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Robert Paynell’s King's Bench Reports (1625-1627)
W. Hamilton Bryson, ed. (University of Richmond)
This book is the promised complement of the editor’s collection of Robert Paynell's Exchequer Reports (1627-1631) published by ACMRS. This new volume will be welcomed by scholars as it illuminates how law was practiced in the English Court of King’s Bench and sheds light on the particular legal concerns of this particular lawyer. These law reports cover some important common law cases which have been heretofore known only by very imperfect older reports. In addition, the introduction discusses generally the reporting of law cases in the time of King Charles I.
Forthcoming 2009 / ISBN: 978-0-86698-417-1 / MR 369

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The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen’s Translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae (Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12/289)
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.(Troy University) and Philip Edward Phillips(Middle Tennessee State University) eds., introduction by Quan Manh Ha (Texas Tech University)
This book comprises an extensive Introduction that makes particular note of the Elizabeth’s educational preparation for translating the Latin text and the circumstances under which the translation was made, an edition of the translation that distinguishes first-draft inscriptions in which the queen was directly involved and second-draft inscriptions that reveal no supervisory attention by Her Majesty, extensive notes that allow readers to understand the relationship between the entries in Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12/289 and the order in which the entries are presented in the edition, and a glossary of problematic words appearing in the translation.
2009 / 239 + xii / ISBN: 978-0-86698-414-0 / MR 366 / $63, £45

Robert Paynell’s Exchequer Reports (1627-1631)
W. Hamilton Bryson, ed. (University of Richmond)
Robert Paynell’s law reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer are extraordinarily good by the standards of law reporting of his time, the seventeenth century. Paynell made it his business to be regularly in the Court of Exchequer to record systematically the arguments of counsel and the opinions of the judges as they were being rendered. He apparently was doing this with a wider audience in view, but, due to the vagaries of seventeenth-century law publishing, this book now published by ACMRS is the editio princeps.

These reports cover a wide range of legal topics, but, directly or indirectly, they all touch on the sovereign prerogative and the royal revenue. This was the period of the personal reign of Charles I, and these legal issues had major political ramifications, which make these cases interesting to political historians as well as legal historians.

The bibliographical importance of this book is that it publishes all of the remaining known manuscript Exchequer law reports from the time of Charles I, thus completing that which was begun by Selden Society, vol. 118 (2001), and Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer in the Time of King Charles I (Hein, 2006). Also, it extends the recent publication of seventeenth-century Exchequer cases, complementing those from the time of the later Stuarts, Equity Cases in the Court of Exchequer 1660 to 1714 (ACMRS, 2007), and Samuel Dodd’s Reports 1678-1713 (Carolina Academic Press, 2000).
2009 / 518 + xxvi pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-406-5 / MR 358 / $63, £53

John Skelton and Early Modern Culture: Papers Honoring Robert S. Kinsman
Edited by David R. Carlson (University of Ottawa)
This collection of essays in honor of a great Skelton and James Joyce scholar at UCLA amounts to a comprehensive, collaboratively written literary-historical biography of one of the strangest figures of early English literary history. Skelton was a priest and a rogue, a royal apologist and a satirist, a dissident and a sycophant. This book contains papers on each period of Skelton's career and on all his works, demonstrating how his diverse writings fit into several contemporary contexts such as the royal court, the city of London, and his own rural parish in Norfolk.

Table of Contents

I. Contexts, Institutional and Cultural

Greg Walker
"John Skelton and the Royal Court"

William Streitberger
"John Skelton: The Revels, Entertainments, and Plays at Court"

W. Scott Blanchard
"Skelton’s Critique of Wealth and the Autonomy of the Early Modern Intellectual"

Antony J. Hasler
"Cultural Intersections: Skelton, Barclay, Hawes, André"

A. S. G. Edwards
"Skelton’s English Poems in Manuscript and Print"

Greg Waite
"Approaching the Poet’s Language: The Holograph Records of Skelton’s English"

The Castell of Love: A Critical Edition of Lord Berners's Translation, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Edited by Joyce Boro (Université de Montréal)
This is the first modern edition of John Bourchier, Lord Berners’ (born c. 1467) translation of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de amor, a popular romance printed twenty-nine times in sixteenth-century Spain and translated into Catalan, Italian, French, English, and German in the 150 years following its initial publication. Berners’ book is one of the first Spanish romances translated into English, and it marks the first appearance in English of what is recognized in its Spanish form as a sentimental novel; and it is also the first epistolary novel in English. Castell has a number of generic affiliations, namely the genres of novela sentimental, cancionero lyric, epistolary fiction, and treatise as well as tragedy, romance, and parody. Each plays an important role in Castell’s literary heritage, inception, and reception. In the long and detailed introduction, the author explores the complicated ways in which Castell engages in dialogue with its literary inheritance and discursive environment. The novela is the genre to which the Spanish text has the closest affinities at the time of its creation and initial publication, while at the time of its translation Berners’s Castell responds to, and partakes in, the tradition of counsel literature. This is an interesting and important work with a valuable introduction and apparatus, and the author has done early modernists a service by making it available in a modern edition.
2007 / 298 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-384-6 / MR 336 / $42, £29

Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays
Edited by Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University)
This volume of essays is the first ever devoted to the poetry and prose of the seventeenth-century writer Thomas Traherne. Discovered only at the turn of the twentieth century, Traherne’s work has been understudied and often misunderstood; the nine essays in this collection, using various approaches and dealing with various texts (including the most recently found Traherne manuscripts), attempt to show the complexity of Traherne’s work by placing it directly within the most recent critical debates and within seventeenth-century contexts seldom addressed with regard to Traherne. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Traherne, metaphysical poetry, meditative writing, and religious writing in general, as it brings Traherne criticism up to date and establishes him as a significant figure in seventeenth-century studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Jacob Blevins

Strange Bodies: Thomas Traherne’s Disabled Subject
Susannah B. Mintz

“Cursd and Devised Proprieties”: Traherne and the Laws of Property
Lynne A. Greenberg

Thomas Traherne, Richard Allestree, and the Ethics of Appropriation
Kevin Laam

Language and the Fall: The Quest for Prelapsarian Speech in the Writings Of Thomas Traherne and his Contemporaries
Cynthia Saenz

Tuning the World: Traherne, Psalms, and Praise
Raymond-Jean Frontain

Motions of Writing in The Commentaries of Heaven: The “Volatilitie” of “Atoms” and “Ætyms”
Finn Fordham

Masquing / Un-Masquing: Lambeth MS. 1360 and a Reconsideration of Traherne’s ‘Curious’ Visual Language
Carol Ann Johnston

Traherne’s Specters: Self-Consciousness and Its Others
Gary Kuchar

Traherne, Husserl, and a Unitary Act of Consciousness
James J. Balakier

Epilogue
Alan Bradford

Francis Lodwick’s A Country Not Named
Edited by William Poole (New College, Oxford)
This is the first edition of A Country Not Named, a utopia work written by Francis Lodwick (1619-1694), merchant, language-planner, and F.R.S. This remarkable text survives in a sole manuscript, and has remained virtually unknown until now. Lodwick, who also devised some early attempts at an artificial language, is usually discussed as a figure in the history of linguistics, but this work, as well as his other manuscripts, reveals his wider interests. Lodwick was deeply heretical, and his utopia develops his ideas on the vast age of the world, and the nature and origin of religion.
2007 / 148 + xii pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-359-4 / MR 314 / $30, £21

Equity Cases in the Court of Exchequer, 1660-1714
Edited by W. Hamilton Bryson (University of Richmond)
This work is a translation of over 450 case reports of equity cases from the Court of Exchequer from the period of the later Stuart monarchs of England, 1660 to 1714. The vast majority of these cases have never been printed before. In fact, before Professor Bryson published his edition of Samuel Dodd’s reports in 2000, there was no collection of Exchequer reports in print for this lengthy period at all. Furthermore, the equity cases from the other courts in England are somewhat sparse for this period. Thus, this book fills in a large gap of printed law reports. Some of the manuscripts edited here for the first time were widely known to the bench and bar of eighteenth-century England; others are more obscure, but nevertheless state and explain the law of England at the time.
These reports illustrate many areas of the law, especially problems of the public revenue, creditors’ rights, wills, and trusts. These reports give the historical background of the present Anglo-American common law and equity law. Many of the cases are still good law today, others show where the law came from and how the law got to where it is now.
This book has a Table of Cases Reported and an extensive Subject Index, which will be very useful to historians and lawyers to locate the relevant cases to a wide field of legal issues. The Introduction is a bibliographic study of the manuscripts that are edited in this book.
2007 / xliv + 724 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-358-7 / MR 313 / $89, £55

The Perfect Ceremony of Love’s Rite: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint
by Robert L. Montgomery (University of California, Irvine Emeritus)
The Perfect Ceremony of Love's Rite is a critical reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets and its companion volume, A Lover's Complaint, together with their affinities to the Petrarchan conventions and more locally to the work of contemporary Elizabethan poets, especially Sidney, Spenser, and Daniel. Central to this treatment is the examination of the role of Shakespeare's speaker, and the speaker's concern for the ways in which poetry renders admiration, passion, guilt, obsessive longing, and a preoccupation with time and its victims, beauty and youth, all of these expressed brilliantly but without resolution to the problems they raise. This last feature is deliberate, showing itself in the lack of narrative shape and thematic closure. Shakespeare keeps us guessing but his poems never drive us away.
2006 / 136 pages / ISBN-10: 0-86698-349-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-86698-349-5 / MR 305 / $30, £23

Alexander Montgomerie: Poetry, Politics, and Cultural Change in Jacobean Scotland
By Roderick J. Lyall (Vrije Universiteit)
The outstanding courtier-poet of the Scottish reign of James VI and I, Alexander Montgomerie (c.1550-1598) was a gifted lyricist whose Catholicism made his position at court unusually problematic. This study combines a detailed investigation of Montgomerie's biography with a careful reading of his verse, bringing out the ways in which the poet's increasingly difficult personal circumstances are reflected in his development of a new poetics. It also seeks to situate Montgomerie's poetry within a bipolar model of later sixteenth-century British culture, against the background of the European development of Mannerist aesthetics and the emergence of the early Baroque.
2005 / 384 pages / ISBN-10: 0-86698-342-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-86698-342-6 / MR 298 / $43, £33

Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne
By Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan)
This study examines the rich resource for rhetorical invention that Donne found in the contemporary culture of courtship. The first half of the book employs the theories of Kenneth Burke in tandem with ancient and early-modern rhetorical theory to examine Elizabethan and Jacobean expressions of social desire (sexual, political, economic, etc.). It demonstrates how Donne employed these modes of courtship to stimulate and direct his audience's thought and desire with respect to matters of religious devotion. The second half of the book applies this socio-rhetorical paradigm of courtship in close readings of three Donne sermons. This study will be of interest to scholars and students of early-modern literature and rhetoric and to those interested in homiletics and devotional literature.

2005 / 329 pages / 86698-327-9 / MR284 / $38, £29

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English Civic Pageantry 1558-1642, Revised Edition
David M. Bergeron (University of Kansas)

This revised version of English Civic Pageantry looks anew at the variety and vitality of English civic pageants from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign to the closing of the theaters in 1642, focusing on royal entries, progress pageants, and Lord Mayor's Shows. Bergeron argues that civic pageants partake of the burgeoning theater world and indeed contribute significantly to it. In a world rich in metaphorical possibilities, civic pageants with their spectacle and speech captured attention on noblemen's estates and in the streets of London. In the new Introduction, Bergeron evaluates where pageantry studies have been and where they might go, underscoring areas ripe for additional investigation and analysis.

These pageants appealed to thousands of spectators in London's streets or wherever they took place, they engaged outstanding dramatic talent (playwrights and actors); they displayed extraordinary technical skill (from triumphal arches to fireworks); they utilized large sums of financial support from city governments and guilds; and they participated in the political and symbolic ratification of the sovereign's or mayor's office.

This revised book seeks to call renewed and vigorous attention to this sometimes marginalized dramatic form by insisting that civic pageants constituted a major part of cultural and theatrical life in early modern England. Bergeron's fresh look at this material seeks to recover and analyze the world of English civic pageantry, opening its richness for inspection and wonder.
2003 / 330 pages / 86698-310-4 / MR267 / $48, £42

The Christian Soldier: Religious Tracts Published for Soldiers on Both Sides During and After the English Civil Wars, 1642-1648
Edited, with Commentary by Robert Thomas Fallon (LaSalle University, Emeritus)

The Christian Soldier is an edition of several short seventeenth-century pamphlets composed for the spiritual and political guidance of the common soldiers on both sides during the English Civil War. Among them are The Souldiers Pocket Bible, a collection of biblical verses illustrating the proper behavior for a Parliamentary soldier "before the fight, in the fight, and after the fight," and two editions of The Souldiers Catechisme, one for "the Parliaments Armie," the other for "the Kings Armie." The Christian Soldiers Penny Bible, also included, is a later edition, published in 1693 and judiciously revised to render it appropriate for the royalist armies of William III.

The author supplements the texts with lucid and extensive commentary, explaining the military allusions for readers unfamiliar with the campaigns and battles of the Civil War, and clarifying the political and religious conflicts of the time. The Christian Soldier is a book of compelling interest to a wide range of students and scholars: military, political, and social historians, theologians, and chaplains of the armed services.
2003 / 232 pages / ISBN 0-86698-301-5 / MR 258 / $35 , £32

Roger Ascham, Toxophilus (1545)
edited with notes and commentary by Peter E. Medine (The University of Arizona)

Roger Ascham's Toxophilus (1545) is the first critical edition of Ascham's treatise--on the virtues of the English longbow--based on the modern principles of textual editing. It rests on a complete collation of 20 of the known 21 copies of the first edition as well as a full historical collation of all subsequent editions. The present volume includes a critical introduction, a textual introduction, the text in old-spelling, notes and commentary to explain Ascham's allusions and references, and a glossary to explain unfamiliar words. This is a major text for scholars of English Renaissance literature, history, language, and cultural studies.
2002 / 187 pages / 86698-286-8 / MR244 / $32, £27

Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I
edited by Peter C. Herman (San Diego State University)

In the first book to examine the verse produced by Tudor and Stuart monarchs, eight Renaissance scholars (among them Lisa Hopkins, Constance Jordan, and Leah Marcus) demonstrate how monarchs used verse to reflect on their monarchic status and to assert royal policy. As almost all of the poetry of these regal authors is inaccessible, the volume includes a selection of their verse in modernized and newly edited texts, offering an ideal study volume for specialists and the classroom. The contributors examine the nexus of poetry and power from an unconventional New Historicist perspective: from that of the person in power who writes poetry rather than that of the suitor of power. Their approaches to the subject are interdisciplinary, combing literary studies, women's studies, history, the history of sexuality, and manuscript studies.
2002 / 352 pages / 86698-276-0 / MR234 / $40, £36

Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn Ode: 1450-1700
Stella Revard (Southern Illinois University, Emerita)
This book examines Pindar and his influence in a broad way by evaluating the impact of his poetry in religious, cultural, and literary contexts. Revard studies the literature that resulted from Pindaric imitation and probes the reason for the great popularity of Pindar and his odes on the continent and in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study will be of interest to classicists, scholars in comparative literature, and students of Italian, French, and English literature.
2001 / 384 pages / 86698-263-9 / MR221 / $40, £36

The Shippe of Safegarde (1569) by Barnabe Googe
edited by William Sheidley and Simon McKeown
Existing in only three copies, the 1569 publication of Googe's The Shippe is his only work (apart from his translations) that has never been reprinted or edited in a readable modern text. Freed from its illegible black-letter and set with numbered stanzas, explanatory notes, and a scholarly introduction, it will serve as a companion to Judith Kennedy's critical edition of Googe's Eclogues, Epitaphs and Sonnets (Toronto, 1989). This volume contains the prose dedication, the "fourteener"-verse introductory address to the reader, two narrative versifications of miraculous events taken from a Latin redaction of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, and the long title poem (219 ottava rima stanzas). This small collection by Googe, a kinsman of Sir William Cecil and a literary leader in the 1560s and 1570s, represents a subtle embodiment of Reformation values and beliefs that he sought to convey to his Roman Catholic dedicatees and to readers in general, and offers a compendium of Renaissance iconography. Students of Spenser will find it of particular interest.
2001 / 106 pages / 0-86698-271-X / MR229 / $22, £19

Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan's Aqua Vitæ: Non Vitis (British Library MS, Sloane 1741)
edited and translated by Donald R. Dickson (Texas A & M University)
As a record of the work of a female alchemist and as an advance in medicine away from Galenic humors treatments, this notebook will interest historians of science and medicine as well as women's studies specialists. Nearly fifty experiments translated here relate to medical recipes, chemical rather than herbal in nature. Never translated into English or published as a whole before, this diplomatic edition offers the original Latin text and a facing-page translation, a substantial seventy-page introduction, plus notes, glossary, and bibliography. In the early 1650s, the Vaughans were part of a research collegium formed with Thomas Henshaw, a future founder of the Royal Society. The notebook also portrays a truly companionate marriage, containing memorials and anecdotes of Rebecca which Thomas included following her early death, some of which describe communications from her from beyond the grave.
2001 / 328 pages / 0-86698-259-0 / MR217 / $35, £29

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Anna Trapnel, The Cry of a Stone (1654)
edited by Hilary Hinds (Lancaster University)
At a moment when Anna Trapnel's work is receiving an increasing amount of critical attention, this new scholarly edition of her The Cry of a Stone (1654) offers readers a fully annotated version of her prophetic text, which mixes autobiography with religio-political commentary, biblical exegesis, and predictions about the future. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction to the author and the radical sectarian context of her writing, together with an assessment of the critical context in which the writings of such seventeenth-century women have been received in recent years. Trapnel's Cry promises to be an important text for a broad range of readers, especially those interested in women's studies.
2000 / 176 pages / 0-86698-262-0 / MR220 / $28, £24

John Bracegirdle's Psychopharmacon: A Translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae
(MS BL Additional 11401)
edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Jason Edward Streed

". . . an intriguing translation, a text which sheds light not only on the tradition of vernacular translations of Boethius, but also on the development of sixteenth-century English verse forms." -- Review of English Studies

1999 / 184 pages / 86698-242-6 / MR200 / $26, £23

Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts
edited by Sigrid King

"The sweeping range of materials covered in this collection makes Pilgrimage for Love a valuable reference for scholars and advanced students interested in early modern literary and gender studies."
-- Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography

1999 / 304 pages / 86698-255-8 / MR213 / $30, £26

Subordination and Authorship in Early Modern England: The Case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and Her "Loose Papers''
edited by Betty S. Travitsky

2000 Josephine Roberts Award for Best Scholarly Edition
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

1999 / 304 pages / 86698-250-7 / MR208 / $30, £26

Thomas Phaer and The Boke of Chyldren (1544)
edited by Rick Bowers

". . . an excellent critical edition of this most important medical treatise. . . [it] provides considerable evidence against those who wish to argue that early modern childhood was some sort of neglectful era for children." -- Sixteenth Century Journal

1999 / 112 pages / 86698-243-4 / MR201 / $22, £19

Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion:
A Critical Edition
edited by Kenneth Larsen

"In addition to its illuminating introduction, this excellent critical edition includes an edited text, critical commentary, textual notes, and an appendix of scripture readings and lessons prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer for 1594 with corresponding sonnets. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."
-- Choice

"Larsen's edition should become the standard one for some years to come and will have to be consulted by all scholars of the poems." -- Andrew Hadfield, The Yearbook of English Studies

"The strength of the edition is that it specifies and illumines what is for most modern readers the vast, vague, and shadowy province of scriptural knowledge. …a great deal of learning enriches the notes." -- Sixteenth Century Journal

1997 / 304 pages / 86698-186-1 / MR146 / $25, £22

English Renaissance Prose: History, Language and Politics
edited by Neil Rhodes

"... the essays consider all the major prose writers of the English Renaissance ... provides an insightful introduction on the 'revival' of interest in these writers during the Romantic period ... the reader will learn much from this volume." -- Choice

"an excellent collection" -- Studies in English Literature (SEL)

1997 / 320 pages / 86698-205-1 / MR164 / $24, £21

Lord Herbert of Chirbury: Pagan Religion
translated by John Butler
This first English translation since 1705, the book contains notes on Herbert's sources, informed discussion of his speculations, and a complete bibliography of one of the most radical religious writers of the seventeenth century.
1996 / 384 pages / 86698-193-4 / MR152 / $30 £26 $15, £13

Shakespeare's English Histories: A Quest for Form and Genre
edited by John W. Velz
Resisting the New Historical reduction of representations of the past to politics and ideology, the volume recovers the dramaturgical aesthetics of these plays. Suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students.
1996; repr. 1997 / 304 pages / 86698-140-3 / MR133 /
$25, £22 $13, £17

Sir Thomas More in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Catalogue
compiled by Jackson Campbell Boswell; introduction by Anne Lake Prescott
1994 / 400 pages / 86698-094-6 / MR83 / $30, £26

The Bachelor's Banquet
edited by Faith Gildenhuys
First published anonymously in 1603, these 15 sprightly, amusing, and controversial tales about marriage are medieval in origin but modern in spirit, stylized but realistic, and full of middle-class Elizabethan life. The humorous accounts of the craftiness of wives to keep their husbands in a state of despairing subjection became an Elizabethan bestseller.
1993 / 140 pages / 86698-159-4 / MR109 / $20, £18

Robert Knightley, Alfrede or Right Reinthron'd: A Translation of William Drury's Aluredus sive Alfredus
edited by Albert H. Tricomi
This translation by Knightley (1659/60) of one of the rare seventeenth-century plays to depict a Catholic saint shows one way the English Catholic community sustained itself.
1993 / 176 pages / 86698-113-6 / MR99 / $30, £26 $8, £7

John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London and His Coronation (1662)
edited by Ronald Knowles
A Renaissance Triumphs and Magnificences edition.
1988 / 288 pages / 86698-026-1 / MR43 / $32, £28 $10, £9

A Choice Ternary of English Plays:
Gratiae Theatrales (1662)
edited by William M. Baillie
Three Renaissance plays of considerable social interest -- Thorny Abbey, The Marriage Broker, and Grim the Collier of Croydon.
1984 / 320 pages / 86698-054-7 / MR26 / $24, £21 $8, £7

Bishop Joseph Hall and Protestant Meditation in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of The Art of Divine Meditation (1606) and Occasional Meditation (1663)
edited by Frank Livingstone Huntley
1981 / 232 pages / 86698-000-8 / MR1 / $9, £8 $4, £4

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Milton’s Cambridge Latin: Performing in the Genres 1625-1632
By John K. Hale
Through Latin, Milton practiced all of the required Cambridge genres, and voluntarily undertook more of them, ranging from funeral condolence to student parodies. All, thanks to Latin, gave him an audience before whom to perform; indeed, most gave him literal, physical hearers. Accordingly, by viewing his student Latin scripts together, we gain a unique opportunity to observe the young Milton interacting with a milieu, its people and genres and norms. A distinctive view of his emergent personality becomes feasible.

The works are varied, ranging from the solemn to the eccentric, but much of their quality is lost in translation. The time is right, therefore, for a monograph on their Latinity. How did he exploit the given genres? Does he accept, reject, subvert or develop them? Or does he deal diversely with each one?
Context alone can give the necessary conditions of understanding, the pre-criticism which gives a solid basis for evaluation. The contexts must include those of Latin and Neo-Latin; some reconstruction of the Cambridge exercises, the what-it-was-like- to-be-there-doing-them; and an appropriate amount of historical recovery for each genre and his contribution to it. A less familiar contextualising is that of anthropology, very appropriate to these occasions of ritual theatre, rites of passage.

The bulk of the work comprises interconnected case-studies, exploring Milton's practice of the Cambridge Latin rites. Part One takes their story through the University rites which every student undertook: disputations, act verses and declamations. At the close of Part One it is asked how much, and in what ways, this training contributed to Milton's most influential Latin work, the very public Latin Defences of the 1650s. Part Two considers the more voluntary works, funerary or political. Part Three draws more upon anthropological models of inquiry to interpret Milton's largely misunderstood conduct of the role of celebrant at a student rite of initiation, a salting. The Conclusion suggests further perspectives from which to understand these neglected works better, showing how he equally stands aloof and becomes immersed in these doings of his Cambridge Latin "tribe."

The work closes with an editio princeps of the bilingual salting text, including a new and more racy English translation of its Latin portions. The whole MS, monograph with edition, comprises about 100,000 words.
2005 / 320 pages / ISBN-10: 0-86698-332-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-86698-332-7 / MR 289 / $32, £24

J. Milton, Latin Writings (selection)
edited by J. K. Hale

"Hale has done Milton and those interested in his work an important service. The volume is an invitation to learn about a significant and large portion of Milton's œuvre. ... ideal for class use." — Neo-Latin News

Co-published by MRTS and Van Gorcum & Comp.
1999 / 260 pages / 86698-233-7, 90-232-3374-3 / MR191 / $26, Dgl. 52.50

Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and
His World
edited by P. G. Stanwood
Key studies on prophecy, gender, politics, and other specific topics by Martz, Leonard, J. M. Evans, Wilding, Hale, Rajan, Radzinowicz, Revard, Mueller, etc. Belongs on every Miltonist's shelf.
1995; repr. 1997 / 368 pages / 86698-131-4 / MR126 / $24, £21 $12, £11

Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography,
1900-1992
Edward Jones

"Liberal cross-referencing of the detailed descriptive annotations and specific indexing...distinguish this as the bibliography of choice for advanced research on the sonnets." -- Choice

1994; repr. 1997 / 160 pages / 86698-127-6 / MR122 / $20, £18 $10, £9

Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions
edited by Mario A. Di Cesare

Irene Samuel Memorial Award, Milton Society of America

"The collection stands out well above most such books of conference papers."
-- Seventeenth-Century News

1991 / 616 pages / 86698-103-9 / MR90 / $40, £35 $20, £13

A Scripture Index to John Milton's De Doctrina Christiana
compiled by Michael Bauman
Identifies more than 9,000 biblical quotations and allusions. The Index is keyed to both Yale and Columbia editions.
1989 / 184 pages / 86698-076-8 / MR67 / $18, £16 $9, £8

A Fine Tuning: Studies of the Religious Poetry of Herbert and Milton
edited by Mary A. Maleski
1989 / 336 pages / illus. / 86698-048-2 / MR64 / $32, £28 $10, £9

Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700
compiled by John T. Shawcross
James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America

"[A]n immensely valuable contribution to Milton studies." -- Year's Work in English Studies

This book and the Addenda (MR30A) constitute the standard reference work for all Miltonists. Over 2,100 entries.
1984 / 464 pages / 86698-064-4 / MR30 / sold only as a set with volume 30A (below) / $36, £31 $12, £11 for both

Milton: A Bibliography for the Years, 1624-1700: Addenda and Corrigenda
compiled by John T. Shawcross
All pertinent items published since 1984.
1990 / 40 pages / paper / 86698-081-4 / MR30A / sold as a set with volume 30 (above) or separately / $7, £6 $2, £2 if purchased alone

The Folger Library Edition of the works of
Richard Hooker

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Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Volume VI,
Parts I and II
edited by W. Speed Hill et al.

". . . a permanent landmark in the study of Hooker." -- Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America

". . . a splendid accomplishment." -- Renaissance Quarterly

1993 / 1,296 pages / 2 vols. / 86698-152-7 / MR106 /
$75, £66 $50, £44

Index of Names and Works, Volume VII
edited by W. Speed Hill

"…marks the completion of another valuable scholarly enterprise." -- Studies in English Literature (SEL)

1998 / 86698-211-6 / MR170 / $35, £31

Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community
edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade

"[the collection] reflects the overall value of the new Folger edition for contemporary scholarship. At the very least the earlier polarities of Hooker scholarship can no longer be sustained." -- Anglican and Episcopal History

"an instructive collection … on the political theology of Richard Hooker." -- Religion and the Arts

1997 / 440 pages / 86698-206-X / MR165 / $32, £28 $24, £21

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