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Volume 74 - Issue 2 - Summer 2021

Renaissance Quarterly Volume 74 - Issue 2 -
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Articles

  • Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser on Transnational Governance and the Future of Christendom
  • Brian C. Lockey
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 369-411
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    This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of European religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, amid the perceived Ottoman threat to Christendom. In their fictional works, these authors imagine an overarching authority that might replace the traditional papal power of oversight and deposing in order to regulate temporal sovereigns and foster a unity of Christian princes within Europe. Even as they can be read as reimagining Christendom, their fictional works reflect what Charles Taylor has called the “disenchantment” of sacred spaces within his philosophical history of the emergence of secularity within European cultures.

  • Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg
  • Stefan Hanß, Ulinka Rublack
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 412-453
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    Examining the three volumes of birds assembled by Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606), a Calvinist lawyer, court official, and church councillor in Heidelberg, this article explores visual and material cultures at a Calvinist court. We argue that Lamm was a pioneer in the production of new ornithological knowledge, an entrepreneur and enthusiast who experimented with colors and the arts in order to develop a means of representation that captured the vibrancy of feathers as a new and hitherto-unexplored feature for the classification of birds.

  • Architectural Network as Dynastic Strategy in Fontainebleau's Galerie des Cerfs
  • Elisabeth Narkin
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 454-497
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    Around 1604, Henri IV commissioned a cycle of mural maps depicting royal residences in Fontainebleau's newly constructed Galerie des Cerfs. The gallery was part of Henri IV's response to the dynastic disruption and civil war that had precipitated his ascendance and was designed to signal his authority over France as a unified realm. This article examines the Galerie des Cerfs in the context of contemporary cartography and architecture as an expression of continuity at a moment when the royal family's retreat to the Paris region threatened the political efficacy of the architectural network that had previously sustained the monarchy.

  • Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's “Resposta breve” and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism
  • Daniel Canaris
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 498-527
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    The “Resposta breve” (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard for the neo-Confucian interpreters in his reading of ancient Confucianism. It argues that Longobardo's polemic with Ricci was not theological in nature but reflected his distrust of philology in reconstructing the original meaning of ancient texts.

  • Empire in Fragments: Transatlantic News and Print Media in the Iberian World, ca. 1600–40
  • Arthur Weststeijn
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 528-570
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    This article shows how the rise of printed news media during the opening decades of the seventeenth century fomented and fragmented authority in the polycentric Spanish Habsburg empire. Analyzing the making, dissemination, and reception of transatlantic news from Madrid to Mexico and from Lisbon to Lima, the article explores how the influx of fragments of unverifiable information from overseas undermined the possibility of complete knowledge. While the Spanish Crown exploited news media to create a sense of a unified imperial space, the dynamics of distance resulted in uncertainty and the spread of conflicting narratives that fractured central control.

Reviews

  • Gothic Sculpture. Paul Binski. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. viii + 287 pp. $55.
  • Martha Wolff
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2021, pp. 589-591
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