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{"title":"Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy by Karl Whittington (review)","authors":"Judith Collard","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935362","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy</em> by Karl Whittington <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Judith Collard </li> </ul> Whittington, Karl, <em>Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy</em> ( Renovatio Artium, 13), Turnhout, Brepols, 2023; hardback; pp. xvi, 352; 115 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €150.00; ISBN 9781915487049. <p>This is a beautiful book. It is richly illustrated with a variety of familiar, and less well-known works, including Andrea di Boniauto's Spanish Chapel, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's <em>Good and Bad Government</em>, and work by Pietro di Puccio di Orvieto in Pisa's Camposanto depicting the <em>Creation of the Universe</em>, as well as a fine, contextualising work by Leo von Klenze from 1898, <em>The Camposanto in Pisa</em>, which gives a better sense of the fresco's former colour. This painting <strong>[End Page 338]</strong> also features on the book's dustjacket. This very generously illustrated work also includes pictures of illuminated manuscripts, panel paintings, and murals, many photographed by the author. It also includes a substantial, up-to-date bibliography.</p> <p>The book is divided into three parts: 'Reassessing Surface, Space, and Body in Trecento Painting'; 'Painted Diagrams from Page to Wall'; and 'Diagrammatic Painting: Narrative and Allegory'. Each chapter within these three sections, as well as the 'Introduction' and 'Conclusion', has at least one case study, where works such as depictions of the cosmos or Bonaventura's <em>Lignum vitae</em> are analysed. Karl Whittington places a lot of importance on his historiographical contextualisation, noting particularly the importance of German and Italian scholars to his project. Sometimes, however, this can overwhelm his account of a work's significance.</p> <p>The Spanish Chapel by Andrea di Boniauto in Santa Maria Novella in Florence bookends this study, appearing in both the 'Introduction' and the final chapter. Whittington uses the analysis of the frescoes that adorn this chapterhouse to illustrate his approach. He contrasts the <em>Calvary</em> scenes with their strong narrative accounts with the <em>Via Veritas</em> and <em>Triumph of Thomas Aquinas</em>. These two walls are quite different in tone, being, he would argue, more diagrammatic. The <em>Triumph</em> represents a complex array of figures surrounding an enthroned Thomas Aquinas, including biblical figures, cardinal virtues, and female personifications of the seven Liberal Arts and the Theological Sciences, together with historical characters. The <em>Via Veritas</em> shows a triumphant representation of the Dominican order laying out its crucial role in the path to salvation, through such activities as preaching, while also anchoring them in a local Florentine context through the presence of the ","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art, Sex, and Science: Talking about Horses in Hans Baldung's 1534 Woodcuts","authors":"Pia F. Cuneo","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935337","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000<p>Hans Baldung's woodcuts depicting horses at liberty in a forest setting have long puzzled art historians. This article suggests that Baldung's prints may have been informed by a spirit of scientific inquiry that animated certain intellectual circles and that resulted in the publication of illustrated texts with which the artist was likely familiar. The study of plants and animals may have influenced not only the prints' subject matter and mode of depiction but also their function: to provoke conversation, in this case about horses, not only as demonstrations of artistic ingenuity and symbols of sexuality, as has been previously suggested, but also as subjects unto themselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grünewald's Natural Medicine: Revisualising Nature in the Isenheim Altarpiece","authors":"Emily Poore","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article builds on prior studies of the <i>Isenheim Altarpiece</i> (<i>c</i>. 1500–16) by focusing on the medico-religious function of the plants and animals that feature in its design. It argues that while some of Grünewald's paintings of natural subjects presented instructions for harvesting and formulating remedies against illnesses collectively known as St Anthony's Fire, others were intended to depict the physical and spiritual symptoms of these diseases. The purpose of these images of suffering as a form of spiritual medicine that was activated by the practice of affective piety is examined.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period ed. by Ivana Čapeta Rakić, and Giuseppe Capriotti (review)","authors":"Nat Cutter","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935349","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Ivana Čapeta Rakić, and Giuseppe Capriotti &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Nat Cutter &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Čapeta Rakić, Ivana, and Giuseppe Capriotti, eds, &lt;em&gt;Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period&lt;/em&gt; ( Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World, 1), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 310; 21 b/w, 58 colour illustrations, 1 map; R.R.P. €100.00; ISBN 9782503595085. &lt;p&gt;To the well-trodden field of early modern Christian–Muslim relations in the Mediterranean, Ivana Čapeta Rakić and Giuseppe Capriotti provide an interesting and timely collection of essays structured around depictions in images and artworks, rather than the more conventional diplomacy, trade, warfare, and slavery. Considering the Mediterranean as a 'borderland'—a dynamic site where societies and cultures overlap and bleed into one another, rather than a hard border or limit—the collection's central strength is a genuinely interdisciplinary and multinational approach. Several rich illustrations (fifty-eight colour images), an impressive diversity of scholars (from Italy, Spain, Croatia, UK, USA, and Turkey, including tenured academics, graduate students, and independent researchers) and wide-ranging subject areas (outlined below) are represented.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The book is divided into three parts, preceded by Čapeta Rakić and Capriotti's 'Introduction', which summarises the critical issues surrounding borderlands and image-based history. The first part, 'Borderland', begins with Peter Burke's brief but wide-ranging account of the legacies of Islamic art and culture across Europe, provoking the highly detailed studies that follow. Chapters by Ivan Alduk, Ferenc Tóth, and Ana Echevarria explore images and imprints of borderland in the tiny, highly strategic Dalmatian village of Zadvarje/Duara, which changed hands repeatedly between Venetian and Ottoman empires and developed a hybrid culture; the towering fortresses of the Dardanelles and Bosporus as a symbol of encroaching French military power in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; and elite military corps from Al-Andalus to Lepanto, provide an interlocking picture of both reception and reality in spaces of conflict. Echavarria's chapter, in particular, will be of broader interest for its rich and nuanced account of 'military conversion' (p. 77)—the widespread practice in Islamic–Christian borderlands of capturing or recruiting soldiers who then voluntarily or involuntarily changed their religion as they rose to high military office—and its cultural impacts, particularly for individual royal prestige and the iconography of warfare.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The second part, 'Lepanto', focuses closely on contemporary echoe","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"7 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature by Katharine Cleland (review)","authors":"Patrick Ball","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935364","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature&lt;/em&gt; by Katharine Cleland &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Patrick Ball &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Cleland, Katharine, &lt;em&gt;Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature&lt;/em&gt;, Ithaca, NY, and London, Cornell University Press, 2021; ebook; pp. x, 196; R.R.P. free download; ISBN 9781501753480. &lt;p&gt;Katharine Cleland's monograph concerns a topic fundamental to everyday life as well as fiction: marriage. It contextualises its literary marriages admirably against history and historiography, and so it will be of value to historians, not just literature scholars. Critical to Cleland's study is the fact that, unlike other Protestant states, England did not abandon Roman canon law when breaking with Rome. Roman law permitted couples to marry by private consent, without a ceremony or even witnesses. That remained the case. Until 1753 marriage needed no betrothal, banns, or formal wedding, permitting clandestine marriages that carried risks to the principals, their families, and the community. Moreover, couples who omitted the specifically English rites of the Book of Common Prayer risked suspicion of religious heterodoxy. Cleland explores how writers around 1600 responded to these circumstances.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Every chapter examines one work or compares two. Cleland focuses on previously neglected or unrecognised clandestine marriages—her findings can therefore be usefully applied to better known cases, Shakespeare's &lt;em&gt;Measure for Measure&lt;/em&gt; for instance, the marriage contracts in which have provoked dispute and confusion. Chapter 1 discusses Edmund Spenser's &lt;em&gt;Faerie Queene&lt;/em&gt;, arguing that whereas scholars treat the Redcrosse Knight's relationship with the shady Duessa in Book 1 as a 'dalliance' (p. 24), contemporaries would have understood &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 342]&lt;/strong&gt; it as clandestine marriage. Realising that fact changes one's perspective on both the story and the complications the liaison brings the Knight—hence Cleland's argument for close attention to clandestine marriages and their implications. Spenser, she argues, whose leanings were Calvinist and who notably wrote about marriage, certainly knew Calvin opposed Roman canon law. Using the Redcrosse Knight's dilemma, Spenser urged England to follow other states in abandoning Roman law.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other chapters scrutinise other works similarly. Chapter 2 features Christopher Marlowe's &lt;em&gt;Hero and Leander&lt;/em&gt; and George Chapman's continuation of the poem: Marlowe rejected Elizabethan love poetry's Petrarchan tendencies, which glorified distant, unconsummated love, in favour of clandestine marriage sealed by sex; Chapman warned against the dangers, especially for women, since clandestine marriages could later be disavowed. In Chapter 3, Shakespeare's &lt;em&gt;A Lover's Comp","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142223666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Here to Eternity in the Prayers of Saint Christopher and their Manuscript Variations","authors":"S. C. Thomson","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Early medieval hagiographers use the unique nature of the cynocephalic Saint Christopher's physicality to provide a contrastive frame for his actions to show how prayer transcends individual subjects and times and connects communities across centuries. Paying attention to Christopher's prayers in individual manuscripts enables us to recognise and engage with individual medieval scribes and readers and how they responded to stories. This discussion unpacks the potential for looking closely at prayers in three different ways: considering their meaning in this particular narrative; exploring how scribes responded to and reshaped them; and considering different approaches to the complex variation in their use.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Noah's Arkive by Jeffrey J. Cohen, and Julian Yates (review)","authors":"Michael Cop","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935350","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Noah's Arkive&lt;/em&gt; by Jeffrey J. Cohen, and Julian Yates &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Michael Cop &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Cohen, Jeffrey J., and Julian Yates, &lt;em&gt;Noah's Arkive&lt;/em&gt;, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2023; paperback; pp. 416; 39 b/w photos, 9 colour plates; R.R.P. US $29.95; ISBN 9781517904241. &lt;p&gt;Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates's &lt;em&gt;Noah's Arkive&lt;/em&gt; repurposes the biblical story of the Flood (Genesis 6–9) to explore potential habits of thought that could arise from the story and have dire social and ecological effects. The authors argue that salvific arks are never an end in themselves; rather, they are part of a story that perpetuates a seemingly endless sequence of (often ill-fated) rebeginnings. Cohen and Yates convincingly urge readers to question the challenges of ark-building, to consider the problems of inclusion and exclusion from that ark, and to engage counter-perspectives about such objects and events. &lt;em&gt;Noah's Arkive&lt;/em&gt; is a wide-ranging survey of depictions, adaptations, and recreations of the Flood story from the Vienna Genesis manuscript to Playmobil's toy 'My Take Along 1.2.3 Noah's Ark'.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Rather than providing an in-depth study of any one period's representations of the Flood, the chapters thematically collect centuries of representations of the story, demonstrating how we can rethink its events and choices to make them more socially and environmentally prosperous for our futures. 'How to Think Like an Ark' follows Cohen and Yates's experiences of visiting physical ark reconstructions in the US, demonstrating why the story of the ark perpetuates itself even though arks have the potential to close off thinking, sympathy, or resources. The chapter introduces the admonishing refrain that 'the worst thing you can do, we have learned, is to imagine that you are no longer on an ark' (p. 3). 'No More Rainbows' takes the rainbow as a reminder that the events do not end with the polychromatic covenant but are simply a part of a larger story that continues to end and begin over and over. 'Outside the Ark' looks at the various depictions of those excluded from the ark and therefore exposed to catastrophe, reminding readers that arks that seemingly preserve for better times beg the question, 'better for whom?' 'Inside the Ark' discusses arks as salvific repositories, but questions what gets saved, how, and at what cost, recognising that 'all containers are cruel, no matter how apparently welcoming. Arks are no different' (p. 159). 'Stow Away!' posits that while communities by their nature sort and exclude, those same communities struggle with that exclusivity. The chapter aims to question the exclusion inherent to arks so that we can see them as possible locations of encounter and interaction. 'Ravens and Doves' considers the two animals playing more than pas","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Textu(r)al Performances of Affect in John Donne's Valediction Poems","authors":"Martin Riedelsheimer","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935343","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article suggests a method of 'differential' reading—that is, reading for the affective surplus beyond a text's semantics—in order to analyse the role of affect in John Donne's poetry. Derived from contrasting several twenty-first-century theories of affect (Massumi, Sedgwick, Brinkema), such a differential reading wants to explore the way in which affect is expressed through poetic form and through the more immediately experiential, or material, dimensions of a poem: that is, through its texture. Donne's valediction poems make use both of their evocation of a concrete materiality that affords touching and being touched and of their creation of cognitive intensity through semantic overdetermination to perform affect in their poetic language, allowing for affective experience and cognitive reading to merge in a blend of thinking and feeling.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Work on the Crusades: Gender, Race, Memory, and the Future of a Field","authors":"Megan Cassidy-Welch","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935344","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;!-- html_title --&gt; New Work on the Crusades: &lt;span&gt;Gender, Race, Memory, and the Future of a Field&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Megan Cassidy-Welch (bio) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Nicholson, Helen, &lt;em&gt;Women and the Crusades&lt;/em&gt;, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023; hardback; pp. 304; R.R.P. £25.00; 3 b/w maps, 4 family trees; ISBN 9780198806721. Simmons, Adam, &lt;em&gt;Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095–1402&lt;/em&gt;, London, Routledge, 2022; hardback; pp. 252; R.R.P. AU $284.00; 1 b/w illustration; ISBN 9780367481216. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, and Susanna A. Throop, &lt;em&gt;The Crusades: A History&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;edition&gt;4th&lt;/edition&gt;edn, London, Bloomsbury, 2023; hardback; pp. 480; R.R.P. AU $153.00; 22 b/w illustrations; ISBN 9781350028623. &lt;p&gt;A generation has passed since crusading historiography was dominated by the question: 'what was a crusade?'. Contemporary crusade scholars now proceed from a multitude of disciplines and theoretical positions (in something of a recent 'cultural turn') to explore a range of crusading experiences, contexts, and cultures well beyond the Latin West, the 'states' of Outremer and the medieval period itself. Crusading—as a set of religious movements, ideas, and encounters—shaped histories and cultures around the globe in different ways, directly and indirectly. As a sometimes nebulous historical category, crusading has been used to fabricate and describe political movements and ideologies. Crusading's long history means that its textual and material legacy is diverse and always promising; new studies on crusading epistolarity, narrative, and material remains, among other topics, continue to probe and illuminate how crusading was represented, disseminated, and remembered across time and place. The three books reviewed here traverse these and other historical and historiographical moments. Collectively they demonstrate the critical benefit of looking outward, critiquing boundaries, and seeking perspectives on crusading history that might at first glance seem to be tangential. Some of this new work is intended to build the foundations for new directions in scholarship; some seeks to communicate scholarship to audiences well beyond the academy. All engage in historical dialogue with past and present in different ways, reflecting on what we think we know about crusading history and its legacies, and how we come to form our knowledge.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Helen Nicholson's &lt;em&gt;Women in the Crusades&lt;/em&gt;examines women's contributions to the crusading movement from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. Although women mostly did not take formal crusading vows, they certainly contributed in a &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 295]&lt;/strong&gt;range of different ways to the promotion and longevity of the crusading movement. Nicholson's book is not the first full-length monograph devoted to women in the crusades, but it is certainly the broadest and is thus intended","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Family of Love by Lording Barry (review)","authors":"David McInnis","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935346","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Family of Love&lt;/em&gt; by Lording Barry &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; David McInnis &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Barry, Lording, &lt;em&gt;The Family of Love&lt;/em&gt;, edited by Sophie Tomlinson (The Revels Plays), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022; hardcover; pp. xxvi, 227; 3 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £90.00; ISBN 9780719088629. &lt;p&gt;Sophie Tomlinson's Revels Plays edition of &lt;em&gt;The Family of Love&lt;/em&gt; (Children of the King's Revels, &lt;em&gt;c&lt;/em&gt;. 1605–06) addresses an important editorial need, presenting the anonymously published city comedy as the work of Lording Barry: the first scholarly edition to do so. It is a superb contribution to the study of early modern drama and will hopefully stimulate interest in a play that is simultaneously peripheral yet intimately connected to social, political, and theatrical concerns regarded by scholars as absolutely central to Barry's London. Although the text has been printed a handful of times since the early nineteenth century, it has not (until now) received the kind of rigorous scholarly editing that Tomlinson provides, nor has it been properly understood as the work of Barry rather than as that of Thomas Middleton (to whom it has sometimes been ascribed). Despite its previous appearances in print (lightly edited; in anthologies; presented as Middleton's; and as an unpublished dissertation), &lt;em&gt;The Family of Love&lt;/em&gt; has eluded most scholars and remained obscure. One of Tomlinson's numerous achievements here is to reframe the play as 'experimental' (p. 34) and deserving of fresh attention. As might be expected of an edition that consciously seeks to understand the play in relation to Barry as author, the boy company that performed it, and the historical milieu in which it was performed, a particular strength of Tomlinson's work is her attention to its distinctive language and style.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The play itself is a riot, still capable of drawing laughter and entertaining a crowd, as evidenced by the first contemporary performances of the play by drama students from the University of Auckland in September 2023 (directed by Benjamin Kilby-Henson). Bawdy doesn't begin to describe the plot of this 'scatological farce' (p. 34), which includes standard early modern comedic fare such as a ring trick, mistaken identities, and a lover concealed in a trunk to gain access to his beloved; but also, the depiction of a radical Anabaptist sect—the 'Family of Love'—whose meetings (restricted only to the password-knowing few) serve implicitly as a sex party for women. In a particularly memorable sequence, Mistress Purge's suspicious husband Peter follows her to 'Familist' meetings until he eventually overhears the password and gains admission; just as his wife seems poised to have sex with the unmarried masters Lipsalve and Gudgeon, she is led away in the dark to have sex with another m","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}