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

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...