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Review Essay: Ruth Martin, Witchcraft And The Inquisition In Venice, 1550-1650, Mary R. O'Neil

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Ruth Martin, Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Venice, 1550-1650, Basil Blackwell, 1989, 263 pp., ill., biblio., index, $55.00.

Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink

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Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, Routledge, 1989, 193 pp., xii, ill., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen

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Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Twayne Publishers, 1990, xiv, 167 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: George Parfitt, John Donne: A Literary Life, Patricia Demers

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George Parfitt, John Donne: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, viii, 140 pp., biblio., $35.00

Review Essay: Miguel De Cervantes, The Trials Of Persiles And Sigismunda, A Northern Story, Edward H. Friedman

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Miguel de Cervantes, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, A Northern Story, trans. Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan, University of California Press, 1989, 395 pp., ill., biblio., $37.50.

Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke

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John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London to His Coronation, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 43, 1988, 192 pp., ill., biblio., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: Philip J. Gallagher, Milton, The Bible, And Misogyny, Clement H. Wyke

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Philip J. Gallagher, Milton, the Bible, and Misogyny, ed. Eugene R. Cunnar and Gail L. Mortimer, University of Missouri Press, 1990, x, 185 pp., biblio., index, $27.50

Review Essay: Kevin Brownlee And Walter Stephens, Eds., Discourses Of Authority In Medieval And Renaissance Literature, Michael Rudick

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Kevin Brownlee and Walter Stephens, eds., Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University Press of New England, 1989, x, 309 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La Ciudad De Palencia En El Siglo Xv: Aportación Al Estudio De Las Ciudades Castellanas En La Baja Eedad Media, J. B. Owens

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María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La ciudad de Palencia en el siglo xv: Aportación al estudio de las ciudades castellanas en la Baja Edad Media, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1989.

Rafael Sánchez Saus, Caballería y linaje en la Sevilla medieval: Estudio genealógico y social, Diputación Provincial de Sevilla and Universidad de Cádiz, 1989, 531 pp., 2500 pesatas esp.

Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup

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Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, xii, 180 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Francis X. Newman, Ed., Social Unrest In The Late Middle Ages: Papers Of The Fifteenth Annual Conference Oof The Center For Medieval And Early Renaissance Studies, Melanie V. Shirk

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Francis X. Newman, ed., Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages: Papers of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 9, 1986, 148 pp., ill., $16.00.

Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes

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Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index to the Commentary on Gower's Confessio amantis, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 62, State University of New York, 1989, 593 pp., $35.00.

Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody

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Robert McMahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions, University oof Georgia Preess, 1989, 200 pp., biblio., index, $27.50.

Hagiographical Parody In The Ysengrimus, Dennis J. Billy

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Considered the first great expression of medieval Latin beast epic, the Ysengrimus, a mid-twelfth-century poem of 6,574 verses, has been hailed as a masterpiece of lampooning monastic parody and wit. Composed by an anonymous author (probably a monk of St. Peter's, Blandigny) in the environs of the then burgeoning Flemish city of Ghent, the poem follows the exploits of Ysengrimus, a ravenous wolf-monk of dubious intelligence whose unruly gastric and sexual appetites make him more often the prey than predator in his sundry endeavors. Until now, one area that has successfully eluded the attention of most Ysengrimus scholars is …

Review Essay: Cindy L. Vitto, The Virtuous Pagan In Middle English Literature, Gary D. Schmidt

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Cindy L. Vitto, The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 79, Part 5, 1989, 97 pp., biblio., index, $15.00

Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard

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Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, trans. and ed. David Marsh, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and The Renaissance Society of America, 1987, ix, 268 pp., ill., biblio., index, $20.00.

Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn

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Long dismissed as an immature play with no intrinsic merit, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (ca. 1570-1583) quite thoroughly debates issues of contemporary political interest. This essay seeks to restore Clyomon from its undistinguished position in Renaissance studies by showing how it dramatically supports Queen Elizabeth's use of chivalry as an ideology of power and order and criticizes military adventurism. By reading this play as a political text, in this essay I employ the methodologies of New Historicism, which identifies literature as only one of many cultural discourses taking part in the negotiation of power. "Representations of the world in …

Review Essay: Retha M. Warnicke, The Rise And Fall Of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics At The Court Of Henry Viii, Hugh T. Lovin

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Retha M. Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, Cambridge University Press, 1989, xi, 326 pp, ill., biblio., index, $10.95.

Gaspara Stampa's Poetry For Performance, Janet L. Smarr

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During the mid-sixteenth century in Italy, when a remarkable number of women joined in the production of poetry, one of the channels open to their pursuit of intellectual life and fame was the Venetian saloon. There music and poetry mingled as poems were frequently sung or recited before an audience rather than read privately in silence. The poetry of Gaspara Stampa was produced for this milieu. Published in 1554, a year after her death, her collection of more than three hundred poems has been approached in two main ways: as the autobiographical self-expression of a passionate woman and more recently …

Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller

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John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 242 pp., biblio., $42.50.

Review Essay: Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology And Revolution In The German Reformation, Albert L. Winkler

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Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation, Macmillan, 1989, xix, 203 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: Ernesto Grassi And Maristella Lorch, Folly And Insanity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia R. Fiore

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Ernesto Grassi and Maristella Lorch, Folly and Insanity in Renaissance Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1986, 128 pp., biblio., index, $18.00.

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Review Essay: Charles Dahlberg, The Literature Of Unlikeness, Brenda M. Hosington

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Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness, University Press of New England, 1988.

Review Essay: John Onians, Bearers Of Meaning: The Classical Orders In Antiquity, The Middle Ages, And The Renaissance, John F. Moffitt

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John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Princeton University Press, 1988.

Narrative Description In Marco Polo's Travels: A Nonfictional Application Of Bakhtin's Chronotope, Ute Margarete Saine

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Throughout the text of Marco Polo's Devisement du monde, the reader is repeatedly enjoined to believe the narration. Such a captatio benevolantiae – the rhetorical convention inviting reader interest – typically takes the form of assertions, such as "I am telling nothing but the truth"; "Everybody ought too believe this"; "This is how it was"; "This is how Marco Polo saw it," and the like. The narrator even proposes to uphold the sophisticated distinction between eyewitness information, gathered firsthand, and accounts obtained from others:

We will set down things seen as seen, things heard as heard, so that our …

Review Essay: Frances A. Yates, The French Academies Of The Sixteenth Century, De Lamar Jensen

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Frances A. Yates, The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century, Routledge, 1988.

Review Essay: James R. Banker, Death In The Community: Memorialization And Confraternities In An Italian Commune In The Late Middle Ages, Dennis Romano

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James R. Banker, Death in the Community: Memorialization and Confraternities in an Italian Commune in the Late Middle Ages, University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Review Essay: A. J. Pollard, The Wars Of The Roses, K. G. Madison

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A. J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: John Cummins, The Hound And The Hawk: The Art Of Medieval Hunting, Melanie V. Shirk

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John Cummins, The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting, St. Martin's Press, 1988.