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Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti, Leon Battista

(born Feb. 14, 1404, Genoa—died April 25, 1472, Rome) Italian architect, art theorist, and humanist. After pursuing a literary career as papal secretary, in 1438 Alberti was encouraged to direct his talents toward the field of architecture.
. Momus. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 8.) Ed. Virginia Brown. Trans. Sarah M. Knight. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. , 2003. xxv + 407 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN ISBN
abbr.
International Standard Book Number


ISBN International Standard Book Number

ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 
: 0-67400754-9.

Belleau, Remy Belleau, Remy (rāmē` bĕlō`), 1528–77, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad). His Bergerie (1565), a collection of poems in a framework of prose, celebrates nature in sonnets, odes, eclogues, and hymns. . CEuvres poetiques. (Vol. 5, Odes d'Anacreon [1573-1574], Amours et Nouveaux Eschanges des Pierres Precieuses, Poesies diverses, Tombeau de Belleau; Textes de la Renaissance "La Renaissance" is the national anthem of the Central African Republic., adopted upon independence in 1960. The words were written by the then Prime Minister, Barthélémy Boganda. , 78.) Eds. Jean Braybrook, Guy Demerson, and Maurice-E Verdier. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 480 pp. append To add to the end of an existing structure. . tbls. gloss. 49 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0904-8.

--. CEuvres poetiques. (Vol. 6, CEuvres posthumes [1578].) Ed. Maurice-F. Verdier. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 271 pp. index, tbls. gloss. 41 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0843-2. Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni (jōvän`nē), 1313–75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo and Naples by his . Epistre consolatoire de messire Jean Boccace envoyee au Signeur Pino de Rossi (1556). (Textes de la Renaissance, 68.) Ed. Colette H. Winn. Trans. Marguerite de Cambis. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. lxx + 90 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. chron, bibl. 22 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0850-5.

--. Famous Women. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library.) Trans. Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xxiii + 282 pp. index, bibl. $15.95. ISBN: 0-674-01130-9.

Boucher, Jean. La Vie et faits notables de Henry de Valois De Val·ois   , Dame Ninette Originally Edris Stannus. 1898-2001.

Irish-born British dancer and choreographer who danced with the Ballets Russes from 1926 to 1929 and then returned to London, where she later founded the Sadler's Wells Ballet,
. (Textes de la Renaissance, 76.) Ed. Keith Cameron. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 207 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. 45 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0893-9.

Buttet, Marc-Claude de. L'Amalthee (1575). (Textes de la Renaissance, 74.) Ed. Sarah Alyn Stacey. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 585 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. 86 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0875-0.

Costa, Gustavo. Malebranche e Roma: Documenti dell'Archivo della Congregazione per la dottrina della fede. Firenze: Leo Leo, in astronomy
Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac.
 S. Olschki, 2003. 261 pp. index, append. tbls. bibl. 27 [euro]. ISBN: 88-222-5185-7.

de Grenaille, Francois. L'honnete fille ou dans le premier livre li·vre  
n.
1. See Table at currency.

2. A money of account formerly used in France and originally worth a pound of silver.
 il est traite de l'esprit des filles. (Textes de la Renaissance, 64.) Ed. Main Vizier vizier
 Arabic wazir

Chief minister of the 'Abbasid caliphs and later a high government official in various Muslim countries. The office was originally held and defined by the Barmakids in the 8th century; they acted as the caliph's representative to the
. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 542 pp. index. append. tbls. gloss. bibl. 89 [euro]. ISBN: 2-74530836-X.

de La Borderie, Bertrand. Le discours du voyage de Constantinoble (1542). (Textes de la Renaissance, 67.) Ed. Danielle Trudeau. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 251 pp. index. append. tbls. gloss. bibl. 38 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0845-9.

Du Bellay, Joachim Du Bellay, Joachim (zhōäshăN` bĕlā`), 1522?–1560, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad). He wrote their manifesto, La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse . Oeuvres completes. (Vol. 1, La Deffence, et illustration de la langue langue  
n.
Language viewed as a system including vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of a particular community.



[French, from Old French; see language.]
 francoyse; Textes Litteraires Francais.) Eds. Francis Goyet and Olivier Millet. Paris: Honord Champion Editeur, 2003. 461 pp. index, append, illus, gloss. bibl. 45 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0874-2.

Duval, Frederic and Sandrine Heriche-Pradeau, eds. Les Facecies de Poge: Traduction du Liber facetiarum de Poggio Bracciolini. Trans. Guillaume Tardif. Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
: Librairie Droz S. A., 2003. 314 pp. index, append, tbls. gloss. 65 CHF CHF

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Swiss Franc.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
. ISBN: 2-600-00838-1.

Estienne, Robert. Traicte de la Grammaire Francoise (1557). (Textes de la Renaissance, 75.) Ed. Colette Demaiziere. Paris: Honord Champion Editeur, 2003. 202 pp. index, illus. 39 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0892-0.

Ficino, Marsilio. Platonic Theology. (Vol. 3, Books 9-11; The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 7.) Ed. William R. Bowen. Trans. Michael J.B. Allen. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. 362 pp. index, bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01065-5.

Fischart, Johann. Sdmtliche Werke. (Vol. 2, Eulenspiegel reimenweis; Berliner Ausgaben.) Ed. W. Eckehart Spengler. Bad Cannstatt and Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002. 435 pp. illus. 279 [euro]. ISBN: 3-7728-1837-4. Frulovisi, Titus Livius. Travel Abroad: Frulovisi's Peregrinatio. Ed. and trans. Grady Smith. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. vii + 166 pp. index, append, illus, bibl. $30. ISBN: 0-86698-294-9.

Giannetti, Laura and Guido Ruggiero, eds. and trans. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C.  Press, 2003. xlii + 321 pp. bibl. $59.95 (cl), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8018-7257-X (cl), 08018-7258-8 (pbk).

Guasco, Annibal. Discourse to Lady Lavinia His Daughter: Concerning the Manner in Which She Should Conduct Herself When Going to Court as Lady-in-Waiting to the Most Serene Infanta Infanta

laughs at the death of the little Dwarf who can no longer dance for her. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde “The Birthday of the Infanta”]

See : Heartlessness
, Lady Caterina, Duchess of Savoy. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the two centuries between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. .) Ed. and trans. Peggy Osborn. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including , 2003. xxix + 145 pp. index, append, illus, bibl. $45 (cl), $18 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-31053-1 (cl), 0-226-31055-8 (pbk).

Karlsson, Magnus, ed. and trans. Oratio de iniusto bello regis Danio da·ni·o  
n. pl. da·ni·os
Any of various small, often brightly colored freshwater fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, native to Asia and popular as aquarium fish.
 anno 1563 contra regem Suecio Ericum 14 gesto. (Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 49.) Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell International, 2003. 267 pp. index, append, illus, tbls. gloss, bibl. n.p. ISBN: 91-22-02021-7.

Koelman, Jacobus. The Duties of Parents. (Classics of Reformed Spirituality.) Ed. M. Eugene Osterhaven. Trans. John Vriend. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. 173 pp. illus. $14.99. ISBN: 0-8010-2625-3.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. Art of War. Ed. and trans. Christopher Lynch. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xlviii + 262 pp. index, illus. map. gloss, bibl. $25. ISBN: 0-226-50040-3.

Manetti, Giannozzo. Biographical Writings. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 9.) Ed. and trans. Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xix + 330 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01134-1.

Marvell, Andrew. The Poems of Andrew Marvell. (Longman Annotated English Poets.) Ed. Nigel Smith. London and New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
: Longman, 2003. xxv + 468 pp. index. append. illus. chron. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-582-07770-2.

Morata, Olympia. The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.) Ed. and trans. Holt N. Parker. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxiv + 275 pp. index, bibl. $60 (cl), $22.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-53668-8 (cl), 0-226-53669-6 (pbk).

Nadal, Jerome. Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels (Vol. 1, The Infancy Narratives.) Trans. Frederick A. Homann. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2003. xii + 183 pp. + 23 b/w pls. append, illus, tbls. $39.95. ISBN: 0-916101-41-X.

Palsgrave, John. L'eclaircissement le la langue francaise (1530). (Textes de la Renaissance, 69.) Trans. Susan Baddeley. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 775 pp. index, illus. tbls. 118 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0851-3. Payne, Ian. The Almain in Britain, c. 1549-c. 1675: A Dance Manual from Manuscript Sources. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xxii + 268 pp. index, append, illus. bibl. $74.95. ISBN: 0-85967-965-9. Pulci, Luigi. Morgante. (Miroir du Moyen Age.) Trans. Pierre Sarrazin. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001. 895 pp. chron. bibl. 50 [euro]. ISBN: 2-503-51161-9.

Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. (The Oxford Shakespeare.) Ed. Charles Whitworth. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 232 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. $72. ISBN: 0-19-812933-5.

--. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. (The New Cambridge Shakespeare.) Ed. Philip Edwards. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). , 2003. xi + 258 pp. illus, tbls. bibl. $50 (cl), $13 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-82545-8 (cl), 0-52153252-3 (pbk).

--. The Merchant of Venice. (The New Cambridge Shakespeare.) Ed. M.M. Mahood. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 202 pp. append, illus. this. bibl. $50 (cl), $13 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-82544-X (cl), 0-521-53251-5 (pbk).

--. Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet

star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet]

See : Death, Premature


Romeo and Juliet

archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit.
. (The New Cambridge Shakespeare.) Ed. G. Blakemore Evans* Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 266 pp. append, illus, tbls. bibl. $50 (cl), $13 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-82546-6 (cl), 0-521-53253-1 (pbk).

--. The Taming of the Shrew shrew, common name for the small, insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, related to the moles. Shrews include the smallest mammals; the smallest shrews are under 2 in. (5.1 cm) long, excluding the tail, and the largest are about 6 in. (15 cm) long. . (The New Cambridge Shakespeare.) Ed. Ann Thompson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 198 pp. append, illus. tbls. bibl. $50 (cl), $13 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-82542-3 (cl), 0-521-53249-3 (pbk).

Spee von Langenfeld, Friedrich. Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials. (Studies in Early Modern German History.) Trans. Marcus Hellyer. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press The University of Virginia Press (or UVaP), founded in 1963, is a university press that is part of the University of Virginia. External link
  • University of Virginia Press


  
, 2003. xxvii + 233 pp. index, append, illus. $49.50 (cl), $18.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8139-2181-3 (cl), 0-8139-2182-1 (pbk).

Taffin, Jean. The Marks of God's Children. (Classics of Reformed Spirituality, 1.) Ed. James A. De Jong. Trans. Peter Y. De Jong. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. 155 pp. append, illus, map. $14.99. ISBN: 0-8010-2619-9.

Tory, Geoffroy. Champ Fleury. (CD-Rom). Trans. George B. Ives. Oakland: Octavo oc·ta·vo  
n. pl. oc·ta·vos In both senses also called eightvo.
1. The page size, from 5 by 8 inches to 6 by 9 1/2 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into eight leaves.

2.
, 2003. illus. $35. ISBN: 1-891788-86-8.

Vega Carpio, Lope Felix de. Comedia la famosa de Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria. (Ediciones criticas, 17.) Ed. Eyda M. Merediz. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta--Hispanic Monographs, 2003. 190 pp. bibl. $17.95. ISBN: 1-58871034-3.

Voetius, Gisbertus and Johannes Hoornbeeck. Spiritual Desertion. (Classics of Reformed Spirituality.) Ed. M. Eugene Osterhaven. Trans. John Vriend and Harry Boonstra. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. 176 pp. illus. $14.99. ISBN: 0-8010-2646-6.

Webster, John. The Works of John Webster. (Vol. 2, The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold A Cure for a Cuckold is a late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Webster and William Rowley. The play was first published in 1661, though composed some four decades earlier. , Appius and Virginia Appius and Virginia is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragedy by John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood). It is the third and least famous of his tragedies, after The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. .) Eds. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald E Jackson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxxi + 644 pp. append, illus, tbls. $150. ISBN: 0-521-26060-4.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE:

Campbell, Gordon. The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xlviii + 862 pp. index, append, illus, tbls. chron. $150. ISBN: 0-19-860175-1.

Hope, Jonathan. Shakespeare's Grammar. (The Arden Shakespeare.) London: Thomson Learning, 2003. xiii + 210 pp. index. append. gloss. $45. ISBN: 1903436-36-2.

Palau, Annaclara Cataldi. Gian Francesco d'Asola e la Tipografia Aldina: La vita, le edizioni, la biblioteca dell'Asolano. Genoa: Sagep Libri & Comunicazione, 1998. 827 pp. + 83 b/w pls. index, append, illus, tbls. bibl. 200.000 IL. ISBN: 887058-679-0.

ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTS:

Gouwens, Kenneth, ed. The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. xii + 295 pp. + 12 b/w pls. index, illus. map. $29.95. ISBN: 0-631-23165-X.

Hyland, Paul, Olga Gomez, and Francesca Greensides, eds. The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. xviii + 467 pp. index, illus, map. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-415-20449-6.

Ioppolo, Grace, ed. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear. (Routledge Literary Sourcebooks.) New York and London: Routledge, 2003. xii + 192 pp. index. illus. bibl. $17.95. ISBN: 0-415-23472-7.

Menager, Daniel. Erasme (1469-1536). Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 2003. 181 pp. + 4 col. pls. illus. tbls. bibl. 19 [euro]. ISBN: 2-220-05276-1.

Vickers, Brian, ed. English Renaissance Literary Criticism* Oxford and New York: The Clarendon Press, 2003. Reprint. xv + 655 pp. index. gloss. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-19-926136-9.

Wiltenburg, Joy, ed. and trans. Women in Early Modern Germany: An Anthology of Popular Texts. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. xxiii + 279 pp. append. bibl. $36. ISBN: 0-86698-291-4.

COLLECTIONS AND STUDIES:

Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. The Cambridge Shakespeare Library. 3 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $425.--. Vol. 1, Shakespeare's Times, Texts, and Stages, xii + 472 pp. illus, tbls. ISBN: 0-521-80800-6.

Contents: Stanley Wells, "Introduction"; D. S. Bland, "Shakespeare and the 'ordinary' word"; Bridget Cusack, "Shakespeare and the tune of time"; Terence Hawkes, "Shakespeare's talking animals"; Stephen Booth, "Shakespeare's language and the language of Shakespeare's time"; E P. Wilson, "Shakespeare's reading"; J. W. Lever, "Shakespeare's French fruits"; Naseeb Shaheen, "Shakespeare's knowledge of Italian"; J. W. Binns, "Shakespeare's Latin citations: the editorial problem"; T. J. B. Spencer, "Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Romans"; John W. Velz, "The ancient world in Shakespeare: authenticity or anachronism a·nach·ro·nism  
n.
1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

2.
? A retrospect"; Arthur Brown, "The printing of books"; Charlton Hinman, "Shakespeare's text--then, now, and tomorrow"; Fredson Bowers, "Hamlet's 'sullied' or 'solid' flesh: a bibliographical case-history"; A. C. Partridge, "Shakespeare's orthography in Venus and Adonis Venus and Adonis, a classical myth, was a common subject for art during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Some works which have been titled Venus and Adonis are:
 and some early quartos"; Kenneth Muir, "Shakespeare's hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen"; Andrew Gurr, "Maximal and minimal texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe"; W. G. Hoskins W. G. Hoskins (May 22 1908 – January 11 1992) was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History. His great contribution to the study of history was in the field of landscape history. , "Provincial life"; F. L. Poynter, "Medicine and public health"; M. H. Curtis, "Education and apprenticeship"; T. F. Reddaway, "London and the court"; E. W. Ives, "Shakespeare and history: divergencies and agreements"; William C. Carroll, "Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama"; Blair Worden, "Shakespeare and politics"; Elizabeth Marie Pope Elizabeth Marie Pope (1917-1992) was an author specializing in Elizabethan England and the works of Milton and Shakespeare. Bibilography
Novels
  • The Sherwood Ring, 1956.
  • The Perilous Gard, 1974.
, "The Renaissance background of Measure for Measure"; Subha Mukherji, "'Lawful deed': consummation, custom, and law in All's Well That Ends Welt"; Harold Fisch, "Shakespeare and the Puritan dynamic"; G. M. Pinciss, "The old honor and the new courtesy: I Henry IV"; Gary Taylor, "The fortunes of Oldcastle"; E. C. Pettet, "Coriolanus and the Midlands Insurrection of 1607"; Leah Scragg, "Macbeth on horseback"; Emrys Jones, "Othello, Lepanto, and the Cyprus wars"; Mark Matheson, "Venetian culture and the politics of Othello"; Joan Grundy, "Shakespeare's sonnets and the Elizabethan sonneteers"; I. A. Shapiro, "Shakespeare and Mundy"; C. Walter Hodges Cyril Walter Hodges, known as C. Walter Hodges (1909-November 26, 2004), was an English illustrator and author. Born in Beckenham and educated at Dulwich College and Goldsmiths' College, he spent most of his career as a freelance illustrator. , "The lantern of taste"; Allardyce Nicoll, "'Passing over the stage'"; Andrew Gurr, "The bare island"; J. L. Styan, "The actor at the foot of Shakespeare's platform"; Gerald Eades Bentley Gerald Eades Bentley (September 15, 1901 – July 25, 1994) was an American academic and literary scholar, best remembered for his The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, published by Oxford University Press in seven volumes between 1941 and 1968. , "Shakespeare and the Blackfriar's Theatre"; Arthur Colby Sprague, "Shakespeare's unnecessary characters"; Andrew Gurr, "Who strutted and bellowed?"; P. H. Parry, "The boyhood of Shakespeare's heroines"; Charles Edelman, "Shakespeare's 'brawl ridiculous'"; "Which is the Jew that Shakespeare knew? Shylock Shylock

shrewd, avaricious moneylender. [Br. Lit.: Merchant of Venice]

See : Usury
 on the Elizabethan stage"; John Shaw, "The staging of parody and parallels in I Henry IV"; and William Montgomery, "The original staging of The First Part of the Contention (1594)."

--. Vol. 2, Shakespeare Criticism. iv + 464 pp. ISBN: 0-521-80801-4. Contents: Terence Hawkes, "Introduction"; Clifford Siskin, "Freedom and loss in The Tempest"; Russ McDonald, "Reading The Tempest"; Bryan Loughrey and Nell Taylor, "Ferdinand and Miranda at chess"; Harriett Hawkins, "'The devil's party': virtues and vices in Measure for Measure"; Ernest Schanzer, "The marriage-contracts in Measure for Measure"; A. D. Nuttall, "Measure for Measure: the bedtrick"; Gamini Salgado, "'Time's deformed hand': sequence, consequence, and inconsequence in·con·se·quent  
adj.
1. Having no importance or significance.

2. Inconsistent or illogical: inconsequent reasoning.

3.
 in The Comedy of Errors"; David Ormerod, "Faith and fashion in Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. First published in 1600, it was likely first performed in the winter of 1598-1599,[1] and it remains one of Shakespeare's most enduring plays on stage. "; Mary Ellen Lamb, "The nature of topicality in Love's Labour's Lost"; Peter Holland, "Theseus' shadows in A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and "; Catherine Belsey, "Love in Venice"; Nancy K. Hayles, "Sexual disguise in As You Like It and Twelfth Night"; Peter Saccio, "Shrewd and kindly farce"; R. L. Smallwood, "The design of Ali's Well that Ends Welt"; Elizabeth M. Yearling yearling

an animal in its second year of age, e.g. yearling cattle, yearling filly, yearling colt.


yearling disease
rinderpest in wildebeeste in the Serengheti.
, "Language, theme, and character in Twelfth Night"; Kenneth C. Bennett, "Reconstructing The Winter's Tale"; C. L. Barber, "'Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget': transformation in Pericles and The Winter's Tale"; Robert Hapgood, "Shakespeare's thematic modes of speech: Richard H to Henry V"; Juliet Dusinberre, "King John and embarrassing women"; S. Schoenbaum, "Richard II and the realities of power"; Lois Potter, "The antic disposition of Richard II"; Daniel Seltzer, "Prince Hal and tragic style"; Gunter Walch, "Henry V as working-house of ideology"; Roger Warren, "'Contrarieties agree': an aspect of dramatic technique in Henry VI"; Ronald Berman, "Anarchy and order in Richard III and King John"; Alexander Leggatt, "Henry VIII and the ideal England"; Peter L. Rudnytsky, "Henry VIII and the deconstruction of history"; Joyce Van Dyke, "Making a scene: language and gesture in Coriolanus"; Albert H. Tricomi, "The aesthetics of mutilation Mutilation
See also Brutality, Cruelty.

Mutiny (See REBELLION.)

Absyrtus

hacked to death; body pieces strewn about. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 3]

Agatha, St.

had breasts cut off. [Christian Hagiog.
 in Titus Andronicus"; Kathleen E. McLuskie, "Shakespeare's 'earth-treading stars': the image of the masque masque, courtly form of dramatic spectacle, popular in England in the first half of the 17th cent. The masque developed from the early 16th-century disguising, or mummery, in which disguised guests bearing presents would break into a festival and then join with their  in Romeo and Juliet"; Jill L. Levenson, "Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. the places of invention"; Keir Elam, "'I'll plague thee for that word': language, performance, and communicable disease communicable disease
n.
A disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. Also called contagious disease.
"; Robert S. Miola, "Shakespeare and his sources: observations on the critical history of Julius Caesar"; George Walton Williams, "'Time for such a word': verbal echoing in Macbeth"; Stephen Orgel, "Macbeth and the antic round"; Inga-Stina Ewbank, "Hamlet and the power of words"; R. A. Foakes, "Hamlet and the court of Elsinore"; Margot Heinemann, "'Demystifying the mystery of state': King Lear and the world upside down"; Kenneth Muir, "Madness in King Lear"; Gary Taylor, "The war in King Lear"; Helen Gardner, "Othello: a retrospect, 1900-67"; Nigel Alexander, "Thomas Rymer and Othello"; Susan Snyder, "Patterns of motion in Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra

victims of conflict between political ambition and love. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra]

See : Love, Tragic
"; Kenneth Muir, "Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida (troi`ləs, krĕs`ĭdə), a medieval romance distantly related to characters in Greek legend. Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam and Hecuba), fell in love with Cressida (Chryseis), daughter of Calchas. "; Michael Taylor, "The pastoral reckoning in Cymbeline"; M. M. Mahood, "Love's confined doom"; Richard Levin, "The ironic reading of The Rape of Lucrece and the problem of external evidence"; and Philippa Berry, "Woman, language, and history in The Rape of Lucrece."

--. Vol. 3, Shakespeare Performance. iv + 460 pp. index. illus. tbls. ISBN: 0-52180802-2. Contents: Peter Holland, "Introduction"; John Gielgud, "Tradition, style, and the theatre today"; Sir Barry Jackson, "On producing Henry VI"; "Producing the comedies"; Tyrone Guthrie, "Shakespeare at Stratford, Ontario"; Ngaio Marsh, "A note on the production of Twelfth Night"; Judi Dench, "Judi Dench talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans"; J. W. R. Meadowcroft, "Playing King Lear: Donald Sinden talks to J. W. R. Meadowcroft"; Peggy Ashcroft, "Playing Shakespeare"; Charles Marowitz, "Reconstructing Shakespeare or harlotry in bardolatry Noun 1. bardolatry - the idolization of William Shakespeare
idolisation, idolization - the act of worshiping blindly and to excess
"; Peter Holland, "Stratford stages: two interviews"; Kenneth Muir, "Shakespeare and the metamorphosis of the pentameter pentameter (pĕntăm`ətər) [Gr.,=measure of five], in prosody, a line to be scanned in five feet (see versification). The third line of Thomas Nashe's "Spring" is in pentameter: "Cold doth / not sting, / the pret / ty birds / do sing. "; Inga-Stina Ewbank, "'More pregnantly than words': some uses and limitations of visual symbolism"; Marvin Rosenberg, "Sign theory and Shakespeare"; Alan C. Dessen, "Shakespeare's scripts and the modern director"; John Drakakis, "'Fashion it thus': Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation"; Stanley Wells, "The challenges of Romeo and Juliet"; Dennis Kennedy, "Shakespeare played small: three speculations about the body"; D. S. Hoffman, "Some Shakespearean music, 1660-1900"; Winton Dean, "Shakespeare in the opera house"; Irena Cholij, "At thousand twangling instruments': music and The Tempest on the eighteenth-century London stage"; Robert Hapgood, "Chimes at Midnight from stage to screen: the art of adaptation"; Lorne M. Buchman, "Orson Welles' Othello: a study of time in Shakespeare's tragedy"; Kenneth S. Rothwell, "Representing King Lear on screen: from metatheatre to 'meta-cinema'"; E. Pearlman, "Macbeth on film: politics"; Barbara Hodgdon, "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet The introduction of this article is too short.
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. everything's nice in America?"; Nevill Coghill, "Six points of stagecraft stage·craft  
n.
Skill in the techniques and devices of the theater.


stagecraft
the art or skill of producing or staging plays.
See also: Drama

Noun 1.
 in The Winter's Tale"; William H. Matchett, "Some dramatic techniques in The Winter's Tale"; John H. Astington, "Malvolio and the dark house"; Edward L. Rocklin, "Measured endings: how productions from 1720 to 1929 close Shakespeare's open silences in Measure for Measure"; Russell Jackson, "'Perfect types of womanhood': Rosalind, Beatrice, and Viola in Victorian criticism and performance"; E. Martin Browne, "English Hamlets of the twentieth century"; Ralph Berry, "Komisarjevsky at Stratford-upon-Avon"; Herbert S. Weil, Jr, "The options of the audience: theory and practice in Peter Brook's Measure for Measure"; Claire M. Tylee, "The text of Cressida and every ticklish tick·lish  
adj.
1. Sensitive to tickling.

2. Easily offended or upset; touchy.

3. Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate: a ticklish matter.
 reader: Troilus and Cressida, the Greek camp scene"; Muriel St Clare Byrne, "A Stratford production: Henry VIII"; Richard David, "Shakespeare's comedies and the modern stage," "Shakespeare in the Waterloo Road," and "The tragic curve"; John Russell Brown, "Three adaptations" and "S. Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet"; Murray Biggs, "A neurotic Portia"; Nicholas Shrimpton, "Shakespeare performances in Stratfordupon-Avon and London, 1983-4"; and "Shakespeare performances in London, Manchester, and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1985-6"; Stanley Wells, "Shakespeare performances in England, 1987-8"; Lois Potter, "Recycling the early histories: The Wars of the Roses and The Plantagenets"; Michael Cordner, "Repeopling the Globe: the opening season at Shakespeare's Globe, London, 1997"; and Yu Jin Ko, "A little touch of Harry in the light: Henry Vat the New Globe."

Ames-Lewis, Francis and Paul Joannides, eds. Reactions to the Master: Michelangelo's Effect on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xiv + 271 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0807-7. Contents: Paul Joannides and Francis Ames-Lewis, "Introduction"; Francis AmesLewis, "Raphaers responsiveness to Michelangelo's draughtsmanship Draughts´man`ship

n. 1. The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

draughtsmanship, draftsmanship (US) n (= drawing) → dibujo lineal;
(skill
"; Elizabeth Pilliod, "The influence of Michelangelo: Pontormo, Bronzino and Allori"; David Ekserdjian, "Parmigianino and Michelangelo"; Paul Joannides, "Salviati and Michelangelo"; Anne Varick Lauder, "Absorption and interpretation: Michelangelo through the eyes of a Venetian follower, Bartista Franco"; Raphael Rosenberg, "The reproduction and publication of Michelangelo's Sacristy: drawings and prints by Franco, Salviati, Naldini and Cort"; William E. Wallace William E. Wallace (1917-2004), known as Ed Wallace to his friends and associates, was a preeminent physical chemist whose career coincided with the golden age of chemistry. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Mississippi College in 1936, and a Ph. D. , "Michelangelo and Marcello Venusti: a case of multiple authorship"; Victoria Avery, "Alessandro Vittoria: the Michelangelo of Venice?"; Rick Scorza, "Vasari, Borghini and Michelangelo"; and Lizzie Boubli, "Michelangelo and Spain: on the dissemination of his draughtsmanship."

Arnould, Jean-Claude and Thierry Mantovani, eds. Premiere poesie francaise de la Renaissance: Autour des Puys poetiques normands. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 628 pp. index. illus. tbls. 69 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0829-7. Contents: Thierry Mantovani, "Introduction"; Francoise Fery-Hue, "Un roman d'amour en rondeaux du debut du XV[I.sup.e] sciecle: les Cent cing rondeaux d'amour"; Jay E. Moore, "La Morale de Sapience sa·pi·ent  
adj.
Having great wisdom and discernment.



[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi
 et la question de I'Immaculee Conception"; Myra Orth, "Les Puys en images. L'illustration des palinods de Rouen dans les manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Narionale de France (ms. fr. 379 et 1537)"; Thierry Mantovani, "Le manuscrit BNF See Backus-Naur form.

BNF - Backus-Naur Form. Originally Backus Normal Form.
 ms. fr. 1538"; Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz.  Hue, "Esther, la Vierge et le Puy"; Jennifer Brimell, "Jean Bouchet et les pontes pon·tes  
n.
Plural of pons.
 rouennais"; Cynthia Brown, "Andre La Vigne au Puy Pu´y

n. 1. See Poy.
 de 1511: etude e·tude  
n. Music
1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique.

2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit.
 du manuscrit Douce a. 1. Sweet; pleasant.
2. Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.
And this is a douce, honest man.
- Sir W. Scott.
 379 de la Bibliotheque Bodleienne"; Richard Cooper, "Jean Mallard mallard: see duck.
mallard

Abundant “wild duck” (Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae) of the Northern Hemisphere, ancestor of most domestic ducks. The mallard is a typical dabbling duck in its general habits and courtship display.
, porte et peintre rouennais"; Jean-Clande Margolin, "Guillaume Haudent, traducteur d'Esope"; Gerard Defaux, "Le myrrhe, l'aloes et la manne: pour une lecture mariale de Delie"; Dorota Szeliga, "L'experience de navigateur source d'inspirarion poetique a travers quelques chants royaux presentes par Jean Parmentier aux Puys de Rouen et de Dieppe"; David Lingham, "Les noms divins des chants royaux des Puys a la lumiere de la reflexion thomiste"; Gerard Gros, "Le gai savoir du Puy normand"; Francois Rigolot, "Un chant royal 'sans macule': modistie et ambition litteraire de Jean Marot a Rouen"; Francois Rouget, "Une forme forme (form) pl. formes   [Fr.] form.

forme fruste  (froost) pl. formes frustes   an atypical, especially a mild or incomplete, form, as of a disease.
 reine des Puys podtiques: la ballade ballade (bəläd`), in literature, verse form developed in France in the 14th and 15th cent. The ballade usually contains three stanzas of eight lines with three rhymes and a four-line envoy (a short, concluding stanza). "; Michael Randall, "La representation du concile de Bale dans des chants royaux ecrits au Puy de Rouen ou la correction politique d'une figure poetique"; Jean Devaux, "Litterature et politique au coeur de la cite: des Puys marials aux chambres de rhetorique"; Odile Malas-Semboloni, "L'orginisation du Puy de Caen d'apres le manuscrit d'Estienne Du Val de Mondrainville"; Michel Rousse, "L'abbaye des conards dans la vie sociale et culturelle de Rouen"; Jean-Claude Arnould, "Noel Taillepied, Charles de Bourgueville et historiographie normande du Puy de la Conception a la fin du [XVI.sup.e] sciecle"; Nicolas Lombart, "Des stances pour le vierge: Claude Groulart et la renovation des palinods de Rouen (1595-1596)"; Marie-Christine Gomez-Geraud, "Espace et Symbole: figurations typologiques dans les miniatures du manuscrit amienois offert a Louise de Savoie"; Werner Waterschoot, "Luc D'Heere, peintre et traducteur de Clement Marot"; Dirk Coigneau, "Les concours Concours or EU concours is a recruitment competition and examination to select staff to all institutions of the European Union. Explanation of Open Competition  de 'referain.' Une introduction a la rhetorique neerlandaise"; Marijke Spies, "L'universalite et l'originalite des poetes flamands d'apres Matthijs de Castelein"; Jean-Pierre Lassalle, "Quelques articularites du Livre Rouge"; Yvonne Bellenger, "Puys et Jeux Floraux: des 'episseries' aux academies"; Olivier Guerrier, "Autour des Jeux Floraux toulousains: considerations sur l'essai"; Nathalie Dauvois, "L'evolution des formes (language, music) Formes - An object-oriented language for music composition and synthesis, written in VLISP.

["Formes: Composition and Scheduling of Processes", X. Rodet & P. Cointe, Computer Music J 8(3):32-50 (Fall 1984)].
 lyriques dans les pieces primees aux Jeux Floraux toulousains ([XV.sup.c]-[XVI.sup.e] sciecles)"; Gabriel-Andre Perouse, "Un Puy poetique a Lyon, a la fin du [XX.sup.e] sciele"; and Gerard Gros, "Pour une conclusion."

Baxandall, Michael. Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art Criticism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. xi + 169 pp. + 25 col. pls. index, append, illus. tbls. $35. ISBN: 0-300-09749-2.

Contents: Michael Baxandall, "Preface"; "Prolegomena: Values, Arguments, System"; "Alberti's Cast of Mind"; "Algelo Decembrino's De politia litteraria, Part LXVIII"; "Rudolph Agricola on Art and on Patrons"; "English Disegno"; "Jacopo Sadoleto's Laocoon"; and "Piero della Francesca's The Resurrection of Christ."

Berriot-Salvadore, Evelyne and Paul Mironneau, eds. Ambroise Pard (1510-1590): Pratique pra·tique  
n.
Clearance granted to a ship to proceed into port after compliance with health regulations or quarantine.



[French, from Old French practique, from Medieval Latin
 et ecriture de la science a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 471 pp. index, illus. bibl. 65 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0848-3.

Contents: Paul Mironneau and Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, "Avant-propos"; Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, "Preface"; Claude Thomasset, "Ambroise Pare: une vision medievale de la sexualite et de la generation?"; Muriel Laharie, "L'originalite d'un reflet Re`flet´   

n. 1. Luster; special brilliancy of surface; - used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet 
 globalisant: les connaissances scientifiques dans l'oeuvre d'Opicinus de Canistris (1296-vers 1351)"; Eve Derrien, "La symbolique du sang: de la fiction medievale au realisme d'Ambroise Pare"; Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, "L'ordre de l'Anatomie"; Claude Menges, "Images et figures de l'Anatomie et de la Chiurgie: les editions illustrees d'Ambroise Pare"; Jean-Luc Martinet mar·ti·net  
n.
1. A rigid military disciplinarian.

2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.



[After Jean Martinet (died 1672), French army officer.
, "L' Ombre om·bre also om·ber   or hom·bre
n.
A card game, played by three players with 40 cards, that was popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
 de raison: la notion de dignitas hominis dans le Livre Des Animaux et de l'Excellence de l'homme"; Olivier Le Bihan, "Le bestiaire exotique d'Ambroise Pare. 'Des Monstres volatiles': histoire de plumes et question de pattes"; Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, "Corps simules, corps simulateurs"; Claude-Gilbert Dubois, "Ambroise Pard et la question des 'Hermafrodites'"; Mireille Huchon, "Definition et description: Ambroise Pare chirurgien methodique et huguenot"; Marie-Luce Demonet, "Du signe au symptome: la semeiotique d'Ambrose Pare"; Guylaine Pineau-Kliebenstein, "L'instrument du langage et son maniement chez chez  
prep.
At the home of; at or by.



[French, from Old French, from Latin casa, cottage, hut.]

chez
prep

at the home of [French]
 Ambroise Pare"; Nathalie Dauvois, "La composition du Livre Des Venins: narration, representation, fiction"; Diane Desrosiers-Bonin, "Finalites rhetoriques et prise de parole au 'je' dans l'oe uvre d'Ambroise Pare"; Isabelle Pantin, "La traduction latine des oeuvres d'Ambroise Pare"; Josep-Lluis Barona, "Ambroise Pare et la chiurgie en Espagne au XVI slide"; Herve Baudry, "La reception d'Ambroise Pare au Portugal aux [XVI.sup.e] et [XVII.sup.e] siecles"; and Jean Ceard, "Nicholas Abraham de La Framboisiere, lecteur d'Ambroise Pare."

Bertrand, Dominique, ed. Penser la nuit (XV-[XVII.sup.e] siecle). (Actes du colloque international du C.E.R.H.A.C. [Centre d'Etudes sur les Reformes, l'Humanisme et l'Age classique] de l'Universite Blaise Pascal [22-24 juin 2000].) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 549 pp. index, illus. tbls. bibl. 83 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0846-7.

Contents: Dominique Bertrand, "Introduction: A travers les nuits ([XVI.sup.e]-[XVII.sup.e] siecles)"; Jean-Claude Margolin, "Source et signification SIGNIFICATION, French law. The notice given of a decree, sentence or other judicial act.  de la tenebre divine (caligo) d'apres Charles de Bovelles Charles de Bovelles (Carolus Bovillus) (born c. 1475 à Saint Quentin, died at Ham after 1566) was a French mathematician, and canon of Noyon. His Géométrie en françoys (1511) was the first scientific work to be printed in French. "; Dominique Descotes, "La nuit des mecanistes"; Sylvie Taussig, "Gassendi contre la metaphore: la nuit"; Christophe Martin, "Eclipses du soleil, lumieres de la raison: la nuit dans les Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes de Fontenelle"; Daniel Menager, "Les berges et la nuit"; Daniela Mauri, "Le temps-espace de la nuit dans les romans de Beroalde de Verville"; Paule Rossetto, "La nuit apprivoisee dans l'Astree"; Pierre Grouix, "Visages du nocturne nocturne (nŏk`tûrn) [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano.  dans Voyage en Laponie de J. F. Regnard, 1681"; Jacques Wagner, "Les nuits sans eclat de Meilcour dans Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit de Crebillon-Fils, (1736-1738)"; Francois Rouget, "Nicolas Denisot peintre de la nuit dans Les Cantiques du premier advenement de Jesuchrist (1553)"; ClaudeGilbert Dubois, "Nuit, amour et poesie: la fonction de la nuit dans trois recueils lyriques (1573-1578)"; Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, "Penser la nuit par periphrases dans la poesie de Pierre de Ronsard Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard (September 11, 1524 – December, 1585), was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him). "; Christophe Bourgeois, "'Par l'obscur de la nuit': les variations d'une metaphore baroque"; Edith Karagianis, "Les armes de l'ombre an service de la lumiere: Mercure et la nuit dans la poesie de la Pleiade"; Jean Pironon, "George Chapman et la nuit: essai d'analyse litteraire de The Shadow of night (1594)"; Joris Chomilier, "Contre-jour et clair-obscur: l'esthetique hermetique du sonnet 43 de Shakespeare"; Chris Fitter, "Dans les tenebres de la guerre civile: la nuit et le nocturne comme resistance chez Henry Vaughan"; Raymond Gardette, "Tenebres lumineusses: quelques reperes shakespeariens"; Jean-Marie Maguin, "L'inspiration nocturne du drame shakespearien"; Jacqueline Boucher, "La nuit dans l'imagination et le mode de vie de la cour des derniers Valois"; Marianne Closson, "Scenographies nocturnes
This article is about the orchestral suite by Claude Debussy. For other musical compositions called "Nocturne", see Nocturne.


Nocturnes is an orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy.
 du baroque: l'exemple du ballet francais (1580-1650)"; Aurelia Galliard gal·liard  
n.
1. A spirited dance popular in France in the 16th and 17th centuries.

2. The triple-time music for this dance.

adj. Archaic
Spirited; lively; gay.
, "Le Soleil a son coucher: la nuit reversible de la mythologie solaire sous Louis XIV"; AnneMarie Cocula, "Regard sur les evenements nocturnes des guerres de religion"; Emmanuele Lesne-Jaffro, "La nuit des camisards"; and Caire Carlin car·line or car·lin  
n. Scots
A woman, especially an old one.



[Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.]
, "La nuit du couple: la dissolution du mariage dans l'imaginaire des [XVI.sup.e] et [XVII.sup.e] sciecles."

Boruchoff, David A., ed. Isabel La Catolica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003. xviii + 312 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. $45. ISBN: 0-312-29307-0.

Contents: Bonnie Wheeler, "Series Editor's Foreword"; David A. Boruchoff, "Introduction: Instructions for Sainthood and Other Feminine Wiles wile  
n.
1. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare.

2. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure: the wiles of a skilled negotiator.

3. Trickery; cunning.
 in the Historiography of Isabel I"; Alison Caplan, "The World of Isabel la Catolica"; Maria Isabel del Val Valdivieso, "Isabel, Infanta and Princess of Castile"; Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel, Myth and History"; Jose Luis Abellan, "Isabel and the Idea of America"; Elizabeth Teresa Howe, "Zenobia or Penelope? Isabel la Catolica as Literary Archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. "; Chiyo Ishikawa, "La Llave depalo: Isabel la Catolica as Patron of Religious Literature and Painting"; Marcelino V. Amasuno Sarraga, "The Royal Physicians as Alcades and Examinadores Mayores: Royal Interference in Medicine and Law in Castile under Isabel and Ferdinand"; Joseph Perez, "Isabel la Catolica and the Jews"; Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada, "Isabel and the Moors"; Jesus PerezMagallon, "The Poetic and Dramatic Construction of Isabel la Catolica in the Theater of Lope de Vega Noun 1. Lope de Vega - prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635)
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, Vega
"; and David A. Boruchoff, "Historiography with License: Isabel, the Catholic Monarch and the Kingdom of God."

Cameron, Keith and Laura L. Willett, eds. Le Visage changeant de Montaigne/The Changing Face of Montaigne. (Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance, 39.) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 393 pp. index. illus. chron. 49 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0882-3.

Contents: Keith Cameron, "Presentation"; George Hoffmann, "Montaigne's face? The Chantilly portrait revisited"; Laura Willett, "Out of nowhere? A new/old portrait of Montaigne": Alain Legros, "Janus Montanus Decorator ou comment amenager son 'deux pieces'"; John O'Brien, "Suspended sentences": Donald Gilman, "Energizing energizing,
adj giving energy to; revitalizing; rejuvenating.
 rhetoric: Montaigne's 'De l'experience' and the art of imaging": Margaret M. McGowan, "The diverse faces of Caesar: Fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´shn),
n the construction or making of a restoration.
 and manipulation in the Essais"; Dorothy Stegman, "How tasty was my little Gascon Gascon

inhabitant of Gascony, France; people noted for their bragging. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1049]

See : Boastfulness
? A remembrance of being eaten in the Essais"; Max Gauna, "Montaigne and the hard problem": Daniela Boccassini, "Vanite comme vacuite: Les enjeux de l'ecriture oisive de Montaigne"; Nathalie Dauvois, "Sujet lyrique/sujet satirique dans les Essais. Quelques exemples d'une lecture d'Horace par Montaigne"; Nancy Frelick, "Friendship, transference TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly.  and voluntary servitude servitude

In property law, a right by which property owned by one person is subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another. Servitudes allow people to create stable long-term arrangements for a wide variety of purposes, including shared land uses; maintaining the
: Montaigne and La Boetie"; Francois Rigolot, "Montaigne's anti-Mannerist mannerism mannerism, a style in art and architecture (c.1520–1600), originating in Italy as a reaction against the equilibrium of form and proportions characteristic of the High Renaissance. "; Tom Conley, "Le tatou de Montaigne": Elisabeth Hodges, "Tales of the city: Montaigne and the topography of Frenchness"; James Supple, "David Lewis Schaefer: Armaingaud rides again": Thomas Worcester, "In praise of Montaigne: Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus"; Olivier Millet, "Etudes montaignistes et traduction des Essais dans les pays germanophones (1985-1999)"; Philippe Desan, "Les Essais comme Freak Show ou Marie de Gournay Marie de Gournay (1565 - 1645) was an admirer of Michel de Montaigne, who having read his works during her teens, went to meet him and eventually became his "adopted daughter".  tutrice d'un enfant monstrueux"; Neil Kenny, "Montaigne read by and through Gournay the writer: The example of Conference"; Warren Boutcher, "'Learning mingled with Nobilitie': Directions for reading Montaigne's Essais in their institutional context"; and Laura Willett, "Epilogue."

Canone, Eugenio, ed. La filosofia di Giordano Bruno: Problemi ermeneutici e storiografici. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. viii + 464 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. 47 [euro]. ISBN: 88-222-5189-X.

Contents: Eugenio Canone, "Premessa"; Michele Ciliberto, "Officina bruniana"; Stephan Otto, "Die Augen und das Herz. Der philosophische Gedanke und seine sprachliche Darstellung in Brunos Heroischen Leidenschaften"; Eugenio Canone, "Fenomenologie dell'anima nei Poemi francofortesi"; Miguel A. Granada, "El concepto de tiempo en Bruno: tiempos cosmicos y eternidad"; Paul R. Blum, "Geschichtsphilosophie bei Giordano Bruno"; Angelika Bonker-Vallon, "Bruno e Proclo: connessioni e differenze tra la matematica neoplatonica e quella bruniana"; Leen Spruit, "Bruno's Use of Experience in Context"; Christoph Luthy, "Entia & sphaerae: due aspetti dell'atomismo bruniano"; Hilary Gatti, "La Bibbia nei Dialoghi italiani di Bruno"; Saverio Ricci, "Lo 'spaccio' della cabala cabala: see kabbalah.

cabala

Jewish oral traditions, originating with Moses. [Judaism: Benét, 154]

See : Mysticism
: Bruno e il giudeocristianesimo"; Gilberto Sacerdoti, "Caccia e sovranita II contesto inglese di una pagina dello Spaccio"; Simonetta Bassi bas·si  
n.
A plural of basso.
, "Memoria, vicissitudine ed entusiasmo negli Eroici furori"; Nicoletta Tirinnanzi, "La composizione della Lampas lampas

inflammation of the mucosa of the hard palate, just posterior to the upper incisors. It may interfere with mastication and prehension. Called also palatitis.
 triginta statuarum"; Maurizio Cambi, "Dall'Artificium perorandi al De vinculis. Insegnamento della retorica e suo superamento negli ultimi scritti bruniani"; Elisabetta Scapparone, "'Tempus vinciendi'. Filosofia dell'amore e "civile conversazione con·ver·sa·zi·o·ne  
n. pl. con·ver·sa·zi·o·nes or con·ver·sa·zi·o·ni
A meeting for conversation or discussion, especially about art.
" nel De vinculis"; Delfina Giovannozzi, "Conoscere 'per audita.' Note sulle fonti del De monade"; Michel-Pierre Lerner, "Campanella lecteur de Bruno?"; and Thomas Leinkauf, "Einheit, innere Kraft und substantielle Form. Der Begriff der Substanz bei Giordano Bruno und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz."

--and Germana Elisa Ernst, eds. Bruniana e Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali. (Anno VIII, 2002/2.) Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2003. 281 pp. + 2 b/w pls. index. illus. 40 [euro]. ISBN: n.a.

Contents: Pierre Caye, "Campenella critique de Machiavel. La politique: de la nonphilosophie a la metaphysique"; Miguel A. Granada, "'Per fuggir biasmo, o per giovar altrui.' El elogio del Nolano en La cena de le Ceneri y una posible polemica con San Agustin y Dante"; Luigi Guerrini, "Osservazioni sul concetto di teocrazia universale nell'ultimo Campanella"; Francesca Puccini, "La Geschichte der Atomistik di Kurd Lasswitz e la ricezione del materialismo di Bruno nella scienza tedesca del XIX secolo"; Pietro Secchi, "Elementi di teologia nel De umbris idearum"; Eugenio Canone and J.M. De Bujanda, "L'edito di proibizione delle opere di Bruno e Campanella. Un'analisi bibliografica"; "I due nuovi documenti del processo di Bruno nell'Archivio del Sant'Uffizio"; Luciano Albanese, "Bruno e il Pitagora di Ovidio"; Giuseppe Landolfi "L'itinerario rinascimentale di Bertrando Spaventa"; Alfonso Paolella, "La presenza di Giovan Battista della Porta nel Carteggio Linceo"; and Alessandro Savorelli, "Minuzzarie bruniane nell'epistolario di Labriola."

Castelli, Patrizia, ed. Francesco Patrizi: filosofo platonico nel crepuscolo del Rinascimento, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. vi + 336 pp. index. illus. 33 [euro]. ISBN: 88-222-5156-3.

Contents: Patrizia Castelli, "Introduzione" and "Le fonti de La Citta felice"; Lawrence E. Hough n. 1. Same as Hock, a joint.
v. t. 1. Same as Hock, to hamstring.
[

imp. & p. p. os> Houghed

r>;

p. pr. & vb. n. os> Houghing.]

n. 1. An adz; a hoe.
v. t. 1. To cut with a hoe.
, "La Citta felice: A Renaissance Utopia"; Vladimir Premec, "Utopija-Zbilja-Politika"; Angela Andrisano, "Patrizi e il 'meraviglioso': le fonti classiche"; Walter Moretti, "L'Ariosto di Francesco Patrizi"; Micaela Rinaldi, "Il Parere in difesa di Ludovico Ariosto di Francesco Patrizi"; Ljerka Schiffler, "Idee estetico-poetiche di Francesco Patrizi"; Patrizia Castelli, "Estetica e gusto nell'opera del Patrizi e nella trattatistica d'arte del Cinquecento cin·que·cen·to  
n.
The 16th century, especially in Italian art and literature.



[Italian, from (mil) cinquecento, (one thousand) five hundred : cinque, five (from Latin
"; Isabella Fedozzi, "Il Barignano: Francesco Pattizi e il dibattito sull'onore nella cultura del Cinquecento"; Maria G. Cavallari, "Einsegnamento del Patrizi in alcuni madrigali di Tarquinia Molza"; Christopher Ulffers, "A Study of the Musical Influence of Tarquinia Molza on Patrizi's L'amorosa filosofia"; Cesare Vasoli, "'Sophismata putida': la critica patriziana alla dottrina peripatetica dell'eternita, e immutabilita del cielo"; Eugene E. Ryan, "The Panaugia of Franciscus Patricius: From the Light of Experience to the First Light"; Tomislav Petkovic, "Franciscus Patricius' Model of Thinking and Modern Cosmology"; Rosanna Gorris, "'Prudentia perpetuat': Vittorio Baldini, editore ferrarese di Francesco Patrizi"; Alessandra Fiocca, "Francesco Patrizi e la questione del Reno nella seconda meta del Cinquecento: tre lettere inedite"; Martin Schwarz, "Patrizi's World Seen Through the Eyes of Montaigne"; Bodo Nischan, "International Diplomacy in the Age of Patrizi: The German Heretic Who Got Caught"; and Anthony J. Papalas, "The Trattato del Giuoco della palla di Messer Antonio Scaino da Salo and Ferrarese Cultural Ideology in the Time of Alfonso II (1559-97)."

Ceard, Jean, Marie-Christine Gomez-Geraud, Michel Magnien, and Francois Rouget, eds. Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu: Travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Menager. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2003. 623 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. 184 CHF. ISBN: 2-600-00824-1.

Contents: Alain Meyer, "Daniel Menager a Nanterre"; "Bibliographie des travaux de Daniel Menager"; Paul Larivaille, "Le dernier pari de Machiavel"; Michel Bideaux, "Sur la ttahison: le connetable de Bourbon entre Judas et les renegats objectifs"; Marie-Dominique Legrand, "La figure du roi dans le Traite de la reformation de la justice attribue a Michel de L'Hospital"; Catherine Magnien, "Au service du roi: Jacques Faye d'Espeisses (1544-1590), l'homme qui ne voulait pas ecrire"; Nadine Kuperty-Tsur, "La notion de serviteur de l'Etat, entre ethos et pratique a la fin du [XVI.sup.e] siecle en France"; Patricia Eichel-Lojkine, "Meurtre a Jerusalem: Boissard et la question du regicide REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300.  (Theatrum vite humane, chap. 37 sq.)"; Alain Dufour, "Beze historien"; Myriam Yardeni, "La pensee politique de la premiere historiographie huguenote: Pierre de La Place et Louis Regnier de La Planche"; Andre Tournon, "'Singuliers en leurs fantasies'"; Michel Magnien, "Pour une attribution definitive du Memoire sur l'Edit de janvier a Estienne de La Boetie"; Francois Rigolot, "Dialogue, theologie, ethique et politique a la Renaissance"; Francoise Charpentier, "Tragedie et monarchie"; Claude-Gilbert Dubois, "David, porte et prince: sa representation dans la dramaturgie francaise de la seconde moitie du [XVI.sup.e] siecle"; Francois Lecercle, "'Ne'er seen but wonder'd at': la mise en scene mise en scène  
n. pl. mise en scènes
1.
a. The arrangement of performers and properties on a stage for a theatrical production or before the camera in a film.

b. A stage setting.

2.
 politique dans Henry/IV de Shakespeare"; Nathalie Dauvois, "Morale, politique et eschatologie dans Les Regnars traversans les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
Le beau monde
fashionable society. See Beau monde.
Demi monde
See Demimonde.
 de Jean Bouchet: limites lim·i·tes  
n.
Plural of limes.
 et modalites du discours critique"; Jean Dupebe, "Un ami de Clement Marot, le medecin Michel Amy"; Gerard Defaux, "'Moy ton Poete, ayant premier ose ...': Du Bellay, Ronsard et l'Envie"; Jean Vignes, "Le Porte et la guerre (autour de la prise de Calais, 1558)"; Edith Karagiannis-Mazeaud, "Images d'Achille dans la poesie de la Pleiade"; Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, "Ronsard et le roi de gloire"; Philip Ford, "Hercule et le theme solaire a Fontainebleau: la Porte doree et Le Satyre de Ronsard"; Francois Cornilliat, "'Je suis, di-je, Ronsard ...': paradoxes de l'inconstance dans le Recueil des nouvelles poesies"; Francois Rouget, "Sur des vers vers
abbr.
versed sine
 retrouves de Ronsard: J.-D. Cercier, dit DIT

di-iodotyrosine.
 Colony, et les Preceptes de P. de Ronsard a un Prince"; Florence Dobby-Poirson, "Autour des Hymnes: la postrite de Ronsard dans l'Hymne de la monarchie de Robert Garnier"; Yvonne Bellenger, "Les sonnets satiriques de J. Grevin: la Gelodacrye, les Sonnets sur Rome, et les Sonnets d'Angleterre et de Flandre"; Frank Lestringant, "Une Satyre Menippee an service de la Contre-Reforme: La Cabale des Reformez attribute a Guillaume Reboul"; Pascal Debailly, "Satire et peur du feminin"; Jean-Claude Margolin, "Victoire chretienne sur la mort: a propos de deux poemes de Bovelles (De immortalitate animo, Paris, 1552)"; Nicole Cazauran, "Marguerite de Navarre This article is about 16th-century author and queen of Navarre. For the 12th-century Sicilian queen, see Margaret of Navarre (Sicilian queen).

Marguerite de Navarre (April 11, 1492 – December 21, 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angouleme and
: le deuil en dialogues"; Mireille Huchon, "Francois [I.sup.er] en enfer"; Olivier Millet, "Poesie et musique: l'oeuvre de Louis Des Masures et ses 'cantiques'"; Jean Ceard, "Christianisme et paganisme: les Hymnes ecclesiastiques de Guy Le Fevre de La Boderie"; Franco Giacone, "Bible et esthetique: les Hymnes ecclesiastiques de Guy LeFevre de La Boderie"; Gilbert Schrenck, "'La voici l'heureuse journee': variations sur le Psaume 118 dans l'oeuvre d'Agrippa d'Aubigne"; Andre Gendre, "Quete de Dieu et seduction du monde dans les Sonnets spirituels de Gabrielle de Coignard"; Helene Cazes, "Des voyages a cheval et de l'immortalite le testament francais d'Henri Estienne, 1594"; Nuccio Ordine, "I Furori di Giordano Bruno"; Marc Venard, "Reciter sa patenostre: oucomment traduire en francais l'Oraison dominicale"; Andre Godin, "L'Exomologesis d'Erasme: exercice d'humanisme pastoral"; Marie-Christine Gomez-Geraud, "Sur un souvenir de l'Ecclesiaste: un visage de Thomas More en ses derniers ecrits"; Guy Demerson, "Apollonios de Tyane chez Rabelais: Christ dans un miroir deformant?"; Gerard Milhe-Poutingon, "La decontextualisation: un styleme rabelaisien pour 'emplir l'ame de toute verite'"; Benedicte Boudou, "Henri Estienne et la traduction par Sebastien Castellion de la Bible en francais"; Max Engammare, "David cote jardin: Bethsabee, module et anti-modele litteraire a la Renaissance"; Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, "La predication In CPU instruction execution, executing all outcomes of a branch in parallel. When the correct branch is finally known, the results of the incorrect branch sequences are discarded. See branch prediction. , le theatre, Herode, et la folie folie /fo·lie/ (fo-le´) [Fr.] psychosis; insanity.

folie à deux  (ah-ddbobr´ 
 du monde"; Frank Grenier, "Martyrs d'amour du roman baroque: images en enjeux"; Isabelle Pantin, "Fidelissima immortalis Dei nuncia: astrologie et theologie de Regiomontanus a Tycho Brahe"; and Jan Miernowski, "Le mouvement virtuel des anges"; Pascale Chiron, "Mouvement et repos dans la cite de Dieu."

Clogan, Paul Maurice, ed. Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. (New Series, 29: Papal Letters, Manual for Confessors, and Romance.) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2003. xi + 161 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-7425-2758-1.

Contents: Paul Maurice Clogan, "Preface"; John R.C. Martyn, "Six Notes on Gregory the Great Noun 1. Gregory the Great - (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, St.
"; Marijane Osborn, "Reading the 'Animals' of Wulf and Eadwacer with Hrabanus Maurus"; Dorothy Carr Porter, "Prudence in Action: Andreas' Lady in the De amore"; Shearle Furnish, "Labors of Love and the Work of Art: Divine Creativity and Human Artists in the Wakefield Noah"; Harriet Hudson, "Rebellious Daughters and Rotten Chickens: Gender and Genre in Caxton's Paris and Vienne"; and Marvin L. Colker, "Michael of Belluno and His Speculum Conscientie: The Unique Manuscript Recently Discovered."

Cummins, Juliet, ed. Milton and the Ends of Time. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 254 pp. index. illus. tbls. $55. ISBN: 0-521-81665-3.

Contents: Juliet Cummins, "Introduction: 'Those thoughts that wander through eternity'"; Barbara K. Lewalski, "Milton and the millennium"; Sarah Hutton, "Mede, Milton, and More: Christ's College millenarians"; Stella P. Revard, "Milton and millenarianism mil·le·nar·i·an  
adj.
1. Of or relating to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.

2. Of, relating to, or believing in the doctrine of the millennium.

n.
One who believes the millennium will occur.
: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained"; Malabika Sarkar Sarkar could mean:
  • Government in Urdu/Persian/Hindi. Colloquially in India, it is a Metonymy for the incumbent government. The Persian wordSarkar is derived from two words; 'Sar' meaning Head and 'Kar' meaning Work.
, "Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus, and the millennial debate"; William B. Hunter, "The millennial moment: Milton vs. 'Milton'"; John T. Shawcross, "Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium"; Beverley Sherry, "John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost"; Catherine Gimelli Martin, "The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent im·ma·nent  
adj.
1. Existing or remaining within; inherent: believed in a God immanent in humans.

2. Restricted entirely to the mind; subjective.
 versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell"; Juliet Cummins, "Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost"; Claude N. Stulting, Jr., "'New Heav'ns, new Earth': apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the postlapsarian Books of Paradise Lost"; Ken Simpson, "The apocalypse in Paradise Regained"; Karen L. Edwards, "Inspiration and Melancholy in Samson Agonistes"; and David Loewenstein, "Afterword: 'The time is come.'"

Davis, Lloyd, ed. Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance. Cranbury, NJ and London: University of Delaware [3] The student body at the University of Delaware is largely an undergraduate population. Delaware students have a great deal of access to work and internship opportunities.  Press/AUP, 2003. 330 pp. index. append. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-87413-790-X.

Contents: Lloyd Davis, "Introduction: Shakespearean Cultures"; Jean E. Howard, "Material Shakespeare/Materialist Shakespeare"; Derek Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
, "The Past of Macbeth"; Arthur Lindley, "Anthony, Cleopatra, the Market, and the End(s) of History"; Sharon A. Beehler, "'Confederate Season': Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Understanding of Kairos Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment". The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. "; Lloyd Davis, "'Sick Desires': All's Well That Ends Well and the Civilizing Process"; Ann Blake, "Breaking Rank in Shakespearean Marriage Plots"; Michael Mullin, "Shakespeare on the Web"; Susan Gushee O'Malley, "Cultural Appropriations of Shakespeare in the Classroom"; Laura Raidonis Bates Bates   , Katherine Lee 1859-1929.

American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911.
, "The Uses of Shakespeare in Criminal Rehabilitation: Testing the Limits of 'Universality'"; Sara Jayne Steen, "Whose Will, or Who's Will? Teaching Shakespeare Him-Self"; Simon C. Estok, "Teaching the Environment of The Winter's Tale: Ecocritical Theory and Pedagogy for Shakespeare"; Kim Walker, "Wrangling Pedantry Pedantry
Blimber, Cornelia

“dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages.” [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son]

Casaubon, Edward

dull pedant; dreary scholar who marries Dorothea. [Br. Lit.
: Education in The Taming of the Shrew"; Barbara Bowen, "Beyond Shakespearean Exceptionalism ex·cep·tion·al·ism  
n.
1. The condition of being exceptional or unique.

2. The theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm.
"; Richard Madelaine, "Material Boys: Apprenticeship and the Boy Actors' Shakespearean Roles"; Adrian Kiernander, "'Betwixt' and 'between': Variant Readings in the Folio and First Quarto Versions of Richard III and W.W. Greg's Concept of Memorial Reconstruction"; Ron Bedford, "The Case of the Rouged Corpse: Shakespeare, Malone, and the Modern Subject"; Gillian M. Day, "Determination and Proof: Colley Cibber and the Materialization of Shakespeare's Richard III in the Twentieth Century"; Philippa Kelly, "New Faces for Shakespeare in Contemporary Australia"; Ian Maclennan, "Materialist Shakespeare and Ideological Performance: Michael Bogdanov and Shakespeare in Production"; and R.S. White, "Travels on the Shakespeare Underground."

de Courcelles, Dominique, ed. Ouvrages miscellanies et theories de la connaissance a la Renaissance: Actes des journees d'etudes organisees par l'Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris, 5 et 6 avril 2002). (Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des chartes, 12.) Paris: Ecole nationale des Chartes-CESR, 2003.214 pp. illus. biblio. 25 [euro]. ISBN: 2-900791-58-8.

Contents: Dominique de Courcelles, "Introduction"; Jean-Marc Mandosio, "La miscellanee: histoire d'un genre"; Frank Lestringant, "Le Livre Des Inventeurs de Polydore Vergile"; Perrine Galand-Hallyn, "Les Miscellanees de Pietro Crinito: une philologie de l'engagement et du lyrisme"; Tom Conley, "Un tombeau de melanges: les 'Epistres de l'amant vert' dans le livre imprime des Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troie (1512-1513)"; Dominique de Courcelles, "Le melange mé·lange also me·lange  
n.
A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan.
 des savoirs: pour la connaissance du monde et la connaissance de soi au milieu du [XVI.sup.e] siecle dans la Silva de varia var·i·a  
n.
A miscellany, especially of literary works.



[Latin, from neuter pl. of varius, various.]
 leccion du Sevillan Pedro Mexia"; Alfredo Perifano, "La theorie cachee ou de la pratique vulgarisee dans le Compendio de i secreti rationali (1564) de Leonardo Fioravanti"; Frederic Tinguely, "'Melanges geographiques' et relativisme culturel"; Santiago Lopez-Rios, "Descifrar el mundo y entretener al lector: el Libro de las maravillas de don Juan Don Juan (dŏn wän, j`ən, Span. dōn hwän), legendary profligate.  de Austria"; Marie Dominique Couzinet, "Les Essais de Montaigne et les miscellanees"; Sonia V. Rose, "Saber universal y memoria local: la Miscelanea Austral aus·tral  
adj.
Of, relating to, or coming from the south.



[Latin austrlis, from auster, austr-, south.
 de Diego Davalos y Figueroa (Lima, 1602)"; Claudia Dematte, "Melanges et litterature melee: de La Dorotea de Lope de Vega (1632) au Para Todos de Juan Perez de Montalban (1632)"; and Harriet Stone, "La compilation du savoir chez Ambroise Pare et dans le Dictionnaire universel d'Antoine Furetiere."

Dinshaw, Carolyn and David J. Wallace, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing. (Cambridge Companions to Literature.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xix + 289 pp. index. bibl. $60 (cl), $22 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-79188-X (cl), 0-521-79638-5 (pbk).

Contents: David Wallace and Carolyn Dinshaw, "Introduction"; Daniel T. Kline, "Female childhoods"; Ruth Evans, "Virginities"; Dyan Elliott, "Marriage"; Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Widows"; Karma karma or karman (kär`mə, kär`mən), [Skt.,=action, work, or ritual], basic concept common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.  Lochrie, "Between women"; Jennifer Summit, "Women and authorship"; Christopher Cannon, "Enclosure"; Sarah Salih, "At home; out of the house"; Alcuin Blamires, "Beneath the pulpit"; Christopher Baswell, "Heloise"; Robert L. Krueger, "Marie de France Marie de France (də fräNs), fl. 1155–90, poet. Born in France, she spent her adult life in England in aristocratic circles and wrote in Anglo-Norman. "; David F. Hult, "The Roman de la Rose, Christine de Pizan Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364–c.1430) was a writer and analyst of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts. , and the querelle des femmes"; Sarah McNamer, "Lyrics and romances"; Nicholas Watson, "Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich
 or Juliana of Norwich

(born 1342, probably Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.—died after 1416) English mystic. After being healed of a serious illness (1373), she wrote two accounts of her visions; her Revelations of Divine Love is remarkable for
"; Carolyn Dinshaw, "Margery Kempe"; Alexandra Barratt, "Continental women mystics and English readers"; and Nadia Margolis, "Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. ."

Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol. 1, The Tragedies. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 17.) Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. x + 491 pp. index. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 0-631-22632-X.

Contents: Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton, "Introduction"; David Scott Kastan, "'A rarity most beloved': Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy"; Martin Coyle, "The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries"; Katherine Rowe, "Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions"; Catherine Belsey, "The Divided Tragic Hero"; Philippa Berry, "Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy"; Sasha Roberts, "Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England"; Bernice W. Kliman, "Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History"; Graham Holderness, "Text and Tragedy"; Richard C. McCoy, "Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity"; Gordon Braden, "Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies"; Jerry Brotton, "Tragedy and Geography"; Kenneth S. Rothwell, "Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times"; Mark Thornton Burnett, "Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies"; Ian Smith, "Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge"; Naomi Conn Liebler, "'There is no world without Verona walls': The City in Romeo and Juliet"; Michael Neill, "'He that thou knowest thine': Friendship and Service in Hamlet"; Rebecca W. Bushnell, "Julius Caesar"; Kim E Hall, "Othello and the Problem of Blackness"; Kiernan Ryan, "King Lear"; Kathleen McLuskie, "Macbeth, the Present, and the Past"; Jyotsna G. Singh, "The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below"; Hugh Grady, "Timon of Athens Timon of Athens

lost wealth, lived frugally; became misanthropic when deserted by friends. [Br. Lit.: Timon of Athens]

See : Asceticism
: The Dialectic of Usury usury: see interest.
usury

In law, the crime of charging an unlawfully high rate of interest. In Old English law, the taking of any compensation whatsoever was termed usury.
, Nihilism nihilism (nī`əlĭzəm), theory of revolution popular among Russian extremists until the fall of the czarist government (1917); the theory was given its name by Ivan Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons (1861). , and Art"; and Cynthia Marshall, "Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure."

--, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol. 2, The Histories. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 18.) Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. x + 484 pp. index, bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 0-631-22633-8.

Contents: Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton, "Introduction"; Ivo Kamps, "The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England"; Richard Helgerson, "Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History"; Cyndia Susan Clegg, "Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare's England"; Patricia A. Cahill, "Nation Formation and the English History Plays"; Willy Maley, "The Irish Text and Subtext sub·text  
n.
1. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text.

2. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance.
 of Shakespeare's English Histories"; William C. Carroll, "Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England"; Peter J. Smith, "'To beguile the time, look like the time': Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories"; Paulina Kewes, "The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre?"; James Holstun, "Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories"; Rebecca Ann Bach, "Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy Effeminacy
Blue Boy

Gainsborough painting depicting princely lad with sissyish overtones. [Br. Art.: Misc.]

Fauntleroy, Little Lord

title-inheriting, yellow-curled sissy in velvet. [Am. Lit.
, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays"; Linda Gregerson, "French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays"; Ric Knowles, "The First Tetralogy tetralogy /te·tral·o·gy/ (te-tral´ah-je) a group or series of four.

tetralogy of Fallot
 in Performance"; Lois Potter, "The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation"; David Bevington, "1 Henry VI"; Thomas Cartelli, "Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI"; Kathryn Schwarz, "Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI"; James Siemon, "'The power of hope?' An Early Modern Reader of Richard III; Virginia Mason Vaughan, "King John"; Lisa Hopkins, "The King's Melting Body: Richard II"; James Knowles, "1 Henry IV"; Jonathan Crewe, "Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History"; and Andrew Hadfield, "Henry V."

--, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol. 3, The Comedies. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 19.) Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. x + 464 pp. index, bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 0-631-22634-6.

Contents: Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton, "Introduction"; Janette Dillon, "Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy"; Francois Laroque, "Shakespeare's Festive Comedies"; Gail Kern Paster, "The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy"; Peter Holbrook, "Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies"; Mario DiGangi, "The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households"; Phyllis Rackin, "Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies"; Julie Crawford, "The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies"; Lena Cowen Orlin, "Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life"; Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., "Shakespeare's Comic Geographies"; Lloyd Davis, "Rhetoric and Comic Personation per·son·ate 1  
tr.v. per·son·at·ed, per·son·at·ing, per·son·ates
1. To play the role or portray the part of (a character); impersonate.

2. To endow with personal qualities; personify.

3.
 in Shakespeare's Comedies"; Ian Frederick Moulton, "Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff"; Barbara Hodgdon, "Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre"; Jeffrey Masten, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"; Pamela Allen Brown, "'Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?' The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience"; Richard Dutton, "The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny calumny n. the intentional and generally vicious false accusation of a crime or other offense designed to damage one's reputation. (See: defamation)  of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study"; John Michael Archer, "Love's Labour's Lost"; Helen Hackett, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Marion Wynne-Davies, "Rubbing at Whitewash whitewash, white fluid commonly used as an inexpensive, impermanent coating for walls, fences, stables, and other exterior structures. It varies in composition, being generally a mixture of lime (quicklime), water, flour, salt, glue, and whiting, with other : Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice"; Wendy Wall, "The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor"; Alison Findlay, "Much Ado About Nothing"; Juliet Dusinberre, "As You Like It"; and Penny Gay, "Twelfth Night: 'The Babbling babbling Neurology Quasi-random vocalizations in infants that precede language acquisition. See Lalling stage.  Gossip of the Air.'"

--, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol. 4, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 20.) Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. xii + 482 pp. index. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 0-631-22634-6.

Contents: Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton, "Introduction"; Bruce R. Smith, "Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History"; Dympna Callaghan, "The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis"; Paul Yachnin, "Shakespeare's Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure"; Bruce Boehrer, "The Privy and Its Double: Scatology scatology /sca·tol·o·gy/ (skah-tol´ah-je)
1. study and analysis of feces, as for diagnosis.

2. a preoccupation with feces, filth, and obscenities.
 and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre"; Theodora A. Janowski, "Hymeneal hy·me·ne·al  
adj.
Of or relating to a wedding or marriage.

n.
1. A wedding song or poem.

2. hymeneals Archaic A wedding; nuptials.
 Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well"; John Jowett, "Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeare's Problem Plays and Late Plays"; Barbara A. Mowatt, "'What's in a Name?" Tragicomedy tragicomedy

Literary genre consisting of dramas that combine elements of tragedy and comedy. Plautus coined the Latin word tragicocomoedia to denote a play in which gods and mortals, masters and slaves reverse the roles traditionally assigned to them.
, Romance, or Late Comedy"; Russ McDonald, "Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I.

They became famous as a team early in their association, so much so that their joined names were applied to the total canon of
"; John Gillies, "Place and Space in Three Late Plays"; David M. Bergeron, "The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays"; Diana E. Henderson, "The Tempest in Performance"; Richard Rambuss, "What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis"; Coppelia Kahn, "Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece"; Valerie Traub, "The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare's Two Loves"; Linda Charnes, "The Two Party System in Troilus and Cressida"; Karen Cunningham, "Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure"; Barbara Howard Traister, "'Doctor She': Healing and Sex in All's Well That Ends Well"; Suzanne Gosset, "'You not your child well loving': Text and Family Structure in Pericles"; Marion O'Connor, "'Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators': Iconomachy and The Winter's Tale"; Valerie Wayne, "Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance"; Daniel Vitkus, "'Meaner Ministers': Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest"; Susan Frye, "Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII"; and Julie Sanders, "Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Erler, Mary C. and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. index, append, illus, tbls. map. bibl. $49.95 (cl), $18.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8014-4112-9 (cl), 0-8014-8830-3 (pbk).

Contents: Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, "Introduction"; Jo Ann McNamara, "Women and Power through the Family Revisited"; Dyan Elliott, "Women and Confession: From Empowerment to Pathology"; Nicholas Watson, "'With the Heat of the Hungry Heart': Empowerment and Ancrene Wisse"; Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, "Powers of Record, Powers of Example: Hagiography hagiography

Literature describing the lives of the saints. Christian hagiography includes stories of saintly monks, bishops, princes, and virgins, with accounts of their martyrdom and of the miracles connected with their relics, tombs, icons, or statues.
 and Women's History"; Wendy R. Larson, "Who Is the Master of This Narrative? Maternal Patronage of the Cult of St. Margaret"; Pamela Sheingorn, "'The Wise Mother': The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary"; Barbara Newman, "Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature"; Katherine L. French, "Women in the Late Medieval English Parish"; Holly S. Hurlburt, "Public Exposure? Consorts and Ritual in Late Medieval Europe: The Example of the Entrance of the Dogaresse of Venice"; Sarah Rees Jones, "Women's Influence on the Design of Urban Homes"; and Felicity Riddy, "Looking Closely: Authority and Intimacy in the Late Medieval Urban Home."

Fantoni, Marcello, Louisa C. Matthew, and Sara E Matthews-Grieco, eds. The Art Market in Italy, 15th-17th Centuries / Il Mercato dell'Arte in Italia, secc. XV-XVII. (Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali Ferrara Studi.) Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini Panini (pä`nēnē), fl. c.400 B.C., Indian grammarian. His Ashtādhyāyī [eight books] (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistics and is also the first individually authored treatise on Sanskrit. , 2003.511 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. 90 [euro]. ISBN: 88-8290-577-2.

Contents: Louisa C. Matthew, Sara E Matthews-Grieco, and Marcello Fantoni, "Acknowledgements"; Marcello Fantoni, "Arte, mercato dell'arte e cultura italiana tra Rinascimento e Antico Regime"; Louisa C. Matthew, "Focus on the artist and the middleman mid·dle·man  
n.
1. A trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers.

2. An intermediary; a go-between.
: materials, workshop production and marketing during an age of transition"; Sara E Matthews-Grieco, "The buyers' end of the market: demand, taste and consumption in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy"; Suzanne B. Butters, "Making Art Pay: The Meaning and Value of Art in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome and Florence"; Caroline P. Murphy, "The Market for Pictures in Post-Tridentine Bologna"; Marta Ajmar, "Taking Pots: Strategies for Producing Novelty and the Consumption of Painted Pottery in Renaissance Italy"; Eckhard Leuschner, "Censorship and the Market: Antonio Tempesta's 'New' Subjects in the Context of Roman Printmaking printmaking

Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist.
 ca. 1600"; Margaret Haines, "The Market for Public Sculpture in Renaissance Florence"; Catherine Turrill, "Patenti, clienti e conoscenti: The Nun-Artisans of Santa Caterina da Siena and Their Clients"; Rita Comanducci, "Produzione seriale e mercato dell-arte a Firenze tra Quattro e Cinquecento"; Susanne Kubersky-Piredda, "Immagini devozionali nel Rinascimento fiorentino: produzione, commercio, prezzi"; Arne R. Flaten, "Portrait Medals and Assembly-Line Art in Late Quattrocento quat·tro·cen·to  
n.
The 15th-century period of Italian art and literature.



[Italian, short for (mil) quattrocento, one thousand four hundred : quattro, four (from Latin
 Florence"; Julia A. De Lancey, "Dragonsblood and Ultramarine ultramarine, blue pigment used chiefly as a coloring material and as a bluing agent. A double silicate of sodium and aluminum with some sulfur, it is prepared commercially from kaolin, sulfur, soda ash, and other inexpensive ingredients. : The Apothecary apothecary /apoth·e·cary/ (ah-poth´e-kar?e) pharmacist.

a·poth·e·car·y
n. pl. a·poth·e·car·ies Abbr. ap.
1.
 and Artists' Pigments in Renaissance Florence"; Andrew C. Blume, "Botticelli and the Cost and Value of Altarpieces in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence"; Michelle O'Malley, "Commissioning Bodies, Allocation Decisions and Price Structures for Altarpieces in Fifteenth--and Early Sixteenth-Century Italy"; Pierre Gerin-Jean, "Prices of Works of Art and Hierarchy of Artistic Value on the Italian Market (1400-1700)"; Rab Hatfield, "The High End: Michelangelo's Earnings"; Deborah Krohn, "Taking Stock: Evaluation of Works of Art in Renaissance Italy"; Megan Holmes, "Neri di Bicci Neri di Bicci (1419 – 1491) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. A prolific painter of mainly religious themes, he was active mainly in Florence and in the medium of tempera. His father was Bicci di Lorenzo (1373-1452). His grandfather, Lorenzo di Bicci (c.  and the Commodification Commodification (or commoditization) is the transformation of what is normally a non-commodity into a commodity, or, in other words, to assign value. As the word commodity has distinct meanings in business and in Marxist theory, commodification  of Artistic Values in Florentine Painting (1450-1500)"; Alison Wright, "Between the Patron and the Market: Production Strategies in the Pollaiuolo Workshop"; Robert G. La France, "Bachiacca's Formula for Success"; Louisa C. Matthew, "Were there Open Markets for Pictures in Renaissance Venice?"; Christopher R. Marshall, "Appagare il pubblico: the Marketing Strategies of Luca Giordano (1678-1684)"; Kevin M. Stevens and Paul F. Gehl, "The Eye of Commerce: Visual Literacy Among the Makers of Books in Italy"; Evelyn Welch, "From Retail to Resale: Artistic Value and the Second-Hand Market in Italy (1400-1550)"; Patricia Allerston, "The Second-Hand Trade in the Arts in Early Modern Italy"; Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, "The Medici Medici, Italian family
Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737.
 Sale of 1495 and the Second-Hand Market for Domestic Goods in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence"; Loredana Lorizzo, "Il mercato dell'arte a Roma nel XVII secolo: 'pittori bottegari' e 'rivenditori di quadri' nei documenti dell'Archivo Storico dell'Accademia di San Luca"; Linda Borean, "'Con il maggior vantaggio possibile': La vendita della collezione del procuratore di San Marco Giacomo Cotter cot·ter  
n.
1. A bolt, wedge, key, or pin inserted through a slot in order to hold parts together.

2. A cotter pin.



[Origin unknown.
"; Martha McCrory, "The Dukes and Their Dealers: The Formation of the Medici Grand-Ducal Collections of the Sixteenth Century"; Adelina Modesti, "Patrons as Agents and Artists as Dealers in Seicento sei·cen·to  
n.
The 17th century with reference to Italian literature and art.



[Italian, from (mil)seicento, (one thousand) six hundred : sei, six (from Latin sex
 Bologna"; Isabella Cecchini, "Le figure del commercio: cenni sui mercato pittorico veneziano nel XVII secolo"; Michael Rohlmann, "Arte da lontano: pittura fiamminga nella Firenze rinascimentale"; Mickael Szanto, "Gli itinerari delle pitture dall'Italia alla Francia nel primo Seicento: dalle vie diplomatiche ai circuiti bancari"; Richard Goldthwaite, "Economic Parameters of the Italian Art Market (15th to 17th Centuries)"; and Dennis Romano, "Comments from an Historian."

Focking, Marc and Bernhard Huss, eds. Varietas und Ordo: Zur Dialektik von Vielfalt und Einheit in Renaissance und Barock. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. xv + 251 pp. bibl. 58 [euro]. ISBN: 3-515-08258-1.

Contents: Marc Focking and Bernhard Huss, "Vorwort"; Giuseppe Invernizzi, "Platonismus, Tradition und Menschenwiirde in der Philosophie Marsilio Ficinos"; Bernhard Huss, "Regelpoesie und Inspirationsdichtung in der Poetologie Cristoforo Landinos (im Anhang: Landinos Vorwort zu seiner Kommentierung der Ars poetica yon Horaz)"; Gernot M. Muller, "Vielfalt und Einheit. Die Dichtungslehre in Giovanni Pontanos Actius im Horizont einer Dialogpoetik der varietas"; Susanne Thiemann, "Weibliche Rede gegen mannliche Ordnung? Zu Luisa Sigeas Duarum virginum colloquium col·lo·qui·um  
n. pl. col·lo·qui·ums or col·lo·qui·a
1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views.

2. An academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting.
 de vita aulica et privata"; Ulrike Schneider, "'Le donne fanno gruppo'? Zum Problem literarischer Autoritat im 'weiblichen Petrarkismus'"; Stefan Hartung, "Rehierarchisierungen und Systemverschiebungen in der paradoxen Lob--und Tadelliteratur der Renaissance"; David Nelting, "(Un)Ordnungen Arkadiens in Spatrenaissance und Fruhbarock: Zu Konstruktion und Destruktion von Ordo bei Torquato Tasso und Battista Guarini"; Roderich Billermann, "Zur moratistischen Dimension der Historiographie Philippe de Commynes'"; Michael Bernsen, "Das Konzept politischer Herrschaft in der Dichtung Clement Marots"; Marc Focking, "Von der Macht des Lachens zum Lachen der Macht: Kontingenz und Ordnung in der Komodie zwischen italienischer Renaissance und franzosischer Fruhklassik (Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, Aspasie)"; Stephan Leopold, "Con ansia estrema--Petrarkismus in Zeichen yon Sexualitat und Gewalt bei Garcilaso De La Vega Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet
Garcilaso de la Vega (gärthēlä`sō thā lä vā`gä), 1503?–1536, lyric poet of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Toledo.
"; Horst Weich, "Rhetorik des Schweigens. Geschlechterordnung und Variation in der Liebeslyrik des Conde de Villamediana"; Wolfram wolfram: see tungsten.  Nitsch, "Textgefangnisse. Kunstlichkeit und Gewaltsamkeit in der spanischen Liebeslyrik des Barock"; Christian Wehr, "Von der platonischen zur thetorischen Bewaltigung der varietas: Uberlegungen zur Kategorie des Scharfsinns bei Castiglione und Gracian"; and Jing jing (jing) [Chinese] one of the basic substances that according to traditional Chinese medicine pervade the body, usually translated as "essence"; the body reserves or constitutional makeup, replenished by food and rest, that supports  Xuan, "Getraumtes Leben, gespielte Macht: La vida es sueno von Pedro Calderon De La Barca als Allegorie der fruhneuzeitlichen Legitimationskrise."

Glaisyer, Natasha and Sara Pennell, eds. Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800: Expertise Constructed. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xii + 213 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0669-4.

Contents: Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell, "Introduction"; Scott Mandelbrote, "The Bible and Didactic Literature in Early Modern England"; Susan Forscher Weiss, "Didactic Sources of Musical Learning in Early Modern England"; Randall Ingram, "Seventeenth-Century Didactic Readers, Their Literature, and Ours"; Anna Marie E. Roos, "Polite Society and Perceptions of the Sun and the Moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 "; Michele Cohen, "French Conversation or 'Glittering Gibberish'? Learning French in Eighteenth-Century England"; Rebecca Bushnell, "The Gardener and the Book"; Christoph Heyl, "Deformity's Filthy Fingers: Cosmetics and the Plague in Artificiall Embellishments, or Arts best Directions how to Preserve Beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665)"; Richard Steadman-Jones, "Richardson's Barometer: Colonial Representation in Grammatical Texts"; and Phyllis Whitman Hunter, "Containing the Marvellous: Instructions to Buyers and Sellers."

Hogendijk, Jan P. and Abdelhamid I. Sabra sa·bra  
n.
A native-born Israeli.



[Hebrew
, eds. The Enterprise of Science in Islam Science in Islam may refer to:
  • Islamic science (the history of science in the Islamic World)
  • The relation between Islam and science
  • Science and religion in Islam
.. New Perspectives. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology For chronological accounts of the development of science and technology, see history of science and history of technology.

The history of science and technology (HST
.) Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Press, 2003. xxii + 386 pp. index. illus, bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-262-19482-1.

Contents: Abdelhamid I. Sabra and Jan P. Hogendijk, "Introduction"; Paul Kunitzsch, "The Transmission of Hindu-Arabic Numerals Reconsidered"; Charles Burnett, "The Transmission of Arabic Astronomy via Antioch and Pisa in the Second Quarter of the Twelfth Century"; Elaheh Kheirandish, "The Many Aspects of 'Appearances': Arabic Optics to 950 AD'; A.I. Sabra, "Ibn alHaytham's Revolutionary Project in Optics: The Achievement and the Obstacle"; Gerhard Endress, "Mathematics and Philosophy in Medieval Islam"; J. Lennart Berggren, "Tenth-Century Mathematics through the Eyes of Abu Sahl alKuhi"; Jacques Sesiano, "Quadratus Quadratus is Latin for "square" and it may refer to:
  • (Caius) Julius Quadratus, a Roman Cavalry Officer, first cousin of
  • Caius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Legate at Judaea between 102 and 105, Consul of Rome in 105 and Proconsul of Asia in 105, grandfather of:
 Mirabilis"; Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, "Calculating Surface Areas and Volumes in Islamic Architecture"; David Pingree, "The "Sarvasiddhantaraja" of Nityananda"; Julio Samso, "On the Lunar Tables in Sanjaq Dar's Zij al-Sharif"; Ahmed Djebbar, "A Panorama of Research on the History of Mathematics in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the Ninth and Sixteenth Centuries"; and Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Another Andalusian Revolt? Ibn Rushd's Critique of al-Kindi's Pharmacological Computus."

Knoppers, Laura Lunger lunger

see atypical interstitial pneumonia.
, ed. Puritanism and Its Discontents. Newark, NJ and London: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2003.264 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-87413-817-5.

Contents: Laura Lunger Knoppers, "Introduction"; John Morrill, "A Liberation Theology? Aspects of Puritanism in the English Revolution"; Dwight Brautigam, "Prelates and Politics: Uses of 'Puritan,' 1625-40"; John Netland, "Of Philistines and Puritans: Matthew Arnold's Construction of Puritanism"; Margo Todd, "Anti-Calvinists and the Republican Threat in Early Stuart Cambridge"; Steven R. Pointer, "The Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Election of 1622: The Constraints of a Puritan Institution"; Barbara Olive, "The Fabric of Restoration Puritanism: Mary Chudleigh's The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd"; Richard Pointer, "From Imitating Language to a Language of Imitation: Puritan-Indian Discourse in Early New England"; Glenn Sanders, "'A plain Turkish Tyranny': Images of the Turk in Anti-Puritan Polemic"; Timothy D. Hall, "Assurance, Community, and the Puritan Self in the Antinomian an·ti·no·mi·an  
n.
An adherent of antinomianism.

adj.
1. Of or relating to the doctrine of antinomianism.

2.
 Controversy, 1636-38"; and Stephen Woolsey, "Staging a Puritan Saint: Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana."

Levy, Allison, ed. Widowhood Widowhood
Douglas, Widow

adopted Huck Finn and took care of him. [Am. Lit.: Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn]

Gummidge, Mrs

. “a lone lorn creetur,” the Pegotty’s house-keeper. [Br. Lit.
 and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xvii + 266 pp. + 101 b/w pls. index. illus. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0731-3.

Contents: Allison Levy, "Widow's Peek: Looking at Ritual and Representation"; Catherine Lawless, "'Widowhood was the time of her greatest perfection': Ideals of Widowhood and Sanctity in Florentine Art"; J.S.W. Helt, "Memento Mori: Death, Widowhood and Remembering in Early Modern England"; Marina Arnold, "Mourning Widows: Portraits of Widows and Widowhood in Funeral Sermons from Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel"; Joyce de Vries de Vries. For some persons thus named use Vries. , "Casting Her Widowhood: The Contemporary and Posthumous Portraits of Caterina Sforza"; Elizabeth McCartney, "A Widow's Tears, A Queen's Ambition: The Variable History of Marie de Medicis's Bereavement Bereavement Definition

Bereavement refers to the period of mourning and grief following the death of a beloved person or animal. The English word bereavement
"; Michael E. Yonan, "Conceptualizing the Kaiserinwitwe: Empress Maria Theresia and Her Portraits"; Holly S. Hurlburt, "Individual Fame and Family Honor: The Tomb of Dogaressa Agnese da Mosto Venier"; Laura D. Gelfand, "Margaret of Austria Margaret of Austria, 1480–1530, Hapsburg princess, regent of the Netherlands; daughter of Emperor Maximilian I. She was betrothed (1483) to the dauphin of France, later King Charles VIII, and was transferred to the guardianship of Louis XI of France (see Arras,  and the Encoding Power in Patronage: The Funerary fu·ner·ar·y  
adj.
Of or suitable for a funeral or burial.



[Latin fner
 Foundation at Brou"; Sara French, "A Widow Building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick Bess of Hardwick: see Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of.  at Hardwick Hall"; Stephanie Fink De Backer, "Constructing Convents in Sixteenth-Century Castile: Toledan Widows and Patterns of Patronage"; Cristelle L. Baskins, "Trecento tre·cen·to  
n.
The 14th century, especially with reference to Italian art and literature.



[Italian, from (mil) trecento, (one thousand) three hundred : tre, three
 Rome: The Poetics and Politics of Widowhood"; Allison Levy, "Framing Widows: Mourning, Gender and Portraiture in Early Modern Florence"; Amelia Carr, "Contested Narratives: Elisabeth of Austria Elisabeth of Austria is the name of:
  • Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1353), wife of Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine
  • Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505), wife of King Casimir IV of Poland
  • Elisabeth of Austria (1526-1545), wife of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland
 and a Relic of St Leopold"; and Allison Levy, "Last Rites: Mourning Identities (?)."

McKendrick, Scot, ed. Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Rome. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2003. xvi + 575 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $125 (ci), $55 (pbk). ISBN: 0-89236-703-2 (cl), 0-89236-704-0 (pbk).

Contents: Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, "Acknowledgements"; Lynne Brindley, Philip King, and Deborah Gribbon, "Foreword"; Scot McKendrick and Thomas Kren, "Introduction"; Catherine Reynolds, "Illuminators and the Painters' Guilds"; Maryan W. Ainsworth and Thomas Kren, "Illuminators and Painters: Artistic Exchanges and Interrelationships"; Scot McKendrick, "Reviving the Past: Illustrated Manuscripts of Secular Vernacular Texts, 1467-1500"; Thomas Kren, "From Panel to Parchment and Back: Painters as Illuminators before 1470" and "Revolution and Transformation: Painting in Devotional Manuscripts, circa 1467-1485"; Scot McKendrick, "Painting in Manuscripts of Vernacular Texts, circa 1467-1485"; Thomas Kren, "Consolidation and Renewal: Manuscript Painting under the Hapsburgs, circa 1485-1510"; "New Directions in Manuscript Painting, circa 1510-1561"; Scot McKendrick, "The Scribes"; and Richard Gay, "Selected Scribe Bibliographies."

Mews, Constant J., Cary J. Nederman, and Rodney M. Thomson, eds. Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O. Ward. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. x + 270 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $60. ISBN: 2-503-51340-9.

Contents: Rodney M. Thomson, "John O. Ward: A Personal Memoir"; Rodney M. Thomson and Constant J. Mews, "A Bibliography of John O. Ward"; Martin Camargo, "Defining Medieval Rhetoric"; Constant J. Mews, "Peter Abelard on Dialectic, Rhetoric, and the Principles of Argument"; Karin Margareta Fredborg, "Abelard on Rhetoric"; Peter von Moos, "Literary Aesthetics in the Latin Middle Ages: The Rhetorical Theology of Peter Abelard"; Juanita Feros Ruys, "Eloquencie vultum depingere: Eloguence and Dictamen in the Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard"; Rodney M. Thomson, "Satire, Irony, and Humour in William of Malmesbury William of Malmesbury (mämz`bərē), c.1096–1143, English writer, monk of Malmesbury. His most important work is the Gesta regum Anglorum, a history of the kings of England from 449 to 1127, with its continuation, "; Michael Winterbottom, "The Language of William of Malmesbury"; Cary J. Nederman, "The Origins of 'Policy': Fiscal Administration and Economic Principles in Later Twelfth-Century England"; John Scott, "William of Ockham and the Lawyers Revisited"; Rita Copeland, "Wycliffite Ciceronianism? The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible and Augustine's De doctrina Christiana"; Virginia Cox, "Ciceronian Rhetorical Theory in the Volgare: A Fourteenth-Century Text and its Fifteenth-Century Readers"; James J. Murphy James J. Murphy (November 3, 1898 - October 19, 1962) was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in Brooklyn. He was educated in the public schools of Staten Island and served as a noncommissioned officer with the First New York Cavalry on the Mexican border in , "Rhetoric in the Fifteenth Century: From Manuscript to Print"; and Nancy S. Struever, "Political Rhetoric and Rhetorical Politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)."

Millet, Olivier, ed. Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: Acres du colloque du Centre Jacques-Petit, Besancon (4, 5 et 6 mai 1999). Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 397 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. 59 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0847-5.

Contents: Olivier Millet, "Presentation"; Yvonne Bellenger, "Entre Renaissance et baroque: Chassignet heritier de Ia Pleiade"; Yvette Quenot, "De l'influence du Traitte de l'Oraison et Meditation de Louis de Grenade sur Le Mespris de Chassignet"; Pascale Chiron, "Chassignet a la lumiere de Jean de La Ceppede"; Louis Lobbes, "Pierre Matthieu, l'autre porte franc-comtois de Ia vie et de la mort"; Robert Stauffenegger, "Chassignet au 'decours' du siecle"; Gisele MathieuCastellani, "Les images du corps dans Le Mespris'; Michele Mastroianni, "L'iconographie des runes dans Le Mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort"; Gilles Banderier, "Le bestiaire et l'herbier"; Christine McCall Probes, "L'entrelacement des sens et de ia nature chez Jean-Baptiste Chassignet"; Anne-Elisabeth Spica, "La rhetorique de l'image dans Le Mespris de la vie de Chassignet"; Richard Crescenzo, "L'experience du regard dans Le Mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort"; Andre Gendre, "Fonction de Ia charniere du sonnet dans Ia meditation de Chassignet"; Sabine Lardon Lar´don

n. 1. A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.
, "L'enchainement des sonnets dans Le Mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort"; Guillaume Hatt, "Variation et repetition chez Jean-Baptiste Chassiguet: vers un modele personnel du sonnet?"; Michele Clement, "Le Cantique des Cantiques de J.-B. Chassignet: un texte dangereux"; Gabriella Bosco, "Job ou de la Fermete: Chassignet paraphraste et la querelle sur le Livre de Job dans les paraphrases de Ia fin du [XVI.sup.e] siecle et du [XVII.sup.e] siecle"; Anne Mantero, "Chassignet paraphraste des petits prophetes"; Veronique Ferrer, "Chassignet paraphraste du Psautier"; and Bertrand Degott, "Reception de Chassignet."

Milward, Peter, ed. The Renaissance Bulletin. (The Renaissance Bulletin, 29.) Tokyo: The Renaissance Institute, 2002. 48 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a.

Contents: John Wilson Yamamoto, "Catholic Literature and the Rise of Anglicanism"; Peter Milward, "Shakespeare's Inspissation inspissation Plugging of a tubular lumen–eg, bile ducts, intestine, with a thickened viscid material having a decreased fluid content ," "Shakespeare's Sacred Fools," "Shakespeare's Sermon," "Shakespeare's 'Miracles' in the Context of Religious Controversy," and "Notice-Board."

Mulryne, J.R. and Elizabeth Goldring, eds. Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, politics and performance. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xxiv + 401 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0628-7.

Contents: J.R. Mulryne, "Introduction"; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, "Early Modern European Festivals--Politics and Performance, Event and Record"; Margaret M. McGowan, "The Renaissance Triumph and its Classical Heritage"; Richard Cooper, "Court Festival and Triumphal Entries under Henri II"; Monique Chatenet, "Etiquette and Architecture at the Court of the Last Valois"; Nicholas Le Roux Roux , Pierre Paul Émile 1853-1933.

French bacteriologist. His work with the diphtheria bacillus led to the development of antitoxins to neutralize pathogenic toxins.
, "The Politics of Festivals at the Court of the Last Valois"; Chantal Grell, "The Financing and Material Organization of Court Festivals under Louis XIV"; Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, "The Two Coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530"; R.J. Knecht, "Charles V's Journey through France, 1539-40"; Jochen Beaker beaker /beak·er/ (bek´er) a glass cup, usually with a lip for pouring, used by chemists and pharmacists.

beaker

a round laboratory vessel of various materials, usually with parallel sides and often with a pouring spout.
, "'Greater than Zeuxis and Apelles': Artists as Arguments in the Antwerp Entry of 1549"; Elizabeth Goldring, "The Funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the Politics of Elizabethan Festival"; Victoria Musvik, "'And the King of Barbary's Envoy Had to Stand in the Yard': The Perception of Elizabethan Court Festivals in Russia at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century"; Iain Fenlon, "Rites of Passage: Cosimo I de' Medici and the Theatre of Death"; Nicoletta Guidobaldi, "The Role of Music in Italian Court Festivals in the Early Renaissance"; Dinko Fabris, "Musical Festivals at a Capital without a Court: Spanish Naples from Charles V (1535) to Philip V (1702)"; Flora Dennis, "Music in Ferrarese Festivals: Harmony and Chaos"; Roger Savage, "Checklists for Philostrate"; Peter Davidson, "The Theatrum for the Entry of Claudia de' Medici Claudia de' Medici, (June 4, 1604 – December 25, 1648), was the wife (1620–1622) of Federico della Rovere, the only son of Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.  and Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere into Urbino, 1621"; Maximilian L.S. Tondro, "The First Temporary Triumphal Arch in Venice (1557)"; and Marina Dmitrieva-Einhorn, "Ephemeral Ceremonial Architecture in Prague, Vienna and Cracow in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries."

Oberman, Heiko A. The Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New WorM. Ed. Donald Weinstein. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. xix + 235 pp. index. tbls. chron. $35. ISBN: 0-300-09868-5.

Contents: Donald Weinstein, "Editor's Preface"; Heiko A. Oberman, "Preface: Burn after Reading," "The Gathering Storm," "Luther and the Via Moderna: The Philosophical Backdrop of the Reformation Breakthrough," "Martin Luther: A Friar in the Lion's Den," "Reformation: End Time, Modern Times, Future Times," "From Luther to Hitler," "The Controversy over Images at the Time of the Reformation," "Toward the Recovery of the Historical Calvin," "Toward a New Map of Reformation Europe," "The Cutting Edge: The Reformation of the Refugees," and "Calvin's Legacy: Its Greatness and Limitations."

Palmer, Rodney, ed. The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xv + 274 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0559-0.

Contents: Rodney Palmer, "Introduction"; Julianna Barone, "Seventeenth-century illustrations for the chapters on motion in Leonardo's Trattato"; Sharon Gregory, "'The outer man tends to be a guide to the inner': the woodcut woodcut

Design printed from a plank of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain. One of the oldest methods of making prints, it was used in China to decorate textiles from the 5th century.
 portraits in Vasari's Lives as parallel texts"; Vaughan Hart, "'Of little or even no importance to the architect': on absent ideals in Serlio's drawings in the Sixth Book, on domestic architecture"; Robert Tavernor, "'Brevity without obscurity': text and image in the architectural treatises of Daniele Barbaro and Andrea Palladio"; Thomas Frangenberg, "'The beauty and majesty of the images': Pietro da Cortona's Barberini ceiling in Teti's Aedes Barberinae"; Rodney Palmer, "'All is very plain, upon inspection of the figure': the visual method of Andrea Pozzo's Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum"; Anthony Hamber, "Photography in nineteenth-century art publications"; and Valerie Holman, "'Still a makeshift'? Changing representations of the Renaissance in twentieth-century art books."

Papazian, Mary Arshagouni, ed. John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives. Detroit: Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges).  Press, 2003. viii + 385 pp. index. append. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8143-3012-6.

Contents: Mary Arshagouni Papazian, "Introduction"; Daniel W. Doerksen, "Polemist po·lem·ist  
n.
Variant of polemicist.


polemicist, polemist
a skilled debater in speech or writing. — polemical, adj.
See also: Argumentation

Noun 1.
 or Pastor?: Donne and Moderate Calvinist Conformity"; Jeanne Shami, "'Speaking Openly and Speaking First': John Donne, the Synod of Dort The Synod of Dort was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618/19, by the Dutch Reformed Church, in order to settle a serious controversy in the Dutch churches initiated by the rise of Arminianism. , and the Early Stuart Church"; Mary Arshagouni Papazian, "The Augustinian Donne: How a 'Second S. Augustine'?"; Jeffrey Johnson, "John Donne and Paolo Sarpi: Rendering the Council of Trent Noun 1. Council of Trent - a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished "; Raymond-Jean Frontain, "Donne's Protestant Paradiso: The Johannine Vision of the Second Anniversary"; Paul R. Sellin, "'Souldiers of one Army': John Donne and the Army of the States General as an International Protestant Crossroads, 1595-1625"; Catherine Gimelli Martin, "Unmeete Contraryes: The Reformed Subject and the Triangulation triangulation: see geodesy.


The use of two known coordinates to determine the location of a third. Used by ship captains for centuries to navigate on the high seas, triangulation is employed in GPS receivers to pinpoint their current location on earth.
 of Religious Desire in Donne's Anniversaries and Holy Sonnets"; Chanita Goodblatt, "From 'Tav' to the Cross: John Donne's Protestant Exegesis exegesis

Scholarly interpretation of religious texts, using linguistic, historical, and other methods. In Judaism and Christianity, it has been used extensively in the study of the Bible. Textual criticism tries to establish the accuracy of biblical texts.
 and Polemics po·lem·ics  
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
1. The art or practice of argumentation or controversy.

2. The practice of theological controversy to refute errors of doctrine.
"; Brent Nelson, "Pathopoeia and the Protestand From of Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"; Elena Levy-Navarro, "Breaking Down the Walls That Divide: Anti-Polemicism in the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"; Annette Deschner, "Reforming Baptism: John Donne and Continental Irenicism"; Marina Salenius, "True Purification: Donne's Art of Rhetoric in Two Candlemas Sermons"; and Gale H. Carrithers, Jr. and James D. Hardy, Jr., "'Not upon a Lecture, but upon a Sermon': Devotional Dynamics of the Donnean Fisher of Men."

Pellegrin, Nicole and Colette H. Winn, eds. Veufs, veuves et veuvage duns la France d'Ancien Regime: Actes du Colloque de Poitiers (11-12 juin 1998). Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 347 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. 66 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0810-6.

Contents: Colette H. Winn, "Introduction"; Jean-Marie Augustin, "La protection juridique de la veuve sous l'Ancien Regime"; Claire Dolan, "L'an de deuil et le remariage des veuves: Loi et tradition au XV[I.sup.e] siecle en Provence"; Josette Brun, "Le veuvage en Nouvelle-France au XVII[I.sup.e] siecle: de la coutume de Paris aux contrats de mariage de Louisbour"; Isabelle Sagot, "Etre veuve au temps des honorables hommes, a Niort, au XVI[I.sup.e] siecle: L'apport des actes notaries"; Janine M. Lanza, "Les veuves d'artisans dans le Paris du XVII[I.sup.e] siecle"; Daryl M. Halter halter

the simplest form of restraint for the head of farm animals. Comprises a poll strap, a nose band and a halter shank that brings the ends of the nose band together under the mandible. Made of leather or cotton or manila rope.
, "Les veuves dans les corporations de Rouen sous l'Ancien Regime"; Francoise Fortunet, "Veuves de guerre a l'epoque revolutionnaire"; Beatrice Hibbard Beech, "Madeline Boursette, femme femme  
adj.
Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men.

n.
1. Slang One who is femme.

2. Informal A woman or girl.
 d'imprimeur et veuve"; Kathleen M. Llewellyn, "Les veuves dans l'Heptameron de Marguerite de Navarre"; Danielle Haase-Dubosc, "Madame de Chatillon, veuve joyeuse"; Elaine Viennot, "Veuves de mere en fille: le cas du clan Guise"; Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie, "Jeanne de Chantal: 'l'idee des parfaites veuves'"; Nicole Pellegrin, "Le sexe de crepe crepe (krāp), thin fabric of crinkled texture, woven originally in silk but now available in all major fibers. There are two kinds of crepe. : Costumes du veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Regime"; Thomas Luttenberg, "La veuve etait en soie: L'habit des veuves et la construction de l'Etat moderne mo·derne  
adj.
Striving to be modern in appearance or style but lacking taste or refinement; pretentious.



[French, modern, from Old French; see modern.]

Adj. 1.
 au XV[I.sup.e] siecle"; Frederique Villemure, "La musique adoucit-elle les veufs?"; Colette H. Winn, "Ecriture, veuvage et deuil: Temoignages feminins du XV[I.sup.e] siecle"; and Gwenael Murphy, "Le deuil et le voile voile  
n.
A light, plain-weave, sheer fabric of cotton, rayon, silk, or wool used especially for making dresses and curtains.



[French, from Old French veile, veil, from Latin
: Les veuves au couvent dans le diocese de Poitiers (XVI[I.sup.e]-XVII[I.sup.e] siecles)."

Saffrey, Henri D. L'heritage des anciens au Moyen Age et a la Renaissance. (Histoire des doctrines de l'antiquite classique, 28.) Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2002. 318 pp. index. illus. tbls. 35 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7116-1596-0.

Contents: H.D. Saffrey, "Avant-Propos," "Saint Thomas d'Aquin et l'heritage des Anciens (VI[I.sup.e] centenaire se saint Thomas d'Aquin et restauration de l'eglise des Jacobins)," "Le Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi," "Saint Thomas d'Aquin et ses secretaires," "Notes platoniciennes de Marsile Ficin dans un manuscrit de Proclus," "Recherches sur quelques autographes du cardinal Bessarion et leur caractere utobiographique," "Notes autographes du cardinal Bessarion dans un manuscrit de Munich," "Pie II et les pretres uniates en Crete au X[v.sup.e] siecle," "Un exercise de latin philosophique, autographe du cardinal Bessarion," "Pietro Balbi et la premiere traduction latine de la Theologie platonicienne de Proclus," "Un humaniste dominicain, Jean Cuno de Nuremberg, precurseur d'Erasme a Bale," "Albrecht Durer, Jean Cuno, O.P., et la confrerie du Rosaire a Venise," "Un panegyrique inedit de S. Thomas d'Aquin par Josse Clichtove," and "La vie culturelle en Chypre chypre
Noun

a perfume made from sandalwood [French: Cyprus]
 au X[v.sup.e] siecle."

Scholten, Frits, ed. Willem van Tetrode tetrode: see electron tube.


A type of vaccum tube currently used in high-end audio amplifiers. A tetrode is like a triode with the addition of a "screen grid" between the control grid and the plate (anode).
, Sculptor (c. 1525-1580) Guglielmo Fiammingo scultore. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, Inc., 2003. 143 pp. append. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 90-400-8781-4.

Contents: Frits Scholten, "Willem van Tetrode, alter Praxiteles"; Emile van Binnebeke, "A majestic showpiece show·piece  
n.
Something exhibited, especially as an outstanding example of its kind.


showpiece
Noun

1. anything displayed or exhibited

2.
: Willem van Tetrode and the studiolo of the Count of Pitigliano'; Francesca G. Brewer, "Towards a history of Tetrode's casting technique"; Bierke van der Mark and Frits Scholten, "Catalogue"; and Arian de Koomen, "Appendix: Guglielmo Fiammingo at Cellini's studio."

Sharpe, Kevin and Steven N. Zwicker Steven Nathan Zwicker (born June 4 1943) is an American literary scholar and the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. , eds. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 363 pp. index. illus. $70. ISBN: 0-521-82434-6.

Contents: Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, "Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader"; Seth Lerer, "Errata er·ra·ta  
n.
Plural of erratum.
: print, politics and poetry in early modern England"; Richard Wendorf, "Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London"; Heidi Brayman Hackel, "'Boasting of silence': women readers in a patriarchal state"; Kevin Sharpe, "Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics hermeneutics, the theory and practice of interpretation. During the Reformation hermeneutics came into being as a special discipline concerned with biblical criticism.  and politics in early modern Britain
    "Early Modern Britain" is a term used to define the period in the history of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Major historical events in Early Modern British history include the English Renaissance, the English Reformation and
    "; David Scott Kastan, "Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama"; Joad Raymond, "Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain"; Michael Schoenfetdt, "Reading bodies"; Adrian Johns, "Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society"; Joseph Loewenstein, "Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. "; Steven N. Zwicker, "The constitution of opinion and the pacification Pacification


    Pain (See SUFFERING.)

    Aegir

    sea god, stiller of storms on the ocean. [Norse Myth.
     of reading"; and Kirstie M. McClure, "Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism con·sti·tu·tion·al·ism  
    n.
    1. Government in which power is distributed and limited by a system of laws that must be obeyed by the rulers.

    2.
    a. A constitutional system of government.

    b.
     in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government."

    Terpstra, Nicholas, ed. The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century/Le XI[X.sup.e] siecle renaissant. (Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) is a library and research and teaching centre in Victoria University in the University of Toronto, in Canada, devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. : Essays and Studies, 2.) Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003. xii + 302 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 0-7727-2019-3.

    Contents: Nicholas Terpstra and Yannick Portebois, "Introduction: Nineteenth Century Renaissances: Ideology to Commodity"; Francois Rigolot, "Sainte-Beuve's Invention of the French Renaissance"; Robert Melancon, "Du Bellay, de Sainte-Beuve a l'histoire litteraire"; Michel Fournier, "'Les primitifs du roman moderne': la reception critique du roman de l'age baroque dans le discours critique du XI[X.sup.e] siecle en France"; Janine Gallant, "Les peintres de la Renaissance au coeur de l'esthetique de Stendhal"; James E. Housefield, "The Nineteenth-Century Renaissance and the Modern Facsimile: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, from Ravaisson-Mollien to Peladan and Duchamp"; Francois-Emmanuel Boucher, "Le debut de la fin: le role de la Renaissance dans l'historiographie des reactionnaires francais au debut du XI[X.sup.e] siecle"; Jean-Claude Yon, "La Renaissance vue par un librettiste: le cas d'Eugene Scribe"; Jeanice Brooks and Mark Everist, "Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: Staging the History of the French Renaissance"; Sandra Parmegiani, "In Search of a Nation: Renaissance Motifs in Ugo Foscolo's Pre-romantic Historical and Literary Criticism"; Alan Kahan, "The Burckhardt-Sismondi Debate over the Meaning of the Italian Renaissance"; Mariel O'Neill-Karch, "Jean-Alexis Rouchon (1794-1878) et la (Re)naissance de l'affiche publicitaire"; Diana Cooper-Richet, "La redeouverte des editions aldines au XI[X.sup.e] siecle: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, bibliophile, collectionneur et passeur culturel"; Dylan Reid, "Local Printing, Local Pride: Rouen's Nineteenth-Century Bibliophiles and the Renaissance Printing Industry'; Laura Willett, "Romantic Renaissance in Montaigne's Chapel"; Rosanna Pavoni, "The Nineteenth-Century Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan, Italy: A Homage to the Italian Renaissance"; and D. Medina Lasansky, "Reshaping Attitudes Towards the Renaissance. The Fight Against 'Modern Mania' in Florence at the Turn of the Century."

    Ziegler, Georgianna, ed. Elizabeth I: Then and Now. Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library (fōl`jər): see under Folger, Henry Clay. , 2003. 190 pp. index. Illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-29598323-X.

    Contents: Gall Kern Paster, "Foreword"; Georgianna Ziegler, "Acknowledgments"; Carnie Levin, "Introduction to the Life and Reign of Elizabeth I"; Heidi Brayman Hackel, "Queen Elizabeth's Books"; Georgiana Ziegler, "Catalogue"; Janel Mueller, "Surveying Scholarly Treasures: Folger Manuscripts by and about Elizabeth I"; Heather Wolfe, "Chronological list of manuscripts at the Folger Library signed by Elizabeth I"; Sheila ffolliott, "Portraying Queens: the International Language of Court Portraiture in the Sixteenth Century"; and Barbara Hodgdon, "Reinventing Elizabeth: Memories, Counter-memories, Histories."

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    Lardellier, Pascal. Les miroirs du paon: Rites et rhetoriques politiques dans la France de l'Ancien Regime. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 351 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. 55 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0835-1.

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    The Press is the scholarly publishing arm of Duquesne University, and publishes and collections in the humanities and social sciences.
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    Lupher, David. Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries.  Press, 2003. 440 pp. index. bibl. $59.50. ISBN: 0-472-11275-9.

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    Milward, Peter. Shakespeare's Meta-drama: Hamlet and Macbeth. Tokyo: The Renaissance Institute, 2003. 199 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a.

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    O'Neil, Catherine. With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare. Cranbury, NJ and London: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2003. 190 pp. index. bibl. $41.50. ISBN: 0-87413-821-3.

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    Paci, Sara Piccolo piccolo, small transverse flute pitched an octave higher than the standard flute. Its tone is bright and shrill, and it can produce the highest notes in the orchestral range. The piccolo is used in orchestras and especially in military bands. See fife. . Le vesti del peccato: Eva, Salome e Maria Maddalena nell'arte. Milan: 2kncora Editrice, 2003.84 pp. index. illus. bibl. 13.50 [euro]. ISBN: 88-5140110-1.

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    a. The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.

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    Reiss, Timothy J. Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood per·son·hood  
    n.
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