English Puritanism and Festive Custom

Contributor(s): Alexandra F. Johnston

Hamlet: The Dialectic Between Eye and Ear

Contributor(s): Mary Anderson

Jonson, Weston, and the Digbys: Patronage Relations in Some Later Poems

Contributor(s): Robert C. Evans

R-écrire le féminin: Les angoysses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours d'Hélisenne de Crenne (1ère partie): Autour des notions de transgression et de "jouyssance"

Contributor(s): Colette H. Winn

John Colet on Law and Liberty

Contributor(s): Daniel T. Lochman

Du Bellay and the Inscription of Exile

Contributor(s): Miriella Melara

Sexual Politics and the Interpretation of Nature in Spenser's Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Contributor(s): Jennifer Laws

Une vie de palais: la cour du cardinal Alexandre Farnèse vers 1563

Contributor(s): Pierre Hurtubise

Guerrier or Glossateur? Montaigne's Monetary Metaphors

Contributor(s): Edward J. Benson

True and False Pastoral in Don Quijote

Contributor(s): Stephen Rupp

Consilium at timor mortis: On Speaking, Writing and Silence in “Utopia”

Contributor(s): Arthur J. Slavin

Renégats marseillais (1591-1595)

Contributor(s): Gabriel Audisio

'Heav'n Hath Timely Tri'd [Her] Youth": Self-Knowledge Through Language in Milton's Comus

Contributor(s): Carol Scheidenhelm

Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's Identity in Late Italian Renaissance

Contributor(s): Prudence Allen, Filippo Salvatore

In this paper the Italian Humanist Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653) will be examined from the two complementary perspectives on her place in the late Italian Renaissance Studies and her contribution to the philosophy of woman. Marinelli is remarkable in both areas of intellectual history; and her...

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné charmé par les voix du mythos

Contributor(s): Carole Duchesne

"The Great Sophism of All Sophisms": Colonialist Redefinition in Bacon's Holy War

Contributor(s): Craig M. Rustici

Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan...

'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature

Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

In transcending stone walls and iron bars, Lovelace's well-known song "To Althea, From Prison" celebrates a freedom distinctly at odds with prevailing, often religiously inspired transformations of seventeenth-century carceral realities. Lovelace's celebration of "Minds innocent and quiet"...

Aneau, des Emblèmes d'Alciat et de l'Imagination poétique aux Métamorphoses d'Ovide: pratique d'un commentaire

Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant, Jean-Claude Moisan

La pratique du commentaire chez Aneau, telle qu'elle s'affine dans son oeuvre d'emblématiste, de traducteur et de commentateur, "emblématise" cette tendance renaissante où l'interprétant des textes réitère la glose séculaire tout en s'appropriant cette tradition. Ainsi le commentaire anellien...

"Is Abbot Isidore also among the Prophets?": Protestant Influences upon the Annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius

Contributor(s): R. Gerald Hobbs

This paper attempts to recognize the important role played by Isidore Clarius in the reform of the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century. In his preface, prolegomena and notes to the Bible, Clarius provided a form of pre-Tridentine Biblical scholarship which enjoyed more affinities with evangelical...