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The article reviews the book "Character and Chronology in Tristram Shandy: Four Papers and a Chronological Table," by Duncan Patrick.

Reviews the book "The Neolithic of Central Anatolia: Internal Developments and External Relations During the 9th--6th Millennia CAL BC: Proceedings of the International CANeW Table Ronde, Istanbul, 23-24 November 2001," edited by Frédéric Gérard and Laurens Thissen.

ABSTRACT The recent facsimile edition of Henricus Glareanus's Chronology of Livy, prepared by Anthony T. Grafton and Urs B. Leu, provides access to a primary source that is unique from the point of view of the history of science and scholarship and of the book and reading. The basis of the edition, a copy of Chronologia annotated by Glareanus's disciple Gabriel Hummelberg II, now preserved at the Princeton University Library, serves scholars both as a point of departure for outlining hypotheses on the teaching methods of early modern humanists as well as the role of chronology in the humanist curriculum. My reading of their edition is based on three points. First, I put the primary source of their choice in a context that includes provincial early modern educational centers as I believe that their enterprise could clear the way for future narratives on forgotten scholars who dealt with the issues of technical chronology. Second, I show the importance of Grafton and Leu's thesis on the procedures of transmission of teachers' commentary, which, according to them, is documented by the Princeton copy of Chronologia. Third, I argue that the seemingly conservative decision to publish a paper edition of an annotated volume at the moment when state-of-the-art digital tools for such editions are being tailored through the alliance of scholars and IT specialists should open a discussion among historians of the book and reading, science, and education that would lead to the determination of standards for scholarly editions of libri annotati. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The volume "The Transnistrian Conflict Chronology" by Mihai Melintei, edited and printed by the ARMANIS Publishing House in Sibiu in 2018, represents the research product within the Laboratory for the Transnistrian Conflict Analysis (research structure of the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu). The main goal of research is offering an analyzing and working instrument useful for both public interested in the Transnistrian problem and for those who has concerns in the area of the management of conflicts. We can read here the only achievement in the literature for the Transnistrian conflict, which links the event with a bibliographic source (written mainly in Romanian and Russian, but sometimes also in English or Ukrainian). And not just a source; each event has a tabular allocation for two, three or even four bibliographic sources - which gives the reader the opportunity to go to sources and deepen the subject matter of his interest, in a detailed, nuanced and objective manner. A final review of the bibliography used during the research, proposed by the author at the end of the paper, shows impressively: 1665 titles, which are books, studies, articles or documents. The book impresses throughout its dimension - to be more precisely, 450 pages in A4 format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book then is styled to be a kind of postcolonial critique of art history undergirded, however, by the adoption of materialities and ontologies that affirm the ever-presence of objects. That body of work interpreted post-structuralist revolutions wrought in comparative literature and continental philosophy for art history. Just as modernity creates a problematic comparative term that is lamented but simultaneously affirmed, the core work of art history is everywhere evident in this book in the attribution, dating, and material construction of works that cloud those very issues. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "The Edwardian Turn of Mind," by Samuel Hynes.

The article reviews the book "Chronologies of the Ancient World: Names, Dates and Dynasties," edited by Walter Eder and Johannes Renger and translated and edited by Wouter F. M. Henkelman.

Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer I Time in Maps i occasionally ventures beyond European influence, but it misses the opportunity to make a truly global statement of its core argument that I all i maps tell time. Its main objective is to show that conventional cartography, in addition to be being spatial, is an inherently temporal medium, and that all maps tell time after a fashion. [Extracted from the article]

An accomplished physicist correlates Old Testament stories with historical data in a scholarly work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer Its main objective is to show that conventional cartography, in addition to be being spatial, is an inherently temporal medium, and that all maps tell time after a fashion. I Time in Maps i occasionally ventures beyond European influence, but it misses the opportunity to make a truly global statement of its core argument that I all i maps tell time. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a critical analysis of a 1601 Welsh poem by Siôn Tudur, analyzing its contents to more precisely identify the composition date of the poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle," by William Shakespeare.

The article discusses the book "Leonardo da Vinci: The Florentine Years of Leonardo and Verrocchio," by Jens Thiis. The author offers the fullest and best-ordered array of illustrations for Leonardo's early years. While much of his endeavor is in the direction of attributions and chronology, he abounds also in real criticism of a sort at once enthusiastic and solid. He carries much further the work of classification auspiciously begun by the unfortunate Roselyn Muller-Walde, and splendidly advanced by Bernard Berenson in the great work on Florentine Drawings. Without departing too much from the immediate matter in hand, the book gives a vivid sense of the personal and social background of Leonardo's early career.

The article reviews the book “The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum" and the web site http://web.guggenheim.org/timeline, noting access its provides to the book and a time line presented therein "Keeping Faith With An Idea: A Time Line of the Guggenheim Museum, 1943-1959." Listed authors of the book include Hillary Ballon, Neil Levine, Joseph Siry, Luis E. Carranza, Gillermo Zuaznabar, Pat Kirkham, Scott W. Perkins, Bruce Brooks Pfeifer, and Angela Starita. Designers of the time line include Abbott Miller and Susan Brzozowski.

Reviews the book 'The Measures of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time,' by Donald J. Wilcox.

Reviews the book 'The Holocene,' by N. Roberts.

Reviews the book 'Handbook of British Chronology,' edited by E.B. Fryde, D.E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy.

The article reviews the book "The Complete Van Gogh," by Jan Hulsker.

The article reviews the book "Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research," by James H. Speer.

The article reviews the book "Die freien Orgelwerke Dieterich Buxtehudes: überlieferungsgeschichtliche und stilkritische Studien," by Michael Belotti.

The article reviews the book "Growth of a Prehistoric Time Scale," by W. B. N. Berry.