“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contributor(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

“Must I be . . . made a common sink?”: Witchcraft and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton

Contributor(s): David Stymeist

Les auteurs de The Witch of Edmonton (1621) se servent d’une stratégie d’ambivalence en représentant sur scène Elizabeth Sawyer, qui avait été dernièrement exécutée pour sorcellerie. L’intertissage complexe d’un scepticisme rationnel avec un traitement sensationnaliste et superstitieux à l’égard...

“My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Contributor(s): Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially...

“Nature’s Bastards”: Grafted Generation in Early Modern England

Contributor(s): Claire Duncan

This paper examines the shared rhetoric between human and horticultural generation in early modern England, particularly focusing on grafting. Early modern English gardening manuals imagine grafting as a method of controlling generation in the natural world, and early modern English obstetrical...

“No chronicle records his fellow”: Reading Perkin Warbeck in the Early Seventeenth Century

Contributor(s): Igor Djordjevic

This article argues that John Ford’s play Perkin Warbeck should be read in the context of “new” Jacobean readings of the historiography of Henry VII’s reign. After tracing the origins and dissemination of Warbeck’s scaffold confession of imposture, and exposing the sixteenth-century chroniclers’...

“Not so much perdition as an hair”: The Political Deployment of Christian Patience in The Tempest

Contributor(s): Deni Kasa

Early modern theology and martyrology understood patience as a transformation of one’s perspective on suffering, so that pain and humiliation came to be seen by the sufferer as honourable and even desirable. This article suggests that The Tempest explores the political implications of Christian...

“Of rose and pomegarnet the redolent pryncesse”: Fashioning Princess Mary in 1525

Contributor(s): Stephen Hamrick

While a more accurate appraisal of Mary Tudor’s life and reign is underway, historians of literature continue either to ignore or to misinterpret surviving representations of Princess Mary. To begin correcting this failure, the article analyzes a complex 1525 verse portrait of Mary, setting that...

“Or whatever you be”: Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Labour in John Lyly’s Gallathea

Contributor(s): Simone Chess

This article explores sociologist Jane Ward’s gender and sexuality theory: the notion of “gender labour,” in which a cisgender (not crossdressed or trans*) partner participates in co-creating his or her partner’s queer gender. While work on gender labour thus far has focused on contemporary...

“Più eretico d’ogni altro frate tragediante in quel secolo”. Francesco Ringhieri, monaco e drammaturgo, tra testi, polemiche, attori e documenti

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Il saggio, attraverso testi e documenti, mette in luce alcune caratteristiche della drammaturgia di Francesco Ringhieri (Imola 1721-1787), segnatamente quelle più legate alla messinscena, alla spettacolarità, alla recitazione, al rapporto con l’opera in musica, ma anche alla...

“Project ‘94”: A Report on a Collection of Studies and an Exhibition on Confraternities in the Puglie, Italy

2023-06-02 19:09:47 | Contributor(s): Liana Bertoldi Lenoci

“Real versus ideal”: Utopia and the Early Modern Satirical Tradition

Contributor(s): Bernd Renner

Building on previous studies of satire in Thomas More’s Utopia, this article aims at situating More’s founding text of utopian literature more firmly in the early modern satirical tradition, a tradition that gradually dissociated itself from its conventional generic definition informed by...

“remembrest right”: Remembering the Dead in John Donne’s Songs and Sonets

Contributor(s): Abram Steen

Cet article examine l’intense préoccupation pour la mort et la nécessité de se souvenir des morts dans les Songs and Sonets de John Donne. L’auteur étudie ce phénomène en rapport avec l’interdiction protestante des rituels d’intercession. L’auteur montre que ces poèmes contenus dans des...

“Saucy Stink”: Smells, Sanitation, and Conflict in Early Modern London

Contributor(s): Alexandra Logue

This article examines olfactory offenses in early modern London. It explores how inhabitants managed causes of malodorous air, focusing on common nuisances stemming from everyday household practices like laundry and waste management. Clotheslines were hung up between lodgings, households disposed...

“Something Terrible in Me“: A Note on Demon-Possession and Suicide in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

2022-06-13 19:56:00 | Contributor(s): Graham Jensen | https://doi.org/10.25547/B6DK-2X20

Literature and religion, literary modernism, modernism, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

“Sometimes I feel like I’m counting crackers”: The household foodwork of low-income mothers, and how community food initiatives can support them

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.188

For women parenting on low incomes, there is a significant disparity between household foodwork standards and the resources with which to meet them. This study centres on the everyday foodwork experiences of low-income mothers and their engagement with community supports such as community food...

“Sparkes Of Holy Things”: Neostoicism and The English Protestant Conscience

Contributor(s): Geoffrey Aggeler

“The Illumination of Confraternity and Guild Statutes in Venice, ca. 1260–1500: Mariegola Production, Inonography, and Use.”

Contributor(s): Jonathan J.G. Alexander

“The Mouth of Christ Alone”: Luther’s Eine treue Vermahnung (1522) on the Weak in Faith

Contributor(s): Neil R. Leroux

Cet article examine un petit mais très important ouvrage que Luther a écrit avant de quitter pour toujours le château de Wartbourg, au début de mars 1522. A Sincere Admonition to All Christians présente des idées et un langage caractéristiques que l’on retrouve dans les sermons Invocavit....

“The Obedience due to Princes”: Absolutism in Pseudo-Martyr

Contributor(s): Phebe Jensen

This paper attempts to tease out the contemporary political resonances found in John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. While it is true that Pseudo-Martyr aligns itself with absolutism, it does so in a very complex and ambivalent manner, rejecting political patriarchalism and adopting a moderate sense of...