“The Truth Will Out”: Blushing, Involuntary Confession and Self-knowledge in the Heptaméron

Contributor(s): Nora M. Peterson

Dans un texte envahi par les allusions aux confessions et aux désirs charnels, est-il possible de réconcilier le corps pris en flagrant délit de sensualité avec le désir de contrôle et de spiritualité? Cet article explore la signification du rougissement en tant que confession involontiare de la...

“The Very Ragged Bone”: Dismantling Masculinity in Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy

Contributor(s): Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Les lecteurs de The Revenger’s Tragedy soulignent souvent comment Middleton imite Hamlet, surtout par son usage de la parodie. Toutefois, ces remarques oublient de noter que Middleton ne fait pas que l’imiter, mais qu’il le critique également. Cette critique consiste entre autre en un examen...

“They hold on tight to the healthy eating, we hold on tight to our food safety, and how do we bridge that?”: determinants of successful collaboration between food safety and food security practitioners in British Columbia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Kelsey A Speed, Samantha B Meyer, Rhona M Hanning, Karen Rideout, Melanie Kurrein, Shannon E Majowicz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.384

Food safety and food security are two important public health sectors within Canada, which aim to address foodborne disease and food insecurity, respectively.  While these sectors are often siloed within public health organizations, the actions of the two sectors often interact and...

“Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

Contributor(s): Andrew Barnaby

This essay attempts to provide a specific cultural context for Francis Bacon's project of natural philosophical reform. Documenting Bacon's earliest understanding of the link between the nature and uses of natural philosophy and what he would call the "care of the commonwealth," it moves from a...

“This brings meaning and purpose to the lessons:” : Teachers’ and facilitators’ perspectives on the joys and challenges of school garden programs in south-eastern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributor(s): Janette Haase, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.600

School garden programs (SGPs) offer students opportunities to experience and participate in the processes of nature and agriculture through hands-on learning in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Although the value of school gardens has been well documented, there is little-to-no concrete...

“Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke”: Doctrines of Justification in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti

Contributor(s): Lauren Shufran

This article claims there is an underlying soteriological conceit in Spenser’s Amoretti (1595) concerning the roles that “works” and “grace” play in the beloved’s requital: roles with theological analogues in justification, the means by which people were declared righteous before God. I show how...

“To Live Piously and to Help the Needy Poor”: The Consortium of S. Allessandro in Colonna, in Bergamo

Contributor(s): Christopher Carlsmith, Louisa Foroughi

This essay explores the activities of the Italian consortium of S. Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo, through an analysis and translation of the Regola (Rule) that governed it for nearly five centuries. Written in Latin in 1363–65, and republished in Italian in the late sixteenth century, the...

“To Warn Proud Cities”: a Topical Reference in Milton’s “Airy Knights” Simile (Paradise Lost II.531-8)

Contributor(s): John Leonard

In Paradise Lost II.531-8 modern editors often see an allusion to Josephus’ account of armies appearing in the sky shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, reports of spectral soldiers and aerial battles were quite common in seventeenth-century English pamphlets, such as Mirabilis Annus and...

“Tous mes livres de langues estrangeres”: Reconstructing the Legatum Scaligeri in Leyden University Library

Contributor(s): Kasper Van Ommen

Josephus Justus Scaliger, né en 1540 à Agen près de Bordeaux, accepta l’invitation de la nouvelle université de Leyde, et s’y installa en 1593 et y exerca comme professeur jusqu’à sa mort en 1609. De sa prise de fonction jusque son trépas, il ne quitta plus Leyde, où il fut enterré et sans cesse...

“Trying to Walk on Logs in Water”: John Donne, Religion, and the Critical Tradition

Contributor(s): Jeanne Shami

Cet article examine la religion de John Donne du point de vue historique ainsi que littéraire, en mettant en valeur ses rapports avec les branches catholique et réformée de l’église anglicane en début de l’époque des Stuart. Ses écrits révèlent les fêlures de cette église et illuminent les...

“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

Digital humanities

“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...