The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

Article | Contributor(s): Susanna Barsella

By investigating the first novella of the Decameron from the perspective of the sacred this article questions the notion of realism as privileged key to the interpretation of Boccaccio’s style, poetics, and even philosophy in his major work. Although with different nuances of definition, realism...

The Metaphysical Detective Novel and Sciascia's Il Contesto: Parody or Tyranny of a Borrowed Form?

Article | Contributor(s): Carol Lazzaro-Weis

The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther

Article | Contributor(s): Robert R. McCutcheon

For all their doctrinal antagonism, the treatises on the will of Erasmus and Luther betray a fundamental affinity in their twofold ambiva-lence toward dialogue: whether a fundamental issue like the will should be debated at all; and whether dialogue is the appropriate vehicle for such a...

The Missionary Reporter

Article | Contributor(s): Megan C. Armstrong

Historiquement parlant, les auteurs franciscains n’ont jamais hésité à emprunter à d’autres genres littéraires lorsque leurs ordres du jour spirituels pouvaient en bénéficier. Il n’est donc pas étonnant de constater que les traités franciscains de pèlerinage en Terre Sainte imitent certaines...

The Monopolistic Confraternities of Jean Bodin

2023-06-02 18:35:45 | Article | Contributor(s): Edward H Thompson

The Motif of the Collector and History in Ondaatje's Work

2022-06-13 19:40:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Jon Saklofske | https://doi.org/10.25547/Z680-CW51

Digital humanities

The Motorcycle

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

The Musical Encart of the Royal Printers Le Roy & Ballard in the 1583 Hours of Jamet Mettayer Held in the Musée de l’Amérique francophone in Quebec City

Article | Contributor(s): Geneviève B. Bazinet

The Heures de Nostre Dame, a l’usage de Rome: selon la Reformation de Nostre S. Pere pape Pie VI pour la Congregation roiale des penitens de l’Annonciation de Nostre Dame, printed at the request of King Henri III by Royal Printer Jamet Mettayer (Paris, 1583) and held at the Musée de l’Amérique...

The Myth of Antonio Foscarini’s Exoneration

Article | Contributor(s): Murray Brown

Pendant les premières décennies du XVIIe siècle, Antonio Foscarini servit Venise dans des fonctions distinguées, en tant que sénateur et qu’ambassadeur aux cours des rois Henri IV et James I. En 1622, le Conseil des Dix le trouva coupable de trahison, alléguant qu’il avait divulgué des secrets...

The Narrative Heart of the Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): William W. E. Slights

Les fictions de tels écrivains que Boccace, Dante, Shakespeare et Harvey ont été influencées par la redécouverte par les anatomistes de la Renaissance des documents de l’Antiquité sur la dissection, ainsi que par des redéfinitions théologiques du cœur comme le site d’intériorité spirituelle. Ces...

The Narrator of Italo Calvino’s Il cavaliere inesistente

Article | Contributor(s): Tracy Barrett

The need for contextual, place-based food policies: Lessons from Northwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Connie Nelson, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel Kakegamic | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.327

In recent years, several reports have highlighted the need for a national food policy that takes a comprehensive approach to addressing food systems (CAC, 2014; Levkoe & Sheedy, 2017; Martorell, 2017; UNGA, 2012). These findings suggest that, at the core, resilient food systems must be...

The Nelson Memo: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research in the US

2024-04-11 18:25:10 | Report | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/2K93-PD42

On August 25, 2022, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo called Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Researchand an accompanying media release. This memo, dubbed the Nelson Memo after Alondra Nelson, then acting Director of the OSTP,...

The Neo-Christian Bias and Its Discontents: Milton Studies and the Case of Samson Agonistes

Article | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

Les études miltoniennes ont été dominées par ce que John Rumrich qualifie de «Milton inventé», personnage caractérisé par son didactisme et son orthodoxie d’après le «préjugé néo-chrétien» de la critique. Rumrich emprunte cette dernière expression à William Empson, qui, il y a des décennies, mit...

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...

The Nightingale as Christ in L’Adone Vll

Article | Contributor(s): Thomas E. Mussio

The Nineteenth-Century Italian Translators of Lord Byron’s Marino Faliero

Article | Contributor(s): Sergio Portelli

The tragic story of Marino Faliero, the Doge of Venice who was executed for high treason in 1355, came to the attention of writers and artists of various European countries during the early nineteenth century thanks to a number of historians who published insightful works on the history of the...

The no-nonsense guide to world food: New edition by Wayne Roberts

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.74

For many, the world of food is complicated and riddled with confusion and misinformation. The food system has become so globalized and convoluted that it has become difficult for even the most conscientious reader or eater to feel adequately informed. Wayne Roberts’ No-Nonsense Guide to World...

The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Article | Contributor(s): Jessica Maratsos

 This article examines the ceiling paintings executed by Jacopo Tintoretto for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The Venetian painter’s stylistic choices are analyzed utilizing the dialectic between romanitas and venezianità as elucidated by Manfredo Tafuri. This framework,...

The Original Collector: James Andrew Bell, A Classical Scholar

2023-06-20 18:20:49 | Article | Contributor(s): F. D. Hoeniger, Douglas Bush