Galluzzi, Paolo. The Italian Renaissance of Machines. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum

Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Strtak

Hart, Jonathan Locke. Aristotle and His Afterlife: Rhetoric, Poetics and Comparison

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Cunningham

Honig, Elizabeth Alice. Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature

Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Strtak

James, Carolyn. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519

Article | Contributor(s): Johanna Sinclair

Le Flanchec, Vân Dung, Michèle Clément, and Anna-Pascale Pouey- Mounou, eds. Maurice Scève. Le poète en quête d’un langage

Article | Contributor(s): John McClelland

Loughnane, Rory, and Andrew J. Power, eds. Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594

Article | Contributor(s): Ian McAdam

Lupić, Ivan. Subject of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare

Article | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Metlica, Alessandro. Le seduzioni della pace. Giovan Battista Marino, le feste di corte e la Francia barocca

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Malvestio

Morgan, Oliver. Turn-taking in Shakespeare

Article | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Munro, Lucy. Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men

Article | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Pires, Tomé. Suma Oriental. Ed. Rui Manuel Loureiro

Article | Contributor(s): James Nelson Novoa

Poole, Kristen, and Owen Williams, eds. Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodization of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

Article | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Scott-Warren, Jason. Shakespeare’s First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

Article | Contributor(s): Miruna Craciunescu

Strocchia, Sharon T. Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Faini

Thouret, Clotilde. Le théâtre réinventé. Défense de la scène dans l’Europe de la première modernité

Article | Contributor(s): François Paré

Spaces of Power of the Spanish Nobility (1480–1715): Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Carmen Sanz Ayán

Between Court and Village: The Evolution of Aristocratic Spaces in Early Modern Spain

Article | Contributor(s): Santiago Martínez Hernández

In May 1561, King Philip II informed the town hall of Madrid that he had chosen their town as the site for his royal residence and court. That year, the city was swiftly transformed into the Catholic king’s court and the heart of his vast monarchy. It also became the principal political and...

The Alburquerque Ducal Court and the Literary Patronage of Hernán López de Yanguas during Charles V’s Reign

Article | Contributor(s): Diego Pacheco Landero

This article investigates the political and cultural practices of the ducal House of Alburquerque to demonstrate its commitment to one of the basic principles of Charles V’s foreign policy, that of maintaining peace among Christians and warring against the Turk. It studies the specific conditions...

Juana La Beltraneja, Dynastic Fears, and Threats of Marriage (1475–1506)

Article | Contributor(s): Susannah Humble Ferreira

This article focuses on the life of Juana, the Excelente Senhora (excellent lady), between 1479 and 1506. Juana, widely known as La Beltraneja, was recognized by King Enrique IV of Castile (1454–74) as his legitimate daughter and successor despite claims that she had been conceived in an...

Palace Networks at the Court of Carlos II: Maria Anna of Palatinate-Neuburg’s Confessor, Gabriel Pontifeser, and the Queen’s German Chamber (1690–1700)

Article | Contributor(s): Valentina Marguerite Kozák

The arrival in Madrid in 1690 of the future queen consort, Maria Anna of Palatinate-Neuburg (1667–1740), second wife of the Spanish king Carlos II (1661–1700), also brought about the establishment of an unofficial palace faction known as the German Chamber. Since the members of this faction were...