«Vrayment voicy de plaisans fous»: la folie dans le théâtre profane de Marguerite de Navarre

Contributor(s): Barbara Marczuk

This study shows that the dialectics of wisdom and folly, which owes a great deal to the relativization of reason in Renaissance culture, undergoes an original development in Marguerite de Navarre’s “secular” theater. While in these plays Marguerite uses figures of folly which inscribe themselves...

‘As strayght as ony pole’: Publius Cornelius, Edmund de la Pole, and Contemporary Court Satire in Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres

2022-06-13 18:42:47 | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/1AVG-5056

Literary Studies

‘Cui multum datum est...’ La confraternita dei Bianchi di Fosdinovo (Toscana, Italia) tra XV e XVII secolo

Contributor(s): Massimo Dadà

This article is a brief history and overview of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Annunciation (Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata) in Fosdinovo, a small town in the Lunigiana region in north-western Tuscany. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century the town’s history was closely...

‘Dialoghi mancati': Uses of Silence, Reticence and Ellipsis in the Fiction of Antonio Tabucchi

Contributor(s): Marina Spunta

‘Ragionando di pittura’ tra artisti e letterati: Pino, Vasari, Dolce e Gilio

Contributor(s): Vincenzo Caputo

L’intervento si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare alcuni specifici dialoghi d’arte del Cinquecento, puntando in particolar modo l’attenzione sulla funzione dei loro rispettivi protagonisti. Si parte dal Dialogo di Pittura di Paolo Pino (1548) e dai Ragionamenti di Giorgio...

‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’ TEI-encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope ofan Evolving Community of Practice

2022-06-13 18:38:37 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, Melanie Chernyk | https://doi.org/10.25547/M0QV-N890

Computer Science, Digital Humanities

“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 podcast would be fun!”: The fetishization of digital writing projects

2025-07-10 17:50:04 | Contributor(s): Brian Hotson, Stephanie Bell | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.915

While digital writing projects (DWPs) like podcasts, videos, and infographics are rigorous sites of scholarly knowledge production, the growth in their popularity as classroom assignments often has more to do with a sense that these are “fun” assignments. Horner, Selfe, and Lockridge (2015)...

“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...

“Academic Writing: Writing and Reading in the Discipline and Academic Reading: Reading and Writing in the Discipline” by Janet Giltrow

2025-07-10 17:50:37 | Contributor(s): Olga Gladkova | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.528

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“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....

“Dedicated Drop-ins” as a Way of Addressing Some Writing Centre Challenges

2025-07-10 17:50:21 | Contributor(s): Michael J. Kaler | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.783

Writing centres need to be integrated into the writing community of their host institutions, but this can be difficult: often students view them as peripheral (Bowles 2019), see them as “fix-it” shops and/or see them as places where one simply “learns to write” (Cheatle & Bullerjahn, 2015;...