Fables and Faith: Favoleggiare in the Commedia

Contributor(s): Mary-Michelle DeCoste

The verb favoleggiare appears twice in Dante’s Divina commedia, both times in the Paradiso. An examination of the use of this word, alongside a secondary consideration of the word favola as it is used elsewhere in the Paradiso, suggests the poet’s concern with the relationship between knowledge,...

Fabulae and Imaginatio in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Thought

Contributor(s): Lucia Pappalardo

In Renaissance philosophy, the term fabula is often used to mean a poetic or fantastic tale that conceals the truth beneath metaphorical language. This article will focus on a rather different concept of fabula found in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s works. To the younger Pico, the entire...

Facettes et reflets du mythe mirandolien

Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Il existe autour de l’Oratio de hominis dignitate de Jean Pic de la Mirandole un véritable mythe prométhéen, par lequel le texte de l'Oratio s'est chargé peu à peu, à partir de Burckhardt, d'une fonction prophétique. Le présent article vise à revoir dans ce contexte les différentes idées reçues...

Fadda, Elisabetta. Come in un rebus: Correggio e la Camera di San Paolo

Contributor(s): Alyssa Abraham

Faking It: A Case of Counterfeit Possession in the Reign of James I

Contributor(s): Richard Raiswell

En 1622, au printemps, l'adolescente Katheren Malpas, sa mère et ses grands-parents du côté maternel ont été inculpés dans le Star Chamber pour avoir cyniquement organisé une possession démoniaque frauduleuse afin de profiter de la charité de leurs voisins. En puisant dans le procés-verbal...

Falcon, Andrea. Aristotelismo

Contributor(s): Marilù Papandreou

Fall of the Peacemakers: Austria’s Protestant Nobility and the Advent of the Thirty Years’ War

Contributor(s): Peter Thaler

This article examines the prelude to the Thirty Years’ War in Austria. It places the country’s estate system in an international context and evaluates the implications of the religious schism for the relationship between monarchs and nobles. Thwarted in their efforts to enforce confessional...

Falsity and Fiction in the "Allegory of Poets"

2023-05-04 22:04:05 | Contributor(s): Marguerite Mills Chiarenza

Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust

2022-06-13 19:14:47 | Contributor(s): Constance Crompton, Lori Antranikian, Ruth Truong, Paige Maskell | https://doi.org/10.25547/FV61-JD37

Digital Humanities

Fantômes et contrefaçons dans l’oeuvre de Béroalde de Verville : ouvrages virtuels, fictifs et fictionnels

Contributor(s): Gilles Polizzi

This article proposes to take inventory of and examine, in the abundant vervilienne production, the absent works, non-existent or “disguised.” Reflecting upon the relationship between title and identity, as well as our aptitude to deduce from a title the content and character of a work, the...

Farm safety: A prerequisite for sustainable food production in Newfoundland and Labrador

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Contributor(s): Lesley Butler, Ewa M. Dabrowska, Barbara Neis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.317

A sustainable approach to food production must address both environmental sustainability and the wellbeing of food producers. Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations globally with high rates of injury, fatality, and occupational disease. However, occupational hazards and the practices...

Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Lenore Newman, Lisa Jordan Powell, Jennifer Nickel, Dylan Anderson, Lea Jovanovic, Eileen Mendez, Barbara Mitchell, Kathryn Kelly-Freiberg | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.211

This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food and in agritourism, including customers from towns in the fringe and from the larger nearby...

Farmer, Alan B., and Zachary Lesser, creators. Database of Early English Playbooks

Contributor(s): Joshua J. McEvilla

Fashioning Family Honour in Renaissance Florence: The Language of Women's Clothing and Gesture in the Frescoes in the Oratory of the Confraternity of the Buonomini di San Martino in Florence

Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson

The concept of family honor in Quattrocento Florence has traditionally been associated with the ruling classes. Young, nubile females, dressed in the best garments that money could buy, pious, veiled matrons and cittadini resplendent in their red robes provided visual examples of a virtuous model...

Faut-il donner un sens philosophique au mot humanisme?

Contributor(s): Jacques Chomarat

Du quatorzième au seizième siècle, l'humanisme est souvent pris pour une doctrine qui tend à substituer l'homme à Dieu comme centre du monde. Mais Pic de la Mirandole se borne à affirmer le libre-arbitre de l'homme: il se rattache à la scolastique. De purs humanistes, tels que Pétrarque, Valla,...

Faux-meat and masculinity: The gendering of food on three vegan blogs

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Dana Hart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.233

This study explores the relationship between gender and veganism through a critical analysis of food-based discourse on three vegan blogs. As many researchers note, there is a strong association between meat and masculinity in North American society (Nath, 2011; Rothgerber, 2013; Rozin,...

Favaro, Maiko, and Bernhard Huss, eds. Interdisciplinarità del petrarchismo: Prospettive di ricerca fra Italia e Germania

Contributor(s): William J. Kennedy

Fazio, Venera and Delia De Santis (Eds.). Exploring Voice: Italian Canadian Female Writers. Special Issue of Italian Canadiana, Vol. 30 (2016).

Contributor(s): Jim Zucchero

Fears, Hopes, and Regeneration in Tre fratelli: The Return of the Child in the 1980s

Contributor(s): Gaetana Marrone

With Tre fratelli (1981), Francesco Rosi turns to the troubled years when the nation’s ideological fabric began to disintegrate and captures the fear of a nation on the verge of collapse, producing a film of devastating emotional impact. Tre fratelli is the tale of three brothers summoned back to...

Federalism and fragmentation: Addressing the possibilities of a food policy for Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Contributor(s): Sarah Berger Richardson, Nadia Lambek | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.281

Canadian federalism poses unique challenges for the development of a national food policy. Under the Constitution Act, 1867, the federal government and the provinces are granted powers to govern exclusively in certain areas and to share jurisdiction in others. Where one level of government has...