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{"title":"Networking Europe and New Communities of Interpretation (1400–1600) ed. by Margriet Hoogvliet, Manuel F. Fernández Chaves, and Rafael M. Pérez García (review)","authors":"Ines Jahudka","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935354","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>Networking Europe and New Communities of Interpretation (1400–1600)</em> ed. by Margriet Hoogvliet, Manuel F. Fernández Chaves, and Rafael M. Pérez García <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Ines Jahudka </li> </ul> Hoogvliet, Margriet, Manuel F. Fernández Chaves, and Rafael M. Pérez García, eds, <em>Networking Europe and New Communities of Interpretation (1400–1600)</em> ( New Communities of Interpretation, 4), Turnhout, Brepols, 2023; hardcover; pp. 247; 6 b/w illustrations; RRP €75.00; ISBN 9782503606217. <p><em>Networking Europe</em> aims to reconstruct how religious reform was transported throughout diaspora communities across Europe and the role that these informal communications had in the metamorphosis of spiritual belief throughout the medieval and early modern eras. Interestingly, the editors' goal was deliberately shifted away from intellectual or social elites, or formal religious institutions. Rather, attention is drawn to the layperson's communities of interest throughout Europe, where information was spread not so much by institutional or political <strong>[End Page 321]</strong> affiliation as by cultural, social, or commercial ties. The work also consciously moves away from existing ideological forms to describe the continuous challenges and transformations of medieval Christianity. <em>Networking Europe</em> 'reconstruct[s] European networks of knowledge exchange, exploring how religious ideas and strategies of transformation \"travelled''' (p. 11).</p> <p>Woven throughout the work is the theme of interconnectivity: the influences on the material and spiritual relationship of lay communities and new environments, new practices, and even new geographies. The volume is divided into three sections: 'European Connections' focuses on influences on lay communities, such as in Rafael M. Pérez García's contribution, which examines the influence of Northern European Christian mystical literature on sixteenth-century Spanish spiritual literature. 'Exiles, Diasporas, and Migrants' considers the relationship between diaspora communities, material or economic identities, and spiritual connectivity. Manuel F. Fernández Chaves's work centres on the establishment of Flemish institutions in Seville, whereas Ignacio García Pinilla's examines the impact of Protestantism on Spanish merchants residing in the Low Countries. Finally, 'Mobility and Merchants' investigates more material forms of interconnectivity. The relationship between book merchants, printers, and the Spanish Inquisition is addressed by Natalia Maillard Álvarez. Maillard's study moves beyond Europe to the New World, examining the Inquisition's reach into the Mexican bookselling market. Margriet Hoogvliet closes the volume with an investigation of the tangible objects of travel: itineraries, maps, and other guides to merchant and pilgrimag","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179855","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":"Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863 by Sascha R. Klement (review)","authors":"Nat Cutter","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935355","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>Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863</em> by Sascha R. Klement <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Nat Cutter </li> </ul> Klement, Sascha R., <em>Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863</em>, Bielefeld, Transcript Publishing, 2021; paperback; pp. 270; R.R.P. €45.00; ISBN 9783837655834. <p>Sascha R. Klement's book presents a compelling argument for a framework of 'global civility' in British travel writing about the Ottoman Empire and South Pacific: a 'discursive formation' characterised by 'cultural cross-fertilisation, respect for the organisational structures and social differences of foreign polities, and the representation of mutually improving encounters in intercultural contact zones' (p. 11). Travelling Britons, prompted by 'situational exigencies' that required improvisation and cross-cultural cooperation, came to, at least temporarily, surrender their superiority and respond to the agency and subjectivity of the other (pp. 18–20). In so doing, Klement's travel narratives present a more constructive version of cross-cultural engagement than many postcolonial critiques which assume Britain's 'civilising mission and military power' as a 'historical constant' (pp. 11, 14).</p> <p>Klement's first chapter considers Henry Blount's <em>A Voyage into the Levant</em> (1636), a mainstay of scholarship on English travel into the Islamic Mediterranean in the early seventeenth century, which has problematised, if not entirely overturned, the assumption of continuous British superiority. Blount's account presents the Ottoman Empire as a developed and powerful state with the capacity to match or even surpass European power, a society from which to learn. Klement distinctively argues that Blount also embodies a methodology of engagement for 'a citizen of a nation with imperial ambitions' to learn from those around them: a specific set of civilities, neither detestable to him or them (p. 42). Challenging <strong>[End Page 323]</strong> 'those who catechise the world by their own home', Blount divests his Englishness to observe a powerful empire (p. 42).</p> <p>Klement's second and third chapters contrast two late eighteenth-century encounters with the Ottomans and Pacific Islanders to expose both important distinctions in knowledge and power and the shared production of global civility. Framed by Enlightenment sensibility, George Keate's <em>Account of the Pelew Islands</em> (1788) presents to an audience gripped by tales of the exotic and 'barbarous' a humanised tale of survival and mutual society through privation (p. 70). As the Palauans grant permission to East India Company sailors to build a new ship in exchange for armed support against neighbouring communities, ","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179859","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 Rope and the Chains: Machiavelli's Early Thought and its Transformations by Cary J. Nederman (review)","authors":"Zita Eva Rohr","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935358","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>The Rope and the Chains: Machiavelli's Early Thought and its Transformations</em> by Cary J. Nederman <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Zita Eva Rohr </li> </ul> Nederman, Cary J., <em>The Rope and the Chains: Machiavelli's Early Thought and its Transformations</em>, New York, Lexington Books, 2023; hardback; pp. 168; R.R.P. US $95.00; ISBN 9781793617248. <p>'<em>Another</em> book about Machiavelli? Really?' (p. ix) is Cary J. Nederman's opening quip to this brief, very readable exploration of how Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli 'became' Machiavelli. This interests Nederman because, in his view, while there has been so much written about Machiavelli, significant lacunae exist concerning a particular body of his important and substantial writings. According to Nederman, Machiavelli's pre-1513 writing and thought remain largely unexplored, investigated, and not even acknowledged by most authors of secondary literature and biographies of this most singular of Renaissance political practitioners and thinkers. Nederman's central thesis rests upon a substantial analytical comparison of Machiavelli's writings <em>ante res perditas</em> and <em>post res perditas</em>, and how a comparison of these demonstrates his journey from ignorance to comprehension via a very steep learning curve and hard-won self-education based upon bitter experience, study, and close personal observation of the mechanisms of politics and the machinations of political players of both sexes—the foundations of his intellectual toolbox. Nederman observes moreover that 'Machiavelli's signal contributions to political theory may be conceived of as serious self-criticism of his own faulty naivete in the years before his downfall' (p. 134). His political theory and granular understanding of human nature did not spring fully formed from their progenitor sometime in mid-1513 but instead represented the hard-earned harvest of his pre-1513 thought, lived sociopolitical experience, and gimlet-eyed observations. For Nederman, <em>The Prince</em>, commenced very soon after his release from prison and the work for which Machiavelli is best known, marks his definitive 'transformation from politico to author' (p. 3).</p> <p>Having assured the Medici regime that he posed no direct threat to their reasserted ascendancy, Machiavelli was eventually liberated during a general amnesty about a month after his arrest. He refers to this time as one of 'disgrace', observing to his friend Francesco Vettori that 'Fate has done everything to cause <strong>[End Page 331]</strong> me this abuse' (p. 2). Despite this, Machiavelli managed to move on, focusing on his intellectual pursuits with greater determination to produce the works for which he would become most famous. The whole experience of his vertiginous downfall, and the part played in it by <em>Fortuna<","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179860","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":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2024.a935367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935367","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Notes on Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Andrea Bubenik</strong> is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Queensland. Her expertise is in Renaissance and Baroque art and the continued reception of early modern visual culture. Her books include <em>The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture</em> (editor; Routledge, 2019) and <em>Reframing Albrecht Dürer</em> (Ashgate, 2013); she was the curator of the exhibitions 'Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond' (2017) and 'Five Centuries of Melancholia' (2014), both held at the UQ Art Museum.</p> <p><strong>Megan Cassidy-Welch</strong> is Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity. Her recent publications include <em>Crusades and Violence</em> (ARC Humanities Press, 2023); <em>War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade</em> (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019); and <em>Remembering the Crusades and Crusading</em> (editor; Routledge, 2017). She has published widely on the cultural and religious history of the high Middle Ages and is currently working on ideas of spiritual health among medieval crusaders and pilgrims, and a long history of homelessness. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has held leadership positions at The University of Queensland (including as McCaughey Chair of History) and Monash University prior to her appointment at the University of Divinity in 2024.</p> <p><strong>Pia F. Cuneo</strong> is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Arizona, where she taught classes in Renaissance art for thirty-one years. She has been publishing on the nexus of art and hippology in early modern Germany since 2000. Currently she is writing a book on the equine imagery of Hans Baldung (d. 1545), as well as an essay on armour for a horse made in 1548 for a volume on early modern fashion. Her most recent publications deal with the nexus between Reformation theology and equine imagery, and with the role of humour in the woodcuts by Baldung discussed in this <em>Parergon</em> issue. Horses first came into her life in 1996 and she has been owning and riding them ever since.</p> <p><strong>John E. Curran Jr</strong>, (PhD from University of Virginia) has been teaching English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, since 1997. He has written three monographs on English Renaissance literature, about the historiography of ancient Britain (2002), about <em>Hamlet</em> and theology (2006), and about characterization in the drama (2014). He has written many articles on such figures as Shakespeare, Milton, Chapman, Jonson, and John Fletcher and his collaborators; his most recent work is a series of articles on Spenser's <em>Faerie Queene</em> exploring the role of logic in the poem's 'analysis' of virtue ethics. Since 2012 he has served as the editor of <em>Renascence: Essays on","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179868","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":"Women's Agency: Then and Now","authors":"Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article surveys recent thinking about agency as a concept, both in general and within women’s and gender history, and then discusses some of the ways in which women’s agency has figured in early modern cultural and economic history over the last several decades. It considers whether women’s agency might have been a matter of norms as well as actions, that is, whether people expected women to be capable, economically productive, qualified, and skilled while simultaneously ascribing to patriarchal norms about women’s weakness. It highlights several research areas in which women’s agency has been a particularly important theme in recent scholarship and examines arguments about women’s and girls’ agency that have emerged in debates about the role of women’s work in European economic expansion. At the end, it briefly connects early modern developments with some trends in women’s lives that have emerged because of the COVID pandemic.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715781","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":"Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages by Joseph Dyer (review)","authors":"Robert Curry","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914796","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;Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages&lt;/em&gt; by Joseph Dyer &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Robert Curry &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Dyer, Joseph, &lt;em&gt;Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages&lt;/em&gt; (Ritus et Artes, 10), Turnhout, Brepols, 2022; hardback; pp. 268; 12 b/w, 17 colour illustrations, 14 musical examples; R.R.P. €85.00; ISBN 9782503592879. &lt;p&gt;In liturgical plainchant, as in art song, texts of greatest intrinsic worth do not necessarily beget musical settings of greatest artistic achievement. Musicological (and commercial) bias towards aesthetic interest reflects a sensibility that approaches plainchant more as artful musical compositions than as scripture and prayer solemnified through song. Hence the abundance of sound recordings of extended melismatic chants and the dearth, for example, of recordings of psalmodic recitation and cantillation of the epistle and gospel at Solemn Mass. Indeed, ‘The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages’, the subtitle of Joseph Dyer’s erudite, pellucidly written book, more likely brings to mind the sound world of the synagogue and mosque rather than places of Christian worship.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;What Dyer originally intended to be an examination of the musical formulae for cantillation—defined as heightened speech, ‘a stylized mode of delivery that took into account both the sense of the text and the accent patterns of words at the ends of sense units’ (p. 63)—broadened into a study of every aspect of the ritual of which cantillation of the gospel was the centrepiece. His elegantly produced book presents a wide-ranging historical survey, a purview over a thousand-year tradition, drawing on more than 180 multidisciplinary late antique and early medieval sources. Enlivening his coverage are thought-provoking speculations and the occasional personal aside, displays of scholarly acuity and breadth of learning, ‘on how “hearers” of the early Middle Ages might have comprehended what they heard and how they experienced what they beheld’ (p. 12). At base, these speculations centre on the perennial questions of how long and to what extent Latin was understood by the laity, and specifically, for how long cantillated texts might have continued to be comprehended as vernacular languages progressively diverged from the Latin of late antiquity. While the pertinence of these questions is restricted to regions where Latin was once the lingua franca, as Dyer readily acknowledges, they set him to ponder more generally whether ‘comprehension of every single word sung or spoken was really essential to the medieval laity’s active involvement in the Mass’ (p. 14).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Intellectual comprehension of Scripture readings at Mass was not within the grasp of all the faithful, and rarely, in fact, does awareness of the la","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715851","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":"Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (viiie–xiie siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs ed. by Pierre Bauduin, Simon Lebouteiller and Luc Bourgeois (review)","authors":"Lola Sharon Davidson","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914791","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;Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (&lt;small&gt;viii&lt;/small&gt;&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt;–&lt;small&gt;xii&lt;/small&gt;&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Pierre Bauduin, Simon Lebouteiller and Luc Bourgeois &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Lola Sharon Davidson &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Bauduin, Pierre, Simon Lebouteiller, and Luc Bourgeois, eds, &lt;em&gt;Les Transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (&lt;small&gt;viii&lt;/small&gt;&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt;–&lt;small&gt;xii&lt;/small&gt;&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs&lt;/em&gt; (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 36), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; hardback; pp. 363; 69 b/w, 7 colour illustrations, 2 b/w tables; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503593661. &lt;p&gt;This dense and copiously illustrated volume consists of fourteen articles, of which four are in English and the remainder in French. The articles in French are provided with brief abstracts in English, except for the introductory article by Pierre Bauduin and the concluding article by Geneviève Bührer-Thierry. The English articles do not have abstracts in French—it might have been simpler to translate the four English articles. The volume is the product of a 2017 conference, which itself formed part of an ongoing collaboration on cultural transfers in the Norman world begun in 2009. It is a great strength of this project that it brings home the vast geographical extent of Norman, or possibly Viking, influence. The editors’ assumption that Normans are merely rebranded Vikings, though arguably justified, leads to a title that may well mislead prospective readers into neglecting a work with valuable contributions to their field. Most anglophone scholars would be surprised at the idea of Norman, as opposed to Viking, influence extending to Central Asia. The articles in this book, however, go a long way toward supporting the ongoing coherence of the Norman/Viking world.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Section I deals with objects as vehicles of cultural transfer. The first two papers discuss archaeological material recently uncovered by metal detectors. Anne Pedersen traces the gradual adoption of Christian symbols, firstly the cross and crucifix, then Christian animal motifs, on small personal ornaments, generally brooches and pendants in copper alloy or silver. Whereas burials and hordes preserve the possessions of the elite, these ornaments come from the common people. They provide us with evidence for the Christianisation of the Danes, which complements the top-down accounts of our other sources. Continuing with Denmark, Jens Christian Moesgaard examines the introduction of coinage. Originally, foreign coins functioned as bullion, but around 720 locally minted coins appear as standard exchange units at Ribe, then later at Haithabu. Endorsed by a succession of kings, the European model of coinage had imposed itself on the ","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715852","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":"Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty by Aidan Norrie et al (review)","authors":"Michele Seah","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914801","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;Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty&lt;/em&gt; by Aidan Norrie et al &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Michele Seah &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, eds, &lt;em&gt;Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty&lt;/em&gt; (Queenship and Power), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023; hardback; pp. xxi, 292; 2 b/w, 9 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €119.99; ISBN 9783030948856. &lt;p&gt;One of Palgrave Macmillan’s latest publications in the series ‘Queenship and Power’ is a four-volume collection called &lt;em&gt;English Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty&lt;/em&gt; (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), edited by Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, all of whom possess impeccable credentials in queenship and royal studies. The collection features individual biographies of all English and British consorts since England fell to the Normans in 1066. This book, &lt;em&gt;Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty&lt;/em&gt;, is the second volume of the collection. It includes the following queen consorts (in chronological order): Isabella of France (wife to Edward II), Philippa of Hainault (wife to Edward III), Anne of Bohemia (wife to Richard II), Isabella of Valois (second wife of Richard II), Joan of Navarre (wife to Henry IV), Katherine of Valois (wife to Henry V), Margaret of Anjou (wife to Henry VI), Elizabeth Woodville (wife to Edward IV), and Anne Neville (wife to Richard II). All these queens’ tenures were ‘marked by conflict and warfare’ (p. 2), an unsurprising circumstance given that these women lived as queens during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, two major conflicts that occurred in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As the editors point out, there are two main problems with previous single biographies and biographical collections of English and British consorts from 1066 onwards. The first is that not all royal consorts have been treated with the same attention and interest by scholars or popular writers, and the second is that there is no one single corpus of work covering all the said consorts. One of the editors’ stated aims is, therefore, to provide ‘a single scholarly compendium wherein all the consorts since the Norman Conquest can be consulted’ (p. xxi). If this volume and the generally excellent quality of its biographical chapters are any guide, both problems have been successfully countered, at least for this group of consorts. Standout chapters for me include Louise Tingle’s treatment of Isabella of Valois, ‘one of England’s most obscure and forgotten consorts’ (p. 87), and Katherine J. Lewis’s work on Katherine of Valois, another consort who is arguably just as obscure as Isab","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716563","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 Agency of Muslim Women and 'the Muslimwoman' in Early Modern England","authors":"Bernadette Andrea","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Acknowledging that women from Muslim backgrounds arrived on British shores well before the first record of an openly Muslim woman in the 1830s, but that they would have had no real option other than to assimilate to English mores, including religious ones, this article investigates the ‘Muslimwoman’ (miriam cooke’s neologism) as constitutive of English culture from the sixteenth century and into the eighteenth century. Examples include representations of elite women from the Ottoman dynasty in histories, polemics, and plays. Deploying ‘the Muslimwoman’ as a heuristic allows us to assess the impact of historical Muslim women on early modern English culture.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715773","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":"'Divers voyages into farre countries': Agency in Rose Throckmorton's Diary","authors":"Emily Stevenson","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a914783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a914783","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Women played a vital role within mercantile communities in sixteenth-century London as social, cultural and economic agents, but there is comparatively little archival material relating to these activities in comparison with their male counterparts, and as they were seldom able to actively participate in trade, the nuances of their activity are easily overlooked. Using the 1610 diary of Rose Lok Hickman Throckmorton as a case study, this article will examine her role within her community and the ways in which she both exerted and subverted agency, interrogating the text’s preoccupations with questions of trade, faith, and gender.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138715774","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}