After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England

Contributor(s): Lloyd Edward Kermode

In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's...

Telling Stories, Naming Names: Heptaméron 43

Contributor(s): Laura Doyle Gates

This paper focuses on the idea of the grammatical third person as organizing principle for the 43rd tale of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. The third person encompasses several relevant domains, among them the assignation of gender, the function of proper names, and Benveniste's notion of...

La fantaisie et la nature des femmes dans l'Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant

Les occurrences de fantaisie dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre instaurent une différenciation entre les sexes des personnages du récit-cadre et des contes. Mais lorsqu'on considère la façon dont s'enflamme la fantaisie de l'un et l'autre sexe, les conséquences de cette flamme, puis la...

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, and the Representation of Henry VIII, 1529-1533

Contributor(s): J. Christopher Warner

This essay examines Sir Thomas More's Utopia in the context of Henry VIII's divorce crisis. During this period tracts from the royal press publicized an image of Henry VIII as a disinterested philosopher-king who welcomed open debate and advice at his court. Reading Morus and Hythlodaeus's...

Erratum: The Honest Style of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest, by James P. Crowley

Contributor(s): François Paré

Marie Dentière et la prédication des femmes

Contributor(s): Cynthia Skenazi

Dans son Epistre très utile (1539), Marie Dentière s'approprie le modèle de la prédication donné par Farel pour dénoncer avec fougue la corruption de l'Église romaine. La réaction de Farel et de Calvin à l'activité d'une femme qui, en outre, contrairement aux interdits religieux, prêche en public...

Civic Rivalry and the Boundaries of Civic Identity in the French Wars of Religion: Châlons-sur-Marne and the Towns of Champagne

Contributor(s): Mark Konnert

An examination of the policies and actions of the city council of the Champagne town of Châlons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion qualifies the view that the wars spelled the end of the bonne ville. In particular, this article examines Châlons' rivalries with the other towns of the...

The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther

Contributor(s): Robert R. McCutcheon

For all their doctrinal antagonism, the treatises on the will of Erasmus and Luther betray a fundamental affinity in their twofold ambiva-lence toward dialogue: whether a fundamental issue like the will should be debated at all; and whether dialogue is the appropriate vehicle for such a...

Faut-il donner un sens philosophique au mot humanisme?

Contributor(s): Jacques Chomarat

Du quatorzième au seizième siècle, l'humanisme est souvent pris pour une doctrine qui tend à substituer l'homme à Dieu comme centre du monde. Mais Pic de la Mirandole se borne à affirmer le libre-arbitre de l'homme: il se rattache à la scolastique. De purs humanistes, tels que Pétrarque, Valla,...

Nouvelles lectures de Montaigne

Contributor(s): Jean Lafond

Differentiating Hamlet: Ophelia and the Problems of Subjectivity

Contributor(s): Richard Finkelstein

By considering the positions Hamlet explores with regards to the nature of intention, the nature and acquisition of knowledge, the effectiveness of reason, and their relation to psychological integrity, the author of this paper argues that Shakespeare evaluates the play's participation in the...

Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Dismemberment in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s Philaster

Contributor(s): Marie H. Loughlin

Critics often dismiss cross-dressing in Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster as a meretricious dramatic trick. In reality, cross-dressing becomes a nexus for the play's pervasive anxieties concerning bodily and vestimentary codes, with major characters staking their conflicting claims to political...

Marie de Gournay cont(r)e la tradition: Du Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne aux versions de l'Éneide

Contributor(s): Martine Debaisieux

Cette étude considère le rapport entre le récit du Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne et la traduction du second livre de l'Énéide lui faisant suite dans le recueil qui marque les débuts littéraires de Marie de Gournay (1594). Au-delà des liens entre l'histoire tragique d'Alinda et celle de...

A Catholic Theologian Responds to Copernicanism: The Theological Judicium of Paolo Foscarini’s Lettera

Contributor(s): Irving A. Kelter

This paper is an in-depth analysis of the Carmelite Paolo Foscarini's role in the debate on Copernican cosmology in the early seventeenth century. Using as a point of departure the 1616 Judicium issued by the Catholic Church against Foscarini's pro-Copernican treatise, this analysis will lead to...

Speech Versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale

Contributor(s): Ronald W. Cooley

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale is a play in which theatrical spectacle triumphs over speech, as stage action obscures the incoherence of verbal representation. This paper identifies Autolycus as a composite of Jacobean anxieties about the sources of social instability, and explores his place in this...

Le procès de Montaigne par Malebranche. La véracité à l'aune de la vérité moderne

Contributor(s): Syliane Charles

L'analyse détaillée des critiques formulées par Malebranche à l'encontre de Montaigne nous sert à révéler le hiatus existant entre le cadre épistémologique de la Renaissance et celui de la modernité. L'éclairage de ces contextes nous conduit, sur le plan de l'histoire des idées, à soutenir...

Prodigious Births and Death in Childbirth in Le Palais des Nobles Dames, (Lyons, 1534)

Contributor(s): Brenda Dunn-Lardeau

In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the treatment of the theme of prodigious births and death in childbirth is of particular interest compared to that of his sixteenth century contemporaries. On the one hand, the author's religious faith...

Thomas More's Utopia: Preface to Reformation

Contributor(s): Walter M. Gordon

Recent studies have stressed the ambiguity of Thomas More's Utopia. Although the essay does not argue against this view, it does point to the clear and basic contention of the work which, if lost, makes it impossible to come to grips with the questions the book poses. Utopia criticizes the upper,...

Rethinking "Continuity": Erasmus' Ecclesiastes and the Artes Praedicandi

Contributor(s): Francis P. Kilcoyne, Margaret Jennings

Erasmus' "radical orientation towards continuities," coupled with a series of congruent physical and philosophical circumstances, suggests a possible relationship between certain medieval artes praedicandi and the Ecclesiastes sive de Ratione Concionandi. By exploring the parallels between these...

Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English

Contributor(s): Rick Bowers

Thomas Phaer's many printed works, including legal and medical texts, occasional verses, and classical translations, all insist upon - even assert - English as a language suitable for learned consciousness. As a physician, legal theorist, man of letters, and member of Parliament, Phaer represents...