New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Librairie Droz
The Italian Emblem
A Collection of Essays
edited by Donato Mansueto
This volume explores the history, forms, and themes of the Italian emblem
tradition, with particular attention to sixteenth-century emblem books and
their open, multifaceted, metamorphic nature. To capture this nature, the
volume includes contributions from different disciplines, ranging from literature
to history of art and political philosophy. Italian and English text.
212p, 73 illus, paperback, 9780852618325, $60.00(s), Librairie Droz,
December 2008, Glasgow Emblem Studies 12.
Jean Calvin: Institution de la religion chrétienne (1541)
edited by Olivier Millet
The publication of Calvin’s own French translation of his Institution de la religion
chrétienne was a special event in the history of French language, literature
and ideas. The present edition amends the 1541 text according to later French
translations, as well as the original Latin text. The reader will find philological,
historical, theological, rhetorical and literary footnotes, which also suggest
the entire range of critical viewpoints on Calvin’s works. French text.
2 vols, 1814p, paperback, 9782600012409, $90.00(s), Librairie Droz,
December 2008, Textes Littéraires Français 598.
Prosopographie génovéfaine
Répertoire biographique des chanoines réguliers
de Saint Augustin de la Congrégation de France (1624–1789)
edited by Nicolas Petit
This biographical directory of the regular canons of the Order of Saint Augustine of the Congregation of France,
commonly referred to as génovéfains in reference to their abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, individually provides the
essential elements of the life of each of the 5352 members of the congregation from 1624 to 1789. A chronological
table and extensive index allow for the serial exploitation of the individual entries. French text.
600p, 5 illus, paperback, 9782900791974, $65.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008, Matériaux pour l’histoire
publiés par l’Ecole des Chartes 6.
Jacques de Savoie-Nemours
L’Apanage du Genèvois au cœur de la puissance
dynastique savoyarde au XVIe siècle
by Matthew A Vester
This volume traces the life of Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, Duke of the
Genevois (1531–1585), within the context of the House of Savoy and
Renaissance history in general. French text.
360p, 6 illus, paperback, 9782600012119, $70.00(s), Librairie Droz,
December 2008, Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 85.
renaissance studies
Études Rabelaisiennes
Tome XLVI
French text, one contribution in English.
Contents: La poétique du massacre de Rabelais à
Racine; Les marginalia du volume BnF RES-G-2108
(1) et (2); Remede contre fascherie? Critique de
l’apatheia dans le tiers livre de Pantagruel; A Decade
of Silence: Rabelais’s Return to Writing in a More
Dangerous World; Les rééditions de la Pantagrueline
Prognostication et le tissage énonciatif chez Rabelais.
144p, hardback, 9782600012065, $110.00(s),
Librairie Droz, December 2008.
Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples
and the Three Maries Debates
Introduction, Latin text,
English translation and annotation
by Sheila M Porter
The Three Maries pamphlets published in Paris by the
celebrated humanist scholar Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples
appeared between 1517 and 1519, and are virtually
his only venture into independent authorship. These
four short Latin texts investigated the traditions of
the Magdalen and the sisters of the Virgin, and the
calculation of the triduum, or three days and nights
between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. This
edition presents Lefèvre’s Latin texts together with
an English translation and an extensive introduction.
Latin and English text.
520p, hardback, 9782600012485, $152.00(s),
Librairie Droz, September 2009,
Travaux de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme 451.
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