Review of Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory
Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic
Review of Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700
Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara Desilva
Review of Le Reveille-matin des François, et de leurs voisins
Review | Contributor(s): Diane Desrosiers
Review of Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Review | Contributor(s): Tatevik Nersisyan
Review of Representations of Heresy in Sixteenth-Century France
Review | Contributor(s): George Hoffmann
Review of Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare
Review of Milton’s Leveller God
Review | Contributor(s): Ian McAdam
The Classical Commentary in Renaissance France: Bilingual, Mixed-Language, and Translated Editions
Article | Contributor(s): Paul White
This article analyzes the dynamic interactions of Latin and the vernacular in commentary editions of the Latin classics printed in France before 1600, addressing questions of readership, intended uses, and actual uses. Beginning with the output of Antoine Vérard, it explores the different...
Reading Ritual: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Liturgical “Text” in Pre-Reformation England
Article | Contributor(s): Matthew J. Rinkevich
This article argues that orthodox English writers during the pre-Reformation period conceptualized the liturgy as a type of biblical text interpreted with traditional exegetical tools, especially allegoresis. In particular, it focuses upon three devotional works produced during the first several...
Sion and Elizium: National Identity, Religion, and Allegiance in Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune
Article | Contributor(s): Lucy Underwood
This article uses Anthony Copley’s poem A Fig for Fortune (1596) to examine Elizabethan constructions of national identity. Acknowledging that religious and national identities were symbiotic in the Reformation era, it argues that the interdependency of Protestant and Catholic narratives of...
What’s Wrong with Mis-devotion? A John Donne Enigma
Article | Contributor(s): Ronald Huebert
The nominal purpose of this article is to develop a cogent and persuasive interpretation of the term “mis-devotion,” a coinage John Donne uses twice in his poems: once near the end of The Second Anniversary and once in the second stanza of “The Relic.” I also cite the two known examples of this...
Friction in the Archives: Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism
Article | Contributor(s): Erin Lambert
The writings of martyrs have been at the centre of the history of Reformation-era Anabaptism since the sixteenth century itself, and scholars have long used them as sources of information about a persecuted and typically clandestine community. Based on a rare confluence in the surviving source...
Review of The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, His Fortunes and Adversities
Review | Contributor(s): Mary Morse
Review of Les femmes dans la correspondance de Luther
Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron
Review of Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time
Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Rolfe Prodan
Review of Visionary Spenser and the Poetics of Early Modern Platonism
Review | Contributor(s): Joel Rodgers
Review of The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe. Vol. 1, The Patron-Author. Vol. 2, The Reader-Writer.
Review of Hybrid Renaissance: Culture, Language, Architecture
Review | Contributor(s): Barry Torch
Review of Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation
Review | Contributor(s): Nilab Ferozan
Review of Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols
Review | Contributor(s): Christopher F. Black
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