Review of Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament

Review | Contributor(s): A. Kent Hieatt

Review of Lucien de Samosate et le Lucianisme en France au XVIe siècle. Athéisme et polémique

Review | Contributor(s): Claude-Albert Mayer

Review of The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods

Review | Contributor(s): Werner O. Packull

Review of Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Venice

Review | Contributor(s): William Blisset

Early English Protestantism and Renaissance Poetics: The Charge is Committing Fiction in the Matter of Rastell v. Frith

Article | Contributor(s): Peter C. Herman

The debate between John Rastell and John Frith constitutes a previously unrecognized ancestor to Stephen Gosson's attack on poetry and Sir Philip Sidney's (problematic) defense of it. Although the nominal aim of Rastell's A Newe Boke of Purgatorye and Frith's A Disputation of Purgatory is...

Re-Reading Folly: Rabelais’s Praise of Triboullet

Article | Contributor(s): Camilla J. Nilles

Rabelais's praise of Triboullet differs from earlier works on folly by using the fool's differing perspective to conduct its search for authentic meaning. The descriptions of the sage mondain and the divine fool initiate the process, establishing folly and wisdom as relative terms, whose meaning...

The Autobiography of Grace, Lady Mildmay

Article | Contributor(s): Randall Martin

The following is an annotated transcription of Lady Grace Mildmay's autobiographical papers, written between 1617 and 1620. These "Memoirs" reveal the preoccupations and moral teachings of an English woman brought up in the reformed faith. They also contain a wealth of information on monetary...

Review of Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Richard Spacek

Review of Les voix du signe. Nature et origine du langage à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Claude-Gilbert Dubois

Review of The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537

Review | Contributor(s): Maria Rika Maniates

Review of Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence

Review | Contributor(s): Charles Fantazzi

Review of Étienne Pasquier et ses Recherches de la France

Review | Contributor(s): Claude Sutto

Review of John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, his Predecessors, and his Contemporaries

Review | Contributor(s): Janice Liedl

Ad dotandum puellas virgines, pauperes et honestas: Social Needs and Confraternal Charity in Rome in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Article | Contributor(s): Anna Esposito

In the late fifteenth century, Roman confraternities, especially that of SS. Annunziata, provided dowries for poor but "honest" girls. This charitable work was in response to the growing needs of a relatively defenceless segment of a society that was undergoing rapid transformation. This study of...

The Reception of Erasmus’ Adages in Sixteenth-Century England

Article | Contributor(s): Erika Rummel

The Adages of Erasmus, a collection of more than 4,000 classical proverbs, was a bestseller in its time. The book was valued both for its usefulness in Latin composition and its witty asides on contemporary society. The dissemination of the Adages in England is of special significance because the...

Didactisme et parcours discursife dans les Epistres d’Hélisenne de Crenne

Article | Contributor(s): Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

Cet article traite d'un ouvrage moins connu d'Hélisenne de Crenne: les Epistres familieres et invectives publiées en 1539. Il est possible de suivre dans ce recueil épistolaire le cheminement d'Hélisenne de Crenne, de la conformité aux grands codes moraux et didactiques provenant de la tradition...

Religion and the Law in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair

Article | Contributor(s): Jeanette Ferreira-Ross

In Bartholomew Fair, Jonson, speaking for the Establishment, debunks the presumptuous "singularity" of extreme Puritans, demonstrating the folly of "authority" which is rooted not in traditional structures of church and state but in excentricity and private fancies. Jonson's satirical method...

Review of L’Idéal et la Différence. La perception de la personnalité littéraire à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Guy Demerson

Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 33, Adages II i 1 to II vi 100;Volume 10, The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1356 to 1534 (1523 to 1524)

Review | Contributor(s): Peter G. Bietenholz

Review of Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I

Review | Contributor(s): Alan R. Young