The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography. Edited by Colum Hourihane. New York: Routledge, 2017. xxxii + 547 pp. $240.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640718001038
Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography is a useful and timely resource in the study of medieval culture. In thirty-eight chapters, illustrated with 127 black-and-white images and eight color plates, the international contributors walk the… read more here.
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Simon Biggs, Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life, Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, 2018, 183 pp., hbk £97.75, ISBN 13: 978 0895032775
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DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x1900028x
Abstract: This book by Simon Biggs is part of Routledge’s series on ‘Key Themes in Health and Society’. As Biggs says in the foreword, rather than being primarily a descriptive textbook, it pursues an argument about… read more here.
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Russia–Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist. Ed. Lena Jonson and Andrei Erofeev. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, Vol. 78. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2018. xiv, 328 pp. Index. Illustrations. £115.00, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2019.165
Abstract: none of us (whatever our profession—scholars, critics, politicians, historians) can really escape the cultural and historical context in which we live and work. Ironically, the book itself is also a victim of this fundamental truth.… read more here.
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Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Catherine Gimelli Martin. Routledge Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture. London: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 318 pp. $140.
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DOI: 10.1086/700550
Abstract: Samson Agonistes, though not a flaw per se, is a bit surprising, as is the limited presence of the early poetry. The notion that the mature Milton was fully committed to heretical monism, though certainly… read more here.
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The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers. Nieves Baranda and Anne J. Cruz, eds. London: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 368 pp. $240.
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DOI: 10.1086/702125
Abstract: Senatore), mendicant (Giulia Barone), or university (Carla Frova) forms. Part 4, “Incroci di genere,” brings together some concluding thoughts on outstanding issues that cut across genres. These include memorialists (Raul Mordenti); public writing (Paolo D’Achille);… read more here.
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