Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

Book SynopsisThe principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling institution in the Middle Niger region. The year 1613 also marked the effective end of Songhay resistance. The other contemporary documents included are a new English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa, some letters relating to Sa‘dīan diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrānī's account of Sa‘dīan conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.Trade Review'This book provides a wealth of information on pre-modern West Africa, particularly on the Sonhay empire of the Niger river region and on the conquest of that empire by the Moroccan Sa'di dynasty during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.' Stephen Cory, Religious Studies Review, 2000.

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Book SynopsisBovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher (Elyiahu ben Asher haLevi Ashkenazi, 1469-1549) is a chivalry poem written in Yiddish in Padoa, in the year 1507, and printed under the author's supervision in Isny (Germany) in the year 1541. The present book intends to present a critical edition of this poem, together with a commentary. An introduction will focus on various related questions, such as the place of the Bovo d'Antona in European literature and in Italian literature, Bovo d'Antona and the chivalric genre in Old Yiddish literature, the analysis of the manuscript versions in comparison with the printed edition, the relationship with the Italian source and the readership. An appendix will deal with later transformations of the Bovo-Bukh. "Bovo Bukh is an excellent example of the relationship between romances and folktales,and Rosenzweigʼs introduction and edition of this important early Yiddish text will be appreciated by scholars of early Modern literature and folk narrative." - Dr. David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in: Fabula 59:1-2 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Foreword 1. Preface 2. Introduction 2.1. Eliyahu ben Asher HaLevi Ashkenazi: His life and works 2.2. Bovo d’Antona in European literature in general and in Italian literature 2.3. Bovo d’Antona in Old Yiddish literature 3. Text with commentary 4. Appendix: Later transformations of the Bovo d’Antona: 17th–20th centuries Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the genre-defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy, whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature. The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to assess Colonna’s contribution, both as a writer, a role model, and a contributor to important religious debates of the era. This book, while amply fulfilling the remit of providing a useful and comprehensive handbook to meet the needs of students and scholars at earlier and advanced levels, aims in addition to do more than this, by drawing into a single volume for the first time scholarship from across disciplines in which Vittoria Colonna’s influence has been felt, including literary criticism, religious history, history of art and music. Contributors are: Abigail Brundin, Stephen Bowd, Emidio Campi, Eleonora Carinci, Adriana Chemello, Virginia Cox, Tatiana Crivelli, Maria Forcellino, Gaudenz Freuler, Anne Piéjus, Diana Robin, Helena Sanson, and Maria Serena Sapegno.Trade Review“This volume gathers together much essential information that a scholar would wish to have at hand, including Colonna’s biography, thorough accounts of early editions of her poetry, a catalogue of known portraits, and the record of Michelangelo’s presentation drawings. But this is no mere handbook. The volume holds much that will be novel and engaging for even the most dedicated Colonna scholar.” Shannon McHugh, University of Massachusetts. In: Early Modern Women, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020), pp. 179–182.Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors List of Figures Timeline: Vittoria Colonna in Context Note on the Text Bibliographical Abbreviations Part I: Vittoria Colonna: Life and Letters Introduction Abigail Brundin, Tatiana Crivelli, and Maria Serena Sapegno Chapter 1: Vittoria Colonna’s Epistolary Works Adriana Chemello Part II: The Poetry Chapter 2: Vittoria Colonna in Manuscript Abigail Brundin Chapter 3: The Print Tradition of Vittoria Colonna’s Rime Tatiana Crivelli Chapter 4: The Rime: A Textual Conundrum? Maria Serena Sapegno Chapter 5: Vittoria Colonna and Language Helena Sanson Part III: Vittoria Colonna and the Arts Chapter 6: Vittoria Colonna: The Pictorial Evidence Gaudenz Freuler Chapter 7: Colonna and Michelangelo: Drawings and Paintings Maria Forcellino Chapter 8: Musical Settings of the Rime Anne Piéjus Part IV: Vittoria Colonna and Religion Chapter 9: Prudential Friendship and Religious Reform: Vittoria Colonna and Gasparo Contarini Stephen Bowd Chapter 10: Vittoria Colonna and Bernardino Ochino Emidio Campi Chapter 11: Religious Prose Writings Eleonora Carinci Part V: Vittoria Colonna as Literary Model and Authority Figure Chapter 12: The Lyric Voices of Vittoria Colonna and the Women of the Giolito Anthologies, 1545–1559 Diana Robin Chapter 13: The Exemplary Vittoria Colonna Virginia Cox Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSixteenth century Elizabethan treatises on rhetoric in the vernacular are relatively rare. Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynolds’s The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563), which has not been edited since the 1945 facsimile edition, and of William Medley’s unknown Brief Discourse on Rhetoricke which survives in a single manuscript dated 1575. While Reynolds’s work is an English adaptation of Aphthonius's Progymnasmata and a preparation for Thomas Wilson’s influential Arte of Rhetoricke (1560), Medley’s is broader in scope and contains the only full treatment of periodic prose in English in the period. Both works are essential to understand how Elizabethan rhetoric in the vernacular evolved, in particular in aristocratic circles, and its links with Continental developments, notably German.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Sigla and Abbreviations Introduction Richard Reynolds, The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563) William Medley, A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike (1575), Cecil Papers MS 238/6 Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation. Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John O’Brien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.Trade Review"Its wide-ranging aspect is what makes this work thought provoking, demanding, and well worth the effort." Barbara A. Goodman, Clayton State University, in Seventeenth-Century News 78.1-2, pp. 59-63 "[a] splendid collection of essays on authorial self-commentary [...] The fertile insights and extensive bibliographies that mark every contribution to the volume make it required reading for historians of Renaissance and Reformation literature." William J. Kennedy, Cornell University, in Renaissance and Reformation 43.1, pp. 294-296Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editor Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Francesco Venturi 1 Alberti’s Commentarium to His First Literary Work: Self-Commentary as Self-Presentation in the Philodoxeos  Martin McLaughlin 2 Elucidation and Self-Explanation in Filelfo’s Marginalia  Jeroen De Keyser 3 Vernacular Self-Commentary during Medieval Early Modernity: Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas  Ian Johnson 4 On the Threshold of Poems: a Paratextual Approach to the Narrative/Lyric Opposition in Italian Renaissance Poetry  Federica Pich 5 Self-Commentary on Language in Sixteenth-Century Italian Prefatory Letters  Brian Richardson 6 ‘All Outward and on Show’: Montaigne’s External Glosses  John O’Brien 7 Companions in Folly: Genre and Poetic Practice in Five Elizabethan Anthologies  Harriet Archer 8 The Journey of the Soul: The Prose Commentaries on His Own Poems by St John of the Cross  Colin P. Thompson 9 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in La Ceppède  Russell Ganim 10 Can a Poet be ‘Master of [his] owne Meaning’? George Chapman and the Paradoxes of Authorship  Gilles Bertheau 11 Critical Failures: Corneille Observes His Spectators  Joseph Harris 12 Self-Criticism, Self-Assessment, and Self-Affirmation: The Case of the (Young) Author in Early Modern Dutch Literature  Els Stronks 13 Reading the Margins: The Uses of Authorial Side Glosses in Anna Stanisławska’s Transaction (1685)  Magdalena Ożarska 14 Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni’s Secchia rapita and Francesco Redi’s Bacco in Toscana  Carlo Caruso Afterword  Richard Maber Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).Trade Review“This is a fabulous book […]. The volume is beautifully produced, featuring more than 200 excellent color illustrations. A pleasure to behold, it belongs in every academic library. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” John J. Butt, James Madison University. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 57, No. 7 (March 2020).Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe 1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe 2 Supposed Ancestors 3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations 4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History 5 A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications Part 2: Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries 6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer 7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On the Romans, Batavians and Giants Part 3: The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic 8 From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 9 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland 10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities Conclusion Notes List of Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores various perceptions, adaptations and appropriations of both the personality and the writings of Horace in the early modern age. The fifteen essays in this book are devoted to uncharted facets of the reception of Horace and thus substantially broaden our picture of the Horatian tradition. Special attention is given to the legacy of Horace in the visual arts and in music, beyond the domain of letters. By focusing on the multiple channels through which the influence of Horace was felt and transmitted, this volume aims to present instances of the Horatian heritage across the media, and to stimulate a more thorough reflection on an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace. Contributors: Veronica Brandis, Philippe Canguilhem, Giacomo Comiati, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Carolin A. Giere, Inga Mai Groote, Luke B.T. Houghton, Chris Joby, Marc Laureys, Grantley McDonald, Lukas Reddemann, Bernd Roling, Robert Seidel, Marcela Slavíková, Paul J. Smith, and Tijana Žakula.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Some Introductory Thoughts on the Reception of Horace in the Early Modern Age  Marc Laureys Part 1: The Reception of the Ars Poetica as a Model for the Theory of Painting, Drama, Diplomacy, Cookery and Other Arts 2 Rethinking Horace in Dutch Classicist Art Theory and in the Theory of Poetry and Drama: Gerard de Lairesse and Andries Pels  Tijana Žakula 3 From Poetry to Cookery, Architecture, and Stock-Jobbing: Imitation and Parodia of Horace’s Ars Poetica in 18th-Century England  Lukas Reddemann Part 2: The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts 4 The Reception of Horace in the Visual Arts, 15th Century until ca. 1840: A First Exploration  Karl A.E. Enenkel 5 Vaenius’s Pluri-Medial Horace: Images for Contemplation, Primer of Philosophy, Iconological Templates for Artists, Latin Commonplace Book, and Vernacular Emblem Book  Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith Part 3: Horace and Music 6 Before Melopoiae: Conrad Celtis, Laurentius Corvinus, Arnold Wöstefeld and the Use of Music in the Teaching and Performance of Horace’s Metres around 1500  Grantley McDonald 7 Horace among Early Modern Teachers and Music Theorists: Poetics and Songs  Inga Mai Groote 8 Singing Horace in Sixteenth-Century France: A Reappraisal of the Sources and Their Interpretation  Philippe Canguilhem Part 4: Other Materializations of Horace: School Book Production and Funeral Inscriptions 9 Librum pulcherrimum et utilissimum edidit: Editions of Horace by Johannes Honorius Cubitensis (c.1465–1504)  Marcela Slavíková 10 Horace and Sepulchral Sapphics – Some English Examples  Luke B.T. Houghton Part 5: The Reception of the Odes in Early Modern Lyrical Poetry 11 The Reception of the “Horatian Hymn” in Quattrocento Neo-Latin Poetry: Aurelius Laurentius Albrisius and Giovanni Pontano  Carolin A. Giere 12 Horace across Seventeenth-Century Italian Literature: Carlo de’ Dottori and his Odes  Giacomo Comiati 13 “As closely as possible after the model of Horace”? Degrees of Horatianism in James Alban Gibbes’ Lyric Poetry  Marc Laureys 14 On the Reception of Horace’s Carmen Saeculare in the Early Modern Period  Veronika Brandis and Robert Seidel Part 6: Horatian Topics and Commonplaces 15 John Cruso of Norwich and the Reception of Horatius Sententiosus in Early Modern Provincial England  Christopher Joby 16 De laudibus vitae rusticae: Horace’s Second Epode and the Tradition of Georgic Poetry  Bernd Roling Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisNatural History in Early Modern France offers a longue durée account of recurring poetic structures of the genre through case studies spanning from the Renaissance to the eve of the nineteenth century. These case studies reveal the lasting epistemic importance of bookish knowledge and commonplacing in the natural-historical description from Belon to Buffon. They also highlight the French reception of Baconianism. Natural History in Early Modern France makes a case for the literary status of the genre by attending to the permanence of its 'Plinian' features, such as wonders. Natural history was not only concerned with increasingly rational modes of ordering natural particulars: this book reveals its enduring social, affective, spiritual, and aesthetic underpinnings. Contributors are: Peter Anstey, Susan Broomhall, Isabelle Charmantier, Arlette Fruet, Raphaële Garrod, Paul Gibbard, Dana Jalobeanu, Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, Stéphane Schmitt, Paul J. Smith, and Stéphane Van Damme.Trade Review"This volume [...] beautifully illustrates literary approaches to the early modern French histoire naturelle." Dorit Brixius, German Historical Institute in Paris, in ISIS 111.2 “A timely collection on the intersection of literature and natural history, especially concerning plants and birds.” Dorothea Heitsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 360–361.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction. Knowledge and Literature: The Natural-Historical Description as Epistemic Genre?  Raphaële Garrod 2 Deux recueils d’illustrations ornithologiques : les Icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les Portraits d’oyseaux (1557) de Pierre Belon  Paul J. Smith 3 Feeling Divine Nature: Natural History, Emotions and Bernard Palissy’s Knowledge Practice  Susan Broomhall 4 L’idée d’un oiseau : l’oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d’une merveille (XVIe et XVIIe siècles)  Arlette Fruet 5 Du nouveau sur la licorne : le rôle des cabinets de curiosités dans l’avancée des savoirs  Myriam Marrache-Gouraud 6 The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor Symbolicus  Raphaële Garrod 7 Natural History and Divertissement: J.B. Faultrier’s Traitté general des oyseaux (1660)  Isabelle Charmantier 8 At the Borders of the Metropolis: Writing the Natural History of Paris in the Eighteenth Century  Stéphane Van Damme 9 Rewriting Bacon’s Natural History: Pierre Amboise’s Translation of Sylva Sylvarum  Dana Jalobeanu 10 Bacon, Experimental Philosophy and French Enlightenment Natural History  Peter R. Anstey 11 La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l’histoire naturelle du second XVIIIe siècle  Stéphane Schmitt 12 Empiricism and Sensibility in the Australian Journal of Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (1800-1803)  Paul Gibbard Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors.Trade Review"Robert-Nicoud is to be applauded for introducing readers to a wealth of polemical treatises, emblems, and images that had significant contemporary importance, but many of which have fallen into near oblivion. [...] Overall, this is a fine book by a young scholar who brings to bear an impressive level of erudition to show his readers how the image of the world upside down evolves and becomes something much more menacing as the sixteenth century progressed." - Bruce Hyes, University of Kansas, in Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image, vol. 3., 2019, pp. 331-333Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down 1 Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems  1 Erasmus’s Adages of Inversion  2 Paradoxes  3 Moral Emblems  4 Carnivalesque Emblems  5 Emblems of the Religious Wars  6 Conclusion 2 Rabelais’s World Upside Down  1 Carnivalesque Rituals  2 Grotesque Body  3 Wisdom and Folly  4 Conclusion 3 Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots  1 The Cooking Pot Trope  2 Huguenot Satires  3 Rabelais’s Posthumous Tradition  4 Catholic Responses  5 Conclusion 4 Social and Cosmic Disorders  1 France as a World Upside Down  2 Millenarianism and Apocalypse  3 Monsters and Polemic  4 Conclusion General Conclusion Bibliography  Primary Sources  Secondary Sources Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisLa via del conocimiento de la filosofía natural contrarreformista estuvo condicionada por la necesidad de conciliar el método escolástico con el experimental, a la luz de la evidencia de los nuevos descubrimientos científicos y geográficos. La cosmovisión oficial hizo uso de metodologías del saber, basadas en discursos como el antisupersticioso, en el que se apuntaba a la confluencia de métodos experimentales, religiosos y jurídicos, orientados hacia una interpretación más precisa de la realidad. En La ciencia de Cervantes. se confirma cómo en pasajes que describen exorcismos, interacciones entre animales y seres humanos y exploraciones geográficas de obras cervantinas, como Don Quijote., Persiles y Sigismunda. y las Novelas ejemplares., la confluencia de visiones artísticas y científicas de la época se pone de manifiesto. Llama la atención, especialmente, el caso del Coloquio de los perros., en donde se evidencia un intento de conciliar el conocimiento humanista, escolástico, antisupersticioso y barroco, en línea con otras excepcionales obras neoplatónicas similares, como son tanto el Somnium. de Maldonado como el de Kepler. The Counter-reformation path to natural philosophy was increasingly conditioned by its need to reconciliate the scholastic method with the experimental one, at the light of the evidence of new scientific and geographic discoveries. Official world-view was supported by approaches to knowledge such as the anti-superstitious discourse, which were sustained by the confluence of experimental, religious and legal methodologies, in support of a more accurate interpretation of reality. La ciencia de Cervantes. shows how selected cervantine texts, including the Quixote., Persiles and Sigismunda., and the Exemplary Novels., reflect how the confluence of artistic and scientific views of the period was evidenced in the depiction, among others, of exorcisms, animal-human interactions and geographical explorations. Particularly relevant is the case of the Colloquy of the Dogs., showing an attempt to reconciliate the conflictive confluence of Humanistic, Scholastic, anti-superstitious and baroque knowledge, in line with other unique Neoplatonist works, such as Maldonado’s and Kepler’s Somnium.Table of ContentsPrefacio Lista de ilustraciones Introducción  1 Controversias creativas y destructivas  2 Literatura y experiencia en Cervantes  3 Aspectos de la recepción de la figura de Cervantes y de su obra  4 Cervantes clásico  5 Sobre las posibles fuentes del conocimiento de Cervantes  6 La Ciencia en Cervantes 1 Cervantes, autor sabio, clásico moderno  1.1 Cervantes entremesado  1.2 La recepción de la obra de Cervantes y el antihéroe barroco 2 Cervantes antisupersticioso  2.1 Cosmovisión antisupersticiosa y “ciencia” popular  2.2 Antisuperstición cervantina  2.3 De asedios, retablos y simulacros antisupersticiosos  2.4 Conclusión: la presencia antisupersticiosa en la obra cervantina 3 Alma animal  3.1 Vulgo y animales en los espectáculos barrocos  3.2 Alma animal cervantina  3.3 Non tibi sed Don Quijote. Entre la animalización de Don Quijote y la humanización de Alonso Quijano 4 Explorar los límites del infinito  4.1 El género del sueño que ilumina en la segunda parte del Quijote: de Cicerón a Montesinos  4.2 La exploración de los límites de la razón, la fe y la lógica de los sueños como fuente de conocimiento cervantino: de la aventura del barco encantado al Persiles 5 Sabiduría y ciencia  5.1 Sabiduría, ciencia y epistemología literaria  5.2 ¿Sueñan los perros cervantinos como humanistas? La representación de la verdad en los sueños neoplatónicos contrautópicos de Maldonado, Cervantes y Kepler Epílogo: sueño y verdad; sabiduría y ciencia; humanismo y neoplatonismo Obras citadas Índice

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Book SynopsisCustomised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400‒1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books. Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. Dlabačova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. Kiliańczyk-Zięba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.Trade Review“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Kinds and Degrees of Customisation in Early Modern Book Production and Reception  Walter S. Melion 2 The Customising Mindset in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Newberry Inc. 1699  Christopher D. Fletcher Part 2: Customisation across Media 3 A Late Medieval Multi-Text Manuscript and Its Printed Precedents  Britt Boler Hunter 4 Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis  Kelin Michael 5 A Customized Housebook of Repurposed Prints: the Liber Quodlibetarius, c. 1524  Stephanie Leitch Part 3: Communal Customising 6 How to Talk about Burgundian Books You Could Not Read  Bret L. Rothstein 7 Customizing for the Community: The Wiesbaden Manuscript (Hauptstaatsarchiv 3004 B 10) and the Late Medieval Church  Geert Warnar 8 A Medical Anthology Customised ‘for the Consolation of the Sick’ in a Brussels Convent  Andrea van Leerdam 9 Custom Made by Antonio Ricardo: Peru’s First Printer and His Illustrations in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)  Tom Cummins Part 4: Individual Customisers 10 From Proud Monument to Ill-Marked Tomb: Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany  Paul F. Gehl 11 Customization of a Latin Emblem Book by a Vernacular Owner: Unknown German Poems to a Copy of Vaenius’s Emblemata Horatiana (first edition, 1607)  Karl A.E. Enenkel 12 Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series  Shaun Midanik 13 Customizing an Emblem Book as an album amicorum: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry in the Stammbuch of Christian Weigel  Mara R. Wade Part 5: Editorial Customisation 14 A Play of Continuity and Difference: A Book of Fortune-telling Adapted from the Kingdom of Poland to Southeastern Europe  Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba 15 Shifting Perspectives: Changing Optical Theory in the Printed Works of Jean-François Niceron  Brent Purkaple 16 Venice as a Musical Commodity in Early Modern Germany: A Frontispiece Collage, c. 1638  Jason Rosenholtz-Witt 17 Vaenius in Ireland: An Eighteenth-Century Customization of the Emblemata Horatiana  Simon McKeown Part 6: Visual Customisation 18 Frames, Screens and Urns: Customisation and Poetics in the 1495 Aldine Theocritus painted by Albrecht Dürer for Willibald Pirckheimer  Jakub Koguciuk 19 Compiled Compositions: The Kattendijke Chronicle (c. 1491–1493) and Late Medieval Book Design  Anna Dlabačová 20 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament  Walter S. Melion 21 ‘By the Genius of the Indians’: The Customization of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia in Guarani (Loreto, Juan Bautista Neumann et alii: 1705)  Pedro Leal Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIchthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture. This topic is approached from various disciplines: history of science, cultural history, history of collections, historical ecology, art history, literary studies, and lexicology. Attention is given to the problematic questions of visual and textual representation of fish, and pre- and post-Linnean classification and taxonomy. This book also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge and items in and outside Europe. Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.Trade Review“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Early Modern Ichthyology (1500–1880)  Paul J. Smith Part 1: Beginnings 2 Fish Images True to Life and a 16th-Century Controversy between Rondelet and Salviani. Essay and Documentation of the Sources  Holger Funk 3 Beginnings of Ichthyological Natural History: Formal and Structural Questions  Philippe Glardon 4 The Many Names of Fish: Scientific and Poetic Fish Nomenclature in the Writings of Johann Fischart and Conrad Gessner  Tobias Bulang 5 Aquatilia of Portugal in 1555–1556 According to Leonhardt Thurneysser zum Thurn  Bernardo Jerosch Herold and João Paulo S. Cabral Part 2: Depicting 6 Looking beyond the Margins of Print: Depicting Water Creatures in Europe, c.1500–1620  Florike Egmond 7 Ichthyology and Related Topics in MS Urb. lat. 276 (13th–17th Centuries)  Cynthia M. Pyle 8 A Taste for Fish: Paintings of Aquatic Animals in the Low Countries (1560–1729)  Marlise Rijks 9 Fishing in the Past: Biodiversity, Art History, and Citizen Science – Preliminary Results  Anne M. Overduin-de Vries and Paul J. Smith Part 3: Fish and Society in Europe 10 Piscatorial Elements in 16th-Century Literature in Bruges: Fantasy Scenes and Compassionate Eulogies  Dirk Geirnaert 11 What Are the Fish Silent about? Selected Historical Facts on the Use of Fish in Medieval Medicine  A Qualitative Study Based on Sources from The Middle Low German Dictionary Archive  Sabina Tsapaeva 12 The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice  Pietro Daniel Omodeo 13 ‘Um Grande Peixe, Dona Baleia da Costa’: The Whale in Portuguese Early Modern Natural History  Cristina Brito 14 ‘My Eyes Have Never Yet Beheld Him.’ Demythologising Arctic Sea Monsters in the Poetry of the Norwegian Priest and Fish Merchant Petter Dass (1647–1707)  Ronny Spaans 15 The Historical Truth behind the “Salmon-Servant” Myth  Rob Lenders 16 Public Opinion on Seals in Dutch Newspapers 1725–1900  Paul J. Smith Part 4: Ichthyological Knowledge from Afar 17 The Travelling Nautilus: Spaces of Circulation from the Indian Ocean to Britain  Melinda Susanto 18 François de Meyer’s Fish Travelogue (1698)  Paul J. Smith, Didi van Trijp and Alan Moss 19 The Afterlives of Fish Far from Home: (Mis)Representations in the Iconography of Preserved and Printed Pufferfish in 18th-Century Germany  Dorothee Fischer 20 Louis Renard (1678/1679–1746) and His Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1719): 300 Years of One of Natural History’s most Curious Colour Plate Books  Theodore W. Pietsch and Justin R. Hanisch 21 Distance, Geography, and Anecdote in M.E. Bloch’s Natural History of Fishes  Johannes Müller 22 Between Science and Art: On Painted Natural Illustrations of Fish in China  Ching-Ling Wang 23 Early “Dutch” Contributions to Japanese Ichthyology  Martien J.P. van Oijen 24 Packaging Knowledge about Whales in Early Modern Japan  Doreen Mueller 25 Images, Specimens, and Species: Hermann Schlegel on the Various Ways of Depicting a Fish  Robbert Striekwold Index Nominum Index of Aquatic Animals

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