Copernican Ideas in Sixteenth Century France

Contributor(s): Henry Heller

The French religious wars were marked by intolerance and fanaticism. At the same time the ability of the established church and state to enforce religious and intellectual conformity was seriously undermined. In this atmosphere of crisis and relative intellectual freedom the old Aristotelian and...

Facettes et reflets du mythe mirandolien

Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Il existe autour de l’Oratio de hominis dignitate de Jean Pic de la Mirandole un véritable mythe prométhéen, par lequel le texte de l'Oratio s'est chargé peu à peu, à partir de Burckhardt, d'une fonction prophétique. Le présent article vise à revoir dans ce contexte les différentes idées reçues...

Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale

Contributor(s): Jacqueline A. Vanhoutte

This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both...

Response

Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa, Judith Scherer Herz

Montaigne: un regard mathématique sur la mort

Contributor(s): Marcel Goulet

La réflexion que, dans les Essais, Montaigne poursuit sur la mort, en vue de découvrir un ars moriendi spécifiquement humain — toute croyance religieuse étant expressément écartée —, l'amène à soumettre à son jugement la doctrine stoïcienne et sa rhétorique de l'amenuisement, d'une part, et...

Renaissance Queens and Foucauldian Carcerality

Contributor(s): Lisa Hopkins

This essay examines the figuring of images and experiences of imprisonment in the public and private writings and speeches of three women — Marguerite de Navarre, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I — and a man, Sir Philip Sidney, writing to an explicitly feminised agenda. It explores the ways...

The "Honest Style" of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest

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 Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

François Bonivard and his Difformes Reformateurs

Contributor(s): W. G. Naphy

This article presents François Bonivard (the pre-Reformation Prior of Geneva's Cluniac monastery) and his Des Difformes Reformateurs, the premier example of his satirical and polemical skills. In this, he attacks the violence and immorality accompanying and undermining the Reformation. Opposed to...

Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas

Contributor(s): Richard Pickard

The period 1620-1660 saw the emergence of several English women, of varying classes, who chose Biblical prophecy as an entry into public, political discourse. Many of these women, such as Hester Biddle and Margaret Fell Fox, stated their opinions with relative clarity. Lady Eleanor Douglas,...

An Intertextual Discourse on Sin and Salvation: John Donne's Sermon on Psalm 51

Contributor(s): Chanita Goodblatt

John Donne as preacher invokes the "Protestant paradigm of salvation," stressing the marring of human nature by Original Sin and the dependence upon God's grace for spiritual reatoration. This paradigm informs his participation in the intertextual discourse on sin and salvation begun by the...

Le théâtre au service de la cause universitaire à la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Lyse Roy

Cette étude retrace l'histoire la production théâtrale à l’Université de Caen à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de la Renaissance. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement à la production de la Farce de Pates-Ouaintes, oeuvre présumée de Pierre de Lesnauderie. Cette pièce permet de comprendre les liens...

Martin Luther on Deësis: His Rejection of the Artistic Representation of "Jesus, John, and Mary"

Contributor(s): Franz Posset

At times, Reformation scholars and art historians are confused about Luther's attitude toward the visual arts which depict saints as intermediaries between God and humanity. Rarely do they thematize the issue in relation to the deësis, i.e. Christ enthroned, with Mary and John the Baptist as...

After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England

Contributor(s): Lloyd Edward Kermode

In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's...

Telling Stories, Naming Names: Heptaméron 43

Contributor(s): Laura Doyle Gates

This paper focuses on the idea of the grammatical third person as organizing principle for the 43rd tale of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. The third person encompasses several relevant domains, among them the assignation of gender, the function of proper names, and Benveniste's notion of...

La fantaisie et la nature des femmes dans l'Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant

Les occurrences de fantaisie dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre instaurent une différenciation entre les sexes des personnages du récit-cadre et des contes. Mais lorsqu'on considère la façon dont s'enflamme la fantaisie de l'un et l'autre sexe, les conséquences de cette flamme, puis la...

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, and the Representation of Henry VIII, 1529-1533

Contributor(s): J. Christopher Warner

This essay examines Sir Thomas More's Utopia in the context of Henry VIII's divorce crisis. During this period tracts from the royal press publicized an image of Henry VIII as a disinterested philosopher-king who welcomed open debate and advice at his court. Reading Morus and Hythlodaeus's...

Erratum: The Honest Style of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest, by James P. Crowley

Contributor(s): François Paré

Marie Dentière et la prédication des femmes

Contributor(s): Cynthia Skenazi

Dans son Epistre très utile (1539), Marie Dentière s'approprie le modèle de la prédication donné par Farel pour dénoncer avec fougue la corruption de l'Église romaine. La réaction de Farel et de Calvin à l'activité d'une femme qui, en outre, contrairement aux interdits religieux, prêche en public...

Civic Rivalry and the Boundaries of Civic Identity in the French Wars of Religion: Châlons-sur-Marne and the Towns of Champagne

Contributor(s): Mark Konnert

An examination of the policies and actions of the city council of the Champagne town of Châlons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion qualifies the view that the wars spelled the end of the bonne ville. In particular, this article examines Châlons' rivalries with the other towns of the...

The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther

Contributor(s): Robert R. McCutcheon

For all their doctrinal antagonism, the treatises on the will of Erasmus and Luther betray a fundamental affinity in their twofold ambiva-lence toward dialogue: whether a fundamental issue like the will should be debated at all; and whether dialogue is the appropriate vehicle for such a...