Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 48

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 48 is a special issue that presents the outcome of an international workshop ("Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama") held (virtually) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in June 2021. The conference was hosted by Jan Bloemendal, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This volume contains six transnational and/or translingual case studies of early modern theatre and four reviews which cover various epochs, genres and discourses.

Jan Bloemendal is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and secretary to the Erasmi Opera Omnia. Christoph Schülke is student assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Editorial Note Manuscript Submission Guidelines Articles for Future Volumes Preface Introduction: Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama Jan Bloemendal Comoedia Sacra and Comedia Nueva: Defending Innovation in Comedy from the Northern Humanists to Lope de Vega Dinah Wouters The Anthology as Site of Transnational Literary Exchange in the German Empire and the Low Countries James A. Parente Jr. A Newly Discovered "Old" Dido Tragedy Reinhold F. Glei and Thomas Kailuweit Suns and Reversals on Lohenstein's Early Modern Schauplatz Rasmus Vangshardt Transnational Early Modern Drama: Violence, Emotion, and Political Theater Nigel Smith Print and Pageantry as Early Modern Tools for Public Diplomacy: French-Language Pamphlets on the Habsburg- Bourbon Weddings (1614-1615) and Marie de Médicis's Tour of the Low Countries (1638) Bram van Leuveren Contents Review Notices Eva del Soldato: Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2020. Bryan Brazeau Ceri Sullivan: Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Martina Bross Jordan Kirk: Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies). New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Reinhold F. Glei