Why Did the Monkey Kill the Giant? Another Look at Margutte’s Death

Contributor(s): Pina Palma

In the Morgante through Margutte’s death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino’s philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici’s acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte’s boots follows...

Why Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? The Myth and Mystery of Lindau’s Conflict-Free Reformation

Contributor(s): Johannes Wolfart

Histories of Lindau emphasize a remarkably conflict-free course of early reform in that particular locale. This view is established and maintained by multiple means, including hyper-credulity towards the peacefulness asserted by local authorities, anachronistic projections of the confessional...

Wiggins, Alison, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann, and Graham Williams, eds.; Katherine Rogers, web developer. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. Edition

Contributor(s): Leah Knight

Wilbur R. Knorr on Thābit ibn Qurra: A Case-Study in the Historiography of Premodern Science

2023-05-18 22:32:24 | Contributor(s): Sonja Brentjes

There was a widespread belief among historians of science of my generation that high competence with regard to content and languages alone can guarantee better, more reliable results than can good philology combined with high competence in history or the other human sciences. In my casestudy of...

Wilbur R. Knorr on Thābit ibn Qurra: A Case-Study in the Historiography of Premodern Science

2023-09-06 23:06:08 | Contributor(s): Sonja Brentjes | https://doi.org/10.25547/33DP-3F68

historiography, history of science

Wilkinson, Hazel, principal investigator. Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments

Contributor(s): Andie Silva

Williams, Robert. Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy

Contributor(s): Marsha Libina

Wind Lover

Contributor(s): Carmela Circelli

Wolfe, Heather, principal investigator, and Paul Dingman, project manager. Early Modern Manuscripts Online. Other

Contributor(s): Whitney Sperrazza

Wolk-Simon, Linda, ed., with the collaboration of Christopher M. S. Johns. The Holy Name: Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age

Contributor(s): C. Mark Steinacher

Women and Religious Reform in Late Medieval Bohemia

Contributor(s): John Klassen

Women and the Market in The Roaring Girl

Contributor(s): Jo E. Miller

Women in Confraternities between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Research in Umbria

2023-06-02 19:17:52 | Contributor(s): Giovanna Casagrande

Women in the Brotherhood: Gender, Class, and Politics in Renaissance Bolognese Confraternities

Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Women Writers Online

2023-05-11 21:21:57 | Contributor(s): Erin McCarthy

This is a review of Women Writers Online.     

Women Writing Women in Lodovico Domenichi's Anthology of 1559

Contributor(s): Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich

In his Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne (1559), Lodovico Domenichi publishes the poetry of fifty-three women authors across borders of nation, city, politics, religion, profession, class, and genre. Among them, thirty-five dedicate or address their compositions to...

Women’s Early Modern Letters Online [WEMLO]

2023-05-11 22:04:12 | Contributor(s): Amy Bowles

This is a review of Women’s Early Modern Letters Online [WEMLO].

Wood, Christopher S. A History of Art History

Contributor(s): Sally Hickson

Woods, Marjorie Currie. Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom

Contributor(s): Elena Brizio

Word-entries and Big Data in Lexicons of Early Modern English

Contributor(s): Ian Lancashire

This brief thirty-year history of Lexicons of Early Modern English, an online database of glossaries and dictionaries of the period, begins in a fourteenth-floor Robarts Library lab of the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1986. It was first published freely...