A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

Contributor(s): Alfonso Herreros

The present article examines the philosophical ethics of Protestants teaching in higher education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1.6. Two theses are illustrated. First, the survey of fourteen commentaries shows clear parallels...

A Case Study Workshop and a Problem-Solving Approach to Technical Communication

2025-07-10 17:51:02 | Contributor(s): Anne Parker | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.283

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A Catholic Theologian Responds to Copernicanism: The Theological Judicium of Paolo Foscarini’s Lettera

Contributor(s): Irving A. Kelter

This paper is an in-depth analysis of the Carmelite Paolo Foscarini's role in the debate on Copernican cosmology in the early seventeenth century. Using as a point of departure the 1616 Judicium issued by the Catholic Church against Foscarini's pro-Copernican treatise, this analysis will lead to...

A Census of Emblem Books in Toronto. List I, Part Two

2023-04-13 21:51:07 | Contributor(s): Beatrice Corrigan

A Census of Emblem Books in Toronto. Part One, List I

2023-04-18 19:04:06 | Contributor(s): Beatrice Corrigan

A Century and More of Italians in Toronto: An Overview of Settlement

Contributor(s): Gabriele Scardellato

Through the use of various published and original sources this study outlines the reception and settlement of Italian immigrants in a modern Canadian urban environment. Substantial Italian migration and immigration to Toronto began in the late nineteenth century. The first migrants and immigrants...

A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

Contributor(s): Lorenzo G. Buonanno

The meetinghouse of the Scuola Grande di San Marco possessed the most extravagant façade of any confraternity in Venice. At the same time, however, its sculptural decoration contained more references to charity than were found on any other scuola’s meetinghouse. This essay posits...

A Checklist of French Political and Religious Pamphlets, 1560-1635, in the University of Toronto Library

2023-06-15 18:47:27 | Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis, John A. McClelland

A Collection of Books Relating to the History and Philosophy of Science

2023-04-18 19:20:05 | Contributor(s): Stillman Drake

A colloquio con Antonio Porta

Contributor(s): John Picchione

A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?

Contributor(s): Gabriella Zarri

Gianfrancesco Pico’s interest in Caterina da Racconigi, a mystic and prophet revered in Piedmont in the first decades of the sixteenth century, was born out of a scientific curiosity prior to becoming devout admiration. The Compendio delle cose mirabili, Gianfrancesco’s last work, written after...

A Confraternity of Florentine Noble Women

2023-06-02 18:55:05 | Contributor(s): Ludovica Sebregondi

A Contemplative Approach to Graduate Writing Development: Reflections from Thai Writing Classrooms

2025-07-10 17:50:24 | Contributor(s): James Burford, Adisorn Juntrasook, Wasana Sriprachya-anunt, Linda Yeh | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.599

This article addresses an under-researched area of writing studies: the use of contemplative pedagogies in the development of graduate writing. Drawing on reflective analysis from writing instructors, this article seeks to both contextualize the teaching and learning of writing in the Thai...

A Conversation about “Editing” Plurilingual Scholars’ Thesis Writing

2025-07-10 17:50:23 | Contributor(s): James Corcoran, Antoinette Gagné, Megan McIntosh | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.589

Drawing on our combined experiences providing thesis writing support, we critically consider the tensions surrounding policies and practices aimed at plurilingual graduate students using English as an additional language (EAL). Our trioethnographic methodology allows us to unpack and explore...

A Conversation with Elettra Bedon about Her Visionary Writing

Contributor(s): Anna Ciampolini Foschi

A Credible Beginning

2025-07-10 17:51:18 | Contributor(s): George Sipos | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.714

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A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

Contributor(s): Anna Foschi Ciampolini

Adriana Monti is an Italian-Canadian independent producer, feminist filmmaker and author. She started her career in Italy in the late 1970s by developing a collaborative and experimental style that allowed the women object of her research to take an active and creative role in her films. This...

A Cumulative and Co-Operative Approach to Writing Development in a Forestry Faculty

2025-07-10 17:51:15 | Contributor(s): M.T. (Jean) Dohaney | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.171

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A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada

Contributor(s): Janelle Jenstad, Erin E. Kelly

Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the University of Victoria have enough rare books to serve these purposes. But how do we teach book...

A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

Contributor(s): Isabelle Lachance

Poésie maniériste? Baroque? Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort (1594) peut-être le résultat de multiples influences, et chaque situation d'énonciation de ce recueil comporte sa manière propre de structurer les courants idéologiques de l'époque à laquelle il a été écrit, et ce,...