“A Plott to have his nose and eares cutt of”: Schoppe as Seen by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Contributor(s): Winfried Schleiner

That Gaspar Schoppe, author of several stinging publications against James I, was brutally attacked in a Madrid street in 1614 has often been dismissed as the victim’s larmoyant exaggeration of a mere licking, although Schoppe claimed that it was an attempt on his life. But there is a letter...

“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play

Contributor(s): Gina M. Di Salvo

This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I...

“Aboriginal isn't just about what was before, it's what's happening now:” Perspectives of Indigenous peoples on the foods in their contemporary diets

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Contributor(s): Lise Luppens, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.219

Health promotion materials for Indigenous peoples generally recommend that Indigenous people incorporate more “traditional” foods into their diets, referring to foods that are hunted, fished or gathered from the local environment. Little scholarly attention has focused on which foods...

“all that glistered”: Relationships of Obligation and Exchange in Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana

Contributor(s): Laura Schechter

En se présentant dans son Discoverie of Guiana (1596) comme sujet fidèle qui lui offre un cadeau de valeur, Sir Walter Ralegh implique qu’Élisabeth I devrait accepter ses cadeaux et maintenir leur relation avec un niveau de réciprocité approprié, bien que cela soit peu probable étant donné...

“And if Fiume were to Call?” The Impossible Return of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

While most Italian emigrants can return to their hometown whenever they wish, Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia (areas that were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia in the wake of World War Two) do not have that luxury. When they return home, they find that their hometown has changed dramatically...

“And the Word Became Flesh . . . ”: Cannibalism and Religious Polemic in the Poetry of Desportes and d’Aubigné

Contributor(s): Susan K. Silver

Cet article explore le déploiement stratégique du cannibalisme et des figures de dévoration dans la poétique de Philippe Desportes et d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. À travers leur poésie séculaire et dévotionnelle, l’article trace la négociation des différences politiques et religieuses. L’échange entre la...

“Cerchiamo un bambino distinto”. La genesi di Bellissima nei soggetti di Cesare Zavattini

Contributor(s): Cristina Jandelli

This contribution investigates, from a philological-historical perspective, the different versions of texts by Cesare Zavattini that will later merge into the subject of “Bellissima”, the film directed in 1951 by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani. Through a crucial decade for Italian...

“Charity and the Economy of Power: The Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala and Siena's Network of Charity in the Sixteenth Century”

Contributor(s): Sarah Marianne Loose

“Closed and kept most surely in religion”: Piety and Politics in Richard Whitford’s The Pype, or Tonne, of the Lyfe of Perfection

Contributor(s): Brandon Alakas

Depuis sa fondation, la communauté de Sainte-Brigitte à l’abbaye de Syon a exercé son ministère et répondu aux besoins spirituels des pieux qui cherchaient une pratique dévotionnelle plus complète pour leur usage privé. Un des frères les plus prolifiques de l’abbaye, Richard Whitford a écrit de...

“Comme espics dans les plaines”: Patterns of Translation of Robert Garnier’s Epic Similes in Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia (1594)

Contributor(s): Marie-Alice Belle

Although celebrated in its time as a worthy contribution to the poetic experiments of the late Elizabethan age, Thomas Kyd’s 1594 Cornelia, translated from Robert Garnier’s Cornélie (1574), has long been held by modern criticism as a minor work in the playwright’s career. Previous attempts to...

“C’est un amour ou Cupidon nouveau”: Spiritual Passion and the Profane Persona in Anne de Marquets’s Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (1568–1569)

Contributor(s): Annick Macaskill

While best known for her 480 Sonets spirituels, published seventeen years after her death in 1605, the Dominican nun Anne de Marquets also contributed a remarkable collection of personal spiritual poetry during her lifetime in Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (Paris, chez N....

“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok

Contributor(s): Susan M. Felch

Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male...

“Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

Contributor(s): Luke O’Sullivan

Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées (1584, 1597, 1598) constitute an exercise in commonplacing framed as a collection of tales told around a Poitevin dining table. They engage in a form of quasi-philosophical thinking staged by and for an urban merchant community, the social world in which Bouchet...

“Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Contributor(s): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.413

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective...

“E poi in Roma ognuno è Aretino”: Pasquino, Aretino, and the Concealed Self

Contributor(s): Marco Faini

This article explores Pietro Aretino’s pasquinade production as a crucial phase in the construction of his public and literary persona that is characterized by a peculiar effacement of the author’s voice. The article then focuses on issues of anonymity and authorship in the fifteenth and...

“Eating is a hustle”: The complex realities of food in federal prison

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributor(s): Amanda Wilson, Julie Courchesne, Ghassan Zahran | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.607

Juxtaposing insights from the academic literature with those drawn from lived experience, this Perspective article explores the role of food in federal prisons in Canada. Highlighting its multiple meanings and uses, we underscore the complexity of food in prison as well as its fundamental...

“Eating isn’t just swallowing food”: Food practices in the context of social class trajectory

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Contributor(s): Brenda L. Beagan, Elaine M. Power, Gwen E. Chapman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.50

Drawing from a qualitative study with 105 families across Canada, this paper focuses on 16 households in which one or more adults experienced significant social class trajectories in their lifetimes. Using semi-structured interviews and two photo-elicitation techniques, adults and teens...

“Encores me frissonne et tremble le coeur dedans sa capsule”: Rabelais’s Anatomy of Emotion and the Soul

Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

This article examines the role of anatomical references in the representation of emotion and argues that they constitute textual markers of the Rabelaisian view of the relationship between the body and the soul, and the nature of the soul itself. By analyzing the ancient models of natural...

“Et questa è la storia et la festa.” Il festival orvietano del 1508 e la microsocietà del capitolo della cattedrale

Contributor(s): Mara Nerbano

Nel periodo compreso tra il 7 maggio e il 20 agosto 1508, a Orvieto, furono messe in scena cinque suggestive sacre rappresentazioni. A darne notizia è il canonico del duomo ser Tommaso di Silvestro, autore di una cronaca degli anni 1482-1514. Il contesto in cui fiorirono tali eventi è quello...

“Faster Alone, Further Together”: Reflections on INKE’s Year Six

2022-06-13 18:33:56 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/0FDN-YK11

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