Le retour de Pologne d’Henri III: images alexandrines du roi au Bucentaure

Contributor(s): Guy Poirier

Si la véritable nature du roi Henri III, celui que Pierre Chevallier dénommait le roi shakespearien, demeure scellée pour l'éternité, les pièces de circonstance écrites pendant les premières années de son règne peuvent en revanche nous renseigner sur les tentatives parfois contradictoires de...

“Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

Contributor(s): Andrew Barnaby

This essay attempts to provide a specific cultural context for Francis Bacon's project of natural philosophical reform. Documenting Bacon's earliest understanding of the link between the nature and uses of natural philosophy and what he would call the "care of the commonwealth," it moves from a...

Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy

Contributor(s): Samuel G. Wong

This paper considers the implications of Burton's "encyclopedism" defined here as the condition of a work where writing is a form of therapy compelled by disease. The notion of encyclopedism suggests the ways in which the encyclopedia serves as a compendious alter-ego to Burton's book. Reading...

"Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

Contributor(s): Michael Keefer

After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks...

A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

Contributor(s): Isabelle Lachance

Poésie maniériste? Baroque? Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort (1594) peut-être le résultat de multiples influences, et chaque situation d'énonciation de ce recueil comporte sa manière propre de structurer les courants idéologiques de l'époque à laquelle il a été écrit, et ce,...

"He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

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 Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

Crime and the Road: A Survey of Sixteenth-Century Travel Journals

Contributor(s): Luigi Monga

This article is a journey through the lesser known travel diaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its intent is to underline the occurence of violent images along the European roads, particularly in Italy, Spain, France, and England. Criminality, danger, and violence are all common...

Renaissance et Humanisme en Slovaquie

Contributor(s): Eva Frimmová

Cet article constitue un survol analytique de l'impact des idées nouvelles sur la culture et le monde intellectuel en Slovaquie durant le période renaissante. Les contacts sont nombreux entre les humanistes, les intellectuels et les scientifiques autant à Presbourg que dans les villes...

Representations of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity

Contributor(s): Krista Kesselring

The writings of Anne Askew and the Princess Elizabeth have received attention as two of a small number of published works by women in the Tudor period. The lengthy additions and glosses of their editor, John Bale, have garnered much less notice. Bale appropriated these writings for the use of...

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Contributor(s): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

A History of Translation in Early Modern England / Une histoire de la traduction en Angleterre entre 1475 et 1660

Contributor(s): Brenda Hosington

In Memoriam: Jozef Ijsewijn

Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Artifice, Memory, and Reformatio in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia

Contributor(s): Walter S. Melion

Composed by Hieronymus Natalis at the behest of Ignatius of Loyola, the Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia is a key Jesuit propaedeutic that instructs novices in the rhetoric of prayer, teaching them how to convert Gospel liturgy into the matter of contemplative devotion. Using a system of...

Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques

Contributor(s): Nancy E. Virtue

This article examines Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques, a sixteenth-century translation and adaptation of six of Bandello's Novelle into French. Pierre Boaistuau is best known for the scandal surrounding his much-criticized edition of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, published in 1558....

Buckingham the Masquer

Contributor(s): Jean MacIntyre

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), favorite of James I and of Charles I as both prince and king, used skill in dancing, especially in masques, to compete for and retain royal favor. Masques in which he danced and masques he commissioned displayed his power with the rulers he...

Remaking the Bible: English Reformation Spiritual Conduct Books

Contributor(s): Helaine Razovsky

Among the thousands of devotional works produced in the centuries following the English Reformation are hundreds that may be called spiritual conduct books. This article defines the term "spiritual conduct book" on the basis of a text's purpose and audience. Unlike more familiar secular conduct...

Pour une lecture féminine de la Bible à la Renaissance: socialisation et principes herméneutiques dans trois traités anonymes mis à l'Index

Contributor(s): René Paquin

La démocratisation de la Bible fut au coeur de la Réforme protestante. Or, en France, cette réclamation rencontra une vive opposition de la part des instances religieuses traditionnelles. L'interdiction faite aux laïcs de lire, de traduire ou d'imprimer la Bible en langue vernaculaire donna lieu...

The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Contributor(s): W. J. Torrance Kirby

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt...

Intertextual Madness in Hamlet: The Ghost's Fragmented Performativity

Contributor(s): Hilaire Kallendorf

This essay establishes King James I's Daemonologie and Reginald Scot's Discouerie of Witchcraft as intertexts for Hamlet. It demonstrates how the diabolical linguistic register borrowed from these intertexts both heightens the verisimilitude of Hamlet's madness and expands the performative...

Reforming the Tudor Dialogue: A Case Study

Contributor(s): Seymour Baker House

This case study assesses the implications of rhetorical style in dialogues by Thomas Becon and his contemporary, Desiderius Erasmus. Becon imitated an Erasmian theme but rejected Erasmus's classically oriented rhetoric and the epistemology it advanced. Instead, he used the dialogue form as a...