A History of Translation in Early Modern England / Une histoire de la traduction en Angleterre entre 1475 et 1660

Article | Contributor(s): Brenda Hosington

In Memoriam: Jozef Ijsewijn

Article | Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Artifice, Memory, and Reformatio in Hieronymus Natalis's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia

Article | Contributor(s): Walter S. Melion

Composed by Hieronymus Natalis at the behest of Ignatius of Loyola, the Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia is a key Jesuit propaedeutic that instructs novices in the rhetoric of prayer, teaching them how to convert Gospel liturgy into the matter of contemplative devotion. Using a system of...

Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques

Article | Contributor(s): Nancy E. Virtue

This article examines Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques, a sixteenth-century translation and adaptation of six of Bandello's Novelle into French. Pierre Boaistuau is best known for the scandal surrounding his much-criticized edition of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, published in 1558....

Buckingham the Masquer

Article | Contributor(s): Jean MacIntyre

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), favorite of James I and of Charles I as both prince and king, used skill in dancing, especially in masques, to compete for and retain royal favor. Masques in which he danced and masques he commissioned displayed his power with the rulers he...

Review of La genèse de la Réforme française, 1520-1562

Review | Contributor(s): Michel De Waele

Review of The Reformation: Education and History

Review | Contributor(s): James R. Payton

Review of Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain

Review | Contributor(s): Christopher Ivic

Review of Règlement donné par une dame de haute qualité à M*** sa petite fille, pour sa conduite, et pour celle de sa maison: avec un autre règlement que cette dame avait dressé pour elle-mesme

Review | Contributor(s): Kazimierz Kupisz

Review of Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism

Review | Contributor(s): Stephen Guy-Bray

Review of La légende dorée. Édition critique dans la révision de 1476 par Jean Batallier, d'après la traduction de Jean de Vignay (1333-1348) de la Legenda aurea

Review | Contributor(s): Claire Le Brun-Gouanvic

Review of Images of Rule: Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1649

Review | Contributor(s): Neil Cuddy

Review of Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660

Review | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

Review of Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage

Review | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

Review of Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Review | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

Remaking the Bible: English Reformation Spiritual Conduct Books

Article | Contributor(s): Helaine Razovsky

Among the thousands of devotional works produced in the centuries following the English Reformation are hundreds that may be called spiritual conduct books. This article defines the term "spiritual conduct book" on the basis of a text's purpose and audience. Unlike more familiar secular conduct...

Pour une lecture féminine de la Bible à la Renaissance: socialisation et principes herméneutiques dans trois traités anonymes mis à l'Index

Article | Contributor(s): René Paquin

La démocratisation de la Bible fut au coeur de la Réforme protestante. Or, en France, cette réclamation rencontra une vive opposition de la part des instances religieuses traditionnelles. L'interdiction faite aux laïcs de lire, de traduire ou d'imprimer la Bible en langue vernaculaire donna lieu...

The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Article | Contributor(s): W. J. Torrance Kirby

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt...

Intertextual Madness in Hamlet: The Ghost's Fragmented Performativity

Article | Contributor(s): Hilaire Kallendorf

This essay establishes King James I's Daemonologie and Reginald Scot's Discouerie of Witchcraft as intertexts for Hamlet. It demonstrates how the diabolical linguistic register borrowed from these intertexts both heightens the verisimilitude of Hamlet's madness and expands the performative...

Review of Dialogues et Devis des Damoiselles

Review | Contributor(s): Claude La Charité