Aileen R. Das, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus

2023-05-18 22:14:16 | Contributor(s): Nahyan Fancy

The title of Aileen Das’ first monograph, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus, may mislead readers into thinking that she is solely interested in contributing to the growing literature on reception studies of this important Platonic dialogue. As valuable as Das’ contributions to...

Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio

Air Quality and the Senses in Early Modern Italy

Contributor(s): Julia Rombough

Using printed and archival records, this article analyzes the sensory practices associated with air quality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Air pollution was a prime concern for early modern Italians, particularly in urban centres where industry, density, and frenetic sensescapes...

Akhimie, Patricia and Bernadette Andrea, eds. Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World

Contributor(s): Arazoo Ferozan

Alberto Comparini. Geocritica e poesia dell’Esistenza

Contributor(s): Vincenzo Salvatore

Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Contributor(s): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

Alessandro Giardino, ed. Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples. The Body of Naples

Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Alessandro Palazzo and Anna Rodolfi, Prophecy and Prophets in the Middle Ages

2023-05-18 22:14:59 | Contributor(s): Laura Ackerman Smoller

Scholars of medieval and early modern science have long been indebted to the editors of Micrologus and the Micrologus Library for a series of volumes that broaden the boundaries of the field and deepen our understanding of its contexts. This latest contribution to the Micrologus Library offers a...

Alexander Brome and the Search for the "Safe Estate"

Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

Alfie, Fabian, and Aileen F. Feng. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense

Contributor(s): Sheena Jary

Alfieri, poeta della libertà

Contributor(s): Maria C. Pastore Passaro

Alfonso de Madrigal and Juan de Segovia: Some Conciliar Common (and Contested) Places

Contributor(s): Jesse D. Mann

This article offers a preliminary comparison of the thoughts of Alfonso de Madrigal and Juan de Segovia, two important fifteenth-century Spanish academics and authors whom scholars have seen as ideological allies. It identifies several areas of interest common to both writers, and then focuses on...

Aligning Social Media Indicators with the Documents in an Open Access Repository

2022-06-13 19:49:05 | Contributor(s): Luis Meneses, Alyssa Arbuckle, Hector Lopez, Belaid Moa, Richard Furuta, Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/D1X7-DZ25

Digital Humanities

All That Glitters: Devaluing the Gold Standard in the Utopias of Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish

Contributor(s): Catherine Gimelli Martin

Francis Bacon’s and Margaret Cavendish’s ideal societies unexpectedly follow Thomas More’s Utopia in eliminating the exchange value of gold and replacing it with a knowledge economy. Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) similarly pursue new “light” and shun selfish...

Allen, Amanda Wrenn. The Eucharistic Debate in Tudor England: Thomas Cranmer, Stephen Gardiner, and the English Reformation

Contributor(s): Brian L. Hanson

Allen, Laurie, Samantha Blickhan, Laura Newman Eckstein, Emily Esten, Arthur Kiron, and Marina Rustow, principal investigators. Scribes of the Cairo Geniza. Other

Contributor(s): Gary A. Rendsburg

All’s Well That Ends Well and Shakespeare’s Marriage

Contributor(s): R. Brian Parker

Cette note revient sur le peu de faits connus du mariage de Shakespeare, faits qui semblent indiquer une union plus ou moins imposée par la famille d’une femme enceinte, pour proposer une dimension biographique de cette comédie tardive. Justement, l’un des principaux facteurs qui font qualifier...

Alonso Asenjo, Julio, project dir. Catálogo del Antiguo Teatro Escolar Hispano (CATEH; Catalogue of old Hispanic school theatre). Database.

Contributor(s): Brandan Grayson

Always Already in Flux: A Response to Anne Freadman

2025-07-10 17:50:21 | Contributor(s): Charles Bazerman | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.847

Carolyn Miller’s rich and theoretically complex 1984 essay “Genre as Social Action” has been widely influential among scholars who have been variously identified as part of Rhetorical Genre Studies (Freedman, 1999), North American Genre Studies (Freedman & Medway, 1994; Artemeva, 2004), or...

Amerasia: An Inquiry into Early Modern Imaginative Geography

Contributor(s): Lauren Beck

This is a review of Amerasia: An Inquiry into Early Modern Imaginative Geography.