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Clifford, Davidson, ed.  The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages. AMS Studies in the Middle Ages 26. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2005. viii + 318 pp. index. illus. $78.50. ISBN: 0-404-64166-0. Includes: Michael Norton and Amelia Carr, “Women’s Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg”; Nils Holger Peterson, “Another Visitatio Sepulchri from Scandinavia”; Mark Pilkinton, “The Easter Sepulcher at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol”; Dunbar H. Ogden, “The Visitatio Sepulchri: Public Enactment and Hidden Rite”; Martin Walsh, “Eulenspiegel (Episode 13) as a Theater-Historical Document”; Nicholas J. Rogers, “Mechanical Images at Salisbury”; Jennifer S. Alexander, “The ‘Molly Grime’ Ritual in Glentham Church”; Hans-Jürgen Diller, “A Palmesel from the Cracow Region”; Gunilla Iversen, “O Virginitas, in regali thalamo stas: New Light on the Ordo Virtutum: Hildegard, Richardis, and the Order of the Virtues”; Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, “Another Manuscript of the Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen”; Rick Johnson, “Sequentia’s Ordo Virtutum at Ann Arbor: A Performance in Memory of Barbara Thornton”; Michael Milway, “Boy Bishops in Early Modern Europe: Ritual, Myth, and Reality”; John W. Velz, “Adoxography as a Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”; Yumi Dohi, “Melchisedek in Late Medieval Religious Drama”; Mikiko Ishii, “A Spoon and the Christ Child”; Elza Tiner, “English Law in the York Trial Plays”; Mark R. Sullivan, “The Missing York Funeral of the Virgin”; Barbara D. Palmer, “Staging the Virgin’s Body: Spectacular Effects of Annunciation and Assumption”; Véronique Plesch, “Ludus Sabaudiae: Observations on Late Medieval Theater in the Duchy of Savoy”; Alan E. Knight, “Manuscript Painting and Play Production: The Evidence from the Processional Plays of Lille”; Jarmila F. Veltrusky, “Medieval Drama in Bohemia”; Andrzej Dabrówka, “Polish Saint Plays of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Susan Verdi Webster, “The Descent from the Cross in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”; Francesc Massip, “The Cloud: A Medieval Aerial Device, Its Origins, and Its Use in Spain Today”; Sandra Pietrini, “Medieval Ideas of the Ancient Actor and Roman Theater”; and Leif Søndergaard and Thomas Pettitt, “The Flyting of Yule and Lent: A Medieval Swedish Shrovetide Interlude.”Google Scholar

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Peter, Erickson, and , Hunt, Maurice, eds.  Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. xiii + 244 pp. index. bibl. $37.50 (cl), $19.75 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87352-990-1 (cl), 0-87352-991-X (pbk). Includes: Peter Erickson, “Othello in the Work of James R. Andreas”; Michael Neill, “Othello and Race”; Francesca T. Royster, “Rememorializing Othello: Teaching Othello and the Cultural Memory of Racism”; Nicholas F. Radel, “‘Your Own for Ever’: Revealing Masculine Desire in Othello”; Emily C. Bartels, “Improvisation and Othello: The Play of Race and Gender”; Cynthia Marshall, “Orders of Fantasy in Othello”; Jean E. Howard, “Othello as an Adventure Play”; Douglas Bruster, “Teaching Othello as Tragedy and Comedy”; Cynthia Lewis, “‘’Tis But a Man Gone’: Teaching Othello as an (Anti)Revenge Play”; Michael Warren, “Teaching the Texts of Othello”; Maurice Hugo, “Motivating Iago”; Geraldo U. de Sousa, “Unhoused in Othello”; Martha Tuck Rozett, “Teaching Teachers: Othello in a Graduate Seminar”; Virginia Mason Vaughan, “Teaching Richard Burbage’s Othello”; Miranda Johnson-Haddad, “Teaching Othello through Performance Choices”; Samuel Crowl, “‘Ocular Proof’: Teaching Othello in Performance”; Kathy M. Howlett, “Interpreting the Tragic Loading of the Bed in Cinematic Adaptations of Othello”; Lisa Gim, “Teaching Othello with Works by Elizabeth Cary and Aphra Behn”; Sheila T. Cavanagh, “Tales of a Fateful Handkerchief: Verdi, Vogel, Cinthio, and Shakespeare Present Othello”; Janelle Jensted, “Paper, Linen, Sheets: Dinesen’s ‘The Blank Page’ and Desdemona’s Handkerchief’; and Joyce Green MacDonald, “Finding Othello’s African Roots through Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet” .Google Scholar

Ewan F, Fernie., ed. Spiritual Shakespeares. Accents on Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2005. xxx + 244 pp. index. bibl. $31. ISBN: 0-415-31967-6. Includes: Ewan Fernie, “Introduction: Shakespeare, Spirituality and Contemporary Criticism”; Kiernan Ryan, “‘Where hope is coldest’: All’s Well That Ends Well ”; David Ruiter, “Harrys (In)human face”; Lowell Gallagher, “Waiting for Gobbo”; Philippa Berry, “‘Salving the mail: Perjury, Grace and the Disorder of Things in Love’s Labour’s Lost”; Lisa Freinkel, “The Shakespearean Fetish”; John J. Joughin, “Bottoms’ Secret ….”; Richard Kearney, “Spectres of Hamlet”; Ewan Fernie, “The Last Act: Presentism, Spirituality and the Politics of Hamlet”; and Jonathan Dollimore, “Afterword.”Google Scholar

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Günter, Frank, and , Selderhuis, Herman J, eds.  Melanchthon und der Calvinismus. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 9. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2005. 376 pp. index. illus. €48. ISBN: 3-7728-2236-3. Includes: Günter Frank and Herman J. Selderhuis, “Vorwort”; Paul Metzger, “Geleitwort”; Riemer Faber, “The Humanism of Melanchthon and of Calvin”; Lyle D. Bierma, “The Structure of the Heidelberg Catechism: Melanchthonian or Calvinist?”; Herman J. Selderhuis, “Ille Phoenix: Melanchthon und der Heidelberger Calvinismus 1583–1622”; Karin Maag, “Higher Education for Melanchthon and Calvinism: A Comparative Approach”; Jan Rohls, “Aristotelische Methodik und protestantische Theologie: Von Melanchthon zu Zabarella”; Michael Becht, “Pia Synodus: Die Lehre vom Konzil in der Theologie Philipp Melanchthons und Johannes Calvins”; Christoph Strohm, “Melanchthon-Rezeption in der Ethik des frühen Calvinismus”; Günter Frank, “Zur Gottes- und Trinitätslehre bei Melanchthon und Calvin”; Theodor Mahlmann, “Melanchthon als Vorl äufer des Wittenberger Kryptocalvinismus”; Max Engammare,“The Horoscopes of Calvin, Melanchthon and Luther: An Unexpected Post-Tridentine Polemical Argument”; Wim Janse, “Die Melanchthonrezeption des Nonkonformisten Wilhelm Klebitz (ca. 1533–1568)”; Willem Van’t Spijker, “Die Diversität der reformierten Scholstik: Die theologische Methode Melanchthons und Calvins im Vergleich und beider Aus-wirkungen auf die reformierte Scholastik”; and Andreas J. Beck, “Zur Rezeption Melanchthons bei Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676), namentlich in seiner Gotteslehre.”Google Scholar

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Danielle, Jacquart, and , Burnett, Charles, eds.  Scientia in Margine: études sur Les Marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Age à la Renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 404 pp. index. illus. tbls. CHF 72. ISBN: 2-600-01035-1. Includes: Danielle Jacquart and Charles Burnett, “Avant Propos”; Brigitte Mondrain, “Traces et mémoire de la lecture des textes: les marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques byzantins”; Henri Hugonnard-Roche, “Scolies syriaques au Peri Hermeneias D’Aristote”; Marwan Rashed, “Les Marginalia d’Aréthas, Ibn al-Tayyib et les dernières gloses alexandrines à l’Organon”; Emilie Savage-Smith, “Between Reader and Text: Some Medieval Arabic Marginalia”; Tony Levy, “Le Manuscrit hébreu Munich 36 et ses Marginalia: un Témoin de l’Histoire textuelle et des éléments d’Euclide au Moyen Âge”; Wesley M. Stevens, “Marginalia in the Latin Euclid”; Anna Somfai, “The Brussels Gloss: A Tenth-Century Reading of the Geometrical and Arithmetrical Passages of Calcidius’ Commentary (ca. 400 AD) to Plato’s Timaeus”; Irene Caiazzo, “Mains célébres dans les Marges des Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis de Macrobe”; Marilyn Nicoud, “Les Marginalia dans les Manuscrits latins des Diètes d’Isaac Israëli conservés à Paris”; Dietrich Lohrmann, “Les Marges dans les Manuscrits d’Ingénieurs”; Robert Goulding, “Polemic in the Margin: Henry Savile against Joseph Scaliger’s Quadrature of the Circle”; and Adolfo Tura, “Essai sur les Marginalia en tant que Pratique et Documents.”Google Scholar

David, Jaffé, and , McGrath, Elizabeth, eds.  Rubens: A Master in the Making. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 207 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39.95ISBN: 1-85709-371-2. Includes: David Jaffé and Mina Moore Ede, “Rubens: A Master in the Making”; David Jaffé with Amanda Bradley, “Ruben’s ‘Pocketbook’ An Introduction to the Creative Process”; and Elizabeth McGrath, “Words and Thoughts in Rubens’s Early Drawings.”Google Scholar

Wim, Janse, and , Pitkin, Barbara, eds.  The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe. Dutch Review of Church History 85. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. viii + 570 pp. index. illus. $228. ISBN: 90-04-14909-0. Includes: Wim Janse and Barbara Pitkin, “Introduction”; Riemer A. Faber, “Humanitas as Discriminating Factor in the Educational Writings of Erasmus and Luther”; Stefan Ehrenpreis, “Reformed Education in Early Modern Europe: A Survey”; Leendert F. Groenendijk, “The Reformed Church and Education during the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic”; Andreas Mühling, “Anmerkungen zur Theologenausbildung in Herborn”; Wim Janse, “Grenzenlos reformiert: Theologie am Bremer Gymnasium Illustre (1528–1812)”; F. G. M. Broeyer, “Theological Education at the Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth Century: Four Professors on their Ideal of the Curriculum”; Karin Maag, “Preaching Practice: Reformed Students’ Sermons”; Raymond A. Blacketer, “The Moribund Moralist: Ethical Lessons in Calvin’s Commentary on Joshua”; G. Sujin Pak, “Luther, Bucer, and Calvin on Psalms 8 and 16: Confessional Formation and the Question of Jewish Exegesis”; Barbara Pitkin, “The Scriptural Gospel? Christ and Human Nature in Calvin’s Commentary on John”; Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “‘Justified Without the Works of the Law’: Casiodoro de Reina on Romans 3:28”; Robert J. Christman, “Competing Clerical Efforts to Secure Lay Support in the Flacian Controversy over Original Sin”; Sven Tode, “Preaching Calvinism in Lutheran Danzig: Jacob Fabritius on the Pastoral Office”; Emily Michelson, “Preaching Scripture under Pressure in Tridentine Italy: A Case Study of Gabriele Fiamma”; Jason Sager, “François de Sales and Catholic Reform in Seventeenth-Century France”; Robert E. Scully, S.J, “Trickle Down Spirituality? Dilemmas of the Elizabethan Jesuit Mission”; Gary W. Jenkins, “Between the Sacraments and Treason: Aspects of the Political Thought of the English Recusants in the First Decade of Elizabeth’s Reign”; Ellen A. Macek, “Advice Manuals and the Formation of English Protestant and Catholic Clerical Identities, 1560–1660”; Patrick J. O’Banion, “‘A Priest Who Appears Good’: Manuals of Confession and the Construction of Clerical Identity in Early Modern Spain”; Kathleen M. Comerford, “‘The Care of Souls is a Very Grave Burden for [the Pastor]’: Professionalization of Clergy in Early Modern Florence, Lucca, and Arezzo”; Wietse de Boer, “Professionalization and Clerical Identity: Notes on the Early Modern Catholic Priest”; Margo Todd, “What’s in a Name? Language, Image, and Urban Identity in Early Modern Perth”; David Fors Freeman, “‘Those Persistent Lutherans’: The Survival of Wesel’s Minority Lutheran Community, 1578–1612”; and Gerrit Voogt, “‘Anyone Who Can Read May Be a Preacher’: Sixteenth-Century Roots of the Collegiants.”Google Scholar

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Ullrich G, Langer., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 248 pp. index. chron. bibl. $65 (cl), $22.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-81953-9 (cl), 0-521-52556-X (pbk). Includes: Ullrich Langer, “Introduction”; “Montaigne’s Political and Religious Context”; Warren Boutcher, “Montaigne’s Legacy ”; John O’Brien, “Montaigne and Antiquity: Fancies and Grotesques”; Tom Conley, “The Essays and the New World”; André Tournon, “Justice and the Law: On the Reverse Side of the Essays”; Francis Goyet, “Montaigne and the Notion of Prudence”; Ian Maclean, “Montaigne and the Truth of the Schools”; George Hoffmann, “The Investigation of Nature”; Ann Hartle, “Montaigne and Skepticism”; and J. B. Schneewind, “Montaigne on Moral Philosophy and the Good Life. ”Google Scholar

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