The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts

Reviews / Votes

''This book will be of use to scholars and students with an interest in the Northern Renaissance but also in the history and art history of early modern Europe. Although the essays cover a wide and very disparate area, this volume further encourages scholars to consider what interdisciplinary studies can encompass and how images can be studied alongside texts.''
Rachel Goldman, Adelphi University. In: Renaissance Quaterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 896.

''This high quality anthology stimulates fresh thought about relations both within across art forms, particularly as cultural practices. Both editors deserve high praise for assembling these essays and for their own analysis. Despite its diversity of topics, the volume successfully coheres, opening up issues relevant to all humanist readers of this journal in its provocative ensemble''.
Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2012, p. 1163.

''This is a rich collection in terms not only of the approaches taken and the questions asked, but also the variety of artistic forms and cultural expressions examined, from literature and the visual and plastic arts, to vernacular poetry, landscapes, music, and even oral culture. Overall, it contains tightly argued papers and a number of significant and original insights''.
Marcus K. Harmes, The University of Southern Queensland. In: Parergon, 30.2 (2013), p. 209.