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  1. Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare ou le blason mis à nu

    Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare ou le blason mis à nu

    Article | Contributor(s): Natalie Roulon

    Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 is sometimes read as an anti-blazon, and therefore as a misogynist text. Drawing on a large number of Renaissance poems, I show that this is a misreading of the sonnet which, far from presenting the Dark Lady in satirical fashion, pays her an unconventional tribute....

  2. The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

    The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

    Article | Contributor(s): Sean Armstrong

    Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s,...

  3. Erring from Good Huswifry? The Author as Witness in Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye

    Erring from Good Huswifry? The Author as Witness in Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye

    Article | Contributor(s): Isabelle Clairhout

    Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye differ in the extent to which their scientific ideas and social positions allowed them to translate their view of the embodied observer into a steady textual image that was consistent with their methodological and epistemological ideas. However, they are united in...

  4. Disciplining Brothers in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Province of Aragon

    Disciplining Brothers in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Province of Aragon

    Article | Contributor(s): Patricia W. Manning

    This article studies the leave-taking process in the Society of Jesus’ Province of Aragon. According to the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and decrees of General Congregation 7, the community could decide to dismiss a Jesuit or an individual could request to depart. Provincial and Roman...

  5. Review of Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d’Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500–1506
  6. Review of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity
  7. Review of Écrire la peur à l’époque des guerres de Religion. Une étude des historiens et mémorialistes contemporains des guerres civiles en France (1562–1598)
  8. Review of New Approaches to Naples, c.1500–c.1800: The Power of Place
  9. Review of Forbidden Prayer: Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy
  10. Review of Atlas of Early Modern Britain, 1485–1715

    Review of Atlas of Early Modern Britain, 1485–1715

    Review | Contributor(s): Richard Raiswell

  11. Review of Georges Ier d’Amboise 1460–1510. Une figure plurielle de la Renaissance
  12. Review of The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory

    Review of The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory

    Review | Contributor(s): Lara Harwood-Ventura

  13. Review of A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

    Review of A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

    Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

  14. Review of The Judgment of Palaemon: The Contest between Neo-Latin and Vernacular Poetry in Renaissance France
  15. Review of Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  16. Review of Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis
  17. Review of Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England
  18. Review of The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 26–27 April 2007): for Michael J.
  19. Review of Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance

    Review of Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance

    Review | Contributor(s): Sally Hickson

  20. Review of An Exposition of Genesis

    Review of An Exposition of Genesis

    Review | Contributor(s): David M. Whitford