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ALET, M. "La Mélancolie dans la psycho-physiologie du début du XVIIe siècle." PFSCL 27.53 (2000), 447–417.

Review: C. Bernazzoli in SFr 133 (2001), 138. Successfully demonstrates, through analysis of treatises of the period, the interconnections between physiology and psychology as well as the different natures of melancholy and their links with the imagination.

APPELT, BEATE. "Les vapeurs": eine literarische Nosologie zwischen Klassik und Romantik. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2000.

Review: M. Groene in RF 113 (2001) 547–548: Appelt retraces the medical, historical and cultural evolution of the illness, which had many and diverse symptoms and which "permettait de désigner toute sorte de mal-être" (547). Considers the health of Louis XIV and the malady's description in correspondence and many forms of literature, notably the theatre. Abundant notes and two helpful indices.

ARMOGATHE, JEAN-ROBERT. "Un seul poids, une seule mesure. Le concept de mesure universelle." DSS 213 (2001), 631–640.

A clear, succinct discussion of the definition of mesure universelle, including the dual meaning of "universal" in this context; a history of the origins of the movement to identify a standard measure and of the debates surrounding the grounds on which mesure universelle would be based.

ASBACH, OLAF, KLAUS MALETTKE, & SVEN EXTERNBRINK, eds. Altes Reich, Frankreich und Europa. Politische, philosophische und historische Aspekte des französischen Deutschlandbildes im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 273 (2001), 777: Welcome proceedings of the 1999 Marburg Colloque treats French perceptions of Germany in the 17th and 18th c. Sources include diplomatic works, literature, travel accounts, among others. Important new outcomes testify to well-functioning German-French cooperative scholarship.

AUCANTE, VINCENT. "La démesure apprivoisée des passions." DSS 213 (2001), 613–630.

Juxtaposing Descartes's Traité des passions de l'âme and numerous other contemporary treatises, Aucante delineates the uniqueness of the Cartesian theory of tempering the passions.

AZOUVI, FRANÇOIS. Descartes et la France, Histoire d'une passion nationale. Paris: Fayard, 2002.

Review: F. de Buzon in QL 830 (du 1er au 15 mai 2002), 8–9: L'ouvrage commence à la mort de Descartes (1650) et termine avec la première moitié du XXe siècle. "L'analyse des nuances individuelles menée par François Azouvi est telle que l'on échappe à l'imagerie qui voudrait que le cartésien soit toujours de gauche (contra Maurras) et l'anticartésien de droite (contra Nizan), même si une bonne partie de la droite et de l'extrême-droite a joué Pascal contre Descartes. Cette histoire si riche et documentée s'interrompt précisément au moment où la technicité des études cartésiennes fait désormais apparaître à l'évidence la très grande complexité du philosophe et son irréductibilité à un système simpliste, même si les échos des anciennes querelles résonnent toujours."

Review: B. Wilson in TLS 5170 (May 3 2002), 8–9: Treats question of how Descartes became archetypal of the French nation. Argues that even before Voltaire's critique of Descartes made the philosopher a cause, "Descartes had been a prism through which the great conflicts of French thought were played out." Descartes is constantly distorted to fit contemporary prejudices, and accordingly may be a "philosopher of order" who teaches the "principles of universal hierarchy" or an anti-fascist. Book closes with 1946 and shows how the end of the war becomes "a victory for Descartes as well as France."

BAILEY, GAUVIN ALEXANDRE. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999.

Review: C. Farago in RenQ 55 (2002), 319–321: Judges Bailey's work "a gold mine" which "provides a significant basis for further historical investigations of cultural domination. . ., acculturation and co-existence" (321). Focusing on images that the Jesuits used in educating Catholics, the volume "offers the first overview of these activities outside Europe" (320). Of particular interest is the role of printed books and illustrations, for example, that of Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. Formal descriptions of objects which are "artistically hybrid" (321) join with sensitive interpretations, for example the 17th c. statues of the Guarani in the Paraguay rainforest. These statues, which adorn cathedral-sized churches, were "highly symbolic of personal identity and kinship" (Bailey 178).

BENEDICT, BARBARA M. Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Review: P. Harrison in Isis 93.1 (2002), 120–121: "Of particular significance is the way in which the book demonstrates how curiosity and its representations served to demarcate the boundaries of legitimate topics of knowledge and modes of enquiry." Reviewer finds the book lacks some exposition of the early modern "taxonomy of the affections."

BENNETT, JONATHAN. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. Vol. 1 of Learning from Six Philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon, 2001. 2 vols.

Review: M. Ayers in TLS 5176 (Jun 14 2002), 6–7: Ayers sees triple project in this book: to show that there is much to learn from early modern philosophy, to show that one doesn't have to explore the intellectual context of a work to find what is of intellectual value in it, and to advance a particular view of what constitutes "good philosophy." Reviewer notes "judicious readings of texts," but suggests that Bennett is determined to find his own ideas in the philosophers he studies. "Within every great philosopher, a perceptive analytic philosopher is struggling to get out. Bennett is there to help."

BEZZOLA LAMBERT, LADINA. "Envisioning a Plurality of Worlds: Metaphors as Systems of Thought." PFSCL XXIX, 57 (2002): 361–386.

Essay focuses on "the parasitic use that seventeenth-century supporters of the theory of the plurality of worlds make of certain recurrent metaphors," including "moments of breakdown where the metaphoric structures become confusing and images start to blur. Such moments reveal a potential in metaphor that is truly creative and goes beyond mere bricolage." With particular concentration on Huygens, Fontenelle, John Wilkins, and Cyrano, and the metaphor of theatre applied to nature.

BIET, CHRISTIAN & VINCENT JULIEN, éds. L'Indicible et la vacuité au XVIIe siècle. XVIIe siècle no. 207 (avril–juin 2000).

Review: B. Papàsogli in SFr 133 (2001), 148–149: The result of a seminar of the ENS of Saint-Cloud (1996–1997), the volume focuses on a fundamental paradox of 17th c. culture as it investigates the "je ne sais quoi" of sentiment and taste, the secret of esoteric knowledge and the omissions of rhetorical art (148). Particular studies on works such as Lafayette's and Villedieu's (Grande) complement topical analyses such as Declercq's on the ineffable in classical esthetics. Science, theology and architecture come into play as well in this wide-ranging volume.

BIRELEY, ROBERT. The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450–1700. A Reassessment of the Counter-Reformation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic U of America P., 1999.

Review: P.T. Lang in HZ 272 (2001), 185–186: Even-handed and remarkable study; 17th c. scholars will appreciate sections on devotion to Mary and on the development of Jansenism in France.

BLAMONT, JACQUES. "La mesure du temps et de l'espace au XVIIe siècle." DSS 213 (2001), 579–611.

Synthesizing 17th-c. traités and latter-day scholarship, Blamont presents a detailed historical survey of the technological innovations developped to measure time and space.

BLUM, PASCALE & ANNE MANTERO, eds. Poésie et bible de la Renaissance à l'âge classique, 1550–1680. Actes du Colloque de Besançon (25–26 mars 1997). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: J. Hennequin in RF 113 (2001), 398–399: These Actes of the 1997 Colloque de Besançon complement the works of B. Roussel and B. Bedouelle, and J.-R Armogathe, respectively, on the Bible and the Reformation era, and the 17th c. Covering some 130 years, the volume includes analyses on theoretical and esthetic problems, biblical mises en scène, constraints and liberties, polemics and finally, forms of lyricism, including music settings. Reviewer notes the remarkable unity of the volume as well as the excellence of its critical apparatus: indices of biblical references, authors, critics and works cited, and a bibliography.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 75,6 (2002), 1274–75: Fourteen essays treating religious poetry and its relations to the two testaments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. Collectively, the articles identify a fundamental paradox in the works examined: "l'inspiration poétique ne peut être que divine, mais réduire la matière biblique à une matière poétique risque de produire un effet théâtral et même donner lieu à une ingéniosité de mauvais goût." Biblical figures and early modern poets considered include Judith and Esther, Du Bartas, Isaac Habert, Laurent Drelincourt, Lancelot de Carle, Anne de Marquets, Tristan l'Hermite, and l'Abbé Testu.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 116 (2000), 685: This collection of 14 essays, the result of the 1997 Colloque de Besançon, is organized around four themes: "une nouvelle poétique"; "mises en scène bibliques", "libertés, contraintes, polémique"; "formes du lyrisme". Includes treatment of well-known and lesser known authors of the time, including La Ceppède, Tristan, César de Nostredame and Madame Guyon, among others.

BLUM, PAUL-RICHARD. "La métaphysique comme théologie naturelle : Barolomeo Mastri." EP 1 (2002), 31–49.

Discusses the object of metaphysics as defined by Bartholomaeus Mastrius and shows how his metaphysics leads to a strictly formal ontology, which he differentiates from and contrasts with Thomistic tradition.

BORDES, HELENE & ELFRIEDA DUBOIS. "Regards croisés sur l'édition par soeur Patricia Burns, archiviste de la Visitation, de la Correspondance de sainte Jeanne Chantal" XVIIe siècle no. 208 (juillet–sept. 2000), 519–527.

Review: S. Poli in SFr 134 (2001), 387–388: Complementary appreciations of Burns's edition. DuBois focuses her analyses on the themes and the life of the founder, her private sadnesses, etc. while Bordes focuses on the gigantic work of the curator, the quantity of inédits, the accuracy of the notes and faithfulness of the edition.

BOULNOIS, OLIVER. "Pour une histoire philosophique de la scolastique du XVIIe siècle." EP 1 (2002), 1–2.

Introduction to an entire volume on Scotism in France, in which the author declares "Il s'agit de produire ici l'histoire de certaines propositions de Scot, circulant anonymement, souterrainement, et pourtant massivement, dans la philosophie du XVIIe."

BOULNOIS, OLIVER. "Le refoulement de la liberté d'indifférence et les polémiques anti-scotistes de la métaphysique moderne." EP 2 (2002), 199–237.

Traces the changes and evolution of the theory of the liberty of indifference, which was scotist in origin, and then transformed first during the debates surrounding Luis de Molina and again in Guillaume Gibieuf's works; author suggests these issues are resolved in some ways by Descartes.

BOUWSMA, WILLIAM J. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550–1640. Yale: Yale University Press, 2000.

Review: D. R. Kelley in Isis 92.4 (2001), 777–778: Gives "a nuanced, even ambivalent, portrait of the mentality of a world being delivered into a painful modernity informed by liberties at least as negative as positive. . . It is a marvelous portrait, deserving to be set beside those of the earlier masters Burckhardt and Huizenga."

Review: R. G. Witt in RenQ 55 (2002), 302–303: Finds this volume "a rewarding and challenging book by a master scholars" (303). Includes sections on human nature and its cultural manifestations (important emphasis is made on Augustinian spirituality and scientific discoveries), the anxiety of Renaissance thinkers and artists (reviewer singles out for praise Bouwsma's "superlative chapter" on theatre), and on the culture of order where "reason was sovereign and the passions and imagination fell under suspicion" (302). Order and freedom are the "two dynamic forces" which produce the later waning of the Renaissance (303).

BRIAN, ISABELLE. Messieurs de Sainte-Geneviève: religieux et curés, de la Contre-Réforme à la Révolution. Paris: Cerf, 2001.

Review: BCLF 633 (2002), 1001: ". . .I. Biran a cherché à explorer l'idéal proposé par ces religieux, le regard qu'ils portent sur eux-mêmes et l'écho que cette utopie rencontre dans la société qui les entoure. Elle a donc privilégié les sources normatives et narratives, toutes conservées dans les archives de la bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève pour ce qui concerne le XVIIe siècle."

BURGIO, S. Teologia Barocca. Il probabilismo in Sicilia nell'epoca di Filippo IV. Catania: Società di Storia Patria per la Sicilia Orientale, 1998.

Review: B. Clarot in ECl 69 (2001), 433–434: Cet ouvrage étudie l'importance du probabilisme pour "trouver une juste voie dans la vie pratique" et son influence nocif sur le pouvoir monarchique en Europe entre 1600 et 1650, avant sa déchéance suite aux condemnations de Bossuet et certains Romains. Après avoir esquissé la situation en Europe en général, l'auteur se concentre surtout sur le probabilisme sicilien.

CASTONGUAY-BELANGER, JOËL. "L'auréole de l'homme de science dans les éloges académiques de Fontenelle." PFSCL XXIX, 57 (2002): 347–359.

Posits that "ce qu[e Fontenelle] souhaite avant tout démontrer, c'est que la connaissance scientifique est une connaissance utile, et que derrière la réflexion pure et abstraite point toujours une retombée technologique bien concrète." Fontenelle eventually writes a kind of laicized hagiography of the scientist meant to reduce suspicion of this oft-considered 'heretical' group.

CAVE, TERENCE. Pré-histoires: textes au seuil de la modernité. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: E. Molina in MLR 96.4 (2001), 1064–65: Cave "examines cruxes of belief or superstition, where the human and the divine intersect, in authors ranging from Bodin, Verville, Cardan, Wier and Le Loyer to Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal and Descartes.

DES CHENE, DENNIS. Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Review: C. Lüthy in PhQ 52 (October 2002), 632–634: Des Chene argues that "we give credit to Descartes for the wrong innovations," and that the biological innovation of Descartes was the idea that "the body is only a machine, and hence, the abolition of the lower two souls." Reviewer concludes that "Des Chene analyses these problems in a clear and elegant manner."

Review: M. J. Osler in Isis 93.1 (2002), 116–117: The last volume in a trilogy of the author's study of Descartes, especially in relation to late scholastic (particularly Jesuit) thought. Here, author specifically considers Descartes' physiological ideas, as presented in Traité de l'homme.

DETLEFSEN, KAREN ELIZABETH. "Generation and the Individual in Descartes, Malebranche and Leibniz." DAI 62/04 (2001), 1438.

Argues that "the emergence of the preformation doctrine of generation" was due to the need "to account for the individuation, unity and enduring identity of material bodies."

DOYLE, WILLIAM, ed. Old Regime France, 1648–1788. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.

Review: D.J. Heimmermann in CHOICE 39, 9 (2002), 1653: Eight essays which suggest that between 1648 and 1788, France witnessed profound changes: "the population rose to unprecedented levels, the economy expanded vigorously in some sectors, and an independent public opinion emerged that challenged absolutism." Since the monarchy was unable to break from the system of social hierarchy and its own imperial ambitions, and the parlements were allowed to obstruct, the result was a paralysis that led to the 1789 revolution.

FORLIVESI, MARCO. "La distinction entre concept formel et concept objectif: Suárez, Pasqualigo, Mastri." EP 1 (2002), 3–30.

Studies the distinction between "conceptus formalis" and "conceptus obiectivus" and demonstrates how the shift from the former to the latter in the early modern period functions as the point of transition between scholastic thought and modern philosophy; this leads to new perspectives on Cartesian arguments for the existence of God.

FREYBURGER, G. & L. PERNOT, eds. Du héros païen au saint chrétien. Actes du colloque organisé par le Centre d'Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l'Antiquité. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustinennes, 1997.

Review: P. Normand in ECl 69 (2001), 452: "Cet ouvrage constitue les actes d'un colloque portant sur la transition du paganisme au christianisme, et ce, d'après le point de vue particulier de l'évolution, de la compénétration et de la confrontation des modèles de référence propres à ces deux cultures: la figure du héros et celle du saint." Les dix-septiémistes s'intéresseront surtout à la quatrième partie et le travail de François-Xavier Cuche sur "la canonisation du néo-stoïcien et la démolition chrétienne du héros dans le XVIIe siècle français."

GIOCANTI, SYLVIA. Penser l'irrésolution: Montaigne, Pascal, La Mothe Le Vayer: trois itinéraires sceptiques. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: BCLF 634 (2002), 15–16: L'ouvrage de Giocanti "permet de circonscrire le scepticisme moderne" et "de confronter trois auteurs très différents et pourtant souvent intellectuellement proches."

GONTIER, THIERRY. De l'homme à l'animal. Paradoxes sur la nature des animaux. Montaigne et Descartes. Paris: Vrin, 1998.

Review: E. Faye in Revue de métaphysique et de morale 2 (juin 2002), 241–243: "T. Gontier nous livre une analyse dense et souvent minutieuse de certains moments décisifs dans l'histoire des conceptions de la différence spécifique entre l'animal et l'homme, d'Aristote à Descartes : une histoire qui, souligne-t-il, met en jeu la compréhension de l'essence de l'homme."

GUIDERDONI-BRUSLE, AGNES. "Images et emblèmes dans la spiritualité de saint François de Sales." DSS 214 (2002), 35–54.

Author details the integration of emblems and images into de Sales' discursive style and his "active spirituality." Eschewing ornamental and esthetic uses of the emblem, de Sales claims its intimate role in the subject's relationship with God.

HANAFI, ZAKIYA. The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2000.

Review: N. H. Clulee in SCN 59.3 (2001), 264–267: Rather than a comprehensive history of monstrosity, this book examines "a range of discussions bearing on monstrosity placed within a rich and concrete sense of the cultural context in which these discussions took place. . .." Hanafi analyzes why the "sacred monster" could not withstand the scrutiny of the scientific gaze and then turns to "new residences" of the monstrous in mechanical devices and the human heart. Reviewer notes several limitations of the study: it draws primarily from Italian sources, and specialists in the field will find little that is new, although "the writings covered are placed in new and stimulating contexts."

HARRISON, PETER. "Original Sin and the Problem of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe." JHI 63.2 (2002), 239–259.

Harrison shows "how the biblical narrative of the Fall directly informed the epistemological projects of the seventeenth century, and prompted various rationalist and empiricist solutions" on the Continent and in England.

HAVELANGE, CARL. De l'oeil et du monde. Une histoire du regardau seuil de la modernité. Paris: Fayard, 1998.

Review: B. Roeck in HZ 272 (2001), 679–681: Convincing assessment of the two orders of seeing and the crucial role of scientific discoveries and development concentrates its analysis on the paradigm-changing period of the 16th and 17th centuries.

HEURTEL, PASCALE, éd. Oiseaux du monde: dessins naturalistes XVIIe-XIXe siècles. Arles: Actes Sud, 2001.

Review: BCLF 633 (2002), 1057: "Grâce à cette édition qui reproduit avec le plus grand soin 350 oeuvres sélectionnées et commentées par Pascale Heurtel, nous sommes conviés à une promenade ornithologique éblouissante, en particulier parmi les oiseaux des tropiques. . . et en Chine. . ."

HOWELL, ROBERT JOHNSON, JR. "Self-knowledge and self-reference." DAI 63/04 (2002), 1380.

A reading of Descartes and Hume that aims to be "a defense and reconciliation of the two apparently conflicting theses that the self is peculiarly elusive and that our basic, cogito-judgements are certain."

JUDOWITZ, DALIA. The Culture of the Body: Geneologies of Modernity. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001.

Review: M. Schwartz in SoAR 67 (2002), 189–193. A "genuinely new and persuasive philosophical history of the body," which draws on the last writings of Merleau-Ponty to consider our "mixed mental and bodily constitution" (189–190) Judowitz sees 17th century as juncture where the modern body emerges with Descartes' strict separation of mind and body. Her project is one "of elucidation and emancipation—the elucidation of the recent emergence in modernity of the body as pure materiality, and the emancipation of vital forces through a retrieval of pre-modern and counter-modern discourses about the body" (191).

JULLIEN, VINCENT. "De la fortuna du cartésianisme napolitain." Les Méditerranées du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Ed. G. Dotoli. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002: 337–347.

Jullien demonstrates how "Descartes et son œuvre vont en effet constituer une bannière susceptible d'unifier la philosophie et la science dite 'moderne' puis, presque aussitôt, le cartésianisme sera vivement critiqué, voire mis en pièces par ses propres enfants." He concludes, "Descartes et son œuvre, d'une part servent bien l'œcuménisme moderniste du XVIIe siècle et de l'autre ouvrent un domaine de controverses profondes et nombreuses."

KNEBEL, SVEN K. "Entre logique mentaliste et métaphysique conceptualiste: la distinctio rationis ratiocinantis." EP 2 (2002), 145–168.

Uses the work of Bartolomaeus Mastrius (1602–1673) as "un guide privilégié" in helping the modern reader/philosopher to understand in metaphysical, rather than logical, terms the difference 16th–18th century Scotists made between distinctio rationis ratiocinatae and ratiocinantis.

KREMER, E.J. & MOREAU, DENIS, eds. Œuvres philosophiques d'Arnauld. Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press, 2002, 6 vols.

Arnauld's key philosophical writings and correspondence with Malebranche, Leibniz and others. <info@thoemmes.com>.

LE BRUN, JACQUES. Le pur amour de Platon à Lacan. Paris: La librairie du XXIe siècle, Seuil éd., 2002.

Review: M. Plon in QL 838 (du 16 au 30 septembre 2002): "Si la lecture de cette véritable somme savante n'est pas toujours d'un accès facile à qui n'est pas un familier de son objet, elle n'en demeure pas moins captivante de bout en bout tant le style alerte de son auteur parvient à transcender le parcours d'une matière pour le moins austère en une aventure intellectuelle toujours surprenante. C'est à l'extrême fin du XVIIe siècle, en 1699 très exactement, que le pape Innocent XII fut conduit... à condamner vingt trois propositions figurant dans l'ouvrage intitulé Explication des maximes des saints paru en 1697, signé de François Fénelon... (...) Fénelon fait ainsi l'objet d'une condamnation qui ne lui vaudra toutefois pas la sévère incarcération que connut sa partenaire en matière de spiritualité du pur amour, Madame Guyon— Jacques Le Brun consacre de superbes pages à cette femme, à sa rencontre avec Fénelon, à leur correspondance..."

LEHMANN, HARTMUT & ANNE-CHARLOTT TREPP, eds. Im Zeichen der Krise. Religiosität im Europa des 17. Jahrhunderts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.

Review: H. Schilling in HZ 273 (2001), 195–199: Excellent collection of essays makes fine contribution to the assessment of crisis in Early Modern research. Focusing on the long 17th c., the 27 essays are grouped in sections which treat themes such as (I) Apocalyptics and Prophecy, (II) Epidemics, Famine, Sickness and Death, (III) The Jewish Experience, (IV) Presence of Foreigners, the Secular and the Supernatural, (V) Old and New Science and Interpretations of the World, and (VI) Transformations of the Sacred. The last section includes treatment of Paris politics between 1580 and 1630.

LENNON, THOMAS M. "Did Bayle Read Saint-Evremond?" JHI 63.2 (2002), 225–237.

Author contends that Bayle's reading was "superficial and dependent on a secondary source," a claim that calls into question received notions about Bayle's religious skepticism.

LE PAS DE SÉCHEVAL, ANNE. "Peinture et spiritualité au XVIIe siècle: l'église parisienne des Carmélites de l'Incaration, entre bérullisme et tradition carmélitaine." XVIIe siècle no. 208 (juillet–sept. 2000), 387–406.

Review: S. Poli in SFr 134 (2001), 387: Author reconstructs the church of the convent with its rich collection of frescos and paintings through a close examination of these works. Illustrates, with special attention to Bérulle, the religious controversies of the time and furnishes the reader an articulated frame of a setting and a period (387).

LOLORDO, ANTONIA. "Flesh vs. Mind: A Study of the Debate between Descartes and Gassendi." DAI 62/11 (2002), 3815.

Argues "that Gassendi's objections [to Descartes's Meditations] derive from a systematic psychology and cannot be well understood without a grasp of this psychology."

LOOK, BRANDON. Leibniz and the "Vinculum Substantiale," Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999.

Review: P. Lodge in Isis 92.2 (2001), 392–393. "Should become standard reading for scholars working on Leibniz's account of the material world." Chapter 3 is concerned with Antoine Arnauld's and René-Joseph Tournemine's objections to Leibniz's accounts of unity.

LUEBKE, DAVID M., ed. The Counter-Reformation. The Essential Readings. Oxford/Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999.

Review: P.T. Lang in HZ 272 (2001), 760–761: This Reader provides students with 9 texts in 2 sections: "Definitions" and "Outcomes". Subjects range from John O'Malley's "Was Ignatius of Loyola a Church Reformer?" (1991) to Peter Burke's "How to Become a Counter-Reformation Saint" (1984). Reviewer does not find the selections representative of scholarship on the subject, especially regretting the omission of non-English language research.

MARQUARDT, SARAH HELEN. "The Freedom, Equality and Dignity of Human Reason: A Reconsideration of Cartesian Dualism." DAI 62/11 (2002), 3815.

"This dissertation offers a new perspective on Descartes' theory of mind-body dualism by situating it at the intersection or two trajectories of thought in the 17th century: Cartesianism and feminism." Considers Marie de Gournay and Poulain de la Barre in this context.

MOREAU, A. & J.-C. TURPIN. La magie. Tome I, Du monde babylonien au monde hellénistique, Tome II, La magie dans l'antiquité grecque tardive, Les mythes. Tome III, Du monde latin au monde contemporain. Tome IV, Bibliographie générale. Montpellier: Université de Montpellier III, 2000.

Review: B. Clarot in ECl 69 (2001), 334–335: The series is a collection of works by 44 scholars from 9 countries, completed in colloquium on the subject of research on magic in the last 10 years. While the first 2 volumes cover the Ancient world, scholars of later periods may still wish to consult Moreau's Petit guide à l'usage des apprentis sorciers which opens the series. Volume III begins with the Latin world and continues with a survey of the subsequent centuries up until the present, while Volume IV contains a 3200-entry bibliography. According to Clarot, an interesting series whose only deficiency is not to develop further current practices of magic, sorcery, satanism, etc. as seen in today's media.

NADLER, STEVEN, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Review: S. Peppers in PhQ 52 (April 2002), 258–261: "A welcome revival of Malebranche studies outside France." Content can be divided into three broad groupings: metaphysics/epistemology; moral theory, theodicy and philosophy of religion; and the philosophical and historical context for Malebranche's thought.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS. "Enlightened (Il)Literates: Problems of Gender and Authority in Early Modern Devotional Writing." EMF 7 (2001), 115–140.

"The familiar problem here is gender; my intent is to show how the rich mine of early modern devotional writing disables many of the scripts that practitioners of cultural studies have used to understand gender relations within the Church." Argues that many nuns came to articulate the modern values of interiority and autobiography in part due to male writers whose intentions were ambiguous.

PEABODY, SUE. " 'A Dangerous Zeal:' Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635–1800." FHS 25 (2002), 53–90.

Describes the reasons for the relative success of Catholic missionaries in converting slaves in the French Antilles during the seventeenth century, and the various reasons why this success declined in the eighteenth century.

PLANHOL, XAVIER DE. L'Islam et la mer. La mosquée et le matelot, VIIe -XXe siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2000.

Review: S. Wild in HZ 272 (2001), 141–143: Highly recommended for its abundance of rich materials, this lengthy (658–page) and wide-ranging study by the renowned French social geographer offers new perspectives, distinguishing for 17th c. scholarship between the rais or individualistic entrepreneur and the kaptan or captain of a vessel of a fleet.

PREVOT, JACQUES, ed. Libertins du XVIIe siècle, I. Avec la collaboration de Thierry Bedouelle et d'Etienne Wolff. Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade," 1998.

Review: R. Zuber in DSS 213 (2001), 721–722: According to the reviewer, this anthology of theoretical and fictional texts by a range of 17th-c. libertins offers an erudite, in-depth, and richly documented and annotated survey of libertinage. Included are Le Page disgrâcié, Les Aventures de Monsieur Dassouci, L'Autre Monde, L'Ecole des filles, and texts by Théophile de Viau and Naudé. Noteworthy as well, adds the reviewer, is the excellent translation of Gassendi's Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma (1649) presented as Traité de la philosophie d'Epicure: IIIe partie, L'Ethique de la morale. The reviewer praises the anthologist's methodology which "consiste à toujours tenir compte de l'imaginaire dans une définition du libertinage, et à fournir au lecteur l'aide voulue pour le détacher du je biographique des auteurs sans rien perdre de la force émotive des textes."

ROIG, MARIE, ed. La Transmission du savoir dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: M. Bideaux in BHR 64.1 (2002), 131–33: Troisième colloque du groupe de Nancy II explore la diversité du savoir et sa transmission. Voir les articles sur Bossuet (A. Beilharz) et La Bruyère (F. Wild).

SCHMUTZ, JACOB. "L'héritage des Subtils, Cartographie du scotisme de l'âge classique." EP 1 (2002), 51–81.

Examines the development of Scotism within Franciscan scholasticism as well as its external influence, for example on the Jesuit tradition and certain early modern philosophical systems. Includes an extensive selection of bibliographic materials to facilitate further research.

SCHMUTZ, JACOB. "Du péché de l'ange à la liberté d'indifférence. Les sources angélologiques de l'anthropologie moderne." EP 2 (2002), 169–198.

Demonstrates how Scotistic angelology affected early-modern ideas on "la liberté d'indifférence humaine," particularly in Jesuit and Franciscan scholasticism, with special attention to the connections between logic and ethics, acts of the will and temporal instants, causality and the liberty of indifference.

SCHOULS, PETER A. Descartes and the Possibility of Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Review: L. Nolan in PhQ 52 (July 2002), 394–397: Reviewer commends Schouls' insight into "Descartes' theory of deduction, the relation between his early and late work on method and the role of freedom in Cartesian science," although he finds that Schouls' claims about the intellectual imagination (a faculty of the mind that operates without images) in Descartes are unable to withstand scrutiny.

SECADA, JORGE. Cartesian Metaphysics: the Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Review: H. van Ruler in PhQ 52 (October 2002), 635–637: Reviewer objects to Secada's characterization of Descartes as an "essentialist," especially considering that Descartes himself never used such labels. "Too much conceptual analysis in this book and too little historical context."

SILVERMAN, LISA. Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2001.

Review: D.C. Baxter in CHOICE 39, 4 (2001), 752–53: Through analyses of court records, religious teaching, juridical writings, records of religious confraternities, medical treatises, and Enlightenment arguments, the author examines "the transition from the accepted judicial use of torture to its condemnation and ultimate abolition in eighteenth-century France." Chronicles a shift in attitudes from a Christian belief that pain could extract truth to the belief that torture was a violation of human liberty.

STEPHENSON, BRUCE, MARION BOLT & ANNA FELICITY FRIEDMAN. The Universe Unveiled. Instruments and Images through History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Review: T. Hankins in TLS 5154 (Jan 11 2002), 7: An important addition to the history of science that describes the instruments, maps and books at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago. The editors argue for the importance of examining chemical instruments which have survived, since illustrations and written descriptions are often unreliable.

TREXLER, RICHARD C. The Journey of the Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian Story. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1997.

Review: K. Schreiner in HZ 272 (2001), 115–119: Trexler's ambitious work treats "the political sociology of the magi in Christianity from their appearance in Matthew until the present" (Trexler 4). Sections on the 17th c. consider the relationship with conquest, colonization and evangelization of the New World. Broad concepts such as caritas as well as social signs and events such as the cakes and celebrations of la Fête des Rois are examined. Praiseworthy for its sources, new and unusual questions and answers as well as the impetus it will surely provide for future research.

VIEILLARD-BARON, JEAN-LOUIS. La philosophie française. Paris: Armand Colin, 2000.

Review: J.-M. Gabaude in RPFE 1142.1 (jan–mars 2002), 124–125: "Modèle du genre est ce manuel, avec ses choix, sa pertinence et sa présentation pédagogique—assortie, en outre, d'un glossaire, d'une bibliographie et d'une table des matières analytique. J.-L. Vieillard-Baron sait se montrer original, par exemple à propos de Descartes. Il épouse les qualités qu'il reconnaît au français comme langue philosophique dans laquelle prédominent clarté, économie des mots, simplicité, élégance. La première partie caractérise six grands événements philosophiques, tournants historiques qui ont changé le destin de la pensée. [...] La seconde partie de l'ouvrage éclaire le parcours de grands courants."

VON GREYERZ, KASPAR. Religion und Kultur. Europa 1500–1800. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 273 (2001), 181–182: Praiseworthy volume is an interesting, independent and stimulating contribution to Early Modern history. Treats church, state, science and the educated classes as well as everyday life and history.

WALSKI, GREGORY MARK. "Descartes's Doctrine of the Creation of the Eternal Truths." DAI 62/06 (2002), 2139.

Argues that Descartes's "desire for certainty in physics motivated him to advance the doctrine, and he was led to his novel conception of divine simplicity as a result of seeking support for his doctrine in the divine nature."

WIESNER-HANKS, MERRY E. Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World. Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. London: Routledge, 2000.

Review: R. Jütte in HZ 272 (2001), 186–188: Recommends a German translation of Wiesner-Hanks's wide-ranging study of the role of Christianity in Early Modern sexuality. Wiesner-Hanks's impressive knowledge is evident in her arguments and clearly organized presentation as well as in the bibliographies that follow each chapter. Succeeds in this ambitious undertaking which is not limited to Europe, but treats the entire zone of Christendom.

WILSON, FRED. The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Review: T. Nickles in Isis 92.4 (2001), 775–776. Wilson emphasizes the period's break with Aristotle, and his main targets are the historians and sociologists of scientists such as Kuhn, Cohen and Shapin who defend a thesis of continuity. Reviewer notes that Descartes is made to seem too old-fashioned and that the author fails to fully engage recent scholarship.

YARDENI, MYRIAN. Repenser l'histoire. Aspects de l'historiographie huguenote des guerres de religion à la révolution française. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: M. P. Holt in RenQ 55 (2002), 310–312: A reprinting "of ten articles previously published from 1964 to 1997" (312), this volume "forms an extended look at how the historiography of the Huguenots has changed among intellectual historians over the past thirty years" (312). These essays, not all of which have been easily accessible, are completed by some new notes and bibliographies. Useful collection by Yardeni, "one of the leading figures in shaping Huguenot historiography" (312).

Review: R. M. Kingdon in BHR 64.1 (2002), 231: Ten articles previously published by Yardeni between 1964 and 1997 with some updated bibliographical supplements.

Review: R. J. Knecht in MLR 97.2 (2002), 421–22: Collection of ten articles published over thirty years and updated for this volume. ". . .Yardeni examines the impact of the seventeenth-century vogue for gazettes, 'mercures' and similar publications on history, both contemporary and 'tout court.' She argues that its significance was both practical and theoretical."

Review: R. Whelan in FS 56.1 (2002), 90: In this study of Protestant historiography, Yardeni "links the insistence on sources and documents as the basis of historical truth to the Protestant preocccupation with the return to Scripture" and "sees their retrospective inscribing of toleration and progress into historical processes as embedded in a Protestant consciousness. Yardeni's analyses are persuasive up to a point but but they also reveal a wider symbiosis between history and prevailing world-views that dilutes the association with Calvinism."