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Volume 77 - Spring 2024

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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe. Julie Stone Peters. Law and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi + 350 pp. £70.
Susan Longfield Karr
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24 April 2024, pp. 279-280
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The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas. Giuseppe Marcocci. Trans. Richard Bates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $93.
Jakub Basista
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24 April 2024, pp. 280-282
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The Invention of China in Early Modern England: Spelling the Dragon. Jonathan E. Lux. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 224 pp. $109.99.
Wang Xiao
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24 April 2024, pp. 282-283
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The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks. Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds, eds. Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World 89. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xxiv + 394 pp.
Victoria Button
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24 April 2024, pp. 284-285
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The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Henry R. Shapiro. Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. xii + 324 pp. $110.
Tommaso Stefini
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24 April 2024, pp. 285-287
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Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe. Matthew Mark Stevens and Roman Czaja, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 282 pp. $90.
Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas
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24 April 2024, pp. 287-288
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Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy. Timothy McCall. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xiv + 222 pp. 50 b/w + 36 col. pls. $109.95.
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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24 April 2024, pp. 289-290
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Florence à l’écritoire: Écriture et mémoire dans l'Italie de la Renaissance. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2023. 254 pp. €12.
Stefano U. Baldassarri
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24 April 2024, pp. 290-291
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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. 448 pp. $55.
Michael A. Vaccari
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24 April 2024, pp. 292-293
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The Trial of Giordano Bruno. Germano Maifreda. New York: Routledge, 2022. 258 pp. $136.
Katherine Aron-Beller
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24 April 2024, pp. 293-295
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Tuscany in the Age of Empire. Brian Brege. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. xii + 492 pp. $59.
Jeffrey Miner
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24 April 2024, pp. 295-296
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Tudor Children. Nicholas Orme. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2023. xiv + 265 pp. $30.
Richard M. Waugaman
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24 April 2024, pp. 296-298
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The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations. Daniel Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $110.
Philippe Baillargeon
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24 April 2024, pp. 298-299
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At Kingdom's Edge: Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject. Jacob Selwood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. xii + 238. $57.95.
Monica Styles
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24 April 2024, pp. 299-301
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I segni della fine: Storia di un predicatore nell'Italia del Rinascimento. Michele Lodone. Rome: Viella, 2021. 285 pp. €27.55.
Fabrizio Conti
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24 April 2024, pp. 301-302
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Marriage Litigation in the Western Church 1215–1517. Wolfgang Müller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. viii + 270 pp. $99.99.
Frederik Pedersen
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24 April 2024, pp. 302-304
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Metaphysics in the Reformation: The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli. Silvianne Aspray. The British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xi +176 pp. £60.
Jill R. Fehleison
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24 April 2024, pp. 304-306
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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Robin Macdonald, Emilie K. M. Murphy, and Elizabeth L. Swann, eds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. xiv + 256 pp. $160.
Lora Walsh
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24 April 2024, pp. 306-307
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Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxii + 349 + b/w pls. $100.
Camilla Kandare
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24 April 2024, pp. 307-309
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Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Annette Aubert and Zachary Purvis, eds. Brill's Series in Church History 82. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xii + 260 pp. $140.
Joshua Bennett
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24 April 2024, pp. 309-310
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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe. Julie Stone Peters. Law and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi + 350 pp. £70.

The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas. Giuseppe Marcocci. Trans. Richard Bates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $93.

The Invention of China in Early Modern England: Spelling the Dragon. Jonathan E. Lux. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 224 pp. $109.99.

The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks. Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds, eds. Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World 89. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xxiv + 394 pp.

The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Henry R. Shapiro. Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. xii + 324 pp. $110.

Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe. Matthew Mark Stevens and Roman Czaja, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 282 pp. $90.

Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy. Timothy McCall. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xiv + 222 pp. 50 b/w + 36 col. pls. $109.95.

Florence à l’écritoire: Écriture et mémoire dans l'Italie de la Renaissance. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2023. 254 pp. €12.

Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. 448 pp. $55.

The Trial of Giordano Bruno. Germano Maifreda. New York: Routledge, 2022. 258 pp. $136.

Tuscany in the Age of Empire. Brian Brege. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. xii + 492 pp. $59.

Tudor Children. Nicholas Orme. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2023. xiv + 265 pp. $30.

The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations. Daniel Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $110.

At Kingdom's Edge: Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject. Jacob Selwood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. xii + 238. $57.95.

I segni della fine: Storia di un predicatore nell'Italia del Rinascimento. Michele Lodone. Rome: Viella, 2021. 285 pp. €27.55.

Marriage Litigation in the Western Church 1215–1517. Wolfgang Müller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. viii + 270 pp. $99.99.

Metaphysics in the Reformation: The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli. Silvianne Aspray. The British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xi +176 pp. £60.

Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Robin Macdonald, Emilie K. M. Murphy, and Elizabeth L. Swann, eds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. xiv + 256 pp. $160.

Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxii + 349 + b/w pls. $100.

Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Annette Aubert and Zachary Purvis, eds. Brill's Series in Church History 82. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xii + 260 pp. $140.

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