VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4 (JUNE 2005)

CONTENTS

Editorial - Ingrid De Smet

Articles

Philippe Desan: ‘Les Essais en cinq cents pensées ou la réponse de Guillaume Bérenger aux ‘injures et railleries’ d’Arnaud et Nicole contre Montaigne (1667)’

Philip Ford: ‘Biblical Imagery in Ronsard’s Polemical Poetry: An Own Goal?’

Kevin Gould: 'The Commentaires de Blaise de Monluc in the Historiography of the French Wars of Religion'

Amy Graves: ‘Memory, Tragedy and History: The Poetics of Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Account of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre’

Agnieszka Steczowicz: ‘Renaissance Monetary Paradoxes: The Malestroit-Bodin Controversy’

Review Essay

Matthew Woodcock: Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Julia M. Walker, The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Book Reviews

Susan Broomhall, Women’s Medical Work in Early Modern France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004) - Pollie Bromilow

Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) - Garthine Walker

Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr, eds., The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2004) - Aislinn Loconte

Lauro Martines, Loredana – A Venetian Tale (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004); Ian Campbell and Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four (London: Century, 2004) - Andrea Galdy

Alan H. Nelson, Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 40 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003) - Gabriel Heaton

Avraham Oz, ed., Marlowe (New Casebooks series) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) - Sarah Wall-Randell