“Tutti gli occhi del mondo”: Court Networks between Turin and Madrid, 1640–1700

Contributor(s): Blythe Alice Raviola

Although the court of Turin’s role in the new balance of power in Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession is well known, far less is known about the strategic function of its collateral courts, such as the court of the princes of Savoy-Carignano. Based on the correspondence of the Savoy...

“We moved here for the lifestyle”: A picture of entrepreneurship in rural British Columbia

2022-06-13 18:09:52 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/1XTE-8V03

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“What condition will not miserable men accept?”: Hegemonic Masculinity in John Lyly’s Galatea

Contributor(s): Jamie Paris

Studies of gender in John Lyly’s pastoral comedy Galatea (1592) have primarily focused on the queer potential of the female-to-male (FTM) crossdressing plot. While the critical focus on same-sex love and gender fluidity in the play has been evocative, it has understated the importance of...

“Worthy my blood”: Inheritance, Imitation, and Gendered Familial Emotions in John Marston’s Antonio Plays

Contributor(s): Megan Elizabeth Allen

Examining the Antonio plays by John Marston, I argue that the metaphors used to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies that underpin both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships; these metaphors reveal the pressures placed on family emotions by economic and political...

“Your Best and Maist Faithfull Subjects”: Andrew and James Melville as James VI and I's “Loyal Opposition”

Contributor(s): Stephen King

Bien que moins connue des chercheurs que celle de 1604, la conférence qui eut lieu en 1606 à Hampton Court entre le roi James et ses ecclésiastiques anglais et écossais proéminents produisit néanmoins un effet immédiat sur la pratique monarchique de James Stuart en Angleterre. À la conférence de...

“[T]he fault of the man and not the poet”: Sidney’s Troubled Double Vision of Thomas More’s Utopia

Contributor(s): Daniel T. Lochman

In the Defence of Poesy, Philip Sidney refers puzzlingly to Thomas More and Utopia. He praises the “way” this work presents a commonwealth yet faults the man who produced it. Sidney might have followed religious writers who condemned More’s Catholicism and his use of poetic fictions rather than...