Review of Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England

Review | Contributor(s): David B. Goldstein

Review of On the Freedom of a Christian: With Related Texts

Review | Contributor(s): Dennis Ngien

Review of Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Review | Contributor(s): Kenneth Borris

Review of Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser

Review | Contributor(s): Aaron Taylor Miedema

Review of The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare

Review | Contributor(s): Glenn Clark

Review of Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events

Review | Contributor(s): Ben Faber

Review of Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Stephen Pender

Review of Ovid in English, 1480–1625. Part 1. Metamorphoses

Review | Contributor(s): Alison Keith

Review of The Church and the Languages of Italy before the Council of Trent

Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

Review of Coniurationis commentarium

Review | Contributor(s): Matteo Soranzo

Review of Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice

Review | Contributor(s): Holly S. Hurlburt

Review of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Review | Contributor(s): Mauricio Martinez

Review of A Heinrich Schütz Reader. Letters and Documents in Translation

Review | Contributor(s): Pascale Duhamel

Review of Macbeth

Review | Contributor(s): Peter Paolucci

Review of 1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Review of Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

Review | Contributor(s): David Katz

Marguerite de Navarre, a Nicodemite? Adiaphora and Intention in Heptaméron 30, 65, and 72

Article | Contributor(s): Scott Francis

This article situates Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron within the reformist debate over adiaphora, or theologically indifferent matters made righteous or sinful by the believer’s intentions and conscience. It discusses how adiaphora and their implications for Christian liberty and Catholic...

“Encores me frissonne et tremble le coeur dedans sa capsule”: Rabelais’s Anatomy of Emotion and the Soul

Article | Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

This article examines the role of anatomical references in the representation of emotion and argues that they constitute textual markers of the Rabelaisian view of the relationship between the body and the soul, and the nature of the soul itself. By analyzing the ancient models of natural...

Aristotle and the People: Vernacular Philosophy in Renaissance Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Sgarbi

The essay focuses on vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, which began to gain currency in the 1540s, just as the vernacular was beginning to establish itself as a language of culture and the Counter-Reformation was getting underway. With over three hundred printed and manuscript...

Gangrene or Cancer? Sixteenth-Century Medical Texts and the Decay of the Body of the Church in Jean Calvin’s Exegesis of 2 Timothy 2:17

Article | Contributor(s): Lindsay J. Starkey

In 2 Timothy 2:17, Paul compared the effects of false teachings on the Church to a disease. Rejecting previous translations that identified this disease as cancer, Jean Calvin (1509–64) insisted that it must be gangrene in his 1548 commentary on this epistle, citing and discussing medical texts...