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53 (2022)
53-1
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Innovation: Valverde Reconsidered
The Forgotten Best Seller of the Confessional Age: The Many Lives of Luis de Granada’s Libro de la oración y meditación
Printing the Body of the Prince: Henri IV and Royal Portraiture
Liberating Speech: Confession and Dialogue in Marguerite de Navarre’s Les Prisons
“Means of Persuasion”: The Material Culture and Oppositional Politics of Two Counter-Reformation Female Agents, Jane Dormer and Luisa de Carvajal
Learned without Book: English Grammar Schools and the Place of Textbooks in Early Modern Education
53-2
Remembrance in a Gentry Family, ca. 1534–92
Lost and Found Accounts of a Tudor House: Inventories of Chesworth, Sussex, 1547 and 1549
The Kindness of Strangers: New Testament Imagery and the Restoration of the Monarchy in the Chirk Cabinet
“Furnaces of all letcherousness”: Narratives of Sexual Depravity and the Dissolution of the English Monasteries
Mannered Gender: A Hermaphroditic Blason in the Miroir de Jhesus Christ crucifié
What the Emperor Knew: Natural History in the Tafel-Reden of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–64)
53-3
Becoming Ordinary: The Aurora Borealis during the Reformation
Manuscripts, Stationers, and Printers: Reading Medieval Chronicles in Early Sixteenth-Century Bruges
“A thing so unprofitable”: Economic Concerns and Signs in Thomas More’s Utopia
Germania Romana: Geographical-Historical Transformation and the Necessity of Rome for German Patriotic Humanists
Orating the News: Printed Diplomatic Orations, Political Communication, and the Roots of Public Diplomacy in Renaissance Italy, 1470–1513
Melodies of Doves, Clamor from the Towers: The Dawn of Granada’s Sonic Conversion
52 (2021)
52-1
Michelangelo’s Minerva Christ: The Medieval Man of Sorrows and Eucharistic Piety in the Early Sixteenth Century
Between Faculty Psychology and Moral Philosophy: Juan Luis Vives on Phantasia and the Education of the Prince
The Accidental Worthy: Guy of Warwick and the Influence of Gerard Legh’s Accedens of Armory (1562–1612)
Gendering Political Relationships in Genoese Ceremonial Entries
“All mens eyes are fixed vpon you”: Dedications of Printed Works to the Earl of Essex and the Creation of Essex’s Public Persona
52-2
The Cross and the Lotus Flower: Reinventing Christian Art in Early Modern India
“Slimy Kempes Ill Smelling of the Mud:” The Terroir of Poetry and the Desire for Change in Barclay’s Eclogues
Climbing the Ladder: Hieronymus Bosch and the Vision of Hell
Implementing Royal Policy in Castile: The Council of the Cruzada and Monastic Discounts in the Ecclesiastical Subsidy, 1534–58
Reformation Studies in China over Seventy Years, 1949–2019
52-3
Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars
Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves
“But Who Can Assure Himselfe Not To Be Deceived in Matters Concerning Spirits?” Discernment as Antidemonology in Late Sixteenth-Century Europe
Untranslatable Huacas: The Languages of Cultural Appropriation in Early Modern Spanish Chronicles in Peru (1550–1615)
Bedding Agostino Chigi: Sodoma’s Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne in the Villa Farnesina
The Means to Rebuild the Church: Franco-Italian Networks, Lay Piety, and Religious Patronage in Counter-Reformation France
52-4
The Language of Consolation: The Spiritual Exercises and Jesuit Legibility in the Early Modern Mission Field
The Birth of a Martyr: The Metamorphosis of Hosokawa Tama Gracia
Monastic Reform and State-Building: Fontevraud and Origins of Bourbon France (1491–1589)
The Lady Vanishes: Religious Conflict and Premortem Enshrinement in Sixteenth-Century China
The Late Medieval City and Its Peri-Urban Sacred Landscape: The Case of Biberach an der Riß
Perseverance of the Eagle-Jaguar Military Ethos in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
51 (2020)
51-1
“A Purgation Worse Than the First Offense”: An Annotated Version of Knox’s Letter of Apology to Elizabeth I
Richard Jones’s Tamburlaine the Great, or How to Print an Early Modern Play and Sequel
Secret Cabinets, Scribal Publication, and the Satyrique: François Maynard and Libertine Poetry in Public and Private Spaces
The Historia vom Leiden, Sterben, Aufferstehung vnd Himelfart Christi of Margarethe, Princess of Anhalt (1473–1530)
The Knight with No Horse: Defining Nobility in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile
Archive Wars: Record Destruction and the Memory of the French Wars of Religion in Montpellier
51-2
Manueline Marriages: Marriage, Wardship, and the Assimilation of Cristãos Novos in Portugal, 1497–1507
Of Pastorals and Partisans: Nationalist Variations on the Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-Century Anti-Protestant Polemics
Calling for Peace, Preparing for War: The Revolutionary Voice of Saint Genevieve during the Fronde
Picturing Time and Eternity in Sebastiano del Piombo’s Viterbo Pietà
Political Medicine in Early Modern Spain, or How Physicians Counsel the King
Religion or Rebellion? Justifying the French Wars of Religion and Dutch Revolt to German Protestants
51-3
A Question of Tradition: Catholic Reformers on Gregory the Great’s Beard
The Areopagus in New Spain
The Witches’ Accomplice: Toads in Early Modern Navarre
Matters Worthy of Men of State: Ethnography and Diplomatic Reporting in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Reigning in the Highest Places: The Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in Its Roman and Spanish Contexts
Lodovico Capponi and Florentine Funerary Politics
51-4
Between Remembrance and Oblivion: Negotiating Civic Identity after the Sacks of Mechelen (1572, 1580)
Dinner with the Greatest Man on Earth, or, Erasmus’s Sword and d’Alviano’s Pen
English Publications of German Protestantism during the Reign of Elizabeth I
Preposterous Glossing: Queer Editing and Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender
Anno Domini-Dated Coins in Europe, 1450–1600: Numismatics and Early Modern Political Culture
The Dais and the Artistic Objects in the Proxy Marriage of Infanta Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy: Textiles, Ceremony, and Dissimilarity
50 (2019)
50-1
Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies: A Special Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of The Sixteenth Century Journal
Special Issue Part I: The Past
Special Issue Part II: The Present
Special Issue Part III: The Future
50-2
Blood Kinetics and Narrative Performance in Early Modern Devotions to the Shroud of Turin
The Piety of Female Friendship: Convent and Court in Sixteenth-Century Mantua
The Mémoire of the Advocate David and the Discrediting of the Guises
Noisy Soundscapes and Women’s Institutions in Early Modern Florence
The Dispersal of Francis Walsingham’s Papers
50-3
Sibylline Voices: Prophecy and Power at the Medici Theater
Discharging Pistols at the Sky: Violence and Its Failures in Arden of Faversham
The Politics of Pedagogy: Jesuit Education as Political Threat in the Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian Republic
Louis Guyon’s Wolf-Boy of the Ardennes: Motherhood and Magic in Early Modern France
Religious Refugees and the Search for Public Worship in Frankfurt am Main, 1554–1608
The Infant Christ at the Spanish Court: Sor Margarita de la Cruz (1567–1633) and Sacred Material Culture
50-4
Challenging Confinement: The Redress of Captivity in La gran sultana
Baldassarre Peruzzi and the Architecture of Painting
The Artist as Visionary in Francisco de Zurbarán’s Crucifixion with a Painter
Relocating the Spanish Renaissance: Charles V, the Torre de la Estufa in the Alhambra, and the Islamic Past
The Witch and the Weather: Fear of Weather Magic in German Sixteenth-Century Neue Zeitungen
49 (2018)
49-1
What Was Thomas Lodge's Josephus in Early Modern England
Hearing Difference in Calvin's Geneva: From Margins to Center
Henry VIII, János Szapolyai, and the Struggle for Hungary, 1526–36
The Cranach Workshop and the Prophets of Baal: The Jewish Foil of Early Lutheran Community Building
Lord Have Mercy on Us: Broadsides and London Plague Life
49-2
Queen Bees, Queen Bess, and the Gender Politics of Butler’s Feminine Monarchie
Class, Humanism, and Neo-Latin Epitaphs in Early Modern England: The Funerary Inscriptions of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell
Patrick Finglas’s A Breviat of the Conquest of Ireland and of the Decay of the Same, ca. 1535, and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland
A Model Widow: The Portrait of Vittoria Orsini in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
The “Hairy War” (1640–50): Historicizing the Bible in the Dutch Republic on the Eve of Spinoza
49-3
Papal Anatomy in the News: Bodies and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic World
Rubens’s Dying Seneca and Masculinity
Travails of the Widow in Law in Florence at the End of the Fifteenth Century: An Illustrative Case
Remembering the Revolt of the Low Countries: Historical Canon Formation in the Dutch Republic and Habsburg Netherlands, 1566–1621
Closing the Painful Book: John Bale among the Elizabethans
49-4
Cuthburga and Saint King Henry: Two Royal Cults at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 1403–1538
“We do not sell them this tolerance”: Grand Duke Ferdinando I’s Protection of Jews in Tuscany and the Case of Jacob Esperiel
Paolo Paruta’s Oratione Funebre and the Just War in Venetian Commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto
“A Pitiful Thing”? The Afterlife of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries in Early Modern Chronicles, ca. 1540–ca. 1640
Richard Hakluyt’s Voyages: Early Modern Print Culture and the Global Reach of Englishness
48 (2017)
48-1
How to Become a Jesuit Crypto-Jew: The Self-Confessionalization of Giovanni Battista Eliano through the Textual Artifice of Conversion
Lying Sick to Die: Dying, Informal Care and Authority in Scotland, ca. 1600–1660
Mounted Coconuts, Bezoars, Slaves, and Chinese Porcelain: The Material Culture of the Donors of the Misericórdia of Porto (1500–1640)
Saints in Parts: Image of the Sacred Body in an Early Modern Venetian Town
Irreverent Reading: Martin Luther as Annotator of Erasmus
Shakespeare Review Essays
48-2
Reawakening the “Old Evangelical Zeal”: The 1617 Reformation Jubilee and Collective Memory in Strasbourg and Ulm
Nuns, Family, and Interfamilial Dynamics of Art Patronage in Post-Tridentine Roman Convents
“Persecutors Under the Cloak of Policy”: Anti-Catholic Vengeance and the Marian Hierarchy in Elizabethan England
“When War Comes They Want to Flee”: Motivation and Combat Effectiveness in the Spanish Infantry During the Italian Wars
Fascinated by Josephus: Early Modern Vernacular Readers and Ibn Daud’s Twelfth-Century Hebrew Epitome of Josippon
Four Hundred Years From Shakespeare
Review Essay: Teaching Women and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain
48-3
Rethinking St. Peter’s: Papirio Bartoli and the Ship of the Church
Finding Margaret (Pole) in Shakespeare’s Richard III
John Knox, the Scottish Church, and Witchcraft Accusations
Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Mary at the Foot of the Cross
The Precedence Controversy and the Devolution of Ferrara: A Shift in Renaissance Politics
48-4
Feminist Forum at the SCSC: Teaching and Activism in a Transformed Landscape
Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Pedagogical is Political: Feminism as a Pedagogical and Political Choice in the Classroom
Some Thoughts on Feminism from an Art Historian
Feminism in the New Millennium: Reflections from a Colonial Classroom
Teaching, Learning, and Feminism: A View from Ireland
Feminist Practices: A View from an English Literature Classroom
The Wrath of Martin Luther: Anger and Charisma in the Reformer
Setting Luther into His Historical Place: My Quarrels with the German Orthodoxy in Luther Research
A Closer Look: How I Changed My Mind about Luther and the Reformation during the Last Decade
The Word-Prophet Martin Luther
Reflections on Events that Marked the Anniversary of the Reformation
47 (2016)
47-1
Slippery Listening: Anxious Clergy and Lay Listeners’ Power in Early Modern England
Teaching Ignatian Spirituality to Rich and Poor Girls Through Dramatic Performance in Seventeenth-Century Florence
“Into that Geere the Rope”: Notes on the Early Modern Halter
The Wayward Priest of Atondo: Clerical Misbehavior, Local Community, and the Limits of Tridentine Reform
47-2
Izaak Walton’s “Holy War”: The Compleat Angler in Polemical Context
“They Say …”: Indian Talk Back as Indiaspeak in Ralph Fitch’s Account of India in 1583
Bones of Contention: The Decision to Amputate in Early Modern Germany
The Reformation and the Resurrection of the Dead
An Emperor’s Heraldry, a Pope’s Portrait, and the Cortés Map of Tenochtitlan: The Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii as an Evangelical
47-3
Singers and Lutes, Lutes and Singers: Musical Performance and Poetic Discourse in Early Modern Songs
Lorenzo “Spirito” Gualtieri’s Libro delle Sorti in Renaissance Perugia
Marguerite de Navarre and Ambiguous Deceit
Ministry in the Margins: Thomas Swalwell, OSB, and His Marginal Notes for Preaching on the Clergy
Courtesy, Cultivation, and the Ethics of Discernment in Book 6 of The Faerie Queene
47-4
Frobisher’s Bells: Commodities or Gifts?
An Unlikely Christian Humanist: How Bess of Hardwick (ca. 1527–1608) Answered “The Woman Question”
Time, Space, and Devotion: The Madonna della Clemenza and the Cappella Altemps in Rome
From Battlefield to Court: Raimondo Montecuccoli’s Diplomatic Mission to Queen Christina of Sweden after the Thirty Years’ War
Immobile Ambassadors: Gout in Early Modern Diplomacy
46 (2015)
46-1
“Moving Mortals to Tears and Devotion”: Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, Torquato Tasso, and the Sorrowing Virgin
Politic Magnificence: Deciphering the Performance of the French and Spanish Rivalry during the Entrevue at Bayonne
Where Palace and Convent Met: The Descalzas Reales in Madrid
Ennobling Reform in Tudor Ireland
46-2
When the Yellow Emperor Visited Urbino: Lodovico Arrivabene’s Il Magno Vitei (1597)
The Miracles of Spain: Dynastic Attitudes to the Habsburg Succession and the Spanish Succession Crisis (1580–1700)
The Lost Book of the Strasbourg Prophets: Orality, Literacy, and Enactment in Lienhard Jost’s Visions
“I Will Be Master of What Is Mine Own”: Fortune Hunters and Shrews in Early Modern London
The Art of Forgetting the Middle Ages: Cornelius Agrippa’s Rhetoric of Extinction
46-3
“Beautiful Serpents” and “Cathedras of Pestilence”: Antitheatrical Traditions, Gendered Decline, and Political Crisis in Early Modern Spain and England
Et aures habentes non auditis: Getting the Message about Images in Sixteenth-Century Amiens
A New Perspective on Islam in Henrician England: The Polemics of Christopher St. German
The Deployment of the Classics in Early Modern Spanish Military Manuals
From Slurs to Silence? Sodomy and Mendicants in the Writings of Catholic Laymen in Early Modern Ghent
46-4
The Self-Reflective Gaze: Devotional Art between New Piety and Pietism in Lutheran Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Contingencies of Literary Censorship: Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy and Amadís de Gaula in January 1569
Mixing Canon and Common Law in Religious Prosecutions under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Bishop Bonner, Anne Askew, and Beyond
“The Sisters of Rachel”: Interpreting Dying in Childbed in Early Modern Denmark-Norway
Concord and Toleration in the Thought of Francesco Pucci, 1578–81
Experiential Learning In and Out of the Classroom
45 (2014)
45-1
“Redditus orbis erat”: The Political Rhetoric of Bernini’s Fountains in Piazza Barberini
Conjuring the Concept of Rome: Alterity and Synecdoche in Peruzzi’s Design for La Calandria
Parental Authority and Freedom of Choice: The Debate on Clandestinity and Parental Consent at the Council of Trent (1545–63)
Vergilianism in Early Cinquecento Rome: Egidio Gallo and the Vision of Roman Destiny
45-2
People’s Secrets: Towards a Social History of Early Modern Cryptography
De rerum textura: Lucretius, Fracastoro, and the Sense of Touch
Anti-Machiavellianism and Roman Civil Religion in the Princely Literature of Sixteenth-Century Europe
Politics, Monuments, and Venice’s Reclamation of Padua during the Cambrai War
45-3
The Fish and the Whale: Animal Symbiosis and Early Modern Posthumanism
Salvation and Community in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Mennonite Portraiture: Egbert van Heemskerck’s Portrait of Jacob Hercules and His Family, 1669
Religion, Household-State Authority, and the Defense of “Collapsed Ladies” in Early Jacobean England
The Emergence of the State in Elizabethan Ireland and England, ca. 1575–99
45-4
Marie de Beaulieu and Isabella Andreini: Cross-Cultural Patronage at the French Court
An Anglo-Saxon Psalter and an Early Modern Female Reader
Debating the Literal Sense in England: The Scripture-Learned and the Family of Love
Resurrecting Vivisection: Michelangelo among the Anatomists
A Skeleton in the Closet: Secrecy and Anamorphosis in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron
Writing and Editing Texts for the 21st Century Classroom
44 (2013)
44-1
Andreas Pevernage’s Cantiones sacrae (1578) as a Counter-Reformation Statement of Confessional Loyalty in the Low Countries
Tanglost of Wales: Magic and Adultery in the Court of Chancery circa 1500
Brother-Sister Correspondence in the Spinelli Family and the Forming of Family Networks in Sixteenth-Century Italy
“For the maintenance of the true religion”: Calvinism and the Directors of the Dutch West India Company
The Crusading State: The Expedition for the Cruzada Indulgence from Trent to Lepanto
44-2
From Incense to Idolatry: The Reformation of Olfaction in Late Medieval German Ritual
“Did the Pastor Buy You a Drink?” Religious Choice, Clerical Persuasion, and Confessional Elections in the Village of Goumoëns
The Rhetoric of Domestic Morality in Last Wills and Testaments in Sixteenth-Century Prague
The Conclaves of 1590 to 1592: An Electoral Crisis of the Early Modern Papacy?
After Iconoclasm: Reconciliation and Resacralization in the Southern Netherlands, ca. 1566–85
44-3
Despots, Emperors, and Balkan Identity in Exile
Papal Power and University Control in Early Modern Italy: Bologna and Gregory XIII
Presenting the “Poor Miserable Savage” to French Urban Elites: Commentary on North American Living Conditions in Early Jesuit Relations
Low Dowries, Absent Parents: Marrying for Love in an Early Modern French Town
(No) News from the Western Front: The Weekly Press of the Low Countries and the Making of Atlantic News
44-4
A Roman Poet in the Venetian Republic: The Reception of Horace in Sixteenth-Century Bergamo
“Nager entre deux eaux”: The Princes and the Ambiguities of French Protestantism
Vasari and the Etruscan Manner
From Thought to Action: Gilbert, Davis, And Dee’s Theories behind the Search for the Northwest Passage
43 (2012)
43-1
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Witchcraft: A Reappraisal
Gendering the Borderlands: Conquistadors, Women, and Colonialism in Sixteenth-Century Florida
Camilla Peretti, Sixtus V, and the Construction of Peretti Family Identity in Counter-Reformation Rome
The Tudor Genesis of Edward Coke’s Immemorial Common Law
43-2
Suor Domenica da Paradiso as alter Christus: Portraits of a Renaissance Mystic
Cultivating Prudence: Robert Dallington’s Aphorismes Civill and Militarie
Orthography and National Identity in the Sixteenth Century
Anthony Copley and the Politics of Catholic Loyalty 1590– 1604
The Plague Cures of Caspar Kegler: Print, Alchemy, and Medical Marketing in Sixteenth-Century Germany
43-3
St. Clare Expelling the Saracens from Assisi: Religious Confrontation in Word and Image
Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young
“Those sanctified places where our Sauiours feete had trode”: Jerusalem in Early Modern English Travel Narratives
New Light on Antiparacelsianism (c. 1570– 1610): The Medical Republic of Letters and the Idea of Progress in Science
The Case of Thomas Gataker: Confronting Superstition in Seventeenth-Century England
43-4
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Antiquities, and the Roman Inquisition
Faith in the Language: Biblical Authority and the Meaning of English in More-Tyndale Polemics
In the Book of Life: Manuscript, Memoria, and Community in Eduard de Dene’s Testament Rhetoricael
In the Book of Life: Manuscript, Memoria, and Community in Eduard de Dene’s Testament Rhetoricael
Pluralism, Liturgy, and the Paradoxes of Reform: A Reforming Pluralist in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome
Traversing Borders—Defining Boundaries: Cosmopolitan Harmonies and Confessional Theology in Georg Rhau’s Liturgical Publications
42 (2011)
42-1
In Memoriam: Robert McCune Kingdon
Heraldry and Collective Memory: A Lawsuit of Emperor Charles V against Reinoud III of Brederode
“This is no prophecy”: Robert Crowley, Piers Plowman, and Kett’s Rebellion
Puritan Conciliarism: Why Walter Travers Read Bullinger’s De Conciliis
The Coverture of Widowhood: Heterodox Female Publishers in Antwerp, 1530–1580
“Uncouth language to a Princes ears”: Archibald Armstrong, Court Jester, and Early Stuart Politics
42-2
Castiglione’s Francescopaedia: Pope Julius II and Francesco Maria della Rovere in The Book of the Courtier
Anatomia Antichristi: Form and Content of the Papal Antichrist
Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and Medicine: The Religious Convictions of Johan Wier
Bartolomeo Ammannati: Moving Stones, Managing Waterways, and Building an Empire for Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici
“El Papa non verrà”: The Failed Triumphal Entry of Leo X de’ Medici into Siena
42-3
From Illegitimate Son to Legal Citizen: Noble Bastards in Early Modern Venice
Botticelli’s Return of Persephone: On the Source and Subject of the Primavera
Confession, Contention, and Confusion: The Last Words of Robert Barnes and the Shaping of Theological Identity
Vasari, Leonardo, and il vero ritratto del tradimento et inumanità
“Selling stories and many other things in and through the city”: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice
42-4
Political Pamphlets in Early Seventeenth-Century France: The Propaganda War between Louis XIII and His Mother, 1619–20
From Sin to Insanity? Suicide Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Constitutional Thought and Practice in Early Sixteenth-Century France: Revisiting the Legacy of Ernst Kantorowicz
Empire and Medieval Simulacrum: A Political Project of Mercurino di Gattinara, Grand Chancellor of Charles V
“The field of finance”: War and Taxation in Holland, Flanders, and Brabant, 1572–85
41 (2010)
41-1
Civic Charity, Civic Virtue: The Master of Alkmaar’s Seven Works of Mercy
Tradition and Innovation in Spanish Medicine: Bartolomé Hidalgo de Agüero and the Vía Particular
Gender, Obedience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Women’s Letters
Between the Hall and the Market: William Clowes and Surgical Self-Fashioning in Elizabethan London
Thomas Preston and English Catholic Loyalism: Elements of an International Affair
John Calvin after Five Hundred Years: Texts and Teachings
John Calvin after Five Hundred Years: Life and Impact
41-2
Fatal Lovesickness in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron
Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England
“Under Felt Hats and Worsted Stockings”: The Uses of Conscience in Early Modern English Coroners’ Inquests
Between Venice and Rome: The Dilemma of Involuntary Nuns
Calvin’s Mosaic Harmony: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Legal History
41-3
Love Magic and the Inquisition: A Case from Seventeenth-Century Italy
Epistolary Negotiations: Mary the French Queen and the Politics of Letter-Writing
Disciplining Jews: The Papal Inquisition of Modena, 1598–1630
Vows, Oaths, and the Propagation of a Subversive Discourse
Imagining Esther in Early Modern France
41-4
Menno and Muhammad: Anabaptists and Mennonites Reconsider Islam, 1525–1657
Shooting for England: Configuring the Book and the Bow in Roger Ascham’s Toxophilus
Demographic Dimensions of the Mid-Tudor Crisis
Venerating the Virgin Martyrs: The Cult of the Virgines Capitales in Art, Literature, and Popular Piety
40 (2009)
40-1
A History of the Sixteenth Century Journal and Conference
Rubies and Pearls: An Introduction to Forty Personal Reflections on the Discipline
40-2
Political Ambiguity and Confessional Diversity in the Funeral Processions of Stadholders in the Dutch Republic
The Reception of Evangelicae Historiae Imagines in Late Ming China: Visualizing Holy Topography in Jesuit Spirituality and Pure Land Buddhism
Monstrous Births and Counter-Reformation Visual Polemics: Johann Nas and the 1569 Ecclesia Militans
Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: European Jews and Reformation Narratives
The Strange Silence of Prolocutor Twisse: Predestination and Politics in the Westminster Assembly’s Debate over Justification
40-3
Female Voice, Male Authority: A Nun’s Narrative of the Regularization of a Female Franciscan House in Borgo San Sepolcro in 1500
Memory, Orality, and Life Records: Proofs of Age in Tudor England
Protestants as Agents of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg
Medicine and Nonsense in French Renaissance Mock Prescriptions
Giovanni Bellini’s Feast of the Gods and Banquets of the Ancient Ritual Calendar
Governance and Empire during the Reign of Charles V: A Review Essay
40-4
Domesticating the Counter-Reformation: Bridging the Bardic and Catholic Traditions in Geoffrey Keating’s The Three Shafts of Death
Jesuit Encounters with Confucianism in Early Modern Japan
Creating a Usable Past: Vernacular Roman Histories in Renaissance Germany
A Tale as Yet Untold: Salamone Rossi in Venice, 1622
Reformation and the Muscovite Czar: Anti-Protestant Polemic in the Writings of Ivan the Terrible
39 (2008)
39-1
Turning Dutch: Historical Myths in Early Modern Netherlands
Treason or Travesty: The Martin Cortes Conspiracy Reexamined
A Hotter Sort of Protestantism? Comparisons between French and Scottish Calvinisms
The Slippery Truth of George Buchanan’s Autobiography
Predatory Protectors? Conflict and Cooperation in the Suppression of the German Peasants’ Revolt of 1525
39-2
Caught between King, Religion, and Social Ambition: Marc-Antoine Marreau de Boisguérin and His Family (ca. 1560–1680)
Noble Widows and Estate Management during the French Wars of Religion
The Economics of Marriage: Dotal Strategies in Bologna in the Age of Catholic Reform
Marriage and Consent in Pre-Tridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420–1545
“Synne and Sedition”: Peter Martyr Vermigli’s “Sermon concernynge the tyme of rebellion” in the Parker Library
39-3
Beggars at the Gates: Banishment and Exclusion in Sixteenth-Century Ulm
Jews and Jesuits in a Confessional Age: Heinrich Heshusius and the Boundaries of Community in Hildesheim
Taking It to the Streets: Hucksters and Huckstering in Early Modern Southampton, circa 1550–1652
“The Greatest Man in Wales”: James ap Gruffydd ap Hywel and the International Opposition to Henry VIII
Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel
39-4
“The folly of the swinish, brutish, mutinous, fickle, many-headed rabble”: Social Order in the Theology of Sebastian Franck
Art Patronage and Piety in Electoral Saxony: Frederick the Wise Promotes the Veneration of His Patron, St. Bartholomew
“I can indeed respond”: Lay Confessions of Faith in Late Sixteenth-Century Central Germany
Thomas More and Margaret More Roper: A Case for Rethinking Women’s Participation in the Early Modern Public Sphere
Capell nuncapato Jherusalem noviter Brugis: The Adornes Family of Bruges and Holy Land Devotion
The Case Against Thomas More
38 (2007)
38-1
The agony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises
Crown, County, and Corporation in Early Seventeenth-Century Essex
Learning and Masculinity in Manuscripts of Ritual Magic of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
“They have taken away my Lord”: Mary Magdalene, Christ’s Missing Body, and the Mass in Reformation England
Paulus Melissus and Jacobus Falckenburgius: Two German Protestant Humanists at the Court of Queen Elizabeth
38-2
Writing the Wrongs of the Past: Vengeance, Humanism, and the Assassination of Alessandro de’ Medici
Doing Without Precedent: Applied Typology and the Execution of Charles I in Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy: The Copinger-Hacket Conspiracy as the Apotheosis of Elizabethan Presbyterianism
The Mindelaltheim Affair: High Justice, Ius Reformandi, and the Rural Reformation in Eastern Swabia (1542–46)
Savonarolan Witnesses: The Nuns of San Jacopo and the Piagnone Movement in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Teaching Elizabeth Tudor with Movies: Film, Historical Thinking, and the Classroom
38-3
Tales of Two Bishop Saints: Zenobius and Antoninus in Florentine Renaissance Art and History
Philosemitism in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Iberia: Refracted Judeophobia?
Art and Reform: Correggio’s Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine with St. Sebastian
Axel Oxenstierna and Books
38-4
“Surrender and Regrant” in the Historiography of Sixteenth-Century Ireland
Inventing the British Republic: Richard Beacon’s Solon His Follie (1594) and the Rhetoric of Civilization
“Admitted to the Heavenly School”: Consolation, Instruction, and Admonition in Aegidius Hunnius’s Academic Funeral Sermons
The Political Repercussions of the Five Articles of Perth: A Reassessment of James VI and I’s Religious Policies in Scotland
37 (2006)
37-1
The Spanish Reformation: Institutional Reform, Taxation, and the Secularization of Ecclesiastical Properties under Charles V
Spanish Celebrations in Seventeenth-Century Naples
The Guises, the Body of Christ, and the Body Politic
Ceremony versus Consent: Courtship, Illegitimacy, and Reputation in Northwest England, 1560–1610
The Early Modern Portuguese Empire: A Commentary on Recent Studies
37-2
Niccolò Liburnio on the Boundaries of Portraiture in the Early Cinquecento
Child Monuments in Renaissance Poland
The Spanish Hieronymites and the Reformed Texts of the Council of Trent
Marie Dentiere: An Outspoken Reformer Enters the French Literary Canon
37-3
The Family of Love and Its Enemies
Horsing Around: Framing Alchemy in the Manuscript Illustrations of the Splendor Solis
Presenting the Spectators as the Show: The Piazza degli Uffizi as Theater and Stage
St. Teresa and Olivares: Patron Sainthood, Royal Favorites, and the Politics of Plurality in Seventeenth-Century Spain
37-4
Englishing the Globe: Molyneux’s Globes and Shakespeare’s Theatrical Career
Women’s Reading Practices in Seventeenth-Century England: Margaret Fell’s Women’s Speaking Justified
Holy Restraint: Religious Reform and Nuns’ Music in Early Modern Rome
Filius Perditionis: The Propagandistic Use of a Biblical Motif in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Evangelical Bible Translations
36 (2005)
36-1
Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Southern Low Countries
“To Oblige My Brethren”: The Reformed Funeral Sermons of Johann Brandmüller
The First Parliament of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Miraculous Body of Evidence: Visionary Experience, Medical Discourse, and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Melanchthon’s Doctrinal Last Will and Testament: The Responsiones ad articulos Bavaricae inquisitionis as His Final Confession of Faith
Friedrich Förner, the Catholic Reformation, and Witch-Hunting in Bamberg
Anthonius Margaritha—Honest Reporter?
36-2
Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain’s Golden Age
Book Burning in Tudor and Stuart England
Appealing to the Senses: The Forty Hours Celebrations in the Duchy of Chablais, 1597–98
Humanistic Self-Representation in Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Della Fisonomia Dell’uomo: Antecedents and Innovation
“For Caesar’s I am”: Henrician Diplomacy and Representations of King and Country in Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry
Visualizing Devotion in Early Modern Seville: Velázquez’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
36-3
Drawing Lives and Memories from the Everyday Words of the Early Modern Era
“Neither dumb, deaf, nor destitute of understanding”: Women as Guardians in Early Modern Spain
Community of the Texts: Producing the First and Second Editions of Acts and Monuments
A Marriage Commemorated in the Stairway of Fools
When Male Characters Pass as Women: Theatrical Play and Social Practice in the Italian Renaissance
Making Use of God’s Remedies: Negotiating the Material Care of Children in Reformation Geneva
36-4
Faith and Forgiveness: Lessons in Statecraft for Queen Mary Tudor
Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic
“Our Particular Cloister”: Ursulines and Female Education in Seventeenth-Century Parma and Piacenza
Armchair Travelers and the Venetian Discovery of the New World
Private Confession and the Lutheranization of Sixteenth-Century Nördlingen
35 (2004)
35-1
The Welfare of Pregnant and Birthing Women as a Concern for Male and Female Rulers: A Case Study
Anti-Puritanism, Anti-Popery, and Gallows Rhetoric in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller
Called to Be a Pastor: Issues of Vocation in the Early Modern Period
The Magdeburg Cathedral Pastor Siegfried Saccus and Development of the Lutheran Funeral Biography
An Antiquarian Scholar between Text and Image? Justus Lipsius, Humanist Education, and the Visualization of Ancient Rome
Wolsey, More, and the Unity of Christendom
Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin’s Histoire des vrays tesmoins
35-2
Manifest Humbleness: Self-Commemoration in the Time of the Catholic Reform
Francisco de Sotomayor and Nascent Urbanism in Sixteenth-Century Madrid
The Michael Wood Mystery: William Cecil and the Lincolnshire Printing of John Day
Thomas Dempster, Royal Historian to James I, and Classical Scholarship in Early Stuart England
Court and Convent: The Infanta Isabella and Her Franciscan Confessor Andrés de Soto
Michelangelo’s Signature
35-3
The Presence and Participation of Laypeople in the Congrégations of the Company of Pastors in Geneva
The Character of an Antipuritan
Change in Continuity: Post-Tridentine Rural and Township Parish Life in the Cracow Diocese
Persevering in the Faith: Catholic Worship and Communal Identity in the Wake of the Edict of Nantes
Breaking the Ice to Invention: Henry Peacham’s The Art of Drawing (1606)
Early Modern Literary Communities: Madeleine Des Roches’s City of Women
The Bresse Clergy Assembly and Tithe Grants, 1560–80
35-4
Skin, Bones, and Dust: Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
Januensis ergo mercator: Trust and Enforcement in the Business Correspondence of the Brignole Family
Justice in the Age of Lordship: A Feudal Court in Tuscany during the Medici Era (1619–66)
Gospelling Sisters “goinge up and downe”: John Foxe and Disorderly Women
Providence, Fortune, and the Experience of Combat: English Printed Battlefield Reports, circa 1570–1637
Women, Honor, and Violence in a Castilian Town, 1600–1650
34 (2003)
34-1
The Supreme Court of the Holy Roman Empire: The State of Research and the Outlook
John Owen's Interpretation of Hebrews 6:4-6: Eternal Perseverance of the Saints in Puritan Exegesis
The Demons Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix
"In the Christian City of Wittenberg": Karlstadt's Tract on Images and Begging
The Book of Sir Thomas More and Laughter of the Heart
Arbitration of Neighborhood Ties and Honor: Building and Property Disputes before the Six-Man Council of Prague, 1547-1611
"These So-Called Early Modern Women Writers": Strategies for Integrating Women Writers into English Department Curriculum
34-2
Marriage in Early Modern Europe
Incest and Lust in Luther's Marriage: Theology and Morality in Reformation Polemics
"A Godly Wyfe Is an Helper": Matthew Parker and the Defense of Clerical Marriage
Heinrich Bullinger, Marriage, and the English Reformation: The Christen state of Matrimonye in England, 1540-53
Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre on Sixteenth-Century Views of Clandestine Marriage
Mutations of the Androgyne: Its Functions in Early Modern French Literature
Seduction by Promise of Marriage: Law, Sex, and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Spain
34-3
A Painting, a Poem, and a Controversy about Women and Love in Paris in the 1530s
"Mio malinchonico, o vero ... mi? pazzo": Michelangelo, Vasari, and the Problem of Artists' Melancholy in Sixteenth-Century Italy
"We do not have it, and we do not want it": Women, Power, and Convent Reform in Florence
Bastards in the German Nobility in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Evidence of the Zimmerische Chronik
Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno's Geometry
Linguistic "Xenohomophobia" in Sixteenth-Century France: The Case of Henri Estienne
Schooling in Renaissance Pistoia: Community and Civic Humanism in Small-Town Tuscany
34-4
Brawling in Church: Noise and the Rhetoric of Lay Behavior in Early Modern England
Genealogy and the Limits of Panegyric: Turks and Huns in Fifteenth-Century Epithalamia
Jewish History, Catholic Argument: Thomas Lodge's Workes of Josephus as a Catholic Text
"A work in which the angels are wont to rejoice": Lucas Cranach's Schneeberg Altarpiece
Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain
After Nebrija: Academic Reformers and the Teaching of Latin in Sixteenth-Century Salamanca