Représentations des textes et des savoirs chez Charles Estienne : la « vive parole » d’un humaniste

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

Homme aux savoirs multiples et homme de vulgarisation, Charles Estienne (1514–1564) s’intéressa à la traduction et à l’édition théâtrale parallèlement à ses activités éditoriales et scientifiques, tant en latin qu’en français. Non pas en marge, mais au centre d’une carrière consacrée à la parole...

Traduire la Philanira de Claude Roillet, ou, le laboratoire de la forme poétique théâtrale

Contributor(s): John Nassichuk

Claude Roillet, professeur de lettres aux collèges de Bourgogne et de Boncourt, fit paraître en 1556 le recueil de ses oeuvres de poète et de dramaturge sous le titre Varia Poemata (Paris: Guillaume Julien). Cette collection contient notamment quatre tragédies latines, intitulées Philanira,...

Les premières traductions de l’Iphigénie à Aulis d’Euripide, d’Érasme à Thomas Sébillet

Contributor(s): Virginie Leroux

En 1506, Érasme est le premier à traduire en latin des tragédies grecques entières, en l’occurrence deux tragédies d’Euripide, Hécube et Iphigénie à Aulis. S’il adopte pour l’Hécube une traduction vers à vers, il opte dans l’Iphigénie pour une traduction plus détaillée en veillant à produire dans...

Traduire, imiter et réécrire Agamemnon à la Renaissance : les tragédies de Charles Toutain (1556), Roland Brisset (1589) et Pierre Matthieu (1589)

Contributor(s): Louise Frappier

Le théâtre de Sénèque a exercé une influence majeure sur le développement de la tragédie française au XVIe siècle. Sa tragédie Agamemnon est ainsi à l’origine des pièces de Charles Toutain, Roland Brisset et Pierre Matthieu. D’un auteur à l’autre, l’écart avec le texte-source devient toutefois de...

Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation: Introduction

Contributor(s): Andrew Gow, Robert J. Bast

The Extract of Various Prophecies: Apocalypticism and Mass Media in the Early Reformation

Contributor(s): Jonathan Green

The compilation known as the Extract of Various Prophecies (Auszug etlicher Practica und Prophezeiungen) was the most popular prophetic pamphlet in Germany in the decade between 1516 and 1525. While the Extract was known to contain excerpts from the Prognosticatio of Johannes Lichtenberger and...

Why Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? The Myth and Mystery of Lindau’s Conflict-Free Reformation

Contributor(s): Johannes Wolfart

Histories of Lindau emphasize a remarkably conflict-free course of early reform in that particular locale. This view is established and maintained by multiple means, including hyper-credulity towards the peacefulness asserted by local authorities, anachronistic projections of the confessional...

Sex, Blasphemy, and the Block: The Trial and Execution of Ludwig Hätzer

Contributor(s): Geoffrey Dipple

In early 1529, the Protestant authorities of Constance executed Ludwig Hätzer for disobedience and moral depravity. Although the court documents avoided any reference to his religious teachings, contemporaries speculated about the role that perceptions—that he was an Anabaptist who espoused...

Utz Richsner as Ideologue of the Schilling Uprising in Augsburg, 1524

Contributor(s): Robert J. Bast

The 1524 uprising of evangelical artisans in Augsburg on behalf of the Franciscan preacher Johann Schilling counts as a turning point of the Reformation movement in that city. Relying on chronicles, government reports, and interrogation records, previous scholarship—none better than Jörg Rogge’s—...

Sometimes It’s the Place: The Anabaptist Kingdom Revisited

Contributor(s): Henry Suderman

Interpretations of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (23 February 1534 – 24 June 1535) and the actions of its primary protagonists have tended to be judgmental and dismissive, with little attention given to Münster Anabaptists’ self-descriptions. Studies tend to focus on the wildly imaginative...

After the Peasants’ War: Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property

Contributor(s): Christopher Ocker

Historians are only beginning to appreciate fully the political and social impact of the aftermath of the German Peasants’ War. The case of Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein, widow of Sebastian von Fuchstein, a Kaufbeuren lawyer suspected of Anabaptism and exiled at the end of the war, sheds...

The Problem of Nationalism in the Early Reformation

Contributor(s): Tom Scott

Historians frequently dismiss any use of the term nationalism in the pre-modern period as conceptually illegitimate. In the early Reformation in Germany, the welter of confusing and competing terms to describe Luther’s audience—“nation,” “tongue,” “fatherland,” patria—appears to confirm that...

De l’utopie du dialogue de la Renaissance à l’institution de la conversation à l’âge classique

Contributor(s): Jean-François Vallée

Cet article se propose de comparer ces deux moments forts de la simulation écrite de l’échange oral en France que sont le milieu du XVIe siècle pour le genre du « dialogue » (ou du « colloque ») et la deuxième moitié du XVIIe pour celui de la « conversation » (ou de l’« entretien »), et ce, afin...

Dido’s Defense: Joachim Du Bellay’s Bid for Female Patronage

Contributor(s): Beth Landers

This article argues that French poet Joachim Du Bellay’s interest in the Dido figure and his unusual ventriloquizing of female characters are connected to his practice of cultivating female patrons. Du Bellay’s occasional poems, long ignored by scholars, suggest the impact that these patrons had...

Marie Stuart, Lettres de la dernière heure. Contribution à l’étude d’un « sous-genre » oublié

Contributor(s): Colette H. Winn, Hélène Camille Martin

Cet article se propose d’examiner les lettres de la dernière heure écrites par Marie Stuart lors de sa captivité à Fotheringay avant sa mort le 8 février 1587. Adressées à ses contemporains, ces lettres permettent à Marie Stuart de contrôler jusqu’au bout l’image qui restera d’elle-même dans la...

“Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke”: Doctrines of Justification in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti

Contributor(s): Lauren Shufran

This article claims there is an underlying soteriological conceit in Spenser’s Amoretti (1595) concerning the roles that “works” and “grace” play in the beloved’s requital: roles with theological analogues in justification, the means by which people were declared righteous before God. I show how...

The “Public” of Richard Hooker’s Book 7 of the Laws: Stitching Together the Unjoined

Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

This article begins with the notion that a text can create and influence a “public,” that is, a group of individuals with common values and aspirations. Richard Hooker’s Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594–1662) is the focus here; specifically, this article shows how book 7, which defends...

The Classical Commentary in Renaissance France: Bilingual, Mixed-Language, and Translated Editions

Contributor(s): Paul White

This article analyzes the dynamic interactions of Latin and the vernacular in commentary editions of the Latin classics printed in France before 1600, addressing questions of readership, intended uses, and actual uses. Beginning with the output of Antoine Vérard, it explores the different...

Reading Ritual: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Liturgical “Text” in Pre-Reformation England

Contributor(s): Matthew J. Rinkevich

This article argues that orthodox English writers during the pre-Reformation period conceptualized the liturgy as a type of biblical text interpreted with traditional exegetical tools, especially allegoresis. In particular, it focuses upon three devotional works produced during the first several...

Sion and Elizium: National Identity, Religion, and Allegiance in Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune

Contributor(s): Lucy Underwood

This article uses Anthony Copley’s poem A Fig for Fortune (1596) to examine Elizabethan constructions of national identity. Acknowledging that religious and national identities were symbiotic in the Reformation era, it argues that the interdependency of Protestant and Catholic narratives of...