«Se il savio uomo debba prender moglie». Boccaccio e la questione matrimoniale nel XIV e XV secolo

Article | Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino

La contesa tra Venere celeste e Venere terrena, tra l’amore onesto e coniugale, che regola la comunità, e l’amore dilettevole e extraconiugale, che è fonte inesauribile di valore guerriero e di virtù cavalleresche nella società cortese, affascina il Boccaccio durante il soggiorno nella Napoli...

«Vrayment voicy de plaisans fous»: la folie dans le théâtre profane de Marguerite de Navarre

Article | Contributor(s): Barbara Marczuk

This study shows that the dialectics of wisdom and folly, which owes a great deal to the relativization of reason in Renaissance culture, undergoes an original development in Marguerite de Navarre’s “secular” theater. While in these plays Marguerite uses figures of folly which inscribe themselves...

‘As strayght as ony pole’: Publius Cornelius, Edmund de la Pole, and Contemporary Court Satire in Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres

2022-06-13 18:42:47 | Article | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/1AVG-5056

Literary Studies

‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Carrie Seay Fleming | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.528

Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation, however, has been met with little resistance. In this paper, I show how the tensions between anti-GM...

‘Cui multum datum est...’ La confraternita dei Bianchi di Fosdinovo (Toscana, Italia) tra XV e XVII secolo

Article | Contributor(s): Massimo Dadà

This article is a brief history and overview of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Annunciation (Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata) in Fosdinovo, a small town in the Lunigiana region in north-western Tuscany. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century the town’s history was closely...

‘Dialoghi mancati': Uses of Silence, Reticence and Ellipsis in the Fiction of Antonio Tabucchi

Article | Contributor(s): Marina Spunta

‘In this house join, Minting new coin’: Libraries and Knowledge Production in 21st Century Scholarship

2024-07-11 17:42:41 | Presentation | Contributor(s): Jonathan Bengtson | https://doi.org/10.25547/CVJX-S542

The ever-increasing pace of technological development continues to have profound impact, both positive and negative, on the health and well-being of humanity and our environment. Whilst there are elements of this impact that are discipline specific, much is common to all and hard-won insight in...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Essay | Contributor(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...

‘Ragionando di pittura’ tra artisti e letterati: Pino, Vasari, Dolce e Gilio

Article | Contributor(s): Vincenzo Caputo

L’intervento si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare alcuni specifici dialoghi d’arte del Cinquecento, puntando in particolar modo l’attenzione sulla funzione dei loro rispettivi protagonisti. Si parte dal Dialogo di Pittura di Paolo Pino (1548) e dai Ragionamenti di Giorgio...

‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’ TEI-encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope ofan Evolving Community of Practice

2022-06-13 18:38:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, Melanie Chernyk | https://doi.org/10.25547/M0QV-N890

Computer Science, Digital Humanities

“A bad land for Gods”: Environmentalism and Presence in American Gods

2022-06-13 18:37:01 | Conference publication | Contributor(s): Ash McIntyre | https://doi.org/10.25547/XPMA-HT51

Neil Gaiman; American Gods; ecocriticism; presence; climate fiction

“A Plott to have his nose and eares cutt of”: Schoppe as Seen by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Article | Contributor(s): Winfried Schleiner

That Gaspar Schoppe, author of several stinging publications against James I, was brutally attacked in a Madrid street in 1614 has often been dismissed as the victim’s larmoyant exaggeration of a mere licking, although Schoppe claimed that it was an attempt on his life. But there is a letter...

“A story to match any fiction”: environmental sincerity in contemporary US fiction

2022-06-13 18:35:32 | Dissertation | Contributor(s): Ash McIntyre | https://doi.org/10.25547/F4H0-5263

American fiction, sincerity, ecocriticism, environmental sincerity, contemporary fiction, literature

“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play

Article | Contributor(s): Gina M. Di Salvo

This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I...

“Aboriginal isn't just about what was before, it's what's happening now:” Perspectives of Indigenous peoples on the foods in their contemporary diets

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Article | Contributor(s): Lise Luppens, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.219

Health promotion materials for Indigenous peoples generally recommend that Indigenous people incorporate more “traditional” foods into their diets, referring to foods that are hunted, fished or gathered from the local environment. Little scholarly attention has focused on which foods...

“all that glistered”: Relationships of Obligation and Exchange in Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Schechter

En se présentant dans son Discoverie of Guiana (1596) comme sujet fidèle qui lui offre un cadeau de valeur, Sir Walter Ralegh implique qu’Élisabeth I devrait accepter ses cadeaux et maintenir leur relation avec un niveau de réciprocité approprié, bien que cela soit peu probable étant donné...

“And if Fiume were to Call?” The Impossible Return of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

While most Italian emigrants can return to their hometown whenever they wish, Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia (areas that were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia in the wake of World War Two) do not have that luxury. When they return home, they find that their hometown has changed dramatically...

“And the Word Became Flesh . . . ”: Cannibalism and Religious Polemic in the Poetry of Desportes and d’Aubigné

Article | Contributor(s): Susan K. Silver

Cet article explore le déploiement stratégique du cannibalisme et des figures de dévoration dans la poétique de Philippe Desportes et d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. À travers leur poésie séculaire et dévotionnelle, l’article trace la négociation des différences politiques et religieuses. L’échange entre la...

“Cerchiamo un bambino distinto”. La genesi di Bellissima nei soggetti di Cesare Zavattini

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Jandelli

This contribution investigates, from a philological-historical perspective, the different versions of texts by Cesare Zavattini that will later merge into the subject of “Bellissima”, the film directed in 1951 by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani. Through a crucial decade for Italian...

“Charity and the Economy of Power: The Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala and Siena's Network of Charity in the Sixteenth Century”

Article | Contributor(s): Sarah Marianne Loose