Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

Contributor(s): Nattapol Ruangsri

Sergio Leone: l'America della memoria

Contributor(s): Enrico Zoi

Serious Play: Sir John Harington’s Material-Textual Errancy in Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse (1591)

Contributor(s): Joshua Reid

Sir John Harington’s Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse (1591) is a significant example of material-textual Englishing: under the direction of Harington, his book’s emblematic title page, copperplate engravings, typography, mise-en-page, and commentary apparatus are all transmutations of...

Settler colonialism and the (im)possibilities of a national food policy

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Contributor(s): Sarah Rotz, Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.275

In this perspectives piece we ask: is it possible for a national food policy to form the foundation for sustainable and equitable food systems in Canada? First, we argue that under the current settler government, such a policy does not provide this foundation. Second, we consider what is...

Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons and Exemplary Female Devotion: Gendered Spaces and Histories

Contributor(s): Femke Molekamp

Les sermons de funérailles du XVIIe siècle, qui contiennent des eulogies pour des femmes décédées, peuvent être riches en détails et en constructions conceptuelles éclairant la vie dévotionnelle des femmes des débuts de la modernité. Cet article explore dans une sélection de ces eulogies les...

Sex Acts in La Celestina: An Ars Combinatoria of Desire

Contributor(s): Marlen Bidwell-Steiner

This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish texts: Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499/1507). Highlighting the dynamics of the three sex acts depicted in the plot, it argues that intercourse can be read as a negotiation of the text’s main...

Sex and Marriage in Machiavelli’s Mandragola: A Close(t) Reading

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

This article carries out a close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli’s play Mandragola (The mandrake root) from the perspective of sex and gender studies. In so doing, it takes into consideration what the play says or suggests about sexual desire, sexual practices, and conjugal life. This somewhat...

Sex and Sexual Attitudes in Seventeenth-Century England: The Evidence from Puritan Diaries

Contributor(s): Theodore De Welles

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...

Sexual Politics and the Interpretation of Nature in Spenser's Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Contributor(s): Jennifer Laws

SFSGEC - Learning from the failures of biofuels governance

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Contributor(s): Carol Hunsberger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.102

While many policies designed to increase the use of biofuels were promoted at least in part as a climate change solution, biofuels made from agricultural crops are increasingly seen as part of the problem when considering global environmental change. Research on the greenhouse gas emissions...

SFSGEC - Meatification and the madness of the doubling narrative

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Contributor(s): Tony Weis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.105

Since 2008, there has been an increasingly influential narrative that world crop production must (“sustainably”) double from current levels in order to feed over nine billion people by 2050 (FAO, 2009; Ray, Mueller, West, & Foley, 2013; Soil Association, 2010; Tilman, Balzer, Hill &...

SFSGEC - Peasant agriculture, seeds, and biodiversity

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Contributor(s): Faris Ahmed | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.106

Farmers and food providers have created and maintained the knowledge and biodiversity that is the basis for the planet’s food supply for thousands of years. Yet seeds and biodiversity have been at the margins of the mainstream discourses on food security. New thinking and global events are...

SFSGEC - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.127

There is growing evidence and concern of the role of mainstream industrial agriculture in contributing to environmental degradation and global climate change. In this section we examine three different aspects of the relationship between agriculture, nature, and society.

SFSGEC - SYNTHESIS - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Contributor(s): Helena Shilomboleni | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.110

This article responds to the debates surrounding how best to merge sustainable food systems and sustainability goals in the context of biofuel production, industrial livestock operations, and peasant agriculture. Various new initiatives meant to improve the “sustainability” of agricultural...

Sgarbi, Marco. Francesco Robortello (1516–1567): Architectural Genius of the Humanities

Contributor(s): Marco Faini

Shagan, Ethan H. The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Contributor(s): Archie R. MacGregor

Shakespeare and the Actor's Body

Contributor(s): Alexander Leggatt

Shakespeare and the Archpriest Controversy: A Study of Some New Sources

2023-06-27 18:04:10 | Contributor(s): Raymond C. Shady

Shakespeare and the Players

2023-05-11 22:09:04 | Contributor(s): Michael John Goodman

This is a review of Shakespeare and the Players.