The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Contributor(s): W. J. Torrance Kirby

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt...

The Nightingale as Christ in L’Adone Vll

Contributor(s): Thomas E. Mussio

The Nineteenth-Century Italian Translators of Lord Byron’s Marino Faliero

Contributor(s): Sergio Portelli

The tragic story of Marino Faliero, the Doge of Venice who was executed for high treason in 1355, came to the attention of writers and artists of various European countries during the early nineteenth century thanks to a number of historians who published insightful works on the history of the...

The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Contributor(s): Jessica Maratsos

 This article examines the ceiling paintings executed by Jacopo Tintoretto for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The Venetian painter’s stylistic choices are analyzed utilizing the dialectic between romanitas and venezianità as elucidated by Manfredo Tafuri. This framework,...

The Once and Future Writing Centre: A Reflection and Critique

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | Contributor(s): Anthony Paré | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.573

Despite nearly four decades of teaching and studying writing, including many years as a writing centre instructor and director, I really don’t know what will happen to Canadian writing centres, and I am also uncertain about what should happen. However, I have some reflections on our past, some...

The Original Collector: James Andrew Bell, A Classical Scholar

2023-06-20 18:20:49 | Contributor(s): F. D. Hoeniger, Douglas Bush

The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne

Contributor(s): Brys Stafford

The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne in Dos Hermanas, Spain: Introduction

Contributor(s): Juan Gavala González

After a brief introduction to the Confraternity of St. Anne in Dos Hermanas (Spain), this article offers a transcription of its orig­inal 1523 statutes and their translation into English. Aside from be­ing the oldest surviving document from Dos Hermanas, these statutes outline the confraternity’s...

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough

2023-05-18 22:28:34 | Contributor(s): Serena Connolly

This review is written from the standpoint of someone fairly new to the fields of ancient science and medicine, who teaches an undergraduate survey of them and would like to be brought up to date on recent discoveries, interpretations, and approaches. To that end, this book is a fantastic...

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

Contributor(s): Paul Budra, Jean MacIntyre

The Paradoxical Design of The Book of Sir Thomas More

Contributor(s): Alistair Fox

The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark. / Sacramental Token Books of St Saviour, Southwark.

Contributor(s): Héloïse Sénéchal

This is a review of the Parish of St Saviour, Southwark, database.

The Parisian Confraternity of the Pilgrims of Saint James: A Report on Research

Contributor(s): Robert L.A. Clark

The Passion and Flagellation in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Contributor(s): Junhyoung Michael Shin

Cet article met en relation la pratique ascétique et pénitentielle de l’auto-flagellation par les tous premiers catholiques du Japon du XVIe siècle, avec leur compréhension de la passion du Christ telle qu’enseignée par les missionnaires Jésuites, et avec la tradition japonaise de l’ascétisme...

The Pastime of Master F. J.

Contributor(s): Dale B. Billingsley

Characters in Gascoigne's "Adventures of Master F. J." (1573) use reading as a pastime by which they sort out or complicate their relationships with others; the novel's readers, for their pastime, recreate these relationships as they read the novel. These linguistic, rhetorical and social...

The Penitential Language of the Congregation of Artisans in the Neapolitan Pastoral Care of Francesco De Geronimo

Contributor(s): Pasquale Rubini

Between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, the Congregation of Artisans in Naples, spiritually led by the Jesuit Fr. Francesco De Geronimo, expressed its participation in the sufferings of Christ with a public procession that included elements of corporal...

The People of Curial Avignon. A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Lists of Matriculation of the Confraternity of Notre Dame La Majour

2023-06-02 18:33:36 | Contributor(s): Joëlle Rollo-Koster

The Persistence of the Exemplum in Golden Age Thought

2023-06-29 18:49:02 | Contributor(s): David H. Darst

The Play of the Courtier: Correspondences between Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano and Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

Contributor(s): Donatella Baldini

The Political Use of Epicureanism in Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio

Contributor(s): Mariano Vilar

Francesco Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio (ca. 1440) presents us with a dialogue among a group of nobles and scholars who debate several issues in moral philosophy to console themselves on their defeat by Cosimo de’ Medici. The role of pleasure in human happiness is treated in...