Preface / Préface

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes, Amyrose McCue Gill

A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Calling the World to Come and Share Our Finds: Three Memoirs and Some Highlights from the Founding of Renaissance and Reformation

Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis, James McConica, Germaine Warkentin

Editors’ Recollections

Contributor(s): John McClelland, Julius Molinaro, Glenn Loney, Kenneth R. Bartlett, François Paré, Alan Shepard, William R. Bowen

CSRS/SCÉR (1976–2014): Une brève histoire de la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance / A Brief History of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies

Contributor(s): Margaret Reeves, Louise Frappier

Recollections on the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto (2004 to 2014)

Contributor(s): Kimberley Yates, Stephanie Treloar, Amyrose McCue Gill, Linda Gail Stone, Natalie Oeltjen

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): Paul Budra, Jean MacIntyre

The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years

Contributor(s): Elizabeth S. Cohen, Jane Couchman

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...