« Marot y fut » : Le Discours de la court de Claude Chappuys

Contributor(s): Florian Preisig

In 1543 Claude Chappuys published Le Discours de la court, a long poem in praise of the court of Francis I. This text, a hybrid of moral allegory and enumerative discourse, recalls themes, structures, and poetic language that can be found in Guillaume de Lorris, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and above...

Landscapes and Mindscapes: Mapping Selfhood in a Chanson spirituelle of Marguerite de Navarre

Contributor(s): Jeff Kendrick

Les Chansons spirituelles de Marguerite de Navarre (1547) regorgent d’exemples de la façon dont la poétesse construit un soi varié et à plusieurs facettes à travers la confession, qui est à la fois une expérience sociale et intime. La découverte de soi de la poétesse se développe à partir de...

Looking beyond Confessional Boundaries: Discourse of Religious Tolerance in Prints by Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Adriaan de Weert

Contributor(s): Barbara A. Kaminska

Cet article examine une série de gravures intitulée The Moral Decline of the Clergy, or the Root of the Dutch Revolt and the Iconoclastic Fury, conçue par Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert et Adriaan de Weert. Cette série a été publiée au début des années 1570 à Cologne, où de nombreux flamands, y...

Reported Speech in The Winter’s Tale

Contributor(s): John Baxter

La pièce The Winter’s Tale fait un usage considérable du discours rapporté dans ses moments décisifs, tels que l’oracle de Delphes déterminant à propos de la fidélité de la reine, la vision qu’Antigonus se remémore alors qu’Hermione lui dit comment accomplir son voeu d’ostraciser leur petite...

« Buchanan polygraphe. In Memoriam Ian D. McFarlane » : Introduction

Contributor(s): Nathalie Catellani-Dufrêne

La poésie en question dans la première et la cinquième élégie de George Buchanan

Contributor(s): Carine Ferradou

From the first verse of the first Elegy (entitled “Quam misera sit conditio docentium literas humaniores Lutetiae...”) written by Buchanan while he was a young teacher in Paris, the Scottish scholar depicts himself as an unlucky lover of poetry whose passion is impeded by his educational job....

George Buchanan’s Unpublished Poems

Contributor(s): Philip Ford

Dans un article important paru dans The Library en 1969, et intitulé « George Buchanan’s Latin Poems from Script to Print », Ian McFarlane a établi les bases d’une éventuelle édition critique des poèmes de l’humaniste écossais. Enfouis dans les différents manuscrits contenant ses œuvres,...

Poetry and the Respublica Litterarum in the Sixteenth Century. The Communication of Ideas: George Buchanan and Jan Kochanowski

Contributor(s): Elwira Buszewicz

Jan Kochanowski, le poète le plus important de la Renaissance polonaise, loue les Paraphrases des Psaumes de George Buchanan dans son épigramme élogieux intitulé Ad Buchananum. Il s’agit du seul ouvrage dans lequel Kochanowski s’adresse directement au grand humaniste écossais. On ne trouve...

L’icône et l’idole. Les représentations de Marie Stuart dans l’œuvre de George Buchanan

Contributor(s): Nathalie Catellani-Dufrêne

In 1561, George Buchanan definitely left France to live in Scotland where he became court poet of the Catholic Queen Mary Stewart, even if he publicly became Protestant. At the beginning, the humanist composed a few epigrams in which the queen is depicted as a good sovereign who restores the...

Le Genethliacon Jacobi Sexti Scotorum Regis de George Buchanan

Contributor(s): Aline Smeesters

The Latin genethliac poem celebrating the birth of James VI of Scotland is often recognised as one of the most significant poems by George Buchanan, but it has never been fully analysed so far. This paper ambitions to propose a global interpretation of the genethliac, taking into account its...

Constructing a Mainland State in Literature: Perceptions of Venice and Its Terraferma in Marin Sanudo’s Geographical Descriptions

Contributor(s): Sandra Toffolo

This article focuses on how, in a time of important political changes, narratives concerning Venice and its mainland state could be constructed and transformed. As case study, three geographical descriptions by the Venetian patrician Marin Sanudo (1466–1536) are analyzed: Itinerarium Marini...

A More Excellent Way: Philip Melanchthon’s Corinthians Lectures of 1521–22

Contributor(s): William P. Weaver

Through a critical study of Philip Melanchthon’s 1521–22 lectures on 1 and 2 Corinthians, this essay evaluates his rhetorical method of reading and annotating Scripture. Building on a conventional analogy between ad fontes and sola scriptura, it investigates an equally operative analogy between...

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...