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BAUDRY, HERVÉ. "Modernité du paracelsisme (1560–1660) et 'antiquité moderne'." SCFS 29 (2007), 89–100.

Sets out to evaluate Paracelsism in terms of "une forme de positivité au sens où la notion de modernité fait réference à une actualité conçue dans son évolution par différence ou opposition. Cette démarche se propose de cerner les contours d'une certaine conscience historique, aux origines de la 'modernité classique' [et] implique la formation d'un sens de l'histoire au XVIe qui est 'conscience de la différence entre passé et présent'. Notre réflexion vise donc à définir une modernité en cherchant à saisir à travers l'étude de figures thématiques et discursives l'expression de cette différence dans un courant de pensée participant pleinement du 'nouvel esprit' de la Renaissance."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. La Conversation intérieure: la méditation en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: R. Parish in FS 61.1 (2007), 91–92: This positive review praises both the tight focus of Belin's examination of meditation as a specific practice and form of writing in the seventeenth century as well the diverse choices he makes in analyzing literary form, from La Ceppède, Bérulle and Bossuet to Pascal, Descartes and Malebranche. Belin's "remarkable book" contains an "elegance of density and expression" while it maps a period of increasing internalization of the spiritual experience. Belin's work is, the reviewer implies, a worthy continuation of and contribution to this field of study.

BERGER, MARCEL. Cinq siècles de mathématiques en France. Paris: Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, 2005.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 38: "En moins de trois cent pages, l'auteur se propose de parcourir les mathématiques françaises de 1500 à nos jours.

BILINKOFF, JODI. Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.

Review: E.A. Lehfeldt in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 929–30: Although relying primarily on Spanish examples, Bilinkoff uses sources themselves complex and offers important insight into "the production and diffusion of cultural values" (Bilinkoff 9). Illuminating and rich, the examination includes a "broader overview than the case studies that have dominated the existing scholarship" (929), and adds "tremendous dimension to our understanding of Catholic devotion in this period" (930). Chapters treat the "contours" and motivations of the confessor-penitent relationship, certain life-stories with analyses of narrative and didactic dimensions, interpersonal dynamics and dissemination of spiritual biographies and audiences.

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: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005.

Review: Sven Dupré in Isis 97 (Dec 2006), 746–747. While the reviewer regrets the lack of a general history of rhetoric for historians of science, as well as the small role of "the perspectivist tradition of optics" in the discussion of Descartes, Dupré finds Blanchard's central argument—that "ways of seeing and ways of speaking did interact"—convincing, and recommends the work for "anyone interested in rhetoric and science." (747)

BLOCKER, DÉBORAH. "Territoires de savoirs et espaces de temporalités: le sublime de Boileau aux prises avec quelques 'modernités'." SCFS 29 (2007), 113–123.

Through an analysis of the debates which, from 1674 to 1713, pitched Boileau against Perrault, Huet and the theologian Jean Le Clerc, argues that "les définitions de la 'modernité' y dépendirent étroitement de la manière dont les différents intervenants construisirent leurs rapports aux 'mondes' dans lesquels ils circulaient (la 'cour', les 'salons', l'Ecole, l'Eglise)."

BOSS, GILBERT. Lectures philosophiques. Zurich-Québec : Editions du Grand Midi, 2004.

Review : M.-F. Pellegrin in RPFE 197.1 (janvier-mars 2007), 103–104 : 《  Ce volume réunit différents articles déjà publiés de Gilbert Boss sur Abélard, Descartes, Hobbes et Spinoza, écrits entre 1983 et 2002. Leur cohérence réside dans une même méthode, définie par [Boss] comme une 《  lecture philosophique  》 qui ne vise pas à 《  accroître la science, mais à entrer elle-même dans le jeu philosophique pour le continuer  》 (p. 5). [Boss] choisit effectivement de commenter et de discuter librement de grandes thématiques et des passages très connus des quatre penseurs envisagés.  》

BOST, HUBERT. Des porte-parole protestants au chevet de l'édit de Nantes moribond. RdS 1 (2005), 67–90.

Abstract: " L'article montre comment l'édit de Nantes (1598), qui avait été critiqué par les protestants français au moment où il fut promulgué, devint peu à peu pour eux le symbole de leur appartenance à la communauté nationale française et de la reconnaissance de leur spécificité religieuse. Mais c'est en définitive après sa révocation (1685) que cet édit prend, aux yeux des porte-parole huguenots, toute sa valeur. Réfléchissant d'un point de vue théologique, mais aussi historique, juridique et philosophique, ils y voient le symbole de la liberté religieuse. Cependant, c'est en faisant le deuil de leur statut perdu depuis la révocation de l'édit de Nantes qu'ils parviennent à développer une pensée originale à propos des rapports entre l'État et l'individu. Ils doivent pour cela distinguer le sujet ou le citoyen d'une part, et le croyant d'autre part. Or cette distinction impose de renoncer à la nostalgie d'un corps protestant, reconnu comme tel, au sein du royaume de France."

BRUNET, SERGE. "Les prêtres des campagnes de la France du XVIIe siècle: la grande mutation." DSS 234 (2007), 49–82.

An interesting article on the challenges (from within the Church and without) facing rural 17th c. French clergy. Brunet concentrates on the dramatic decline in "l'effectif du clergé séculier," from the early 16th c. to the end of the 17th c., termed "la grande mutation."

CARABIN, DENISE. Les Idées stoïciennes dans la littérature morale des XVIe et XVIIe siècles (1575–1642). Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 80 (2007), 1372–73: This monumental thèse d'état attempts to fill the gaps of earlier studies on early modern stoicism, and undertakes in its scope a history of ideas, mentalities, genres, and publishing. Carabin calls attention to the pragmatic and non-erudite ways in which stoicism was used from 1575–85, and attests to the presence of stoic rationales in pamphlets calling for civic order following the reign of Henri III. The work's final section discusses ways in which stoicism was used in the 17th century for ends other than political calm and quiet. Identified by the reviewer as extremely dense reading.

CARILE, PAOLO. Huguenots sans frontières. Voyage et écriture à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: L. Sozzi in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 119–120. Judged stimulating and rich, Carile's volume is useful for the perspectives it offers on themes of happiness and desolation as well as "renouveau spirituel." Other dimensions such as romanesque adventures and the "mondo primitivo" are highlighted (119). Valuable contribution to politics, socio-economics as well as to literature and culture.

CARR, THOMAS M. JR. "A Checklist Of Published Writings In French By Early Modern Nuns (231–57)." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 231–57.

Non-definitive bibliography of works written by nuns between 1500 and 1789, including modern editions and biographies of nuns written by males.

CARR, THOMAS M. JR. "The Cloister and the World: Mainstreaming Early Modern French Convent Writing-An Etat Présent." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 7–26.

This article sheds new light on the cliché stating that women wrote very little during the Ancien Régime. In fact, the author argues that they wrote rather profusely. Even if nuns were not considered prodigious writers and did not produce the greater majority of writings written at the time, they did in fact constitute the vast majority of female publications of the 18th century. Convents were thus fertile for female production. This field has only been looked at closely by scholarship the past 20 years, and the author offers a broader scope of reflection on religious life and writing.

CAVAILLÉ, JEAN-PIERRE. Dis/simulations. Jules-César Vanini, François La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Louis Machon et Torquato Accette. Religion, morale et politique au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J. Grimm in RF 118 (2006): 361–64: As an outgrowth of a 1994–1996 seminar on the theme "Libertinage, irréligion, incroyance, athéisme dans l'Europe de la première modernité (XVIe–XVIIe siècle)," the volume contains essays and "portrait studies" of representative authors (yet Cavaillé warns us that the choice "dépend, dans une large mesure, du hasard et de l'arbitraire" n.p.). Grimm underscores Cavaillé's emphasis on factors that contribute to the volume's coherence, strategies of "la dis/simulation" or "une écriture de la persécution et de la censure. . . incontestable évidence que l'histoire de la philosophie s'obstine généralement à ignorer" (n.p.). Importantly connects "dis/simulation" to "honnêteté": [an] aimable retenue dans la manifestation de ses propres qualités, qui contribue à la douceur et à l'agrément de la vie sociale, à l'urbanité cicéronienne. . . une sorte de vertu sociale, et non plus un vice" (29).

COURSE, DIDIER. D'or et de pierres précieuses. Les paradis artificiels de la Contre-Réforme en France (1580–1685). Lausanne, Éditions Payot, 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 254–257. According to the reviewer, "Le mérite de cette étude, centrée sur des matières précieuses et sur leur interprétation dans le contexte des mentalités de l'époque, consiste à voir éclairé d'importants aspects de la pensée religieuse et de l'esthétique de la Contre-Réforme, de l'imaginaire, en particulier en ce qui concerne une large galerie de figures féminines tirées de l'histoire, de la tradition scripturale et hagiographique. On le recommendera aux bibliothèques universitaires, aux spécialistes de l'âge baroque et à leurs étudiants."

DASTON, LORRAINE and FERNANDO VIDAL, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2004.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 42 (2006): 96–97: Wide-ranging collection of essays gathered from a 1999–2000 conference at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Organized in sections on "Values," "Necessity and Freedom," and "Boundaries," the 18 essays treat topics ranging from Greek literature to modern Asian political thought. Includes an examination of "social insects as models for human society in early modern Europe" (97).

DAUBRESSE, SYLVIE. Le Parlement de Paris ou la voix de la raison (1559–1589). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 398. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: M.P. Holt in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 522–523: Daubresse's archival training at the École des Chartes is evident in this "thoroughly researched and clearly argued study" of the Parlement de Paris' relations with the last three Valois kings. Convincingly demonstrates that "the reality was much more nuanced and complex" than the "confrontation and opposition" typically presented by critics. Key issues are religious uniformity and royal finances. This volume is of much value to 17th c. historians and offers a complement to Michel De Waele's 2000 study Les relations entre le Parlement de Paris et Henri IV.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists: Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority in Provence (1609–1611)." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 75–112.

Study examines the mass demonic possessions of the nuns that took place in the south of France, the "group possessions" which helped form the imaginary of the convent, the reception, influence, pamphlets, literature, etc., that took place in Loudun, Louviers, Auxonne, etc. It tries to give voice, through a literary perspective, to the "women religious of the period who ostensibly experienced possession through a reading of the rhetorical construction and deployment of the speech of exorcism and its loopholes for one young Ursuline nun."

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUES. Langages mystiques et avènement de la modernité. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: A. Traninger in RF 118 (2006): 102–103: Found highly useful for future examinations of the intersections of philosophy, theology and literature. Focusing on wisdom, love of the word and embracing a time period from the 13th to the 17th c., De Courcelles's work includes helpfully analyzed case studies and is attentive to biography, chronology, geography and theories of genre.

DINAN, SUSAN E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: L. J. Taylor in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1223–25: This welcome extension of scholarly investigation into the role of women and active spirituality demonstrates the dependence of the state on religious women's social and education services in 17th c. France. Nuanced study argues that the feminization of the "French church of the modern era. . . began in the 17th c." (141).

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. Montaigne et les libertins. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 687 (2006), 58: "Montaigne et les libertins s'intéresse avant tout à la réception des Essais aux XVIIe siècle dans les différents milieux que l'on qualifie de libertins." Dotoli a contribué "à montrer que le XVIIe siècle libertin a fait de Montaigne une lecture spécifique, qui eût sans doute quelque peu décontenancé l'auteur lui-même sur bien des points."

DUGGAN, ANNE. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: U of Delaware Press, 2005.

Review: J. Perlmutter in FR 80 (2006), 451–52: A book anchored in readings of Scudéry and d'Aulnoy which attempts to unsettle the centrality of the seventeenth-century canon and to question the idea that women writers undertake their work first and foremost as women. Accords importance to the salon as an alternative public sphere, a site for utopic play, and a locus for wide-ranging debates between male and female writers. The book is praised by the reviewer.

Review: A. Stedman in M&T 20 (2006), 270–272: "[A] compelling study of how seventeenth-century French writers used literary production to dialogue with one another over issues of class, gender, nobility, religion, politics, morality, and individual subjectivity. Over the course of six clearly written chapters, which weave the stories of the individual writers into a complex sociohistorical context, Anne E. Duggan "tells a story" (20), beginning with Madeleine de Scudéry and the public influence of salon women, moving on to the patriarchal reaction of academicians like Boileau and Charles Perrault, and finally focusing on Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's response to the decline of the salon, the nobility, and the moralist discourses responsible for late seventeenth-century parental and spousal domination."

FACULTES JESUITES DE PARIS. Science et présence jésuites entre Orient et Occident. Journée d'études autour de Fronton du Duc. Paris: Mediasèvres, 2004.

Review: V. Kapp in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 276–279. Reviewer welcomes the seven essays in this volume, first presented at a one-day conference in 2002, indicating how they highlight "l'envergure extraordinaire de ce jésuite à ce moment important de la République européenne des Lettres[;] ces actes importent donc autant pour le domaine des lettres que pour celui de la théologie ou de la vie religieuse."

FARRELL, JOHN. Paranoia and Modernity. Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006.

Review: S.G. Wong in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1255–56: Judged an "ambitious study," this wide-ranging collection of readings includes not only "representations of the classical symptoms of paranoia. . . but also. . . its 'metaphysical extension'" (1255). 17th c. French scholars will note the inclusion of Descartes and Pascal in the corpus under investigation.

FERGUSON, GARY. "Rules for Writing the 'Dames de Poissy.'" EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 44–58.

This article deals with the 1550/1650 publication of works by a group of nuns living at the Dominican priory of Saint-Louis à Poissy, most notable of whom was Anne de Marquets. Author discusses the "particular characteristics of communal life prevailing at the priory at this time" and the conditions that governed the writings by the nuns, viz., truth to the austerity and seclusion, gendered interactions, the noble origins of, authority at the close of the sixteenth century, reform, books used, translation in the nuns' literary production, published works as opposed to written and forgotten works, polemical issues, and the spiritual collaboration of the nuns, surrounding the convent.

FORSTER, MARC. R. & BENJAMIN J. KAPLAN, eds. Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steve Ozment. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: J. R. Watt in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 927–29: Articles of high caliber make up this "compelling testimony to Steven Ozment's positive impact on Reformation scholarship" (929). Wide-ranging and organized into two parts: 1) on Reformation theology and 2) on the spiritual life of families, the volume includes, of special interest to 17th c. scholars, an essay by Forster on piety "in the late 16th and early 17th c. [when] Catholic leaders encouraged the recitation of the rosary at home but deemphasized family devotions after 1650, as Baroque Catholicism stressed pilgrimages and other communal practices" (928).

GLENISSON, JEAN, ed. Histoire de l'Aunis et de la Saintonge. 3: Le Début des Temps modernes (1480–1610)/Marc Seguin. La Crèche: Geste, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 107–108: "Le livre embrasse donc à la fois ce qu'on appelle 'le beau XVIe siècle et celui des troubles civils, particulièrement dévastateurs sur toute leur durée en Aunis et Saintonge. L'auteur, Marc Seguin, accomplit là son oeuvre maîtresse et il faut souligner d'emblée l'importance de ce livre. . . Il s'agit d'une avancée considérable dans la connaissance des deux provinces de l'ouest, dont l'auteur, en dépit de leur appartenance au diocèse de Saintes et de leur réunification départementale tardive, critique d'emblée l'unité factice."

GOEURY, JULIEN. "Guerres spirituelles et guerres temporelles dans les temples réformés au moment de la paix des Pyrénées." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 65–79.

Protestant preachers in 1659–1660 were torn between the desire to be loyal subjects (and using the pulpit to support France's war with Spain) and an ethical call to decry war's destruction and violence. This tension created a "secular pessimism" that prepared the Protestant community for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

GREGOIRE, VINCENT. "La mainmise des jésuites sur la Nouvelle-France de 1632 à 1658: l'établissement d'un régime théocratique?" CdDS 11.1 (2006): 19–44.

Grégoire captures the multifaceted role ("missionnaires, confesseurs, chapelains, directeurs de conscience mais aussi linguistes, interprètes, enseignants, colonisateurs, administrateurs, explorateurs, ethnographes, géographes") of the Jesuits after the establishment of the Nouvelle France through the conquering of Quebec. He then moves on to discuss the theocratical governing of the Nouvelle France and the results that this form of government would have. In exploring these questions, he also deals with the politico-economic consequences, e.g., the Jesuits' role in the economic development of the colonies and general commerce.

GUTTON, JEAN-PIERRE. Dévots et société au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Belin, 2004.

Review: C. Bruneel in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 471–473: "L'édition de dix documents et illustrations met à portée du lecteur des textes particulièrement révélateurs pour la compréhension du mouvement [des dévots]. La bibliographie, très étoffée, et les renvois aux archives se retrouvent tout au long des 275 notes en fin de volume. Il faut remercier Jean-Pierre Gutton d'avoir méthodiquement replacé, avec son habituelle largeur de vues, le phénomène dévot dans le contexte global de la France du XVIIe siècle. Son étude devient dès lors indispensable tant aux historiens de la religion que de l'économie et de la société."

HAMMOND, NICHOLAS. Fragmentary Voices: Memory and Education at Port-Royal. Tübingen: Narr, 2004.

Review: T. M. Harrington in RF 118 (2006): 518–519: Important for the light it sheds on the double theme of memory and education, Hammond's study is organized in four sections: "From Mémoirs to Memory," "Les Petites Écoles," "Pascal and Memory" (personal and collective), and "Racine and Memory." Hammonds's conclusion enlarges his corpus to include Bossuet, Madame de La Fayette and La Rochefoucauld in relation to his double theme.

HIRAI, HIRO. Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi. De Diversis Artibus. Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 72. Turnhout: Brepols P, 2005.

Review: C. Martin in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 226–27: Praiseworthy as highly useful and convincingly argued, Hirai's exploration of numerous infrequently studied texts along with classic ones provides "a nearly exhaustive history of the various ways in which this concept affected matter theory" from mid-15th c. until mid-17th c.

HOEFER, BERNADETTE. "Rethinking Legacies: Descartes, Spinoza, and Contemporary Articulations of the Conscious Mind." SCFS 29 (2007), 51–61.

"This article analyses how the evolution from predominant Cartesian rationalism to the affect revolution of the modern era creates a link from the early modern age to the modern era in understanding consciousness. It develops the thesis that we need to re-evaluate the contribution of Spinoza to the mind/body debate."

HUREL, DANIEL-ODON. "Moines et Moniales en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles: Les Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, Catherine de Bar et la Trinité de Fécamp." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 199–230.

The article seeks to better describe the relation between benedictins and benedictines: what does spiritual direction mean exactly and what role did the monks play in the lives of their female counterparts? The author analyzes the events of the Congregation of Saint-Maur which comprised nearly 200 monasteries in France by 1700, as well as de Bar and la Trinité Fécamp, in order to get a better grasp of this question. In light of the reforms of the past century, the Benedictines needed to impose themselves with clearer rules. More stress is given to spiritual erudition. Finally, Les petites constitutions (1677) are published, emphasizing the need for more rigorous rules in the feminine order. During the 1720s, it seems as though the sisters were given more liberty to rule themselves: their order develops without the strict domination of men.

JAKOBS, BEATRICE. "Le concept de la négligence chez les moralistes français." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 407–427.

Examines the idea of "l'ars est celare artem, le développement d'un principe purement rhétorique en un principe autant rhétorique qu'éthique." Goes on to analyse "la mise en œuvre de la négligence par quelques moralistes: présente non seulement comme thème fréquemment abordé dans les œuvres mais aussi 《  pratiquée  》 lors de la réalisation stylistique de celles-ci, la négligence sera caracterisée comme étant un déterminant de l'écriture moraliste."

JOASSART, BERNARD, ed. Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2002; Von Hugel, Turner et les Bollandistes, Correspondance, 2002; Erudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondance, 2003.

Review: D.-O. Hurel in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 523–525: "Le volume consacré à l'abbé Lebeuf (1687–1760) permet de rendre au chanoine d'Auxerre toute sa place dans l'histoire de l'érudition française et de reconsidérer le schéma simpliste d'une réforme liturgique dite néogallicane qui serait qualifiée de janséniste."

JOASSERT, BERNARD, ed. Pierre-François Chifflet, Charles du Cange et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2005.

Review: D.-O. Hurel in RBPH 84.4 (2006), 1323–1324: "Dans ce volume, B. Joassart continue la vaste entreprise d'édition de la correspondance des Bollandistes, une documentation qui, de volume en volume, s'impose comme élément esssentiel non seulement de l'histoire de l'entreprise des Acta Sanctorum mais aussi de notre connaissance de l'histoire de l'érudition religieuse occidentale et de ses acteurs. Après un volume consacré au XVIIIe siècle (Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes), le corpus ici présenté et édité avec précision couvre une grande partie du XVIIe siècle, des années 1625 à 1685." En ce qui concerne Pierre-François Chifflet, ses lettres "nous permettent aussi de mieux connaître un érudit provincial, un peu isolé bien que jésuite, d'abord à Besançon puis Dijon dont les travaux s'apparentent au Spicilegium de Luc Archery, confronté aux habituels problèmes matériels que connaissent les hommes de lettres du temps. . ." Les lettres de Charles Du Cange (1665–1686) "nous permettent de mieux connaître l'auteur du Glossarium."

KAMIL, NEIL. Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics and Material Culture in the Huguenots' New World, 1517–1751. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.

Review: B. Van Ruymbeke in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 185–86: Concern is indicated about the use of older publications although "recent historiography on the Refuge in North America specifically supports Kamil's thesis of Huguenot cultural creolization" (186). This "imaginative and innovative" treatment of the French Reformation and the Refuge makes an important contribution to our "understanding of Huguenot artisans' training, inspiration and styles, as well as how these were transplanted to America" (186).

KAMMERMAN, DAVID. "Making the Cut: Medical, Political, and Textual Bodies in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France." DAI 67/10 (2007): 577.

From Descartes' construction of mechanized bodies to Sade, the dissertation examines radical differences in the conceptualization of corporeal figures. The dissertation explores the tensions "between understandings of bodies in the universe as indivisible or divisible, identical or different, and continuous or contiguous in select works."

KRAYE, JILL & RISTO SAARIN, eds. Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity. The New Synthese Historical Library 57. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

Review: P.R. Blum in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 938–39: Although the volume could have used some better linguistic editing, it is recommended for the wealth of its up-to-date research (939). History illuminates philosophical problems in this collection of essays which traces "concepts such as agency, obligation, liberty, possession and responsibility back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (938). Human freedom, rationality, divine command, legal-moral-theological paradigms and ethics are just a few of the topics examined in these rich studies.

LAPLANCHE, FRANÇOIS. Ordre des décrets divins, hiérarchie des droits humains. RdS 1 (2005), 51–66.

Abstract: "Jusqu'au XVI siècle, l'emploi de la force publique au service de l'unité religieuse semble être une conséquence du zèle pour le salut d'autrui. Pour parvenir à la concorde civile, dans les nations où s'affrontaient des confessions différentes, il a fallu trouver un fondement théologique à la reconnaissance juridique de la liberté de conscience et de culte. Les théologiens protestants de l'académie de Saumur fondée par Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, négociateur de l'édit de Nantes, ont cherché ce fondement du côté d'une théologie de la création. Dieu a cré l'homme pour vivre paisiblement en compagnie de ses semblables et le drame de la chute originelle, bien qu'il ait entraîné pour sa réparation une révélation de Dieu protégée par l'Eglise, n'a pas détruit cet ordre tout à fait primitif. 'Nous sommes hommes, écrit Amyraut, avant que d'être chrétiens."

LOSONSKY, MICHAEL. Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Review: J. M. McCarthy in SCN 64 (2006), 210–212: In analyzing the multifarious influences that informed Kant's "conception of human enlightenment," Losonsky necessarily dwells at length on Descartes as "the exemplar of willful thinking" as opposed to Hobbes as a proponent of "passionate thinking" and uses both as discrete starting points in the evolution of Kantian philosophy. Although the reviewer points to a lack of context beyond the writings at hand, he is impressed by the complexity of the close readings undertaken.

LURIA, KEITH P. Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. Washington: Catholic UP of American, 2005.

Review: M. Armstrong in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 523–25: Praiseworthy on several counts; Armstrong judges Luria's exhaustive study which focuses on the region of Poitou "a fine book that will contribute significantly to ongoing discussions about the religious authority of the Bourbon monarchy and national identity as well as the distinctive nature of the French Reformation" (525). Belief, the construction of religious identity, culture, economics and state policy are all taken into account in this illuminating work.

LYONS, JOHN D. "Meditation and the Inner Voice." NLH 37 (2006), 525–38.

Praising and responding to Brian Stock's series of lectures "Minds, Bodies, Readers," Lyons details some of the ways in which early modern French writers and theologians encouraged forms of repetition, practice, and 'murmuring' as ways to train the body for action through habit and proper perception in the mind. Lyons' brief consideration of how Descartes' Passions de l'âme complicates the philosopher's notion of mind-body dualism is followed by insightful observations about the meditative, self-directed way in which Père Surin cures Jeanne des Anges of her demonic possession. The article concludes with a discussion of Pascal and how he understood certain political and religious conventions to stem partly from repeated mind-body interactions like always bowing before a king (whom one then comes to revere.)

MALEUVRE, DIDIER. "The Threat of Color in Seventeenth-Century Esthetics." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 233–247.

Sets out to examine the philosophical ideas underpinning the debate in aesthetics which pitched partisans of Form (les Anciens) against partisans of Colour (les Modernes).

MARQUET, JEAN-FRANCOIS, ed. Philosophies du secret: études sur la gnose et la mystique chrétiennes (XVIe – XIXe siècle). Paris: Cerf, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 16: "Une introduction ou une préface aurait grandement profité au lecteur, qui, mieux qu'avec une quatrième de couverture plus sonnante qu'éclairante, saisirait alors peut-être le fil commun à ces 'philosophies du secret', ce qui aparente [Pierre-Simon] Ballanche à [Guillaume] Postel ou à Madame Guyon et permet de voir en chacun d'eux, sinon un philosophe, du moins l'occasion d'une philosophie. Il n'est reste pas moins que chacune de ces [28] études est déjà en elle-même stimulante, et que, prises ensemble, elles dessinent des cheminements de la pensée trop souvent ignorés ou négligés."

MCCLIVE, CATHY. "L'âge des fleurs: le passage de l'enfance à l'adolescence dans l'imaginaire médicale du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 171–185.

While in the Middle Ages the onset of menstruation was considered a mark of adulthood, in the seventeenth centry, puberty in young women ushered in a transitional period called "l'âge des fleurs." It is "la ceuillette de la fleur de sa virginité" and childbearing that mark a girl's passage to womanhood which is characterized by her ability not only to "flower" but more importantly to "bear fruit."

MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE, ed. Les Philosophes. De l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. Paris: Livre de poche, 2006.

Review: O. Mongin in Esprit 2 (2007), 224–225: "'Qu'est-ce que que le grand rationalisme'? Il se distingue de la période des Lumières mais aussi du petit rationalisme (petit car dogmatique) de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle: 'Jamais, dans la suite, écrit Merleau-Ponty à propos du XVIIe, on ne retrouvera cet accord de la philosophie et de la science, cette aisance à dépasser la science sans la détruire, à limiter la métaphysique sans l'exclure.'" Ouvrage d'abord publié en 1956 sous la direction de Merleau-Ponty (les Philosophes célèbres/Editions Mazenod).

MOUSNIER, MIREILLE, ed. Les Animaux malades en Europe occidentale (du Ve au XIXe siècle). Actes des XXVe Journées internationales d'histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran, 12–14 septembre 2003. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 41: "Cet ouvrage est bien documenté, les références bibliographiques sont nombreuses et la lecture en est facile. Il s'adresse de préférence à un public d'enseignants et de chercheurs historiens médiévaux ou contemporains." Voir l'article de O. de Serres sur l'élevage du ver à soie au XVIIe siècle.

MULSOW, MARTIN & JAN ROHLS, eds. Socianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 134. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Review: R. E. McLaughlin in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 915–16: Wide-ranging geographically and focusing on the 17th and the early 18th c., these selected proceedings of a 2003 Munich symposium on "Socianism and Cultural Exchange" demonstrate "the pervasiveness of Socianism speculation among dissenters and progressive thinkers from Poland to the British Isles." The essays also contribute "to our understanding of the often surmised, but rarely demonstrated, links between Reformation, Radicalism and the Enlightenment" (915). French scholars will find of particular interest Didier Kahn's examination of Nicolas Barnaud, alchemist and printer of radical texts. Useful index of names.

NELSON, ERIC. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590–1615). Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Jesu 58. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: T. Worcester in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 883–84: Main focus of this examination is "the Edict of Rouen of 1 September 1603, the royal edict by which Henry readmitted the Jesuits" (883). Nelson illuminates royal patronage, Jesuit expansion and treats "royal will as law" as well as the religious order (883). Valuable for scholars of early modern politics and religion.

NOUIS, LUCIEN. "《  Compelle intrare  》 : Michel Foucault et l'hérésie à l'âge classique." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 333–344.

Returns to the Histoire de la folie to examine the extent to which, despite the absence of an explicit treatment of heresy by Foucault, this text could serve to facilitate a new understanding of the discourse surrounding the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

OGILVIE, BRIAN W. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Review: M.A. Waddell in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1279–80: Praiseworthy volume is detailed and engrossing, "an excellent resource for those interested in natural history before 1650" as well as generally in modern science. Wide-ranging examination of ideas, techniques, spaces and relationships around Europe. Waddell praises Ogilvie's vital arguments but would have appreciated better transitions between chapters, especially as concerns chronology, and less repetition.

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J., GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, STEVEN J. HARRIS, & FRANK KENNEDY, S. J., eds. The Jesuits II: Culture, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. Toronto: UTP, 2006.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 69.2 (2007), 500: "This collection goes further to prove that 'because of the schools, the Jesuits had a commitment to culture, to urbanity, to civilità, to conversazione, and to the honeste homme in the world that was new for a religious order,' that they served the papacy and heard the confessions of the faithful, that they were involved in conversion, education, and politics, and that they were 'soldiers of Christ' in Europe, South America, Japan, etc."

PAGANINI, GIANNI. Les philosophies clandestines à l'âge classique. Paris : PUF, 2005. Coll. 《  Philosophie  》.

Review : J.-P. Cavaillé in RPFE 197.1 (janvier-mars 2007), 102–103 : 《  Un des meilleurs spécialistes de la littérature philosophique clandestine en offre une présentation d'ensemble avec des résumés synthétiques d'œuvres importantes fort mal connues, parmi les quelque 200 textes répertoriés (pour 2 000 copies subsistantes environ), de la fin du XVIe siècle à celle du XVIIIe. [. . .] L'examen, dense et synthétique, de ces expressions philosophiques précédant les Lumières fait apparaître qu'elles les ont dépassées en radicalité : la question historiographique se pose d'une interprétation du mouvement des Lumières 《  modérées  》 comme réaction et réponse aux provocations clandestines. Mais l'ouvrage montre aussi que ces 《  Lumières radicales  》 ne sauraient se ramener au seul héritage spinoziste.  》

PALMERINO, CARLA RITA & J.M.M.H. THIJSSEN, eds. The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 239. Boston: Kluwer Academic P, 2004.

Review: M. H. Shank in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 224–25: Judged "well-edited" and "first-rate," Palmerino and Thijssen's volume includes eleven important analyses of key expressions, unpublished works of Galileo, tidal theories, correspondence with Gassendi, among others.

PARK, KATHARINE & LORRAINE DASTON. eds. The Cambridge History of Science. Vol 3: Early Modern Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Review: Margaret C. Jacob in Isis 98 (June 2007), 361–365. Contains essays by scholars such as Daniel Garber, Peter Dear, William Eamon, Paula Findlen, among others. "On the whole this volume inscribes a generation of work that has liberated early modern science and medicine from straitjackets largely imposed upon them by nineteenth-century intellectual constructions." All the same, Jacobs notes a "curious reticence" that characterizes the essays, which, perhaps still reacting to Marxist reductionism, refuse to trace the evolution in science to the material conditions of the time. As a result, terms such as "scientific revolution" are suspect, and the Enlightenment is barely mentioned.

PETERS, JEFFREY N. Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Review: J. Tsien in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 556–557. Reviewer welcomes this "subtle and well-argued exposition of the relationship between the early modern scientific aspirations to map out the world and the creative use of those same methods to express a multiple, ever-changing field of human behavior and sentiment. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as students of post-colonialism, will find this to be an informative and enjoyable read."

PIERRE, BENOIST. "Les religieux et la glorification du roi de guerre au XVIIe siècle." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 323–336.

Beginning in the 1630s, religious orders, inspired by the counter-reformation, actively embraced the image of the warrior king and advocated just warfare in order to renew and revitalize religion.

PIQUE, NICOLAS. Diversité des réactions réformées à la Révocation. L'esprit du monde en question. RdS 1 (2005), 91–108.

Abstract: "À partir de l'analyse de la diversité des réactions réformées à l'édit de Fontainebleau, cet article se propose de suivre l'avènement de deux des concepts fondateurs de la modernité politique, la distinction des sphères religieuse et politique d'une part, la souveraineté populaire d'autre part. Toutefois, l'analyse généalogique soulignera l'émergence distincte de ces deux notions, en fonction de logiques croisées et apparemment paradoxales dont il faudra chercher la cohérence dans les positions anthropologiques qui les sous-tendent. L'étude des débats théologiques modernes dessine de la sorte l'une des voies par laquelle les concepts politiques modernes ont été formés."

POMATA, GIANNA & NANCY G. SIRAISI. eds. Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Review: J. Henry in Isis 98 (June 2007), 390–391. A "collection of consistently high-quality papers" which all "discuss to some extent the relationship between natural history and civil history." Includes an essay by Anthony Grafton on humanist discussions of the artes historicae as well as an essay by Peter N. Miller on Peiresc.

Review: S. Perfetti in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 597–99: "Highly refined versions" of papers of a workshop at the Max Planck Institute of Berlin investigate "manifold cultural practices associated with historia," a term which covers disciplines as varied as "medicine, natural history, philology, and antiquarianism" (597). Papers either underline "reciprocal influences between historia naturalis and historia humana" or focus on the "dialectic between historia-format and direct experience" (597, 598).

PULEO, ALICIA H. "Un Parcours philosophique: du désenchantement du monde à la compassion." ECr 46.2 (2006): 5–16:

A veritable plea for justice and active compassion, Puleo's essay provides a philosophical survey of the conceptualization of Nature focusing on the 18th c., but offering sketches of Descartes's and Buffon's thought. Concludes: "à mon avis, pour la vieille Europe qui ne peut pas croire à un sens caché du monde, un matérialisme philosophique doublé d'empathie, de compassion pour tous les êtres vivants pourrait s'avérer le chemin le plus proche vers la responsabilité écologique" (14).

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. "'Un Trésor enfoui, une lampe sous un boisseau': Seventeenth-Century Visitandines Describe Their Vocation." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 155–166.

The article discusses a question asked to François de Sales in the recorded recollections of Jean-Pierre Camus: why he created a convent for women when his time would have been better employed in creating one for men. The saint responds by saying that it is not up to him to deal with such matters, he just works in metallurgy and pottery. The author interprets this answer. From this anecdote, the author studies how women, particularly the Visitandine nuns of the seventeenth century, perceived themselves, and perceived their institute.

RIBARD, DINAH. Réflexions sur l'écriture comme lieu de savoir sans les livres de philosophie en France Au XVIIe siècle. RdS 3–4 (2007), 395–417.

The article abstract states that this is "a discussion on the sources of a history of knowledge by researching institutions, communities and the broader locations where this knowledge has developed. It shows that the textual nature of the sources of a possible knowledge of these places of learning of the past must be one of the objects of the analysis, with the risk of reproducing social fictions created in their own time to serve diverse political agendas. The case studied proposes an analysis of some of the focal points of the intellectual history of the XVIIth century (academies, salons, schools), and thus permits us to question the unequal social structure of these establishments, by reinserting the activity of writing and publication of a philosophical author into the canon of the numerous discourses on philosophy and those places which, during the era under consideration, turned it into something other than a discipline."

ROBIN, JEAN LUC. 'L'Indiscipline de l'Arrêt burlesque et les deux voies de la légitimation du discours scientifique'. SCFS 29 (2007), 101–111.

Analyses the Arrêt burlesque (1671) — a "satire anti-péripatéticienne prenant pour cible la doctrine scolastique de l'Université et la médicine hippocratico-galénique traditionnellement enseignée à la faculté de Paris," composed by Bernier, Boileau and Racine "à la gloire du cartésianisme menacé de censure" — as an example of one method of legitimising scientific discourse of the time, a method involving "l'abaissement et la vulgarisation de la science officielle."

ROHOU, JEAN. Le XVIIe siècle, une révolution de la condition humaine. Paris: Seuil, 2002.

Review: M. Bouvier in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 245. Bouvier speaks favorably of this study, which leaves us with many questions to ponder and manifests Rohou's erudition on his subject. Rohou conceives of the classical era as a time of anxiety, as opposed to stability. He analyzes the anthropological system, then shows how men of great influence (including lettrés and bourgeois), looked to satisfy their personal desires by trying to force the established system to tumble, while nonetheless remaining modelled by this system, directed by its values, living the lifestyle of hardship in their pretended antimony. Such tension comes to a head at the time when Pascal and La Rochefoucauld were major figures who, in fact, would turn out to be sources of this tension during Louis XIV, while the values of raison, conscience and desire came to light, naturally leading to the Age of Enlightenment. This book brings into play all aspects of knowledge and science in the seventeenth century. It brings back into usage old concepts, while making them new, as well as exploring new theories. Bouvier does find fault with the work's treatment of the secularization of divine ideas throughout the course of the century.

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD, ed.. L'optique des moralistes de Montaigne à Chamfort. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. Jakobs in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 271–274. Reviewer welcomes the wide range of the twenty-five essays in this volume, commenting: "Grâce à la compréhension très étendue de la notion 《  moraliste  》, on a pu rassembler un grand nombre d'auteurs, ce qui a permis une analyse beaucoup plus approfondie et a donné une image multiforme du sujet."

SAUZET, ROBERT. Au grand siècle des âmes. Guerre sainte et paix chrétienne en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris : Perrin éd., 2007.

Review : J.-M. Le Gall in QL 948 (du 16 au 30 juin 2007), 19–20 : Le critique énumère plusieurs critiques de l'œuvre comme, par exemple, 《  l'auteur ne hiérarchise pas clairement les causes du reflux de l'esprit de guerre sainte à la fin du XVIIe siècle, qu'il relativise du reste en rappelant la guerre des Camisards en pleine crise de conscience européenne  》, ou encore 《  Il me semble que le transfert de la guerre sainte dans le cadre des conflits entre Etats et Nations aurait été aussi une piste à explorer. Certes, Robert Sauzet montre que la guerre crée parfois une union sacrée entre sujets d'un même roi, appartenant à des confessions rivales. Mais il aurait fallu peut-être aussi voir en quoi la défense de la patrie prend l'allure d'une guerre sacrée qui diabolise l'adversaire, en évoquant par exemple le sa du Palatinat  》. Malgré tout ceci, le critique trouve que 《  ce livre écrit d'une plume alerte offre un tableau vivant, ample et synthétique de l'intolérance du Grand Siècle  》.

SCHILLING, HEINZ et MARIE-ANTOINETTE GROSS, eds. Spannungsfeld von Staat und Kirche. "Minderheiten" und "Erziehung" in deutsch-französischen Gesellschafts-vergleich 16.–18. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003.

Review: M. Weis in RBPH 84.4 (2006), 1321–1323: Recueil d'articles du colloque de clôture (février 2000) "d'un groupe de recherches international qui s'est penché, dans le cadre de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft et au sein de la Humboldt-Universität de Berlin, sur l'histoire comparée des sociétés allemande et française à l'époque moderne." Les contributions éclairent "deux facettes essentielles des sociétés européennes par le prisme des rapports, toujours étroits, parfois conflictuels, entre Etat et Eglises. Les droits accordés aux minorités et les structures de l'enseignement sont des indicateurs de choix pour l'étude des ressemblances et des divergences entre la France et le Saint Empire aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles."

SECRETAN, CATHERINE. L'Edit de Nantes et l'indifférence hollandaise. RdS 1 (2005), 15–32.

Abstract: "La promulgation de l'édit de Nantes, en 1598, a-t-elle connu aux Pays-Bas un écho comparable celui provoqué par la Révocation de ce même édit, un siècle plus tard? Une première enquête menée à partir de documents directement liés aux évènements de l'époque (correspondances d'hommes politiques, pamphlets, actes de synodes, etc.) ne livre aucun témoignage révélateur d'un intérêt néerlandais pour le règlement français du biconfessionnalisme. Les hypothèses avancées dans cet article pour expliquer ce silence se fondent sur les déplacements des enjeux politiques et théologiques de la tolérance entre la France et les Pays-Bas dans la période considérée."

SEIDENGART, JEAN. Dieu, l'univers et la sphère infinie: Penser l'infinité cosmique à l'aube de la science classique. Paris: Albin Michel, 2006.

Review: A. Davenport in Isis 98 (June 2007), 393–394. "Seidengart's main thesis is that the concept of a true infinity underwent a key historical transformation at the dawn of modern science, migrating from God to the universe." Argues for the neglected importance of Giordano Bruno before examining his impact on Campanella, Mersenne, Galileo, Kepler, and Gassendi, as well as others such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Fontenelle. While a revised thesis, the work reads well, and the topic is engaging; the only weakness is a slightly out-of-date bibliography.

SIENA, KEVIN, ed. Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe. Essays and Studies 7. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Review: K.L. Peterson in Ren Q 59.3 9 (2006): 936–38: Praiseworthy for "its breadth of illustrative material and methodological approaches" (938), these collected essays shed "light upon early modern constructions of the pox, as well as textual (re)constructions of the disease" (937). Particularly focusing on France (the pox is often represented as a mal franchese), the volume's essays are organized, after an introduction, into three parts: 1) "Scientific and Medical Responses", 2) "Literary and Metaphoric Responses," and 3) "Institutional and Policing Responses" (937).

SUIRE, ERIC. "Les avatars d'un theme hagiographique. Le puer senex dans la littérature édifiante du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 149–169.

The author examines the contradiction inherent in the seventeenth century's juxtaposition of innovative pedagogy with older spiritual models typical of hagiography through the renewed use of the figure of the puer senex.

TILLIETTE, XAVIER. Philosophies eucharistiques de Descartes à Blondel. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 685 (2006), 14–15: "Ce livre est une fascinante histoire des tentatives effectuées par la modernité philosophique pour comprendre ce qui demeure fondamentalement, irréductiblement, étranger à l'expérience rationnelle: la présence réelle, 'maximale' du Christ, dans le sacrifice eucharistique."

TRUE, MICAH. "Retelling Genesis: The Jesuit Relations and the Wendat Creation Myth." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 465–484.

Examines what Jesuit accounts of the Wendat (formerly known as Huron) creation story reveal about the European mindset. Argues that "retelling indigenous creation myths to readers back home in France was not only a way for Jesuits to rhetorically subjugate newly discovered cultures, but also was part of a strategy to solve a crisis in European thought, caused by a relatively new awareness of the inhabitants of the New World, by attempting to reconcile the existence of Amerindians with Christian doctrine."

TUCKER, HOLLY. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Review: P. Hannon in FR 81 (2007), 165–66: "An interdisciplinary study exploring links between medical texts on childbirth and fairy tales in early modern France. The literary fairy tale, born in the late seventeenth-century salon and dominated by women, variously incorporated and challenged received medical "truths" involving embryology, infertility, midwives, and sex selection. As Tucker ably demonstrates, scientific writings on procreation skirted the boundaries between fact and fiction, making tale telling a prominent characteristic of both the male physician and the salonnière" (165). Reviewer praises the informative nature of the work and its potential to inspire future research.

TUTTLE, LESLIE. "Factum or Fiction? Convent Scandal, Cloister, and Publicity in the Era of Louis XIV." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 130–154.

The author's point of departure lies in the sexual scandals that circulated in a long pamphlet entitled Factum pour les religieuses de Sainte-Catherine-lès-Provins contre les Peres Cordeliers [sic.] in early 1667. The author discusses the nature of that account as a legal document used in the court of justice. The document proves to be one showing an altercation in the legal voice women had, what they were permitted to read, the purgation of libraries, etc. That work raised questions about the "legitimacy of the public challenge to masculine authorities by women religious."

VAGNON, EMMANUELLE, AXELLE CHASSAGNETTE, JEAN-YVES SARAZIN. . . [et al.], eds. La Cartographie. Paris: BNF, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 96–97: Cet ouvrage "regroupe neuf articles qui étudient l'évolution des techniques et des usages de la cartographie depuis le XVIe siècle."

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les spectateurs de la vie. Généalogie du regard moraliste. Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2005.

Review: G.C. Banderier in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1222–23: Banderier finds Van Delft both a "boar" and a "fox"; while he is devoted to the examination of French moralists he also surveys an ancient and ongoing philosophical tradition. Although most of the essays here have been published previously, they are revised and richly deserving of an English translation. Scholars from diverse fields will benefit from this "welcome work of Toposforschung" which interprets engravings and paintings as well as literature.

Review: R. Baustert in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 279–282. Very favourable review where reviewer comments: "En somme, nous voici en présence d'une magistrale histoire du Spectateur qui, de contemplateur de l'absolu, se mue, aux temps nouveaux, en explorateur d'optiques."

Review: M.-O, Sweetser in FR 80 (2007), 1373–74: Van Delft's highly praised study attempts to think about moralist writing from the perspective of spectatorship. Its premise is that the early modern spectator, even when developing a more secular view of the world, and even when attempting to restrict him or herself to pure description, "demeure tenté de promouvoir une morale" (1373). The work is thought-provoking on issues of genre as well as on specific texts.

VENESOEN, CONSTANT, ed. Anne Marie de Schurman femme savante (1607–1678). Correspondance. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.1 (2007). Grande remarks that the writings by Schurman are often less well-known than her name. While she was very well educated, and polyglot (she wrote in fourteen languages), most research done on her has been accomplished in Dutch. The new work by Venesoen partially fills this gap, giving a detailed bibliography and thirty-eight letters, some of which were written directly in French, while others were done in Latin, translated by Guillaume Collet, showing the savant's personal concerns as well as her correspondence with the Pastor André Rivet on female education. Sadly, there is no biography, despite brief introductions to each letter by Venesoen.

VON GREYERZ, KASPAR. Religion et culture. Europe 1500–1800. Trad. de l'allemand parE. Kaufholz-Messmer. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: J.-L. Schlegel in Esprit 6 (2007), 210: "Ce livre relève brillamment une gageure: traiter son sujet sur trois siècles en couvrant l'espace de l'Europe occidentale et centrale. Il y parvient en reprenant, souvent à nouveaux frais, des thèmes transversaux: les conséquences diverses de la Réforme, la portée de la contre-Réforme, du jansénisme, le comportement des puritains, le rôle des mouvances et dissidences sectaires, spirituelles, réformistes ou radicals, la religion populaire, les exclus (juifs, hérétiques, sorcières), les débuts de la sécularisation au XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre et en Allemagne, de la 'déchristianisation' en France."

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 105: "L'intérêt du livre de K. von Greyerz tient en grande partie à ce qu'il ne porte point de jugement de valeur et qu'il envisage l'ensemble de l'Europe occidentale et pas seulement un pays en particulier. Il faut souligner sa grande probité intellectuelle et la qualité de sa réflexion."

WATERLOT, GHISLAIN. La Tolérance et la crainte. La relation au pouvoir sous le régime de édit de Nantes. Agrippa d'Aubigné et Moyse Amyraut. RdS 1 (2005), 33–50.

Abstract: "La tolérance, telle que l'entend l'édit de Nantes, est un pis-aller. Les partis catholiques et réformés s'accordent sur l'idée que la tolérance est provisoire, car la restauration de l'unité religieuse doit demeurer la visée. Mais les réformés, minoritaires, sont en position défensive. Beaucoup parmi eux pensent que la tolérance ne tiendra que s'ils continuent de se faire craindre des catholiques. D'où la promotion, par Agrippa d'Aubigné, de l'esprit de résistance. Mais les forces armées protestantes sont réduites en 1629. En fonction de ce nouveau contexte, Moyse Amyraut, tout en professant un parfait loyalisme à l'égard du monarque catholique, sera amené à formuler les linéaments d'une nouvelle théorie de la tolérance, selon laquelle la tolérance n'est plus une grâce temporaire, mais un droit."