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Book SynopsisIn Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli’s thought by analyzing his classical background, taking into particular consideration the influence of Xenophon, and his view of the ideal ruler as someone who creates the conditions for a flourishing human life. In addition, Bárcenas explains why Machiavelli defends a republican political order that encourages citizens to live according to their own laws while serving a common good and revises his legacy through the writings of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and Maurizio Viroli.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part 1 Machiavelli’s Background 1.1 Machiavellism 1.2 Why Xenophon matters 1.3 Advising the ruler 1.4 In search of virtue Part 2 Machiavelli’s Ruler 2.1 Against Augustinianism 2.2 Politics and morals 2.3 The political artist Part 3 Machiavelli’s Republic 3.1 Imperium et libertas 3.2 The Prince or the Discourses? 3.3 Liberty and the laws 3.4 Imperialism and violence Part 4 Machiavelli’s Legacy 4.1 Strauss: Machiavelli as the root of tyranny 4.2 Voegelin: Machiavelli in his context 4.3 Viroli: Machiavelli’s civic and religious reformation Appendix I The Prince (selections) Appendix II The Discourses (selections) Bibliography of works cited

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Book SynopsisSmilen Markov’s monograph on the metaphysical synthesis of John Damascene depicts a paradox ontological structure: the single man, whose ontological position is conditioned by non-being, participates in the life of the Origin of being. The term ‘historical interconnections’ denotes the basic elements of Damascene’s reception strategy through which he approaches the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the fathers. The structural transformation to which different epochs and cultural circles put Damascene’s concepts reveals regularity in understanding the intellectual scope of the Palestinian monk. The reception of his thought could serve as an indicator for the stable mental structures, ‘framing’ the epoch turning-points in European culture for at least six centuries.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort ix Abkürzungsverzeichnis xi Einführung 1 1 Der Autor 1 2 Die Werke 3 3 Stand der Forschung 6 4 Fragestellung 9 5 Methode 9 6 Struktur der Untersuchung 15 teil 1 Die Struktur des metaphysischen Systems des Damascenus 1 Erkenntniskonzept, Philosophiebegriff und Begriffsapparat 19 1 Methodologische Bemerkungen 19 2 Die Urbilder der Schrift ‚Dialectica‘ 20 3 Die ‚Institutio elementaris‘ – die philosophischen Konzepte 25 4 Das Buch ‚Dialectica‘ 33 5 Der Philosophiebegriff 42 6 Der Begriffsapparat 49 Schluss 81 2 Gotteserkenntnis und metaphysische Methode 84 1 Das Werk ‚De haeresibus‘ 85 2 Die metaphysische Methode 99 3 Die hypostatische Selbstheit als metaphysisches Problem 120 4 Die Trinität 132 Schluss 145 3 Anthropologische Themen bei Johannes Damascenus 147 1 Νόησις als anthropologischer und gnoseologischer Begriff 147 2 Lust als natürliche Wirkung und hypostatische Relation 165 3 Das Bildsystem 179 Schluss 201 4 Das Willenskonzept des Johannes Damascenus 203 1 Der Wille als Äußerung der hypostatischen Identität 204 2 Der Wille als Grenze des Eschatons 236 Schluss 255 Epilog des ersten Teils 257 teil 2 Die Rezeption des metaphysischen Systems des Johannes Damascenus Einführung zu Teil 2 261 5 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der arabischen Welt und in Byzanz 262 1 Die Rezeption bei Theodor Abū Qurra 262 2 Die Rezeption des Johannes Damascenus durch den Patriarchen Photios den Großen 275 3 Die Rezeption bei Michael Psellos 298 6 Die Damascenus-Rezeption bei Gregorios Palamas 316 1 Die Rezeption in der Epistemologie 319 2 Trinitätslehre 329 3 ‚Energie‘ als Begriff der kataphatischen Theologie 337 4 Das Modell der Enhypostasierung 344 5 Die Vergöttlichung des Menschen 348 Schluss 363 7 Die Damascenus-Rezeption bei Petrus Lombardus 364 1 Ein Versuch der ‚Entmetaphysizierung‘ der Triadologie 366 2 Die Rezeption in der Christologie 375 8 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der ‚Summa theologiae‘ des Thomas von Aquin 391 1 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der Triadologie 391 2 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der Christologie 403 3 Die Willenskonzepte des Thomas und des Johannes 417 Schluss 426 Epilog des zweiten Teils 428 Versuch einer Bilanz 431 Schemata 439 Zitierte und benutzte Sekundärliteratur 446 Namensregister 453 Sachregister 456 Contents v Acknowledgments vii Acknowledgments vii List of Figures

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Book SynopsisEarly modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one’s own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was seen as essential for the defence of an individual’s social position, it was at the same time considered a self-destructive force. The contributions in this volume converge in the aim of mapping out the discursive networks in which anger featured and how they all generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger. These discourses include philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art. Contributors: David M. Barbee, Maria Berbara, Tamás Demeter, Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen, Betül Dilmac, Karl Enenkel, Tilman Haug, Michael Krewet, Johannes F. Lehmann, John Nassichuk, Jan Papy, Christian Peters, Bernd Roling, Paolo Santangelo, Barbara Sasse Tateo, Anita Traninger, Jakob Willis, and Zeynep Yelçe.Trade Review“A major contribution to the reception of Stoicism […]. The variegated approach taken in this volume is indispensable for the field. As Seneca wrote about anger, there are ‘a thousand other kinds of this multiform evil’, but by contributing a number of high-quality essays that approach anger from different angles, the authors have done us a service not only for thinking about the thousands of kinds of anger in the early modern period, but for thinking about emotions in history comparatively and across disciplines as well.” Kirk Essary, The University of Western Australia. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol.1, No.1 (2017), pp. 208-210.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period Karl A.E. Enenkel and Anita Traninger Feeling Rage: The Transformation of the Concept of Anger in Eighteenth Century Germany Johannes F. Lehmann 1. ANGER MANAGEMENT IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSES Neo-Stoicism as an Antidote for Public Violence before Lipsius’s De constantia: Johann Weyer’s (Wier’s) Therapy of Anger, De ira morbo (1577) Karl A.E. Enenkel Anger Management and the Rhetoric of Authenticity in Montaigne’s De la colère Anita Traninger Neostoic Anger: Lipsius’s Reading and Use of Seneca’s Tragedies and De ira Jan Papy Descartes’ Notion of Anger: Aspects of a Possible History of its Premises Michael Krewet Holy Desperation and Sanctified Wrath: Anger in Puritan Thought David M. Barbee 2. LEARNED DEBATES ABOUT ANGER Anger and its Limits in the Ethical Philosophy of Giovanni Pontano John Nassichuk Northern Anger: Early Modern Debates on Berserkers Bernd Roling Anger and the Unity of Philosophy: Interlocking Discourses of Natural and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment Tamás Demeter 3. ANGER IN LITERARY DISCOURSES: EPIC AND DRAMA Iustas in iras? Perspectives on Anger as a Driving Force in Neo-Latin Epic Christian Peters Epic Anger in La Gerusalemme Liberata: Rinaldo’s Irascibility and Tasso’s Allegoria della Gerusalemme Betül Dilmac ‘In Zoren zu wütiger Rach’: Angry Women and Men in the German Drama of the Reformation Period Barbara Sasse Tateo Pierre Corneilles’s Cinna ou la Clémence d’Auguste (1642) in Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Descartes, Le Moyne, Senault) Jakob Willis 4. VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ANGER Visual Representations of Medea’s Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and Rubens Maria Berbara 5. ANGER IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES Negotiating with ‘Spirits of Brimstone and Salpetre’: Seventeenth Century French Political Officials and Their Practices and Representations of Anger Tilman Haug Narratives of Reconciliation in Early Modern England: Between Oblivion, Clemency and Forgiveness Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen TRANSCULTURAL NOTIONS OF ANGER Royal Wrath: Curbing the Anger of the Sultan N. Zeynep Yelçe Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture Paolo Santangelo Index nominum

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Book SynopsisIn Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones explores the emergence of a remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in Poland-Lithuania (1569-1795). Examining why such interests resonated so strongly in the Baroque art of this Commonwealth, she argues that the printing revolution, the impact of the Counter-Reformation, and multiple afflictions suffered by Poland-Lithuania all contributed to a deep cultural concern with mortality. Introducing readers to a range of art, architecture and material culture, this study considers various visual evocations of death including 'Dance of Death' imagery, funerary decorations, coffin portraiture, tomb chapels and religious landscapes. These, Koutny-Jones argues, engaged with wider European cultures of contemplation and commemoration, while also being critically adapted to the specific context of Poland-Lithuania.Trade Review"..her book is the first comprehensive overview of many of the varied aspects of what [the author] calls 'visual cultures of death'. [...] Koutny-Jones [...] points to unique or unfamiliar iconographical features of monuments or images that previously have been unduly ignored or neglected. [...] Her well informed study takes up the argument for considering alternatives to earlier models of cultural innovation and diffusion." Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University, in Print Quarterly, XXXIV, 2017, 1 "As the author states, the goal of this monograph is to ‘synthesise a diverse body of artistic material previously omitted from international scholarship’ (p. 13). It delivers handsomely on that promise. Making this material available to the English-speaking reader for the first time in such a comprehensive format, K.-J.’s study will appeal to historians of Polish-Lithuanian art and visual culture, scholars of East Central Europe and specialists in death studies. Clear and informative, the book has the potential to become a standard English-language reference on the subject." Tomasz Grusiecki, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 66 (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix A Note on Proper Names xii List of Maps and Figures xiii Glossary xvi Introduction: The Central European Age of Contemplation and Commemoration 1 1 Frameworks for Visual Cultures of Death in Poland-Lithuania 16 Artistic Patronage in Poland-Lithuania 18 The Commonwealth and the Counter-Reformation 23 The Central European Printing Revolution 33 Plague and Warfare 40 Conclusion 52 2 Death Personified: The Skeleton and the Printed Image 54 Anatomical Treatises and the Melancholy Death 56 The Triumph of Death 65 Allegories of Death: The Wheel of Death 75 Conclusion 87 3 The Dance of Death in Central Europe: Indigenous Variations on a Familiar Theme 91 Dancing with Death in Medieval Western Europe and beyond 93 Performing the Dance of Death in Medieval Poland: Master Polikarpus’s Dialogue with Death 99 Death and the Friars: The Role of the Observant Franciscans 102 Conclusion 117 4 Triumphant Funerals: Ceremonial, Coffin Portraits and Catafalques 121 Processional Pomp: Heraldic Displays and the Theatre of Death 123 Church Decorations and the Castrum Doloris 131 Coffin Portraits: Images of the Spiritual body 146 Commemoration in Context: The Burials of the Opaliński Magnate Family 154 Conclusion 164 5 Architectures and Landscapes of Death: Funerary Chapels and Jerusalem Sites 167 The Introduction of the Domed Chapel to Poland and Lithuania: Genesis and Symbolism 169 Central European Landscapes of Death: Jerusalem Sites 175 Decorating the Seventeenth-century Funerary Chapel: Sculpting the Passion and Personalising the Dance of Death 185 Conclusion 203 Conclusion 206 Appendix: The Kraków Taniec śmierci (Dance of Death): Transcription and Translation of Textual Cartouches 213 Bibliography 217 Index 249

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Book SynopsisIn The Wandering Throne of Solomon: Objects and Tales of Kingship in the Medieval Mediterranean Allegra Iafrate analyzes the circulation of artifacts and literary traditions related to king Solomon, particularly among Christians, Jews and Muslims, from the 10th to the 13th century. The author shows how written sources and objects of striking visual impact interact and describes the efforts to match the literary echoes of past wonders with new mirabilia. Using the throne of Solomon as a case-study, she evokes a context where Jewish rabbis, Byzantine rulers, Muslim ambassadors, Christian sovereigns and bishops all seem to share a common imagery in art, technology and kingship.Trade Review"Overall, this is an extremely intelligent and rich piece of work that demonstrates a deep knowledge of Solomonic lore while continually challenging readers to consider a range of associated questions, ranging from the technological competition between Christian and Islamic cultures to attitudes towards wealth and technology. It also engages meaningfully with abstract notions of the exotic the faraway and the mysterious in a way that is highly illuminating. And perhaps most importantly, Iafrate demonstrates a nuanced and logical approach to the unpacking and interpretation of ideas and symbols that have changed hands many times in their history and which remain – at least to some degree – unknowable." - Nicholas Morton, Nottingham Trent University, in: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 29/1 (2018) "Durch ihren vergleichenden Ansatz und die enge Verknüpfung von Texten und Objekten gelingt Iafrate eine überzeugende Analyse, die nicht nur Verflechtung, sondern auch Abgrenzung aufzeigt. Über die angestrebte Perspektive hinaus kann die Studie auch als eine Kultur- und Ideengeschichte der mittelalterlichen Salomo-Rezeption gelesen werden. Sie regt dazu an, die Bedeutung des Throns, der anderen salomonischen Objekte und auch der Person Salomos in bestimmten Aspekten zu vertiefen, z.  B. hinsichtlich Auffassungen von Königtum, symbolischer Kommunikation und politischer Rhetorik." - Christian Alexander Neumann, in: QFIAB 98 (2018) "This book is excellent... I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Christian apocrypha and in "Abrahamic" legends more generally. While the author does not speak about a particular text, she reveals much about the world in which the apocrypha were made. Her work highlights the importance of looking beyond religious and even textual boundaries." - Gavin McDowell, in: Apocrypha 28 (2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Map of the Wanderings Between Legend and Reality: the Place of the Throne Notes on the Mediterranean Circulation of the Throne A Debate of Longue Durée Flying on the Throne: Chronological and Geographical Span of the Journey The Limits of the Mediterranean Chapter one: A King of Small Things An Aesthetics of Prestige: Claiming Solomon’s Treasure The Cup The Pillars The Table The Transfer of Metal-Working Techniques Unfamiliar yet Beautiful: Sabres and Cuirasses Casting Bronze like Hiram: Lamps and Vessels Working “à l’œuvre Salomon”: Spurs, Saddles, Furniture Conclusions Chapter two: The Solomonic Throne in Constantinople The Magnaura Throne The Throne in Byzantine Chronicles A Throne for a New Solomon The Case of the Golden Plane Tree Courtly Automata The Organ as a Soundtrack for the Empire Sharing Elements of Kingship: Silks and Precious Objects in Circulation Conclusions Chapter three: The Throne of the Rabbis Scholarship on the Throne The Throne in Midrashic Literature The Relationship between Legends and Reality Midrash Esther Rabbah Midrash Leviticus Rabbah Targum Sheni: between Ekphrasis and Reality? Enlivening the Scene: the Echoes of the Magnaura The Wandering of the Throne The Reception of Midrashim about the Throne in Other Contexts Conclusions Chapter four: The Throne of Solomon in the Islamic World Jewish Sources for Arabic and Persian Accounts Lions and Griffins: a Lost Solomonic Throne? Building Solomon’s Throne on Persian Royal Ruins: Takht-i Sulaymān Mapping Solomon’s Kingdom Flying Thrones and Flying Carpets Conclusions Chapter five: The Throne of Solomon in the Christian West My Kingdom for a Lion: Papal and Imperial Seats Henry VI and the Sedes Sapientiae Sedes Sapientiae and Divine Wisdom A Seat for the Virgin Rabanus Maurus Guibert de Nogent Nicholas de Clairvaux Richard of Saint-Laurent The Sedes Sapientiae as the Throne of Solomon: a Marian Interference The Throne of Solomon as Spiritual Ladder Conclusions Chapter five: A Literary Abode for the Throne The City of Brass The Jüngere Titurel Conclusions Appendix: Weather Lore and the Throne of Solomon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole rather than from the perspective of fragmented sub-disciplines and analyses the spread of Buddhism as a driving force in a societal and cultural change of pan-Asian importance. One particular dimension of this ‘Buddhist globalisation’ was the rise of local forms of Buddhism. This volume explores Buddhist localisations through manuscripts and material culture in the multiethnic oases of the Tarim basin, the Transhimalyan region of Zangskar, Ladakh and Kashmir and the Western Tibetan Kingdom of Purang-Guge.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements General Abbreviations Bibliographical Abbreviations Illustrations Notes on contributors - Introduction: Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia CARMEN MEINERT - Changing political and Religious Contexts in Central Asia on a Micoro-Historical Level Chapter 1: Changing Relations between Administration, Clergy and Lay People in Eastern Central Asia: A Case Study According to the Dunhuang Manuscripts Referring to the Transition from Tibetan to Local Rule in Dunhuang, 8th–11th Centuries GERTRAUD TAENZER - Textual Transfer Chapter 2: Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics SAM VAN SCHAIK Chapter 3: The Transmission of Sanskrit Manuscripts from India to Tibet: The Case of a Manuscript Collection in the Possession of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (980–1054) KAZUO KANO - Visual Transfer Chapter 4: The Tibetan Himalayan Style: Considering the Central Asian Connection LINDA LOJDA/DEBORAH KLIMBURG-SALTER/ MONICA STRINU Chapter 5: Origins of the Kashmiri Style in the Western Himalayas: Sculpture of the 7th–11th Centuries ROB LINROTHE - Transfer Agents Chapter 6: Buddhism in the West Uyghur Kingdom and Beyond JENS WILKENS Chapter 7: Esoteric Buddhism at the Crossroads: Religious Dynamics at Dunhuang, 9th–10th Centuries HENRIK H. SØRENSEN - Bibliography - Index

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of pastoral and lay catechesis drew inspiration. God’s commands were discussed and illustrated in sermons and confessor’s manuals, and they spawned new theological and pastoral treatises both Catholic and Reformed. But the Decalogue also served several authors, including Dante, Petrarch, and Christine de Pizan. Unlike the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments supported a more positive image of mankind, one that embraced the human potential for introspection and the conscious choice to follow God’s Law.Trade Review"The main merit of the volume is not only that it follows the dissemination of the Decalogue over a broad chronological period; it is especially that it widens the horizon of the investigation on the one hand on less frequented geographical spaces, on the other on literary subjects and genres distant and in some cases completely unrelated to the theological discourse." Silvana Vecchio, University of Ferrara, in Speculum 94/4, pp. 1144-1145 "compelling articles, that deserve significant attention [...] it succeeds in bringing new insight into the Decalogue's place in western culture Edward Allen, Union College, in Sixteenth-Century Journal XLIX.4 1157-1158Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Exploring the Decalogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture  Youri Desplenter and Jürgen Pieters 1 The Ten Commandments in the Medieval Schools: Conformity or Diversity?  Lesley Smith 2 ‘Ché se potuto aveste veder tutto / mestier non era parturir Maria’: Dante on the Decalogue as a Means to Salvation  Luca Gili 3 Fit For A Prince: The Ten Alternative Commandments in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea  Charlotte E. Cooper 4 Loving Neighbor Before God: The First Commandment in Early Modern Lyric Poetry  Gregory P. Haake 5 The Ten Commandments and Pastoral Care in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Inquiry into Expectations and Outcomes  Robert J. Bast 6 The Ten Commandments in the Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Manual Qui bene presunt  Greti Dinkova-Bruun 7 Morals from a Mystical Cook: Jan van Leeuwen and the Ten Commandments  Youri Desplenter 8 Latin Mnemonic Verses Combining the Ten Commandments with the Ten Plagues of Egypt Transmitted in Late Medieval Bohemia  Lucie Doležalová 9 The Ten Commandments in Preaching in Late Medieval Poland: ‘Sermo de praeceptis’ from Ms. 3022 at the National Library in Warsaw  Krzysztof Bracha 10 The Law Illuminated: Biblical Illustrations of the Commandments in Lutheran Catechisms  Henk van den Belt 11 Man and God: The First Three Commandments in the Polish Catholic Catechisms of the 1560s–1570s  Waldemar Kowalski Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisDer Band bietet 94 Briefe aus der Korrespondenz Bucers von Januar bis Juli 1534 und setzt die internationale Perspektive fort, die seit Mitte 1533 zu beobachten ist. Die evangelischen Korrespondenten betrachten die europapolitische Bündnispolitik skeptisch. Regen Anteil nimmt Bucer an der Entwicklung eines evangelischen Bildungswesens und der Einführung der Reformation in Württemberg. Seltene Einblicke gewährt die Korrespondenz in Bucers Familienleben.

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Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen’s study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-Wālī’s work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention.Trade Review'To conclude, van Dalen’s book is an important contribution, successfully navigating between global and local contexts. Doubt, Scholarship and Society encompasses text edition and translation with a trans-disciplinary analysis combining micro and global history, anthropology, religious studies, and palaeography, which is the best way, in this reviewers opinion, to renovate African history'. Rémi Dewière, European University Institute in Reading Religion http://readingreligion.org/books/doubt-scholarship-and-society-17th-century-central-sudanic-africaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements A note on transliteration Map of western and northern Africa 1. Preface 1. One man in his environment 2. Coordinates 3. Intellectual history and philology 4. Peripheries 5. Sources and structure 2. Dramatis loci 1. A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states 2. The spread of Islam 3. Ethnicity, religion, slavery 4. Islam and traditional religions 5. Conclusion 3. Muḥammad al-Wālī 1. Biography 2. Works 3. Reputation 4. Education 5. Conclusion 4. The scholar’s habitat 1. Scholarship 2. Religious leadership 3. Intellectual environment: genres 4. Intellectual environment: themes 5. Conclusion 5. Method and message 1. Al-Sanūsi’s Ṣughra 2. The Kabbe 3. Between oral and scholarly text 4. Tradition with a twist 5. Conclusion 6. Demonising smokers 1. How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands 2. Al-Wālī’s point of view 3. A folktale about the devil’s piss 4. From Abgar to al-Azhar 5. Conclusion 7. On writing 1. Author and authority 2. Why did al-Wālī translate the Fulani commentary? 3. From orality to literacy 4. Knowing and the knower 5. Conclusion 8. Certainties in times of choice Annex I. Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān. An edition of the Arabic text. Annex II. Valid proofs to proclaim smoking forbidden. A translation. Annex III. ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An edition of al-Wālī’s poem. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the "Medieval Chronicle Society".

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive survey of Italy’s first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume’s 18 essays cover both traditional topics (such as the Ostrogothic army) and hitherto under-examined subjects (for example Italy’s environmental history), and are designed for new students and specialists.Trade Review"The period of Ostrogothic rule in Italy is a liminal one... Given this chronological uncertainty along with the ongoing debates over what precisely the year 476 meant to whom (and when), the editors have wisely opted for a “long and wide” approach to the topic, encompassing everything from Odoacer through the Lombard invasion, thereby including the full sweep of the Ostrogothic Kingdom both inside and outside of Italy...The current volume is a welcome guide to Ostrogothic Italy... [it] is free from typographical errors and enhanced throughout by high quality maps and images, especially in the chapter on art and architecture. The editors are also to be commended for producing such a consistent and even-handed volume despite several intense disagreements that currently divide the field." Marion Kruse, in: Medioevo Greco 17 (2017), 450-52. "The volume more than succeeds in its stated intention of providing a cutting-edge synthesis of recent scholarship on the Ostrogothic period in Italy that will be of use to students and scholars alike." James Wood, in: Early Medieval Europe 27 (I) (2019), 133-135. ''There is in this work, as one might expect and hope, a lot of valuable detail, but the analysis of this detail is rendered in such a way as to furnish scholars with new answers and avenues of approach for the future. It will remain a fundamental companion for some years to come. [...] this is a vital work for both seasoned scholars and students and will provide a useful impetus for future work and research''. Cristopher Heath, in Al-Masāq, Journal of Medieval Mediterranean , 30/2, (2018).

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Book SynopsisAlmost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano del Piombo in the early sixteenth century and was practiced until the late seventeenth century. This phenomenon has attracted little attention previously: the volume therefore makes a significant and timely contribution to the field in the light of recent studies of materiality and the rise of technical Art History. Contributors: Nadia Baadj, Piers Baker-Bates, Elena Calvillo, Ana Gonsalez Mozo, Anna Kim, Helen Langdon, Johanna Beate Lohff, Judith Mann, Christopher Nygren, Suzanne Wegmann, and Giulia Martina Weston.Table of ContentsContents Preface  Judith Mann Acknowledgments  Piers Baker-Bates  Elena Calvillo List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Piers Baker-Bates and Elena Calvillo Part 1: Sebastiano del Piombo’s Invention and its Initial Influence 1 Uno Nuovo Modo di Colorire in Pietra: Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo  Piers Baker-Bates 2 Painted Stone: Idea and Practice in Italian Renaissance  Ana González Mozo 3 ‘Un paragone con oro su’: Material Innovation, Invention and Sebastiano del Piombo’s Papal Portraiture  Elena Calvillo Part 2: Ars et Natura: The Poetics and Collecting of Paintings on Stone 4 The Matter of Similitude: Stone Paintings and the Limits of Representation in Cavaliere d’Arpino’s Perseus and Andromedaand Jacques Stella’s Jacob’s Dream  Christopher J. Nygren 5 Antonio Tempesta’s Paintings on Stone and the Development of a Genre in 17th-Century Italy  Johanna Beate Lohff Plates 1-15 6 Glances into Stone: Hans von Aachen’s Paintings on Stone  Susanne Wegmann 7 Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Early Modern Northern European Art  Nadia Baadj Part 3: Other Materials, Metaphors, and Inventions 8 ‘Painting the Eternal’: Micromosaic Materiality and Transubstantiation in an Icon of Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rom  Anna Marazuela Kim 9 Invention, Ambition and Failure: Niccolò Tornioli (1606-51) and “Il Segreto di Colorire il Marmo”  Giulia Martina Weston 10 Salvator Rosa: A Variety of Surfaces  Helen Langdon Plates 16-32 Index

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Book SynopsisDevotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the present day. Written by the participants of a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded seminar held in York, U.K., in 2014, the chapters incorporate site-specific research with the insights of scholars of visual art, literature, music, liturgy, ritual, and church history. Interdisciplinarity is a central feature of this volume, which celebrates interactivity as a working method between its authors as much as a subject of inquiry. Contributors are Lisa Colton, Elizabeth Dachowski, Angie Estes, Gregory Erickson, Jennifer M. Feltman, Elisa A. Foster Laura D. Gelfand, Louise Hampson, Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Heather S. Mitchell-Buck, Julia Perratore, Steven Rozenski, Carolyn Twomey, and Laura J. Whatley.Trade Review"The volume comprises a collection of fascinating studies that celebrate and model the practice of interdisciplinary and collaborative research as the best way to analyze medieval devotion. It will be of interest to scholars working in any field of medieval studies, especially those who concern themselves with inter- or multidisciplinary approaches to medieval religion and its visual and material culture". Beth Williamson, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Elisa A. Foster, Julia Perratore and Steven Rozenski Part 1: The Home 1 “lothe to thenk on ought bot on Hymself”: Interaction and Contemplation in The Cloud of Unknowing  Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger 2 Crusading for (Heavenly) Jerusalem: A Noble Woman, Devotion, and the Trinity Apocalypse (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.16.2)  Laura J. Whatley 3 English Iconographic Rings and Medieval Populuxe Jewelery  Kathleen E. Kennedy Part 2: The Cathedral 4 The Last Judgement Porch at Lincoln Cathedral over the Longue Durée: Iconography, Interaction, and Religious Thought  Jennifer M. Feltman 5 Beverley Minster’s 14th-Century Architectural Sculptures in a Devotional Context  Julia Perratore 6 ‘I was blind and now I can see!’ Sight and Revelation in the St William Window in York Minster  Laura D. Gelfand 7 The Truth behind the Mask? Comparing Two Views of the interior of York Minster in the 16th Century  Louise Hampson 8 Song in Space and Space in Song: Physical and Conceptual Boundaries in English Devotional Music, 1250-1500  Lisa Colton Part 3: The City 9 ‘This is My Body’: Devotion to the Corpus Christi Shrine in Late Medieval York  Elisa A. Foster 10 How Alien were the Alien Priories of Yorkshire?  Elizabeth Dachowski Part 4: The Parish Church 11 A Light to Lighten the Gentiles: Stained Glass, The Prick of Conscience, and Theological Double Vision in All Saints (North Street), York  Steven Rozenski 12 Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in East Yorkshire Parishes: Decoration and Devotion  Carolyn Twomey Part 5: Afterlives: Medieval Devotion and Modern Thought 13 James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Medieval Eucharist: Fragmented Narratives of Doubt and Creation  Gregory Erickson 14 Restored, Revived, Remixed, Reified? Our Devotion to the Medieval Past  Heather Mitchell-Buck Postscript: Afterlife  Angie Estes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the Mirror of the Prodigal Son provides a comprehensive history of the function of the parable of the prodigal son in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe. By investigating a wealth of primary sources, the book reveals the interaction between commentaries, sermons, religious plays, and images as a decisive factor in the increasing popularity of the prodigal son. Pietro Delcorno highlights the ingenious and multifaceted uses of the parable within pastoral activities and shows the pervasive presence of the Bible in medieval communication. The prodigal son narrative became the ideal story to convey a discourse about sin and penance, grace and salvation. In this way, the parable was established as the paradigmatic biography of any believer.Trade Review"...it is first and foremost a study of intellectual and social history. [...] the book is to demonstrate how this parable became an essential part of catechetic teaching in sermons, and how its interpretation changed over a period of three and half centuries stretching over the Lutheran reformation.[...] the first thorough study concentrating on Lenten sermon collections [...] All in all, the source material of this study is breathtakingly wide and the author clearly has a thorough command of it all. [...] many of the texts and authors covered in this book are very little studied and relatively unknown to English-speaking scholars. [...] essential reading for anyone interested in the history of medieval communication and especially preaching. [...] a methodological guide to the use of sermons as a source for historical research, and as such it is highly recommended for postgraduate students in late medieval religious history." - Jussi Hanska, in English Historical Review, 2019: DOI:10.1093/ehr/cez236 “The name and publications of the very talented Pietro Delcorno are familiar to those who read Franciscan Studies. […] Now four years later he is publishing in English his extraordinarily rich exploration of how exegetes, creators of stained glass windows, preachers, authors of model sermon collections, playwrights, and book publishers have pastorally interpreted Luke 15:11-32 over three and a half centuries. […] I highlight the fact that he has also explored thirty-nine unpublished manuscripts, e.g., three in the University Library of Uppsala. The book’s forty-three illustrations make clear how the multimedia of those times became co-preachers of this famous parable. […] Contemporary preachers may be inspired by the creativity of some of the preachers studied in this volume. […] In sum, this book is superb.” - Robert J. Karris, O.F.M., Professor Emeritus, St. Bonaventure University, in: Franciscan Studies, 76 (2018), pp. 379-381 (Review). Published by Franciscan Institute Publications: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2018.0014 “This is an exceptionally detailed and ambitious book to which no review can do adequate justice. […] overall we have much to be thankful for in the rigorous approach taken. […] In many ways this is one of the most interesting chapters in the volume because in its concentration on material between 1520 and 1550 (that is before the Peace of Augsburg in 1555) he shows how something as apparently incidental as an interpretation of a biblical parable can act as a mirror to an age. […] The author has left no stone unturned in his quest for material on the use of the parable of the Prodigal Son. He writes with enthusiasm and understanding, and is absolute master of his material. This book provides an array of valuable insights, is based on an extraordinary range of reading in sermon and related material, and aptly demonstrates the value of close investigation—something that can be sorely lacking in today’s world of trite generalities and vague theories. […] so much scholarly substance has so generously been supplied.” - Veronica O'Mara, in: Medieval Sermon Studies, 62:1 (2018), 82-85, DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2018.1521003 “…Pietro Delcorno […] strikes out in a new direction […] The book stands out for combining the analysis of medieval and Reformation texts based on the same subject matter, and also for looking at Franciscan preaching in Italy and German in a comparative context. […] Through its structure and range the volume successfully posits medieval English as a conceptual category in its own right, and one that does not necessarily rely on the boundaries that are normally seen as defining it.” - in: Medium Aevum, 87:1, p. 209-210. “In this fascinating reception history study of a key biblical narrative, Pietro Delcorno leads readers on a journey of interpretation that is expansive and comprehensive. […] The chief contribution of the volume to our field of study is, however, its amazing collection of interpretations of a single text. Delcorno provides readers an opportunity to watch theologians wrestle with a key text in a way seldom seen. Delcorno has thus written a reception historical study which serves as a model for the genre. […] Its strengths make it a valuable resource and a benefit to scholars of the history of biblical interpretation and application.” - Jim West, Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, on Reading Religion, review date September 12, 2018 (http://readingreligion.org/books/mirror-prodigal-son) 'The source material of this study is breathtakingly wide and the author clearly has a thorough command of it all. Delcorno’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of medieval communication and especially preaching. It provides readers with many insights and valuable new information on numerous issues''. Jussi Hanska, in EHR CXXXIV. 570 (October 2019). "Pietro Delcorno’s admirable study follows from the early Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Delcorno contributes much to our thinking about how stories were remade to reflect and react to cultural and religious change. In a pellucid, richly documented study, we see the parable cross boundaries between genres, social settings, and historical circumstances to serve new pastoral functions. [...] To many religious historians, as well as to scholars of narratology and oral performance, this book will prove indispensable". Kate Greenspan, in Renaissance Quarterly 73 (1), 2019. ''[...] eine der besten Einführungen in das Phänomen der mittelalterlichen Musterpredigtsammlungen, die derzeit zur Verfügung stehen. Analysiert wird dieses Phänomen unter dem Blickwinkel der Massenkommunikation. [...] Delcornos Arbeit wird man als großen Wurf bezeichnen können. Sie wartet mit einer Fülle neuer Erkenntnisse auf. [...] . Kirchen-, Theologie- und Predigthistoriker werden von der gut geschriebenen und in einigen Passagen gar vergnüglich zu lesenden Untersuchung ebenso profitieren wie Vertreter der allgemeineren Kulturgeschichte. Ralf Lützelschwab, in Sehepunkte, May 2019 (http://www.sehepunkte.de/2020/05/34374.html). "An incredible journey across the religious landscape of medieval Europe. Original manuscript research accompanies the author’s efforts to include incunabula, prints, paintings, stained glass windows, and thearter in order to illuminate the proclamation, performance, and reception of what is, at first reading, a simple story of a son who turned his back on his father and wandered far and wide, only to be accepted by a merciful father on his return home. [...] With this superb monograph, Delcorno has more than suceeded in the project he laid out at the beginning. A master of manuscripts and matters medieval, he provides readers with a well-polished mirror of the marvelous worlds reflected in the seemingly simple parable of two people whose desire for forgiveness and love culminates in a banquet". Timothy J. Johnson, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020. "Pietro Delcorno’s admirable study follows from the early Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Delcorno contributes much to our thinking about how stories were remade to reflect and react to cultural and religious change. In a pellucid, richly documented study, we see the parable cross boundaries between genres, social settings, and historical circumstances to serve new pastoral functions. The parable became “an important master narrative that allowed people active in pastoral work to present their audiences with an emotionally engaging discourse on the . . . identity of the faithful and on the characteristics of God” (3). Preachers shared with playwrights, jongleurs, and poets the ability to shape stories and their hidden meanings to create vivid narratives that would hold up under centuries of repetition. To many religious historians, as well as to scholars of narratology and oral performance, this book will prove indispensable". Kate Greenspan, in Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp.315-317.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Medieval Exegesis on the Parable of the Prodigal Son  1 The Parable in the Gospel of Luke  2 Patristic Exegesis: Allegorical and Moral Readings  3 Into the Early Middle Ages: From Caesarius of Arles to the Pseudo-Eligius  4 Twelfth-Century Monastic Readings  5 The Main Scholastic Exegetical Instruments  6 Mary Magdalen and the Prodigal Son in the Speculum humanae salvationis  7 Visualizing the Adventure of the Prodigal Son  8 Performing the Parable in Courtois d’Arras  9 Transition: Towards People, Towards Cities 2 The Voice of the Preacher: Late Medieval Model Sermon Collections  1 Preaching and Liturgy  2 Between Model Sermons and Reportationes  3 Two Genres of Lenten Model Sermon Collections  4 Two Influential Models of Iacopo da Varazze  5 Preaching on the Virgin Mary (XIII-XVI Centuries)  6 Early Model Sermon Collections (XIII-XIV Centuries)  7 Echoes of Sermons in Ludolph of Saxony’s Vita Christi  8 A Heterodox Wycliffite Sermon  9 Vicent Ferrer: Dramatizing the Story and Bookkeeping the Merits  10 Towards Fifteenth-Century Model Sermon Collections  11 An Encyclopaedic Model Sermon by Conrad Grütsch  12 “Alexander the Great Had a Son”: Reworking the Gesta romanorum  13 “A Son Must Not Do This”: Obedience as Main Virtue  14 “You Have a Brothel almost in Every Place”  15 On the Border of a Book of Hours 3 Italian Preaching on the Prodigal Son: From Bernardino da Siena to Savonarola  1 “Seek What Helps You to Leave Your Sins”  2 A Cornerstone of Bernardino’s Preaching  3 A Model Sermon in the Quadragesimale de Christiana Religione  4 An Alternative Model Sermon on the Elder Brother  5 Against Jews and Hussites: Giovanni da Capestrano at Breslau  6 “Urged by Love and the Necessity of the Time …”  7 In the Footsteps of the Master: Giacomo della Marca and Bernardino da Feltre  8 “Better Cold than Tepid!”: Savonarola and Lukewarm Christians 4 The Layman, the Woman, and the Priest: Three Florentine Dramas on the Prodigal Son  1 The Youth Confraternity of the Purification and Piero Muzi  2 The Festa of the Fatted Calf  3 The Representation of the Prodigal Son of Antonia Pulci  4 A Spiritual Mother “Who Knew the Bible Very Well”  5 Castellano Castellani and the Florence of Savonarola  6 The Representation of the Prodigal Son of Castellani  7 “Con questo dolce suon che tanto piace …”  8 “I Thought I’d Burst for Contrition”  9 Beyond the Florentine Stage 5 Fifty Sermons on the Prodigal Son: Johann Meder’s Quadragesimale novum de filio prodigo  1 The ‘Confession’ of a Preacher  2 The Sermons  3 Two Absences: The Devil and the Elder Brother  4 An Unusual Illustrated Sermon Collection  5 Dissemination of Meder’s Quadragesimale  6 Erasmus’ Criticism to an Anonymous Theologian 6 The Sixteenth-Century Prodigal Son: A Multiple Mirror  1 Before the Storm: Michel Menot in Paris,  2 Leipzig 1519: Fighting on the Prodigal Son  3 Voices of the Reformation  4 Early Catholic Responses in Preaching  5 Johann Wild’s Lenten Cycle on the Prodigal Son (Mainz 1547) Epilogue Illustrations Bibliography Subject Index Index of Names and Places Index of Biblical Quotations Index of Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisColor has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. ‘Color worlds’, consisting of practices, concepts and objects, form the central category of analysis in this volume. The essays examine a rich variety of ‘color worlds’, and their constituent engagements with materials, productions and the ordering and conceptualization of color. Many color worlds appear to have intersected and cross-fertilized at the beginning of the seventeenth century; the essays focus especially on the creation of color languages and boundary objects to communicate across color worlds, or indeed when and why this failed to happen. Contributors include: Tawrin Baker, Barbara H. Berrie, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karin Leonhard, Andrew Morrall, Doris Oltrogge, Valentina Pugliano, Anna Marie Roos, Romana Sammern (Filzmoser) and Simon Werrett.Trade Review"This volume focuses on a relatively unstudied topic and treats it from fresh perspectives. The book as a whole underscores the complexity of color and the extensive relationships that color can bring to light among the worlds of learning, naturalexperimental philosophies, and artisanal practices." - Pamela O. Long, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No. 4, pp. 1520-1522Table of ContentsIntroduction: Early Modern Color Worlds 1 Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, Karin Leonhard Mining for Color: New Blues, Yellows, and Translucent Paint 20 Barbara H. Berrie Writing on Pigments in Natural History and Art Technology in Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland 47 Doris Oltrogge Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Color Sensibility: Natural History, Language and the Lay Color Practices of Renaissance Virtuosi 70 Valentina Pugliano Red, White and Black: Colors of Beauty, Tints of Health and Cosmetic Materials in Early Modern English Art Writing 109 Romana Sammern Painted Gems. The Color Worlds of Portrait Miniature Painting in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain 140 Karin Leonhard Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 170 Simon Werrett ‘Siben Farben und Künsten frey’: The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner’s Universe Tabletop of 1533 190 Andrew Morrall Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century 227 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle’s Works 248 Tawrin Baker The Saline Chymistry of Color in Seventeenth-Century English Natural History 274 Anna Marie Roos

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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.Trade Review'A milestone of state-of-the-art research by nearly all of the most active scholars in the field. The scholarship is rigorous and wide-ranging, and clearly the product of recent and ongoing colloquy between the authors and the editor… a deeply satisfying mosaic of current knowledge that richly serves both specialists and the informed general reader and that will set the research agenda for further decades.' Michael Noone in: Renaissance Quarterly LXXI (2018). "Sin duda indispensable y modélico para cualquier estudioso de la historia de la música y de sus períodos." Juan Carlos Asensio, in Anuario de Estudios Medievales 49 (2019).Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Music Examples x List of Tables xii List of Contributors xvi Introduction 1 Tess Knighton 1 Music for the Royal Chapels 21 Kenneth Kreitner 2 Secular Song in Fifteenth-Century Spain 60 Jane Whetnall 3 Instruments, Instrumental Music and Instrumentalists: Traditions and Transitions 97 Tess Knighton 4 Music and Spectacle 145 Ronald E. Surtz 5 Love and Liberality? Music in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility 173 Roberta Freund Schwartz 6 Music and Musicians at the Portuguese Royal Court and Chapel, c. 1470–c. 1500 205 Bernadette Nelson 7 Cathedral Soundscapes: Some New Perspectives 242 Juan Ruiz Jiménez 8 Chant, Liturgy and Reform 282 Mercedes Castillo-Ferreira 9 Musical Cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 323 Javier Marín López 10 The Roman Connection: The Spanish Nation in the Papal Chapel, 1492–1521 364 Richard Sherr 11 Manuscripts of Polyphony from the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 404 Emilio Ros-Fábregas 12 Spanish Treatises on Musica Practica c. 1480–1525: Reflections from a Cultural Perspective 469 Pilar Ramos López 13 Unwritten Music and Oral Traditions at the Time of Ferdinand and Isabel 504 Giuseppe Fiorentino 14 Lost Voices: Women and Music at the Time of the Catholic Monarchs 549 Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita 15 Musical Lives: Late medieval Hispano-Jewish Communities 579 Eleazar Gutwirth Works Cited 617 Index 702

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Book SynopsisThe course of the French Wars of Religion, commonly portrayed as a series of civil wars, was profoundly shaped by foreign actors. Many German Protestants in particular felt compelled to intervene. In Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1572 Jonas van Tol examines how Protestant German audiences understood the conflict in France and why they deemed intervention necessary. He demonstrates that conflicting stories about the violence in France fused with local religious debates and news from across Europe leading to a surprising range of interpretations of the nature of the French Wars of Religion. As a consequence, German Lutherans found themselves on opposing sides on the battlefields of France.Trade Review“This is a great book deserving to be read widely by all who work on the Wars of Religion, religious identities, and international relations.” David Scott Gehring, University of Nottingham. In: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No.2 (2021), pp. 473–474. “[Van Tol’s] study illustrates how crucial it is to understand the role of emotions in diplomacy, therefore opening a door to an innovative political history of emotions.” Stefanie Freyer, Universität Osnabrück. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 996–998.Table of ContentsList of figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I. Connections The manifold ties linking France and the German Rhineland II. Interconfessional relations Lutheran-Reformed tensions on the eve of the French Wars of Religion III. Explanations Competing narratives about the nature of the French Wars of Religion IV. Solutions German proposals for restoring peace in France V. Conspiracy The escalation of European confessional conflict VI. Intervention The military campaigns of 1567-1569 Epilogue The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOnce deemed ‘the pope of Marxism’, Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas were gradually consigned to near oblivion. Not only has his political thought been dismissed in non-Marxist historical and political discourse, but his ideas are equally discredited in Marxist circles. This book aims to rekindle interest in Kautsky’s ideas by exploring his democratic-republican understanding of state and society. It demonstrates how Kautsky’s republican thought was positively influenced by Marx and Engels – especially in relation to the lessons they drew from the experience of the Paris Commune. Listen to Ben Lewis discuss the book on [this podcast] by LINKSE HOBBY.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: Karl Kautsky’s Democratic Republicanism Part 1 Karl Kautsky, Parliamentarism and Democracy (1893) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1 Direct Legislation in Prehistory 2 Direct Legislation in Civilisation 3 Urban Democracy in Antiquity 4 The Representative System 5 Monarchical and Parliamentary Absolutism 6 Modern Democracy 7 Rittinghausen’s Proposal 8 Drafting Laws 9 Implementing Laws 10 Jurisprudence and the Press 11 Parliamentarism and the Parties in England 12 Parliamentarism and the Working Classes 13 Direct Legislation by the People and the Class Struggle Part 2 Karl Kautsky, The Republic and Social Democracy in France (1905) 1 Clarifying the Dispute 2 The American Republic 3 The First Republic 4 The Second Republic and the Socialists 5 The Second Empire and the Paris Commune 6 The Constitution of the Third Republic 7 The Bourgeois Republicans at Work 8 Socialism in the Third Republic Part 3 Karl Kautsky, The Development of a Marxist (1924) Appendix: Synoptic Overview of the Drafts of the Erfurt Programme (1891) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Medizin im Konflikt, Jana Madlen Schütte analyses the status of medical doctors between university and market in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period. Their positon initially at the universities as well as on the medical market was precarious. As the smallest faculty, medicine had to stand up to the other disciplines. Meanwhile, as participants in the medical market, the faculty members had to face competitors such as barbers, surgeons, apothecaries, and Jewish doctors. Jana Madlen Schütte explores how this situation of dual conflict affected the actions of the medical doctors and the strategies that they employed to demonstrate that their approaches were scientific as well as practical.Trade Review''Schütte’s extensive presentation and discussion of the state of the art will be of great service to those readers looking for a competent and up-to-date survey, especially of the rich German-language historical scholarship on the topics she approaches in her book.'' Michael Stolberg, in Renaissance Quarterly , LXXII, NO.1 (2018).Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis vii Vorwort viii Abkürzungen ix 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Zum Forschungsstand: Der ‚Streit der Fakultäten‘ 5 1.2 Theoretische und methodische Zugänge: Experten auf dem medizinischen Markt 12 1.3 Quellen, Fragestellung und Untersuchungsgang 28 2 Zwischen Institutionalisierung und Inszenierung: Medizin als scientia und als ars 31 2.1 Die Entstehung der medizinischen Fakultäten 33 2.2 Die Positionierung der nicht-akademischen Heilkundigen auf dem medizinischen Markt 53 2.3 Zwischen Vertrauen und Ärztekritik – die Institutionalisierung medizinischen Wissens und die Grenzen des medizinischen Expertenwissens 64 3 Die Inszenierung der auctoritas – Standesrepräsentationen, Selbstdarstellungen und Rangkonflikte der Medizinexperten im universitären Kontext 73 3.1 Repräsentation des Universitätsmediziners 75 3.1.1 Der Arzt als Ratgeber für Repräsentation und Selbstdarstellung 75 3.1.2 Sektion mit eigener Hand – die Inszenierung in anatomischer Traktatliteratur 83 3.1.3 Das theatrum anatomicum – von ‚privater‘ zu ‚öffentlicher‘ Repräsentation 97 3.1.4 Vom anatomischen Wissen zum Inszenierungswissen – die Sektion in der Ausbildung der Medizinstudenten 112 3.2 Konflikte der Mediziner im universitären Feld 124 3.2.1 Die Stellung der Medizin im theoretischen Diskurs 127 3.2.2 Präzedenzkonflikte zwischen Medizinern und Juristen 142 3.2.3 Konflikte innerhalb des gelehrten medizinischen Feldes 152 3.2.4 Anlässe, Auslöser und Adressaten der Konflikte 171 3.3 Die Reflexion des Konflikts – Visitationen und Reformen 173 3.3.1 Scheitern der Reformbemühungen – eine Offenlegung des Konflikts 176 3.3.2 Visitation und Universitätsverfassung – eine Lösung des Konflikts 186 3.3.3 Obrigkeitliche Normierungen an der Universität – eine Eröffnung neuer Konflikte auf dem Markt 195 4 Von experientia und auctoritas – Auseinandersetzungen der medizinischen Fakultät mit anderen Heilkundigen 198 4.1 Die Konkurrenz zu Badern, Barbieren und Wundärzten 200 4.1.1 Ausbildung und Organisation der Bader, Barbiere und Wundärzte 202 4.1.2 Das Vorgehen der medizinischen Fakultät gegen ‚widerrechtlich Praktizierende‘ 216 4.1.3 Die Selbstwahrnehmung und -darstellung der nicht-akademischen Heilkundigen 239 4.1.4 Konkurrenten im Hörsaal? Akademische und nicht-akademische Heiler an der medizinischen Fakultät 268 4.2 Ärzte und Apotheker im Konflikt 282 4.2.1 Ausbildung und Wissen der Apotheker 289 4.2.2 Überwachung durch die medizinische Fakultät 294 4.2.3 Apotheker zwischen Rat, Landesherrn und Universität 310 4.3 Die Auseinandersetzung mit jüdischen Ärzten 39 4.3.1 Ausbildung und obrigkeitliche Kontrolle jüdischer Ärzte 334 4.3.2 Anfeindungen, Verleumdungen und Schmähschriften gegen jüdische Ärzte 341 4.3.3 Praktisches Vorgehen gegen jüdische Ärzte 349 4.3.4 Jüdische Verteidigungen und Selbstdarstellungen 36 5 Fazit: Medizinexperten zwischen Universität und Markt 379 Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis 397 Ungedruckte Quellen 397 Inkunabeln und frühe Drucke 400 Gedruckte Quellen 404 Forschungsliteratur 409 Internetadressen 469 Register 470 Personen- und Ortsregister 470 Sachregister 477

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the rich diversity of the Franciscan contribution to the life of the order and its ministry throughout England between 1224 and c. 1350. The 21 contributions examine the friars’ impact across the different strata of English society, from the parish churches, the missions, the royal courts and the universities. Friars were ubiquitous in England throughout this period and they participated in various programmes of renewal. Contributors are (in order of appearance) Amanda Power, Philippa M. Hoskin, Jens Röhrkasten, Michael F. Custato, OFM, Michael W. Blastic, OFM, Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Peter V. Loewen, Lesley Smith, Eleonora Lombardo, Nigel Morgan, Cecilia Panti, Hubert Philipp Weber, Timothy J. Johnson, Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ, Takashi Shogimen, Susan J. Ridyard, Michael J. Haren, Christian Steer, Anna Campbell, and Michael J. P. Robson.Trade Review"This is the fourteenth volume in the Medieval Franciscans series and commemorates the contributions made to Franciscan studies by the late Dr Rosalind B. Brooke. It features multidisciplinary contributions from a range of international scholars, with twenty-one essays grouped around five themes [...] The English Province of the Franciscans is certainly a hefty tome but provides a detailed and significant contribution to the study of the Franciscans in their early years in England and is a worthy addition to the Medieval Franciscans series." Yvonne McDermott, in: The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018).

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diverging groups of Jewish Displaced Persons Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan PART ONE: THE PLIGHT OF THE UPROOTED: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II Sergio DellaPergola The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 Jacques Amar Healthcare Services for Holocaust Survivors in Post-war Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity Ada Schein PART TWO: POST-WAR JEWISH MIGRATION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland Kateřina Čapková The Post-war Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) Ján Laniček PART THREE: POST-WAR RECONSTITUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITIES Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors Izio Rosenman American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) Françoise S. Ouzan A Forgotten Post-war Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 David Weinberg The Post-war Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld PART FOUR: EMIGRATING TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 Ewa Węgrzyn Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations Shmuel Trigano The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems Yigal Bin-Nun Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s Rafi Mann

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Book SynopsisThis volume, Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography, which celebrates the life and legacy of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, is comprised of articles written by colleagues, former students, and associates. The authors were invited to contribute their own articles within three broad categories corresponding with the areas in which Wayne has made a longstanding scholarly contribution: Franciscan hagiographical texts (especially Thomas of Celano); medieval theology and the Bonaventurian theological tradition; and the retrieval of the Franciscan tradition in a contemporary context. All of the essays in the volume build upon and expand in new directions the contributions of our honoree in these areas. Contributors are Regis J. Armstrong , Joshua C. Benson, Michael Blastic, Joseph Chinnici, Michael F. Cusato, Jacques Dalarun, J. Isaac Goff, Jay M. Hammond, Timothy J. Johnson, John Kruse, Steven J. McMichael, Juliet Mousseau, William Short, Laura Smit, and Katherine Wrisley Shelby.Trade Review"An interesting and insightful read, recommended to anyone wishing to learn more about ‘Franciscan stuff ’ (p. 111), from some of the most distinguished experts in the field." Bridget Riley, University of Reading in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 317–319 ''This festschrift for Wayne Hellmann [...] focuses in fifteen essays on four distinct and yet interconnected themes, which can be linked to Hellmann’s lifelong scholarly interests in early Franciscan history and his engagement as a Conventual Franciscan within presentday society. Together, these essays give an inkling of Hellmann’s major intellectual and societal preoccupations and open a window on some cutting-edge developments in current Franciscan scholarship. Bert Roest, in Renaissance Quarterly, 72(1). ''Building upon Hellmann's work, the contributors come up with interesting texts, ideas, and insights, collectively making this festschrift a genuinely enriching addition to Franciscan and Bonaventurian studies''. Krijn Pansters in Speculum 94/3 (2019).

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Book SynopsisIn Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150, Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated objects from past and foreign cultures) as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.Trade Review"As its title suggests, Karen Rose Mathews’s book argues that the use of spolia in the maritime cities was the result of two main factors: conflict and commerce. After an introduction, the book presents case studies of Salerno, Venice, Pisa, and Genoa, followed by a very short conclusion and an ample bibliography.[...] The comparing and contrasting of the selected cities is a fruitful one: rather than a general exposition of reuse in medieval Italy, the choice of salient examples within a limited period is methodologically sound. Mathews bolsters her claims with both material and written sources. She demonstrates how the appropriated objects are employed to different effect and in different manner. [...] this informative and well-documented book makes accessible a complex subject matter (which, except for Venice, has been discussed mainly by Italian authors) and highlights the multivalence of spolia with useful insights into their rich cultural associations". Bente Kilerich, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Visualizing Commerce and Conflict in the Maritime Cities of Medieval Italy   Conflict and Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean   Visualizing the Relationship between Trade and Conflict Through an Aesthetic of Appropriation 1 Local Traditions and Norman Innovations in the Artistic Culture of Southern Italy   Introduction   Local Traders and Norman Warriors in Southern Italy   Forging an Amalfitan International Style: The Art Patronage of the Local Elite   Norman Architectural Patronage and the Spolia Aesthetic 2 Emulation of and Appropriation from Byzantium in Venetian Visual Culture   Introduction   Conflict, Trade, and the Venetian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean   Appropriated Relics from Byzantium   Relics, Spoils, and Spolia in Venetian Art and Architecture 3 The Interplay of Islamic and Ancient Roman Spolia on Pisan Churches   Introduction   Commerce and Conflict in Eleventh and Twelfth-century Pisa   The Signification of Ancient and Contemporary Muslim Spoils onPisan Churches 4 Rivalry with Pisa and Spolia as Plunder of War in Medieval Genoa   Introduction   Crusade Campaigns and Commercial Compensation   Spolia as Plunder in the Art and Architecture of Genoa   The Aesthetic of Appropriation and Competition with Pisa Conclusion: Shifting Significations of the Spolia Aesthetic Select Bibliography   Primary Sources   Secondary Sources

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Book SynopsisA set of essays intended to recognize the scholarship of Professor Cynthia Neville, the papers gathered here explore borders and boundaries in medieval and early modern Britain. Over her career, Cynthia has excavated the history of border law and social life on the frontier between England and Scotland and has written extensively of the relationships between natives and newcomers in Scotland’s Middle Ages. Her work repeatedly invokes jurisdiction as both a legal and territorial expression of power. The essays in this volume return to themes and topics touched upon in her corpus of work, all in one way or another examining borders and boundaries as either (or both) spatial and legal constructs that grow from and shape social interaction. Contributors are Douglas Biggs, Amy Blakeway, Steve Boardman, Sara M. Butler, Anne DeWindt, Kenneth F. Duggan, Elizabeth Ewan, Chelsea D.M. Hartlen, K.J. Kesselring, Tom Lambert, Shannon McSheffrey, and Cathryn R. Spence.Trade Review''This is a stimulating set of essays that will be of interest to historians of medieval and early modern Britain, and to scholars with an interest in border studies. It is a genuinely British collection, with material from different regions of England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as a number of frontiers. The authors, as a group, set their research in clear historical and historiographical context, making it possible for readers to engage with a diverse set of essays and understand how the papers not only enter into dialogue with Neville’s work but also advance their own fields''. Morgan Ring, in Canadian Journal of History, 54.1-2 (2019). "The collection illustrates the value of seeking out the margins in which the mixing of peoples, ideas, laws, and customs produced so many fascinating aspects of British history [...] In all, this book makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of medieval Britain by further diversifying both the subjects we endeavour to understand and the manner in which we examine them. It provides continued evidence of the value of examining margins and borders, and of how these spaces – real and imagined, social and legal, gendered and economic – provide the most fruitful areas for enquiry." Daniel MacLeod, in The Innes Review, 71.1 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sara M. Butler and K.J. Kesselring List of Publications: Cynthia J. Neville Part 1: Making and Marking Borders: Conflict 1 Frontier Law in Anglo-Saxon England  Tom Lambert 2 Henry iv and the Welsh March: The Application and Limits of Royal Patronage and Glyn Dwr’s Rebellion in South Wales, 1399–1405  Douglas Biggs 3 Commemorating the Battle of Harlaw (1411) in Fifteenth-Century Scotland  Stephen Boardman 4 Spies and Intelligence in Scotland, c. 1530–1550  Amy Blakeway Part 2: Crossing Lines: Gender and Social Status 5 Participation in National Politics: Evidence Provided by Fifteenth-Century Parliamentary Election Returns from the County of Huntingdonshire  Anne R. DeWindt 6 Pleading the Belly: A Sparing Plea? Pregnant Convicts and the Courts in Medieval England  Sara M. Butler 7 Catching Fire: Arson, Rough Justice and Gender in Scotland, 1493–1542  Chelsea Hartlen 8 Negotiating the Economy: Gender, Status, and Debt Litigation in the Burgh Courts of Early Modern Scotland  Cathryn R. Spence Part 3: Policing Boundaries: Jurisdiction and Disorder 9 The Ritualistic Importance of Gallows in Thirteenth-Century England  Kenneth F. Duggan 10 Liberties of London: Social Networks, Sexual Disorder, and Independent Jurisdiction in the Late Medieval English Metropolis  Shannon McSheffrey 11 Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Use of Banishment in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns  Elizabeth Ewan 12 Marks of Division: Cross-Border Remand after 1603 and the Case of Lord Sanquhar  K.J. Kesselring Index

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Book SynopsisThe Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.Trade ReviewThis is a path-breaking book! It not only opens up an interdisciplinary space in which to analyze a range of responses to disenchantment within and between the history of religion, the history of science, and the history of esotericism, but it articulates a method – Problemgeschichte – for doing so. The method allows Asprem to surface many contending views on the place of mysterious incalculable powers in the modern world, which cut across disciplines in surprising ways, and to demonstrate the value of a critical constructivism build on naturalistic grounds for scholarly work. - Ann Taves, University of California at Santa Barbara. The complex interface between the sciences, religion, and esoteric forms of thought and experience is one of those "elephants in the living room" that many know about but almost no one knows how to talk about. Egil Asprem knows how to talk about it, and very well indeed: through a historical genealogy of the interface, through a careful tracing of the debates around the limits of reason and science, and through an astute rethinking of Weber's seminal notion of disenchantment. The result is extremely satisfying and rich beyond measure. - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Egil Asprem’s study has the potential of causing a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the “disenchantment of the world”. Grounded in meticulous textual analysis of a large sample of representative sources – from the “hard” natural sciences via psychical research to the “soft” domain of religion and esotericism – it combines sensitive historical research with sharp theoretical reflection and should lead us to question some of our most deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of modernity. - Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam.

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Book SynopsisPatrons of the Old Faith is the first full-length study on the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic. Based on a detailed prosopographical analysis and through the examination of their marriage strategies, interaction with Protestants, religiosity and contributions to the Holland Mission, Jaap Geraerts shows how the behaviour of the Catholic nobility was highly distinctive and differed from their co-religionists and Protestant peers as it was influenced by a specific set of noble and Catholic values. Due to the synthesis of their noble and confessional identities, the Dutch Catholic nobility in Utrecht and Guelders acted as patrons of their faith and were instrumental for the survival of Catholicism in the Dutch Republic.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgement ix List of Figures and Tables xi List of Abbreviations xii xiii Introduction 1 1 A Restrictive Marriage Strategy 29 2 Interaction with Protestants 71 3 Religiosity 129 4 Shaping the Missio Hollandica 190 Conclusions. Confessional Nobilities in Post-Reformation Europe 250 Appendix A: Charitable Donations Made by Catholic Nobles 267 Appendix B: Priests Housed by Catholic Nobles 269 Appendix C: Godparents of the family De Wael van Vronestein 273 Bibliography 276 Index 313

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests  Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?  Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy  Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?  Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth  Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)  Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey  Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo  Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment  Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism  Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Book SynopsisMining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns. Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen.Trade Review“This is a fine collection of studies and should be read not only by those interested in Cosimo I (and his successors), but also by others interested in questions of leadership, patronage, family history, and science.” Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 688–690.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–2019)  Alessio Assonitis and Henk Th. van Veen 1 The Education of Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1519–1537)  Alessio Assonitis 2 Alessandro de’ Medici: A Reassessment  Catherine Fletcher 3 Cosimo I and His Spanish In-Laws: The Duke and the Toledo Family  Fernando Loffredo 4 The Emperor and the Duke: Cosimo I, Charles V, and the Negotiation of Sovereignty  Nicholas Scott Baker 5 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Catherine de Médicis: Making the Political Personal  Sheila ffolliott 6 Cosimo I versus the Strozzi, the Enemies of the State  Marcello Simonetta 7 His Father’s Son: Cosimo I de’ Medici as Military Leader  Maurizio Arfaioli 8 Cosimo I “Fontana de Iustitia e Nemico de Tristi”: Pragmatism and Aequitas  Daniele Edigati 9 Taking Over the Economy: Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Management of the Wealth of the State  Stefano Calonaci 10 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Tuscan Territory  Oscar Schiavone 11 Cosimo I and Religious Heterodoxy in Tuscany  Jessica Maratsos 12 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Jews  Piergabriele Mancuso 13 The Duke as Cultural Manager: Institutionalization and Entrepreneurship  Andrea M. Gáldy 14 Problems with Cosimo I’s Artistic Patronage: Baccio Bandinelli and the Neptune Fountain in Piazza della Signoria  Henk Th. van Veen 15 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Renaissance Sciences: “To Measure and to See”  Sheila Barker 16 Cosimo I de’ Medici: Antagonism and Praise  Carmen Menchini 17 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Modern Historiography  Brendan Dooley Index of Names

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Book SynopsisDans Droit musulman et société au Sahara prémoderne, Ismail Warscheid reconstitue la pratique du droit musulman dans les oasis du Grand Touat en Algérie entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècles. In Droit musulman et société au Sahara prémoderne, Ismail Warscheid investigates the practice of Islamic law in the oasis of Tuwāt in southern Algeria between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade Review[...] 'Warscheid a [...] pertinemment construit ses questions (d’ensemble aussi bien que dans chaque chapitre) dans l’interaction avec les chercheurs de différents champs des sciences sociales et réussi à se positionner dans les débats qui les agitent, rendant la lecture de son ouvrage, non seulement agréable, mais aussi hautement instructive, et pas seulement pour les novices de ce terrain. [...] cette recherche est une belle démonstration de la non pertinence des oppositions villes/campagnes, cités/tribus ou sociétés orales/sociétés de l’écrit. [...] Warscheid, de la sorte, nous invite à tester ses résultats au coeur des cités-capitales, ce qui est un vaste champ de recherche qui s’ouvre pour tous les chercheurs'. Sami Bargaoui, Manouba University, Tunisia, in Journal of the American Oriental Society (2020), 140.1, pp 233-235 [...]There are few if any studies of pre-modern Saharan society that have in this way combined Islamic scholarship and social history. Warscheid’s book will become required reading for anyone interested in the history of the Sahara, and should also be central as a comparative case study for those working on Islamic law, scholarship and society south of the desert.[...] Knut S. Vikør, in Cahiers d’études africaines 236 (2019)Table of ContentsRemerciements Note sur la transcription et les abréviations Introduction Les traditions savantes du Sahara Le droit comme agent d’acculturation Les ksour du Grand Touat L’oubli de l’héritage littéraire Les sources Structure du livre Chapitre I L’émergence d’une cité musulmane au Sahara Les oulémas de Tamentit Des migrations internes L’essor d’une érudition vernaculaire La quête de références savantes Chapitre II Entre mémoire lettrée et vécu institutionnel : la compilation de nawāzil aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles L’essor d’un genre La mémoire du corps Rassembler ce qui est dispersé Les juristes ksouriens et la « grande Tradition » La constitution d’une mémoire institutionnelle Un instrument de travail Chapitre III Justice et justiciables en terre ksourienne Un dialogue institutionnel Les cadis oasiens L’ombre du Makhzen Des accords fragiles L’ambiguïté de la figure du juge Un climat litigieux Un jardin au Gourara Un champ d’affrontement Chapitre IV Autopsie d’un regard normatif : la pratique de l’iftāʾ Droit et morale Le rappel de la procédure Une dispute entre doctes Le mufti et son cadi Une confraternité conflictuelle Chapitre V Les ksouriens et leurs magistrats La légitimation de l’assemblée communautaire La jamāʿa comme justiciable Jugement, compromis et médiation sociale Le rôle des notables dans les procédures judiciaires Des agents de jonction Chapitre VI Ce que coutume veut dire au Grand Touat Traduire l’universel, déchiffrer le local Une souplesse circonstanciée Chapitre VII Au prétoire : les séances judiciaires en milieu oasien Un procès L’admissibilité des témoins Une litigiosité scripturaire L’ambiguïté de l’écrit L’espace judiciaire comme lieu d’acculturation Chapitre VIII Un lieu de recours ambigu Les ksouriennes et la circulation de la propriété L’ambiguïté des outils juridiques Deux pôles d’autorité sociale Le cycle de la vie au miroir du droit L’affirmation de l’autorité paternelle Lien conjugal et recours judiciaires Une ambivalence insoluble Conclusion Cartes Bibliographie Index général

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Book SynopsisAlongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.Trade Review"Přechod k novému vydavateli umožnil lepší grafickou úpravu stránky a užití nového typu písma, především pak umístění poznámek pod text místo na konec studií (Trl.: The transition to a new publisher enabled a better graphic design of the page and the use of a new font, above all then placing notes below the text instead of at the end of the studies.) [...] Významnou inovací oproti předchozím ročníkům je zařazení recenzí prací o středověkých kronikách (Trl.: A significant innovation compared to previous years is the inclusion reviews of works on medieval chronicles.) [...] Publikované příspěvky se, jak je u časopisu The Medieval Chronicle obvyklé, vyznačují vysokou odbornou úrovní. Chvályhodná je také snaha editorů zařazovat tématicky různorodé příspěvky, stejně jako příspěvky z různých geografických a společenských prostředí, což umožňuje srovnávání historiografických textů z různých oblastí Evropy a zjišťování jejích společných rysů i místních specifik" (Trl.: As is usual for The Medieval Chronicle, the published contributions are characterized by a high professional level. The effort of the editors to include thematically diverse contributions, as well as contributions from different geographical and social environments, is also commendable, which enables the comparison of historiographical texts from different regions of Europe and the identification of its common features and local specificities.) Marie Bláhova in Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica 20/2, 2017, 198-202Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors 1 Eyewitness and Medieval Historical Narrative  Marcus Bull 2 La Chronique de Memmingen : histoire et luttes politiques dans une ville d’ Empire au XVe siècle  Dominique Adrian 3 Le rôle du connecteur car (ou nam/enim) dans la prose historique : connecteur interphrastique ?  Anders Bengtsson 4 The Vindication of Sancho II in the Crónica de Castilla: Political Identity and Historiographical Reinvention in Medieval Castilian Chronicles  Kim Bergqvist 5 Faux Pas in the Chronicles: What is a Pas d’ armes?  Cathy Blunk 6 The Perception and Evaluation of Foreign Soldiers in the Wars of King Peter I of Cyprus: The Evidence of the Cypriot Chronicles and Its Shortcomings  Nicholas Coureas 7 ‘Toujours loyal’: A Middle Dutch Chronicle of Flanders by Jan van Dixmude in Sixteenth-Century Ghent  Lisa Demets 8 Using an Example: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and the ‘Vieil Exemplaire’  Catherine Emerson 9 Reassessing Spanish Chronicle Writing before 900: The Tradition of Compilation in Oviedo at the End of the Ninth Century  Rodrigo Furtado 10 Decennovenal Reason and Unreason in the C-Text of Annales Cambriae  Henry Gough-Cooper 11 The Battle of Gallipoli 1416: A Detail Rescued from a Chronicle  John Melville-Jones 12 The Origins of the Polish Piast Dynasty as Chronicled by Bishop Vincent of Kraków (Wincenty Kadłubek) to Serve as a Political Model for His Own Contemporary Time  Grischa Vercamer 13 Review: The Chronicle of Amadi, Translated from the Italian by Nicholas Coureas and Peter Edbury  Karl Borchardt 14 Review: Éloïse Adde-Vomáčka, La Chronique de Dalimil  Ivan Hlaváček 15 Anthony Munday’s ‘Briefe Chronologicall Suruay Concerning the Netherlands’ and the Medieval Chronicle Tradition of Holland in the Early Modern Period: Introduction and Edition  Sjoerd Levelt

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Book SynopsisLaw and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion beyond traditional issues of identity or the formation of nation-states and their institutions. What emerges are different strategies reflective of the diverse and pluralistic political, legal, and cultural worlds of the Middle Ages. Contributors are Michael H. Gelting, Dirk Heirbaut, Carole Hough, Anette Kremer, Ada Maria Kuskowski, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, André Marques, Matthew McHaffie, Bruce O’Brien, Paul Russell, Werner Schäfke, and Vincenz Schwab.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction  Jenny Benham, Matthew McHaffie, and Helle Vogt part 1 Translation and Interpretation of Law 1 Why Laws Were Translated in Medieval England: Access, Authority, and Authenticity  Bruce O’Brien 2 Translating Justinian: Transmitting and Transforming Roman Law in the Middle Ages  Ada Maria Kuskowski 3 Leges Iutorum: The Medieval Latin Translation of the Law of Jutland  Michael H. Gelting 4 The Languages and Registers of Law in Medieval Ireland and Wales  Paul Russell part 2 The Languages of Legal Practice and Documentary Culture 5 Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Legal Documents: The Case of Denmark  Anders Leegaard Knudsen 6 Between the Language of Law and the Language of Justice: The Use of Formulas in Portuguese Dispute Texts (Tenth and Eleventh Centuries)  André Evangelista Marques 7 The Dangers of Using Latin Texts for the Study of Customary Law: The Example of Flemish Feudal Law during the High Middle Ages  Dirk Heirbaut 8 Sources of Legal Language: The Development of Warranty Clauses in Western France, ca.1030–ca.1240  Matthew McHaffie part 3 Methodology, Interaction, and Language 9 Law and Language in the Leges Barbarorum: A Database Project on the Vernacular Vocabulary in Medieval Manuscripts  Anette Kremer and Vincenz Schwab 10 ‘And since We are No Lawyers, We Will Void the Lawsuit with Battle Axes’! Voiding a Lawsuit in Old Icelandic Procedural Law  Werner Schäfke 11 Biblical Analogues for Early Anglo-Saxon Law  Carole Hough Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors to this volume: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy, David D’Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin.Trade Review“Konrad Eisenbichler has brought together a team of scholars that details the development and strength of confraternity studies as well as showcases the lacunae in scholarship in certain aspects of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides a guide to scholars interested in the study of the religious practices of the laity, the social assistance provided by confraternities, and the arts they sponsored. As a whole, it illustrates the richness and complexity of premodern confraternities and the many opportunities still open for further research. Scholars of medieval and early modern European culture will find this volume particularly useful for its detailed introduction to confraternity studies and its array of articles on various aspects of premodern lay religious associations." Nilab Ferozan, McMaster University. In Confraternitas, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2020), pp. 52–53. “This is an excellent volume. […] Any student of confraternities will profit from reading this book.” D. Henry Dieterich, in: The Medieval Review, 21.01.10. “The essays in this volume reveal the undeniable centrality of confraternities between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Each contribution raises possibilities for further research. Early modern political and legal history might benefit from considering confraternal influence on statutory law.” Bianca Lopez, Southern Methodist University. In: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 371–373. “A brief review cannot do full justice to such a rich collection about the growing field of confraternity studies as approached from so many perspectives. Even with this rich tapestry, almost every chapter ends by suggesting areas for further research.” Kenneth Jorgensen, Albertus Magnus College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 1085–1087 (doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.183) “Confraternity studies have grown tremendously in the last thirty years and A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities reflects the depth and width of that growth […]. The team of scholars brought together by Konrad Eisenbichler for this volume highlights the strength and maturity of the scholarship of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides an important guide into this important field of research.” Mark A. Lewis, S.J., Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2019), pp. 707–710 (doi:10.1163/22141332-00604007-04)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities  Konrad Eisenbichler Part 1: Birth and Development 2 Confraternities as Such, and as a Template for Guilds in the Low Countries during the Medieval and the Early Modern Period  Paul Trio 3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent  Davide Adamoli 4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period  Beata Wojciechowska Part 2: Devotion and Prayer 5 The Ethics of Confraternities  Gervase Rosser 6 “A Single Body”: Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images, and Devotion  Danilo Zardin 7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against  Christopher F. Black Part 3: Good Works 8 Guides for a Good Life: The Sermons of Albertano da Brescia and other Instructions for Citizens and Believers in Italian Medieval Confraternities  Marina Gazzini 9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World  David D’Andrea 10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry Colleges  Colm Lennon 11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture, and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age  Nicholas Terpstra Part 4: Confraternities in a Transcultural World 12 National Confraternities in Rome and Italy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Identity, Representation, Charity  Anna Esposito 13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century  Dominika Burdzy 14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America  Murdo J. MacLeod 15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Federica Francesconi Part 5: Arts and Letters 16 Singing Praises to God: Confraternities and Music  Jonathan Glixon 17 Serio Ludere: Confraternities and Drama in Central Italy, 1400–1600  Nerida Newbigin 18 Faith on Stage: The Chambers of Rhetoric and Civic Religion in the Low Countries, 1400–1700  Anne-Laure Van Bruaene 19 Confraternities and Poetry: The Francophone Puys  Dylan Reid 20 Iconography, Spectacle, and Notions of Corporate Identity: The Form and Function of Art in Early Modern Confraternities  Alyssa Abraham 21 Art as Confraternal Documentation: Homeless Children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento  William R. Levin Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, and on the other, questions surrounding the political, ideological, or religious legitimization of clerical military aggression. These perspectives are further enriched by chapters dealing with the problem of the textual representation of clergy who actively participated in military affairs. The essays in this volume span Latin Christendom, encompassing geographically the four corners of medieval Europe: Western, East-Central, Northern Europe, and the Mediterranean. Contributors are Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Chris Dennis, Pablo Dorronzoro Ramírez, Lawrence G. Duggan, Daniel Gerrard, Robert Houghton, Carsten Selch Jensen, Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, Ivan Majnarić, Monika Michalska, Michael Edward Moore, Craig M. Nakashian, John S. Ott, Katherine Allen Smith, and Anna Waśko.Trade Review''The question of militant or arms-bearing clergy remained for many decades the preserve of scholars focused on the German kingdom and, to a lesser extent, the Carolingian Empire. The last few years, however, have seen the publication of a spate of books that have examined militant clergy in other contexts. [...] The volume under review here, which includes essays by both Nakashian and Gerrard, continues the process of broadening the historical investigation of clergy who were involved in the conduct of war. [...] This volume provides a valuable array of perspectives on the problem of clerical militancy across much of Europe over a period of many centuries.One of the prominent themes that emerges from these studies is the great complexity and diversity of Christian thought regarding whether and when it was licit for clerics to shed blood directly, or to participate in other ways in military campaigns David S. Bachrach, in Speculum, 94/2 (2019). "In their edited volume, Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, and John S. Ott deserve congratulations for bringing together such a broad sample of scholarship on the subject of the involvement of medieval clerics in military affairs; those congratulations need at least be double for the authors of the chapters for taking the time to do new and important work rooted in research, rather than succumb to the pressure of doing empirically-suspect but popularly-facing trendy writing. The volume’s contents are considerable and make a clear case that, whatever the legal or social impacts might be, clerics were involved in the processes of warfighting broadly across Medieval Latin Christendom; this is itself is an achievement, made all the more impressive by the detail of the individual chapters […] Kotecki, Maciejewski, and Ott deserve considerable thanks for their work to collect so many quality scholars, and Brill deserve praise for putting these chapters together in one volume''. Kyle Lincoln, in De Re Militari, August 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors The Medieval Clergy and War: A Historiographical Introduction  Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, and John S. Ott 1 Bishops as City Defenders in Early Medieval Gaul and Germany  Geneviève Bührer-Thierry 2 The Frankish Church and Missionary War in Central Europe  Michael Edward Moore 3 “De clericis qui pugnaverunt, aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt”: Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048–1093) and Clerical Participation in the Battle of Hastings  Chris Dennis 4 Why Study Fighting Clergy? Knight Service, Integrated War, and the Bounds of English Military History, c. 1000–1200  Daniel Gerrard 5 Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon: Views of Clerical Warfare from Inside and Outside the Cloister  Craig M. Nakashian 6 Ungirded for Battle: Knightly Conversion to Monastic Life and the Making of Weapon-Relics in the Central Middle Ages  Katherine Allen Smith 7 The Episcopate and Reconquest in the Times of Alfonso VII of Castile and León  Carlos de Ayala Martínez 8 The Aragonese Episcopate and the Military Campaigns of Alfonso I the Battler against Iberian Muslims  Pablo Dorronzoro Ramírez 9 Italian Bishops and Warfare during the Investiture Contest: The Case of Parma  Robert Houghton 10 Lions and Lambs, Wolves and Pastors of the Flock: Portraying Military Activity of Bishops in Twelfth-Century Poland  Radosław Kotecki 11 A Bishop Defends His City, or Master Vincentius’s Troubles with the Military Activity of His Superior  Jacek Maciejewski 12 In the Service of Bellona: Images of “Militant Abbots” in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Historiography of St. Gall (continuationes II and III of Casuum Sancti Galli)  Monika Michalska 13 Bishops and Abbots at War: Some Aspects of Clerical Involvement in Warfare in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Livonia and Estonia  Carsten Selch Jensen 14 Tending the Flock: Clergy and a Discourse of War in the Wider Hinterland of the Eastern Adriatic during the Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries  Ivan Majnarić 15 “Freedom is the greatest thing”: Bishops as Fighters for Freedom in Fifteenth-Century Sweden  Anna Waśko 16 The Evolution of Latin Canon Law on the Clergy and Armsbearing to the Thirteenth Century  Lawrence G. Duggan Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this biography of Reformed theologian Francis Turretin (1623-87), Nicholas A. Cumming provides critical context for the life and theology of this important seventeenth-century theologian and his impact on the Reformed tradition as a whole. Turretin has commonly been identified as a strict scholastic theologian; this work places Turretin in his broader context, analyzing his life and theology in terms of the political and religious aspects of post-Reformation Europe and his posthumous influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Reformed theology. This work begins with a biography of Turretin, including his education and ministry, then proceeds to the context of Turretin’s theology in the early modern and modern periods, particularly in relation to his major work The Institutes of Elenctic Theology.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Notes on Conventions Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Turretin’s Early Life and Education Chapter 3: Turretin in Geneva Chapter 4: The Institutes of Elenctic Theology Chapter 5: Turretin’s Sermons, Disputations and the Formula Chapter 6: Publication History Chapter 7: Turretin’s Impact: the Eighteenth Century Chapter 8: Turretin’s Impact: the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors 1 Introduction: Protestant England and the English Bible  Robert Armstrong 2 ‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible Learning  Lucy Wooding 3 The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern England  Ian Green 4 Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts  Mary Morrissey 5 Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker Debate  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 6 The Catholic Contribution to the King James Bible  Gordon Campbell 7 Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English Revolution  Crawford Gribben 8 ‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English Revolution  Ariel Hessayon 9 ‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas Hobbes  Justin Champion Index

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Book SynopsisThe Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes challenges this assumption with a study of church finance in Scotland’s religious capital of St Andrews, a place once regarded as the ‘cheif and mother citie of the Realme’. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into ‘poverte and decay’.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Conventions Acknowledgements Plan of St Andrews in the Sixteenth Century  Introduction  1Pre-Reformation St Andrews  2Income and Estates  3Administration  4Donations and Expansion  5Feuing  6The Reformation Crisis  7Settlement of the 1560s  8Conflict and Disintegration  9Legacy  Conclusion  Appendix  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the significance of the early medieval period for scholarly and public discourses in the Western Balkans and Central Europe, and the transfer of knowledge between local scholarship and macro-narratives of Mediterranean and Western history. Other essays explore the ways local communities around the Adriatic (Istria, Dalmatia, Dalmatian hinterland, southern Pannonia) established and maintained social networks and integrated foreign cultural templates into their existing cultural habitus. Contributors are Mladen Ančić, Ivan Basić, Goran Bilogrivić, Neven Budak, Florin Curta, Danijel Dzino, Krešimir Filipec, Richard Hodges, Nikola Jakšić, Miljenko Jurković, Ante Milošević, Marko Petrak, Peter Štih, Trpimir Vedriš.Trade Review"A book that serves as a stimulating introduction to a complicated part of European history. [...] This volume makes readers want to study the region in greater detail. Reading these articles will probably help instill a sense of self-confidence in the readers to tackle the available sources anew, or even attempt a comparative venture, for instance by measuring these conclusions against observations about identity formation in other frontier zones like Frisia, Catalonia, or Bretagne: also regions primarily described by enemies and overlords, but interpreted by "insiders". This may be the biggest achievement of this book: it shows that the "Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire" should be seen not as an Other, but as an equal". Rutger Kramer, in The Medieval Review, April 2021. You can access the full review here>.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 A View from the Carolingian Frontier Zone  Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir Vedriš Part 1: Historiography 2 From Byzantium to the West: ‘Croats and Carolingians’ as a Paradigm-Change in the Research of Early Medieval Dalmatia  Danijel Dzino 3 Carolingian Renaissance or Renaissance of the 9th Century on the Eastern Adriatic?  Neven Budak Part 2: Migrations 4 Migration or Transformation: The Roots of the Early Medieval Croatian Polity  Mladen Ančić 5 The Products of the ‘Tetgis Style’ from the Eastern Adriatic Hinterland  Ante Milošević 6 Carolingian Weapons and the Problem of Croat Migration and Ethnogenesis  Goran Bilogrivić Part 3: Integration 7 Integration on the Fringes of the Frankish Empire. The Case of the Carantanians and their Neighbours  Peter Štih 8 Istria under the Carolingian Rule  Miljenko Jurković 9 The Collapse and Integration into the Empire: Carolingian-Age Lower Pannonia in the Material Record  Krešimir Filipec 10 Imperium and Regnum in Gottschalk’s Description of Dalmatia  Ivan Basić Part 4: Networks 11 Liber Methodius between the Byzantium and the West: Traces of the Oldest Slavonic Legal Collection in Medieval Croatia  Marko Petrak 12 The Installation of the Patron Saints of Zadar as a Result of Carolingian Adriatic Politics  Nikola Jakšić 13 Church, Churchyard, and Children in the Early Medieval Balkans: A Comparative Perspective  Florin Curta 14 Trade and Culture Process at a 9th-Century Mediterranean Monastic Statelet: San Vincenzo al Volturno  Richard Hodges 15 Afterword. ‘Croats and Carolingians’: Triumph of a New Historiographic Paradigm or Ideologically Charged Project?  Trpimir Vedriš Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe truck system was a global phenomenon in the period 1865-1920, where workers were paid through the company store. In Beyond Racism and Poverty Karin Lurvink looks at how this system functioned on plantations in Louisiana in comparison with peateries in the Netherlands. In the United States, the system is often viewed as a 'second slavery' and strongly associated with racism. In the Netherlands, however, not racism but poverty has been seen as the main reason for its continued existence. By using a variety of historical sources and by analyzing the perspectives of both employers and workers, Lurvink provides new insights into how the truck system worked and can be explained. She reveals how the system was not only coercive but had advantages for the workers as well, which should not be overlooked.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Glossary Introduction  The Truck System—A Nineteenth-Century Global Phenomenon  American Historians Discussing the Truck System—Racism  Dutch Historians Discussing the Truck System—Poverty  Selecting the Research Cases  Rational Choice-Approach  Voice from the Past: Source Material  Outline 1 Bayous and Bogs—The Geography of Isolation  The Louisiana Countryside  Louisiana Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, and Bayous  Railroads—An Improved Connection to the Outside World  Dutch Roads and Highways of Water 2 Truck Payments  Fields of Cotton and Sugarcane  Permanent and Seasonal Peat Lands  Truck Payments   Direct Non-Cash—Something to Eat and a Few Rags to Wear?   Indirect Non-Cash—The Company Store   Colorful Tokens and Handwritten Store Notes   Living off Future Income  Piles of Greenbacks, Dollars, and Guilders  Conclusions 3 Abuse? The Effects of the Truck System  Whiskey, Jenever, and Alcoholics  High Price, Low Quality  Usurious Interest Rates  Debt Peonage  Conclusions 4 Costs and Benefits—The Employer’s Perspective  Costs—The Opposite of the Truck System  Economic Forces and Financial Difficulties   Strapped for Cash   Miserable Years and Declining Profits   ‘The Queerest Looking Creatures’—Labor Supply and Productivity  ‘The Misery of this Time’ and Truck Payment Methods  Conclusions 5 Carrots, Cake, and Candy—The Store as a Positive Incentive  Presents ‘Joyfully Accepted’  Facilitating Commerce   Self-sufficient Little Worlds of Their Own?   The Alternative Marketplace –‘A Welcome Sight to the Rural Resident’   Credit Scarcity  Consumerism and the Physical Artifacts of Modern Life   ‘From Something to Eat, to Something to Work, to Something to Wear’   Shopping in the Peat Employer’s Store—‘The More We Take, the More We Have’   Access to Desires  Conclusions 6 Sticks and Strikes—The Store as a Negative Incentive  Debating and Denouncing the Truck System  ‘No Way to Check the Honesty of the Records’  Lack of Freedom  Racist Truck System?  Conclusions 7 The Power of Racism and Class  Increasing Terror  Declining Resistance  Racism and the Truck System  No Truck, No Job  Lowest Class of Society  Conclusions Conclusion  Main Conclusions  Racism and Poverty  Beyond Louisiana and the Netherlands: Suggestions for Future Research Appendices  Appendix 1. Louisiana Database and Method of Analysis   Creating the Database   Method of Analysis  Appendix 2. Dutch Database and Method of Analysis  Appendix 3. Harry Baptiste and Samuel Taylor—Oral History Interview 2011  Appendix 4. Isolation and Infrastructure Sources  Unpublished Sources   Peateries   Plantation Administrations  Photographs  Tokens  Interviews  Printed Sources  Newspapers  Dutch Newspapers  Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit  Government Documents  Dutch Government Documents  Second Chamber Reports  First Chamber Reports  Maps  Miscellaneous  Published sources  Price Data  Travel Accounts  Miscellaneous Bibliography  Literature  Unpublished Studies Index

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Book SynopsisPolitical Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690), a scholarly collection on representation in medieval and early modern Europe, opens up the field of institutional and parliamentary history to new paradigms of representation across a wide geography and chronology – as testified by the volume’s studies on assemblies ranging from Burgundy and Brabant to Ireland and Italy. The focus is on three areas: institutional developments of representative institutions in Western Europe; the composition of these institutions concerning interest groups and individual participants; and the ideological environment of representatives in time and space. By analysing the balance between bottom-up and top-down approaches to the functioning of institutions of representation; by studying the actors behind the representative institutions linking prosopographical research with changes in political dialogue; and by exploring the ideological world of representation, this volume makes a key contribution to the historiography of pre-modern government and political culture. Contributors are María Asenjo-González, Wim Blockmans, Mario Damen, Coleman A. Dennehy, Jan Dumolyn, Marco Gentile, David Grummitt, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Alastair J. Mann, Tim Neu, Ida Nijenhuis, Michael Penman, Graeme Small, Robert Stein and Marie Van Eeckenrode. See inside the book.Trade Review"Dem Band gelingt es mithin, einem Thema, zu dem schon viel gesagt worden ist, inhaltliche Elemente und methodische Ideen hinzuzufügen, die weniger auf grundstürzend Neues aus sind, sondern vielmehr klassische Analyseinstrumente mit solchen vor allem aus dem weiten Feld der Ideen- und Kulturgeschichte verbinden. Olaf Mörke, Kiel in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 47 (2020), 2 ''Insgesamt gesehen liefert das Buch einen sehr fundierten Überblick zum Stand der vergleichenden und der auf unterschiedliche Reiche und Territorien bezogenen Forschungen zu politischer Repräsentation und Ständeversammlungen. Es leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Diskussion neuerer Forschungsansätze und theoretischer Modelle und gibt äußerst vertiefenswerte Anregungen für künftige Forschungen''. Gisela Naegle in Francia Recensio , 4 (2019). "On the whole I very much welcome these two new volumes, because they usefully unite different approaches to the study of pre-modern political representation. Moreover, because of the serendipity of their publication and the editors’ shared commitment to using the perspective of empowering interactions in the study of representative institutions – especially since the potential to do so seems not to have been fully realized yet in the volumes themselves – the books set a clear agenda for future research. Joris Oddens (University of Padova, Italy/Huygens-ING) in European History Quarterly, 2019, Vol. 49(3) 491–547 "This deeply researched collection raises many profound questions about the nature of representation and explores them with great care and sensitivity. Political scientists, economists, and historians of all periods will find much of value in the collection; many of the chapters require readers to acquaint themselves with very specific circumstances and institutions, but the authors do a fine job of explaining why these details matter and what light they shed on specific aspects of representation. Lastly, the editors at Brill deserve praise for their care in publishing the work; too often excellent volumes suffer from typos and thoughtless errors, but happily such was not the case here". Alison Williams Lewin, in The Medieval Review , June 2020. "Throughout its fourteen chapters, the book presents how political representation was instituted in Europe between 1200 and 1690. [...] This book is of interest not only for medieval and early modern historians, who will find a new and more accurate approach to the classical topic of estates and representative assemblies, but also for political theorists, who will benefit from a genealogical approach to political representation, a key topic in political theory indeed". Montserrat Herrero, Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (2), pp. 640-641.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors and Editors An Introduction: Political Representation Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200–c. 1650)  Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers and Alastair J. Mann Part 1: Top-down or Bottom-up? Princes, Communities and Representation 1Assemblies of Estates and Parliamentarism in Late Medieval Europe  Peter Hoppenbrouwers 2Political Representation and the Fiscal State in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile  María Asenjo-González 3Forms of Political Representation in Late Medieval Northern Italy: Merits and Shortcomings of the City-State Paradigm (14th–early 16th Century)  Marco Gentile 4Representation in Later Medieval and Early Modern Ireland  Coleman A. Dennehy 5Speaking in the Name of: Collective Action, Claim-making, and the Development of Pre-modern Representative Institutions  Tim Neu Part 2: Prelates, Nobles and Patricians: The Composition of the Representative Institutions 6“The King wishes and commands?” Reassessing Representative Assembly in Scotland, c.1286–1329  Michael Penman 7Officers of State and Representation in the Pre-modern Scottish Parliament  Alastair J. Mann 8The Nobility in the Estates of the Late Medieval Duchy of Brabant  Mario Damen 9Representation by Numbers: How Attendance and Experience Helped Holland to Control the Dutch States General (1626–1630)  Ida Nijenhuis Part 3: Controlling the State: Ideas and Discourses 10The Antwerp Clerk Jan van Boendale and the Creation of a Brabantine Ideology  Robert Stein 11Rituals of Unanimity and Balance: Deliberation in 15th- to 16th-century Hainaut: A Fool’s Game?  Marie Van Eeckenrode 12Speech Acts and Political Communication in the Estates-General of Valois and Habsburg Burgundy c. 1370–1530: Towards a Shared Political Language  Jan Dumolyn and Graeme Small 13Parliament, War and the “Public Sphere” in Late Medieval England: The Experience of Lancastrian Kent  David Grummitt 14Who has a Say? The Conditions for the Emergence and Maintenance of Political Participation in Europe before 1800  Wim Blockmans Conclusion: Reconsidering Political Representation in Europe, 1400–1700 Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts such as the Bible and the Poem of the Mío Cid, as well as various studies on astronomy, astrology, calendars, and medicine. The Maya, showing considerable astuteness and insight, appropriated this knowledge. With this study and facsimile, experts can further their knowledge of Mayan calendars or traditional medicine; and Mayan enthusiasts can discover more about the culture’s world view and history. En el Chilam Balam de Ixil Laura Caso Barrera traduce por primera vez un documento en maya yucateco, que resultó de la minuciosa lectura que realizaron los mayas coloniales de distintos textos europeos como la Biblia o el Cantar del Mío Cid, así como de diversos estudios de astronomía, astrología, calendarios y medicina. Con astucia y perspicacia, los mayas hicieron propio ese saber. Con esta edición, los expertos podrán ahondar en las anotaciones calendáricas o la medicina tradicional maya; y los amantes de esta cultura conocerán otros aspectos de su pensamiento e historia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Book 1 Facsimile Edition of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil Book 2 The Chilam Balam of Ixil: European and Indigenous Aspects of a Maya Colonial Text Laura Caso Barrera The Chilam Balam Books The Chilam Balam of Ixil Physical and Philological Aspects of the Chilam Balam of Ixil The Bible in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Mayan and European Concepts of Disease and Medicine Medicine in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Astrology, Astronomy and Horoscopes Almanacs, Stars and Calendars Mario M. Aliphat F. Maya Astronomy and Astrology Stars and Celestial Bodies Recognized by the Maya during the Colonial Period The Heavens Heavenly Bodies The Sun and the Moon Venus North Star Other Stars Constellations The Pleiades The Milky Way or the Road to Santiago The Zodiac The Western and Maya Zodiacs Numbers and Calendars Maya Numerology The Maya Calendar Cardinal Points and Colors Cardinal Points, Colors and the Quadripartite Deities The u cuch haabob Rounds or “Year Bearers” and Their Association with the Cardinal Points in the Ixil The Katun Round The Maya Almanac and the Portents of Days in the Ixil The Cycle of the Burners The Lunar Calendar in the Ixil The Chilam Balam of Ixil: Text and Translation Appendix A: List of Plants Mentioned in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Appendix B: List of Insects and Animals Mentioned in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, Anne Thompson shifts the emphasis from the institution of clerical marriage to the people and personalities involved. Women who have hitherto been defined by their supposed obscurity and unsuitability are shown to have anticipated and exhibited the character, virtues, and duties associated with the archetypal clergy wife of later centuries. Through adept use of an extensive and eclectic range of archival material, this book offers insights into the perception and lived experience of ministers’ wives. In challenging accepted views on the social status of clergy wives and their role and reception within the community, new light is thrown on a neglected but crucial aspect of religious, social, and women’s history.Trade Review“Thompson's book will prove of immense value to scholars of the Reformation and of early modern marriage, but its treatment of sixteenth-century gender expectations, interpersonal relationships within and outside of marriage, and charitable giving in a time of profound religious and economic change is deserving of a wider, non-specialist audience.” Jennifer McNabb, University of Northern Iowa. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1405–1407.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Better to Marry than to Burn? Attitudes to Clerical Marriage among the Elizabethan Clergy 2 The Making of Clerical Marriages 3 ‘As Common as the Cartway’? The Social Status of Clergy Wives 4 ‘A Mirror of Virtue and Integrity’: Expectations of the Elizabethan Clergy Wife 5 Clerical Marriage and Charitable Giving 6 The Reception of the Clergy Wife: Reactions to a Religious and Social Innovation Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWomen, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. This will help the public to better know and understand the importance of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities in South-Eastern Europe and beyond.Trade Review"There is a great deal of variety among these contributions in terms of the types of sources they choose (paintings, memoirs, church cadasters, personal archives, clothing, etc.) and the specific scholarship they build upon. The most impressive overall achievement of the volume is to have brought to light archival troves in so many places and languages, reminding us about both the difficulty of doing archival comparative work on the Balkans and the unexplored richness of these sources." - Maria Bucur, Indiana University, UK, in: European History Quarterly 48(2)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu 1 Translating Imperial Practices, Knowledge, and Taste Across the Mediterranean. Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson  Giulia Calvi 2 French Residents and Ottoman Women in 18th-Century Levant Personal Relations, Social Control, and Cultural Interchange  David Celetti 3 Women’s Fashion in Dalmatia at the End of the 18th Century  Katarina Nina Simončič 4 A Dialogue of Sources: Greek Bourgeois Women and Material Culture in the Long 18th Century  Artemis Yagou 5 “Curls and Forelocks”: Romanian Women’s Emancipation in Consumption and Fashion, 1780–1850  Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu 6 European Fashion, Consumption Patterns, and Intercommunal Relations in the 19th-Century Ottoman Istanbul  Anastasia Falierou 7 Women in Merchant Families, Women in Trade in Mid-19th Century Romanian Countries  Nicoleta Roman 8 Women Travellers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe  Evguenia Davidova Index

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Book SynopsisEnglish In Eine wahrhaft königliche Stadt, Daniela Kah describes how contemporary residents and visitors were able to experience and perceive the presence of the Holy Roman Empire (or its representatives, e.g., the king) in three late medieval cities -- Augsburg, Nürnberg and Lübeck. After receiving privileges from the king, these cities initiated large construction projects designed to assert their imperial status. These projects had a major impact on everyday life and made the Empire visible and graspable within the city. However, in the 13th century the cities increasingly deployed symbols and signs to represent their self-understanding as 'imperial'. ‘Being immediate to the Empire’ or ‘being privileged’ provided important political, economic, and social benefits. Therefore it became very important to the cities to represent their status in visible form. For this reason, the Empire achieved a permanent and lasting presence in free imperial cities. Deutsch In Eine wahrhaft königliche Stadt beschreibt Daniela Kah, wie das mittelalterliche Reich oder seine Repräsentanten, wie zum Beispiel der König, in den Reichsstädten Augsburg, Nürnberg und Lübeck für die zeitgenössischen Bewohner und Besucher erfahrbar war und wahrgenommen wurde. Zunächst führte die Vergabe von königlichen Privilegien zu großangelegten repräsentativen Bauprojekten in den Städten, die das Reich so im städtischen Alltag erkennbar werden ließen. Ab dem 13. Jahrhundert kam es dazu, dass die Stäte vermehrt Symbole und Zeichen im Stadtraum anbrachten, die ihr Selbstverständnis visualieren. Der Status ‚unmittelbar dem Reich zugehörig“ beziehungsweise ‚vom Reich privilegiert’ zu sein, wurde aufgrund seiner politischen, wirtschaftlichen und prestigesteigernden Bedeutung ein wichtiger Bezugspunkt, der zur dauerhaften Präsenz des Reichs in den Reichsstädten führte.Table of ContentsVorwort Karten und Abbildungen 1 Einleitung  1 Die Erfahrbarkeit des Reichs in den spätmittelalterlichen Reichsstädten  2 Methodische Präzisierung  3 Das Quellenmaterial und die Chancen der Interdisziplinarität  4 Zum Forschungsstand 2 ‚Shaping‘: Die „Physiognomien“ der Reichsunmittelbarkeit  1 Die Anfänge der Reichsstädte Augsburg, Nürnberg und Lübeck  2 Der Weg zur Reichsstadt und die reichsstädtische ‚Physiognomie‘  3 Zwischenfazit 3 ‚Corporate Branding‘: Die spätmittelalterliche Reichsstadt unter den Flügeln des Adlers (?)  1 Das Reich im Alltag von Bürgern und Verwaltung: Münzen und Siegel  2 Raumdynamiken: Symbole des Reichs und Reichsdarstellungen in den öffentlichen und privaten Räumen der Reichsstadt  3 „Invented Traditions“: Bezugspunkte in der Reichs- und Stadtgeschichte  4 Zwischenfazit 4 ‚Physical Presence:’ Das Reich in den spätmittelalterlichen Reichsstädten  1 Reichsbesitz und multiple Räumlichkeiten: Zusammen- und Wechselspiele von Reichsstadt, Reich und Reichsrepräsentanten  2 Der König in seiner Stadt: Die Konkretisierung des Abstrakten  3 Zwischenfazit 5 Schlussbemerkung Quellen und Literatur  1 Abkürzungen  2 Quellen  3 Literatur Register

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Book SynopsisThis study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the “father of emblematics” had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520. The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531–1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.Trade Review"Enenkel brings much scholarship from German and Dutch to the English-speaking world and, in addition to helpful footnotes, the text includes an extensive bibliography and an index of names. […] In this trenchant study, Enenkel provides a vital foundation for the intellectual history of emblem books as a genre and should be considered necessary reading for students and scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern European Humanities." Jenny Davis Barnett, University of Queensland, in Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7. “a truly scholarly tour de force.” Michael Bath, University of Glasgow. In: Emblematica, Vol. 3 (2020), pp. 313–324. “This book provides a wealth of material and insights, where Karl Enenkel, an outstanding scholar of Neo-Latin, has brought his knowledge to bear on these topics. […] This rich book will be mined by future scholars.” Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In: Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, March 2020. “Enenkel has a firmer grasp of the classical sources than probably any other emblem scholar alive today.” Peter Daly, McGill University, emeritus. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1371–1372.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations PART 1: Alciato 1 The Emblematization of Nature, and the Poetics of Alciato’s Epigrams  1 Introduction  2 Curiosities of Natural History  3 Ekphrases of Works of Art  4 Animal Poems, Drawn from the Greek Anthology, and the Aesopean Tradition  5 Emblematic Constructions Based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses  6 The Description of Character Types through the Emblematization of Animals  7 In Conclusion PART 2: Vernacular Forerunners of Alciato’s Emblematum Liber 2 A Manuscript Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg’s Mirror of Religious Virtue (Memorial der Tugent, ca. 1510–1512)  1 Introduction  2 Schwarzenberg’s Ideas about the Combination of Text and Image – Congruences with the Emblematum Liber  3 The Dichotomous Structure of Schwarzenberg’s Emblems: Res significantes and res significatae  4 Variations of the Dichotomous Structure  5 A Catholic Emblem Book  6 In Conclusion: The Transmission of Knowledge in Schwarzenberg’s Emblematic Constructions 3 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg’s Emblematization of Cicero’s De officiis as a Mirror of Political Virtue  1 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato’s Emblematum Liber  2 The Genesis of the Emblematic De officiis  3 The Transformation of De officiis into an Emblematic and Christian Mirror of Princes  4 Emblematic Means for the Philosophical Education of Laymen: Proverbs, Similes, Moral Conclusions  5 Political Realism – A Kind of Machiavellization of De officiis avant la lettre?  6 Emblems Against Tyranny  7 In Conclusion PART 3: The Emblematic Commentary as a Means of Transmitting Knowledge 4 The Transformation of the Emblem Book into an Encyclopaedia: Stockhamer’s Commentary on Alciato (1551/1556)  1 Introduction: The Impact of a Commentary on the Genre of the Emblem Book  2 Stockhamer’s Commentary on Alciato and His Humanist Learning  3 Stockhamer’s Commentary and the Transmission of Knowledge: The Construction of an Encyclopaedic Compendium  4 The Emblematic Commentary as a Combination of Various Types of Encyclopaedia’s: Natural History, Etymology, Mythology, Grammar, and Collections of Proverbs  5 Conclusion 5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship: Hadrianus Junius’ Emblemata (1565)  1 Introduction  2 The Enigmatic Structure of the Emblems, and the Enigma of the Author’s Self-Commentary  3 Potential Models for Junius’ Commentary?  4 The Function of Junius’ Commentary: Authorization of Emblematic Interpretations, Transmission of Emblematic Knowledge, and Collection of Commonplaces  5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship PART 4: Advanced Emblematic Transmission of Knowledge 6 Early Modern Zoology as a Mirror of Princes: Joachim Camerarius’ Quadrupedes (1595)  1 Introduction  2 The Structure of Camerarius’ Emblem Books: What is the Status of the “Commentary”?  3 The Transmission of Knowledge in the Book on the Quadrupeds: Zoology and Political Education  4 Camerarius’ Emblems and University Education  5 The Printed Emblem Book and the Manuscript  6 The Emblematic Construction of a “Plinian” Animal: The Rhino  7 Curious Animal Behaviour: The Leopard’s Trick as a Political Lesson  8 The Zoological and Emblematic Construction of an Animal without Pliny: The Opossum of the New World  9 The Zoological and Emblematic Construction of an Animal without Written Sources: The ‘Suhak’ (Saiga)  10 Conclusion 7 The Transmission of Knowledge via Pictorial Figurations: Vaenius’ Emblemata Horatiana (1607) as a Manual of Ethics  1 Introduction  2 The Emblemata Horatiana: A Mirror of Princes? A Neostoic Manifesto?  3 The Pictorial Transmission of Typically ‘Horatian’ Ethics: The Use of Personifications, Mnemonic Landscapes, and Geometrical Figurations  4 Personifications, Dichotomous Constructions and Moments of Decision  5 Horace’s Aurea mediocritas: Geometrical Figurations, Mnemonic Landscapes and Middle Positions  6 Vaenius’ Personifications: The Rhetoric of Living Images  7 The Transmission of Proverbial Wisdom: Scenes of Everyday Life, Paintings within Paintings, and Other Figurations Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisBenedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of “Germany”.Table of ContentsPreface: How to Read this Book 1 “Germania Benedictina”  1.1 Layers of Time – Between Trent and the Enlightenment  1.2 Layers of Space: “Benedictine Europe”  1.3 Layers of Knowledge: Religious Communities in Early Modern Central Europe  1.4 Layers of Demography: Being a Benedictine monk  1.5 On Sources, Bibliography, and Terminology  1.6 Summary 2 Multiple Perspectives – On the Same Object?  2.1 Introduction  2.2 “Die Forschungszentren der deutschen Benediktiner” and the “Katholische Frühaufklärung”  2.3 “Enlightened Monks” – and “Monastic Humanism”  2.4 Making Monks Enlightened: The Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries  2.5 Benedictine Tradition(s)  2.6 Looking Ahead from 1700: The Making of “Enlightened Monasticism” in the 18th Century  2.7 Looking Back from 1700: 1200 Years of Prehistories for Benedictine Scholarly Practice  2.8 Summary 3 Knowledge, Institution and Conflict in the Benedictine Context  3.1 Introduction  3.2 The Inner Circulation of Knowledge: Congregation, University, or Academy?  3.3 German and French Benedictines  3.4 The Protestants: Res publica literaria and Germania  3.5 Knowledge, Required: The State, the Church – and the Aristocracy  3.6 Diverse Publics, Diverse Censorships  3.7 Conflict and Dissent in the Benedictine Context  3.8 Conclusion: On the Institutional and Epistemological Implications of Knowledge Change 4 Tropes and Metaphors of Monastic Knowledge  4.1 Introduction  4.2 “Reform”, “Revolution”, and the “Old-New”  4.3 Four Exemplary Ambiguities: “Aufklärung”, “Light”, “Learned Nuns”, “Monkish Fables”  4.4 “Criticism” and “Scholasticism”  4.5 Conclusion 5 A Reclassification of Knowledge?  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Philosophy   5.2.1 Challenges, 1: Benedictine Thomism – Unsuccessfully Contested   5.2.2 Challenges, 2: The Assimilation of Christian Wolff   5.2.3 Trends, 1: Mathematics, Nature and Observation   5.2.4 Trends, 2: Moral Philosophy  5.3 History and Criticism   5.3.1 Challenges, 1: (Multiple) Proof – and (Individual) Taste   5.3.2 Challenges, 2: On Historicity   5.3.3 Trends, 1: The “Order” as Framework   5.3.4 Trends, 2: “Germany” – and “Austria” as Frameworks  5.4 (Canon) Law   5.4.1 Challenges: The Negotiable Status of Monastic Rules and Habits   5.4.2 Trends: “Germanized”, “Naturalized” and “Historicized” Canon Law  5.5 Theology   5.5.1 Challenges: Scientia Media, Peccatum Philosophicum   5.5.2 Trends: Positive Theology, Mystical Theology – or Practical Theology?  5.6 Summary 6 Conclusions, Inheritances, Limits, Confessions  6.1 Introduction  6.2 Should We Speak of a “Monastic Enlightenment”? And if so, What Came before It?  6.3 On Methodology Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, immediately set about celebrating their deaths in a new type of epic, distinct from, yet dependent upon, the classical tradition: Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India. This is the first critical edition and translation of this important text. The commentary highlights both the classical sources and the historical and religious context of the mission. The introduction outlines Benci’s career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre. This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.Trade Review“Paul Gwynne has produced a superb edition of the Quinque Martyres, the Latin with a fluent English translation on the opposite page and an abundance of footnotes catching every echo of classical precedent.” Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3 (May 2020), p. 526. “Gwynne’s edition is multiple-user-friendly and may be profitably consulted by students of the classical tradition and neo-Latin literature […] as well as of early modern Catholicism and the Asian missions.” Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies Vol. 5, No. 4 (November 2018), pp. 696–698. “This edition of Quinque martyres will be a useful resource for literary scholars and historians of religion. Gwynne’s translation is elegant and highly readable. He has also done excellent editing work, which includes many pages of commentary on the Latin text and a comprehensive introduction that highlights the literary and rhetorical aspects of the poem.” Alejandro Cañeque, University of Maryland. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 87, Fasc. 174 (2018-II), pp. 536–539. “masterful presentation” “Situating a readable translation within a detailed network of classical and post-classical references seems to be an effective way of bringing nonspecialist readers as close to the original text as possible.” Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 991–992. “The present text […] deserves to be better known, both as a record of early Jesuit missionary endeavour and as a poem in its own right.” Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 3 (2019), p. 634.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction  The Scope of this Book  A Note on the Text and Commentary  A Note on the Vocabulary Part 1 Francesco Benci and the Heroic Impulse Francesco Benci, Professor of Rhetoric The Portuguese and Jesuits in Goa and Salcete The Five Companions: Talis ab Vrlini coetus se fuderat urbe (QM. 5.606) Synopsis of the Quinque martyres The Quinque martyres and the Epic Tradition Benci and Virgil Amplificatio Benci and Contemporary Neo-Latin Epic: Vida’s Christiad and Barga’s Syrias Ekphrasis in the Quinque martyres The Later Reception of the Quinque martyres Part 2 The Quinque martyres Book 1. Text and Translation Book 2. Text and Translation Book 3. Text and Translation Book 4. Text and Translation Book 5. Text and Translation Book 6. Text and Translation Commentary Appendix 1. Prefatory Letter and Liminary Verses Appendix 2. A Poetic Altercation and Reconciliation Appendix 3. Report of the Massacre by Niccolò Orlandini (Latin) Appendix 4. Report of the Massacre by Alessandro Valignano (Italian) Appendix 5. Verses below the Five Engravings of English Martyrdom Prefaced to Ecclesiae militantis triumphi Bibliography Index of Proper Names Index Locorum Citatorum

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Book SynopsisIn World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.Trade Review"Gunn has contributed a detailed study of Nagasaki trade during Japan’s unification and under the Tokugawa. It is an excellent contribution to global history and a required reference to understand the place of Japan in the world economy of the Modern Era." -Arturo Giráldez, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific, in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 03 Feb 2019.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables and Illustrations Glossary/Abbreviations Note on Weights and Currencies Introduction  Japanese Historiography  The East-Southeast Asian Bullion Trade Zone  The Book 1 Kyushu in the East Asian Trade Networks  Spanish Manila and the Galleon Trade  The Portuguese “Discovery” of the Kyushu Trade Networks  The Ryukyu Tribute Trade  Gold, Silver, and Copper Mines in Japan  Japanese Maritime Trade with China and Korea  The Portuguese Missionary Arrival in Kyushu  Conclusion 2 Merchants and Missionaries in the Foundation of Nagasaki  Nagasaki’s Obscure Origins  The Portuguese Merchant-Missionary Arrival in Nagasaki  Nagasaki under Jesuit Rule  The Manila-Japan Trade Connection  Return to Imperial Rule (1588) and Persecutions  Conclusion 3 Nagasaki and the Silk Trade  Setting the Scene on Silk Production and Procurement  Functional Aspects of the Macau-Nagasaki Silk Trade  The Portuguese Merchant Presence  The VOC Silk Trade with Tonkin  Conclusion 4 The Dutch and English at Hirado  The Dutch Establishment at Hirado (1609–41)  The Dutch and the Contest for Taiwan (1604–61)  The Zheng Family Dynasty  The Dutch Trade at Hirado  The English at Hirado (1613–23)  Conclusion 5 The Shimabara Rebellion (1637–38) Revisited  Background to the Rebellion  The Duarte Correa Manuscript and the First Stirrings of Rebellion  The Battle for Shimabara  Millennial Rebels or Economic Victims?  The Anti-Christian Backlash  Conclusion 6 Nagasaki and the Southeast Asia Trade  Drawing the Contours of the “Red Seal” Trade  The Chinese Junk Trade at Nagasaki in the kai-hentai Records  Status of the Junk Traffic in 1664  Scale and Scope of the Nagasaki-Vietnam Trade  Conclusion 7 The Chinese of Nagasaki and their Social and Commercial Activities  Origins of the Nagasaki Chinese Community under the Ming  Chinese Temple Communities in Nagasaki and their Functional Role  The Zheng Trade with Nagasaki during the Ming-Qing Transition  The Restoration of the China Trade under the Qing  The Seventeenth Century Chinese Legacy in Nagasaki  Conclusion 8 Nagasaki in the Age of Kaempfer  Kaempfer’s Nagasaki  Dutch Trade at Deshima  A Dutch West India Company Account of 1721–23  Carl Peter Thunberg’s Account of 1795  Closed Door under Foreign Pressure  Conclusion 9 Parameters of the Bullion Trade Economy Network  Portuguese Profits on the Silk-for-Silver Trade  Putting a Value on the Dutch and Chinese Bullion Trade  Portuguese and Dutch in the Global Copper Trade  Reassessing the Silver Drain from Japan, the Role of Arai Hakuseki  Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Reprised Conclusion  Global Economy and World System  Stagnant Japan, Rising Japan, or Mid-Tokugawa Crisis?  A Precocious Early Modernization?  Nagasaki’s Pioneer Role in Japan’s Industrialization Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTitoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia during the 1990s emphasizes divisive nationalism and dysfunctional politics to explain why the state disintegrated. But the larger question remains unanswered—just how did Tito’s state function so successfully for the preceding forty-six years. In an attempt to understand better what united the stable, multi-ethnic, and globally important Yugoslavia that existed before 1991 Robert Niebuhr argues that we should pay special attention to the dynamic and robust foreign policy that helped shape the Cold War.

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