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ABE, TAKAO. "What Determined the Content of Missionary Reports? The Jesuit Relations Compared with the Iberian Jesuit Accounts." FCS 3 (2003), 69–83.

Compares The Jesuit Relations, a 17th-century account of the Jesuit mission to the Huron, with reports of an earlier Jesuit mission to Japan. Shows that these writings reveal more about the public nature of Jesuit missions than the personalities of the accounts' authors.

ARIBAUD, CHRISTINE. Soiries en Sacristie: Fastes Liturgigues, XVII-XVIIIe siècles. Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy, 1998 / Somagy in Paris.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/aribaud.html. Book explores "the faithful's attempt to please the divine by dressing holy intercessors with it as majestically as possible." Includes the history of vestments, definitions, Vatican legislation around vestments. "Beautifully illustrated" (Ranum).

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Essai d'une taxonomie du savoir médical : 1665–1715." SCFS 27 (2005), 175–196.

Focuses on the Journal des Sçavans "pour tenter de suivre dans le plus grand détail possible les étapes de la constitution [du savoir médical] et l'élaboration de la pratique médicale et des disciplines y afférentes en France et en Europe. [. . .] Il ne s'agit pas de tracer ici une histoire de la médecine, mais plutôt chercher à comprendre comment se constitue le savoir dans ce domaine."

BACCAR BOURNAZ, ALIA. "Les avatars du Mahométan dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." TL 17 (2004): 307–316.

Includes both a helpful historical context and an analysis of several works which permits us to appreciate the phenomenon and its representation. Balances the analysis of this fear with an appreciation of a culture which is also "avide de savoir et de découverte" (307). Although not pretending to exhaustivity, Bournaz's treatment is rich, very well-documented and highly suggestive.

BALSAMO, JEAN, ed. Les Funérailles à la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle, Bar-le-Duc, 2–5 décembre 1999. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: M. J. Gill in Ren Q 57 (2004): 235–237: Highly interdisciplinary, this collection of 24 essays "constitutes an invaluable survey of current research in the culture and commemoration of death in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries [and is] organized into two parts, 'Rites and Princely Memorials' and 'Religious Polemics and Learned Discourses'" (235). Gill suggests topics for future investigation such as "the role of women as sponsors and as dedicated custodians of the afterlife" (237). Highly suggestive for future studies both artistic and literary.

BARDOUT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. "Malebranche et la situation métaphysique de la morale. Note sur le déclin de la prudence." DSS 226 (2005), 95–109.

The author sums up his discussion with three conclusions abbreviated here: "1/ Le projet moderne (plus spécialement cartésien) d'une fondation métaphysique de l'éthique rend compte, dès le XVIIe siècle, de la mise hors jeu de la prudence [...] 2/ L'oubli de la prudence ouvre néanmoins une crise des fondements de la morale [...] 3/ Une fondation purement objective des impératifs moraux s'avère donc doublement insuffisante, puisque la vision en Dieu des valeurs ne donne à voir que des règles générales, et que, de surcroît, une pure vision de l'entendement ne peut se muer en principe d'action pour la volonté."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. La Conversation intérieure. La Méditation en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, "Lumière classique," 2002.

Review: G. Banderier in RBPH 82.3 (2004), 793–94: 《 Christian Belin montre de quelle manière la méditation post-tridentine reprend et transforme cette tradition biblique, augustinienne et monastique, longtemps après que la théologie eut abandonné les monastères pour descendre dans les villes et les universités. 》

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 144 (2004): 601–602: Wide-ranging, traces meditation from Augustine with diverse perspectives important to the French 17th c. Papasogli appreciates Belin's sensitivity to the transformation of the genre in its many facets and repercussions. Includes examinations of La Ceppède, Hopil, Bérulle, Bossuet, Pascal, Descartes and Malebranche (602).

BIANCHI, LORENZO, ed. with preface byALBERTO POSTIGIOLA. L'idea di cosmopolitismo. Circolazione e metamorfosi. Napoli: Liguori, 2002.

Review: P. Sossa in S Fr 144 (2004): 607–608: These Actes are drawn from the 2000 Naples conference organized by 3 scholarly societies including the Université de Bourgogne. Although the focus of the studies in generally the 18th c., 17th c. scholars will appreciate the contribution by the volume's editor on Bayle: "République des lettres e cosmopolitismo in Pierre Bayle" (47–70).

BLAIR, ANN. "Forum: Scientific Readers: An Early Modernist's Perspective." Isis 95.3 (2004), 420–430.

Blair calls for further study of reading notes and advice books on how to read in order to better appreciate the individual and collective reading practices of the early modern period. She briefly mentions Descartes, Bodin, and Peiresc, and concludes that "attention to scientific reading promises to bring to light not only telling individual examples, but also the grounds for generalizations about an aspect of scientific practice that can add to our understanding of both how ideas were formed and how they were received in particular contexts" (430).

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. L'Optique du discours au XVIIe siècle. De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal). Saint-Nicolas, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005.

BOS, HENK J. M. Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.

Review: E. Knobloch in Isis 96.3 (2005), 431–432. Bos's two-part book first reviews the early modern tradition of geometrical problem solving before demonstrating how Descartes' "Geometry," guided by the two philosophical concerns of method and exactness, provided a solution to problems facing earlier mathematicians. "Presents an overwhelming richness of new historical insights, making a similar book on the 'fluid concept' of rigor in mathematics highly desirable."

BOUCHILLOUX, HELENE. La question de la liberté chez Descartes: libre arbitre, liberté et indifférence. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: J.-M. Gabaude in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 221–222: "Que la question de la liberté soit fondamentale et centrale dans la métaphysique de Descartes et que son traitement y soit cohérent dans sa progression, ce point de départ et cette conclusion établie nous paraissent justes... La difficulté est de définir et d'articuler malgré leur complexité les trois notions du sous-titre. Hélène Bouchilloux explique avec souci pédagogique, en suivi, les textes clés qu'elle intègre in extenso et chronologiquement."

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 606 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. The work is described as a "study of the relationship of Descartes' metaphysics to concepts of liberty" (606).

BUISSERET, DAVID. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Review: C.W.J. Withers in Isis 95.4 (2004), 693–694: Buisseret's "elegantly written and beautifully illustrated account" explores "cartographic consciousness" throughout early modern Europe. Withers praises Buisseret's ability to merge detail and grand narrative, and highly recommends the book to a wide audience.

CAVAILLE, JEAN-PIERRE. Dis/simulations. Jules-César Vanini, François de la Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Louis Machon et Torqualo Accetto. Religion, morale et politique aux XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002. Coll. 《 Lumière classique 》.

Review: I. Moreau in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 236–238: 《 La réflexion menée par Jean-Piere Cavaillé met en valeur l'originalité et l'audace de discours et de pratiques en rupture avec les lois et les règles imposées par la doxa. Si le propos n'est pas dénué d'intentions polémiques, la démarche adoptée a l'avantage de souligner un certain nombre de flottements sémantiques et conceptuels dans l'historiographie contemporaine, tout en préservant la richesse et la complexité des auteurs étudiés. On ne lui contestera ni l'envergure de la pensée, ni la clarté et la pertinence des analyses. 》

CHARLES, SEBASTIEN. "Du 《Je pense, je suis》 au 《Je pense, seul je suis》: crise du cartésianisme et revers des Lumières." RPL 102 (2004), 565–582.

Although this article concerns the influence of skepticism on the enlightenment, it is naturally of interest to dix-septiémistes because of its root subject, as well as discussions of Malebranche and l'abbé de Lanion. "L'influence du scepticisme sur les XVIe et XVIIe siècles est chose trop évidente pour être remise en question. Au siècle suivant, cette influence semble s'être amenuisée, ou plutôt déplacée exclusivement vers les dimensions sociales et politiques. L'A[uteur] souhaite montrer ici qu'une telle lecture partielle et qu'elle ne tient pas compte des questions sceptiques tributaires desest débats internes au cartésianisme qui vont faire, notamment par la médiation de la réception de l'immatérialisme berkeleyen, de la question solipsiste un des enjeux majeurs de l'épistémologie des Lumières."

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

Review: E. J. Benkov in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1023–1025: Judged "essential," and "clearly written," Conley's study "provides both biographical information and insightful analyses of the question of virtue and offers a broad introduction to the main trends in neoclassical moral philosophy" (1025). Stresses the importance of the salon and furnishes in his appendices highly useful and difficult to obtain texts of these women authors including Sablé's Maximes, Deshoulières' Réflexions diverses, Sablière's Maximes chrétiennes, and Maintenon's Sur les vertus cardinales.

DAHER, ANDREA. Les Singularités de la France équinoxiale: Histoire de la mission des pères capucins au Brésil (1612–1615). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: M Harrigan in FS 58.1 (2004): 93–94. According to the reviewer, this "well-researched" work is thorough in its analysis and sheds light on the birth of the "bon sauvage" while providing "insight on the strategies behind colonies and conversion."

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Femmes lunatiques : Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." DFS 71 (2005), 3–29:

"The vast constellation of literary and iconographic sources that exploit the theme of female lunacy reveals the femme lunatique as a significant satirical theme in seventeenth-century anti-feminist discourse. As such, this imagery served as a vehicle for the expression of male anxiety in an age of increasingly prominent public roles for women in the political, religious, literary and even military arenas, and of intense challenge to the allotted place of women as wives and mothers."

DEAR, PETER. "What Is the History of Science the History Of? Early Modern Roots of the Ideology of Modern Science." Isis 96.3 (2005), 390–406.

Dear traces the gap between what historians of science study and what is commonly understood as "science" to the early modern period, where Bacon sought to reconcile the contemplative natural philosophy of the scholastics with active, instrumental, experiment-based knowledge. Dear argues that "the history of science in large part concerns the story of [the] shifting, often mutually denying, interrelations" between the two models.

DESCOTES, DOMINIQUE. "Le problème de l'ordre chez Pascal." S Fr 143 (2004): 281–300:

Thorough comparison of Pascal and Descartes on the point of "l'ordre," essential for both the validity and the originality of thought (281). Descotes's article will be of particular interest to mathematicians, with its several formulae and illustrations. The "entrelacements de raisons" or "nexus rationum" in Pascal's argumentation are compared to frequent "noeuds dans l'ordre" of mathematical works such as Les Lettres de A. Dettonville where Pascal "cherche la mesure du bras d'un triligne sur sa base" (298). Despite these similarities, Descotes concludes that it would be an error to reduce Pascalian practice to the rules of the "esprit géométrique" (299).

DOMPNIER, BERNARD. "Thérèse d'Avila et la dévotion française à Saint Joseph au XVIIe siècle." RHEF 90 no. 224 (2004): 175–190.

The author examines how seventeenth-century French theologians reinterpreted and adapted the example of Theresa of Avila's devotion to St. Joseph thereby sparking growth in the saint's cult.

DOYLE, WILLIAM. Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2000.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 79.1 (October 2005): 183–184: Doyle studies the Jansenist movement "dans son ensemble, en tant que phénomène religieux dont l'importance fut cruciale dans l'histoire politique française." Particular emphasis on "comment le jansénisme trouve son unite moins dans ses doctrines que dans la manière dont le mouvement, au nom des pères de l'Eglise et tout en y demeurant d'une loyauté sans faille, cultiva la résistance à l'autorité papale et épiscopale ainsi qu'à l'autorité royale qui les comdamnaient [sic]. . ." Ample treatment of l'abbé de Saint-Cyran and Cornélius Jansen's polemics and the innovative, defiant and independent spirit of the movement. Chronicles the "controversies et persecutions, condemnations de la Sorbonne, résistance au contrôle royale, refus des sacraments aux suspects de jansénisme, et ce jusqu'à la Paix de l'Eglise de 1669, trêve avant la rupture entre l'église gallicane et Rome, l'exil des amis de la vérité, le dispersement des religieuses, la fermeture en 1709 puis la destruction de Port-Royal-des-Champs." Second half of volume is devoted to Jansenism after Louis XIV's death. "[E]xtrêment dense et concis, ce petit ouvrage est bien précieux."

DUPORT, DANIELE. Le Jardin et la nature: Ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. E. Campo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 6464–48: Praiseworthy examination of "the philosophical and poetic antithesis between order and variety in Renaissance French literature as that opposition relates to anterior and contemporary manifestations, conceptions, and representations of the garden" (646). Duport's study treats 1) scientific discourses on horticulture, 2) the garden as a topos in the literature of the imagination, and 3) the role of the garden in poetic theory and accounts of royal entries. Appendices, and index and bibliography complete Duport's study which regrettably excludes illustrations.

FAYE, EMMANUEL. Philosophie et perfection de l'homme: De la Renaissance à Descartes. Paris: Vrin, 1998.

Review: J.-Cl. Carron in Isis 95.2 (2004), 275–276. Faye sees Descartes not as a blank slate, but rather as the final stage in the progressive liberation of philosophy from theology that began in the Renaissance. The crucial figure in this evolution is the heretofore neglected Charles Bovelles. The reviewer takes some issue with Faye's decision to examine solely French thinkers, and also with Faye's reluctance to consider the literary dimension of some of the works—such as Montaigne's Essais—he studies.

FERBER, SARAH. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Review: R. Mettam in TLS 5336 (July 8 2005), 28: Ferber charts the "contradictions and uneasiness provoked by demonic possession in Early Modern France." Vividly describes some major cases of demonic possession and sets them in wider European context. Devil was seen as an essential element of Christian teaching, but some church leaders questioned the wisdom of spectacular rites of exorcism. Such displays could be fodder for Protestant propaganda. Also discusses threat to institutional church when women liberated from Satanic power joined the ranks of female charismatics who claimed direct communication with God.

FISHMAN, LAURA. "Crossing Gender Boundaries: Tupi and European Women in the Eyes of Claude d'Abbeville." FCS 4 (2003), 81–98.

Discusses the role of gender in Capuchin missionary Claude d'Abbeville's work with the Tupinamba of early 17th-century Brazil. Explores d'Abbeville's assessment in light of his own notions of gender, and questions whether his conclusions concerning the Tupinamba were accurate.

GARBER, DANIEL & MICHAEL AYERS, eds. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge (Royaume-Uni): Cambridge University Press, 2e éd., 2003 (1re éd., 1998), coll. "Cambridge History of Philosophy", 2 vol.

Review: J.-M. Gabaude in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 216–217: "Cette œuvre de référence sans équivalence en langue française émane d'un groupe international de 33 spécialistes. C'est une histoire des doctrines, des courants et des idées où le terme philosophie a un sens large, sans être aussi englobant qu'au XVIIe siècle. Au lieu d'étudier successivement les auteurs, elle traite 36 thèmes qui constituent autant de chapitres regroupés en sept parties : contexte de la philosophie du XVIIe siècle ; logique, langage et objets abstraits ; Dieu ; corps et monde physique ; esprit ; entendement ; volonté, action et philosophie morale. Le style est clair et précis. Les chapitres sont introduits, subdivisés et conclus. Une ligne directrice, c'est que l'héritage, le contexte institutionnel et intellectuel, le cours des sciences et les idées religieuses orientent et imprègnent le sens des doctrines."

GARBER, DANIEL & STEVEN NADLER, eds. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

Review: F. Marrone in EP 2 (2005), 279–281: The first volume of a series intended to cover a period ranging from Descartes to Kant, to include not only philosophy, but also any subject that might lead to a better understanding of the cultural and scientific aspects of early modern life. In this first volume, 17th-century scholars will be especially interested in the four essays devoted to Descartes.

GAUKROGER, STEPHEN. Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Review: D. Des Chene in Isis 96.3 (2002), 436–437. Not a lot of new material, although Gaukroger does try to reconstruct the missing parts (4 and 5) of Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, an attempt that Des Chene deems "suggestive but thin." That said, "for anyone who wants a comprehensive overview of Descartes' natural philosophy, together with some sense of the place of Descartes's project in its period, Gaukroger's work is an excellent starting point."

GAY, JEAN-PASCAL. "Voués à quel royaume? Les Jésuites entre vœux de religion et fidélité monarchique. A propos d'un mémoire inédit du P. de La Chaize." DSS 227 (2005), 285–314.

The author analyses a text (Le Mémoire sur l'état présent de la Compagnie en France) "jusqu'ici inconnu du plus éminent des confesseurs de Louis XIV, le P. François de La Chaize, rédigé à l'occasion du conflit, trop mal connu, qui oppose le roi au général de 1688 à 1691." In so doing, he hopes to open a new line of inquiry into "la nature et les contradictions du gallicanisme jésuite."

GILBY, EMMA. "Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS 27 (2005), 29–38.

"This paper is concerned with perspectival constructions in art and how they are written about in seventeenth-century France. Often, the work of Descartes is juxtaposed with seventeenth-century theories of perspective, and I shall maintain, while qualifying, this juxtaposition here."

GIULANI, PIERRE. "Médecine et imaginaire littéraire: la transfusion en débat sous Louis XIV." PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005), 373–397.

"Le sang, nous le verrons, ne se donne pas seulement comme un élément de la nature, et l'âge classique souligne plutôt quel entrelacs de postulations diverses préside à ce que l'on s'efforce alors de dire et de faire de l'humeur généreuse. Origine de la vie, signe de la mort, agent de la génération, allié possible face à la marche du temps, objet d'expériences audacieuses : avec les opérations de transfusion qui ont eu lieu en 1667 et 1668, ce sont autant d'enjeux toujours ambivalents qui se révèlent ainsi à nous."

GREER, ALLAN & JODI BILINKOFF, eds. Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Review: A. Frazier in Ren Q 57 (2004): 657–59: Highly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, this volume of selected conference proceedings (from a University of Toronto meeting in 2000) includes a few essays on the history of devotion in Canada (Quebec and Ontario). Dominique Deslandres finds in the nuns of New France "new models for women's heroism" (658). Geographical range is judged "remarkable" as well as the variety of materials examined: manuscripts, printed material, shrine receipts, local minutes, paintings, even embroidered collages (658).

GREINER, FRANK. Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès: tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l'âge baroque (1583–1646). Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 3,42. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: E. Campion in FR 78.6 (2005): 1238–39: A highly learned study of early modern alchemy that wastes its erudition by failing to adequately explain the background history of alchemy, its key practitioners and symbols, and the basic precepts of religious and social movements to which Greiner links alchemy. "Greiner makes fascinating comparisons between an interest in alchemy and the practice of religious movements such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but once again the relevance of such comparisons will not be clear to readers who do not understand the core beliefs of these movements" (1238). The reviewer also laments Greiner's breezy citation of obscure works of fiction.

GRENDLER, PAUL F. "The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation." Ren Q 57 (2004): 1–42.

Emphasis of Grendler's study is the Renaissance; however 17th c. scholars will appreciate important sections on humanism and research as well as the various challenges for 17th c. universities—new schools which "taught part of the university curriculum and gave young men specific professional skills and religious preparation for life" (24). Discusses schools founded by the Jesuits, the Doctrinaires and the Oratorians. Reminds that the most famous pupil of the Collège Henri IV operated by the Jesuits was René Descartes (26). Extensive descriptive appendix and bibliography.

GRENIER, BENOIT. "'Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur?': Une étude comparative de la présence seigneuriale (France-Canada), XVIIe–XIXe Siècle." FCS 5 (2004), 7–24.

Studies residency habits of seigneurs in the Saint-Lawrence valley in the 17th–19th centuries. Notes that the trend toward residency was the opposite of that in France during the same time period.

GRES-GAYER, JACQUES. "Tradition et modernité: la réforme des études en Sorbonne (1673–1715)." RHEF 88 no. 221 (2002): 341–389.

The author describes and analyzes the the new statutes of 1673–1675 and how they transformed the Sorbonne's course of theological studies in response to the necessities of the times. The article pays particular attention to how exams replaced debates as a means of verifying knowledge.

GUARAGNELLA, PASQUALE. "Paolo Sarpi fra Montaigne e Charron." MLN 120.1 (2005) : 173–189.

Article qui traite de l'influence des Essais de Montaigne et De la sagesse (1601) de Pierre Charron sur les oeuvres de Paolo Sarpi, Pensieri medico-morale et Pensione sulla religione.

HAFNER, RALPH. Götter im Exil: Frühneuzeitliches Dichtungsverständnis im Spannungsfeld christlicher Apologetik und philologischer Kritik (ca. 1590–1736). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003.

Review: E.C. Brancaforte in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1454–55: Judged "a stimulating study of European preoccupation with classical antiquity and early modern concerns in poetics and theology" (1455). Häfner's wide-ranging analysis includes attention to the 17th c. relationship between astrology and poetry as well as other "themes of importance to pagan classical times and early Christianity that reemerge as European scholars begin to reedit, translate, comment on, and publish these sources" (1454). Detailed bibliography, "impeccably prepared" index and analytical table of contents.

KOCH, EREC R. "Body, Passion, Ethics: Descartes's Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Passions de l'âme." SCFS 27 (2005), 39–49.

"Through Descartes's correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia and the more systematic Passions de l'âme, I examine the re-construction of [the] Cartesian body and explore the ways in which that body, rather than the mechanical Foucauldian docile body, produces the ethical individual in society, a subject-body."

LAURENTI, JEAN-NOEL. Valeurs morales et religieuses sur la scène de l'Académie Royale de Musique 1669–1737. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: J. Prest in FS 58.1 (2004): 103–104. In this positive review, Laurenti is lauded for "lucid" and "legitimate" arguments, and a "nuanced reading" of societal values. The reviewer would have liked more information on librettists and composers to facilitate the reading of quotations within the text, but otherwise finds this a "successful volume."

Lesaulnier, Jean & ANTONY MCKENNA, ed. Dictionnaire de Port-Royal. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: N. Hammond in TLS 5326 (April 29 2005), 32: "Invaluable documenation about even the most minor figures." Lengthy chapters on important writers, but volume also lists "every nun, teacher and pupil at Port-Royal between 1599 and 1710." Reviewer mentions risk that objectivity might be comprised by editors' decision to include only those figures in direct contact with and sympathetic to Port-Royal, but says the result is a very rich volume. Includes "telling contributions from Jean Mesnard and Philippe Selliers." Sumptuously produced with many high-quality illustrations, maps and chronologies.

LOPEZ, DENIS. "L'animal du XVIIe siècle: fond de tableau théologique, mythologique, philosophique (quelques points d'ancrage)." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 11–25.

A historical survey of the status of animals in philosophy, science, and religion in early modern France. While some (such as Montaigne, Descartes, La Fontaine) sought to challenge and question the lowly status of animals, the traditional theology of man's superiority over beast continued to hold sway.

LOVE, RONALD S. "'A Passage to China': A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." FCS 4 (2003), 85–100.

Shows that Philippe Avril's detailed account of his effort to find a land route to China was of immense importance in that it expanded geographic knowledge of Asia, even though the mission itself ultimately failed.

MARGOLF, DIANE. Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598–1665. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State UP, 2004.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 42.1 (2004), 180–81. Margolf examines this important Parisian court (one of many bipartisan courts established by the Edict of Nantes) in an attempt to understand its composition, its modes of operation, and the cultural issues germane to its work. Margolf then provides a political context for the court, situating it within the larger framework of early modern state-building and France's developing sense of national identity. She suggests that Huguenots were marginalized as well as protected by the courts, and that the Paris Chambre de l'Edit "played an important role in subordinating both Catholics and Huguenots to common obedience to the law, resulting in an extension of royal authority" (181). Recommended by the reviewer.

McCLELLAN, JAMES E. III. Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700–1793. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003.

Review: M. Crosland in Isis 95.4 (2004), 704–705: Describes the tight control that the Académie Royale des Sciences exerted over its members, also documenting how the academy began several procedures, such as regular publication with peer review, that are now standard. Crosland calls the book "a fine piece of work," even though at times many of the details the book offers are of limited interest to non-specialists.

MORGAIN, STEPHANE-MARIE. "L'installation des carmes déchaux à Toulouse en mars 1623, de la Ligue au catholicisme royal." RHEF 89 no. 223 (2003): 363–384.

The establishment of a Carmelite convent in Toulouse in 1623 was part of the Catholic reformation which sought to expand Catholicism and stabilize political and religious turmoil.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. Oxford: OUP, 2003.

Review: E. Moles in MLR 100.3 (2005), 813–14: Author "follows a meticulous survey of previous scholarship on theology and history with chapters on 'Descartes' forma future' (pp. 60–99), 'Pascal's Critique of Experience' (pp. 100–50), and Malebranche: 'What is falsely called experience' (pp. 151–49). In analyzing suspicion he sedulously avoids attributing a modern understanding of the self to his three authors."

QUANTIN, JEAN-LOUIS. "Le rigorisme: sur le basculement de la théologie morale catholique au XVIIe siècle." RHEF 89 no. 222 (2003): 23–43.

Traces how "rigorisme" combatted the challenge to moral theology posed by the notion of "probabilisme."

RANDALL, MICHAEL. "On the Evolution of Toads in the French Renaissance." Ren Q 57 (2004): 126–64.

Fascinating and very well documented study of "the story of the toads" from the time of Clovis to the 17th c. when they "became an endangered species. . . as political power was increasingly associated solely with the person of the king" (126). However, some 20 pages are devoted here to toads in late 16th and 17th c. France— detailed examination of "polemical toads," "defenses of lilies and toads" (by Tristan and Saint-Amant) and responses by the franc-comtois Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588–1673).

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA RANUM. "Fugitive Pieces."

Transcriptions of primary source historical documents published on the Ranums' website. Includes: "The death inventory of François Chapperon, music master of the Sainte-Chapelle, d. 1698;" "Final Accounts for the Te Deum sponsored by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, February 8, 1687;" "The Last Days of Bouthillier de Chavigny;" "Plainte pour Estiennette Charpentier, fille majeure, contre Jacques Mathas, January 16, 1709;" "A Funeral Oration for Mme de Guise, Petite-fille de France;" "Mlle de Guise Chooses a Painting for Her Gallery;" Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Jansenists Gossip about His Morals and His Death," "The Jesuits and Music: Some Fugitive Pieces;" "Herr Martin Mayr, the Duke of Bavaria's Agent, Tends to Things Musical in Paris, 1680–1685;" "Madame de Miramion's School for Girls;" "1683: Guillaume Pecour, the Dancer, Is Defamed;" "A Banquet at the Hôtel de Guise, 1671," "A Description of the Chapel and Worship Services at Port-Royal-des-Champs, 1679." All located on their website: http://ranumspanat.com/

RESTIF, BRUNO, "Le synodes du diocèse de Saint-Malo aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles." RHEF 89 no. 223 (2003): 345–361.

The synods of Saint-Malo were a part of the Catholic reformation that also helped consolidate and unify the diocese.

RIBARD, DINAH. "Pratique(s) jésuite(s) de l'écrit: le P. Tournemine, les Mémoires de Trévoux et Fénelon." DSS 228 (2005), 513–526.

Taking les Mémoires de Trévoux as "un instrument de la politique jésuite," the author focuses on the "pratique collective et institutionnelle du journalisme à partir d'un cas, celui du P. René-Joseph de Tournemine (1661–1739), directeur des Mémoires entre 1701 et 1719, et du point de vue d'une histoire de l'action par l'écrit qui n'isole pas la rédaction d'articles de presse de l'ensemble des opérations d'écriture [...] menées par un spécialiste dans ce domaine, de surcroît acteur central dans sa Compagnie comme dans la haute société et le monde intellectuel parisiens."

RUMBEKE, BETRAND VAN & RANDY J. SPARKS, eds. Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Review: A. Strange in FR 78.6 (2005): 1260–61. Charts the sense of collective identity among Huguenots. Finds that dispersed Huguenots ceased to exist as distinct communities within two or three generations, though they nonetheless continued to feel a sense of cultural heritage. The volume explores French Protestants' immigration to spaces ranging from England, Germany, and the Netherlands to Canada and the Caribbean. The fourteen essays in this book "are based on extensive research into demographic and social data drawn from church documents, census and probate records, and private correspondence. This volume. . . would be a valuable addition to any library of French cultural history" (1261).

TALIAFERRO, CHARLES. Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, 2005.

Review: J. Churchill in Choice 43.2 (2005), 306. According to Churchill: "Balance is an issue: the book is a third spent by the year 1700." Still, serves as an introductory survey with a substantial bibliography and useful appendixes.

TURREL, DENISE. Le Blanc de France: le [sic] construction des signes identitaires pendant les guerres de religion (1562–1629). Genève: Droz, 2005.

Review: BCLF 670 (2005), 113: 《 . . .une étude remarquable sur l'évolution d'un symbole. L'historienne envisage les guerres de religion dans leur extension chronologique la plus vaste, du massacre de Vassy (1562) à l'édit d'Alès (1629), qui marque pour les Réformés la fin de leur rêve d'une 'France protestante'. Le blanc, qui fut au long du XVIIe siècle la couleur des rois, était au départ la marque de leurs adversaires. 》

VAN DAMME, STEPHANE. "Les jésuites lyonnais et l'espace européen de la presse savante (1690–1714)." DSS 228 (2005), 499–511.

The author analyses the "différents espaces où se déploie l'action intellectuelle et éditoriale des jésuites lyonnais" and finds that they reveal "des représentations très différentes de la mobilisation de la composante jésuite, qui indiquent l'hétérogénéité de la République des Lettres, et les multiples façons de construire l'universel. Les Mémoires de Trévoux confirment ce nouveau dynamisme en élargissant le spectre des auteurs publiés, et en soulignant davantage l'importance des antiquaires par rapport aux philosophes de la nature."

VAN DAMME, STEPHANE. Le Temple de la sagesse: savoirs, écriture et sociabilité urbaine (Lyon, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2005.

Review: BCLF 672 (2005), 117–18: Ouvrage en trois parties consacré aux jésuites: 《 La première partie s'intéresse à la circulation de l'information au sein de la Compagnie de Jésus. . . La deuxième partie étudie la place des collèges jésuites dans la cité ; la troisième analyse les rapports entre les jésuites de Lyon et la République des Lettres, autrement dit l'abondant flot épistolaire qui circulait entre les maisons de la Compagnie et les cabinets d'autres érudits. 》

VAN DER SCHUEREN, ERIC. Les sociétés et les déserts de l'âme. Approche sociologique de la retraite religieuse dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Bruxelles: Académie Royale de langue et littérature française, 2001.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 143 (2004): 364: Wide-ranging and ample treatment from a sociological approach, influenced by critics from Goldmann to Elias and Bourdieu. Van der Schueren does not find his two major themes to be antithetical, but investigates numerous and fruitful rapports between them.

VERMIJ, RIENK. The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic. Amsterdam: Edita KNAW, 2002.

Review: G. Vanpaemel in Ren Q 57 (2004): 303–304: Although the focus of Vermij's "impressive work of outstanding scholarship is the history of Dutch science, students of cartesianism will benefit from the section on Descartes's influence. Reviewer appreciates in particular here Vermij's "breadth of arguments and archival sources" (304).

VITTU, JEAN-PIERRE. "Du Journal des savants aux Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts: l'esquisse d'un système européen des périodiques savants." DSS 228 (2005), 527–545.

The author looks at "[l]es caractéristiques attachées à cette nouvelle forme éditoriale," put forth by the Jesuits and deciphers what distinguishes it from other "instruments de l'échange des lettrés et des savants[...] Ainsi, les conditions de la multiplication de ces périodiques et le rôle singulier qu'ils remplirent dans l'information en matière savante, dans l'échange des lettrés et des hommes de science, comme dans la validation de leurs travaux, conduisent à s'interroger sur la possible formation d'un système d'échange périodique dont la relation singulière avec les autres institutions savantes pourrait constituer une clé à ce que nous dignons comme la République des Lettres."

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. "L'œil de Galilée pour les yeux de Chimène." Poétique 142 (2005): 153–165.

Explores Lucien Febvre's postulate that among the human senses in the Renaissance, sight was subordinate to smell and touch. Quotes classical authors who privilege sight above the other senses, then turns to Renaissance poetry in which eyes are compared to elements of the solar system, and in which poetry flows over into scientific discourse. Moves on to consider sight, sight processes, and their reliability in the thought of Bacon, Descartes, and Kepler. Vuillemin suggests that 17th-century doubts about vision fuel a critique of illusion in the Querelle du Cid, and inflects comedies such as L'Illusion comique, which play on motifs of visual deception.

WALKER, CLAIRE. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Review: F. C. Cesareo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1112–1114: Reviewer finds that Walker's study begins to fill an important gap in scholarship, especially as it concerns women's roles in contemplative communities. Walker demonstrates that "despite enclosure and geographic distance from England, the nuns were determined to participate in the religious and political affairs of their homeland" (1113).

WELLMAN, KATHLEEN. Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot 1633–1642. (Series for Science and Culture, number 6.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Review : J. B. Shank in FHS 28.4 (Fall 2005), 661–695: "Renaudot's bureau certainly has much to teach us about the seventeenth-century foundations of eighteenth-century science and society, and as such Making Social Science can be recommended as a book that isolates these important precursors, analyzes their importance, and argues compellingly for their integration into Enlightenment studies... She also offers a detailed and learned study of the idiosyncrasies of seventeenth-century natural philosophy that is highly instructive."

Review: K.K. Weaver in SCN 62 (2004), 263–265: Using Renaudot's conferences as her primary source, Wellman delves into "major ideas in the history of science, the history of gender and science, and the history of biology." The reviewer particularly appreciates the author's "significant contribution to the history of biology" and praises the author for doing "a fine job establishing the skeptical, humanitarian, utilitarian, and optimistic qualities of the medical discussions that took place among the members of Renaudot's group, and associates these characteristics with the Enlightenment's view of medicine."

WILSON, CATHERINE. Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: R. Lee in Choice 42.1 (2004), 117. Recommended for beginning readers of the Meditations in conjunction with coursework on Descartes. Readers are encouraged to read Wilson's book in its entirety. However, reviewer notes that "the larger Cartesian picture, which is not easily accessible to a modern philosopher writing in the analytic mode, is difficult to detect" (117).

WORCESTER, THOMAS. "A Defensive Discourse: Jesuits on Disease in Seventeenth-Century New France." French Colonial History 6 (2005): 1–15.

Looks at the influence of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents in its socio-historical context in order to show that it was a "defensive, polemical discourse" meant to demonstrate "divine approbation of Jesuit teaching and Jesuit activities."