Representations of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity

Contributor(s): Krista Kesselring

The writings of Anne Askew and the Princess Elizabeth have received attention as two of a small number of published works by women in the Tudor period. The lengthy additions and glosses of their editor, John Bale, have garnered much less notice. Bale appropriated these writings for the use of...

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Contributor(s): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

A History of Translation in Early Modern England / Une histoire de la traduction en Angleterre entre 1475 et 1660

Contributor(s): Brenda Hosington

In Memoriam: Jozef Ijsewijn

Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Artifice, Memory, and Reformatio in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia

Contributor(s): Walter S. Melion

Composed by Hieronymus Natalis at the behest of Ignatius of Loyola, the Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia is a key Jesuit propaedeutic that instructs novices in the rhetoric of prayer, teaching them how to convert Gospel liturgy into the matter of contemplative devotion. Using a system of...

Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques

Contributor(s): Nancy E. Virtue

This article examines Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques, a sixteenth-century translation and adaptation of six of Bandello's Novelle into French. Pierre Boaistuau is best known for the scandal surrounding his much-criticized edition of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, published in 1558....

Buckingham the Masquer

Contributor(s): Jean MacIntyre

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), favorite of James I and of Charles I as both prince and king, used skill in dancing, especially in masques, to compete for and retain royal favor. Masques in which he danced and masques he commissioned displayed his power with the rulers he...

Remaking the Bible: English Reformation Spiritual Conduct Books

Contributor(s): Helaine Razovsky

Among the thousands of devotional works produced in the centuries following the English Reformation are hundreds that may be called spiritual conduct books. This article defines the term "spiritual conduct book" on the basis of a text's purpose and audience. Unlike more familiar secular conduct...

Pour une lecture féminine de la Bible à la Renaissance: socialisation et principes herméneutiques dans trois traités anonymes mis à l'Index

Contributor(s): René Paquin

La démocratisation de la Bible fut au coeur de la Réforme protestante. Or, en France, cette réclamation rencontra une vive opposition de la part des instances religieuses traditionnelles. L'interdiction faite aux laïcs de lire, de traduire ou d'imprimer la Bible en langue vernaculaire donna lieu...

The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Contributor(s): W. J. Torrance Kirby

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt...

Intertextual Madness in Hamlet: The Ghost's Fragmented Performativity

Contributor(s): Hilaire Kallendorf

This essay establishes King James I's Daemonologie and Reginald Scot's Discouerie of Witchcraft as intertexts for Hamlet. It demonstrates how the diabolical linguistic register borrowed from these intertexts both heightens the verisimilitude of Hamlet's madness and expands the performative...

Reforming the Tudor Dialogue: A Case Study

Contributor(s): Seymour Baker House

This case study assesses the implications of rhetorical style in dialogues by Thomas Becon and his contemporary, Desiderius Erasmus. Becon imitated an Erasmian theme but rejected Erasmus's classically oriented rhetoric and the epistemology it advanced. Instead, he used the dialogue form as a...

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Contributor(s): Patricia Demers

This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in...

Le Dialogo de la bella creanza de le donne (1539) d'Alessandro Piccolomini et ses adaptateurs français

Contributor(s): Claude La Charité

En 1572, sous le titre d'Instruction pour les jeunes dames, Marie de Romieu donne la première traduction française du Dialogo de la bella creanza de le donne (1539) d'Alessandro Piccolomini, dans lequel une dame d'expérience amène insensiblement une jeune mariée insatisfaite à envisager une...

Celebrating Difference: The Self as Double in the Works of Louise Labé

Contributor(s): Catherine M. Müller

This essay examines the figure of the double in Sonnet VIII of Louise Labé in relation to the theme of the androgyne in the Débat de Folie et d'Amour and in the light of the proto-feminist claims of her "Épître Dédicatoire." It suggests that the poet from Lyon, in inscribing dialogue at the very...

"To Depart from the Earth with Such Writing": Johannes Kepler's Dream of Reading Knowledge

Contributor(s): Elizabeth A. Spiller

Johannes Kepler peut être compris comme représentant du conflit entre l'observation et la lecture qui a défini les théories de la connaissance à la Renaissance. Le constat de nouvelles connaissances est devenu difficile dans la mesure où la lecture et l'observation, actes de voir qui promettaient...

Two Renaissance Lives: Benvenuto Cellini and Teresa of Jesus

Contributor(s): Yemin Chao

Le présent article examine les autobiographies de deux personnages renaissants, le premier un artiste séculaire, le second une religieuse contemplative. À travers les images dont chacun se sert pour se façonner, on peut apercevoir un engagement commun avec certains thèmes humanistes et religieux...

The End of Chivalric Romance: Barthélemy Aneau's Alector (1560)

Contributor(s): Virginia Krause

Lorsque l'Alector de Barthélemy Aneau est paru en 1560, le roman de chevalerie attirait de vives critiques. Il est donc surprenant qu'un humaniste sérieux, tel que l'était Aneau, ait emprunté largement aux conventions romanesques, autant nouvelles (suspens) qu'anciennes (chevalier errant,...

Recovering the Curse of Eve: John Donne's Churching Sermons

Contributor(s): Jeffrey Johnson

L'office liturgique de relevailles ("Churching of Women after Childbirth"), tout en ayant son origine dans les lois de purification détaillées au Lévitique 12, s'était néanmoins transformé, à l'époque où John Donne servait de prêtre, en occasion surtout sociale. Les deux sermons de relevailles de...

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