Joachim Du Bellay’s Dream Language: The Songe as Allegory of Poetic Signification

Contributor(s): Hassan Melehy

Dans cet article, l’auteur se propose d’interpréter le Songe de Joachim Du Bellay comme travail du rêve, au sens psychanalytique. Cette série de poèmes a souvent été critiquée pour son obscurité; mais c’est en fonction de cette obscurité qu’elle révèle son sens, qui porte sur le flux constant du...

Marie de Gournay ou l'occultation d'une figure auctoriale

Contributor(s): Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

Beginning with the recognition that the records and biographical dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries devote greater attention to the personal aspects of Marie de Gournay (1565–1645) than to her literary production, which was nonetheless substantial, this study considers the...

The Homosocial Economies of A Woman Killed with Kindness

Contributor(s): Lyn Bennett

Cet article reconsidère la représentation des relations entre masculin et féminin dans la tragédie domestique de Thomas Heywood. Il propose que cette pièce critique les réseaux «homosociaux» et leur dépendance de la circulation du capital féminin. Par contre, une solution moralement acceptable...

Arwaker, Hugo's Pia Desideria and Protestant Poetics

Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa

En 1686, le protestant Edmund Arwaker réalisa une adaptation anglaise de Pia Desideria du jésuite belge Herman Hugo sous le titre de Divine Addresses. Contrairement à la croyance générale des historiens de la littérature, cette adaptation fut basée sur une des plusieurs éditions de l636 dénommées...

Marc Lescarbot sur les traces de Pline l'Ancien

Contributor(s): Marie-Christine Pioffet

This study examines the relationship between the work of Pliny the Elder and Marc Lescarbot's Histoire de la Nouvelle-France. Among the many works cited by the erudite lawyer, the annals of the Roman naturalist stand out as constituting a veritable encyclopedia of universal knowledge. Curiously,...

“Your Best and Maist Faithfull Subjects”: Andrew and James Melville as James VI and I's “Loyal Opposition”

Contributor(s): Stephen King

Bien que moins connue des chercheurs que celle de 1604, la conférence qui eut lieu en 1606 à Hampton Court entre le roi James et ses ecclésiastiques anglais et écossais proéminents produisit néanmoins un effet immédiat sur la pratique monarchique de James Stuart en Angleterre. À la conférence de...

Staging Puritanism in the Early 1590s: The Carnivalesque, Rebellious Clown as Anti-Puritan Stereotype

Contributor(s): Robert Hornback

La représentation, depuis longtemps négligée, de bouffons puritains sur la scène anglaise au début des années 1590 va de façon surprenante à l'encontre des préconceptions modernes. En se servant du souvent imité personnage rabelaisien et «tarltonesque» de «Martin Marprelate» (1588–89), ainsi...

Plutarchus Redivivus? La Boétie e suoi interpreti seguito da Discorso di Stefano della Boétie Della schiavitù volontaria o il Contro Uno, tradotta nell' italiano idioma da Cesare Paribelli

Contributor(s): Michel Magnien

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Contributor(s): Richard Hillman

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Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

Anachronisme et légitimité de la notion d’intellectuel pré-moderne

Contributor(s): Danièle Letocha

The term intellectuals(s) has been in use for scarcely more than one century. What is its definition? What conditions of possibility govern the emergence of the Modern intellectual? How many of these conditions can be traced to the past? The typological approach used here sets the origin of the...

Portrait de Budé en «intellectuel»: la G. Budæi viri clarissimi Vita de Loys Le Roy (1540)

Contributor(s): Michel Magnien

Hellenist, philologist, historian, friend and counsellor to the King, mythical founding member of the Collège de France, as well as family man, Guillaume Budé appears to us as a hero of humanism and compels our collective admiration because he could lead simultaneously a contemplative and an...

Érasme, les intellectuels et l’affaire Reuchlin

Contributor(s): Daniel Ménager

Intellectuals have been more than once accused of not caring about world affairs. Now, Erasmus appears to announce a modern reflection on power and knowledge. An archetype of our contemporary intellectual, he looked at and criticized the society he lived in. As a theologian and a priest, he...

Un homme politique désœoeuvré: Machiavel, historien et penseur politique

Contributor(s): Gérald Allard

A philosopher who deeply influenced Western history, Machiavelli was, as well, involved in the affairs of his time. This paper aims to analyze the pragmatic context of Machiavelli’s production, for instance, his political exile from Florence. In order to draw the lines of this “praxis,”...

Le «vrai» médecin à la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Colette Quesnel

According to Erasmus, the true Renaissance physician is also a philosopher. What does that statement really mean? The answer lies in the medical theories that are influenced by the theological, social and philosophical contexts.

L’intellectuel en procès: le cas Robert Estienne

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

The name of Robert Estienne (1501–59), the great French humanist, printer and editor, as well as leading scholar in Latin and Greek studies, is associated with his exile from Catholic France to Calvinist Geneva around 1547. Ever since his departure, the question has been raised whether it was...

Les intellectuelles et l’amour: Marie de Gournay et Marguerite de Valois

Contributor(s): Richard Hillman

When a woman defined herself as an intellectual in the Renaissance, she could not, even if she wished, detach that role from the cultural expectations conventionally attached to her gender, and most notably from issues of love and sexuality. This point may be illustrated with reference to the...

La noblesse hors d’elle-même

Contributor(s): Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

In sixteenth-century France, the nobility held an unchallenged and unanimous view concerning its own superior status and quality. A more critical assessment had been expressed in Italy by several Quattrocento and Cinquecento humanists, namely Poggio, Machiavelli, Nenna, Guazzo and Tasso. The...

Foxe’s Female Martyrs and the Sanctity of Transgression

Contributor(s): Susannah Brietz Monta

Les Actes and Monuments de Foxe contiennent de nombreuses représentations de femmes martyrisées, représentations qui entrent en rapport demanière significative et complexe avec les idées contemporaines de la femme. La transgression par ces femmes des attentes et convenances culturelles devient,...

“I am as I have Spoken”: The Act of Naming in Macbeth

Contributor(s): Carmine G. Di Biase

Beaucoup de l’action de Macbeth se caractérise par ce que la théorie des actes de parole appellerait des actes performatifs, des actes de nomination qui non seulement identifient la personne ou la chose nommée mais aussi effectuent un changement dans le monde de la pièce. Tels actes de parole,...