Books received

Renaissance Quarterly, Winter, 2007

Brett, Annabel, and James Tully, with Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, eds. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x 298 pp. index. bibl. $90 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-521-84979-1 (cl), 978-0-521-61503-7 (pbk).

Includes: James Tully and Annabel Brett, "Preface"; Mark Goldie, "The Context of The Foundations"; Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, "Linguistic Philosophy and The Foundations"; J. G. A. Pocock, "Foundations and Moments"; Marco Geuna, "Skinner, Pre-Humanist Rhetorical Culture and Machiavelli"; Warren Boutcher, "Unoriginal Authors: How to do Things with Texts in the Renaissance"; Cathy Curtis, "'The Best State of the Commonwealth': Thomas More and Quentin Skinner"; H. M. Hopfl, "Scholasticism in Quentin Skinner's Foundations"; Annabel Brett, "Scholastic Political Thought and the Modern Concept of the State"; Martin Van Gelderen, "'So meerly humane': Theories of Resistance in Early-Modern Europe"; Richard Tuck, "Hobbes and Democracy"; Kinch Hoekstra, "A Lion in the House: Hobbes and Democracy"; David Armitage, "Hobbes and the Foundations of Modern International Thought"; and Quentin Skinner, "Surveying The Foundations: A Retrospect and Reassessment."

Buccola, Regina M., and Lisa Hopkins, eds. Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xx 178 pp. index. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5637-1.

Includes: Arthur F. Marotti, "Foreword"; Regina Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, "Introduction"; Helen Ostovich, "'Here in this garden': The Iconography of the Virgin Queen in Shakespeare's Richard II"; Alison Findlay, "'One that's dead is quick': Virgin Re-Birth in All's Well That Ends Well"; Katharine Goodland, "Inverting the Pieta in Shakespeare's King Lear"; Lisa Hopkins, "'Black but Beautiful': Othello and the Cult of the Black Madonna"; Greg Maillet, "Desdemona and the Mariological Theology of the Will in Othello"; Thomas Rist, "The Wonder of Women: Virginity, Sexuality and Religio-Politics in Marston's The Tragedy of Sophonisba"; Alice Dailey, "Easter Scenes from an Unholy Tomb: Christian Parody in The Widow's Tears"; Regina Buccola, "Virgin Fairies and Imperial Whores: The Unstable Ground of Religious Iconography in Thomas Dekker's The Whore of Babylon"; and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, "Not Kissing the (He)rod: Marian Moments in The Tragedy of Mariam."

Burke, Peter, and Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, eds. Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x 252 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978-0-521-86208-0.

Includes: Peter Burke and R. Po-chia Hsia, "Introduction"; Peter Burke, "Cultures of Translation in Early Modern Europe"; R. Po-chia Hsia, "The Catholic Mission and Translations in China, 1583-1700"; Eva Kowalska, "Language as a Means of Transfer of Cultural Values"; Peter Burke, "Translations into Latin in Early Modern Europe"; Carlos M. N. Eire, "Early Modern Catholic Piety in Translation"; Geoffrey P. Baldwin, "The Translation of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe"; Peter Burke, "Translating Histories"; Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke, "The Spectator, or the Metamorphoses of the Periodical: A Study in Cultural Translation"; Isabelle Pantin, "The Role of Translations in European Scientific Exchanges in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"; Efthymios Nicolaidis, "Scientific Exchanges between Hellenism and Europe: Translations into Greek, 1400-1700"; Feza Gunergun, "Ottoman Encounters with European Science: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Translations into Turkish"; and S. S. Demidov, "Translations of Scientific Literature in Russia from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century."