Towards Confessional Reconciliation: The “Protestantization” of Charles V in David Chytraeus’s De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)

Contributor(s): Isabella Walser-Bürgler

In 1583, David Chytraeus (1530–1600), one of the key figures of north German Protestant humanism, published his Latin biographical oration De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio on Emperor Charles V (Holy Roman emperor from 1520 to 1556). Despite the numerous confessional conflicts between the...

Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

Contributor(s): Patrick Timmis

This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of...

Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

Contributor(s): Emily Butterworth

Hypocrisy is a recurring concern in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, part of the wider dynamic of dissimulation, pretence, and exposure explored in the storytelling project. This article discusses the contexts in which hypocrisy is revealed and debated in the Heptaméron. While clerical and...

“Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

Contributor(s): Luke O’Sullivan

Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées (1584, 1597, 1598) constitute an exercise in commonplacing framed as a collection of tales told around a Poitevin dining table. They engage in a form of quasi-philosophical thinking staged by and for an urban merchant community, the social world in which Bouchet...

Equity and Amerindians in Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1, 31)

Contributor(s): Shannon R. Connolly

Since the first publication of the Essais in Bordeaux in 1580, readers of this work have recognized skepticism underlying the judgment of its author, Michel de Montaigne. Arguing that the Pyrrhonist school of skepticism relies upon cultural diversity, or that Montaigne was influenced by...

Wiggins, Alison, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann, and Graham Williams, eds.; Katherine Rogers, web developer. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. Edition

Contributor(s): Leah Knight

Ioppolo, Grace, project dir. Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project. Other

Contributor(s): Kara J. Northway

Rusche, Harry, and Justin Shaw, project dirs. Shakespeare and the Players. Other

Contributor(s): Michael John Goodman

MacLean, Sally-Beth, and Alan Somerset, co-directors. Records of Early English Drama: Patrons & Performances (REED: P&P). Other

Contributor(s): Michael Poston, Stacey Redick

King, Edmund, principal investigator. The UK Reading Experience Database

Contributor(s): Rebecca Munson

Hosington, Brenda M., gen ed. Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue (RCCC). Database

Contributor(s): Joshua Reid

Greengrass, Mark, Michael Leslie, and Michael Hannon, project leads. The Hartlib Papers. Database

Contributor(s): Evan Bourke

Susanna De Schepper, project lead. Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV). Database

Contributor(s): Alexandra Hill

Magni, Isabella, Lia Markey, and Maddalena Signorini, eds. Italian Paleography. Other

Contributor(s): Crystal Hall

Brandhorst, Hans, and Etienne Posthumus, eds. Arkyves. Other

Contributor(s): Rachel M. Carlisle

Auger, Peter. Du Bartas’ Legacy in England and Scotland

Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Barbier-Mueller, Jean Paul. Ma Bibliothèque poétique. Quatrième partie, Tome V. Contemporains et successeurs de Ronsard, de Pasquier (suite) à Sorbin, éd. Jean Balsamo

Contributor(s): François Rouget

Barker, Hannah. That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500

Contributor(s): Angela Zhang

Bastow, Sarah L. Edwin Sandys and the Reform of English Religion

Contributor(s): Brian L. Hanson

Berzal de Dios, Javier. Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces

Contributor(s): Sergius Kodera