracastoro’s Homocentrism 79 6 Amico on Celestial Motions 82 7 Osiander’s Theological Instructions 85 8 Melanchthon’s Approach to Nature 87 9 Rheticus’s Early “Realism” 92 10 The Elder Rheticus and Pierre de la Ramée against the Astronomical Axiom 94 11 Facts and Reasons in Astronomy according to Melanchthon and Reinhold 97 12 Reinhold’s Astronomy and Copernicus 100 13 Epistemological Remarks on Reinhold’s Terminology 104 14 Peucer’s Continuation of Reinhold’s Program 107 15 Wittich’s Combinatory Games 112 16 Brahe as the Culmination of the Wittenberg School 116 17 Beyond Selective Reading 120 3 Beyond Computation: Copernican Ephemerists on Hypotheses, Astrology and Natural Philosophy 124 1 A Premise: Gemma Frisius as a Reader of Copernicus 124 2 Frisius’s Cosmological Commitment in Stadius’s Ephemerides 127 3 Stadius and Copernicus 130 4 Ephemerides and Astrology 132 5 Some Remarks on Rheticus’s Challenge to Pico 134 6 Giuntini’s Post-Copernican Astrology 136 7 Magini: Copernican Ephemerides, Astrology and Planetary Hypotheses 139 8 A Dispute on the Reliability of Ephemerides in Turin 142 9 Benedetti’s Defense of Post-Copernican Ephemerides and Astrology 145 10 Origanus’s Planetary System 149 11 Origanus’s Arguments in Favor of Terrestrial Motion 151 12 Conclusions 156 4 A Finite and Infinite Sphere: Reinventing Cosmological Space 158 1 The Finite Infinity of the World Revised 159 2 Cusanus’s Two Infinities 161 3 Cusanus’s Role in the Copernican Debate 164 4 The Invention of the Pythagorean Cosmology 167 5 Pythagoreanism and Cosmological Infinity according to Digges 170 6 The Infinity of Space and Worldly Finiteness as a Restoration of the Stoic Outlook 173 7 Benedetti’s Approach to the Copernican System 175 8 Stoicism in Germany: Pegel’s Cosmology 179 9 Bruno’s Pythagorean Correction of Copernicus’s Planetary Model 183 10 Bruno’s Defense of Cosmological Infinity 186 11 Homogeneity, Aether and Vicissitude according to Bruno 188 12 Kepler’s Anti-Brunian Pythagoreanism 191 13 Conclusions: Eclectic Concepts of Cosmological Space in the Renaissance 195 5 A Ship-Like Earth: Reconceptualizing Motion 197 1 The Connection between Cosmology and Physics in Aristotle and Ptolemy 199 2 Copernicus’s Physical Considerations 203 3 Nominalist Sources on Terrestrial Motion 205 4 Calcagnini 209 5 Renaissance Variations on the Ship Metaphor 213 6 Bruno’s Vitalist Conception of Terrestrial Motion 216 7 Benedetti’s Archimedean Dynamics 219 8 Benedetti’s Post-Aristotelian Physics and Post-Copernican Astronomy 220 9 A New Alliance between Mechanics and Astronomy 223 10 Brahe’s Physical Considerations 225 11 Concluding Remarks 230 6 A priori and a posteriori: Two Approaches to Heliocentrism 234 1 Mästlin’s a posteriori Astronomy 235 2 The Young Kepler and the Secret Order of the Cosmos 238 3 Kepler Defends and Expounds the Hypotheses of Copernicus 242 4 The Distances of the Planets: Mästlin’s Contribution 243 5 Mästlin: Finally We Have an a priori Astronomy 245 6 The Sun as the Universal Motive Force 248 7 The New Astronomy 250 8 Natural Arguments in Astronomy 251 9 Gravitas and vis animalis 254 10 Celestial Messages 257 11 First Reactions to the Celestial Novelties 263 12 Kepler’s Discourses with Galilei 266 7 The Bible versus Pythagoras: The End of an Epoch 271 1 Condemnation 271 2 First Scriptural Reservations in the Protestant World 272 3 Rheticus and the Scriptures 274 4 Spina and Tolosani 278 5 Rothmann’s Opinion on the Scriptural Issue 281 6 Censorship in Tübingen 284 7 Scriptural Defense of Terrestrial Motion by Origanus 286 8 In Iob Commentaria 287 9 Bruno, Copernicus and the Bible 290 10 The Galileo Affaire 293 11 Foscarini pro Copernico 297 12 Galilei to Christina of Lorraine 303 13 Foscarini to Bellarmino 304 14 Bellarminian Zeal 307 15 Campanellan Libertas 309 16 Campanella’s Cosmologia 311 17 Apologia pro Galilaeo 314 18 Conclusions: Accommodation and Convention 318 8 Laughing at Phaeton’s Fall: A New Man 322 1 Holistic Views in the Astronomical-Astrological Culture of the Renaissance 323 2 The Ethical Question in Bruno: Philosophical Freedom and the Criticism of Religion 332 3 The Reformation of the Stars: a Metaphor for the Correction of Vices 335 4 A Copernican Sunrise 339 5 Beyond the Ethics of Balance 342 6 Heroic Frenzy 344 7 Actaeon: The Unity of Man and Nature 347 8 Bruno’s Polemics, Banishments and Excommunications 350 9 Cosmological and Anti-Epicurean Disputations at Helmstedt 352 10 Mencius against Epicurean Cosmology 354 11 Bruno’s Support of Atomistic Views 356 12 “New Astronomy” at Helmstedt 358 13 Liddel’s Teaching of Astronomy and Copernican Hypotheses 360 14 Hofmann’s Quarrel over Faith and Natural Knowledge 363 15 Franckenberg and the Spiritualist Reception of Bruno and Copernicus 365 16 Hill and the Epicurean Reception of Bruno and Copernicus 372 17 A New Imagery: Phaeton’s Fall 378 18 Conclusions: The New Humanity 382 Bibliography 387 Index of Names 425 Index of Places 432

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An introductory overview explores the varied meanings of Catholic Enlightenment and situates them in a series of intellectual and social contexts. The topics covered in this book are crucial for a proper understanding of the role and place not only of Catholicism in the eighteenth century, but also for the social and religious history of modern Europe. Contributors include: Jeffrey D. Burson, Richard Butterwick, Frans Ciappara, Harm Klueting, Ulrich L. Lehner, Michael Printy, Mario Rosa, Evergton Sales Souza, and Andrea J. Smidt.Trade Review"I cannot praise this collection and its bibliographies highly enough." Trent Pomplun, Loyola University-Baltimore, in Nova et vetera, 2012, pp 882-885 "Den Anspruch auf sorgfältige historische Kontextualisierung löst der Band mit Bravour ein. Es entsteht ein facettenreiches Panorama des 18. Jahrhunderts" Reinald Becker, München, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2012, pp 194-196 "The editors have succeeded in publishing a volume full of facts, perspectives, and insights along with extensive footnotes and bibliographies that will be helpful for further study of what, overall, can be called the Catholic enlightenment." Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University. In: Church History, May 2012, pp 462-464. "Es gereicht der renommierten Reihe Companion(s) to Christian Tradition des Verlagshauses Brill zu Ehre, mit dem vorliegenden Band die weltweit führenden Fachleute ihrer Materie versammelt zu haben, um dem Phänomen geistig-theologischen Lebens des 18. Jahrhunderts nachzugehen und dieses in einer verständlichen, umfassenden, wissenschaftlich reflektierten und dabei dennoch stets gut lesbaren Form einem interessierten Publikum darzubieten." Josef Johannes Schmid, Francia-Recensio 2012. "The essays are in-depth, up to sixty pages long, frequently with extensive footnotes and references, which allow for considerable analysis as well as the presentation of illuminating examples. Both primary and secondary sources are utilised, and methodological questions are not ignored. […] The contributors do not always agree with all the conclusions drawn by their colleagues in the project, but far from detracting from the value of this Companion, this “discordant harmony” adds to the subtlety and depth of the book as a whole." Paul Shore, Brandon University. In: Journal of Religious History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 133-134. "This volume is a highly valuable mapping of a poorly known movement in religious history that should be of major interest to both historians and theologians." Peter Steinfels, Fordham University, New York. In: Theological Studies (2012), pp. 222-224. "This is a distinguished collection of essays, which can claim to “serve as a recovery of a forgotten episode” (p. 166), of a time when the Catholic Church was in many respects a broader church than it was to become in the nineteenth century after it was confronted by revolution." Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 822-824. “Co-edited by Ulrich L. Lehner and Michael Printy, A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe includes substantial contributions from nine distinguished international scholars. The collection draws on a vast range of primary sources and synthesizes several decades' worth of scholarship in multiple languages.” Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame. In: The Thomist, Vol. 75 (2011), pp. 461-75. "Den beiden Hg.n ist es [...] gelungen, einen in zweifacher Hinsicht bemerkenswerten „Begleiter“ ins katholische 18. Jh. vorzulegen: Er bietet viel solide Information und Überblicke für Leser, die handbuchartiges Wissen suchen, dazu reichhaltige Literaturverweise zur weiteren Lektüre. Er spiegelt damit aber auch den Stand und die Vorläufigkeit der Forschung und wird so für alle, die sich forschend mit der Epoche befassen, zu einem ergiebigen Repertorium von Informationen und neuen Fragestellungen." Bernward Schmidt, RWTH Aachen University. In: Theologische Revue, Jg. 107, Nr. 6 (2011), pp. 483-484. “[…] le livre propose des synthèses utiles sur un sujet largement méconnu aussi bien par les historiens des Lumières que par ceux du catholicisme” […] “un excellent instrument de travail.” Yves Krumenacker, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3. In: Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Vol. 106, Nos. 3-4 (July-December 2011), pp. 748-751. "In the Holy Roman Empire especially, severe intellectual competition and even strife informed and influenced the debates about enlightenment philosophy. This clearly makes for a difference in comparison with those countries where Catholicism was the only confession. Michael Printy’s contribution is thus particularly useful and ought to be singled out as an exceptionally insightful piece of work." Peter Schröder, University College London. In Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 631-632.Table of Contents1. General Introduction: Ulrich L. Lehner 2. France: Jeff Burson 3. Holy Roman Empire: Michael Printy 4. Austria and the Hapsburg Countries: Harm Klueting 5. Italy including Papal States: Mario Rosa 6. Spain: Andrea Smidt-Sittema 7. Portugal: Ana Araujo 8. Ireland: Douglas Palmer 9. Poland: Richard Butterwick 10. Malta: Frans Ciappara

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe analyses the diverse Christian cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Czech lands, Austria, and lands of the Hungarian kingdom between the 15th and 18th centuries. It establishes the geography of Reformation movements across this region, and then considers different movements of reform and the role played by Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox clergy. This volume examines different contexts and social settings for reform movements, and investigates how cities, princely courts, universities, schools, books, and images helped spread ideas about reform. This volume brings together expertise on diverse lands and churches to provide the first integrated account of religious life in Central Europe during the early modern period. Contributors are: Phillip Haberkern, Maciej Ptaszyński, Astrid von Schlachta, Márta Fata, Natalia Nowakowska, Luka Ilić, Michael Springer, Edit Szegedi, Mihály Balázs, Rona Johnston Gordon, Howard Louthan, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Liudmyla Sharipova, Alexander Schunka, Rudolf Schlögl, Václav Bůžek, Mark Hengerer, Michael Tworek, Pál Ács, Maria Crăciun, Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Laura Lisy-Wagner, and Graeme Murdock.Trade Review“The authors of A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe have provided an outstanding gateway to stretch the Reformation farther east and complicate the familiar tales of the Reformation. […] They make a strong case that examinations of the Reformation without Central Europe are simply incomplete. The work's broad scope, geographic and thematic organization, and wealth of footnotes makes Central Europe more accessible to scholars who wish to push their topics to the East. It also, to some extent, invalidates the excuse that the region is unapproachable because of the formidable language boundaries. Scholars should be aware of this considerable and fascinating area of Europe, and this book is an excellent place to start. This work enriches our understanding of the creation and reception of Reformation ideas and facilitates a European understanding of the Reformation just in time for the 500-year anniversary.” - Reid S. Weber, Fitchburg State University, in: The Medieval Review 16.11.37 “A magisterial, insightful, and replete collection that approaches the tangled web of Central European Reformation(s) from a variety of contextual focal points.” - Władysław Roczniak, Bronx Community College, CUNY, in: Renaissance Quarterly 70.3 (Fall 2017), pp. 1176-1178 “In addition to extensive quotations from source texts in the original languages, the volume contains illustrations, a timeline, a map of Central Europe, ca. 1550, a glossary of place names, notes on contributors, and an index. Overall, it is to be commended for managing to cover the entire temporal and geographical scope of its topic and for implicitly revealing difficult areas of Reformation scholarship. It is to be read by anybody interested in the European Reformation, especially in its geographical and societal aspects.” - Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48.2 (2017), pp. 510-512 “Grâce à la très belle qualité globale de ce recueil, Louthan et Murdock atteignent pleinement leur objectif. Ils offrent un aperçu synthétique sans équivalent d’une partie encore insuffisamment étudiée des mutations religieuses qui ont bouleversé la chrétienté européenne à l’époque des réformes.” - Hugues Daussy, Université de Franche-Comté, in: Renaissance and Reformation 41.3 (summer 2018), pp. 245-247Table of ContentsTimeline Map of Europe, ca. 1550 Glossary of Place-Name Equivalents Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction (Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock) Part I: Contexts and Confessions Chapter 1: The lands of the Bohemian crown (Phillip Haberkern) Chapter 2: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Maciej Ptaszyński) Chapter 3: The Austrian lands (Astrid von Schlachta) Chapter 4: The Kingdom of Hungary and Principality of Transylvania (Márta Fata) Chapter 5: Reform before Reform? (Natalia Nowakowska) Chapter 6: Protestant Reformers (Luka Ilić, Michael Springer, and Edit Szegedi) Chapter 7: Antitrinitarianism (Mihály Balázs) Chapter 8: Catholic Reformers (Rona Johnston Gordon, Howard Louthan, and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin) Chapter 9: Orthodox Reform (Liudmyla Sharipova) Part II: Communities and Communication Chapter 10: Social and Moral Discipline (Alexander Schunka) Chapter 11: The Town and the Reformation as an event (Rudolf Schlögl) Chapter 12: Nobles: Between religious compromise and revolt (Václav Bůžek) Chapter 13: The monarch and court in the Habsburg lands (Mark Hengerer) Chapter 14: Education: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Michael Tworek) Chapter 15: Bibles and Books: Bohemia and Hungary (Pál Ács and Howard Louthan) Chapter 16: Visual cultures (Maria Crăciun and Grażyna Jurkowlaniec) Chapter 17: Tolerance and Intolerance (Laura Lisy-Wagner and Graeme Murdock) Index

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Book SynopsisThese essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.Trade Review"... series of highly interesting and original articles that attempt to explicate the theological significance of [...] images produced in the Roman empire at the beginning of the Christian era. [...] The authors' methodology typically combines a skillful review of literary sources with a wide-ranging survey of the pictorial images of late antiquity. The results are often enlightening and the essays are a pleasure to read." – Jeffrey Spier, University of Arizona, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014) "Der große Verdienst der hier versammelten Texte liegt darin, dieses häufig vernachlässigte Bildmedium zur Erforschung der spätantiken Kunstgeschichte zu nutzen." – Armin Bergmeier, München, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)Table of ContentsI. Paulinus of Nola, Courtyards, and Canthari: A Second Look II. Thecla the Beast Fighter: A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular Art III. “Two Men in White:” Observations on an Early Christian Lamp from North Africa with the Ascension of Christ IV. Anicius Auchenius Bassus, African Red Slip Ware, and the Church V. The Sphinx: An Egyptian Theological Symbol in Clement of Alexandria VI. Clement of Alexandria, Acrobats, and the Elite VII. Celsus’ Competing Heroes: Jonah, Daniel, and their Rivals VIII. Divine Twins or Saintly Twins: The Dioscuri in an Early Christian Context IX. The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in Christian Literature and Art X. Apocalyptic Themes in the Monumental and Minor Art of Early Christianity XI. Odysseus Wanders into Late Antiquity XII. Execution as Entertainment: The Roman Context of Martyrdom

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Book SynopsisPublicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... ix List of Maps and Illustrations ... xi List of Contributors ... xv Comparative Approaches to the Ritual World of the Medieval Mediterranean ... 1 Alexander Beihammer Part One: Rituals and the Transformation of the Roman World 1. Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity ... 37 Maria Kantirea 2. Phthonos: A Pagan Relic in Byzantine Imperial Acclamations? ... 51 Martin Hinterberger 3. Ritualized Encounters: Late Roman Diplomacy and the Barbarians, Fifth–Sixth Century ... 67 Walter Pohl 4. The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: The Accession of Muʿāwiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE ... 87 Andrew Marsham Part Two: Succession Procedures and their Ritual Articulations 5. Describing Rituals of Succession and the Legitimation of Kingship in the West, ca. 1000–ca. 1150 ... 115 Björn Weiler 6. Ritual and Reality: The Bayʿa Process in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Courts ... 141 Eric J. Hanne 7. Comnenian Imperial Succession and the Ritual World of Niketas Choniates’s Chronike Diegesis ... 159 Alexander D. Beihammer 8. Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period ... 203 Antonia Giannouli Part Three: Invention, Appropriation and Transformation between East and West 9. Ritual, Politics, and the City in Mamluk Cairo: The Bayna l-Qaṣrayn as a Mamluk ‘lieu de mémoire’, 1250–1382 ... 227 Jo Van Steenbergen 10. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople ... 277 Stefan Burkhardt 11. Featuring the King: Rituals of Coronation and Burial in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ... 291 Ioanna Rapti 12. Adventus, Arrivistes and Rites of Rulership in Byzantium and France in the Tenth and Eleventh Century ... 337 Jonathan Shepard Part Four: Ritual Performances and their Reflections in Art and Literature 13. V iolence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios’s Secret History ... 375 Stavroula Constantinou 14. The “Court of Amorous Dominion” and the “Gate of Love”: Rituals of Empire in a Byzantine Romance of the Thirteenth Century ... 389 Panagiotis A. Agapitos 15. Parodies of Imperial Ceremonial and Their Reflections in Byzantine Art ... 417 Henry Maguire 16. Look like an Angel: The Attire of Eunuchs and Its Significance within the Context of Middle Byzantine Court Ceremonial ... 433 Maria Parani 17. Designing Receptions in the Palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) ... 465 Christine Angelidi 18. Tented Ceremony: Ephemeral Performances under the Komnenoi ... 487 Margaret Mullett Bibliography ... 515 Index ... 565

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Book SynopsisThe Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499). The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem’s seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Editing the Text 2 Origins and Contexts 3 The CS as Literature 4 1499—The Latin catenae 5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion Bibliography Texts Treatment of Texts  1 Scots  2 Latin  3 Translations of Sententiae Prologue (1499) Poem and Catenae Textual Notes: Poem  1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts  2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English Print Emendations: Sententiae Commentary, Sources, Glossary Commentary: Poem Sources: Sententiae Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican and the religious orders, and nations such as France, Italy, the Dutch Republic, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. The second part studies the aftermath of the expulsion, the forced migrations, settlement and Diaspora of the Moriscos, comparing their vicissitudes with that of the Jewish conversos. Contributors are Youssef El Alaoui, Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco, Luis Fernando Bernabé Pons, Paulo Broggio, Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra, Antonio Feros, Mercedes García-Arenal, Jorge Gil Herrera,Tijana Krstić, Sakina Missoum, Natalia Muchnik, Stefania Pastore, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, James B. Tueller, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta, Bernard Vincent, and Gerard Wiegers.Trade Review"By recontextualizing the unhappy events of 1609–14 in an international context and by demonstrating what a diasporic approach might mean for interpreting the expulsion of the Moriscos, The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain will surely occupy a prominent place within the expanding scholarly literature in English on Spain’s Morisco minority. It should find a ready readership among the growing number of anglophone students and scholars interested in early modern Iberia and the Muslim world, the encounter between Islam and Christianity, and relations between cultural and religious minorities and majorities." A. Katie Harris (University of California, Davis), in: Renaissance Quarterly LXIX (2016). "The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain provides a learned addition to the expanding scholarship on minority-minority and minority-majority relations in Spain...These innovative essays will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic, Sephardic and Islamic Studies, as well as to students of Early Modern Europe." Jane S. Gerber (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), in: Bulletin of Spanish Studes XCIV (2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbrevations and Note on Transcription List of frequently used terms List of Contributors Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers Part I. The Expulsion. Preparations, Debates, and Process 1: The Geography of the Morisco Expulsion: A Quantitative Study Bernard Vincent 2: The Expulsion of the Moriscos in the Context of Philip III’s Mediterranean Policy Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra 3: Rhetorics of the Expulsion Antonio Feros 4: The Religious Debate in Spain Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco 5: The Vatican’s Position towards the Expulsion Stefania Pastore 6: The Religious Orders and the Expulsion of the Moriscos: Doctrinal Controversies and Hispano-Papal Relations Paolo Broggio 7: The Unexecuted Plans for the Eeradication of Jewish Heresy in the Hispanic Monarchy and the Example of the Moriscos: The Thwarted Expulsion of the Judeoconversos Juan Ignacio Pulido 8: The Moriscos Who Stayed Behind or Returned: Post-1609 James B. Tueller Part II. The Morisco Diaspora 9: The Moriscos outside Spain: Routes and Financing Luis F. Bernabé Pons and Jorge Gil Herrera 10 The Moriscos in France after the Expulsion: Notes for the History of a Minority Youssef El Alaoui 11: Moriscos in Ottoman Galata, 1609-1620s Tijana Krstić 12: The Moriscos in Morocco: from Granadan Emigration to the hornacheros of Salé” Mercedes García-Arenal 13: Andalusi Immigration and Urban Development in Algiers (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) Sakina Missoum 14: The Moriscos in Tunisia Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta 15: The Expulsion of 1609-1614 and the Polemical Writings of the Moriscos Living in the Diaspora Gerard Wiegers 16: Converted Jews and Moriscos in the Diaspora Natalia Muchnik General Bibliography Index of places Index of names

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Book SynopsisCommentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and “direct” form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in certain ways that determined and guided the readers’ perception and usages of the texts being commented upon. Early modern commentaries shaped not only school and university education and professional scholarship, but also intellectual and cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, art, entertainment, health care, geographical discoveries etc., and even various professional activities and segments of life that were seemingly far removed from scholarship and learning, such as warfare and engineering. Contributors include: Susanna de Beer, Valéry Berlincourt, Marijke Crab, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Karl Enenkel, Gergő Gellérfi, Trine Arlund Hass, Ekaterina Ilyushechkina, Ronny Kaiser, Marc Laureys, Christoph Pieper, Katharina Suter-Meyer, and Floris Verhaart.Trade Review“The real tour de force in the volume is the ninety-four-page essay of its editor, Karl Enenkel, who also wrote the grant to the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research that supported five of the authors ... Enenkel argues (quite convincingly) that illustrations to early modern printed editions can also serve as a kind of commentary … We owe thanks to him for the vision and hard work that has produced what is considerably more on the scholarly level than just another set of conference papers, and to Brill for producing a well-printed volume that is enriched with dozens of illustrations (over forty in Enenkel’s article alone).” Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1303-1305. “enormously helpful … beautifully presented, well-made … an excellent collection of thoughtful and stimulating essays.” Jon Balserak, University of Bristol. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 430-431.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ......................................................................................... vii Notes on the Editor ......................................................................................... ix Notes on the Contributors ............................................................................ xi List of Illustrations ........................................................................................... xv Introduction – The Transformation of the Classics. Practices, Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting .................... 1 . Karl A.E. Enenkel POETRY Horace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot’s (1516–1598?) Commentaries ..................................................................... 15 . Floris B. Verhaart Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals .................................. 47 . Trine Arlund Hass Horaz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498) .............................................................................................................. 61 . Christoph Pieper Petrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz .............................................. 91 . Marc Laureys Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio’s Forgotten Commentary on Juvenal ..................................................................................................... 111 . Gergő Gellérfi Commenting on Claudian’s ‘Political Poems’, 1612/1650 ...................... 125 . ValÉry Berlincourt HISTORY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY Josse Bade’s Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary? ............................................................................ 153 . Marijke Crab Illustrations as Commentary and Readers’ Guidance. The Transformation of Cicero’s De Officiis into a German Emblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner, and Christian Egenolff (1517–1520; 1530/1531; 1550) ........................... 167 . Karl A.E. Enenkel Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus’s Germania in Beatus Rhenanus’s Commentariolus ............................ 261 . Ronny Kaiser Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius ..................................... 279 . Jeanine De Landtsheer NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance ......................................................... 329 . Susanna de Beer Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny’s Zoology in the 15th–16th Centuries .................................... 363 . Ekaterina Ilyushechkina Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie – Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522) .............................. 389 . Katharina Suter-Meyer Index Nominum ............................................................................................... 411

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Book SynopsisAnthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.Trade ReviewA “scintillating collection” and a “generous Kunstkammer of a book.” Martha Hollander, Hofstra University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 255-256.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGS Delineating the Boundaries of the Human 1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt Anne-Laure van Bruaene 2 Monkey in the Middle Christina Normore 3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel Paul J. Smith 4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World Miya Tokumitsu Empathy and the Constitution of the Self 5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed Nathalie de Brézé 6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art Marisa Bass 7 The ‘Album Αmicorum’ and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq Aneta Georgievska-Shine Visualizing the Body Politic 8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible Pamela Merrill Brekka 9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the ‘Carrara Herbal’ Sarah R. Kyle 10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse Elke Anna Werner FIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics 11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600 Walter S. Melion 12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol Ralph Dekoninck Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions 13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance Elizabeth J. Petcu 14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture Bertrand Prévost Figuring the Impossible 15 Nobody’s Bruegel Christopher P. Heuer 16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel Larry Silver Metamorphic Figuration 17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody Bret L. Rothstein 18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s ‘Sacrifice of Cain and Abel’ for Louis Richeome’s ‘Tableaux Sacrez’ (1601) Michel Weemans Index Nominum List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThe volume contains contributions dedicated to the person and the work of Shalva Nutsubidze and his scholarly interests: the Christian Orient from the fifth to the seventh century, the Georgian eleventh century, the Neoplatonic philosopher Ioane Petritsi and his epoch and Shota Rustaveli and mediaeval Georgian culture. Among the articles are a new edition and translation of the original Georgian author’s Preface to the lost Commentary on the Psalms by Ioane Petritsi and the editio princeps with an English translation of an epistle of Nicetas Stethatos (eleventh century), whose Greek original is lost. The traditions of Georgian mediaeval thought are considered in their historical context within the Byzantine Commonwealth and are traced in both philosophy and poetry.Table of ContentsShalva Nutsubidze and His World Selected Bibliography of Shalva Nutsubidze’s Scholarly Works Tamara Nutsubidze – Shalva Nutsubidze: From Alethology to Neoplatonism. Demur Jalaghonia – Alethology as the First Philosophy Epoch of the Corpus Areopagiticum Christopher Haas – Geopolitics and Georgian Identity in Late Antiquity: the Dangerous World of Vakhtang Gorgasali Cornelia Horn – Transgressing Claims to Sacred Space: The Advantage of the Portability of Relics in the Christological Conflicts in Syria-Palestine in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE Tuomo Lankila – The Corpus Areopagiticum and Proclus’ Divine Interface Basil Lourié – Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite: An Approach to the Intensional Semantics David Shengelia – The Author of the Scholia to the Doctrina Patrum Youhanna Nessim Youssef – Severus of Antioch as Canonist in the Copto-Arabic Tradition Alexander Toepel – Zur Bedeutung der Begriffe ‚Hypostase‘ und ‚Prosopon‘ bei Babai dem Großen Ioane Petritsi and His Time Lela Alexidze – One in the Beings’ and ‚One within Us’: Basis of the Union with the One in Ioane Petritsi’s Interpretation of Proclus’ Elements of Theology Levan Gigineishvili – On Ioane Petritsi’s Preface to His Commented Translation of the Book of Psalms [with the first English tr. and a new edition of the Georgian text] Damana Melikishvili – Ioane Petritsi and John Italus on Two Original Causes Maia Raphava – Georgian Translations of Nicetas Stethatos’s Epistles (According to Arsen Iqaltoeli’s Dogmatikon) [with the editio princeps of a letter lost in Greek]. Shota Rustaveli and Georgian Culture Elguja Khintibidze – Towards Rustaveli’s Place in Medieval European-Christian Thought Maka Elbakidze, Irma Ratiani – Shota Rustaveli’s Romance The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in the Context of European Chivalric Romance: An Anthropological Approach Mikheil Makharadze – Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum in “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” N. Doborjgenidze – Religious Inculturation and Problems of Social History of the Georgian Language Adam McCollum – The Application of Thought to Language Learning: An Experiment in the Study of Old Georgian.

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Book SynopsisThis book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. The Imaginary Synagogue seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vi Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 Jews in Portugal and the Beginnings of Polemical Literature 9 2 Portuguese Anti-Semitic Literary Production: Forms, Objectives, and Reception (17th – 18th Centuries) 18 2.1 Sermons and Auto-da-Fe Lists 19 2.2 Treatises 44 2.3 Sources 65 2.4 Circulation and Censorship 67 3 The New Christian Image 77 3.1 Terminology 77 3.2 Punishment of the Deicides 82 3.3 Enemies of the Portuguese 84 3.4 Rites and Beliefs 87 4 Continuity and Change: The Different Currents of Anti-Jewish Literature 94 4.1 The Seventeenth Century Context 94 4.1.1 Memorials 96 4.2 Signs of a New Time? 101 4.2.1 Pamphlets 106 5 Conclusions 117 Annex 1: Inquisitorial Medals and Diplomas 121 Annex 2: The Auto-da-Fé Sermon in Lisbon on May 5th, 1624 130 Sources and Bibliography 187 Index of Names and Places 204

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Book SynopsisDuring their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, reflect changing social attitudes towards the objects themselves and toward science and its heritage. By bringing display to the center of analysis, the collection offers a new and ambitious framework for the study of scientific instruments and the material culture of science. Contributors are: Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Silke Ackermann, Marco Beretta, Laurence Bobis, Alison Boyle, Fausto Casi, Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Débarbat, Richard Dunn, Inga Elmqvist-Söderlund, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Peggy A. Kidwell, Richard Kremer, Mara Miniati, Richard A. Paselk, Donata Randazzo, Steven Turner.Trade Review"Several papers in this volume present excruciating details concerning the struggles that various people have faced when trying to get historic scientific instruments onto exhibit and keeping them there. Seldom, however, do they grapple with the question of why anyone, other than the odd collector, curator or historian of technology, should want to look at these instruments." - At: http://www.erittenhouse.org/reviews/, by Deborah Jean Warner, curator at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington and the founding editor of Rittenhouse, the forerunner of eRittenhouse. “The book […] can be put to use by scholars interested in the history of science, scientific instruments, material culture, museums and the history of science in public. It joins a growing literature that reveals a desire to bring such studies together for their mutual benefit.” - Rebekah Higgit (University of Kent), The British Journal for the History of Science, 2015, 697-699 pp.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati Colour Plates 1. Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961) Marco Beretta 2. “Not for their beauty”: Instruments and narratives at the Science Museum, London Alyson Boyle 3. “More Artistic than Scientific”: Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria & Albert Museum Richard Dunn 4. “Of sufficient interest …, but not of such value …”: 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum Silke Ackermann 5. Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory Laurence Bobis and Suzanne Débarbat 6. Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876 Richard L. Kremer 7. Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago Steven C. Turner 8. The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University Richard A. Paselk 9. Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010 Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Amy Ackerberg-Hastings 10. “Exceedingly Ridiculous”: Telescopes on Displayon the Seventeenth-Century Stage Ingrid Jendrzejewski 11. Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study Ileana Chinnici, Donatella Randazzo and Fausto Casi 12. Display of Instruments on Seventeenth Century Astronomical Frontispieces Inga Elmqvist Söderlund General Index

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Book SynopsisEarly Ibāḍī Theology presents the critical edition of six Arabic theological texts recently discovered in two manuscripts in Mzāb in Algeria dating from the middle of the 8th century. The texts were sent by their author, the prominent Kūfan Ibāḍī kalām theologian ‘Abd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Fazārī to North Africa where he had a large following in the Ibāḍī community later known as the Nukkār. They constitute the earliest extant body of Muslim kalām theology and are vital for the study of the initial development of rational theology in Islam. The sophisticated treatment of the divine attributes in these texts indicates that this subject developed considerably earlier in Islamic theology than previously accepted in modern scholarship.Trade Review"As interest in the Ibāḍiyya continues to grow, the need for reliably edited Ibāḍī sources increases. Following on their earlier publication of the works of the early Omani Ibāḍī jurist, theologian and scholar Abū al-Mundhir Bashīr b. Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb (Early Ibāḍī Literature, Weisbaden, 2011) Drs. al-Salimi and Madelung’s new preparation of al-Fazārī’s kalām texts are a welcome addition to the growing library of early Ibāḍī sources. In addition, such a large collection of early kalām materials illumines in significant ways not only the development of Ibāḍī thought, but the progression of early Islamic theology in general. It is to be hoped that more scholars will follow in the footsteps of the editors, bringing the truly vast and important corpus of Ibāḍī texts to ever wider audiences." Adam R. Gaiser, Florida State University "Der Band – und namentlich die Typographie des arabischen Teils – sind sehr ansprechend gestaltet". Jan Thiele in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Arabic Texts 1. Kitāb al-Qadar (Book of Predetermination) 2. Kitāb fī l-radd ‘alā Ibn ‘Umayr (Book on Refutation of Ibn ‘Umayr) 3. Kitāb al-radd ‘alā al-Mujassima (Book of Refutation of the Corporalists) 4. Kitāb al-Futyā (Book of Legal Opinion) 5. Kitāb al-Tawḥīd fī ma‘rifat Allāh (Book of Monotheism in the Recognition of God) 6. Kitāb fī man raja‘a ‘an ‘ilmih wa-fāraqa al-nabī wa-huwa ‘alā dīnih (Book about Whoever Reneges on his Knowledge and Departs from the Prophet while remaining in his Religion) Indices (al-Fahāris)

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the lives of the famous Russian painter, thinker, and mystic Nikolai Roerich and his wife, Elena Roerich, the “mother” of Agni Yoga esoteric teaching. Extensively researched, it focuses on the couple’s spiritual quest, resulting in their gradual transformation under the influence of theosophy, spiritualism and Elena’s psychic “fiery experience” into mystics and gurus who fashioned their new version of the “myth of the Masters,” the invisible guides of humanity. Special attention is given to N. Roerich’s travels in Central Asia and Far East, his cultural and public activities and particularly his Buddho-Communist utopia. The myth of the Masters revived will appeal to those interested in New Age esotericism, mysticism, and Russian thought in the first half of the 20th century.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Color Plates Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Blavatsky and Her Masters 1. The artist’s roots and formative years 2. Elena, Nikolai’s Muse and Life’s guide 3. The time of fulfillment 4. Visions of the Beyond 5. A strange encounter at Hyde Park 6. In New York: Haunted by spirits 7. The Great Plan 8. The Apparition of the Black Stone: a miracle or a hoax? 9. Dreaming of New Russia 10. In India: Mahatma’s second coming 11. An alliance with Bolsheviks 12. The Transhimalayan Journey 13. The Moscow Mission and the trip to Altai 14. In New Mongolia 15. Leading the “Western Buddhist Embassy” to Tibet 16. Between the Himalayas and New York City 17. Suspected of Red sympathies 18. The Manchurian Expedition and the Kansas Project 19. The “chalice of poison” 20. The final years in Kulu Epilogue: Inquiring into the phenomenon of the Roerichs’ Masters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook seeks to enrich our collective understanding of the world in which Francis lived and the ways in which Francis, together with his followers, has shaped the world ever since. Composed of thirteen essays by scholars from diverse academic disciplines, The World of St. Francis of Assisi considers Francis’s legacy in art, literature, and spirituality, and many of the contributions to the volume focus on the perennial application of Francis’s insights to the ills of contemporary society. Contributors are Greg Ahlquist, William R. Cook, Alexandra Dodson, John K. Downey, Bradley R. Franco, John Hart, Ronald Herzman, Weston L. Kennison, Mary R. McHugh, Beth A. Mulvaney, Sara Ritchey and Daniel J. Schultz.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the complex relations between Christians and Muslims at the dawn of the modern age. It begins by examining two seminal works by Nicholas of Cusa: De pace fidei, a dialogue seeking peace among world religions written after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and Cribratio Alkorani (1460-61), an attempt to confirm Gospel truths through a critical reading of the Qur’an. After considering Nicholas, his sources, and his context, the book explores a wider range of late medieval texts on Christian-Muslim relations—not only Christian writings about Islam but also Muslim responses to Christianity. The book’s focus is historical, but it can also contribute to efforts at increasing Muslim-Christian understanding today.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword by Thomas E. Burman: Nicholas of Cusa and Peter the Venerable’s Request Editors’ Introduction Part I: Cusanus and Islam Morimichi Watanabe: Cusanus, Islam, and Religious Tolerance Walter Andreas Euler: A Critical Survey of Cusanus’s Writings on Islam Pim Valkenberg: Una Religio in Rituum Varietate: Religious Pluralism, the Qur’an, and Nicholas of Cusa Knut Alfsvåg: Divine Difference and Religious Unity: On the Relation Between De Docta Ignorantia, De Pace Fidei and Cribratio Alcorani Joshua Hollman: Reading De pace fidei Christologically: Nicholas of Cusa’s Verbum Dialectic of Religious Concordance Felix Resch: The Trinity as a Challenge to Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Nicholas of Cusa’s Philosophical Translation of Trinitarian Faith as a Response to Islamic Rejection Part II: Historical Perspectives Rita George-Tvrtković: Deficient Sacraments or Unifying Rites? Alan of Lille, Nicholas of Cusa, and Riccoldo da Montecroce on Muslim and Jewish Praxis Marica Costigliolo: Perspectives on Islam in Italy and Byzantium in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Jesse D. Mann: Juan de Segovia on the Superiority of Christians over Muslims: Liber de magna auctoritate episcoporum in concilio generali 10.6 Paul Richard Blum: How to Deal with Muslims? Raymond Lull and Ignatius of Loyola Part III: Muslim Responses to Christianity Asma Afsaruddin: The Messiah ‘Isa, Son of Mary: Jesus in the Islamic Tradition Sandra Toenies Keating: Revisiting the Charge of Taḥrīf: The Question of Supersessionism in Early Islam and the Qur’ān Tamara Albertini: Ibn Ḥazm’s and al-Ghazzālī’s Most Divergent Responses to Christianity: A Question of Epistemology and Hermeneutics Robert J. Dobie: Jesus in the Muslim and Christian Mystical Traditions: Ibn ‘Arabi and Meister Eckhart Index

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Book SynopsisThis book throws new light on the question of authorship in the Latin literature of the later medieval and in the early modern periods. It shows that authorship was not something to be automatically assumed in an empathic sense, but was chiefly to be found in the paratextual features of works and was imparted by them. This study examines the strategies and tools used by authors ca. 1350-1650, to assert their authorial aspirations. Enenkel demonstrates how they incorporated themselves into secular, ecclesiastical, spiritual and intellectual power structures. He shows that in doing so rituals linked to the ceremonial of ruling, played a fundamental role, for example, the ritual presentation of a book or the crowning of a poet. Furthermore Enenkel establishes a series of qualifications for entry to the Respublica litteraria, with which the authors of books announced their claims to authorship.Trade Review“An important, original, and impressively well-researched study.” David Rijser, University of Amsterdam. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (spring 2019), pp. 249-251.

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.Trade Review"...Along with the contemporary scholars whom Hamilton frequently cites, her book provides a wide and deep understanding of the figures on whom the discussion touches. Her intention and execution are excellent... Hamilton has restored to Iberian history a distinctive group of influential scholars whom biographical study long missed." Arthur M. Lesley (Independant Scholar), Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXIX, No. 1Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction xii 1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable 1 2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and “Nuestro Padre” Abraham 58 3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism 88 4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions 136 5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews 166 6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages 205 Conclusion: Textual Truths 249 Bibliography 255 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThis book is a revisionist account of Samuel’s State and the legendary struggle between Samuel Cometopoulos and Basil II (10th-11th century). It goes beyond the standard approach to the study of state formation, presenting an entirely new analytical framework which interrogates how contemporaries in the Balkans at different times, ranging from the Byzantine and Balkan elites of the medieval centuries to later voices in the early modern and modern periods, have represented Samuel’s polity in the service of their own political agendas and territorial aspirations towards Macedonia. The wide-ranging relationship between culture, identity and power are addressed, making use not just of Balkan literary and artistic traditions but on writings from across the Slavic world and western political and intellectual contexts. Demonstrating the conflicted legacy of the Samuel’s State in the Balkans, Mitko B. Panov questions established scholarly opinion and offers new interpretations that reconsider its place in Byzantine and Balkan history and imagination.

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Book SynopsisIn Jesuit Survival and Restoration leading scholars from around the world discuss the most dramatic event in the Society of Jesus's history. The order was suppressed by papal command in 1773 and for the next forty-one years ex-Jesuits endeavoured to keep the Ignatian spirit alive and worked towards the order's restoration. When this goal was achieved in 1814 the Society entered one of its most dynamic but troubled eras. The contributions in the volume trace this story in a global perspective, looking at developments in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.Trade Review“Both scholarly and accessible, this attractive book features illustrations to complement the text, including numerous architectural drawings. The source material and reference works offer a direct and vivid link to the order’s history. While exploring many regional variations, the book consistently takes account of the broader picture befitting the Society and regularly puts forwards questions for further study.” Benjamin Hazard, University College Dublin. In: Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4 (2016), pp. 434-436. “The days when such studies as these were exclusively in the hands of Jesuits are fortunately long past, and several very distinguished contributions to this volume come from lay scholars, men and women, prepared to investigate archives and ask questions that may not have occurred to the Jesuits involved. The overall result is a volume with a very high standard of scholarship and remarkably few misprints. […] at present the book is an indispensable pointer in the right direction.” Joseph A. Munitiz, Campion Hall, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 67, No. 1 (2016), pp. 212-213. “The editors are to be commended for ambitiously attempting nothing less than a renewed historiography.” Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University, Chicago. In: The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2016), pp. 118-120. A “uniformly impressive book.” Oliver P. Rafferty, SJ, Boston College. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 77, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1004-1005. “the volume under review here advances our knowledge of Jesuit Survival and Restoration in myriad ways. […] This rich collection provides much needed global coverage of the sup¬pressed and restored Society.” Robert E.Scully, SJ, Le Moyne College. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 714-717.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Robert A. Maryks & Jonathan Wright Part I: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. A Restored Society or a New Society of Jesus? Thomas Worcester, S.J. (Holy Cross) 2. Some Remarks on Jesuit Historiography 1773-1814, Robert Danieluk, S.J. (ARSI) Part II: THE COMMONWEALTH OF POLAND-LITHUANIA AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 3. Before and After Suppression: Jesuits and Former Jesuits in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, c.1750-1795, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (University College London) 4. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1772-1820) and the Restoration of the Order, Marek Inglot, S.J. (Pontifical Gregorian University) 5. Sebastian Sierakowski and the Language of Architecture: a Jesuit Life during the Era of Suppression and Restoration, Carolyn C. Guile (Colgate University) Part III: CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE 6. The Jesuits Artistic Diaspora in Germany after 1773, Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas at Austin) 7. Enduring the Deluge: Hungarian Jesuit Astronomers from Suppression to Restoration, Paul Shore (St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba) 8. “Est et Non Est”: Jesuit Corporate Survival in England after the Suppression, Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Fordham University) 9. The Exiled Spanish Jesuits and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus, Inmaculada Fernández Arrillage Niccolò Guasti (Università degli Studi di Foggia) 10. The Society of Jesus Under Another Name: The Paccanarists in the Restored Society of Jesus, Eva Fontana Castelli (Rome, independent scholar) 11. Jesuit at Heart: Luigi Mozzi de’ Capitani (1746-1813) Between Suppression and Restoration, Emanuele Colombo (DePaul University) 12. The Romantic Historian under Charles X: Evaluating Jesuit Restoration in Charles Laumier’s Résumé de l’Histoire des Jésuites, Frédéric Conrod (Florida Atlantic University) Panel IV: CHINA AND BEYOND 13. Jesuit Survival and Restoration in China, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania University State) 14. Restoration or Re-creation? The Return of the Society of Jesus to China, Paul Rule (La Trobe University) 15. Rising from the Ashes: the Gothic Revival and the Architecture of the New Society of Jesus in China and Macao, César Guillen-Nuñez (Macau Ricci Institute) 16. The Phoenix Rises from its Ashes: The Restoration of the Jesuit Shanghai Mission, Paul Mariani, S.J. (Santa Clara University) 17. The Chinese Rites Controversy’s Long Shadow over the Restored Society of Jesus, Jeremy Clarke, S.J. (Boston College) 18. The Province of Madurai Between the Old and New Society of Jesus, Sabina Pavone (University of Macerata) Part V: THE AMERICAS 19. The “Russian” Society and the American Jesuits: Giovanni Grassi’s Crucial Role, Daniel Schlafly (St. Louis University) 20. The Restoration in Canada: An Enduring Patrimony, John Meehan, S.J. (Campion College) and Jacques Monet, S.J. (Regis College) 21. Jesuit Tradition and the Rise of South-American Nationalism, Andrés I. Prieto (University of Colorado at Boulder) 22. The First Return of the Jesuits to Paraguay, Ignacio Telesca (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires) 23. Jesuit Restoration in Mexico, Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana) Part VI: AFRICA 24. Early Departure, Late Return: An Overview of the Jesuits in Africa during the Suppression and after the Restoration, Festo Mkenda, S.J. (Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa) 25. Hoping Against all Hope: The Survival of the Jesuits in Southern Africa (1875-1900), Aquinata N. Agonga (Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa) 26. The Jesuits in Fernando Po (1858-1872): An Incomplete Mission, Jean-Luc Enyeque, S.J. (Boston University) Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the summer of 1627, corsairs from Algiers and Salé, Morocco, undertook the long voyage to Iceland where they raided the eastern and southern regions of the country, resulting in the deaths of around thirty people, and capturing about 400 further individuals who were sold on the slave markets. Around 10% of the captives were ransomed the next twenty years, mostly through the efforts of the Danish monarchy. In this volume, the history of these extraordinary events and their long-lasting memory are traced and analysed from the viewpoints of maritime warfare, cultural encounters and existential options, based on extensive use of various sources from several languages.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures A Note on Names and Letters Introduction    Exceptional History   Sources   Research in the Field   International   Memory and History 1 The Inception of the Turkish Raid, and Its Central Character   The Return of the Moors   Compaen the Pirate   Iceland Ahoy   How Do We Know This? 2 The Course of Events in Iceland   Strategy and Resistance in Southwest Iceland   Folktales   Attack on the Seat of Government 3 Incursion and Salvation in the East Fjords   Enter the Corsairs   Reign of Terror in Berufjörður   South and North of Berufjörður   Did the Raiders Go to Eydalir?   The Corsairs’ Farewell   Heroes and Guardian Spirits   Folklore and Fact 4 Razzia and Martyrdom in the Westman Islands   Preparedness   Like Lambs to the Slaughter   The Martyrdom of Jón Þorsteinsson   Not Many Placenames and Folktales 5 Piracy and Defences   Danish Defences   Icelandic Defences in the Shadow of the Turkish Raid   Lessons of the Turkish Raid   Unarmed Nation   Civil Defence   Shelter   Military Expenditure   Special Status   What Would Bishop Brynjólfur Have Said?   Conclusion 6 Warfare or Robbery   The Contemporary Analysis of the Turkish Raid   Forms of Maritime Raids   Piracy in the Mediterranean   Maritime Raids to the Northern Seas   Piracy in the Name of the Law   Corsair States   Piracy as a Sector of the Economy and a Pillar of the State   Corsair Licences   Slavery   Holy War   Legitimate Government   New Principles of Freedom   Emotions and Justice 7 Salvation   Redemption from Slavery   Fundraising   The First Redemption Mission   Individual Deals   The Second Redemption Mission   Danish Emissaries in the Catholic Stronghold   Slave Registers   The Bottom Line   Trials of a Redeemer   Comparison and Aftermath   Apostates   Jón Vestmann   Anna Jasparsdóttir   Murat Reis 8 Cultural Memory   Scribes of Memory   A Tool of National Memory: The Turkish Raid in School Textbooks 9 The Visible Turkish Raid   Landscape   Works of Art   I Quatri Mori by Pietro Tacca   Adriaen Matham’s Drawings   Kross: A Sword Out of the Mouth of Christ Epilogue   Context and Connections of the Turkish Raid   The Place of the Turkish Raid: Event and Memory   Tracing the Course of Events   Micro and Macro, Past and Present Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic responsibilities? Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe analyses the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are too often artificially separated in historical study. Contributors are Dominika Burdzy, Otfried Czaika, Kirsi Kanerva, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Bertil Nilsson, and Cindy Wood.Trade Review''[...] a collection of rich, detailed, and often impressive essays. [...]an excellent contribution not olnly to the history of ars moriendi , but also to our understanding of the everyday concerns and anxieties of medieval and early modern Europeans''. Jaska Kainulainen, in Journal of Jesuit Studies , 6 (2019). '' The book shows how the people of the Middle Ages and the early modern period tried to prepare for death throughout their lives. [...] This anthology is a valuable addition to the study of its subject. As both editors notes in their introduction, and as Bertil Nilsson states in his concluding remarks, the findings also open up opportunities for further research''. Petri Karonen in Renaissance Quarterly 72 (3), 1095-1097. DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.321.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Preparing for a Good Death in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe  Anu Lahtinen and Mia Korpiola 2 Restless Dead or Peaceful Cadavers? Preparations for Death and Afterlife in Medieval Iceland  Kirsi Kanerva 3 William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (1366–1404) and His Preparations for Death  Cindy Wood 4 “At Death’s Door”: The Authority of Deathbed Confessions in Medieval and Early Modern Swedish Law  Mia Korpiola 5 The Concern for Salvation in the Cities of Lesser Poland in the Sixteenth Century  Dominika Burdzy 6 Death with an Agenda: Preparing for an Aristocratic Death in Reformation Sweden  Anu Lahtinen 7 Dying Unprepared in Early Modern Swedish Funeral Sermons  Otfried Czaika 8 “Lord, have mercy on me”: Spiritual Preparations for Suicide in Early Modern Sweden  Riikka Miettinen 9 Preparing for Death: Concluding Remarks  Bertil Nilsson Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrancis Willughby together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. They were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived longer and more of his writings have survived, his reputation subsequently eclipsed that of Willughby. Now, with access to previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we are able to provide a comprehensive evaluation of Francis Willughby’s life and works. What emerges is a polymath, a true virtuoso, who made original and imaginative contributions to mathematics, chemistry, linguistics as well as natural history. We use Willughby’s short life as a lens through which to view the entire process of seventeenth-century scientific endeavor. Contributors are Tim Birkhead, Isabelle Charmantier, David Cram, Meghan Doherty, Mark Greengrass, Daisy Hildyard, Dorothy Johnston, Sachiko Kusukawa, Brian Ogilvie, William Poole, Chris Preston, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Paul J. Smith and Benjamin Wardhaugh.Trade Review[this] ]volume [...] provides us with an exemplary view of a figure [of Francis Willughby] whose wide-ranging significance is at last becoming clear. - Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of London, EHR, CXXXIII. 564, October. 2018, 1314-1316, doi:10.1093/ehr/cey215 It [the work] is a very worthy validation of a neglected and misunderstood scientist. - William Noblett, Archives of Natural History 45.1 (2018): pp. 184-185 (DOI: 10.3366/anh.2018.0503)Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Willoughby, Lord Middleton xi Preface xii Acknowledgements xvi List of Figures and Maps xix List of Abbreviations xxiii List of Contributors xxiv 1. The Life and Domestic Context of Francis Willughby 1 Dorothy Johnston 2. The Education of Francis Willughby 44 Richard Serjeantson 3. The Chymistry of Francis Willughby (1635–72): The Trinity College, Cambridge Community 99 Anna Marie Roos 4. Willughby’s Mathematics 122 Benjamin Wardhaugh 5 Science on the Move: Francis Willughby’s Expeditions 142 Mark Greengrass, Daisy Hildyard, Christopher D. Preston, and Paul J. Smith 6 The Willughby Library in the Time of Francis the Naturalist 227 William Poole 7. Francis Willughby and John Ray on Words and Things 244 David Cram 8. Willughby’s Ornithology 268 Tim R. Birkhead, Paul J. Smith, Meghan Doherty, and Isabelle Charmantier 9. Historia Piscium (1686) and Its Sources 305 Sachiko Kusukawa 10. Willughby on Insects 335 Brian W. Ogilvie 11. The Legacies of Francis Willughby 360 Isabelle Charmantier, Dorothy Johnston, and Paul J. Smith Bibliography 387 Index 419

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Book SynopsisIn Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago, the authors republish Hull House Songs (1916), together with critical commentary. Hull-House Songs contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith’s poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams’s aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the authors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy. With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introductory Note, Jessica Payette, Graham Cassano, and Rima Lunin Schultz Hull House Songs by Eleanor Smith (Reproduction of 1915 Folio published by Clayton F. Summy Co.) 1. Hull House Songs and the “Public”, Graham Cassano and Jessica Payette 2. Hull House Songs and Jane Addams’s Political Aesthetic, Graham Cassano 3. Eleanor Smith’s Operettas for Children, Jessica Payette 4. Eleanor Smith and Her Circle: Female Patronage, Cultural Production, and Friendship at Hull-House, Rima Lunin Schultz 5. Cultural Pedagogy at Hull-House: Shaping Ethical Behavior through Performance, Rima Lunin Schultz 6. Democratizing Culture and Mediating Class: The Arts at Hull-House, 1889–1945, Rima Lunin Schultz 7. Hull-House and ‘Jim Crow’, Rima Lunin Schultz Afterword: Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: A Singer’s Perspective, Jocelyn Zelasko Appendix: Libretto for The Trolls’ Holiday by Harriet Monroe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between ca. 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer.

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek adaptations and examining Byzantine love tales, both learned and vernacular, alongside their Persian counterparts and the later adaptations of Western romances.

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Book SynopsisBased on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains a transcription of the (unfortunately partly damaged) manuscript, an English translation of it, and several articles opening up new horizons concerning the life and spirituality of Maria Petyt and her historical and religious backgrounds. The authors characterize Maria Petyt as a self-confident spiritual daughter with a strong political mission, a zealous figure fighting side by side with Louis XIV for the catholic victory during the Dutch War, and as one who lived and profoundly understood the spirituality of Teresa of Avila.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Elisabeth Hense, Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate Part 1 Maria Petyt in her Context 1 Maria Petyt – A Short Biography Esther van de Vate 2 Maria Petyt against the Background of the Political and Religious Situation in Flanders in the Seventeenth Century Esther van de Vate 3 Daily Life at the Hermitage in Mechelen at the Time of Maria Petyt (1657–1677) Michel van Meerbeeck 4 Living as a Spiritual Virgin and Claiming Prophetic Authority: The Parallel Lives of Maria Petyt and Antoinette Bourignon Mirjam de Baar Part 2 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its interpretations 5 Some Notes on the History of the Latin Manuscript of the Life of Maria Petyt by Michael of St. Augustine Giovanni Grosso 6 ‘Oh, How Spiritual Directors are Obliged to Remain Silent!’ Michael’s Redaction of the Writings of Maria Petyt: Some Initial Findings Esther van de Vate 7 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its Translation in English Veronie Meeuwsen (ed.) 8 Maria Petyt’s Support of the French King Veronie Meeuwsen 9 The Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War (folios 30r–49v) Elisabeth Hense 10 The Prophetic Spirituality of Maria Petyt in the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War Anne-Marie Bos Epilogue Joseph Chalmers

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Book SynopsisByzantium/Modernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art, architecture, theatre, film, literature, and philosophy, which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture. Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Empire, with a special focus on Greece, Turkey, and Russia, and the artistic production of Western Europe and America. Together, these essays invite the reader to think critically and theoretically about the dialogic interchange between Byzantium and modernism and to consider this cross-temporal encounter as an ongoing and historically deep narrative, rather than an ephemeral or localized trend. Contributors are Tulay Atak, Charles Barber, Elena Boeck, Anthony Cutler, Rico Franses, Dimitra Kotoula, Marie-José Mondzain, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Robert S. Nelson, Robert Ousterhout, Stratis Papaioannou, Glenn Peers, Jane A. Sharp and Devin Singh.Trade Review"[This book] offer[s] a multi-disciplinary view of subjects as varied as historiography, art history, architecture, stage design, psychoanalytic thought and theology." Joseph Masheck and Edmund Ryder, Art and Christianity, No. 88, Winter 2016 '' A remarkable and remarkably wide-ranging collection, then, and one that will provide at least some food for thought for anyone with an interest in the continuing contemporary cultural dialogue with Byzantium. In addition, it provides an essential springboard for further reflection on the themes it addresses, and its methdological breadth is encouraging, if at times disconcerting; but to be disconcerted is often valuable for stimulating thought, and that is one objective that this book accomplishes triumphantly''. Ivan Moody, in Journal of International Society for Orthodox Music vol.2 (2016).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments IX Preface XI List of Illustrations XV List of Contributors XIX Explanation of the Cover XXIII Part 1 Byzantium and Modernism Introduction: Byzantium and Modernism 1 Maria Taroutina Section 1 The Avant-Gardes and Their Counter Movements 1 Modernism’s Byzantium Byzantium’s Modernism 15 Robert S. Nelson 2 Kazimir Malevich and the Liturgical Tradition of Eastern Christianity 37 Myroslava M. Mudrak Section 2 Modernism’s Precursors 3 Arts and Crafts and the ‘Byzantine’: The Greek Connection 75 Dimitra Kotoula 4 Archaeology of Decadence: Uncovering Byzantium in Victorien Sardou’s Theodora 102 Elena N. Boeck Section 3 Byzantine Tactics, Modernist Strategies in Architectural Discourse 5 Abstraction’s Economy: Hagia Sophia in the Imaginary of Modern Architecture 135 Tulay Atak 6 Byzantine Architecture: A Moving Target? 163 Robert Ousterhout Part 2 The Slash as Method Introduction: The Slash as Method 179 Roland Betancourt Section 4 Reading across Time: Modern Subjects, Byzantine Objects 7 Byzantium and the Modernist Subject: The Case of Autobiographical Literature 195 Stratis Papaioannou 8 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish: Byzantine Visual Structures in the Light of Twentieth-Century Practice and Theory 212 Anthony Cutler Section 5 Byzantine New Media: The Photographic and Filmic Icon 9 Iconicity of the Photographic Image: Theodore of Stoudios and Andre Bazin 237 Devin Singh 10 Tarkovsky: Embodying the Screen 254 Marie-José Mondzain Section 6 Presence, Representation, and the Gaze: The Byzantine at the Ends of Modernity 11 ‘Action-Paradise’ and ‘Readymade Reliquaries’: Eccentric Histories in/ of Recent Russian Art 271 Jane A. Sharp 12 Lacan and Byzantine Art: In the Beginning was the Image 311 Rico Franses 13 Beyond Representation/The Gift of Sight 330 Charles Barber CODA 14 We Have Never been Byzantine: On Analogy 349 Glenn Peers Select Bibliography 361 Index 367

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Book SynopsisThis Companion to the Spanish Scholastics offers a much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. The volume introduces main themes and contexts of scholastics inquiry (theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, economics, law, science and the senses) through close examination of a wide range of texts, debates, methods, and authors, as well as in-depth discussion of the relevant literature. Each chapter includes a useful bibliography and serves as point of departure for future research. The volume not only draws the sum of existing research, but also challenges established notions and breaks new ground. Contributors: Fernanda Alfieri, Harald Braun, Paolo Broggio, Alejandro Chafuen, Wim Decock, Fernando Domínguez Reboiras, Thomas Duve, Petr Dvořák, Giovanni Gellera, Juan Manuel Gómez Paris, Christophe Grellard, Miroslav Hanke, Ruth Hill, Harro Höpfl, Nils Jansen, Vincenzo Lavenia, Thomas Marschler, Fabio Monsalve, Thomas Pink, Rudolf Schüssler, Daniel Schwartz, Leen Spruit, Toon Van Houdt, María José Vega, and Andreas Wagner. See inside the book.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1   Introduction   Harald E. Braun Part 2 Contexts 1 Theology   Christophe Grellard 2 Managing Dissent   María José Vega 3 Law   Thomas Duve Part 3 Theology 4 Grace   Paolo Broggio 5 Divine Attributes   Thomas Marschler 6 Biblical Criticism   Fernando Domínguez Reboiras Part 4 Philosophy 7 Logic   Petr Dvořák and Miroslav Hanke 8 Natural Philosophy   Giovanni Gellera 9 Psychology   Leen Spruit Part 5 Ethics 10 Final Causation in Jesuit Thought Finality and Nature and Normative Power   Thomas Pink 11 Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Spanish Scholastic Thought   Fernanda Alfieri 12 Probabilism and Casuistry   Rudolf Schüssler Part 6 Politics 13 Church and State   Harro Höpfl 14 Jus Post Bellum in the Spanish Scholastics Statism and Individualism   Daniel Schwartz Part 7 Economics 15 Usury and Interest   Toon van Houdt and Fabio Monsalve 16 Just Pricing   Alejandro Chafuen 17 Taxation   Vincenzo Lavenia Part 8 Law 18 Between Cosmopolitan Citizens and Sovereign Nations International Law According to the Spanish Scholastics   Andreas Wagner 19 Contract Law in Early Modern Scholasticism   Wim Decock 20 The Doctrine of Restitution (Restitutio)   Nils Jansen Part 9 Science and the Senses 21 Scholastics and Novatores   Juan Manuel Gómez Paris 22 The New World and the Problem of Race   Ruth Hill Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in artworks, books, fragmentary texts and even in Protestant ‘relics’. Some contributions reassess communal and individual responses to cases of possession, others focus on witchcraft and manifestations of the disordered natural world. Canonical figures and events, from Martin Luther to the Salem witch trials, are looked at afresh. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how cultural and interdisciplinary trends in religious history illuminate the experiences of early modern Europeans. Contributors: Susan Broomhall, Heather Dalton, Dagmar Eichberger, Peter Howard, E. J. Kent, Brian P. Levack, Dolly MacKinnon, Louise Marshall, Donna Merwick, Leigh T.I. Penman, Shelley Perlove, Lyndal Roper, Peter Sherlock, Larry Silver, Patricia Simons, Jennifer Spinks, Hans de Waardt and Alexandra Walsham.Trade Review“a fitting tribute to the career of a pathbreaking scholar.” Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1048-1049.Table of ContentsIntroduction Scholarship, Friendship and Border-Crossing Jennifer Spinks and Dagmar Eichberger Part I: Supernatural Agency and Communities of Belief The Collaboration From Hell: A plague strike force at S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome Louise Marshall The Demonic Possession of Richard Dugdale Brian P. Levack Salem Girls (1692): Problems of gender and agency E. J. Kent “Ringing of the bells by four white spirits”: Two seventeenth-century English earwitness accounts of the supernatural in print culture Dolly MacKinnon Part II: Religion and Cultural Authority “It is a great disgrace for our city”: Archbishop Antoninus and heresy in Renaissance Florence Peter Howard Endor and Amsterdam: The image of witchcraft as a weapon in the political arena Hans de Waardt Deep Down in Spirituality: Efforts of seventeenth-century New Netherlanders to access God Donna Merwick Paraluther: Explaining an unexpected portrait of Paracelsus in Andreas Hartmann’s Curriculum vitae Lutheri (1601) Leigh T. I. Penman Part III: The (Un)natural World “Making feast of the prisoner”: Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and ideas of New World cannibalism Heather Dalton Signs that Speak: Reporting the 1556 comet across French and German borders Jennifer Spinks Disorder in the Natural World: The perspectives of the sixteenth-century provincial convent Susan Broomhall De Profundis: Linear Leviathans in the Lowlands Larry Silver The Ferocious Dragon and the Docile Elephant: The unleashing of sin in Rembrandt’s Garden of Eden Shelley Perlove Part IV: Artefacts and Material Culture Salience and the Snail: Liminality and incarnation in Francesco del Cossa’s Annunciation (c. 1470) Patricia Simons Luther Relics Lyndal Roper The Art of Making Memory: Epitaphs, tables and adages at Westminster Abbey Peter Sherlock The Pope’s Merchandise and the Jesuits’ Trumpery: Catholic relics and Protestant polemic in post-Reformation England Alexandra Walsham Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume proposes a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole. Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.Trade Review"...A marker of the shared enterprise of the contributors to this volume was their formation of the common goal, that of producing a work that was not simply an accumulation of evidence for feminine agency in the making of medieval art, but a step towards an understanding of the way the study of women as “makers” can produce meaning, and be understood in the larger context of making art in the Middle Ages. At the heart of this project is, then, a shared understanding that, in Martin’s words: conceiving, founding, paying for and fabricating a work of art or architecture were all recognized in the Middle Ages as something that today we would equate with creativity… The result –24 articles in two weighty, lavishly documented and illustrated volumes– demonstrates a lively variety of approaches to the study of female agency in the arts… To bring together these scholars and their work was a formidable challenge, and Martin has brought us a valuable reference that enriches our understanding of the whole of Medieval Art." Jerrilynn Dodds, Anuario de Estudios Medievales 44/1 (2014) “...Incorporating a dazzling array of subjects and approaches, and ranging across Jewish, Christian, Viking, and Islamic Europe, as well as the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the twenty-four essays gathered here demonstrate the richness of medieval women’s artistic activities, establishing beyond any doubt the centrality of women to the history of art… The richness of these two volumes can hardly be addressed in a short review. The breadth of subjects, analytical rigor, and methodological reach are witness to the richness of scholarship on medieval women and art, and a testament to the editorial guidance of Therese Martin, whose introduction establishes clear questions and interpretative themes as parameters for the volume as a whole… Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture is an ambitious collection that will be welcomed by scholars of art, history, religion, and women’s studies, as well as by interested general readers, who will find in its two volumes much to ponder, delight, and surprise." Fiona Griffiths, Studies in Iconography, vol. 35 (2014). "Therese Martin rightly notes in her introductory essay that the history of medieval art to date is largely a history of men. Art and architecture has been seen as being made by and for men, with masculine status routinely assigned to all unascribed works. This vast and highly scholarly collection of essays and illustrations seeks to restore women’s important presence to the history of art...The erudition of the collection is admirable, and several of the essays are certainly worthy of being expanded into monographs. They offer an energetic engagement with gender issues alongside the deepest analysis of a large number of works and their “makers.” A vast bibliography, useful indices and nearly 300 fine color and black-and-white illustrations add to its value, which is unlikely to surpass in a generation. “Anonymous” will indeed no longer be presumed to be male." Lesley Pattinson, Sixteenth Century Journal, 44/4 (2013): 1089-1091 "That this collection and its individual contributions have stimulated a review of this length [15 pages] is a testament to their value, interest, and quality. But it is not enough either to praise the authors for their service to the discipline in contributing such fine, thoughtful essays, nor to laud Martin for conceiving this project and shepherding it through to publication. Through their sustained emphasis on and attention to women’s artistic agency, Martin and her contributors have challenged us to conceive medieval art and architecture through a fundamentally different lens, one that naturalizes women’s contributions to and participation in their ‘making’. In this, Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture is a milestone not only in the study of medieval women in art history, but also in medieval art history tout court. Now that Martin and her authors have thrown down the gauntlet, are medievalists ready to take it up?" Kathryn A. Smith, Journal of Art Historiography, number 9 (December 2013): 1-15; http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/smith-rev.pdf “Reassessing the Roles of Women as “Makers” of Medieval Art and Architecture, edited by Therese Martin, makes a substantial contribution to the literature on women’s involvement in medieval artistic production…The essays collectively challenge a range of assumptions about medieval women’s roles in processes of artistic production… In focusing on women as the “makers” of medieval art, the essays treat women as both artists and patrons and consider the relationship between those two roles.” Marian Bleeke, Medieval Feminist Forum, 49.1 (Summer 2013)" The contributions "...collectively mark a valuable addition to scholarship on women as artists and patrons of medieval art, above all, in their emphasis on neglected topics such as women as patrons of architectural projects and women as artists at the periphery of western Europe, i.e. in the Iberian peninsula, Ireland, Scandinavia, and the Holy Land. ... The colour plates and black and-white figures provide a treasure trove of unfamiliar material, of which surely one of the most extraordinary is the jagged, irregular fourteenth-century reliquary of the Holy Cross, perhaps a pastiche made of silver and coral and bearing the arms of Aragon and Portugal, which is connected to the patronage of Isabel, daughter of Pere III of Aragon and Constanza Hohenstaufen. This and many other remarkable objects discussed here deserve to enter the mainstream of art history..." Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Medium Aevum vol. 82, issue 1, p. 179 (Spring-Summer 2013). "...It is a useful handbook for those who have never dealt with the subject because it gives an overview of the role of women in art production in the middle ages. And for the experienced researcher it gives a collection of female roles he needs to be aware of when approaching any new object because information on gender of the artist/patron or the related prejudice can have significant impact on the interpretation of any work of art..." Silvija Juraic, Hortus Artium Medievalium, Vol. 19, May 2013 “…esta obra que se va a convertir rápidamente en la referencia obligada para, como queda claro desde el mismo título, revaluar el papel de las mujeres como artífices del arte y de la arquitectura medieval… Me quedo, sin embargo, con aparentemente la [conclusión] más obvia y sin embargo la más sofisticada, compleja y desmitificadora: gracias a investigaciones como las que aquí se recogen, ya no se puede seguir asumiendo que ‘Anónimo’ es un nombre de hombre." Ana Rodríguez, Arenal 19/1 (2012) "...These two volumes, beautifully illustrated, are divided into the following parts: 1. display and concealment; 2. ownership and community; 3. collaboration and authorship; 4. family and audience; 5. piety and authority; and memory and motherhood… Every author has researched his or her topic to a great extent; these are not short and quickly written conference papers. The editor deserves great recognition for her stewardship in getting these volumes to the point where they are, representing excellent, up-to-date scholarship on this cutting-edge topic… Altogether, these two volumes represent an important milestone in research on medieval artists and patrons." Albrecht Classen, Mediaevistik 25 (2012)Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Color Plates ix Color Plates following xii List of Black and White Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xxxi Contributors’ Biographies xxxiii Map xl 1. Exceptions and Assumptions: Women in Medieval Art History 1 Therese Martin Part One: DISPLAY AND CONCEALMENT 2. The Non-Gendered Appeal of Vierge Ouvrante Sculpture: Audience, Patronage, and Purpose in Medieval Iberia 37 Melissa R. Katz 3. Mere Embroiderers? Women and Art in Early Medieval Ireland 93 Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh 4. Erasures and Recoveries of Women’s Contributions to Gothic Architecture: The Case of Saint-Quentin, Local N obility, and Eleanor of Vermandois 129 Ellen M. Shortell 5. The Roles of Women in Late Medieval Civic Pageantry in England 175 Nicola Coldstream Part Two: OWNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY 6. The Patronage Question under Review: Queen Blanche of Castile (1188–1252) and the Architecture of the Cistercian Abbeys at Royaumont, Maubuisson, and Le Lys 197 Alexandra Gajewski 7. Female Piety and the Building and Decorating of Churches, ca. 500–1150 245 Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg 8. ‘Planters of great civilitie’: Female Patrons of the Arts in Late Medieval Ireland 275 Rachel Moss 9. Reception, Gender, and Memory: Elisenda de Montcada and Her Dual-Effigy Tomb at Santa Maria de Pedralbes 309 Eileen McKiernan González Part Three: COLLABORATION AND AUTHORSHIP 10. Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th–14th c.) 355 Stefanie Seeberg 11. Women in the Making: Early Medieval Signatures and Artists’ Portraits (9th–12th c.) 393 Pierre Alain Mariaux 12. Melisende of Jerusalem: Queen and Patron of Art and Architecture in the Crusader Kingdom 429 Jaroslav Folda 13. Women and the Architecture of al-Andalus (711–1492): A Historiographical Analysis 479 María Elena Díez Jorge Part Four: FAMILY AND AUDIENCE 14. Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture 525 Katrin Kogman-Appel 15. Patterns of Patronage: Female Initiatives and Artistic Enterprises in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries 565 Loveday Lewes Gee 16. Concubines, Eunuchs, and Patronage in Early Islamic Cordoba 633 Glaire D. Anderson 17 The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm 671 Miriam Shadis Part Five: PIETY AND AUTHORITY 18. Subversive Obedience: Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-Century Nuns 705 Jane Carroll 19. Elite Women, Palaces, and Castles in Northern France (ca. 850–1100) 739 Annie Renoux 20. Redressing Images: Conflict in Context at Abbess Humbrina’s Scriptorium in Pontetetto (Lucca) 783 Loretta Vandi 21. Emma of Blois as Arbiter of Peace and the Politics of Patronage 823 Mickey Abel Part Six: MEMORY AND MOTHERHOOD 22. Nimble-fingered Maidens in Scandinavia: Women as Artists and Patrons 865 Nancy L. Wicker 23. The Treasures and Foundations of Isabel, Beatriz, Elisenda, and Leonor: The Art Patronage of Four Iberian Queens in the Fourteenth Century 903 Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues 24. Liturgy as Women’s Language: Two Noble Patrons Prepare for the End in Fifteenth-Century Spain 937 Felipe Pereda Bibliography 989 Index of People 1069 Index of Places 1091 Index of Subjects 1100

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