Review of Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

Review | Contributor(s): James H. Sims

Review of Ilaria Del Carretto e il suo monumento. La donna nell'arte, la cultura e la socieîà del '400

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of La poésie au miroir. Imitation et conscience de soi dans la poésie latine de la Pléiade

Review | Contributor(s): Paul Chavy

Review of Tudor and Stuart Women Writers;Privileging Gender in Early Modern England

Review | Contributor(s): Jean LeDrew Metcalfe

Review of Comme en plein jour. Dossier sur l’Éminence grise alias François Leclerc du Tremblay en religion le père Joseph de Paris, frère mineur capucin (1577-1635)

Review | Contributor(s): Maurice Lebel

Review of Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community;The Peter Martyr Library, Volume One. Early Writings: Creed, Scripture, Church

Review | Contributor(s): Ed J. Furcha

Response

Article | Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa, Judith Scherer Herz

Montaigne: un regard mathématique sur la mort

Article | Contributor(s): Marcel Goulet

La réflexion que, dans les Essais, Montaigne poursuit sur la mort, en vue de découvrir un ars moriendi spécifiquement humain — toute croyance religieuse étant expressément écartée —, l'amène à soumettre à son jugement la doctrine stoïcienne et sa rhétorique de l'amenuisement, d'une part, et...

Renaissance Queens and Foucauldian Carcerality

Article | Contributor(s): Lisa Hopkins

This essay examines the figuring of images and experiences of imprisonment in the public and private writings and speeches of three women — Marguerite de Navarre, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I — and a man, Sir Philip Sidney, writing to an explicitly feminised agenda. It explores the ways...

The "Honest Style" of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest

Article | Contributor(s): James P. Crowley

During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

François Bonivard and his Difformes Reformateurs

Article | Contributor(s): W. G. Naphy

This article presents François Bonivard (the pre-Reformation Prior of Geneva's Cluniac monastery) and his Des Difformes Reformateurs, the premier example of his satirical and polemical skills. In this, he attacks the violence and immorality accompanying and undermining the Reformation. Opposed to...

Review of Poets, Patrons and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

Review | Contributor(s): Yvan G. Lepage

Review of Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Roger Gerald Moore

Review of Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton

Review | Contributor(s): Andrew Barnaby

Review of The Court Musicians in Florence During the Principate of the Medici, with a Reconstruction of the Artistic Establishment

Review | Contributor(s): William R. Bowen

Review of Oeuvres complètes

Review | Contributor(s): Robert Melançon

Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Pickard

The period 1620-1660 saw the emergence of several English women, of varying classes, who chose Biblical prophecy as an entry into public, political discourse. Many of these women, such as Hester Biddle and Margaret Fell Fox, stated their opinions with relative clarity. Lady Eleanor Douglas,...

An Intertextual Discourse on Sin and Salvation: John Donne's Sermon on Psalm 51

Article | Contributor(s): Chanita Goodblatt

John Donne as preacher invokes the "Protestant paradigm of salvation," stressing the marring of human nature by Original Sin and the dependence upon God's grace for spiritual reatoration. This paradigm informs his participation in the intertextual discourse on sin and salvation begun by the...

Le théâtre au service de la cause universitaire à la Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Lyse Roy

Cette étude retrace l'histoire la production théâtrale à l’Université de Caen à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de la Renaissance. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement à la production de la Farce de Pates-Ouaintes, oeuvre présumée de Pierre de Lesnauderie. Cette pièce permet de comprendre les liens...

Martin Luther on Deësis: His Rejection of the Artistic Representation of "Jesus, John, and Mary"

Article | Contributor(s): Franz Posset

At times, Reformation scholars and art historians are confused about Luther's attitude toward the visual arts which depict saints as intermediaries between God and humanity. Rarely do they thematize the issue in relation to the deësis, i.e. Christ enthroned, with Mary and John the Baptist as...