New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Boccaccio and the Book
Production and Reading in Italy 1340–1520
by Rhiannon Daniels
As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the ‘age of print’, we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is
packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift
from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books
containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural,
and economic profile of Boccaccio’s readership and the scribes and printers who labored to reproduce three of his works.
200p, hardback, 9781906540494, $89.50, Maney Publishing, September 2009, Legenda Italian Perspectives 19.
Classical Mythology in the Netherlands
in the Age of Renaissance and Baroque
Proceedings of the International Conference Antwerp, 19–21 May 2005
edited by C Van de Velde
Mythology has played an important role in the age of Renaissance and Baroque. The classical myths
have provided themes and subjects for the arts in their different expressions. Mythological figures
and stories have often served as moralist examples and as allegorical points of reference. The pluridisciplinary
study of these phenomena throws light upon the intellectual climate of the period.
394p, paperback, 9789042920521, $95.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009,
Travaux de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme 14.
International Economy in the
“Age of the Discoveries,” 1470–1570
Antwerp and the English Merchants’ World
by Ian Blanchard
This monograph examines the fluctuations of the Anglo-
Netherlands financial and goods markets within the changing
parameters of a nascent European-based “world economy”
(1470–1570). It focuses on the major financial centers of the
time, Antwerp and London, and examines their interdependencies,
as well as their role as agents financing international
trade and the flow of commodity.
288p, 18 b/w illus, 7 plans, 2 tbls, paperback, 9783515093293, $72.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag,
May 2009, Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit 29.
Cultural Mediators
Artists and Writers at the Crossroads of Tradition, Innovation and Reception
in the Low Countries and Italy 1450–1650
edited by Annette de Vries
The essays collected in this volume offer a stimulating, interdisciplinary exploration of the range,
variety and impact of the artist or writer as a cultural mediator, while avoiding a deadlock between
notions of art and literature as subsidiary versus self-contained fields of creative expression.
234p, hardback, 9789042920439, $66.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 31.
renaissance studies
Essays on the
Knights and
Art and Architecture in Malta 1500–1798
by Mario Buhagiar
The essays in this collection represent a selection of studies on the
Knights of St John and the art history of early modern Malta published
between 1964 and 2007.
Contents: Frivolous and Vainglorious Grand Master de Paul; Hughes
de Loubens de Verdalle, Cardinal and Grand Master; The Miraculous
Image of the Madonna of Philermos and its Uniqueness to the Knight
Hospitallers of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta; The Treasure of Relics
and Reliquaries of the Knight Hospitallers in Malta; The Treasure
of the Knight Hospitallers in 1530: Reflections and Art Historical
Considerations; Church Art and Architecture in the Fifteenth and
Early Sixteenth Centuries - A Focus on Some of Malta’s Lesser Known
Artistic Heritage; The Baroque Art of the Maltese Islands; Two Signed
Paintings by Giulio Cassarino; The Beheading of St Catherine at
Zejtun, Malta - A Maltese-Sicilian Caravaggist Painting; Paintings
in Gozo - Patronage in a Small Island Community; Images of Death
in Early Modern Paintings in Malta; Malta’s Art Historical Contacts
with France 1530-1798; The Auberge d’Aragon - An Art Historical
Appreciation; The Ceiling of the Church of the Virgin of Victory,
Valletta - Its Significance to the History of Maltese Baroque Painting;
The Paintings of Francesco Vincenzo Zahra (1710-1773) – A Critical
Appreciation; The Church of St James in Merchants Street, Valletta:
An Art Historical Appreciation; Niccolò Nasoni between Malta and
Portugal; Antonio Pippi - A Forgotten Quadraturista; The Cathedral
City of Mdina: A Case Study of Baroque Triumphal Revivalism in
the Central Mediterranean Island Principality of the Knights of
The Hospital of St John; The Portuguese Socio-Artistic Imprint
on Eighteenth Century Malta: The Baroque Triumphalism of Don
Antonio Manoel de Vilhena and Don Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca.
360p, over 100 col illus, hardback, 9789993272465, $65.00,
Midsea Books, July 2009, Maltese Social Studies Series 16.
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