“Closed and kept most surely in religion”: Piety and Politics in Richard Whitford’s The Pype, or Tonne, of the Lyfe of Perfection

Article | Contributor(s): Brandon Alakas

Depuis sa fondation, la communauté de Sainte-Brigitte à l’abbaye de Syon a exercé son ministère et répondu aux besoins spirituels des pieux qui cherchaient une pratique dévotionnelle plus complète pour leur usage privé. Un des frères les plus prolifiques de l’abbaye, Richard Whitford a écrit de...

“Comme espics dans les plaines”: Patterns of Translation of Robert Garnier’s Epic Similes in Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia (1594)

Article | Contributor(s): Marie-Alice Belle

Although celebrated in its time as a worthy contribution to the poetic experiments of the late Elizabethan age, Thomas Kyd’s 1594 Cornelia, translated from Robert Garnier’s Cornélie (1574), has long been held by modern criticism as a minor work in the playwright’s career. Previous attempts to...

“C’est un amour ou Cupidon nouveau”: Spiritual Passion and the Profane Persona in Anne de Marquets’s Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (1568–1569)

Article | Contributor(s): Annick Macaskill

While best known for her 480 Sonets spirituels, published seventeen years after her death in 1605, the Dominican nun Anne de Marquets also contributed a remarkable collection of personal spiritual poetry during her lifetime in Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (Paris, chez N....

“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok

Article | Contributor(s): Susan M. Felch

Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male...

“Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

Article | Contributor(s): Luke O’Sullivan

Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées (1584, 1597, 1598) constitute an exercise in commonplacing framed as a collection of tales told around a Poitevin dining table. They engage in a form of quasi-philosophical thinking staged by and for an urban merchant community, the social world in which Bouchet...

“Dismantling the structures and sites that create unequal access to food:” : Paul Taylor and Elaine Power in conversation about food justice

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Essay | Contributor(s): Paul Taylor, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.567

In the summer of 2019, Elaine Power, Professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University, interviewed Paul Taylor for a research project on community food programs. Paul, a Black man, is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto and an anti-poverty activist. In...

“Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Article | Contributor(s): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.413

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective...

“E poi in Roma ognuno è Aretino”: Pasquino, Aretino, and the Concealed Self

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Faini

This article explores Pietro Aretino’s pasquinade production as a crucial phase in the construction of his public and literary persona that is characterized by a peculiar effacement of the author’s voice. The article then focuses on issues of anonymity and authorship in the fifteenth and...

“Eating is a hustle”: The complex realities of food in federal prison

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Article | Contributor(s): Amanda Wilson, Julie Courchesne, Ghassan Zahran | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.607

Juxtaposing insights from the academic literature with those drawn from lived experience, this Perspective article explores the role of food in federal prisons in Canada. Highlighting its multiple meanings and uses, we underscore the complexity of food in prison as well as its fundamental...

“Eating isn’t just swallowing food”: Food practices in the context of social class trajectory

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Brenda L. Beagan, Elaine M. Power, Gwen E. Chapman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.50

Drawing from a qualitative study with 105 families across Canada, this paper focuses on 16 households in which one or more adults experienced significant social class trajectories in their lifetimes. Using semi-structured interviews and two photo-elicitation techniques, adults and teens...

“Encores me frissonne et tremble le coeur dedans sa capsule”: Rabelais’s Anatomy of Emotion and the Soul

Article | Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

This article examines the role of anatomical references in the representation of emotion and argues that they constitute textual markers of the Rabelaisian view of the relationship between the body and the soul, and the nature of the soul itself. By analyzing the ancient models of natural...

“Et questa è la storia et la festa.” Il festival orvietano del 1508 e la microsocietà del capitolo della cattedrale

Article | Contributor(s): Mara Nerbano

Nel periodo compreso tra il 7 maggio e il 20 agosto 1508, a Orvieto, furono messe in scena cinque suggestive sacre rappresentazioni. A darne notizia è il canonico del duomo ser Tommaso di Silvestro, autore di una cronaca degli anni 1482-1514. Il contesto in cui fiorirono tali eventi è quello...

“Faster Alone, Further Together”: Reflections on INKE’s Year Six

2022-06-13 18:33:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/0FDN-YK11

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“Forgers of Falsehood, Physicians of Nought”: Retailing Fictions in Boccaccio’s Decameron

Article | Contributor(s): T. F. Gittes

Whereas Petrarch’s portrait of his doctor in Invectives Against a Physician is deliberately caricatural and seized at a glance, Boccaccio’s attitude towards doctors in the Decameron is far harder to grasp and easily overlooked. Yet, doctors and medical science are a central concern of the...

“Francis and the Minstrels of God:” Performing the Music of the Medieval Italian Laudesi Companies

2023-06-02 18:54:32 | Article | Contributor(s): Chris Smith

“God may open more than man maye vnderstande”: Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Translation of the De Imitatione Christi

Article | Contributor(s): Patricia Demers

Bien que l’oeuvre de Lady Margaret Beaufort, première femme anglaise à être publiée, ait été le plus souvent négligée au profit de ses talents de stratège du camp des Lancastre ou de son rôle de fondatrice de la dynastie des Tudor, les analyses de Brenda Hosington et de Stephanie Morley ont...

“Godo d’essere italiano” : Saverio Almatura tra letteratura e arti figurative del Risorgimento

Article | Contributor(s): Vincenzo Caputo

L’intervento si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare lo scritto autobiografico del pittore Saverio Altamura (1896). Tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento numerosi artisti, napoletani di nascita o d’adozione (Altamura era nato a Foggia, ma si era formato nella città partenopea), elaborano...

“Good healthy food for all”: Examining FoodShare Toronto´'s approach to critical food guidance through a reflexivity lens

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contributor(s): Alessandra Manganelli, Fleur Esteron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.503

By building community-based food systems informed by transformative ideologies and principles, Community-Based Food Organisation (CBFOs) can be understood as agents of critical food guidance from the bottom-up. This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity as pivotal to the implementation of...

“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,...

“I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism

Article | Contributor(s): Barbara Pezzotti

This article analyzes two successful Italian novels set during the Ventennio and the Second World War, namely Carlo Lucarelli’s Carta bianca (1990) and Maurizio De Giovanni’s Per mano mia (2011). It shows how Lucarelli confronts the troubling adherence to Fascism through a novel in which...