The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538–1563

Article | Contributor(s): Reanne Eichele

During the sixteenth century many Catholics yearned for an active role in lay religiosity. One avenue to achieve this was through membership in a penitential confraternity. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the pioneering penitential confraternities concentrated on the development...

The Development of Hispanitas in Spanish Sixteenth-Century Versions of the Fall of Numancia

Article | Contributor(s): Rachel Schmidt

The story of the Celtiberian town of Numancia and its fall in 133 B.C., as seen in the writings of Livy, Plutarch and others, was a well established topos in sixteenth-century Spain. The accounts of the bravery of the Numantians in defending their besieged city formed the basis for hispanitas,...

The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

Article | Contributor(s): Sean Armstrong

Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s,...

The Dialect Poetry of Giacomo Noventa

Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contributor(s): Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.146

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives.  Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of Edmonton and the Rimbey farmers’ market are used to examine the different strategies used to scale up...

The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597

2023-05-11 22:05:28 | Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Mazzon

This is a review of The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597.

The Directions and Names of the Winds: A Translation of [Aristotle], Ventorum situs et nomina

2023-09-11 19:06:56 | Translation | Contributor(s): Alan C. Bowen

classics, philosophy

The Directions and Names of the Winds: [Aristotle], Ventorum situs et nomina

2023-05-18 22:27:41 | Article | Contributor(s): Alan C Bowen

The anonymous text Ventorum situs et nomina, once held to be by Aristotle himself, gives the local names of 10 topic winds as well as their directions. It is not an elaboration of the wind-rose that Aristotle, for example, describes in Meteor. 2.5, though many scholars have assumed this, but a...

The Double Gift: Inner Vision and Pictorial Sense in Petrarch

2023-06-22 19:46:42 | Article | Contributor(s): Elio Gianturco

The Down Survey of Ireland Project

Article | Contributor(s): Brendan Kane

This is a review of The Down Survey of Ireland Project. 

The Dynamics of Cultural Transition

Article | Contributor(s): Aldo Colangelo

The article is based on a 1991-92 research, published in Sole senza Sole (1998). In his book Colangelo retraced the journey and life of 110 Italian women, residing in Toronto. He followed the stages of their lives, successes and difficulties, including those arising from their retirement onwards....

The Earl of Pembroke and the Crisis in Queen Mary's Reign, 1553-58

Article | Contributor(s): Narasingha P. Sil

The Earl of Pembroke in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1570

Article | Contributor(s): Narasingha P. Sil

The Earliest German Verse Translation of Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata"

2023-06-29 18:53:02 | Article | Contributor(s): Gerhard Dünnhaupt

The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Review | Contributor(s): Meredith Bessey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.364

Book Review

The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Haroon Akram-Lodhi | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59

When global food prices spiked upwards in 2007, the popular press explained the spike, in part, by rising demand for meat in rapidly-growing ‘emerging markets’ such as India and South Africa. Such an explanation was palpably wrong: people in rich countries consume more than three times as much...

The Editio Princeps of Boccaccio's Commentary on the Divine Comedy

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico Pietropaolo

The Elizabethan Church as Restoration: Notes on Richard Hooker's Rhetorical Strategy

Article | Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

Cet essai identifie certains moments rhétoriques dans les Lawes de Richard Hooker qui utilisent les différences entre l’Église de Rome et celle d’Angleterre pour associer Genève et Rome et ainsi condamner davantage les Presbytériens anglais. Ces passages présentent également la réforme...

The Enchanted Tapestry of Carmen Laurenza Ziolkowski

Article | Contributor(s): Norma West Linder

The End of Chivalric Romance: Barthélemy Aneau's Alector (1560)

Article | Contributor(s): Virginia Krause

Lorsque l'Alector de Barthélemy Aneau est paru en 1560, le roman de chevalerie attirait de vives critiques. Il est donc surprenant qu'un humaniste sérieux, tel que l'était Aneau, ait emprunté largement aux conventions romanesques, autant nouvelles (suspens) qu'anciennes (chevalier errant,...