Review of Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): Brian Patton

Editorial

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Hillman

Avant-propos

Article | Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

Anachronisme et légitimité de la notion d’intellectuel pré-moderne

Article | Contributor(s): Danièle Letocha

The term intellectuals(s) has been in use for scarcely more than one century. What is its definition? What conditions of possibility govern the emergence of the Modern intellectual? How many of these conditions can be traced to the past? The typological approach used here sets the origin of the...

Portrait de Budé en «intellectuel»: la G. Budæi viri clarissimi Vita de Loys Le Roy (1540)

Article | Contributor(s): Michel Magnien

Hellenist, philologist, historian, friend and counsellor to the King, mythical founding member of the Collège de France, as well as family man, Guillaume Budé appears to us as a hero of humanism and compels our collective admiration because he could lead simultaneously a contemplative and an...

Érasme, les intellectuels et l’affaire Reuchlin

Article | Contributor(s): Daniel Ménager

Intellectuals have been more than once accused of not caring about world affairs. Now, Erasmus appears to announce a modern reflection on power and knowledge. An archetype of our contemporary intellectual, he looked at and criticized the society he lived in. As a theologian and a priest, he...

Un homme politique désœoeuvré: Machiavel, historien et penseur politique

Article | Contributor(s): Gérald Allard

A philosopher who deeply influenced Western history, Machiavelli was, as well, involved in the affairs of his time. This paper aims to analyze the pragmatic context of Machiavelli’s production, for instance, his political exile from Florence. In order to draw the lines of this “praxis,”...

Le «vrai» médecin à la Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Colette Quesnel

According to Erasmus, the true Renaissance physician is also a philosopher. What does that statement really mean? The answer lies in the medical theories that are influenced by the theological, social and philosophical contexts.

L’intellectuel en procès: le cas Robert Estienne

Article | Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

The name of Robert Estienne (1501–59), the great French humanist, printer and editor, as well as leading scholar in Latin and Greek studies, is associated with his exile from Catholic France to Calvinist Geneva around 1547. Ever since his departure, the question has been raised whether it was...

Les intellectuelles et l’amour: Marie de Gournay et Marguerite de Valois

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Hillman

When a woman defined herself as an intellectual in the Renaissance, she could not, even if she wished, detach that role from the cultural expectations conventionally attached to her gender, and most notably from issues of love and sexuality. This point may be illustrated with reference to the...

La noblesse hors d’elle-même

Article | Contributor(s): Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

In sixteenth-century France, the nobility held an unchallenged and unanimous view concerning its own superior status and quality. A more critical assessment had been expressed in Italy by several Quattrocento and Cinquecento humanists, namely Poggio, Machiavelli, Nenna, Guazzo and Tasso. The...

Foxe’s Female Martyrs and the Sanctity of Transgression

Article | Contributor(s): Susannah Brietz Monta

Les Actes and Monuments de Foxe contiennent de nombreuses représentations de femmes martyrisées, représentations qui entrent en rapport demanière significative et complexe avec les idées contemporaines de la femme. La transgression par ces femmes des attentes et convenances culturelles devient,...

“I am as I have Spoken”: The Act of Naming in Macbeth

Article | Contributor(s): Carmine G. Di Biase

Beaucoup de l’action de Macbeth se caractérise par ce que la théorie des actes de parole appellerait des actes performatifs, des actes de nomination qui non seulement identifient la personne ou la chose nommée mais aussi effectuent un changement dans le monde de la pièce. Tels actes de parole,...

Gerson et Pétrarque: humanisme et l’idée nationale

Article | Contributor(s): Yelena Mazour-Matusevich

Gerson never met Petrarch in person. However, a comparative study of these authors allows us to evaluate the crucial role of national pride in revealing the initial difference between early French and Italian forms of humanism. While the Italians, oppressed by Parisian intellectual prestige, were...

Review of The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

Review | Contributor(s): Alan Arthur

Review of The World of the Favourite

Review | Contributor(s): Michael Mendle

Review of The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution

Review | Contributor(s): Catherine Gimelli Martin

Review of The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France

Review | Contributor(s): Jason Scott-Warren

Review of Le Pays et la mémoire. Pratiques et représentations de l’espace français chez Gilles Corrozet et Charles Estienne

Review | Contributor(s): Hervé Baudry

Review of Journal de voyage en Alsace et en Suisse (1580-1581). Actes du Colloque de Mulhouse-Bâle, 12 juin 1995

Review | Contributor(s): Michel Liddle