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Volume 77 - Winter 2024

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The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Sandrine Parageau. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 254 pp. $30.
Barbara Bienias
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05 May 2025, pp. 1295-1297
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Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister. Michelle DiMeo. Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xii + 288 pp. $45.
Richard Yeo
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04 March 2025, pp. 1006-1007
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Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages. František Šmahel, Martin Nodl, Václav Žůrek, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xii + 412 pp. $226.
Enrica Guerra
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11 November 2024, pp. 693-694
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Tuscany in the Age of Empire. Brian Brege. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. xii + 492 pp. $59.
Jeffrey Miner
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24 April 2024, pp. 295-296
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Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet, eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 366 pp. €115. Open Access.
Matthew Vester
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05 May 2025, pp. 1297-1299
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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. David Cressy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ix + 314 pp. £30.
Tara S. Rider
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04 March 2025, pp. 1007-1009
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Tudor Children. Nicholas Orme. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2023. xiv + 265 pp. $30.
Richard M. Waugaman
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24 April 2024, pp. 296-298
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The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance. MacKenzie Cooley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. xiv + 337 pp. $110.50.
Ian Campbell
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11 November 2024, pp. 694-696
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The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations. Daniel Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $110.
Philippe Baillargeon
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24 April 2024, pp. 298-299
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Gender, Law and Material Culture: Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe. Annette Caroline Cremer, ed. London: Routledge, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $160.
Elena Brizio
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05 May 2025, pp. 1299-1301
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England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England, 1625–1662. Anthony Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv + 528 pp. $44.99.
Alexandra Gajda
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11 November 2024, pp. 696-697
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Far from Home in Early Modern France: Three Women’s Stories. Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation, Anne-Marie Fiquet Du Boccage, and Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour du Pin. Ed. Colette H. Winn. Trans. Lauren King, Elizabeth Hagstrom, and Colette H Winn. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. New York: Iter Press, 2022. viii + 312 pp. $54.95.
Jane Couchman
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04 March 2025, pp. 1009-1011
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Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives. Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski, eds. Library of the Written Word 114. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xiv + 326 pp. $167.
Arianna Magnani
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05 May 2025, pp. 1301-1302
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Patronage, Patrimonialism, and Governors’ Careers in the Dutch Chartered Companies, 1630–1681: Careers of Empire. Erik Odegard. European Expansion and Indigenous Response 38. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xvi + 284 pp. $132.
Oliver Haythorne
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04 March 2025, pp. 1011-1012
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At Kingdom's Edge: Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject. Jacob Selwood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. xii + 238. $57.95.
Monica Styles
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24 April 2024, pp. 299-301
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Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices. Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 396 pp. $130.
Shepard Krech III
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11 November 2024, pp. 698-699
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Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Caroline Callard. Trans. Trista Selous. The Past and Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. viii + 248 pp. $100.
Anna Birkbeck Cusack
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05 May 2025, pp. 1303-1304
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The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation. Thomas Kaufmann. Tony Crawford, trans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 358 pp. $45.
Donald K. McKim
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11 November 2024, pp. 699-701
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The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg. Drew B. Thomas. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xvi + 330. $150.
Sabrina Alcorn Baron
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04 March 2025, pp. 1012-1014
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I segni della fine: Storia di un predicatore nell'Italia del Rinascimento. Michele Lodone. Rome: Viella, 2021. 285 pp. €27.55.
Fabrizio Conti
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24 April 2024, pp. 301-302
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The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Sandrine Parageau. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 254 pp. $30.

Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister. Michelle DiMeo. Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xii + 288 pp. $45.

Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages. František Šmahel, Martin Nodl, Václav Žůrek, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xii + 412 pp. $226.

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

Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet, eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 366 pp. €115. Open Access.

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. David Cressy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ix + 314 pp. £30.

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

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance. MacKenzie Cooley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. xiv + 337 pp. $110.50.

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

Gender, Law and Material Culture: Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe. Annette Caroline Cremer, ed. London: Routledge, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $160.

England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England, 1625–1662. Anthony Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv + 528 pp. $44.99.

Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives. Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski, eds. Library of the Written Word 114. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xiv + 326 pp. $167.

Patronage, Patrimonialism, and Governors’ Careers in the Dutch Chartered Companies, 1630–1681: Careers of Empire. Erik Odegard. European Expansion and Indigenous Response 38. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xvi + 284 pp. $132.

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

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices. Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 396 pp. $130.

Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Caroline Callard. Trans. Trista Selous. The Past and Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. viii + 248 pp. $100.

The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation. Thomas Kaufmann. Tony Crawford, trans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 358 pp. $45.

The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg. Drew B. Thomas. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xvi + 330. $150.

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

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