The English Enchiridion Militis Christiani in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries

Contributor(s): Douglas H. Parker

Following earlier articles in Renaissance and Reformation and Erasmus in English, this paper examines the fate of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani in three late editions published in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Again in 1686, 1752, and 1816, Erasmus's work was...

Observations on Milton’s Accents

Contributor(s): John K. Hale

Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...

Le dialogue de l'auteur et du lecteur dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas

Contributor(s): François Roudaut

Dans cet article, il s’agit avant tout d’attirer l’attention sur les mécanismes dialogiques qui animent tout le projet de Du Bartas dans La Sepmaine. Le narrateur de ce récit de la Création est mu par un profond désir de convaincre, de faire connaître, d’amener le lecteur à une expérience...

“The Obedience due to Princes”: Absolutism in Pseudo-Martyr

Contributor(s): Phebe Jensen

This paper attempts to tease out the contemporary political resonances found in John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. While it is true that Pseudo-Martyr aligns itself with absolutism, it does so in a very complex and ambivalent manner, rejecting political patriarchalism and adopting a moderate sense of...

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...