The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

Contributor(s): Sean Armstrong

Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s,...

The Dialect Poetry of Giacomo Noventa

Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.146

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives.  Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of Edmonton and the Rimbey farmers’ market are used to examine the different strategies used to scale up...

The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597

2023-05-11 22:05:28 | Contributor(s): Gabriella Mazzon

This is a review of The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597.

The Directions and Names of the Winds: [Aristotle], Ventorum situs et nomina

2023-05-18 22:27:41 | Contributor(s): Alan C Bowen

The anonymous text Ventorum situs et nomina, once held to be by Aristotle himself, gives the local names of 10 topic winds as well as their directions. It is not an elaboration of the wind-rose that Aristotle, for example, describes in Meteor. 2.5, though many scholars have assumed this, but a...

The Double Gift: Inner Vision and Pictorial Sense in Petrarch

2023-06-22 19:46:42 | Contributor(s): Elio Gianturco

The Down Survey of Ireland Project

Contributor(s): Brendan Kane

This is a review of The Down Survey of Ireland Project. 

The Dynamics of Cultural Transition

Contributor(s): Aldo Colangelo

The article is based on a 1991-92 research, published in Sole senza Sole (1998). In his book Colangelo retraced the journey and life of 110 Italian women, residing in Toronto. He followed the stages of their lives, successes and difficulties, including those arising from their retirement onwards....

The Earl of Pembroke and the Crisis in Queen Mary's Reign, 1553-58

Contributor(s): Narasingha P. Sil

The Earl of Pembroke in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1570

Contributor(s): Narasingha P. Sil

The Earliest German Verse Translation of Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata"

2023-06-29 18:53:02 | Contributor(s): Gerhard Dünnhaupt

The Editio Princeps of Boccaccio's Commentary on the Divine Comedy

Contributor(s): Domenico Pietropaolo

The Elizabethan Church as Restoration: Notes on Richard Hooker's Rhetorical Strategy

Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

Cet essai identifie certains moments rhétoriques dans les Lawes de Richard Hooker qui utilisent les différences entre l’Église de Rome et celle d’Angleterre pour associer Genève et Rome et ainsi condamner davantage les Presbytériens anglais. Ces passages présentent également la réforme...

The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance 1475-1640 by Elizabeth Tebeaux

2025-07-10 17:50:37 | Contributor(s): Nadeane Trowse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.530

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The Enchanted Tapestry of Carmen Laurenza Ziolkowski

Contributor(s): Norma West Linder

The End of Chivalric Romance: Barthélemy Aneau's Alector (1560)

Contributor(s): Virginia Krause

Lorsque l'Alector de Barthélemy Aneau est paru en 1560, le roman de chevalerie attirait de vives critiques. Il est donc surprenant qu'un humaniste sérieux, tel que l'était Aneau, ait emprunté largement aux conventions romanesques, autant nouvelles (suspens) qu'anciennes (chevalier errant,...

The English ars morendi: its Protestant Transformation

Contributor(s): David W. Atkinson

The English Enchiridion Militis Christiani in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries

Contributor(s): Douglas H. Parker

Following earlier articles in Renaissance and Reformation and Erasmus in English, this paper examines the fate of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani in three late editions published in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Again in 1686, 1752, and 1816, Erasmus's work was...

The English Regicide and Patriarchalism: Representing Commonwealth Ideology and Practice in the Early 1650s

Contributor(s): Cesare Cuttica

Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ier Stuart (1649), datant du début des années 1650. Le discours politique que cet ensemble présente est défini ici comme un absolutisme patriarcaliste. En se penchant sur l’œuvre de Claudius...

The Enigma of Erasmus' Conficiendarum epistolarum formula

Contributor(s): Judith Rice Henderson

Le mystère de la Conficiendarum epistolarum formula d'Érasme Des recherches récentes ont contribué à établir l'histoire de la publication et l'authenticité de la Brevissima maximeque compendiaria conficiendarum epistolarum formula attribuée à Érasme (Bâle? Adam Petri? 1519-20?), mais sa place...