The World of the Favourite

concern with explanation: Bouwsma cites Eisenstein but does not ask whether typography might have fostered the greater concern with literal meaning in texts and with orderly, straightforward unrhetorical presentation of arguments that he sees as increasingly normative among the elite.While essays of this sort should not be tied by all the requirements of a scholarly monograph, Bouwsma's willingness to eschew citations for many of his quotations (and in many instances even to leave their authors anonymous) left this reader wanting a firmer documentary base.Some of the endnotes refer in a shorthand form to books not previously cited, and a number of the primary sources referred to can be found in neither the notes nor the "Bibliographical Note" which substitutes for a full bibliography.Most readers will encounter material here with which they are not familiar and find less help than would be ideal in order rapidly to follow up on the author's comments.This book will find a valued place in the library of all scholars of the era and in the studies of all advanced undergraduate students interested in early modern cultural history.Thanks to Yale's sensible pricing (US $29.95), its acquisition in hardcover can be recommended to all

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