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  1. Making Religion of Wonder: The Divine Attribution in Renaissance Ethnography and Romance

    Making Religion of Wonder: The Divine Attribution in Renaissance Ethnography and Romance

    Article | Contributor(s): William M. Hamlin

    Drawing on the concept of "autoethnography" as defined by Mary Louise Pratt, this paper argues that representations of cross-cultural encounter in Renaissance travel narratives often bear striking resemblances to moments of encounter and reunion in Spenserean and Shakespearean romance. Focusing...

  2. Distributed Donne: A Response to the Problem of His Titles

    Distributed Donne: A Response to the Problem of His Titles

    Article | Contributor(s): Janis Lull

    Most of the titles traditionally associated with Donne's poems probably did not originate with the biographical Donne. When modern editors use these titles, they expand Donne's authorial "self" to include the literary judgments of the poet's first readers as well as their own literary judgments....

  3. Review of Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance

    Review of Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance

    Review | Contributor(s): Roland Galibois

  4. Review of Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland
  5. Review of War and Government in the French Provinces. Picardy 1470-1560
  6. Review of Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
  7. Review of Contemplation of Created Things: Science in Paradise Lost

    Review of Contemplation of Created Things: Science in Paradise Lost

    Review | Contributor(s): J. Michael Richardson

  8. Review of Old Comedy in the French Renaissance (1576-1620)

    Review of Old Comedy in the French Renaissance (1576-1620)

    Review | Contributor(s): Nerina Clerici Balmas

  9. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London

    The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London

    Article | Contributor(s): Susan E. Krantz

    Moll Cutpurse dramatically demonstrates the insufficiency of gender categories both in The Roaring Girl and in her life. The fictional Moll’s sex/gender ambiguity is explored through three distinct sexual identities (prostitute, hermaphrodite, bisexual ideal) and is further complicated through...

  10. Du “conseil des muetz” au “taire parlier”: Le langage du geste chez Rabelais et Montaigne

    Du “conseil des muetz” au “taire parlier”: Le langage du geste chez Rabelais et Montaigne

    Article | Contributor(s): Guylaine Fontaine

    Cet article traite de la réflexion renaissante sur le langage gestuel telle que cette réflexion s'articule dans les textes de Rabelais et Montaigne. Ces oeuvres apparaissent en effet comme de précieuses balises de la période 1540-1580 où se serait manifesté, selon des études récentes, un tournant...

  11. Celebrations held in Siena during the Government of the Nine

    Celebrations held in Siena during the Government of the Nine

    Article | Contributor(s): Gordon Moran, Michael Mallory

    In fourteenth-century Siena the government of the Nine functioned very much within alliances with the leading Guelf powers. This article studies celebrations of Guelf victories in Siena, as depicted in the famous castle cycle of the Palazzo Pubblico and described in the writings of Benvoglienti.

  12. Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland

    Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland

    Article | Contributor(s): Walter S. H. Lim

    Edmund Spenser is a vocal spokesman for the colonization of Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, he provides one of the most sustained imperialist articulations in Elizabethan England. And in Book V of The Faerie Queene, he promulgates a vision of justice that is necessary for...

  13. Review of The First Jesuits

    Review of The First Jesuits

    Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

  14. Review of Le messager des étoiles

    Review of Le messager des étoiles

    Review | Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

  15. Review of The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist; Art and Patronage in the Caroline Courts
  16. Review of Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths

    Review of Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths

    Review | Contributor(s): Rick Bowers

  17. Review of Index de Rome 1590, 1593, 1596, avec étude des Index de Parme 1580 et de Munich 1582
  18. Review of Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance; English Women’s Voices, 1540-1700
  19. Review of La bibliothèque de Du Bartas

    Review of La bibliothèque de Du Bartas

    Review | Contributor(s): James Dauphiné, Jean-Claude Ternaux

  20. Review of Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso

    Review of Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso

    Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Franceschetti