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Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili on the Juridical Status of Native American Polities by GRANT, DARAGH

“…Over the course of the sixteenth century, Europeans writing about the ius gentium went from treating indigenous American rulers as the juridical equals of…”
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Domesticating the Reformation: Material Culture, Memory, and Confessional Identity in Early Modern England by WALSHAM, ALEXANDRA

“…This article explores domestic artifacts that testify to the afterlife of the European Reformation in the British Isles. Focusing especially on decorated and…”
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Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France by MURPHY, EMILIE K. M.

“…The history of religious migration and experience of exile in the early modern period has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Neglected within…”
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The Matter of Ephemeral Art: Craft, Spectacle, and Power in Early Modern Europe by SMITH, PAMELA H., UCHACZ, TIANNA HELENA, PITMAN, SOPHIE, TAAPE, TILLMANN, DEBUICHE, COLIN

“…Through a close reading and reconstruction of technical recipes for ephemeral artworks in a manuscript compiled in Toulouse ca. 1580 (BnF MS Fr. 640), we…”
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Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe by LAZARUS, MICHA

“…Amid the devastation of the Schmalkaldic War (1546–47), Philip Melanchthon and his colleagues at Wittenberg hastily compiled a Latin edition of Sophocles from…”
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Displacing China: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis and the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia by CAMS, MARIO

“…In the mid-seventeenth century, as the first full atlas of East Asia became available on the European book market, a dramatic shift took place in textual and…”
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Salutation and Salvation in Early Modern Theology by HILLMAN, DAVID

“…At first glance, salutation and salvation could hardly be farther apart: the one ephemeral and everyday, the other eternal, of supreme importance. How should…”
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Echoes of Ariadne in the Musical Reception of Ariosto and Tasso by REFINI, EUGENIO

“…This article discusses Fulvio Testi’s libretto “L’isola di Alcina” (1626), based on Ariosto’s “Orlando furioso.” After considering its significance to the…”
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Painting the Aztec Past in Early Colonial Mexico: Translation and Knowledge Production in the Codex Mendoza by BLEICHMAR, DANIELA

“…The “Codex Mendoza” is one of the earliest, most detailed, and most important postconquest accounts of pre-Hispanic Aztec life. Nahuas and Spaniards…”
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Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic by VAN ELK, MARTINE

“…This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these…”
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Knowing Images by MARR, ALEXANDER

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Displays of Sugar Sculpture and the Collection of Antiquities in Late Renaissance Venice by KOCISZEWSKA, EWA

“…This article examines the sugar sculptures created for a ball in honor of Henri III of France in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice in 1574. The first part discusses…”
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Reconstructing the Ottoman Greek World: Early Modern Ethnography in the Household of Martin Crusius by CALIS, RICHARD

“…This article uses the life and writings of Martin Crusius (1526–1607), professor of Latin and Greek at the university of Tübingen, to explore the methods and…”
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Reading Utopia in the Reformation of Punishment by RITGER, MATTHEW

“…Recent scholarship on the first English translation of Thomas More’s “Utopia” has asked how its publication in the 1550s fits with the larger agenda of…”
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Bullfighting, the Basque Clergy, and Tridentine Reform by SCOTT, AMANDA L.

“…The post–Council of Trent court records for the diocese of Pamplona (northern Iberia) record numerous and ongoing incidents of clergy accused of running with…”
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Squeezing, Squirting, Spilling Milk: The Lactation of Saint Bernard and the Flemish Madonna Lactans (ca. 1430–1530) by SPERLING, JUTTA

“…The focus on three drops of milk issuing from the Virgin’s breast in “The Virgin in Front of a Fire Screen” was inspired by contemporary representations of the…”
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Innocent X Pamphilj’s Architectural Network in Rome by LEONE, STEPHANIE C., VIERTHALER, PAUL A.

“…This study employs network analysis and microhistory to challenge the standard narrative about architecture and patronage in Baroque Rome, that of celebrity…”
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Indecent Theology: Sex and Female Heresy in Counter-Reformation Spain by RHODES, ELIZABETH

“…In 1636, the Spanish Inquisition tried María de la Cruz for heresy and having made a pact with the devil. Examination of her trial in light of information…”
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Trident and Oar in Bronzino’s Portrait of Andrea Doria by ELIAV, JOSEPH

“…Previously unpublished X-ray images prove that in the portrait commissioned for Giovio’s museum, Bronzino painted Andrea Doria holding an oar, not a trident…”
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Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art. Patricia Lee Rubin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pp. $60 by Mills, Robert

“…Famously, this is the pose adopted by Donatello's David, a sculpture that, since the 1950s, has been the focal point for a vigorous debate on the artist's…”
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