“To Live Piously and to Help the Needy Poor”: The Consortium of S. Allessandro in Colonna, in Bergamo

Article | Contributor(s): Christopher Carlsmith, Louisa Foroughi

This essay explores the activities of the Italian consortium of S. Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo, through an analysis and translation of the Regola (Rule) that governed it for nearly five centuries. Written in Latin in 1363–65, and republished in Italian in the late sixteenth century, the...

“To Warn Proud Cities”: a Topical Reference in Milton’s “Airy Knights” Simile (Paradise Lost II.531-8)

Article | Contributor(s): John Leonard

In Paradise Lost II.531-8 modern editors often see an allusion to Josephus’ account of armies appearing in the sky shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, reports of spectral soldiers and aerial battles were quite common in seventeenth-century English pamphlets, such as Mirabilis Annus and...

“Tous mes livres de langues estrangeres”: Reconstructing the Legatum Scaligeri in Leyden University Library

Article | Contributor(s): Kasper Van Ommen

Josephus Justus Scaliger, né en 1540 à Agen près de Bordeaux, accepta l’invitation de la nouvelle université de Leyde, et s’y installa en 1593 et y exerca comme professeur jusqu’à sa mort en 1609. De sa prise de fonction jusque son trépas, il ne quitta plus Leyde, où il fut enterré et sans cesse...

“Trying to Walk on Logs in Water”: John Donne, Religion, and the Critical Tradition

Article | Contributor(s): Jeanne Shami

Cet article examine la religion de John Donne du point de vue historique ainsi que littéraire, en mettant en valeur ses rapports avec les branches catholique et réformée de l’église anglicane en début de l’époque des Stuart. Ses écrits révèlent les fêlures de cette église et illuminent les...

“Tutti gli occhi del mondo”: Court Networks between Turin and Madrid, 1640–1700

Article | Contributor(s): Blythe Alice Raviola

Although the court of Turin’s role in the new balance of power in Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession is well known, far less is known about the strategic function of its collateral courts, such as the court of the princes of Savoy-Carignano. Based on the correspondence of the Savoy...

“Ways of knowing” in food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.76

What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these questions at CAFS 2014, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies. The authors...

“We moved here for the lifestyle”: A picture of entrepreneurship in rural British Columbia

2022-06-13 18:09:52 | Article | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/1XTE-8V03

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“What condition will not miserable men accept?”: Hegemonic Masculinity in John Lyly’s Galatea

Article | Contributor(s): Jamie Paris

Studies of gender in John Lyly’s pastoral comedy Galatea (1592) have primarily focused on the queer potential of the female-to-male (FTM) crossdressing plot. While the critical focus on same-sex love and gender fluidity in the play has been evocative, it has understated the importance of...

“Worthy my blood”: Inheritance, Imitation, and Gendered Familial Emotions in John Marston’s Antonio Plays

Article | Contributor(s): Megan Elizabeth Allen

Examining the Antonio plays by John Marston, I argue that the metaphors used to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies that underpin both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships; these metaphors reveal the pressures placed on family emotions by economic and political...

“Your Best and Maist Faithfull Subjects”: Andrew and James Melville as James VI and I's “Loyal Opposition”

Article | Contributor(s): Stephen King

Bien que moins connue des chercheurs que celle de 1604, la conférence qui eut lieu en 1606 à Hampton Court entre le roi James et ses ecclésiastiques anglais et écossais proéminents produisit néanmoins un effet immédiat sur la pratique monarchique de James Stuart en Angleterre. À la conférence de...

“[T]he fault of the man and not the poet”: Sidney’s Troubled Double Vision of Thomas More’s Utopia

Article | Contributor(s): Daniel T. Lochman

In the Defence of Poesy, Philip Sidney refers puzzlingly to Thomas More and Utopia. He praises the “way” this work presents a commonwealth yet faults the man who produced it. Sidney might have followed religious writers who condemned More’s Catholicism and his use of poetic fictions rather than...