Click on the title to read the review. JNR reviews are published on a rolling basis.
Published 2026
❧ Exhibition Review: ‘The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots’, Perth Museum, 23 January – Sunday 26 April 2026
Reviewed by Emily Hay
Published 2023
❧ Doyeeta Majumder, Tyranny and Usurpation. The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Reviewed by Alessandra Petrina
Published 2022
❧ Aaron Hyman, Rubens in Repeat. The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Getty, 2021)
Reviewed by Larry Silver
❧ R. Anderson & C. Backerra (eds), Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2021)
Reviewed by Elvira Tamus
❧ Julia Reinhard Lupton, Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (Chicago, 2018)
Reviewed by Sophie Emma Battell
❧ Chris R. Langley (ed.), The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 (Boydell, 2020)
Reviewed by David Whitla
❧ Review Essay: Susan Foister and Peter van den Brink, eds., Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (National Library/Yale UP, 2021)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Published 2021
❧ T. Demetriou and J. Valls-Russell (eds), Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition (Manchester University Press, 2021)
Reviewed by Chloe Renwick
❧ Harry Newman, Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 2019)
Reviewed by Juliet Fleming
❧ Giovanna Guidicini, Triumphal Entries and Festivals in Early Modern Scotland: Performing Spaces (Brepols, 2020)
Reviewed by Michael Bath
Published 2020
❧ Andrew McRae and Philip Schwyzer (eds), Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives (Boydell & Brewer, 2020)
Reviewed by Sukanya Dasgupta
❧ Baird Tipson, Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Reviewed by Ryan Shelton
❧ Joshua Calhoun, The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Reviewed by Meaghan Pachay
❧ Michael Bath, Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and meanings (Brill, 2018)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
Published 2019
❧ David J. Parkinson (ed.), Gavin Douglas: ‘The Palyce of Honour’, Second Edition (Medieval Institute Publications, 2018)
Reviewed by Megan Bushnell
❧ Juanita Feros Ruys, Michael W. Champion and Kirk Essary (eds), Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 (Routledge, 2019)
Reviewed by Jonathan Williams
❧ Leonie James, ‘This Great Firebrand’: William Laud and Scotland, 1617–1645 (Boydell, 2017).
Reviewed by Alasdair Raffe
❧ Kevin Killeen, The political Bible in early modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
Published 2018
❧ Casey B. Carmichael, A Continental view: Johannes Cocceius’s federal theology of the Sabbath (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Alexander Campbell, The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662): Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars (Boydell, 2017)
Reviewed by David Whitla
❧ Stefan Lindholm, Jerome Zanchi (1516-90) and the Analysis of Reformed Scholastic Christology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
Reviewed by Harrison Perkins
❧ Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin (eds.), Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Manchester University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Chloe Preedy
❧ Howell A. Lloyd, Jean Bodin, ‘This Pre-Eminent Man of France’: An Intellectual Biography (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Robert F. W. Smith
❧ Ian Birch, To follow the lambe wheresoever he goeth: The ecclesial polity of the English Calvinistic Baptists, 1640-1660 (Pickwick Publications, 2017); & Rachel Adcock, Baptist women’s writings in revolutionary culture, 1640-1680 (Ashgate, 2015) ~ joint review
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Jessica Winston, Lawyers at play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558–1581 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Emily Buffey
❧ Martine van Elk, Early Modern Women’s Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Reviewed by Lotte Fikkers
Published 2017
❧ Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt (eds), Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Reviewed by Nadia T. van Pelt
❧ Martyn Calvin Cowan, John Owen and the civil war apocalypse: Preaching, prophecy and politics (Routledge, 2018); & Ryan M. McGraw, John Owen: Trajectories in Reformed Orthodox theology (Palgrave, 2017) ~ joint review
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Andrew Duxfield, Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify (Ashgate, 2015). Mathew R. Martin, Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Ashgate, 2015). {joint review}
Reviewed by Katherine Heavey
❧ The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science, ed. Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Reviewed by Katherine Walker
❧ Raphaële Garrod, Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose (1550-1630). Dialectic and Discovery (Brepols, 2016)
Reviewed by Dario Tessicini
❧ Adrian Green, Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016)
Reviewed by Graham Parry
Published 2016
❧ Joanna M. Martin (ed.), The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408 (Boydell & Brewer, 2015)
Reviewed by Ruth M.E. Oldman
❧ Alasdair A. MacDonald (ed.), The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (Boydell & Brewer, 2015)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Stephen J. Casselli, Divine Rule Maintained: Anthony Burgess, Covenant Theology, and the Place of the Law in Reformed Scholasticism (Reformation Heritage Books, 2016)
Reviewed by Harrison Perkins
❧ Jason Powell (ed.), The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder. Volume I, Prose (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Chris Stamatakis
❧ Dolly MacKinnon, Earls Colne’s Early Modern Landscapes (Ashgate, 2014)
Reviewed by Philippa Woodcock
❧ Jan Machielsen, Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Robert F. W. Smith
❧ Tom Turpie, Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages (Brill, 2015)
Reviewed by Claire Harrill
❧ Shirley Neilsen Blum, The New Art of the Fifteenth Century. Faith and Art in Florence and the Netherlands (Abbeville Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Anne Kirkham
❧ Derek Dunne, Vindictive Justice: Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Reviewed by Doyeeta Majumder
❧ Natasha T. Seaman, The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen. Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by John Gash
❧ Benjamin Straumann, Roman Law in the State of Nature. The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Arthur Weststeijn
❧ Katherine Butler, Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Boydell Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Susan Anderson
Published 2015
❧ Jane Grogan, The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Reviewed by Gerald Maclean
❧ Mark Brayshay, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving a Joined-up Realm (Liverpool University Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Andrew Gordon
❧ Jane Dawson, John Knox (Yale University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Harrison Perkins
❧ Theresia de Vroom, The Lady Vanishes: Fantasies of Female Heroism in Shakespeare’s Last Plays (Marymount Institute Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Lotte Fikkers
❧ Elizabeth Goldring, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art: Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I (Yale University Press, 2014)
Reviewed by David Howarth
❧ Micheál Ó Siochrú and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds), Ireland: 1641, Contexts and Reactions (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Naomi McAreavey
❧ Kerry McCarthy, Byrd (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Katherine Butler
❧ Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher (eds), Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture 1550-1700 (Manchester University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Robert F. W. Smith
❧ Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist (eds), The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Rebeca Helfer
❧ Lisa Hopkins, Renaissance Drama on the Edge (Ashgate, 2014)
Reviewed by Paul Frazer
❧ W. Blockmans, T.-H. Borchert, N. Gabriels, J. Oosterman and A. Van Oosterwijk (eds), Staging the Court of Burgundy (Brepols, 2013)
Reviewed by Graeme Small
❧ Ralph Hanna (ed.), The Buke of the Howlat by Richard Holland (Boydell and Brewer, 2014)
Reviewed by Helen F. Smith
❧ Pia F. Cuneo (ed.), Animals and Early Modern Identity (Ashgate, 2014)
Reviewed by Annick MacAskill
❧ Michael Martin, Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England (Ashgate, 2014)
Reviewed by Edward Simon
❧ Chad van Doxhoorn (ed.), The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652 (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Deanne Williams, Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Reviewed by Nadia T. van Pelt
❧ David R. Smith (ed.), Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art, Essays on Comedy as Social Vision (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Francesca Alberti
Published 2014
❧ Karolien De Clippel, Katharina Van Cauteren and Katlijne Van der Stighelen (eds), The Nude and the Norm in the Early Modern Low Countries (Brepols, 2011)
Reviewed by Amy Orrock
❧ Carolyn Diskant Muir, Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms: The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art (Brepols, 2012)
Reviewed by Catharine Ingersoll
❧ Alessandro Arienzo and Alessandra Petrina (eds) Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England, Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Tania Rispoli
❧ Ian Atherton and Julie Sanders (eds), The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Valentina Caldari
❧ Peter Iver Kauffman (ed.), Leadership and Elizabethan Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Reviewed by Nadia T. van Pelt
❧ Andrew Hadfield (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray
❧ Kavita Mudan Finn, The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre and Historiography, 1440-1627 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Reviewed by Phoebe C. Linton
❧ Penny Howell Jolly, Picturing the ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner Saint (Ashgate, 2014)
Reviewed by Helen F. Smith
❧ William Calin, The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland – Essays in Criticism (University of Toronto Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Emily Wingfield
❧ Marianne Montgomery, Europe’s Languages on England’s Stages, 1590-1620 (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Nadia T. van Pelt
❧ David Loewenstein, Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Christopher Stone
❧ Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie (eds.), Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Naya Tsentourou
❧ Alice E. Sanger and Siv Tove Kulbrandstand Walker (eds.), Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Elizabeth L. Swann
❧ George Southcombe (ed.), English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660-1700, (Pickering and Chatto, 2012)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Mark Burden, A Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters’ Private Academies, 1660–1729 (Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, 2013)
Reviewed by Marilyn A. Lewis
❧ Tarnya Cooper, Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales (Yale University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by David Howarth
❧ Ruth Ahnert, The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray
❧ Erika T. Lin, Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Reviewed by Katherine Walker
Published 2013
❧ Exhibition Review: Elizabeth I and Her People, National Portrait Gallery
Reviewed by Nicola Clark
❧ Sid Ray, Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Reviewed by Thomas Rist
❧ Exhibition Review: Mary, Queen of Scots, National Museum of Scotland
Reviewed by Jordan Mearns
❧ Anna Whitelock, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Reviewed by Estelle Paranque
❧ James Simpson, Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Reviewed by Edward Simon
❧ Thomas Betteridge and Suzanna Lipscomb (eds.), Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Tessa Marlou van Gendt
❧ Genelle Gertz, Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Naomi McAreavey
❧ Exhibition Review: In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Reviewed by David AHB Taylor
❧ Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
❧ Boudewijn Bakker, Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Alexandra Onuf
❧ Rayne Allinson, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Reviewed by Guillaume Coatalen
❧ Siobhán Collins, Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne’s Metempsychosis (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Alan James Hogarth
❧ M.A. Katritzky, Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Stuart Farley
❧ Eleanor Hubbard, City Women: Money, Sex and the Social Order in Early Modern London (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Tim Reinke-Williams
❧ Malabika Sarkar, Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Reviewed by Christopher Stone
❧ Joint Book Review: Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson (eds.), Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance(Ashgate, 2011); and Lynn Enterline, Shakespeare’s Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Rachel McGregor
❧ Verena Theile and Andrew D. McCarthy (eds.), Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2013)
Reviewed by Martha McGill
❧ Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson (eds.), Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Pagrave Macmillan, 2010)
Reviewed by Willy Maley
❧ Exhibition Review: The Northern Renaissance: Durer to Holbein, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Reviewed by Lucy Razzall
Published 2012
❧ Patrick Cheney, Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
Reviewed by Stephen Hamrick
❧ Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Alan Stewart, Rebecca Lemon, Nicholas McDowell and Jennifer Richards (eds.),The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Reviewed by Paul Innes
❧ Amy Tigner, Literature and the Renaissance Garden From Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise (Ashgate, 2012)
Reviewed by Andrew Wadoski
❧ Larry Silver, Pieter Bruegel (Abbeville Press, 2011)
Reviewed by Amy Orrock
❧ Kathleen Lynch, Protestant Autobiography in the seventeenth-century Anglophone world (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
Reviewed by Sally Pointer
❧ Ann M. Blair, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010)
Reviewed by Alexandrina Buchanan
❧ Helen Smith, ‘Grossly Material Things’: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Alice Eardley
❧ Brian Cummings ed., The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Reviewed by Lori Anne Ferrell
❧ Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay, Sex before Sexuality: A Premodern History (Polity, 2011)
Reviewed by Ruth Evans
❧ Peter Lake and Michael Questier, The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (Continuum International, 2011)
Reviewed by Adam Morton
❧ Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: ‘Turning the Word’ (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Will Rossiter
❧ David George Mullan, Narratives of the Religious Self in Early-Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2010)
Reviewed by Stuart Macdonald
❧ Matthew Milner, The Senses and the English Reformation (Ashgate, 2011)
Reviewed by Stuart Clark
Published 2011
❧ Vaughan Hart, Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings (Yale University Press, 2011)
Reviewed by R. Malcolm Smuts
❧ Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein (eds.), The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley, (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Crawford Gribben
❧ Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté and Harry Schnitker (eds.), Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1550, (Brill, 2010)
Reviewed by Stella Fletcher
❧ Carl Van de Velde (ed.), Classical Mythology in the Netherlands in the Age of Renaissance and Baroque – La mythologie classique aux temps de la Renaissance et du Baroque dans les Pays-Bas (Peeters, 2009)
Reviewed by Demmy Verbeke
❧ Erik Butler, The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate, 2010)
Reviewed by Nicola McLelland
❧ Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620 (Ashgate, 2009)
Reviewed by Jeremy Wood
❧ Brian Cummings and James Simpson (eds.), Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Reviewed by Mike Rodman Jones
❧ Reinhold F Glei, Nicola Kaminski, Franz Lebsanft (eds.), Boethius Christianus? Transformationen der ‘Consolatio Philosophiae’ in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (De Gruyter, 2010)
Reviewed by Tim William Machan
❧ Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Milton, Oxford Handbooks of Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Willy Maley
❧ Stephen Hamrick, The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558-1582 (Ashgate, 2009)
Reviewed by Alison Shell
❧ Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (Ashgate, 2010)
Reviewed by Katherine R. Larson
❧ Keith M. Botelho, Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Reviewed by Viviana Comensoli
❧ Jamie Reid-Baxter (ed.), Poems of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (Solsequium, 2010)
Reviewed by Sarah C. E. Ross
❧ Ian Maclean, Learning and the Market Place: Essays in the History of the Early Modern Book (Brill, 2009)
Reviewed by Christopher Burlinson
Published 2010
❧ Volker Meid, Die deutsche Literatur im Zeitalter des Barock (C.H. Beck, 2009)
Reviewed by Max Reinhart
❧ Alessandra Petrina, Machiavelli in the British Isles (Ashgate, 2009)
Reviewed by Michael Bath
❧ Thomas Borgstedt, Topik des Sonnets. Gattungstheorie und Gattungsgeschichte (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009)
Reviewed by Anna Carrdus
❧ Raphael Cuir, The Development of the Study of Anatomy from the Renaissance to Cartesianism (Mellen Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Danielle Farrar
❧ Scott L. Newstok, Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
Reviewed by Angus Vine
❧ Kate Cregan, The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern London (Brepols, 2009)
Reviewed by Peter Mitchell
❧ Jeffrey Kahan and M. Thomas Hester (eds.), Talking Renaissance Texts: Essays on the Humanist Tradition in Honor of Stanley Stewart (The Ben Jonson Journal – Special Edition, 2009)
Reviewed by Peter Sillitoe
❧ Anthony Ellis, Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama. Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (Ashgate, 2009)
Reviewed by Rory Loughnane
❧ Eric Ives, Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery (Blackwell, 2009)
Reviewed by Tracey A. Sowerby
❧ Andrew McRae, Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Alan James Hogarth
❧ Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock (eds.), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2008)
Reviewed by Erin Murphy
❧ Thomas Rist, Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England (Ashgate, 2008)
Reviewed by Stevie Simkin
Published 2009
❧ Richard Dutton, Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Reviewed by Sean McEvoy
❧ Juanita Feros Ruys (ed.), What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (Brepols, 2008)
Reviewed by Lawrence M. Clopper
❧ Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown (eds.), Lydgate Matters. Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Reviewed by Alessandra Petrina
❧ Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel (eds.), Elizabeth I: Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Helen Hackett
❧ Christopher S. Wood, Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Reviewed by Andrew Morrall
❧ Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack and Sean Keilen (eds.) The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture (Palgrave 2009)
Reviewed by Jonathan Hope
❧ Siobhan Keenan, Renaissance Literature, Edinburgh Critical Guides (Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
Reviewed by Willy Maley
❧ Susie Nash, Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Reviewed by Andreas Dahlem
❧ Scott Newstock (ed.), Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (Parlor Press, 2007)
Reviewed by Shona McIntosh