{"title":"Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History","authors":"Sofie Kluge, Ross Deans Kristensen-Mclachlan","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.541","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to reopen discussion of the Renaissance ars historica, a genre that has garnered little attention in modern scholarship. It does so by using a set of computational tools to measure the quantitative occurrence of terms related to artistry and cognition in Johann Wolff's collection of historical-method texts entitled “Artis Historicae Penus” (1579). Like the period's historical writing, which amalgamated aesthetics and historiography, the Renaissance artes historicae belonged to a historiographical paradigm in which the skillful construction of discourse went hand in hand with the search for historical truth. The title of Wolff's anthology accordingly draws an overt connection between the concepts of “ars” and “historia,” yet what did sixteenth-century theorists mean by “art”?","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139590064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music and Crisis at Santa Maria Maggiore during the Turbulent 1620s","authors":"Jason Rosenholtz-Witt","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.542","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1620s, when churches throughout Northern Italy were scaling back musical expenditures due to shrinking coffers, the confraternity Misericordia Maggiore continued to lavishly fund music in Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo. In a decade marred by war, austerity, death, famine, and plague, music received robust institutional support. Drawing from new archival research, a picture emerges of the enduring importance of musical life to the Bergamasque community in the face of challenges on multiple fronts. Additionally, Bergamo surfaces as a neglected site of almost unparalleled large-scale musical activity in early Seicento Italy.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limits of Philology: Antonio Agustín and Textual Criticism of Canon Law in Tridentine Europe","authors":"Mateusz Falkowski","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.545","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Antonio Agustín's (1517–86) philological and historical treatise “De Emendatione Gratiani” (1587). Canon law became a key controversial issue in Catholic-Protestant confessional arguments in the sixteenth century, but its convoluted history also posed a challenge within Catholic orthodoxy itself. This essay discusses how Agustín, working to improve the text of Gratian's “Decretum” (ca. 1140), navigated between his own scholarly integrity and the requirements of Tridentine reforms. The focus on canon law uncovers rarely acknowledged connections between Renaissance philology and ecclesiastical scholarship, and opens a new perspective on the entanglement of humanism and religion, confessional conflicts, and erudition.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139589799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Banishment's Vanishing Act: The Inconstancy of Law in Early Modern Spain","authors":"Ruth MacKay","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2022.432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2022.432","url":null,"abstract":"Banishment was probably the most frequent punishment in early modern Spanish criminal courts. It was impossible to enforce and antithetical to the interests of the state, yet it survived. This article, based on archival sources, proposes that the study of early modern law, probably in general but definitely in Spain, must account for its symbolic and rhetorical meaning beyond the language of a given statute. Looking at the practice of banishment, the long history of legal compilation in Spain, and the particularities and contradictions of legal practice there, this article calls for a deeper and more interdisciplinary approach.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139590066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0000000000001568
Vivian Paraskevi Douglas, Shahin Owji, Mohammad Pakravan, Chaow Charoenkijkajorn, Andrew G Lee
{"title":"McArdle Disease Rhabdomyolysis Precipitated by Acetazolamide for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.","authors":"Vivian Paraskevi Douglas, Shahin Owji, Mohammad Pakravan, Chaow Charoenkijkajorn, Andrew G Lee","doi":"10.1097/WNO.0000000000001568","DOIUrl":"10.1097/WNO.0000000000001568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"61 1","pages":"e159-e160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88477031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-11-20eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.14744/nci.2022.33279
Celebi Kocaoglu, Seyma Akturk
{"title":"Just a vitamin? Should cobalamin (Vitamin B12) levels be checked in children with neurological disadvantages?","authors":"Celebi Kocaoglu, Seyma Akturk","doi":"10.14744/nci.2022.33279","DOIUrl":"10.14744/nci.2022.33279","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The assay of serum cobalamin (Cbl) level is commonly used to diagnose Cbl deficiency. Unexpectedly, the elevated Cbl levels may be determined in some of the patients and its interpretation is difficult. We investigated the association between elevated Cbl levels and a variety of clinical entities in patients presenting with various neurological symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The data were obtained from the patients' electronic medical records in a tertiary hospital affiliated with a university. The pediatric patients with serum Cbl levels above 1000 pg/mL were included in the study. The patients with serum Cbl levels below 900 pg/mL and above 200 pg/mL constituted the control group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean Cbl level of the patients with neurological problems was 1424.2±354.2 pg/mL, whereas the average Cbl level of neurologically healthy was 1316±317.8 pg/mL, and the difference was statistically significant. While the rate of having neurological deficits or symptoms in the study group was found to be 24%, this rate was only 18% in the control group. Unexpectedly, despite elevated Cbl level, the high mean corpuscular volume rate was higher in the study group compared to the control group.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study highlights the importance of the disorders of Cbl metabolism in patients presenting with various neurological symptoms. In children with neurological deficits, serum Cbl levels should be checked. In case of high Cbl level is determined, patients should be followed up closely, and further investigations should be performed in terms of Cbl metabolism disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"790-796"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10846572/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88493548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tenzin Ngodup, Tomohiko Irie, Sean Elkins, Laurence O Trussell
{"title":"The Na<sup>+</sup> leak channel NALCN controls spontaneous activity and mediates synaptic modulation by α2-adrenergic receptors in auditory neurons.","authors":"Tenzin Ngodup, Tomohiko Irie, Sean Elkins, Laurence O Trussell","doi":"10.1101/2023.06.23.546323","DOIUrl":"10.1101/2023.06.23.546323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cartwheel interneurons of the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) potently suppress multisensory signals that converge with primary auditory afferent input, and thus regulate auditory processing. Noradrenergic fibers from locus coeruleus project to the DCN, and α2-adrenergic receptors inhibit spontaneous spike activity but simultaneously enhance synaptic strength in cartwheel cells, a dual effect leading to enhanced signal-to-noise for inhibition. However, the ionic mechanism of this striking modulation is unknown. We generated a glycinergic neuron-specific knockout of the Na<sup>+</sup> leak channel NALCN, and found that its presence was required for spontaneous firing in cartwheel cells. Activation of α2-adrenergic receptors inhibited both NALCN and spike generation, and this modulation was absent in the NALCN knockout. Moreover, α2-dependent enhancement of synaptic strength was also absent in the knockout. GABA<sub>B</sub> receptors mediated inhibition through NALCN as well, acting on the same population of channels as α2 receptors, suggesting close apposition of both receptor subtypes with NALCN. Thus, multiple neuromodulatory systems determine the impact of synaptic inhibition by suppressing the excitatory leak channel, NALCN.</p>","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659375/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91211924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Del Santo Uffizio in Sicilia e delle sue carceri. Giovanna Fiume. La storia. Temi 90. Rome: Viella, 2021. 356 pp. €34.","authors":"Christopher F. Black","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.232","url":null,"abstract":"nineteen contributors and the two coeditors that, across the board, all the chapters are written clearly and comprehensively. In short, there is not a single weak chapter—a remarkable feat. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a thorough picture of Pietro Aretino’s literature: his activities of self-promotion through the visual arts, including his friendship with Titian and the circulation of medallions; his satires, beginning in Rome with the voice of Pasquino and his pioneering of pornographic language; his hagiographies and epistolary; his networks of support and rivalries— sometimes violent—with contemporaries. The volume presents a complete composite view of the author’s activities during the sixteenth century. In conclusion, the volume functions as a compendium of the criticism of Aretino, synthesizing the work of many scholars into chapters that are accessible and easy to read. It will serve as a type of one-stop shopping for those wishing to understand the “scourge of princes,” whether in part or in whole. Consequently, the volume will also serve as the starting point for future studies, providing the background necessary upon which future critics can build. Coeditors Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini are to be commended for this major contribution to the field of literary criticism.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"691 - 693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47856360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ciriaco d'Ancona and the Origins of Epigraphy","authors":"Lillian Datchev","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2022.439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2022.439","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how and why scholars began to systematically examine and record ancient inscriptions in fifteenth-century Italy. Finding evidence in the revolutionary work of Ciriaco d'Ancona, it shows that this change emerged from the synthesis of several cultural traditions. Ciriaco learned to observe antiquities from the Italian elite living in the Greek colonies and to record inscriptions from an early Christian pilgrim's practice. He introduced a new degree of precision in his records, learned partly from humanists. These facts suggest that a new culture of observing, discussing, and writing about antiquities was developing in the early Renaissance Mediterranean.","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"444 - 496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48247514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii + 154 pp. $160.","authors":"V. Bartels","doi":"10.1017/rqx.2023.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45863,"journal":{"name":"RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"76 1","pages":"732 - 733"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45439828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}