L’écriture féminine à la Renaissance française sous le regard des chercheurs canadiens

Contributor(s): Diane Desrosiers, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

Au cours des dernières décennies, un travail considérable a été accompli par les chercheurs canadiens dans l’exhumation et la réhabilitation des textes des femmes de lettres de la Renaissance française. En raison de leur positionnement géographique à l’intersection des États-Unis et de...

Canadian Contributions to Anabaptist Studies since the 1960s

Contributor(s): Jonathan R. Seiling

Anabaptist studies in Canada have been marked by an exceptional degree of productive, inter-confessional (or non-confessional) engagement, most notably between Mennonites, Baptists, and Lutherans. The institutions making the greatest contributions have been at the University of Waterloo...

Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone

Contributor(s): Guy Poirier

Guy Poirier aborde, dans cet article, les points de réflexion qui ont amené à la création du partenariat « Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone », et notamment les questions liées aux nouvelles études sur les grandes découvertes, à la pluridisciplinarité et à la diffusion des...

Forty Years of the Collected Works of Erasmus

Contributor(s): Mark Crane

This article discusses the origins and development of the Collected Works of Erasmus series, a project to translate the vast majority of the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Greek and Latin writings into English. A unique partnership between the University of Toronto Press and a team of...

A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada

Contributor(s): Janelle Jenstad, Erin E. Kelly

Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the University of Victoria have enough rare books to serve these purposes. But how do we teach book...

Travaux sur la censure et les index des livres interdits réalisés à l’Université de Sherbrooke

Contributor(s): J. M. De Bujanda

L’invention de l’imprimerie au XVe siècle s’avère un puissant facteur de diffusion des idées dont se servent les autorités civiles et religieuses ainsi que le mouvement humaniste. Quand au XVIe siècle l’imprimerie devient le principal moyen de diffusion de la Réforme protestante, les...

Making Scholarship Public: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Early Modern Studies

Contributor(s): Paul Yachnin

How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary...

Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript

Contributor(s): Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Maggie Shirley

This article describes the context and development of A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript, a collaboratively created Wikibook edition of the sixteenth-century verse miscellany known as the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17,492). This project began in 2001 when Dr. Ray Siemens led a...

Capstone and Cornerstone: Creating a Virtual Research Centre in Honours and Graduate Courses in Renaissance Literature

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Popham

For the past three years, I have experimented with courses for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students that incorporate features of directed reading projects, making use of a Managed Learning System (MLS) site as a “virtual research centre” for collaborative investigation of...

Augmented Criticism, Extensible Archives, and the Progress of Renaissance Studies

Contributor(s): Michael Ullyot

In the three decades since the rise of New Historicism, Renaissance studies has progressed through extensions of scholars’ archival reach to new objects for new interpretations. The future will bring expansions on a larger scale, like those we now witness in English print archives....

Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies in Canada: A Graduate Student’s Perspective

Contributor(s): Sarah M. Loose

This article focuses on digital humanities and Renaissance studies in Canada, highlighting established projects such as Iter and newer efforts such as Serai, and addressing recent interest in historical GIS. This survey of projects demonstrates how the work of Renaissance studies faculty and...

Word-entries and Big Data in Lexicons of Early Modern English

Contributor(s): Ian Lancashire

This brief thirty-year history of Lexicons of Early Modern English, an online database of glossaries and dictionaries of the period, begins in a fourteenth-floor Robarts Library lab of the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1986. It was first published freely...

Records of Early English Drama: A Retrospective

Contributor(s): Sally-Beth MacLean

The Records of Early English Drama, founded in 1976, remains a productive humanities research project, with thirty-three volumes in print and two open access research and educational websites to date. This retrospective essay reflects on the individuals who contributed to its founding and...

Barthélemy Aneau’s Alector ou le coq and the Paradox of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Contributor(s): Jenny Meyer

Barthélemy Aneau’s histoire fabuleuse, Alector ou le coq (1560) epitomizes a burgeoning sixteenth-century awareness of the globe and its scope. New possibilities for envisioning global space went hand in hand with the development of cosmopolitan sympathies among Renaissance humanists; namely,...

Building Opposition at the Early Tudor Tower of London: Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort

Contributor(s): Kristen Deiter

Medieval and early modern English monarchs constructed the Tower of London’s iconography to symbolize royal power, creating a self-promoting royal ideology of the Tower. However, the Tower’s cultural significance turned sharply when Thomas More wrote A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation...

Authority and Attribution in the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter

Contributor(s): Rebecca M. Rush

This essay addresses the vexed question of the genre of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter by considering the framing of the psalms in the early editions printed in England and on the continent. It is undeniable that all of the producers of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter were committed to the...

Eucharistic Love in The Merchant of Venice

Contributor(s): Ian McAdam

The article considers the ambiguous characterizations of The Merchant of Venice in light of Protestant and Catholic interpretations of the Eucharist, and raises implications for masculine gender construction in the opposition between Jewish and Christian cultural and theological perspectives. The...

Hamlet, Pirates, and Purgatory

Contributor(s): Tom Rutter

Hamlet’s abduction by pirates during his voyage to England is an episode that does not appear in the main narrative source of Shakespeare’s play, Belleforest’s Histoires tragiques. This essay surveys the various sources that have been proposed, including the Ur-Hamlet, Plutarch’s “Life of Julius...

Nicholas of Cusa’s Dialogue with Augustine: The Measure of the Soul’s Greatness in De Ludo Globi

Contributor(s): Sarah Powrie

Nicholas of Cusa’s De Ludo Globi (1463) explores the tensions between the soul’s terrestrial and transcendent aspirations; between its desire to engage materiality through creative self-expression and to remove itself from its historically-bound identity in mystical contemplation. Many of Cusa’s...

Symbiotic Anthropology and Politics in a Postmodern Age: Rethinking the Political Philosophy of Johannes Althusius (1557–1638)

Contributor(s): Nico Vorster

Postmodern societies are increasingly characterized by a hyperpluralism that coincides with an interdependence between social spheres and structures. Actions in one sphere of life often impinge on other spheres of life. This leads to a consistent and endemic conflict between the social dynamics...