« Si je ne suis pas sans reproches, du moins suis-je sans peur »: la passion dévorante de Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard

Article | Contributor(s): Hervé-Thomas Campangne

Descendant du chevalier Bayard, Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard faisait partie de la compagnie de gentilshommes qui accompagnèrent Marie Stuart en Écosse après la mort de François II. Épris de la reine, il se cacha sous son lit en espérant peut-être séduire sa bien-aimée ; la souveraine...

« Treschevaleureux capitaines » contre « crocheteurs de flascons » : lecteurs et lectorats dans les Fascetieux devitz des Cent nouvelles nouvelles du Seigneur de La Motte Roullant

Article | Contributor(s): Nora Viet

During the Renaissance, the short narrative owes its success partly to its social ubiquity: fables, fabliaux, and short stories circulated in very different realms, from the court to humanist circles, from bourgeois society to the clergy. However, with the popularity of the short story collection...

«Aux tresors dissipez l'on cognoist le malfaict»: Hiérarchie sociale et transgression des ordonnances somptuaires en France, 1543-1606

Article | Contributor(s): Pascal Bastien

By comparing the eleven sumptuary laws enacted between the reigns of François I and Henri IV, the author intends to demonstrate that their iterative character, which at first glance seems a sign of their ineffectiveness, is in fact the expression of a disequilibrium between the claims ofthe...

«Che è occulto come in erba l’angue» (If. 7.84). Storia di un’immagine dantesca dall’antichità al Rinascimento

Article | Contributor(s): Damiano Acciarino

Questo lavoro nasce con l’intento di studiare l’evoluzione nei secoli di un’immagine poetica, sorta nell’antichità e riadattata, in molteplici forme, fino al Rinascimento. Si tratta del serpente tra i fiori celato nell’erba, permeabile a varie infiltrazioni di carattere simbolico, allegorico,...

«Le bonheur selon Érasme»: Avant-propos

Article | Contributor(s): Brenda Dunn-Lardeau

«Les interests du sexe»: dédicataires féminins et réseaux de sociabilité chez Marie de Gournay

Article | Contributor(s): Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Hannah Fournier

Even though Marie de Gournay's (1565-1645) numerous texts contain only a few direct references to the activities of the "salons" in the first half of the seventeenth century, they show ample evidence of the author's presence in public and social life. Through anecdotes, allusive references and...

«Les Païens de la Pléiade»: L'Érotisme dans les Folastries de Ronsard et dans les Gayetez d'Olivier de Magny

Article | Contributor(s): David Dorais

This article compares the eroticism of Ronsard's Folastries (1553) with that of the Gayetez (1554) of Olivier de Magny. Although the former exercised some influence on the latter, the eroticism of the two poets turns out to be very different, as much in thematic and stylistic terms as with regard...

«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 podcast would be fun!”: The fetishization of digital writing projects

2025-07-10 17:50:04 | Article | Contributor(s): Brian Hotson, Stephanie Bell | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.915

While digital writing projects (DWPs) like podcasts, videos, and infographics are rigorous sites of scholarly knowledge production, the growth in their popularity as classroom assignments often has more to do with a sense that these are “fun” assignments. Horner, Selfe, and Lockridge (2015)...