Review of Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers

Review | Contributor(s): Jane Couchman

Review of John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity

Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Strtak

Review of Charlotte Guillard. Une femme imprimeur à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): François Paré

Review of Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

Review | Contributor(s): Michael O’Connor

Review of Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Review of Reveries of Community: French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572–1616

Review | Contributor(s): Jess Allen

Review of A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Anthony F. D’Elia

Review of Cajetan’s Biblical Commentaries: Motive and Method

Review | Contributor(s): Paul F. Grendler

Review of Remembering Shakespeare: The Scope of His Achievement from Hamlet through The Tempest

Review | Contributor(s): Jonathan Locke Hart

Review of Musique, censure et création. G. G. Ancina et le Tempio Armonico (1599)

Review | Contributor(s): Pascale Duhamel

Review of Othea’s Letter to Hector

Review | Contributor(s): Teresa Russo

Review of Johann Froben, Printer of Basel. A Biographical Profile and Catalogue of His Editions

Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

Review of Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Sheena Jary

Review of The Venetian Qur’an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam

Review | Contributor(s): Frank Lacopo

Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Renée-Claude Breitenstein, Tristan Vigliano

Un silence assourdissant à la césure : les guerres larvées de l’e caduc entre oedipiens, misogynes et glottophobes

Article | Contributor(s): David Moucaud

Widely studied from the “natural” perspective of a generational tabula rasa, the formalist shift in poetic technique known as the abolition of the coupe feminine, which occurred around 1515, is a thorny issue much more complicated than it would first appear. This formal silence, imposed upon the...

Livres polyglottes et conflits linguistiques au XVIe siècle : l’exemple de l’occitan

Article | Contributor(s): Michel Jourde

In the sixteenth century, the linguistic situation in southern France was characterized by the existence of several languages, each given a significantly different valuation. What relationship can be established between this environment of linguistic conflicts and the multilingual nature of...

Le conflit des publics dans le théâtre tragique imprimé de Théodore de Bèze et de Louis Des Masures

Article | Contributor(s): Louise Frappier

In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the revival of ancient theatrical forms, new readerships emerged for theatrical texts. Indeed, French tragedy is directed to a readership educated, or at least interested, in the literature of classical Antiquity. But the tragic genre also...

L’assassinat de François de Lorraine (1563) et la polarisation des publics

Article | Contributor(s): François Rouget

The assassination of François de Guise by Poltrot de Méré on 24 February 1563 exercised a considerable impact on public opinion. While Protestants celebrated, Catholics paid homage to the deceased in the form of verses written in French and Latin. His tribute was orchestrated by the de Guise...

Le conflit des publics dans le Dialogue du Manant et du Maheustre (1593) : un dialogue de sourds de la fin des guerres de religion

Article | Contributor(s): Grégoire Holtz

This article seeks to examine the representations of audiences in conflict in the abundant pamphleteer literature that flourished during the Wars of Religion. Drawing on Marc Angenot’s work on polemical rhetoric, as well as on the analyses of historians and literary critics, we are interested...