Christianisme, métaphysique et épistémologie chez Marsile Ficin

Contributor(s): Yvan Morin

Ficin centre la hiérarchie universelle sur l’homme, au sens d’une âme raisonnable. Métaphysiquement, la description substantialiste qu’en donne Kristeller ne semble pas pouvoir se comprendre sans l’apport hénologique des hypostases et la transformation chrétienne de cet apport. Cassirer, Allen,...

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Lecture allégorique et lecture emblématique: l’utilisation de “l’allegacion” à des fins morales; l’exemple des Métamorphoses d’Ovide

Contributor(s): Jean-Claude Moisan, Sabrina Vervacke

Legrand, dans l’Archiloge Sophie, donne à “l’allegacion” deux finalités: embellir le langage et inciter à la vertu. Pour ce faire, il s’ingéniera à fixer le sens moral profond que recèlent les fictions des Métamorphoses d’Ovide en les rangeant sous des catégories commodes et faciles d’utilisation...

A New Set of Spectacles: The Assembly’s Annotations, 1645-1657

Contributor(s): Dean George Lampros

With the collapse of press censorship that followed the impeachment of William Laud in the Fall of 1640, a group of London printers took advantage of their new-found freedom and encouraged the House of Commons to convene an assembly of divines whose sole task was to revise the notes located...

“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok

Contributor(s): Susan M. Felch

Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male...

“A Plott to have his nose and eares cutt of”: Schoppe as Seen by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Contributor(s): Winfried Schleiner

That Gaspar Schoppe, author of several stinging publications against James I, was brutally attacked in a Madrid street in 1614 has often been dismissed as the victim’s larmoyant exaggeration of a mere licking, although Schoppe claimed that it was an attempt on his life. But there is a letter...

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Copernican Ideas in Sixteenth Century France

Contributor(s): Henry Heller

The French religious wars were marked by intolerance and fanaticism. At the same time the ability of the established church and state to enforce religious and intellectual conformity was seriously undermined. In this atmosphere of crisis and relative intellectual freedom the old Aristotelian and...

Facettes et reflets du mythe mirandolien

Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Il existe autour de l’Oratio de hominis dignitate de Jean Pic de la Mirandole un véritable mythe prométhéen, par lequel le texte de l'Oratio s'est chargé peu à peu, à partir de Burckhardt, d'une fonction prophétique. Le présent article vise à revoir dans ce contexte les différentes idées reçues...

Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale

Contributor(s): Jacqueline A. Vanhoutte

This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both...

Response

Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa, Judith Scherer Herz

Montaigne: un regard mathématique sur la mort

Contributor(s): Marcel Goulet

La réflexion que, dans les Essais, Montaigne poursuit sur la mort, en vue de découvrir un ars moriendi spécifiquement humain — toute croyance religieuse étant expressément écartée —, l'amène à soumettre à son jugement la doctrine stoïcienne et sa rhétorique de l'amenuisement, d'une part, et...

Renaissance Queens and Foucauldian Carcerality

Contributor(s): Lisa Hopkins

This essay examines the figuring of images and experiences of imprisonment in the public and private writings and speeches of three women — Marguerite de Navarre, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I — and a man, Sir Philip Sidney, writing to an explicitly feminised agenda. It explores the ways...

The "Honest Style" of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest

Contributor(s): James P. Crowley

During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

François Bonivard and his Difformes Reformateurs

Contributor(s): W. G. Naphy

This article presents François Bonivard (the pre-Reformation Prior of Geneva's Cluniac monastery) and his Des Difformes Reformateurs, the premier example of his satirical and polemical skills. In this, he attacks the violence and immorality accompanying and undermining the Reformation. Opposed to...

Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas

Contributor(s): Richard Pickard

The period 1620-1660 saw the emergence of several English women, of varying classes, who chose Biblical prophecy as an entry into public, political discourse. Many of these women, such as Hester Biddle and Margaret Fell Fox, stated their opinions with relative clarity. Lady Eleanor Douglas,...

An Intertextual Discourse on Sin and Salvation: John Donne's Sermon on Psalm 51

Contributor(s): Chanita Goodblatt

John Donne as preacher invokes the "Protestant paradigm of salvation," stressing the marring of human nature by Original Sin and the dependence upon God's grace for spiritual reatoration. This paradigm informs his participation in the intertextual discourse on sin and salvation begun by the...

Le théâtre au service de la cause universitaire à la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Lyse Roy

Cette étude retrace l'histoire la production théâtrale à l’Université de Caen à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de la Renaissance. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement à la production de la Farce de Pates-Ouaintes, oeuvre présumée de Pierre de Lesnauderie. Cette pièce permet de comprendre les liens...

Martin Luther on Deësis: His Rejection of the Artistic Representation of "Jesus, John, and Mary"

Contributor(s): Franz Posset

At times, Reformation scholars and art historians are confused about Luther's attitude toward the visual arts which depict saints as intermediaries between God and humanity. Rarely do they thematize the issue in relation to the deësis, i.e. Christ enthroned, with Mary and John the Baptist as...