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Publications: Prof Warren Boutcher

Boutcher W ( 2026 ) . Diversity . Translationality , Editors: Reynolds, M , Oxford University Press
Boutcher W ( 2025 ) . Judgmental Translation in the World of Montaigne . Montaigne et ses traducteurs/ مونتين ومترجموه/ Montaigne and his translations , Editors: Desan, P, Dotoli, G , vol. 641 , Classiques Garnier ( Paris ),
Boutcher W ( 2023 ) . Vernacular Literature . The Oxford History of the Renaissance , Oxford University Press (OUP)
Boutcher W ( 2022 ) . CHAPTER 7 LITERARY ART AND AGENCY? Gell and the Magic of the Early Modern Book . Distributed Objects , De Gruyter
Boutcher W ( 2022 ) . ‘Noble ambition’: New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History . Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe , British Academy
Boutcher W ( 2022 ) . Babel textuelle. La textualité  et la diversité dans le monde de Montaigne / Textual Babel. Textuality and diversity in the world of Montaigne . Bulletin de la Société internationale des amis de Montaigne ( 74 ) Article 1 , 17 - 35 .
Boutcher W ( 2021 ) . Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues between Nations and Cultures, 1550–1750. Helen Hackett, ed. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 262 pp. $119.95 . Renaissance Quarterly vol. 74 , ( 1 ) 280 - 281 .
Boutcher W ( 2021 ) . Writing diversity: Literary objects in Montaigne‘s Journal de voyage . Global Montaigne. Mélanges en l’honneur de Philippe Desan , Editors: Balsamo, J, Graves, A , Classiques Garnier ( Paris ),
Boutcher W ( 2020 ) . The Montaignian Essay and Authored Miscellanies from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century . On Essays , Oxford University Press (OUP)
BOUTCHER WV ( 2018 ) . Translation and the English book trade c.1640-1660: The Cases of Humphrey Moseley and William London . Thresholds of Translation Paratexts, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Britain (1473-1660) , Editors: Belle, M-A, Hosington, BM , Palgrave Macmillan ( London ),
Boutcher W, Hoffmann G ( 2018 ) . The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe. Vol. 1, The Patron-Author. Vol. 2, The Reader-Writer . University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL
Boutcher W ( 2017 ) . The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe . Oxford University Press (OUP)
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . Montaigne in England and America . The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne , Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . Intertraffic: Transnational literatures and languages in late Renaissance England and Europe . International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World , Editors: Barker, S , BRILL ( Leiden ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . Transnational Cervantes: Text, Performance, and Transmission in the World of Don Quixote . Seventeenth-Century Fiction Text and Transmission , Editors: Moreau, I, Glomski, J , Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Boutcher W ( 2016 ) . Transnational Cervantes . Seventeenth-Century Fiction , Oxford University Press (OUP)
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe Volume One: The Patron-Author . Oxford University Press
Boutcher WARREN ( 2016 ) . The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe Volume Two: The Reader-Writer . Oxford University Press
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . Butchering the Cannibals: Essais I.31 Dismembered for Florio's Modern Readers . Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean , Editors: Kenny, N, Scholar, R, Williams, W , Legenda ( Cambridge ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . The private and public sessions of the Accademia dei Ricovrati: Orality, writing, and print in seventeenth-century Padua . Interactions Between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture , Editors: Sbordoni, C, Richardson, B, Degl’Innocenti, L , Routledge ( Abingdon ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2016 ) . La citoyenneté romaine de Montaigne: La supplica des archives dans son context . Montaigne à l'étranger voyages avérés, possibles et imaginés , Editors: Desan, P , Classiques Garnier ( Paris ),
Boutcher W ( 2015 ) . 'A French Dexterity, & an Italian Confidence' . Reformation vol. 2 , ( 1 ) 39 - 109 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2015 ) . From cultural translation to cultures of translation? Early modern readers, sellers and patrons . The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660 , Palgrave Macmillan
Boutcher W ( 2015 ) . From Cultural Translation to Cultures of Translation? . The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500–1660 , Springer Nature
Boutcher W ( 2014 ) . The English Boccaccio: A History in Books . ITALIAN STUDIES vol. 69 , ( 3 ) 450 - 452 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2013 ) . From cultural translation to cultures of translation? Early modern readers, sellers and patrons . Translation and Literature vol. 22 ,
BOUTCHER WV ( 2013 ) . Literary Art and Agency? Gell and the Magic of the Early Modern Book . Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell , Editors: Chua, L, Elliott, M , Berghahn ( New York and Oxford ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2012 ) . L'objet livre à l'aube de l'époque moderne . Terrain vol. 59 , 88 - 103 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2012 ) . Polybius Speaks British: A Case Study in Mid-Tudor Humanism and Historiography . Tudor Translation , Palgrave Macmillan ( Basingstoke ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2012 ) . The origins of Florio's Montaigne: "Of the institution and education of children, to Madame Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford" . Montaigne Studies vol. 24 , ( 1 ) 7 - 32 .
Boutcher W ( 2011 ) . Collecting Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Renaissance: Naude and the Last Duke of Urbino's Library . ITAL STUD vol. 66 , ( 2 ) 206 - 220 .
BOUTCHER W ( 2008 ) . "Faidaises domestiques": Montaigne marchand bourgeois bordelais lu par un marchand bourgeois rémois . Nouveau Bulletin de la Société Internationale des Amis de Montaigne ( 4 ) 401 - 418 .
BOUTCHER W ( 2008 ) . Afterword: Transferring Utopia . Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe: Paratexts and Contexts , Editors: Cave, T , Manchester University Press ( Manchester ),
BOUTCHER W ( 2008 ) . Schooling America: Donald Frame, Pierre Villey, and the Educational History of the Essais . Montaigne Studies vol. 20 , 117 - 128 .
BOUTCHER W ( 2008 ) . Una biblioteca o due? Il rapporto fra le collezioni di libri in Urbino e in Casteldurante . La libraria di Francesco Maria II Della Rovere a Casteldurante. Da collezione ducale a biblioteca della città , Editors: Mei, M, Paoli, F , Quattroventi ( Urbino ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2007 ) . Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Edited by Alan Shepard and Stephen D. Powell . Renaissance Studies vol. 21 , 460 - 463 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2007 ) . From Father to Son: Van Veen's Montaigne and Van Ravesteyn's 'Pieter van Veen, Hisson Cornelis and his Clerk Hendrick Borsman' . Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580-1700) , Editors: Smith, PJ, Enenkel, KAE , Brill ( Leiden ),
Boutcher W ( 2006 ) . From Germany to Italy to America: The Migratory Significance of Kristeller’s Ficino in the 1930s . Weltoffener Humanismus , De Gruyter
BOUTCHER WV ( 2006 ) . 'Le pauvre patient': Montaigne agent dans l'économie du savoir . Montaigne Politique: Actes du colloque international tenu à University of Chicago (Paris) les 29 et 30 avril 2005 , Editors: Desan, P , Honoré Champion ( Paris ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2006 ) . 'The Making of the Humane Philosopher: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History' . Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on his Life and Scholarship (Ed. Monfasani, J.) , Editors: Monfasani, J , Italica Press ( New York ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2006 ) . 'Unoriginal Authors: How to do things with texts in the Renaissance' . Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought , Editors: Brett, A, Tully, J et al. , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2006 ) . From Germany to Italy to America: The migratory significance of Kristeller’s Ficino in the 1930s . Weltoffener Humanismus: Philosophie, Philologie und Geschichte in der Deutsch-Jüdischen Emigration , Editors: Hartung, G, Schiller, Kay et al. , Transcript Verlag ( Berlin ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2005 ) . 'Montaigne's Legacy' . The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne , Editors: Langer, U , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2005 ) . Literature . Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography , Editors: Woolfson, J , Palgrave ( Basingstoke ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2004 ) . Awakening the Inner Man: Montaigne Framed for Modern Intellectual Life . EMF: Studies in Early Modern France vol. 9 , 30 - 57 .
Boutcher W ( 2003 ) . Renaissance lives: portraits of an age . HIST J vol. 46 , ( 4 ) 1005 - 1008 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2003 ) . "Learning Mingled with Nobilitie": Directions for Reading Montaigne's Essais in their Institutional Context . Le Visage changeant de Montaigne/The Changing Face of Montaigne. Cameron, K and Willett, L. (eds). , Honore Champion ( Paris ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2003 ) . Franco Piperno, L'immagine del Duca: Musica e spettacolo alla corte di Guidubaldo II duca di Urbino. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. viii + 349 pp., 9 v & w illus. €38.73. ISBN 88-222-5000-1 . Renaissance Studies vol. 17 , 305 - 309 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2003 ) . Marginal Commentaries: The Cultural Transmission of Montaigne's Essais in Shakespeare's England . Montaigne et Shakespeare: vers un nouvel humanisme. Kapitanak, P and Maguin, J.M. (eds). , Montpellier ( Monpellier ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2003 ) . Renaissance lives: portraits of an age. By Theodore K. Rabb. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xiii+ 263. ISBN 0-465-06800-6. US$ 18.00 . The Historical Journal vol. 46 , 1005 - 1008 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2003 ) . The Analysis of Culture Revisted: Pure Texts, Applied Texts, Literary Historicisms, Cultural Histories . Journal of the History of Ideas vol. 64 , ( 3 ) 489 - 510 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2002 ) . Humanism and Literature in Late Tudor England: Translation, the continental book and the case of Montaigne's Essais . Reassessing Tudor Humanism , Editors: Woolfson, J , Palgrave Macmillan ( Basingstoke ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2002 ) . Literature, Thought or Fact? Past and Present Directions in the Study of the Early Modern Letter . Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times , Editors: Houdt, TV, Papy, J, Tournoy, G, Matheeussen, C et al. , Leuven University Press ( Leuven ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2002 ) . Michel de Montaigne e 'Frederic Maria della Rovere': La chiave nascosta della biblioteca dell'ultimo Duca d'Urbino . I Della Rovere nel'Italia delle Corti, volume 3 , Editors: Cleri, B, Eiche, S, Law, JE, Paoli, F et al. , Quattroventi ( Urbino ),
BOUTCHER WV ( 2001 ) . 'Rationall Knowledges' and 'Knowledges ... drenched in flesh and blood': Fulke Greville, Francis Bacon and Institutions of Humane Learning in Tudor and Stuart England' . Sidney Journal vol. 19 , 11 - 40 .
BOUTCHER WV ( 2001 ) . Michel de Montaigne et Anthony Bacon: la familia et la fonction des lettres . Montaigne Studies vol. 13 , 241 - 276 .
Boutcher W ( 2000 ) . 'Who-taught-thee-Rhetoricke-to-deceive-a-maid?': Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', Juan Boscan's 'Leandro', and Renaissance vernacular humanism . COMP LITERATURE vol. 52 , ( 1 ) 11 - 52 .
Boutcher W ( 2000 ) . The Renaissance . The Oxford guide to literature in English translation , Editors: France, P , Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Boutcher W ( 1998 ) . Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England . Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning , Editors: Too, YL, Livingstone, N , Edition. 50 , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Boutcher W ( 1997 ) . 'A French Dexterity, & an Italian Confidence': New Documents on John Florio, Learned Strangers and Protestant Humanist Study of Modern Languages in Renaissance England from c. 1547 to c. 1625 . vol. 2 , 39 - 109 .
Boutcher W ( 1996 ) . Vernacular humanism in the sixteenth century . The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism , Editors: Kraye, J , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Boutcher W ( 1995 ) . “Le moyen de voir ce Senecque escrit à la main”: Montaigne’s Journal de voyage and the politics of science and faveur in the Vatican Library . vol. 15 , 177 - 214 .