Review of The Works of John Webster, Volume 1. "The White Devil" and "The Duchess of Malfi"

Review | Contributor(s): R. B. Parker

Review of The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity

Review | Contributor(s): Peter Auksi

Review of Monstres et chimères: Montaigne, le monstre et le fantasme

Review | Contributor(s): Bernard Croquette

Review of Les sources de la pensée philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibiuda)

Review | Contributor(s): Zoé Samaras

Review of From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600

Review | Contributor(s): Janice Liedl

Review of Spiritualités, hétérodoxies et imaginaires; études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Guy Poirier

Review of Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

Review | Contributor(s): Paul S. Seaver

After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England

Article | Contributor(s): Lloyd Edward Kermode

In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's...

Telling Stories, Naming Names: Heptaméron 43

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Doyle Gates

This paper focuses on the idea of the grammatical third person as organizing principle for the 43rd tale of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. The third person encompasses several relevant domains, among them the assignation of gender, the function of proper names, and Benveniste's notion of...

La fantaisie et la nature des femmes dans l'Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

Article | Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant

Les occurrences de fantaisie dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre instaurent une différenciation entre les sexes des personnages du récit-cadre et des contes. Mais lorsqu'on considère la façon dont s'enflamme la fantaisie de l'un et l'autre sexe, les conséquences de cette flamme, puis la...

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, and the Representation of Henry VIII, 1529-1533

Article | Contributor(s): J. Christopher Warner

This essay examines Sir Thomas More's Utopia in the context of Henry VIII's divorce crisis. During this period tracts from the royal press publicized an image of Henry VIII as a disinterested philosopher-king who welcomed open debate and advice at his court. Reading Morus and Hythlodaeus's...

Review of Le mythe de Jérusalem du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Marguerite Soulié

Review of The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Jean LeDrew Metcalfe

Review of Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy

Review | Contributor(s): C. E. McGee

Review of The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): R. V. Young

Review of Poetices libri septem: Criticus

Review | Contributor(s): Claudine Jomphe

Review of Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613

Review | Contributor(s): Randall Martin

Erratum: The Honest Style of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest, by James P. Crowley

Article | Contributor(s): François Paré

Marie Dentière et la prédication des femmes

Article | Contributor(s): Cynthia Skenazi

Dans son Epistre très utile (1539), Marie Dentière s'approprie le modèle de la prédication donné par Farel pour dénoncer avec fougue la corruption de l'Église romaine. La réaction de Farel et de Calvin à l'activité d'une femme qui, en outre, contrairement aux interdits religieux, prêche en public...

Civic Rivalry and the Boundaries of Civic Identity in the French Wars of Religion: Châlons-sur-Marne and the Towns of Champagne

Article | Contributor(s): Mark Konnert

An examination of the policies and actions of the city council of the Champagne town of Châlons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion qualifies the view that the wars spelled the end of the bonne ville. In particular, this article examines Châlons' rivalries with the other towns of the...