“I am that I preach”: Tyndale as Mediator in The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Article | Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

Cet article explore le climat discursif de The Parable of the Wicked Mammon de William Tyndale pour proposer que la théologie réformatrice de Tyndale lui imposait une confrontation avec les problèmes posés par la rhétorique et la médiation, lorqu’il a composé ce qui semble être un traité...

“I buoni ammaestramenti che a ogni ora e sopra a ogni caso e’ riceverà da lui.” Un nuovo archetipo di padre mercante nei Ricordi di Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli

Article | Contributor(s): Deborah Pellegrino

Questo saggio propone una nuova lettura dei Ricordi di Giovanni Morelli, un’opera composita e funzionale in cui l’autore intesse un ritratto estremamente potente di sé, che diventa tanto più deciso quanto più contrasta con quello del padre Pagolo, e che si concretizza chiaramente negli...

“I Buonomini di San Martino: Patrons and Facilitators of the Visual Arts in Quattrocento Florence”

Article | Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson

The charitable activities carried out by the Buonomini di San Martino during the Quattrocento have been reasonably well documented by modern historians. Nevertheless, the patronage and financial aid bestowed on fifteenth-century Florentine artists and artisans by this lay confraternity remains...

“I did not die, nor did I stay alive:” The Dark Grace of Nonexistence in Inferno XXXIV

Article | Contributor(s): Francis J. Caponi

In the final canto of Inferno, Dante confronts Dis, “la creatura ch’ebbe il bel sembiante” (XXXIV.18). In response, the poet declares: “Io non mori’ e non rimasi vivo; / pensa oggimai per te, s’hai fior d’ingegno, / qual io divenni, d’uno e d’altro privo.” (XXXIV.22-27) Beneath this apparently...

“I don’t want to say I’m broke”: Student experiences of food insecurity at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Article | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Julie Dietrich, Zoe Walter, Susan Belyea | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.423

Food insecurity, the inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints, is an important public health concern, associated with poor physical and mental health. Recent research among post-secondary students shows that it also has consequences for academic performance; food...

“I haue often such a sickly inclination” Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos

2022-06-13 18:32:48 | Article | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/VAP8-W194

Literary Studies

“If you could send over your documents to the photostat department...”: Paris Peace Conference Documentation and the Advent of Microfilm

2023-06-14 04:58:04 | Presentation | Contributor(s): Peter Binkley

Robert C. Binkley, Microfilm, Library History, New Deal, 1930s

“Il ridervi de la goffezza del dire”: Niccolò Franco et la satire napolitaine du pétrarquisme

Article | Contributor(s): Roland Béhar

This essay explores the Neapolitan background of Niccolò Franco and argues that although the main purpose of his Il Petrarchista (Venice, 1539) was certainly a kind of Erasmian and Aretinian satire of the Petrarchist mode which grounded Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua (1525), still not...

“Illegal” Pawns for “Immoral” Loans: Testing the Limits of the Monti di Pietà in Late Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

Article | Contributor(s): Paola Pinelli

Les archives toscanes contiennent une importante documentation illustrant divers aspects des premières années des prêteurs sur gages des Monti di Pietà. On y trouve de riches informations sur le sexe et le statut des emprunteurs, sur les montants empruntés, sur les intérêts, ainsi que sur les...

“INKE-cubating” Research Networks, Projects, and Partnerships: Reflections on INKE’s Fifth Year

2022-06-13 18:28:23 | Article | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/NDCD-XP47

Digital humanities

“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Article | Contributor(s): André Magnan, Mengistu Wendimu, Annette Desmarais, Katherine Aske | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.518

This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the...

“Its smoke must make it blind” : Fire and a commitment to regeneration

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Essay | Contributor(s): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.435

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Article | Contributor(s): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

“La «Sacra Rappresentazione»: Entre les Médicis et Saint-Marc.” Thèse de Doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2009.

Article | Contributor(s): Sophie Stallini

“Manage, Negotiate, and Challenge Identities”: Young Italian-Canadian Identities from the Eyetalian Perspective

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico Servello

This study is an investigation of identity and Italian-Canadian youth in the post-World War Two period. A thorough examination of the limited secondary literature on this topic, as well an analysis of the works of authors, journalists and others published in the Toronto-based magazine Eyetalian,...

“Men that are Safe, and Sure”: Jonson’s “Tribe of Ben” Epistle in its Patronage Context

Article | Contributor(s): Robert C. Evans

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

“Must I be . . . made a common sink?”: Witchcraft and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton

Article | Contributor(s): David Stymeist

Les auteurs de The Witch of Edmonton (1621) se servent d’une stratégie d’ambivalence en représentant sur scène Elizabeth Sawyer, qui avait été dernièrement exécutée pour sorcellerie. L’intertissage complexe d’un scepticisme rationnel avec un traitement sensationnaliste et superstitieux à l’égard...

“My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

Article | Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially...