The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributor(s): Erin Maureen Pratley, Belinda Dodson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.22

The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies. In this research, we used interviews and observation to determine how the differing valuations of...

The St. Aethelwold’s Players at Waterloo

2023-06-15 18:46:22 | Contributor(s): L. Cummings

The Stars in the Sky and on the Globe: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Visualization of the Heavens

2023-05-18 22:29:07 | Contributor(s): Sonja Brentjes

In this paper, I analyze about 50 manuscript copies of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Images of the Stars (Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib althābita). I investigate how the constellations were visualized in those copies, what their changes tell us about the contexts in which Ṣūfī’s book...

The state of post-secondary food studies pedagogy in Canada: An exploration of philosophical and normative underpinnings

2025-03-19 22:13:19 | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens, Lucy Hinton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.468

To date, there has been little empirical research on how food studies pedagogy has developed in Canada. Yet, across Canada, more and more postsecondary institutions are offering food studies in formalized programs and individual courses to undergraduate students. This paper contributes to the...

The Statutes of the Confraternity of San Michele in Camaiore, Italy

Contributor(s): L. Giovanna Urist

The Strangeness of Strangers: English Impressions of Italy in the Sixteenth Century

2023-05-04 22:22:23 | Contributor(s): Kenneth R Bartlett

The Structure and Strategy of Leonardo Bruni's Laudatio Florentinae Urbis

Contributor(s): Robert Buranello

The Study of Renaissance and Reformation Books on the Canadian Prairies

Contributor(s): David Watt, Sharon Wright, Paul Dyck

This article begins by providing a survey of collections holding Renaissance and Reformation books in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in order to draw attention to the range of resources across the prairies. The article’s second section focuses on the manuscripts and rare books at the University of...

The Survival of the Confraternities in Post-Reformation Dublin

Contributor(s): Colm Lennon

The T. G. H. Drake Collection at the Toronto Academy of Medicine

2023-04-20 19:47:30 | Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis

The Texture of Time

Contributor(s): Hannah Eagleson

Des ciseaux et de la colle. Des ailes sur une page. La grandeur des caractères. Ces matériaux ont tous eu leur importance lorsque les lecteurs du début du XVIIe siècle ont tenté de comprendre leur théologie du temps à travers les pages de leurs livres. Cet article montre que la poésie de George...

The Third Book of the Orlando Innamorato; Notes on the Venetian Edition

2023-06-22 19:14:51 | Contributor(s): Antonio Franceschetti

The Thoughts of a Noble Prisoner: Giovanni Marco Pio da Carpi’s Laude as Examples of Good Morality

Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo

The fifteenth-century manuscript MS 157 of the Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna belongs to a series of books related to the task of comforting those condemned to death in Bologna. To carry out such comforting, the local Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte (founded 1336) used, among other...

The Title Page and Preface of Galileo's Dialogue

2023-05-04 22:22:56 | Contributor(s): Stillman Drake

The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years

Contributor(s): Elizabeth S. Cohen, Jane Couchman

The Transcultural Reinterpretation of Italian Canadiana in the Writings of Michelle Alfano, Licia Canton and Terri Favro

Contributor(s): Silvia Caporale-Bizzini

The Transparencies of Marisa Madieri: Autobiography as Farewell

Contributor(s): Ernestina Pellegrini

This article analyses Marisa Madieri’s narrative with particular attention to its stylistic traits. It focuses on her autobiographical style, characterized by nostalgia and—at the same time—a puzzling and enchanting detachment. Madieri’s writing closely looks at the earthly and the physical world...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Trend of Naturalism in Libertine Poetry of the Later English Renaissance

Contributor(s): Saad El-Gabalawy

The Tridentine Ruling on the Vulgate and Ecclesiastical Censorship in the 1580s

Contributor(s): William McCuaig

Four works by the historian Carlo Sigonio (1523-1584) were made the target of censures by ecclesiastical authorities in the early 1580s. His works were never put on the index of prohibited books, but the censures reveal the mentality and concerns of the censors more clearly than any other...