Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Contributor(s): Emily Reisman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.415

This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from “next year in Jerusalem” to “next year, together,” the essay explores the politics of place in...

Niayesh, Ladan, ed. Three Romances of Eastern Conquest: Robert Greene, The Comical History of Alphonsus, Thomas Kyd, The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda, and Thomas Heywood, The Four Prentices of London

Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Nicholas of Cusa’s Dialogue with Augustine: The Measure of the Soul’s Greatness in De Ludo Globi

Contributor(s): Sarah Powrie

Nicholas of Cusa’s De Ludo Globi (1463) explores the tensions between the soul’s terrestrial and transcendent aspirations; between its desire to engage materiality through creative self-expression and to remove itself from its historically-bound identity in mystical contemplation. Many of Cusa’s...

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Contributor(s): Shailesh Shukla, Jazmin Alfaro, Carol Cochrane, Cindy Garson, Gerald Mason, Jason Dyck, Brielle Beudin-Reimer, Janna Barkman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.218

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian...

Nino Fama, L’oeano nel pozzo. Cosenza: Pellegrini Editore, 2013.

2023-05-25 19:31:33 | Contributor(s): Jean Igor Ghidina

Nonna's Spiritual Journey Back Home

Contributor(s): Raymond Culos

This is a story of a young bride, typical of many Italian women of her generation, who struggled with the proposition of having to leave all she knew and loved behind to join her husband and a new life in ‘America’. Threading this common story of emigration, journeying, and settling, however, are...

North Central Conference of the Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): A. Kent Hieatt

North Central Conference of the Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): A. Kent Hieatt

North Central Conference of The Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): A. Kent Hieatt

North Central Conference of the Renaissance Society Survey of Research-Activities

2023-06-27 18:07:43 | Contributor(s): A. Kent Hieatt

Northrop Frye and Niccolò Machiavelli

Contributor(s): Robert D. Denham

This essay seeks to answer the questions, how can we explain the numerous references in Frye’s notebooks and elsewhere to the political theory in Machiavelli’s The Prince? What in Machiavelli’s thought did Frye believe deserved our attention, and why? Toward this end the essay examines the...

Northrop Frye e il potere della parola

Contributor(s): Francesco Guardiani

Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters

Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly Southern) Italian immigrants attempted to soothe their need for a sense of belonging, how they negotiated...

Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration

Contributor(s): Franc Sturino

The Italian immigrant experience in North America is discussed in relation to the concepts of nostos and nostalgia. The first term, normally referring to the return home from a sea voyage, is discussed comparing the foundational account of nostos, the Odyssey, with the early sojourn phase of...

Nota del Direttore

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Nota del direttore

Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

Nota della direttrice

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Nota su antichi testi aquilani

Contributor(s): Paolo Fasoli

Nota sull'influenza francese nella formazione del linguaggio politico italiano alla fine del '700

Contributor(s): Helena Slavikova

Note del curatore e direttore

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali