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Women's Agency in Early Modern Europe Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Kate Allan, Nupur Patel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Women’s Agency in Early Modern Europe Kate Allan (bio) and Nupur Patel (bio) Agency has long been a touchstone in early modern scholarship, and in scholarship of women’s and gender studies. Since at least the 1970s, scholars have emphasised how ‘individuals and groups beyond white male elites had the capacity to act, make choices, and
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Women's Agency: Then and Now Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Abstract: This article surveys recent thinking about agency as a concept, both in general and within women’s and gender history, and then discusses some of the ways in which women’s agency has figured in early modern cultural and economic history over the last several decades. It considers whether women’s agency might have been a matter of norms as well as actions, that is, whether people expected
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Seed Lists: Information Maintenance and a Woman's Work in Early Modern Global Exchanges Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Olin Moctezuma-Burns
Abstract: As Europe saw an increase in newly known plants, the seed list format was employed to make specimens legible across an informal network for botanical exchange. This article explores the medium specifications of the format and a rich repository of these lists, compiled by the English aristocrat Mary Somerset (bap. 1630–1715), who dedicated much of her time to maintaining the flows of information
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A 'Book of Drawings' and the 'Writing Pen': Women Artists' Self-Teaching and Transnational Print Culture in Early Modern Europe Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Mallory N. Haselberger
Abstract: In early modernity, artistic education began and endured with the student’s drawing practice—first in replicating works from the master, then of antiquity, and finally in the student master’s creation of new ‘invenzione’ to express artistic command. For women, this learning process was less straightforward. This article considers the changing nature of women’s artistic education between the
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Universal Verse: The Cosmological Poetics of Anne Southwell Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Cassandra Gorman
Abstract: This article explores Anne Southwell’s understanding of the human and specifically female responsibility in making knowledge and contact with the divine, acts that she figures through cosmic movement and, crucially, poetic forms. For Southwell, moving through—and discovering one’s place in—space is part and parcel of poetic creation in its broadest sense: writing divinely informed verse,
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'Divers voyages into farre countries': Agency in Rose Throckmorton's Diary Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Emily Stevenson
Abstract: Women played a vital role within mercantile communities in sixteenth-century London as social, cultural and economic agents, but there is comparatively little archival material relating to these activities in comparison with their male counterparts, and as they were seldom able to actively participate in trade, the nuances of their activity are easily overlooked. Using the 1610 diary of Rose
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Agents, Acquisitions, and Agency: Queen Christina of Sweden's Development of Antiquarian Collections in Stockholm and Rome Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Theresa A. Kutasz Christensen
Abstract: Queen Christina of Sweden was a prolific collector both as ruler of Sweden and as abdicated queen in Rome. Working for decades to build nearly autonomous antiquities collections in Stockholm and Rome, Christina employed a robust network of art acquisition agents. Correspondence and travel notes between these agents, artists, their associates, and Christina provide insight into the queen’s
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'Wide wandring Weemen': The Nature and Variety of Female Travel, 1558–1630 Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Chris Higgins
Abstract: Female overseas travel has long been viewed as a niche activity involving only a handful of privileged elites. In his book ‘The Traveiler’ (1575), Jerome Turler cast moral aspersions on female travellers, describing them as ‘wide wandring Weemen’. However, an extensive review of the surviving evidence, drawing on underused sources, including the King’s Remembrancer records and diplomatic
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The Agency of Muslim Women and 'the Muslimwoman' in Early Modern England Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Bernadette Andrea
Abstract: Acknowledging that women from Muslim backgrounds arrived on British shores well before the first record of an openly Muslim woman in the 1830s, but that they would have had no real option other than to assimilate to English mores, including religious ones, this article investigates the ‘Muslimwoman’ (miriam cooke’s neologism) as constitutive of English culture from the sixteenth century and
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After Women's Agency in Early Modern Europe Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Liza Blake
Abstract: This afterword to the special issue on ‘Women’s Agency in Early Modern Europe’ takes up the question of agency from a posthumanist perspective, asking not how we can expand or extend the concept of agency beyond the (male) human, but instead whether we as scholars of early modern women might not be in a position to consider ourselves ‘after’ a focus on agency. It explores challenges to the
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Career Women: A Review Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Amy Orner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Career Women: A Review Amy Orner (bio) Bohn, Babette, Women Artists, their Patrons, and their Publics in Early Modern Bologna, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021; hardback; pp. 316; R.R.P. US$74.95; 81 colour, 60 b/w illustrations; ISBN 9780271086965. Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve, and Oliver Tostmann, eds, By her Hand:
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Ipnosi Turca. Un medico viaggiatore in terra ottomana (1618–1717) by Davide Baldi Bellini (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Richard W. Tait
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ipnosi Turca. Un medico viaggiatore in terra ottomana (1618–1717) by Davide Baldi Bellini Richard W. Tait Baldi Bellini, Davide, Ipnosi Turca. Un medico viaggiatore in terra ottomana (1618–1717) (Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World, 2), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 239; R.R.P. €60.00; ISBN 9782503599700
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Dominicans and Franciscans in Medieval Rome: History, Architecture, and Art by Joan Barclay Lloyd (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Judith Collard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dominicans and Franciscans in Medieval Rome: History, Architecture, and Art by Joan Barclay Lloyd Judith Collard Barclay Lloyd, Joan, Dominicans and Franciscans in Medieval Rome: History, Architecture, and Art (Medieval Monastic Studies, 6), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; cloth; pp. 460; 159 b/w illustrations, 10 colour plates;
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Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (viiie–xiie siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs ed. by Pierre Bauduin, Simon Lebouteiller and Luc Bourgeois (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Lola Sharon Davidson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (viiie–xiie siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs ed. by Pierre Bauduin, Simon Lebouteiller and Luc Bourgeois Lola Sharon Davidson Bauduin, Pierre, Simon Lebouteiller, and Luc Bourgeois, eds, Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (viiie–xiie siècle)
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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England by Sarah A. Bendall (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Martin Thompson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England by Sarah A. Bendall Martin Thompson Bendall, Sarah A., Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England, London, Bloomsbury, 2022; paperback; pp. 338; 150 colour illustrations; R.R.P £27.99; ISBN 9781350164116
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Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age by Stefan Brink (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 John Kennedy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age by Stefan Brink John Kennedy Brink, Stefan, Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021; cloth; pp. xii, 392; 37 b/w figures; R.R.P. US$37.95; ISBN 9780197532355. In his foreword and acknowledgements, Stefan Brink identities Thraldom
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Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Meg Lota Brown (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nicholas D. Brodie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Meg Lota Brown Nicholas D. Brodie Brown, Meg Lota, ed., Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 47), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp. xv, 225; R.R.P. €75.00; ISBN 9782503597034
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Augustine and the Humanists: Reading the 'City of God' from Petrarch to Poliziano ed. by Guy Claessens and Fabio Della Schiava (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Patrick Ball
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Augustine and the Humanists: Reading the ‘City of God’ from Petrarch to Poliziano ed. by Guy Claessens and Fabio Della Schiava Patrick Ball Claessens, Guy, and Fabio Della Schiava, eds, Augustine and the Humanists: Reading the ‘City of God’ from Petrarch to Poliziano (Colibri. Collected Studies in History and Literature, 2)
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Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages by Joseph Dyer (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Robert Curry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages by Joseph Dyer Robert Curry Dyer, Joseph, Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages (Ritus et Artes, 10), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 268; 12 b/w, 17 colour illustrations, 14 musical examples;
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Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular ed. by Suzan Folkerts (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nicholas D. Brodie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular ed. by Suzan Folkerts Nicholas D. Brodie Folkerts, Suzan, ed., Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred
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Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Gunnlaugsson Gylfi and Clarence E. Glad (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Roderick McDonald
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Gunnlaugsson Gylfi and Clarence E. Glad Roderick McDonald Gylfi Gunnlaugsson and Clarence E. Glad, eds, Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century (National Cultivation of Culture, 28), Leiden and
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Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain ed. by Kathryn Hurlock and Laura J. Whatley (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Ines Jahudka
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain ed. by Kathryn Hurlock and Laura J. Whatley Ines Jahudka Hurlock, Kathryn, and Laura J. Whatley, eds, Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 34), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; pp. vii, 265; 5 b/w, 20 colour
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Agricultural Landscapes of Al-Andalus, and the Aftermath of Feudal Conquest ed. by Helena Kirchner and Flocel Sabaté (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nicholas D. Brodie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Agricultural Landscapes of Al-Andalus, and the Aftermath of Feudal Conquest ed. by Helena Kirchner and Flocel Sabaté Nicholas D. Brodie Kirchner, Helena, and Flocel Sabaté, eds, Agricultural Landscapes of Al-Andalus, and the Aftermath of Feudal Conquest (The Medieval Countryside, 22), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp
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Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty by Aidan Norrie et al (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Michele Seah
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty by Aidan Norrie et al Michele Seah Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds, Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (Queenship and Power), London
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Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550) ed. by Veronica O'Mara and Patricia Stoop (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Mitchell Thompson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550) ed. by Veronica O’Mara and Patricia Stoop Mitchell Thompson O’Mara, Veronica, and Patricia Stoop, eds, Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic
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Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Hélène Sirantoine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed Hélène Sirantoine Papp Reed, Zsuzsanna, Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 38), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 469; 1 colour, 11 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w tables; R.R.P. €125
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Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture by Sara Petrosillo (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Zita Eva Rohr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture by Sara Petrosillo Zita Eva Rohr Petrosillo, Sara, Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture), Columbus, The Ohio State University Press, 2023; hardback; pp. xxii, 216; 11
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Werewolves in Norse-Icelandic Literature: Between the Monster and the Man by Minjie Su (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Chris White
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Werewolves in Norse-Icelandic Literature: Between the Monster and the Man by Minjie Su Chris White Su, Minjie, (Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes, 3), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 227; 13 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €80,00; ISBN 9782503596006. Minjie Su’s presents a compelling argument about the nature and role of werewolves
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Notes on Contributors Parergon Pub Date : 2023-12-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Kate Allan recently completed her doctorate on ‘Alchemical Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing’ at the University of Oxford. Prior to this, she completed an MA in English at the University of St Andrews followed by an MSt in English (1550–1700) at Oxford. Her research considers the engagement of seventeenth-century
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In Memoriam: Ioannis Oastler Wardii Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 John Pryor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In MemoriamIoannis Oastler Wardii John Pryor John Oastler Ward was born in Melbourne in 1940 and died in Canberra on 29 April 2023. Into the eighty-three years in between he packed an extraordinary, multifaceted life. As well as for his academic scholarship and teaching he was renowned for his civic commitment, his love of music, especially
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Parergon (New Series) at 40 Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Elizabeth Jeffreys, Diane Speed, Andrew Lynch, Toby Burrows, Susan Broomhall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Parergon (New Series) at 40 Elizabeth Jeffreys (bio), Diane Speed (bio), Andrew Lynch (bio), Toby Burrows (bio), and Susan Broomhall (bio) Venturing into the Unknown, 1983–89 So Parergon is celebrating its fortieth issue—a red-letter day indeed! To be accurate, however, what is being celebrated is the fortieth issue of the New Series,
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The Papacy and the English Religious, 1305–52 Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Peter McDonald
Abstract: This article examines the local effects of papal centralisation of ecclesiastical administration in the first half of the fourteenth century. It traces as a case study the impact on English monastic communities of papal privileges and exemptions, papal attempts to regulate religious observance, the expansion of the papal judicial system, and the growth of papal appointments of heads of houses
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An Essay on Contextual Indeterminacy in Early Modern English Intellectual History: Past-Relationships, Historicity, Languages, and the Conceptual Realm Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Conal Condren
Abstract: This article discusses contextualisation in early modern, mainly English intellectual history, from which ‘Cambridge contextualist’ history arose. It argues that contextualisation is a ubiquitous aspect of understanding and that historical contexts are unstable historiographical necessities, not features of history. It explores the issues most with reference to J. G. A. Pocock’s notions of
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'Physicians of the Soul': Clerical Responses to Demonic Temptation and Possession in Early Modern Reformed English Protestant Theology Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Brendan C. Walsh
Abstract: Recent scholarship has highlighted the centrality of demonic temptation (to commit sin) in early modern Reformed English Protestantism. This article develops this argument further by examining the manifestation of, and the clerical response to, demonic possession in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Demonic possession is framed here as an expression of intense conflict
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The Most Moderate of Radical Demonologists? The Amphibian Nature of Jean Bodin's Démonomanie des sorciers Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Fabián Alejandro Campagne
Abstract: The ‘Démonomanie des sorciers’ by Jean Bodin is, along with the ‘Malleus maleficarum’, not only one of the most famous demonologies ever written but one of the most commercially successful. However, one aspect of its argumentation seems to have been overlooked by scholars so far: the paradoxical coexistence of the providentialist foundations of Bodin’s doctrine, typical of the moderate demonology
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Publicity and Persuasion in Early Modern England: The Babington Plot and its Aftermath, 1586‒88 Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jonathan McGovern
Abstract: This article argues that the English Privy Council organised a persuasion campaign in the wake of the Babington Plot (1586). It examines a wealth of sources from a variety of genres, including prayers, sermons, ballads, and treatises, which are often analysed in isolation. It establishes the date of an anonymous sermon delivered at Paul’s Cross to condemn the Babington Plot, and it provides
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Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200–1550: Preliminary Notes Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 G. Geltner
Abstract: The proliferation of mines in Europe since the late twelfth century is well documented, but only recently have scholars begun to fathom the scale of the industry’s ecological impact, on the one hand, and its role in stimulating environmental thinking and action, on the other. Focusing on the extraction and processing of metal ores, this article begins by illustrating how the renascent sector
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Bird-Catching as a Love Allegory: A Comparison of Greco-Roman and Early Modern English Literature Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Ashleigh Green
Abstract: In the literature of early modern England, particularly Lyly, Shakespeare, and Spenser, love and sexual desire are commonly allegorised in terms of luring, trapping, and shooting birds. This paper investigates the classical origins of this symbolism, revealing how authors used Greek and Roman metaphors of love-as-fowling to inform their own works, with Cupid himself often imagined as a bird
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The Kangaroo Kelmscott: Materiality, Embellishment, and Australian Identity Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Veronica Alfano, Louise D'Arcens
Abstract: The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) is recognised as the crowning achievement of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press. In 1921, a copy of this book housed in the State Library of New South Wales was beautifully rebound in tooled kangaroo hide. We show that in the process of attempting to transform the Kelmscott Chaucer into an Australian cultural artefact, this rebinding illuminates Australian medievalism
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New Work on Early Modern Women Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Paul Salzman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Work on Early Modern Women Paul Salzman (bio) Luckyj, Christina, Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022; hardback; pp. 281; R.R.P. AU$141.95; ISBN 9781108845090. Suzuki, Mihoko, Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War
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Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ed. by Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Stephen Joyce
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ed. by Cédric Brélaz and Els Rose Stephen Joyce Brélaz, Cédric, and Els Rose, eds, Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 37), Turnhout,
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Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent ed. by Jennifer N. Brown and Nicole R. Rice (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Anna Welch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent ed. by Jennifer N. Brown and Nicole R. Rice Anna Welch Brown, Jennifer N., and Nicole R. Rice, eds, Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent (York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
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The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata by Pamela Allen Brown (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Sophie Tomlinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata by Pamela Allen Brown Sophie Tomlinson Brown, Pamela Allen, The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021; hardback; pp. 320; 20 illustrations; R.R.P. £70.00;
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The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture by Brigitte Buettner (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Judith Collard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture by Brigitte Buettner Judith Collard Buettner, Brigitte, The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022; cloth; pp. xiv, 272; 35 colour, 55 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$99
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Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia: Essays in Honour of Kirsten Wolf ed. by Dario Bullitta and Natalie M. Van Dreusen (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 John Kennedy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia: Essays in Honour of Kirsten Wolf ed. by Dario Bullitta and Natalie M. Van Dreusen John Kennedy Bullitta, Dario, and Natalie M. Van Dreusen, eds, Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia: Essays
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Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark ed. by Sarah Croix and Mads Vedel Heilskov (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Roderick McDonald
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark ed. by Sarah Croix and Mads Vedel Heilskov Roderick McDonald Croix, Sarah, and Mads Vedel Heilskov, eds, Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark (Acta Scandinavica, 12), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp. 296; 11 b/w, 32 colour illustrations, R.R.P.
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Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography across East and West ed. by Ghazzal Dabiri (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Patrick Ball
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography across East and West ed. by Ghazzal Dabiri Patrick Ball Dabiri, Ghazzal, ed., Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography across East and West (Fabulae, 1), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp. 217; 3 colour illustrations; R
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The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Paige Donaghy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun Paige Donaghy DeVun, Leah, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, New York, Columbia University Press, 2021; pp. iii, 315; 40 colour plates; R.R.P. US$35.00; ISBN 9780231195515. In present day Australia and New Zealand
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The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 by Sonja Drimmer (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Hilary Maddocks
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 by Sonja Drimmer Hilary Maddocks Drimmer, Sonja, The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 (Material Texts), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; paperback; pp. 352; 97 b/w, 27 colour illustrations;
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Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II ed. by Karl Fugelso (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Marina Gerzić
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II ed. by Karl Fugelso Marina Gerzić Fugelso, Karl, ed., Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II (Studies in Medievalism, XXX), Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2021; hardback; pp. 256; 20 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9781843845881. The most recent volume in the Studies in Medievalism series
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'Otherness' in the Middle Ages ed. by Hans-Werner Goetz and Ian N. Wood (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Georgina Pitt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: ‘Otherness’ in the Middle Ages ed. by Hans-Werner Goetz and Ian N. Wood Georgina Pitt Goetz, Hans-Werner, and Ian N. Wood, eds, ‘Otherness’ in the Middle Ages (International Medieval Research, 25), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp. 478; 25 b/w, 9 colour illustrations, 4 maps; R.R.P. € 125.00; ISBN 9782503594026. This
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Scribes of Space. Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science by Matthew Boyd Goldie (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jenna Mead
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Scribes of Space. Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science by Matthew Boyd Goldie Jenna Mead Goldie, Matthew Boyd, Scribes of Space. Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2019; hardback; pp. 312; 11 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US$58.95; ISBN 9781501734045
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Santos y Reliquias: Sonido. Imagen. Liturgia. Textos ed. by Maricarmen Gómez Muntané (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jane Morlet Hardie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Santos y Reliquias: Sonido. Imagen. Liturgia. Textos ed. by Maricarmen Gómez Muntané Jane Morlet Hardie Gómez Muntané, Maricarmen, ed., Santos y Reliquias: Sonido. Imagen. Liturgia. Textos., Madrid, Editorial Alpuerto, 2021; paperback; pp. 424; R.R.P. €30.00; ISBN 9788438105313. This extraordinary collection of studies is
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The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century: Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe ed. by Idoia Grau Sologestoa and Umberto Albarella (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Susan Broomhall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century: Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe ed. by Idoia Grau Sologestoa and Umberto Albarella Susan Broomhall Grau Sologestoa, Idoia, and Umberto Albarella, eds, The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century: Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe (Studies in the History
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The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery by Alexandra Lester-Makin (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Sarah Randles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery by Alexandra Lester-Makin Sarah Randles Lester-Makin, Alexandra, The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery (Ancient Textile Series, 35), Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019; paperback; pp. xi, 243; 94 b/w illustrations
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John Fletcher's Rome: Questioning the Classics by Domenico Lovascio (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Gabriella Edelstein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics by Domenico Lovascio Gabriella Edelstein Lovascio, Domenico, John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics (The Revels Plays Companion Library), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022; hardback; pp. xviii, 232; 5 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £80.00; ISBN 9781526157386. It
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Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France by Yossi Maurey (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Robert Curry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France by Yossi Maurey Robert Curry Maurey, Yossi, Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages,
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The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage ed. by William Whobrey (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Andrea Bubenik
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage ed. by William Whobrey Andrea Bubenik The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage, ed. and trans. by William Whobrey, Indianapolis, Hackett, 2018; paperback; pp. 312; R.R.P. US$16.00; ISBN 9781624666759. What do The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones have in common? Both echo the Nibelungenlied
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Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200–1600: Political Action between Submission and Defiance ed. by Fabrizio Titone (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Grace May Howe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200–1600: Political Action between Submission and Defiance ed. by Fabrizio Titone Grace May Howe Titone, Fabrizio, ed., Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200–1600: Political Action between Submission and Defiance (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 29), Turnhout, Brepols,
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On Gambling by Pascasius Justus Turcq (review) Parergon Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Patrick Ball
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: On Gambling by Pascasius Justus Turcq Patrick Ball Turcq, Pascasius Justus, On Gambling, trans. by William M. Barton (Lysa Neo-Latin Texts, 1), Gent, Lysa Publishers, 2022; paperback; cloth; pp. 284; R.R.P. €39.00; ISBN 9789464447668. William M. Barton’s translation of the only known work by Pascasius Justus Turcq (‘Pascasius’)