The Impossible Striptease: Nudity in Jean Calvin and Michel de Montaigne

Contributor(s): Nora Martin Peterson

This essay examines the writings of Jean Calvin and Michel de Montaigne, two figures not commonly considered together. The article seeks to highlight a certain fascination with nudity, not only in these texts, but in sixteenth-century culture as a whole. Though it is a bodily phenomenon, I argue,...

Red Herrings and the “Stench of Fish”: Subverting “Praise” in Thomas Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe

Contributor(s): Kristen Abbott Bennett

In Lenten Stuffe, “praise” emerges as a red herring diverting readers from recognizing how Thomas Nashe telescopes his chorography of Yarmouth into a catalogue of arbitrary Crown rule from William the Conqueror’s rule through the English Reformation. So too is Nashe’s apology for contributing to...

“Worthy my blood”: Inheritance, Imitation, and Gendered Familial Emotions in John Marston’s Antonio Plays

Contributor(s): Megan Elizabeth Allen

Examining the Antonio plays by John Marston, I argue that the metaphors used to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies that underpin both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships; these metaphors reveal the pressures placed on family emotions by economic and political...

Fils de la louve: Blaise de Monluc et les femmes de Sienne

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

In July 1552 the city of Siena rebelled against its Spanish overlords that had either influenced or directed the Republic’s government for several years, threw out the Spanish garrison that controlled the city, and open its doors to a French army sent by King Henri II to protect the city and...

Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare ou le blason mis à nu

Contributor(s): Natalie Roulon

Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 is sometimes read as an anti-blazon, and therefore as a misogynist text. Drawing on a large number of Renaissance poems, I show that this is a misreading of the sonnet which, far from presenting the Dark Lady in satirical fashion, pays her an unconventional tribute....

The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

Contributor(s): Sean Armstrong

Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s,...

Erring from Good Huswifry? The Author as Witness in Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye

Contributor(s): Isabelle Clairhout

Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye differ in the extent to which their scientific ideas and social positions allowed them to translate their view of the embodied observer into a steady textual image that was consistent with their methodological and epistemological ideas. However, they are united in...

Disciplining Brothers in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Province of Aragon

Contributor(s): Patricia W. Manning

This article studies the leave-taking process in the Society of Jesus’ Province of Aragon. According to the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and decrees of General Congregation 7, the community could decide to dismiss a Jesuit or an individual could request to depart. Provincial and Roman...

Preface / Préface

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes, Amyrose McCue Gill

A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Calling the World to Come and Share Our Finds: Three Memoirs and Some Highlights from the Founding of Renaissance and Reformation

Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis, James McConica, Germaine Warkentin

Editors’ Recollections

Contributor(s): John McClelland, Julius Molinaro, Glenn Loney, Kenneth R. Bartlett, François Paré, Alan Shepard, William R. Bowen

CSRS/SCÉR (1976–2014): Une brève histoire de la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance / A Brief History of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies

Contributor(s): Margaret Reeves, Louise Frappier

Recollections on the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto (2004 to 2014)

Contributor(s): Kimberley Yates, Stephanie Treloar, Amyrose McCue Gill, Linda Gail Stone, Natalie Oeltjen

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): Paul Budra, Jean MacIntyre

The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years

Contributor(s): Elizabeth S. Cohen, Jane Couchman

The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Contributor(s): Antonio Ricci

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto has significant holdings of books printed in Italy during the Renaissance. These volumes cover a wide variety of disciplines and represent a major resource for scholars of literature, philosophy, science, and print culture. The...

Froben Press Editions (1505–1559) in the Holdings of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Library: A Brief Survey

Contributor(s): Valentina Sebastiani, Wendell Ricketts

Analysis of the material aspects of books has opened new fields for historical enquiry that connect humanist learning, theology, and the press. The collaboration between Erasmus of Rotterdam and the printers Johannes and Hieronymus Froben of Basel between 1514 and 1536 offers itself as a vantage...

The Study of Renaissance and Reformation Books on the Canadian Prairies

Contributor(s): David Watt, Sharon Wright, Paul Dyck

This article begins by providing a survey of collections holding Renaissance and Reformation books in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in order to draw attention to the range of resources across the prairies. The article’s second section focuses on the manuscripts and rare books at the University of...

Wandel, Lee Palmer. The Reformation: Towards a New History.

Contributor(s): Christina Moss